Once you start giving reiki you just sort of know how to do it.

Would that be accurate?

The truth is, you start to develop a very subtle intention or belief that the energy will flow. You learn to let go. You learn to allow the energy to flow. It is not a forced thing.

Giving reiki with your eyes is fairly staright forward. Let’s start by saying that.

But, you need to be able to have the same confidence the energy will flow, as you do when you put your hands of someone. So, it is adviseable to start with hands on reiki healing, then experiment with giving reiki with your eyes.

The key to giving reiki with your eyes is to relax your focus and let the object come to you. Easier said than done, take it from me.

And, this is where reiki training really starts to be training in energy awareness. Because as you start to do this you will start to see that normally your energy goes out from you, like reaching out into the world.

You want to keep your personal ki, in your hara, and not go out to the objects. You want them to come to you.

If you can manage this. You are doing pretty well. Let me just say that.

But, with a little perseverence and effort there is not anyone that would not be able to master this.

By keeping your energy centered and by letting the light of the objects come to you, you will allow the reiki, which is naturally wanting to go out (for want of a better way of putting it.. because reiki is technically not out there, not in here, not both, not neither.. now doesn’t that just bake your noodle a little!).. like the saying about God just waiting for you to open the door.. you just need to knock.. or something like that (my brain is a little cooked today!).

Reiki is able to flow because you are not in the way. You are not trying to control your awareness or your attention. So, the more subtle aspects of your awareness can shine through. In this case we are giving it the label reiki.

 

 

#1. Reiki is designed to be self healing practise. It is best to practise daily.

#2. The more you use reiki the more easily it flows. Aim to use reiki in every situation.

#3. Practise with a friend

#4. Alternate between self healing and distant healing, to balance your focus.

#5. Experience and experiment with different reiki styles. Keeps your mind flexible and gives you more variety, keeping you motivated. Try giving reiki with your eyes. See if you can give reiki with your breath. Read up how others say to do it. Write someone an email asking them how they do it.

#6. Create a sacred space to practise reiki and daily meditation. Practise reiki and daily meditation to create a sacred space.

#7. Increase you self discipline by taking your left shoe off first for 10 days, then by taking your right shoe off first for 10 days.

#8. Increase the clarity of your dreams by giving yourself reiki on your head and heart before you fall asleep. (even better, fall asleep while giving yourself reiki)

#9. Drink lots of water.

#10. Give reiki to home grown vegetables and fruit. Then eat them vegies.

 

How can reiki help you with parenting?

This is the first in a series of brief posts about how reiki can help with raising your kids.

PART 1

Most parents will tell you that one of the most important things a child needs is a good, consistent routine.

Part of our childrens routine is to have some relaxation time before they go to sleep. For the littlest ones that includes having some warm milk sitting in mum’s arms, while she rocks gently in a big chair in their room. Relaxing whale music softly plays in the background.

For the eldest one (who is eight) we read a few chapters of a book and talk.. if anything comes up that he wants to chat about. Him in bed, dad sitting on the bed.

And then to finish off the evening relaxation routine, we give the kids some hands on reiki.

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I was watching this really interesting piece on John Dobson last night on our ABC. Some great and enthusiastic thinker about the cosmos.

He was talking about how everything in the universe is both energy and sentient.

He was also talking about things like the inconsistency of the big bang theory and the more likely theory that the universe had no beginning or end.

Good stuff.

It got me thinking about energy. And how much more sense things make when you start to shift your thinking to looking at life as systems of energy, rather than solid objects. Because, solidity implies permanence.. which gives you the sense it is fixed and unchanging.

But, nothing in life is like that.

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