Grounding refers to connecting your energy field with the earth’s. And allowing yourself to be nourished by the earth’s healing energy.
By connecting your energy body with the earth you are able to be more solidly rooted…less likely to become unbalanced by events and emotional upsets. Just like electrical appliances have an earth wire to discharge surplus energy back into the main…you have the same ability to let go of surges in energy.
Grounding means that you allow the earth to take all of your tensions and stresses and recycle them through the earth. It is a way to let go of all your tensions. Grounding cleans your aura and allows you to connect with who you really are.
There are many reasons to ground. One of the most important when performing reiki though is that you do not pick up the negative vibrations of the person that you are working with.
Being grounded allows you to not get thrown off by everyday events…or by other people’s negative emotions. It allows you to truly be in the present moment and not get swept away by past events.
When we are properly grounded we are more aware of the sensations and energy flows around us…a vital skill for when performing reiki.
My favorite grounding technique involves just feeling the earth’s energies flowing through both my feet on the floor.
One that you might find slightly more useful is to imagine your body as a tree…and to feel your roots connecting with the earth. Or perhaps you would prefer this grounding meditation:
Grounding…while essential in healing…is a useful practice in everyday life. Whenever you feel yourself becoming overwhelmed or imbalanced…relax – ground and center.
If you haven’t already done so choose the energy that you want to charge your space with.
Clear away any physical clutter in the space that does not belong in the area and just tidy the space up a bit. The clutter can act as a dam for the energy, preventing it from flowing through the space.
Make sure that you are not going to be disturbed for about 15 minutes to half an hour.
Sit comfortably in the space but with an erect posture, or if you are more comfortable standing you can also stand to charge the space. Either way make sure that your spine is straight.
Now consciously relax. Take a few deep breaths and ignore anything that might be bothering you. Let a feeling of calmness and serenity fill you.
Those memories that I asked you to dig up – bring them to the surface. Focus on the way you feel in those memories – be gently with yourself here. Remember as much as you can of the feelings. How did your body feel? Is there any smell that you associate with that feeling? How did your surroundings look? Now gently hold onto the energy in that feeling.
Imagine that energy flowing out of your hands and into the area that you want to imprint. Just gently feel the energy moving through you and into the space.
When you no longer feel the energy flowing, stop. Take a few deep breaths.
Put both feet on the ground and focus on how the floor feels under your feet. Once you feel that you have come back to earth go and have a glass of water.
Return to the space and notice how it feels.
At first you may struggle with this exercise. Don’t fret about it. Be gentle with yourself and keep practicing. Congratulate yourself on tiny successes.
As you can see reiki is a gentle and easy way to change the energy of a space.
Have you ever walked into a space and immediately noticed how it changes the way you felt? That experience is a result of the energies flowing within that space. (I use the term energy and feelings interchangeably in this post).
The fantastic news is that you have the ability to harness energetic vibrations to change the way a space feels (and in turn influence the way you and others feel with in that space).
Reiki (often misspelled as reiky or raiki) allows you to channel a specific energy into a space and change the vibrations of it.
In some regards, energy can be compared to water. It can stagnate in pools or flow in a gentle steam or gush like a waterfall. By using reiki you can channel energy from a particular stream into a chosen space.
For example, you may want to channel energies that help you be focused and productive into your home office while channeling loving and harmonious energies into your bedroom. The actual process of using reiki energy to transform how the space feels is a simple exercise.
But before you begin with the process – I need you to do two things:
Decide on the type of feeling that you want to channel into the space.
I know that a lot of people refer to reiki (quite often misspelled as raiki or reiky) as complete and utter mumbo-jumbo or woo. Another thing that falls into such a categorization is affirmations.
So now some of you might be asking, so what is an affirmation? Fair question, and the short answer is that an affirmation is a simple statement of fact. They are quite common in our daily lives. But unfortunately they seem to mostly occur their negative form – I am fat, and so and so forth.
But the wonderful truth is that the power of affirmations can be harnessed in a positive way. So when I took of an affirmation here, I am referring to a simple positive statement aimed at shaping our reality (or our perception of it). I invite you to use this affirmation of the reiki principles in your daily life.
Reiki (commonly misspelled as reiky or raiki) healings involve the channeling of the vital universal life force in order to facilitate a healing or rebalancing of someone’s energy field.
You will have noticed that I refer to channeling the universal life force.
In other words with a reiki healing the energy does not originate from us but rather from the universe and the reiki practitioner is merely a conduit and not the source.
As such all reiki healings start from this universal source and therefore all healing are actually remote.
If you are hoping for an irrefutable scientific argument explaining exactly what reiki (often misspelled as raiki or reiky) is and how it works, I’m sorry you have come to the wrong place.
In fact, I am going to begin this post by telling you that I actually do not know the answer to how reiki works and where this source of energetic healing originates.
A cursory Google search on “Why are we alive?” does not reveal any scientific answers – we are straight into the range of the metaphysical, an area which no peer-respecting scientist will touch with a barge pole. It is regarded as a fringe pseudoscience.
I am now going to tell you that this o.k. We can survive without a scientific experience justifying the reason for our existence. It is perfectly acceptable to place some weight on your own personal experience.
It is alright to trust your own experiences and listen to someone else’s anecdotal evidence. You are also free to disregard their experiences (just as they are free to disregard yours).
In my opinion (and as I said at the beginning of this post there is no concrete science to back me up) the rei energy interacts with our own energy field in order to help us on our quest to answer the question “Why am I alive?”. I choose to accept that all of our emotions are actually energy vibrations that we are experiencing, and reiki works in a similiar manner along the same type of frequencies as these emotions.
This post is aimed at exploring reiki and the interaction between universal energy and ourselves. As a point of departure on this journey I invite you to explore the question of why we accept that love exists?
I mean, no scientist has concretely proven the existence of love…we have not discovered the love molecule from which this feeling originates. Surely that means that love does not exist! What utter and total codswallop! We accept that love is real because we have experienced it – we do not need science to verify our own experience. So why do we hold reiki and the rei energy to a different standard to love energy?
The essence of a reiki (often misspelled as reiky or raiki) healing is channeling the rei energy in order to improve someone’s health. As has been previously discussed this healing can be done over a long distance.
People have anecdotally reported the following benefits from reiki distance healing.
Pain relief
Increased vitality
Relief for conditions such as arthritis and rheumatism
A more positive outlook
Normalized blood pressure
Relief from insomnia
Feeling of deep relaxation
Please use your common sense and by all means send reiki to someone who is seriously ill but under NO circumstances would I reccommend that reiki replaces conventional treatment. A reiki distant healing should be used in conjunction with conventional medicine and not as a replacement.
Bottom line: Reiki distance healing should not replace conventional medical care but rather as a complement to it.
Reiki (sometimes misspelled as reiky or raiki) healing does not have to be done in the presence of the person being healed but can be done over a distance.
Here I liken reiki to a form of prayer.Very often when someone is ill we will prayer for their speedy recovery and in this case we are focusing our prayer energy (directed to whichever higher being we believe in) on a specific person.With a remote reiki healing we channel the rei energy to a specific person over a distance, for me this is comparable to praying for someone in a different location.
In my opinion, a distant reiki healing done in the name of a deity is a focused healing prayer. And as reiki is spiritually neutral I do not see this as conflicting with practising reiki ethically (with the important caveat that the person receiving the healing does not object to receiving the reiki).
Reiki (commonly misspelled as reiky or raiky) is an art of working with the life energy (or vitalic force if you prefer) in order to achieve self-actualization or healing. Here we will be focusing on the use of reiki for healing. When referring to distant reiki we mean reiki where the person is not physically present with the person chanelling the reiki energy.
A lot of sceptics will tell you that it is not possible for energy to be sent over a long distance. This is utter and total rubbish – energy by its very nature can travel over a remote distance (think about it – scientifically the sun is energy and how far does the sun’s energy travel?)
In a remote healing the person channelling the rei energy is simply focusing on someone that is not physically present with them. This does not make the healing any less efficient.
“History is the propoganda of the victors” – Ernst Toller
Reiki (sometimes misspelled as reiky or raiki) is a system of energetic healing and self-actualization that is generally accepted to have been discovered by Mikao Usui in Japan.
Perhaps forced by the circumstances relating to the demise of the samurai and the fact that no clear path was set out for him Usui became a spiritual seeker. This is a possible reason for him undertaking a retreat to Mt. Kurama, associated with one of the popularly accepted versions of the origins of reiki, which tells that Usui went to a waterfall on Mt. Kurama for a 21 day retreat that included fasting, meditation and prayer. During this retreat Usui had a mystical experience and became attuned to the system of reiki.
Usui taught reiki to over 2000 students before his death in 1926. Usui developed five reiki principles which are generally accepted to have been influenced by the literary works of Emperor Meiji. The principles are
“Just for today:
Do not be angry
Do not worry
Be grateful
Work with integrity
Be kind to others and to yourself”
After Usui’s death one of his students Chujiro Hayashi simplified the reiki techniques and focused on the physical healing (ignoring the spiritual and emotional aspects of reiki) in addition to using a more codified and simplified set of reiki techniques.
One of Hayashi’s students was Mrs. Takata – the woman who is credited with bringing reiki to the west. Mrs. Takata who firmly believed that the only manner in which a westener would gain respect for reiki was by paying a large sum of money for it – and it is believed that she fixed the price at $10,000 to become a reiki master. photo credit: ♣ ℓ u m i è r e ♣
Grounding refers to connecting your energy field with the earth’s. And allowing yourself to be nourished by the earth’s healing energy.
