Reiki Meditation Day 1 from the Reiki Journey
Reiki Journey Day 1 (from our forthcoming book, The Reiki Journey Guidebook: Enhance Your Daily Reiki Practice, by Friel & Pettett)
For just the first day, we begin the day with the Reiki Teaching so that you know the form to take as you start your daily Reiki practices, and then you will finish with the Reiki Meditation. Starting tomorrow, you will begin with your Reiki practices first.
Reiki Teaching Day 1 -|- This Week the for is Gassho
The first pillar of Usu Reiki Ryoho, or the Usui healing method, is Gassho, which is a Japanese word that means two hands coming together. In Usui Reiki we are taught Gassho as a form of meditation where we sit comfortably but not slouching with hands together in front of the heart. There are actually several ways to perform Gassho in Buddhist practice. That Usui Sensei is not proscriptive in his teachings reinforces the simple and universal nature of the Usui Reiki healing method.
Bringing together your hands at your heart is recognition of the union of you with the Divine. Usui Sensei taught this as a meditation posture, but like its Hindi sister Namaste, it can also be a way of greeting another with reverence. Holding your hands in front of your heart, in meditation or as a greeting, connects you to feelings of love and compassion. For us, even without thought, this simple gesture starts Reiki flowing.
During a Gassho meditation, we suggest you intend Reiki to flow into you. Let this be your way to align your body, mind, and soul to receive Divine gifts, as we say in the Reiki Mantra. What does it mean to align your body, mind, and soul? You might imagine that each component of yourself is a pendulum clock, one clock for the body, one clock for the mind, and one for the soul. By keeping each clock running smoothly you can tell time for your body, for example, but also your mind and soul. Ideally, you want them all keeping time at the same pace, with the same accuracy, so that all parts of you are synchronized. Allowing Reiki to flow through your body, mind, and soul will help them synchronize into one rhythm that is also synchronized with the frequency of Divine love.
Every day we will practice Gassho for a least a few minutes to align our bodies, minds, and souls with Reiki, today however this will be the whole of your meditation. But first, we will use this posture to start the daily Reiki practices.
Reiki Practices Day 1 Now that you know the Gassho form, take that posture as you chant and feel the Reiki Principles at least once: Just for today, I do not anger. Just for today, I do not worry. I am filled with gratitude. I devote myself to my work in this world. I am kind to living creatures. I pray these words with my heart.
Next, re-write your Reiki Intention as a meditative exercise in creation.
My Reiki Intention is
Infuse your intention with Reiki for a few minutes or more. 1. Invite Reiki to flow into the crown of your head, down your arms, and into your hands. 2. Purposefully recall that Reiki is the vehicle for manifesting your intention, and that saying Reiki� or the name of a Reiki symbol three times moves the energy and therefore helps usher your intention from (1) the spiritual to the mental realm, (2) the mental to emotional realm, and (3) the emotional to the physical realm. 3. Focus the Reiki: a. With Reiki symbols: draw a Reiki symbol in the air and, as you say its name three times, use your hand to move the energy in three motions from the air into the written intention with your hand. b. With Reiki energy: hold your hands a few inches apart over your written intention until you feel the pulse of Reiki between them, then as you say Reiki� three times, use your hands to move the energy in three motions from the air into the written intention with your hand. 4. Chant the Reiki Mantra in Gassho, as a conscious threading of yourself to the universal energy of the Reiki Principles, through your personal intention, and back to the universal flow of Reiki: I align my body, mind, and soul to receive Divine energy by focusing on my essential nourishment, praying for guidance, and acknowledging the Divine flow of energy.
Reiki Meditation Day 1 -|- Just Gassho
Finally, still sitting comfortably with good posture in Gassho, close your eyes and be still for about ten minutes or longer. Allow your whole self body, mind, and soul to be at peace. Feel yourself gently fall into alignment with the flow of Reiki. If a thought pops into your head, simply press together your fire fingers (middle fingers) to gently bring your awareness back to Gassho. Reiki is already flowing, let it go where it will. Let Gassho align your body, mind, and soul to receive Reiki. We suggest you close with an affirmation like, I seal this healing in love and light.
End your day in Gassho chanting and feeling the Reiki Principles: Just for today, I do not anger. Just for today, I do not worry. I am filled with gratitude. I devote myself to my work in this world. I am kind to living creatures. I pray these words with my heart.
Grace Friel, President of the Reiki Teaching Institute (RTI) is a Reiki Master, author, teacher, and entrepreneur with a B.A. from the College of William and Mary and a M.A. from the University of Virginia in 1999. From June 2005 to January 2007, Grace completed the Reiki I & II, Reiki Drumming, and Reiki Master Teacher levels and has been practicing and teaching ever since. As their company Reikilicious, Inc. has grown, Grace and her partner Sophia Pettett were interviewed on TV about Reiki by the ABC affiliate in Winchester, Virginia. Together they teach all levels of Reiki, offer guided Reiki meditations, mentor students, support Reiki practitioners, and present unique Reiki workshops.
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