The more you use it, the easier it gets!
posted in Reflections on Life, Celtic Reiki |When I first starting using Reiki I found it incredibly difficult, however exciting, to remain calm and focussed for up to an hour. If I were giving healing to someone else it was far easier than giving myself a treatment, but I still found it hard work. I preferred sending short bursts, five minutes long or so, because I knew I could remain in a space of love and connection for that time.
The more I practised, however, the easier it became to remain in that space. In fact a lot of things became easier… it was easier to calm myself, shut out worries and centre my whole being on the thought and spirit of healing and connecting. I began to look forward to offering Reiki to friends and family, and in return I began to open up spiritually and gain insights I might never have seen from my previous 3D state of thinking. I seem to go through these cycles, where I am very intensely aware of and eager to connect followed by periods of time when I let life get on top of me and I close myself down again. Each time it seems harder to reconnect, like now. Although I am eager to pick up my Reiki practise more regularly (as I have let it slip in recent months), I find myself reluctant to put aside what I consider “precious time” to sit and meditate and channel healing energy. I could be reading, or contacting all those people I have neglected to reply to or… or… The list of excuses goes on, but each one, however important, would actually be easier to do from a point of relaxation and serenity.
My work at the moment is incredibly taxing and by the end of a working day all I want to do is sit and do nothing. But I am so wound up with energy that I find this hard work. This week I had a stinking cold and my partner decided what I really needed was a full Reiki treatment. So I lay in peace, my favourite piece of music playing in the background and let go. Next thing I knew I was waking from a sleep with just enough energy to climb into bed and fall into a deep slumber. We repeated the treatment the following day and the same thing happened. Then the next night, in an attempt to return the favour to my partner, I offered him a treatment. I found it incredibly difficult to connect, I honestly wondered for a few moments if I’d have to postpone the treatment for another day. But eventually I felt the energy flowing and we started the treatment. And again, I had the best night’s sleep!
Reiki is like anything, the more you practise the easier it becomes. I remember years back going to yoga classes with my father and really wishing I didn’t have to give up my Thursday evening to go out. Yet each session, as we closed with a meditation, I felt the most relaxed I had ever been and the following day was quite blissful. I loved the result, but getting there in the first place was so hard. It’s the same with Reiki - I love how it feels and I love channelling the energy once I get started, but when I am out of the habit it can be so hard to start.
I wonder if any of you feel this way too? I’m sure I can’t be the only one, so I thought I would share some of the “tips” I have discovered both since being first attuned and then quite recently.
- Have a Reiki partner (this doesn’t have to be someone you live with, just someone who you can see regularly, who will encourage you to practise regularly). Having a Reiki partner means that when you are feeling like you really can’t be bothered, they are more likely to realise/remember that this is perhaps the time when you need to practise the most and they will be able to remind you of this and sit with you in silence (or singing, dancing, whatever works for you) and help you to connect
- Practise regularly, even if just for a few minutes a day. A few minutes per day is far better than half an hour or more once a week. I find connecting is the hardest part as it requires me to truly stop and remove myself from whatever is bothering me long enough to do so.
- Set aside a specific time to practise and turn off all electrical equipment, especially telephones. I find that once I start channelling the energy I don’t want to stop, even if I have decided only to sit for five minutes. If I have set aside half an hour it means I do not have to worry about stopping the flow to go check on the dinner or worrying about whether my mum is going to ring etc.
- Make your space sacred to you. This may mean playing a cd that you reserve purely for Reiki or burning some incense you save just for healing sessions. Lower the lights and make yourself warm and comfortable. Often, when we devote sounds, smells and images to the practise of something, just hearing, smelling, seeing these things can help us enter that space far easier than if we just tried to meditate or heal in a busy, noisy, strange atmosphere.
I am sure there are many more ways in which you can make your Reiki practise easier to keep up, and I would welcome any suggestions you’d like to share in the comments.
Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy your Reiki journey
With Blessings
Amanda xx
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