Reiki and Spirituality

I am a student of Komyo Reiki Kai. I am at a level of learning where I am trying to live in Reiki. I have always struggled to do my daily morning and evening precept practice. However, as the days progress, I miss fewer and fewer of them. As I do this I really try to embody what I am saying. I’m actually trying to live within the precepts. To live in compassion and hope. To gratefully do my best and be kind to everyone. To live a life full of love and integrity. For me this has really challenged me in a spiritual way. It has really brought a lot of my own shortcomings to the surface. I am constantly finding new ways to bring Reiki and my own spirituality into harmony with myself. Although, after saying that, I must admit that at times it seems like the opposite is true. I am continually finding areas within myself where I am lacking of both. I realize that this is an ongoing process and that this could be considered normal growth.

These thoughts left me wondering. How have others addressed these issues within themselves? Surely most go through some sort of transformation. What internal struggles have you gone through (details are not necessary) and what helped you the most? How has Reiki helped you develop and grow into the person you are today? How has it enhanced your own personal spirituality?

Thanks for your thoughts

good post Dennis! I'll respond myself leter,i gotta go buy a new computer. I think i burned this one out debating in the 'what's in a name' thread! .

BTW, good to see a Komyo guy getting involved here, ReikiJim is another student of Komyo, .

take care
Wayne

Dennis wrote:I am a student of Komyo Reiki Kai. I am at a level of learning where I am trying to live in Reiki. I have always struggled to do my daily morning and evening precept practice. However, as the days progress, I miss fewer and fewer of them. As I do this I really try to embody what I am saying. I’m actually trying to live within the precepts. To live in compassion and hope. To gratefully do my best and be kind to everyone. To live a life full of love and integrity. For me this has really challenged me in a spiritual way. It has really brought a lot of my own shortcomings to the surface. I am constantly finding new ways to bring Reiki and my own spirituality into harmony with myself. Although, after saying that, I must admit that at times it seems like the opposite is true. I am continually finding areas within myself where I am lacking of both. I realize that this is an ongoing process and that this could be considered normal growth.

These thoughts left me wondering. How have others addressed these issues within themselves? Surely most go through some sort of transformation. What internal struggles have you gone through (details are not necessary) and what helped you the most? How has Reiki helped you develop and grow into the person you are today? How has it enhanced your own personal spirituality?

Thanks for your thoughts

Hi Dennis,

Well...I`ve found it very easy to adapt the principals when I`ve had the time and resources to control my environment. There was a point a couple of years ago, when I could meditate for more than an hour a day, complete a self treatment that lasted for and hour and a half, Hatsurei ho for 45 minutes and spend a considerable amount of time through the week treating others. Reiki was apparent in my life and thoughts in every moment. I learned much about my self, and had insights of depth regarding existence, plain and simple. Many visions, spiritual sensitivities, a measurable increase in clairvoyance. This was my life at that time.

What I radiated at that time, was attractive on one level or another, to almost every living thing I encountered. I`m saying that animals and people viewed me differently than they viewed other people...It was noticed by others, and they told me of the change they witnessed. Compassion is magnetic, and truly a beautiful thing to all...compassion...the truest form of love I recognize...

I changed my environment, was surrounded by the unfamiliar, and put myself back into the mainstream of society. I get paid to be a critical thinker, and to analyze situations and things. My development slowed down and regressed a bit..logical maybe.

So...as you said, it`s a learning process...Reiki opens the doors of opportunity to expand your consciousness, and ones connectedness to all. If one does their work, i personally, have no idea where limitations begin, for some there may be no limit. If you do the work i did, and continue it, all things you find disagreeable, or unpalatable, may slip out of your being. If you slip back into old patterns, some, but not all of the undesirable aspects of who you were may return. But you will never be exactly as you were before the attunements...attunements change things for us.

Self love is one of the biggest things I`ve experienced through Reiki....extending compassion to self, is at the very least, as important as extending compassion to others. Time does not matter, if one does not leave the path of self evolvement...Time is only an irritation which feeds our impatient nature, as we believe for the most part that our existence is finite...

Do as much "reiki work" as your life and obligations will permit. Extend patience to yourself.
We need to see our selves as growing children in this spiritual respect...We all tolerate behaviors in children that we won`t tolerate in adults, such should be the case here...tolerance, compassion, patience, work, time.

Don`t be disappointed in yourself. You have started down a path that many do not have the courage to travel...much love

RJ

Reikijim wrote:

Dennis wrote:I am a student of Komyo Reiki Kai. I am at a level of learning where I am trying to live in Reiki. I have always struggled to do my daily morning and evening precept practice. However, as the days progress, I miss fewer and fewer of them. As I do this I really try to embody what I am saying. I’m actually trying to live within the precepts. To live in compassion and hope. To gratefully do my best and be kind to everyone. To live a life full of love and integrity. For me this has really challenged me in a spiritual way. It has really brought a lot of my own shortcomings to the surface. I am constantly finding new ways to bring Reiki and my own spirituality into harmony with myself. Although, after saying that, I must admit that at times it seems like the opposite is true. I am continually finding areas within myself where I am lacking of both. I realize that this is an ongoing process and that this could be considered normal growth.

These thoughts left me wondering. How have others addressed these issues within themselves? Surely most go through some sort of transformation. What internal struggles have you gone through (details are not necessary) and what helped you the most? How has Reiki helped you develop and grow into the person you are today? How has it enhanced your own personal spirituality?

Thanks for your thoughts

Hi Dennis,

Well...I`ve found it very easy to adapt the principals when I`ve had the time and resources to control my environment. There was a point a couple of years ago, when I could meditate for more than an hour a day, complete a self treatment that lasted for and hour and a half, Hatsurei ho for 45 minutes and spend a considerable amount of time through the week treating others. Reiki was apparent in my life and thoughts in every moment. I learned much about my self, and had insights of depth regarding existence, plain and simple. Many visions, spiritual sensitivities, a measurable increase in clairvoyance. This was my life at that time.

What I radiated at that time, was attractive on one level or another, to almost every living thing I encountered. I`m saying that animals and people viewed me differently than they viewed other people...It was noticed by others, and they told me of the change they witnessed. Compassion is magnetic, and truly a beautiful thing to all...compassion...the truest form of love I recognize...

I changed my environment, was surrounded by the unfamiliar, and put myself back into the mainstream of society. I get paid to be a critical thinker, and to analyze situations and things. My development slowed down and regressed a bit..logical maybe.

So...as you said, it`s a learning process...Reiki opens the doors of opportunity to expand your consciousness, and ones connectedness to all. If one does their work, i personally, have no idea where limitations begin, for some there may be no limit. If you do the work i did, and continue it, all things you find disagreeable, or unpalatable, may slip out of your being. If you slip back into old patterns, some, but not all of the undesirable aspects of who you were may return. But you will never be exactly as you were before the attunements...attunements change things for us.

Self love is one of the biggest things I`ve experienced through Reiki....extending compassion to self, is at the very least, as important as extending compassion to others. Time does not matter, if one does not leave the path of self evolvement...Time is only an irritation which feeds our impatient nature, as we believe for the most part that our existence is finite...

Do as much "reiki work" as your life and obligations will permit. Extend patience to yourself.
We need to see our selves as growing children in this spiritual respect...We all tolerate behaviors in children that we won`t tolerate in adults, such should be the case here...tolerance, compassion, patience, work, time.

Don`t be disappointed in yourself. You have started down a path that many do not have the courage to travel...much love

RJ

An excellant post! Gonna nominate you for the monthly prize Jim.

Well I suppose my practice is very different to many of those here, being firmly Western Reiki complete with all the bits and bobs that don't make up most people's idea of Usui Reiki!

But here's my experience for what it's worth.

Reiki found me when I was ready to find Reiki. My parents were both dead and I owed them nothing: I didn't have to maintain any formal Christian identity, for example, to please my mother, nor did I have to eschew any spirituality to please my father (growing up in that house was, shall we say, character-forming!).

I had been a spiritual healer when I was a child. Then, due to various factors, I turned and ran from anything to do with spirituality. The first thing Reiki did was bring me back to my own spirituality, my own heritage as a healer, as a Christian, as a spiritualist, as someone who may have been a witch in a past life.

Then Reiki got to work on my situation. I have been ill most of my life with various inherited disorders, and one in particular had never been properly diagnosed. Within 6 weeks of my Level 2 attunement I'd visited a specialist, received a diagnosis, and all the help the UK state could provide me with.

Then Reiki got to work on the disorders themselves. I became so physically well that I was able to complete an intensive one-year training course on aromatherapy, reflexology, Indian head massage and Swedish massage. Now there are days when I don't take any medication at all - 5 years ago I was taking 6 - 8 tablets a day for various things.

While all this was happening I suppose my mental state was changing, and still is. From being a born and hereditary worrier, I've changed the way I look at my life now. I have a situation which I worried about for 30 years, and which I now find I'm living through - and "just for today, do not worry" helps me with it every day. This situation is being healed now, as is my attitude towards it.

For me, honouring my teachers doesn't just mean Usui/Hayashi/Takata: for reasons hinted at above, my teachers are from many different religions, systems of belief, philosophies. They all come together in me and I have no compunction in celebrating their spiritual cookery (I'm a bit like a spiritual casserole I guess!)

I used to have a real temper but "just for today do not anger" keeps me on an even keel.

Reiki, however, is more than just a meditation I do at the end of each day. It's a consideration, a mindset, a usage. My old Sunday School teacher used to tell me "some people are so heavenly minded they're no earthly good", and I try to strike a balance between spirituality and practicality.

Do you know, I'm perhaps the luckiest person I know. I have a lifestyle my mother would have died for: a man who thinks the world of me and is my best friend: and a purpose to my life. I am most richly blessed.

OK Wayne

I lost my posting it was
not my fault this time
around . I'll check back
later to repost whenI have
more time

Pandora wrote:Well I suppose my practice is very different to many of those here, being firmly Western Reiki complete with all the bits and bobs that don't make up most people's idea of Usui Reiki!

But here's my experience for what it's worth.

Reiki found me when I was ready to find Reiki. My parents were both dead and I owed them nothing: I didn't have to maintain any formal Christian identity, for example, to please my mother, nor did I have to eschew any spirituality to please my father (growing up in that house was, shall we say, character-forming!).

I had been a spiritual healer when I was a child. Then, due to various factors, I turned and ran from anything to do with spirituality. The first thing Reiki did was bring me back to my own spirituality, my own heritage as a healer, as a Christian, as a spiritualist, as someone who may have been a witch in a past life.

Then Reiki got to work on my situation. I have been ill most of my life with various inherited disorders, and one in particular had never been properly diagnosed. Within 6 weeks of my Level 2 attunement I'd visited a specialist, received a diagnosis, and all the help the UK state could provide me with.

Then Reiki got to work on the disorders themselves. I became so physically well that I was able to complete an intensive one-year training course on aromatherapy, reflexology, Indian head massage and Swedish massage. Now there are days when I don't take any medication at all - 5 years ago I was taking 6 - 8 tablets a day for various things.

While all this was happening I suppose my mental state was changing, and still is. From being a born and hereditary worrier, I've changed the way I look at my life now. I have a situation which I worried about for 30 years, and which I now find I'm living through - and "just for today, do not worry" helps me with it every day. This situation is being healed now, as is my attitude towards it.

For me, honouring my teachers doesn't just mean Usui/Hayashi/Takata: for reasons hinted at above, my teachers are from many different religions, systems of belief, philosophies. They all come together in me and I have no compunction in celebrating their spiritual cookery (I'm a bit like a spiritual casserole I guess!)

I used to have a real temper but "just for today do not anger" keeps me on an even keel.

Reiki, however, is more than just a meditation I do at the end of each day. It's a consideration, a mindset, a usage. My old Sunday School teacher used to tell me "some people are so heavenly minded they're no earthly good", and I try to strike a balance between spirituality and practicality.

Do you know, I'm perhaps the luckiest person I know. I have a lifestyle my mother would have died for: a man who thinks the world of me and is my best friend: and a purpose to my life. I am most richly blessed.

Lovely post, Chris, and quite a journey!

I can see you also give thanks for your many blessings!

You must be doing something right...even if it is only Western Reiki.

Wonderful!

Ai to Hikari
Colin

Colin wrote:



You must be doing something right...even if it is only Western Reiki.

Blasphemy!

chi_solas wrote:OK Wayne

I lost my posting it was
not my fault this time
around . I'll check back
later to repost whenI have
more time

Sorry bout that Bridget, . I know there were server issues today, with the forum host, i assume that's why. Pain in the backside, i know!

Pandora wrote:Well I suppose my practice is very different to many of those here, being firmly Western Reiki complete with all the bits and bobs that don't make up most people's idea of Usui Reiki!

But here's my experience for what it's worth.

Reiki found me when I was ready to find Reiki. My parents were both dead and I owed them nothing: I didn't have to maintain any formal Christian identity, for example, to please my mother, nor did I have to eschew any spirituality to please my father (growing up in that house was, shall we say, character-forming!).

I had been a spiritual healer when I was a child. Then, due to various factors, I turned and ran from anything to do with spirituality. The first thing Reiki did was bring me back to my own spirituality, my own heritage as a healer, as a Christian, as a spiritualist, as someone who may have been a witch in a past life.

Then Reiki got to work on my situation. I have been ill most of my life with various inherited disorders, and one in particular had never been properly diagnosed. Within 6 weeks of my Level 2 attunement I'd visited a specialist, received a diagnosis, and all the help the UK state could provide me with.

Then Reiki got to work on the disorders themselves. I became so physically well that I was able to complete an intensive one-year training course on aromatherapy, reflexology, Indian head massage and Swedish massage. Now there are days when I don't take any medication at all - 5 years ago I was taking 6 - 8 tablets a day for various things.

While all this was happening I suppose my mental state was changing, and still is. From being a born and hereditary worrier, I've changed the way I look at my life now. I have a situation which I worried about for 30 years, and which I now find I'm living through - and "just for today, do not worry" helps me with it every day. This situation is being healed now, as is my attitude towards it.

For me, honouring my teachers doesn't just mean Usui/Hayashi/Takata: for reasons hinted at above, my teachers are from many different religions, systems of belief, philosophies. They all come together in me and I have no compunction in celebrating their spiritual cookery (I'm a bit like a spiritual casserole I guess!)

I used to have a real temper but "just for today do not anger" keeps me on an even keel.

Reiki, however, is more than just a meditation I do at the end of each day. It's a consideration, a mindset, a usage. My old Sunday School teacher used to tell me "some people are so heavenly minded they're no earthly good", and I try to strike a balance between spirituality and practicality.

Do you know, I'm perhaps the luckiest person I know. I have a lifestyle my mother would have died for: a man who thinks the world of me and is my best friend: and a purpose to my life. I am most richly blessed.

God, fantastic stuff again! thankyou for sharing that Chris! I had a little chukle when you spoke of being Christian, and also a witch in a previous life. I bet that goes down well at Church!

Anyhow, this seems unfair in a way, but i'm gonna nominate you also for the monthly prize. you've shared how Reiki has benefited your life beyond how you probably dared to mimagine. Two great posts in the monthly prize now, that does seem kinda unfair. I think though, at the least, both your post, and Jim's should be recoqnised for how great they are!

Take care
Wayne

Pandora wrote:Well I suppose my practice is very different to many of those here, being firmly Western Reiki complete with all the bits and bobs that don't make up most people's idea of Usui Reiki!

But here's my experience for what it's worth.

Reiki found me when I was ready to find Reiki. My parents were both dead and I owed them nothing: I didn't have to maintain any formal Christian identity, for example, to please my mother, nor did I have to eschew any spirituality to please my father (growing up in that house was, shall we say, character-forming!).

I had been a spiritual healer when I was a child. Then, due to various factors, I turned and ran from anything to do with spirituality. The first thing Reiki did was bring me back to my own spirituality, my own heritage as a healer, as a Christian, as a spiritualist, as someone who may have been a witch in a past life.

Then Reiki got to work on my situation. I have been ill most of my life with various inherited disorders, and one in particular had never been properly diagnosed. Within 6 weeks of my Level 2 attunement I'd visited a specialist, received a diagnosis, and all the help the UK state could provide me with.

Then Reiki got to work on the disorders themselves. I became so physically well that I was able to complete an intensive one-year training course on aromatherapy, reflexology, Indian head massage and Swedish massage. Now there are days when I don't take any medication at all - 5 years ago I was taking 6 - 8 tablets a day for various things.

While all this was happening I suppose my mental state was changing, and still is. From being a born and hereditary worrier, I've changed the way I look at my life now. I have a situation which I worried about for 30 years, and which I now find I'm living through - and "just for today, do not worry" helps me with it every day. This situation is being healed now, as is my attitude towards it.

For me, honouring my teachers doesn't just mean Usui/Hayashi/Takata: for reasons hinted at above, my teachers are from many different religions, systems of belief, philosophies. They all come together in me and I have no compunction in celebrating their spiritual cookery (I'm a bit like a spiritual casserole I guess!)

I used to have a real temper but "just for today do not anger" keeps me on an even keel.

Reiki, however, is more than just a meditation I do at the end of each day. It's a consideration, a mindset, a usage. My old Sunday School teacher used to tell me "some people are so heavenly minded they're no earthly good", and I try to strike a balance between spirituality and practicality.

Do you know, I'm perhaps the luckiest person I know. I have a lifestyle my mother would have died for: a man who thinks the world of me and is my best friend: and a purpose to my life. I am most richly blessed.

Pandora, your personal posting represents
what Reiki's all about. I felt almost like
I had written parts of your post. I have
clients who have experienced the same things
you mentioned. I often heard my father say
watch out for the people who eat at the altar
rails every day.

Throwing the baby out with the bath water would
be ignoring all the lessons we learn throughout
the years. I have learned from many the good and
not so good. Your use of the word casserole is
just brilliant

they all come together in me and I have no compunction in celebrating their spiritual cookery (I'm a bit like a spiritual casserole I guess!)

Gosh! I didn't think it was that good!

Actually I don't go to church now. I feel I've moved on past that - although I do believe Jesus was involved in my Reiki 1 attunement. Apparently I was a nun in three of my past lives: a novice in one, an abbess in another, and an anchorite in another. That explains quite a lot of my problems in this life, and I've had some Theta healing to deal with it. That produced a profound change in my attitude.

I think the point of what I wrote is that, regardless of whether you try and do "what Usui did" or combine it with other teachers you have come across, Reiki is indeed "the spiritual medicine of many ills". Without doubt Reiki has produced a deep and lasting change in my life.

Oh I do like this site!

Reiki was a key to unlocking some of those hidden doors....

I meant to put a wee love heart smiley in , but pressed send instead.. so

( who ever is smiley monitor could do with finding a wider selection of hearts )

Shakti ~ Rising wrote:

( who ever is smiley monitor could do with finding a wider selection of hearts )

ahem, i know we already offer so much more than any other Reiki forum , in all manner of ways. You want more heart smilies, your wish is my command....

cheers

here's one i'd need to do in every post...

did you receieve my pm? my computer keeps having lil blips..

Yeah, i got it sharon. gonna go to the shop for some chocolate, then will reply.

it;s difficult to know because I didn't get a wee thing saying your message has been sent......

This is another of my VERY FAVORITE topic from RLL so close to my heart and so perfectly suitable for the state of mind I am in now!!!!



It is a MUST READ for everybody involved as a Healer! That's my Opinion!

I was so Happy and Delighted that Dennis asked this question and to read our members's Responses!!! XOXOXO




A Treasure!!! Please Share, We learn from you!!

Thanks Wayne,




More emoticons!!! YAY!!

thehungrycaterpillar wrote:

It is a MUST READ for everybody involved as a Healer! That's my Opinion!

Let's see bout if it can go in the must reads then!

Thanks for your comments and encouragement. I know that Reiki has transformed my life. Just learning to live the precepts has been such a gift and learning experience. It is always nice to hear how this transformation has affected others. I would love to continue to hear how Reiki has enhanced your lives.