Reiki.. In Everyday Life

Reiki in Everyday life:

As a Reiki practitioner learning to bring in the Precepts of Reiki into everyday life is the reminder that each moment is fresh, each moment an opportunity to be Awake and Alive to the life that has been given to us. As with any spiritual based discipline or healing system, the concepts are deep but if there is no practical application how does it serve in our daily existence of work, family, relationship and awakening? When Dr. Usui came off the Mount Kurama to begin to share the work of Reiki with others, he began to notice that even after healing, people were returning to their life as if nothing had changed. It was the realization to Dr. Usui that without some spiritual basis and application to life itself, healing only was occurring at the physical and worldly level and not shifting consciousness itself. So he brought in the Precepts as a reminder to live with healing, to allow Reiki to shift our consciousness and bring healing to a deeper soul level.

“Just for today, do not anger
Just for today, do not worry
Honor your parents, teachers and elders
Earn your living honestly
Show gratitude to all living beings”

There are many variations from the different schools of Reiki. But the purpose remains the same. When you contemplate even the wording “Just for today” It narrows the focus to the present moment, relinquishing the past and surrendering our projections to the future. Just for today as a reminder that we make conscious choices about our lives, choosing whether to react in anger, to spend our time in worry. “Just for today” we can choose to live in kindness, live in compassion, live in the gift of the moment. Our worries and our anger stem from the past and the places we have been wronged, the places we feel life or people in our life have let us down. But taking these precepts engaging in the present moment is the opportunity to co-create the life you want NOW! No longer ruled by the past or the future, each moment is a choice. A choice in how we live and what we bring to this life.

So just for today, surrender anger, surrender worry.. be open to the unlimited goodness and compassion that lies in your heart, in the moment. Remember the preciousness of this life and the beauty of your own heart. Allow the Reiki, the life force of the universe to flow through everything you do and everyone you encounter today.

Namaste’