Life Force Energy

Reiki is a knowledge on how to be a conduit for life force energy. We do not heal but we allow for you to find a place to heal yourself. Everyone is energy and has energy around them. Often by focusing on healing that energy you can heal yourself. This thought is not only used in Reiki but also in other practices such as acupuncture. Reiki is open to all and will always go where needed even if you focus in a different area. It is simply being open to the energy that helps. Meditation also can work with this energy when you focus on clearing you mind and heart. When meditating think about your life force energy and how it can heal and substain you.

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Benefits of Reiki

Above are just some of the benefits of Reiki. Many of these are also provided with meditation. Utilizing both can calm you more than just one alone. I will admit that it can be hard to maintain a Reiki practice along with meditation and sometimes I do them together because Reiki should take 30 minutes or more to complete properly. Through my training I am now able to do distance Reiki for others. As practitioners we can also utilize Reiki to assist with more intangible issues in the world. Reiki is like using "the force" to aid you in healing and clear thinking. As you meditate today focus on one of the benefits above that can help you.

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The Five Principles of Reiki

Reiki has some close ties to meditation as they can go hand in hand to aid in healing. The five principles of Reiki concern letting go of negative and being positive and grateful in your efforts. It starts with just for today so that you don't feel that it requires a great effort from you. Just focus on today. Meditation should also include the positive over the negative and a feeling of purpose. Today let go and focus on others.

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Reiki and Focus

I hope that you all enjoyed the series with Deepak Chopra. Now we turn back to me and I have decided to focus a little time on Reiki. As a practitioner of Reiki, I want to provide you with some basics. At some point, I may create my own training program for you to use in learning Reiki on your own. What you learn is that Reiki should be shared and that Reiki will go where it is needed no matter your process. I have not used it as faithfully as I should but it can help your meditiation as well as your health. So during your meditation today take a first step by holding your hands over your eyes for a few minutes and willing the energy of Reiki to fill you and clear your heart and mind. I believe you will learn a good bit about yourself as we discuss Reiki.

Namaste

Day 22 - Living at the Center of the World

I apologize for missing yesterday but here is the final installment from this round of the Chopra Meditation series. I hope that you have gotten some good from this time. This final day discusses how our thoughts make our world. This is so true. I see so many people whose worlds are so negative because that is how they think. The same thing for someone else would be positive. I have been on vacation this week and my daughter keeps reminding me to look at the positive when my feet and legs are really hurting. I am thankful to her on this special day because she keeps me on the positive side. When you want to think negative stop and look around at the world you are creating, make it better.

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. With our thoughts we make the world." – Gautama Buddha

To claim to live at the center of the world is clearly a delusional statement from the standpoint of the separate self, but from the perspective of your essential being, pure awareness, it is only stating a truth latent in every awakening soul. 

Today’s meditation is about this core truth of our consciousness – that our awareness moving as our thoughts, desires, feelings, and senses generates an experiential reality or world around us. We are the authors of this world.

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Day 21 - Love Is The Eternal Connection

Radiating peace and love can be very difficult especially with people who do not that you come in contact with. They will work on your patience and peaceful heart. Take deep breaths and remember that they do not yet have your connection and try to show them love instead of negativity. This has been hard for me but I will continue to work on it.

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” – Rumi

As consciousness continues to grow and our hearts make more and more connections to other hearts, we find that we are indeed radiating peace from the inside out. Looking more closely, we discover that these waves of peace are also waves of unconditional love, and that pure love is the spiritual heartbeat that connects us all.  

Today’s meditation tells us that this love is the driving force of all life. To awaken to this truth within us is our purpose and our promise.

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Day 20 - Peace is the Deepest Connection

Deepak today is commenting that peace does not come from struggle but from the inner workings of our heart and the silence within. Take a moment today to find inner peace.

“Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh

If history has shown us anything, it is that we cannot attain peace by fighting for it. But struggle and opposition is all the separate self knows how to do, even in the name of peace. To find peace, we need to go beyond our restless mind to our silent source. In the stillness of our hearts, our awareness not only finds peace, but we also recognize that we are peace itself.

Today’s meditation is about knowing our true nature as peace and becoming a unit of peace consciousness for the world.

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