Reiki Insights
Insights through Reiki experience
Light
~ 12th Oct 2020
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Just for today
“Just for today, I will not anger or worry. Rather than being controlled by these states, I bring gentle awareness to them. In doing so, I uncover their root and move closer to freedom. This is the work of a Reiki practitioner.” ~ 9th October 2020
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Grounding
“Grounding restores balance to the body, heart, and mind. As worry and anger loosen their hold, a natural sense of gratitude begins to emerge. Take a moment today to reconnect with your vital energy. Feel the earth beneath your feet and allow the mind to return home to the present moment.” ~ 29th September 2020
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Pause
“Cognitive overload arises from constant thinking, planning, analysing, and doing. In a world of endless notifications and digital connection, the mind rarely finds an opportunity to rest.
Over time, this can lead to fatigue, poor sleep, mental dullness, emotional imbalance, and a loss of vitality.
If this resonates with you, pause for a moment. Give yourself permission to empty the mental filing cabinet, soften the nervous system, and breathe again. Let go of the noise and return to yourself.
The energy spent meeting the demands of the world can also be used to restore balance within. This is an act of diligence, self-respect, and kindness“. ~ 28th September 2020
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Teaching from a daisy
~ 27th September 2020
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Clouds of relative reality
“When we become aware of our conditioned thoughts and stories, we begin to see how dreamlike our life experience can be. Through the diligence of Reiki practice, the clouds of confusion slowly dissolve, revealing a clearer view of how things are.
As clarity deepens, kindness arises naturally. What was once hidden is seen to have always been present. This is the gift of Reiki: a path of gentle awakening through practice, experience, and insight.” ~ 27th September 2020
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A moment to Just Be
“This photo of my old friend Bundy reminds me of the rare moments when we simply are. Usually, he is searching for his next meal, nose to the ground and fearless on his mission. Yet in this moment, there is something different.
There is nowhere he needs to be, nothing he needs to do, and nothing he needs to become. He is simply resting in the fullness of the moment. Free from striving, simply abiding exactly where he is.
Perhaps the teaching: that beneath all our searching lies the simple invitation to just be. And in that abiding, we may discover a peace that has been present all along.” ~ 25th September 2020
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When the light shines through
“As we move through the challenges of Covid we are not just witnessing the darker side of her wrath but also her compassionate way as she carefully exposes societal greed. The awakening to inequity in health, education, housing and access to basic needs. She is swiftly exposing the cracks and forcing large scale reforms and for this for today I have immense gratitude.” ~ 29th July 2020
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Reiki and Knowingness
Who Are You?
As practitioners move into the intermediate and advanced stages of Reiki as a spiritual path, a profound question naturally emerges:
- Who am I?
- Do I truly know who I am?
This inquiry deepens through third symbol practice and through the compassionate work of supporting those who are transitioning from life. In the presence of death, many of our assumptions about identity begin to soften. We witness how every role, possession, and personal story must eventually be released.
Through this intimate practice, we begin to see the ignorance that gives rise to the notion of a separate and fixed self.
The Story of “I”
Much of our life is organised around the idea of “I”:
- I am a wife.
- I am a mother.
- I am a manager.
- I am a Reiki practitioner.
These are roles, functions, and experiences. They have practical value, yet they are not the entirety of who we are. When we become completely identified with these labels, we lose sight of the deeper truth that exists beneath them.
The thinking mind continually creates and reinforces these identities, weaving stories about who we are and who we should become. In doing so, we often lose touch with the simplicity of being.
Learning to Be
The Reiki journey begins with learning to trust the experience of simply being.
To be is to rest in awareness without judgement, fear, worry, or criticism. It is to remain present with experience as it unfolds.
Through practice we begin to notice:
- The moments we lose our concentration.
- The moments we move away from presence.
- The moments we become caught in thought and reactivity.
Each time we recognise this movement, we learn something about the nature of our mind.
This is meditation.
This is the beginning of true self-knowledge.
The Knowingness of Being No One
Consider a walk in nature.
When you are fully present, there is only the sound of the wind, the warmth of the sun, the movement of the trees, and the rhythm of your footsteps. For a brief moment, there is no one to perform, no one to defend, and no one to become.
There is simply the experience of being.
In these moments, the boundaries between self and world begin to soften. We no longer stand apart from life. We become participants in its unfolding.
Discovering Spacious Awareness
As practice matures, glimpses of a deeper reality begin to emerge. This space is open, spacious, and free. It is not empty in the sense of lacking something. Rather, it is empty of the fixed identities and stories we habitually cling to.
What remains is a natural sense of connection, vitality, and peace.
This is one of the great gifts of Reiki practice. Through diligent practice and direct experience, we discover that what we have been seeking has always been present.
- Being nourishes.
- Presence connects.
- Clinging to thought depletes.
- Awareness liberates.
The path of Reiki is not the process of becoming someone new. It is the gradual discovery that, beneath all the stories of who we think we are, there is a freedom that has always been here. ~ 21st September 2020
~Makoto ReikiDo~