Unlocking Inner Peace: Reiki Meditation Techniques for Stress Relief and Spiritual Healing
By Dennis Bluthardt at Namaste Studios
Reiki, the Japanese healing technique said to channel universal life energy through the palms, is a widespread wellness practice with broad applications. Think of it merely to relax and destress. As a result, it’s often combined with other relaxation techniques to achieve the best of all possible worlds.
The focus here is meditation, so having Reiki applied while performing a meditation might be one way to enhance the relaxation response. For instance, listeners might use guided visualizations to suggest working on purifying energy in a particular organ in the body and have the Reiki practitioner lay hands over that area. The result is a wonderfully deep, calming meditation that’s super grounding and easy to perform.
Essential Meditation Techniques for Reiki Practitioners
Guided Reiki meditation uses specific visualizations and affirmations to facilitate relaxation and the flow of Reiki energy. While many free or premium options are available online for guided meditations, all that is needed to benefit is a quiet room and some imagination. Some people find it helpful to visit local wellness centers for guided workshops or to work with a Reiki practitioner at Namaste Studios to develop an individualized plan. The answers you receive from working through the next section of this guide can be used to create a customized script for a personal guided Reiki meditation practice that resonates with your unique healing experience.
Breathwork is a standard relaxation and practiced meditation technique that can be used with Reiki meditation. The practitioner can direct breath in multiple ways. In general, the practitioner can benefit from deep abdominal breathing. This type of breathing promotes relaxation, and oxygen facilitates the movement of energy. So, remember to breathe this way during any Reiki meditation. The practitioner can also use other practices, such as a standard 4-7-8 method. Take a 4-second breath, hold that breath for 7 seconds, and exhale to the count of 8. See the link above for guided examples of breathwork-based techniques.
In other types of Reiki meditation, you can use visualization techniques to channel Reiki energy throughout the body. For instance, using Reiki techniques, you can visualize a healing white light (or any hot light like the sun). If you’d like to boost the physical application of Reiki on one part of your body, you could visualize yourself surrounded by a bright white or gold orb of light and energy. There are many variations of this type of Reiki practice. The thing to remember is that it can be unique to you.
Understanding Reiki and Its Benefits
Reiki, a form of energy healing, was developed in Japan by Mikao Usui during the early 20th Century. Reiki translates as “universal life energy,” speaking to the belief that this faux life force energy flows between all beings. With hand placement, a practitioner channels this energy to encourage healing and balance.
In the practice of Reiki, disruptions and imbalances of this energy are believed to cause emotional and physical disease in humans:
Urban dwellers live quietly with the easily discernible high-pitched buzz of power lines.
Corporate office dwellers lie beneath overhead lighting as they dream of power points, slide by slide.
Energetically sensitive people endure the body fry of a fully charged laptop computer comfortably situated on their lap.
People use energy, and people suffer from the mishandling of energy.
Like it or not, we are all human conductors, carrying a hot flame of energy potential.
At its core, energy healing proposes that everything in the universe, from humans to blades of grass to beta fish and space dust, interconnects through energy. Upping its cosmic game, this universal energy offers an opportunity for healing. A practitioner is believed to pull down universal energy, which exists all around us, causing a slight, sacred shift in a patient’s energy.
Reiki holds the patient with a comforting hand in their potential healing process.
Many patients drawn to Reiki and meditation admit to some difficulty in meditating. Although the practice of Reiki does not require meditation for “success,” many patients appreciate assistance in relaxation and concentration.
In the case of a 1-1 remote treatment, your practitioner is already cradling you simultaneously in a divine nest of universal and healing Reiki energy. Your practitioner’s expertly trained hands are firmly placed and already supporting your body as you request a hoard of hypothetical Reiki eggs. In your practitioner’s competent, calming presence, you should experience calm, allow, and be.
Clients build upon the positive effect of a practitioner’s initial guidance and healing by integrating their Reiki treatments with the regular healing practice with mindfulness.
Mindfulness provides an opportunity for additional healing as the body begins to connect more deeply with the energy around it. Clients continue creating their optimal energy experience with ongoing mindfulness and healing in their day-to-day lives.
Incorporating Mindfulness into Reiki Meditation
Mindfulness is the human ability to be fully present and fully engaged in what we are doing now without judgment. Being more aware of your thoughts, feelings, and sensations in your body can make your other wellness and meditation practices more effective. One of these practices is Reiki, an energy healing technique. Through mindfulness, you are more connected with your energy and flow and have a greater sense of the awareness and intention you bring into your sessions.
How to Be More Mindful in Your Reiki Meditations
- START WITH A FIVE-MINUTE MINDFULNESS EXERCISE
Mindfulness exercises you are familiar with, like focusing on your breath, observing your thoughts, or having a body scan. You can begin your Reiki session with a few minutes of this. You are quieting all the unnecessary noise by taking a few minutes to breathe and check in with yourself. A calm mind and calm body are more receptive.
- HAVE A NO-DISTRACTIONS ENVIRONMENT
If you already struggle with staying present, remove distractions from the equation. Set the timer on your phone so you know when to stop when it goes off.
- SET AN INTENTION
Remember why you started Reiki.
- USE A SOUNDSCAPE OR A GUIDED MEDITATION
This enhances your ability to stay present during meditation by using music to help you stay more focused. Guided meditations may also help you focus on the chatter of your thoughts, or lack thereof.
Creating a Personal Reiki Meditation Practice
Creating a Calming Environment for Meditation
Select a quiet space in your home and incorporate calming colors, crystals, plants, soft lighting, or other energy-enhancing personal items to create an atmosphere of peace, tranquility, and healing. You could even dedicate an entire room to this. You have now made this a sanctuary, a safe and healing space. It’s very exciting!
Incorporating Reiki Meditation into Your Daily Self-Care Routine
The peaceful, grounding energy of Reiki blends so beautifully with the calm introspection of meditation. The more time and energy you pour into this practice, the more quickly you’ll see the benefits. It won’t take long for you to create positive change (for the better) in your life’s essential areas/accountabilities.
Reflection/Progress Tracking
Reiki meditation techniques focus on relaxation, mindfulness, and spiritual healing.
In the beginning, using either gentle touch or, through practice and visualization techniques, you will channel pure energy throughout the body to release any tension blocking natural energy pathways. This form of relaxation has the dual purpose of reducing stress and creating stillness within the body to focus the mind on the current moment. Mindfulness practice will then become the foundation that you will seek to integrate into every moment of every day. Over time, the mind is cleared of mindless clutter. The resulting balance soothes emotions and opens the mind and body to peace and harmony.
You will find that the natural course of regular mindfulness practice allows you to pursue your life journey into spiritual healing. Every person’s passage into this next stage of spiritual awakening, where the mind fully opens and connects beyond the physical world, will be as different as we all are from each other! Consider joining a local meditation circle or subscribing to online resources to share your experiences with others. Overcome with the sensation of floating, a person may believe they are outside of their body. Complete darkness converts to light in a dreamlike state of consciousness, where the meditator walks within nature and communicates with the universe.
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