Anger is such a familiar emotion for all of us. I’m certain we can relate to this emotion and I’m certain we can find almost daily occurrences where anger seems to arise. And as Reiki practitioners, then we might want to investigate some practices that we can cultivate in our daily existence, in order to help allow this emotion of anger to flow through us, as opposed to remaining attached to the emotion or indeed to the roots of the emotion.
And so in this article, I want to share five tips that all Reiki practitioners, seasoned and new alike can utilize in their daily life to help allow anger to pass. This is not a denial that anger exists. Of course, it does. It’s an emotion just like all of our other emotions. But rather this is an article to help remind us that Reiki is a practice of detachment. It’s a practice to help us cultivate a space where we’re able to allow all things to flow. If we focus on healing alone, then we’re not cultivating a space where all things can flow. If we simply focus on healing from a Reiki perspective, then for instance, what happens if that healing doesn’t come? Well, then we might get angry, and then we’re back to square one.
So we need to learn to cultivate stillness to counter our attachments in all forms, including anger. Here are the five tips that will allow your anger to pass:
1. Take a moment and breathe
My first tip in allowing anger to be replaced with calmness, is simply to take a moment and breathe. This doesn’t mean that we can only do this when we are actively practicing Reiki. Indeed, we can do this at any moment of our life or our day. We can utilize this with whatever it is that’s causing us anger, or when we’re right in the middle of anger. If we can take ourselves away from that impetus, or thing that is fueling the emotion of anger, if we can just close our eyes, and if we can just breathe, then the fire that is building with this anger will start to dissipate very quickly. We can start to return to calmness within the mind and the body. Even if it’s just for a minute! Even if the change of our mind and our body is minuscule! It’s still better than the state of chaos that could be perpetrated by anger. And it literally is as simple as that: taking a step back, closing the eyes, and breathing. This brings us into the parasympathetic nervous system and it allows us to find even just the slightest bit of increased calmness in that moment.
2. Remember the guiding precepts
Building on this then with my second tip, is to remember the guiding precepts. And of course, one of the main guiding precepts is just for today, I will not anger. And so, if Reiki is a deeply resonating practice with you, if you walk your daily existence by following the precepts, then this is obviously very familiar to you. But what does this mean, just for today, I will not anger? Because of course, we will get angry at some point, most likely anyways! And when we do, if…
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