Depending on where you are with your Reiki practice, you have likely heard of distance Reiki. Perhaps you have given distance sessions or received them, and perhaps you have had clients ask you how this is even possible. I hope to shed some light on this topic and perhaps help with our understanding of the practice by sharing my thoughts here.
Before jumping into the content here I would like to point out that I’m saying HJZSN as opposed to HSZSN. Within my Reiki training and practice in Japan the reason for HJZSN was explained to me as this:
There was a simple translation issue somewhere along the lines and to put it in brief:
Think of the word Ninja in it’s two components Nin and Ja. Ja follows the tone of Nin, and more specifically the long N sound of the second N in Ninja. This is why it is Hon Ja, same as Nin Ja. To further explain this, think of the word Geisha. The “sha” follows a hard a sound from the “i” in Gei, which is not the same tone as in Hon from the symbol. So a brief to help clarify this prior to the article here.
To dive into the use of HJZSN from the perspective of distance I think it might be worthwhile to think about the other symbols, CKR and SHK, first, and consider how they may be perceived. Now for the sake of this article, I will be a bit abbreviated here in discussing this but should any of you have questions I’m always happy to chat.
FIrstly, CKR. This is often talked about as the empowerment symbol, and that if we think about it counterclockwise it draws energy into the body, and clockwise pulls energy out. But let’s take a pause with all of these thoughts here to note just what is it that is making these assumptions about CKR? Is it not our minds? And further, is Reiki not simply the energy of everything? And if that is the case, then how could I possess a power to amplify the power of everything? This is all in the mind, and thus the ego…and so if we look at CKR not from this perspective, but rather from the perspective of just applying it internally we might see a different approach. Bring CKR into the self (visualize it, chant it, draw it, however you like) and simply witness the experience. Can you not feel “more” energy now moving through you? Is that not proof that CKR empowers? No, I don’t believe so. I believe what you are feeling is the lack of other noise and you are just becoming more aware of that which is always in you, your true Reiki energy.
So if we turn inward with CKR and remain here with SHK then what may develop? Well SHK is often described as a symbol that balances energy, but again, according to whom? What determines that the energy is out of balance or needs to be balanced? Is that not in the mind again? So as an alternative approach to this, what if we turn inward with CKR and begin to feel within. And in that space we notice resistance or turbulence, and so we simply sit within that awareness and notice that it will begin to dissipate…to me this…
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