Reiki is a practice of self-healing. And so in many ways when we sit down and begin our Reiki practice, we are working to open the connection to the internal environment. And in this way we have to be ready to air out our closet and face ourselves. We have to be ready to take the red pill, as it were, to go inside and face the things that we are struggling to hold on to. After all, is this not what healing is? Are we not working to release all that doesn’t serve us any longer? Are the core beliefs of our suffering (our traumas, wounds, etc) not the roots of disease? We can really only heal once we begin to turn inward and face these skeletons in our closets, as the old adage puts it.
The healing process is one where we have to face these inner truths and we have to face them persistently enough and long enough until they’re gone. If we think about this, from a Reiki perspective, we can be reminded of the practice of the Byosen, this is the practice where we “scan” a body in order to gain a sensation of trapped energy in the body. From a Japanese perspective on this practice, there is no need to label it, understand it, contextualize it, or even take any further note of it beyond just the sensation. The hands remain on this area until the sensation of this energy begins to dissipate. That may be a matter of minutes, hours, or even days, but eventually it will dissipate.
Now, what is this energy? Well, it could be a trauma, an emotion, a belief. It could be a physical injury. It could be past life issues if that resonates with you. It doesn’t matter what it is, because at its core it is stagnant energy. Regardless of its form, it’s something that we’re holding on to and in order to release it, we have to face it.
And so I like this analogy that Reiki allows us to take this red pill as it were, to face the truth, even if that truth is uncomfortable. But notice how we face this truth. Notice that we’re not facing it alone. Notice how gentle and reassuring and loving Reiki can be. You see as we go inward and as we face ourselves, we might be afraid to open these doors and that’s very understandable. The ego might not want us to revisit old traumas or open old wounds. But as long as those wounds are there festering away and those traumas are buried within, we can’t fully heal.
What I love about the practice of Reiki is that there’s far too much love and sympathy in the universe, for us to dive deeper than we’re able to. It’s like a universal safety net that protects us from falling too far too quickly. So our physical body, our mental body, our emotional body, all of the layers of our being will only be let go of layer by layer, at a pace that we are able to handle.
And I’m sure this resonates with many of you. As we begin to turn inward we don’t dive headfirst into every single trauma that we all hold on to. Of course not. I know if that was the case I’d be a total basket case at this point!…
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