How Can I Use My Reiki Training?
From the very beginning of your Reiki training, you are encouraged to set up a daily self-healing session, to ensure your personal energy is clear and flows-freely, and you can begin to recognise how your energy feels and how it is different from that of others.
Most people think of Reiki as a healing energy for others - family, friends or, as you progress through your training, working with clients, but it can also be used for so much more. So, once you feel confident with your self-healing and have worked with those close to you, why not try some of these ideas!
Reiki & Your Pets
You can give Reiki to your animals; they do not have the spiritual filter that we develop, so can be very receptive. There are Reiki for animals training courses available, but to begin with, practise on your pets by asking the Reiki to flow for their highest good and place your hands to where you feel drawn - maybe their head, shoulders or tummy. You could hover your hands above or place them directly on the area - what feels right for you and for your pet? They may, or may not, feel comfortable and will move away when they’ve had enough.
As with all treatments, you should ask for permission to treat from the animal’s owner and not give a diagnosis of any sort; if you are worried at all suggest the owner seeks advice from their vet.
Reiki & Your Home
You can use Reiki to clear the energy in your room or to create and maintain your sacred space. Sit in your room and connect to the energy in the room; if this needs to be cleared, allow the Reiki to flow through you and out into the space.
You could set an intention for how you want to feel - calm, at peace, purposeful, safe… You can also draw your Reiki symbols in the corners of the room.
Reiki in Your Garden
Try giving Reiki to your plants or flowers either by holding your hands out towards them, or sit close by and send distance healing. You can give Reiki to seedlings or plants before planting them in the ground, and also to the water that you use on them.
Reiki & Your Food / Drinking Water
You can add Reiki to your food as you prepare your meal, and to your plate before you begin to eat. Similarly, you can hold your glass of water, or any drink, in your hands and let the Reiki flow into the liquid.
Reiki & Your Crystals
To clear and re-energize your crystals, hold them in the palm of your hands and ask for the Reiki to flow freely.
Reiki to Clear Your Future
If you have attended one of the Reiki 2 training sessions, you will remember that you can use Symbol 3 (HSZSN) to send distant healing to others. You can also use this symbol to heal the past and send Reiki into the future (see June’s members’ blog for a reminder on how to do this too!).
If you have a challenge in your future, you can use Reiki to clear the path for your success. Ask for Reiki to flow for your highest good and remember, that if this doesn’t work out exactly as you had hoped, there might be something even better waiting for you, so don’t give up. You can draw on your symbols if you have been attuned at Reiki 2 or just send Reiki into the future with your positive thoughts and affirmations.
Science tells us that everything contains energy - so you can use Reiki healing energy on anything and everything. Reiki clears and balances existing energy from all beings, objects and thoughts, which can only be beneficial. Why not be creative with your use of Reiki healing and see how this benefits your life and all that you have.