The Most Important Thing
Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki said, “The most important thing is to know what is the most important thing.”
In Reiki healing, the most important thing is to practice daily self-treatment.
Just as it is impossible to develop a relationship without being in touch with your friend, it is impossible to develop your relationship with Reiki without self-treatment.
Daily self-treatment keeps us close to our Reiki practice. When we self-treat every day, we’re more likely to remember the Reiki Precepts or place a hand when we need support during the day. Otherwise we walk around like a sick fool who carries her medicine instead of taking it.
And it’s so easy to practice daily self-treatment. You simply place your Reiki hands on your body.
Of course the mind can make the distance between hand and body seem far longer than your arm, so it helps to have a regular schedule. When your chosen practice time comes, you don’t think about practicing, you place hands.
I practice every morning, before I leave my bed. If I’m cranky, I allow the luxury of complaining only after I’ve placed my hands. And then of course the crankiness quickly dissipates.
The Reiki chime timer provides effective support on the occasional morning when I’m just not in the mood. Somehow it makes the time go faster. I set it for the three-minute interval, which soon feels much too short. Then I can defy that lovely chime and linger on a placement twice as long if I want. After all, it’s my practice.
Any longterm relationship goes through ups and downs, and daily self-treatment is no different. Sometimes we have to be creative to find our inspiration; other times, it’s just a matter of discipline.
If you practice daily self-treatment, please share your tips for practicing consistently.
If the distance from your Reiki hand to your body seems too far to travel regularly and you’d like some support, try giving yourself a full treatment at the same time of day for the next three days, and let us know what a difference it makes.
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I so agree, Pamela. It is so worth the few minutes to care for self. I practice Reiki every evening after I retire, and most mornings. I will usually place one hand on my heart area, and another hand close to the bottom of my rib cage. I go to sleep in the evening with Reiki continuing for as long as it is needed. It is well worth the time, and there is no effort involved.
Yes, I concur. So many times practicing reiki on others is often the most emphasized in many reiki training situations. But you are correct the most important thing is to know the most important thing and that is hands on healing for self first….treat self….
I made a picture in my paint program. I used the word “Reiki” and decorated it nicely, using my creativity. I put the picture near my bed. Before i got to sleep, I take 10 minutes or so to do my Reiki. It helps me to sleep better, as well. Sue
I don’t do full reiki sessions each day, but I have been doing similar to Connie, where she places a hand on the heart and the other below the ribs, long before I learned reiki and I still do it most nights. I’ve never heard of anyone else doing that until now.
–Eric
I often forget to use it on myself. When I do remember it takes my headaches and backaches away immediately. I really need to get into some kind of regimen. Note to self….get busy girl.
I’ve also bookmarked this site for furthering my education as well as my connection to Reiki.
It’s right that the important thing for Reiki Practitioner is to do self-healing everyday. So that you will find your body and soul always be healthy. It’s so easy to do and it takes about 30 minutes.
I’m kinda surprised that people need any encouragement to do daily self treatment. For me doing Reiki is as natural as eating. I would have to make a conscious effort not to do Reiki in the same way as some people make a conscious effort not to eat (fasting). I’m not exaggerating there, though it may sound like it.
Maybe this is just a case of different people finding different things coming naturally to them. I certainly don’t meditate regularly, but I have a friend who meditates for hours every day because he feels it just comes naturally.