Two of my favorite names for Mystery are Timelessness and Oneness. (Please share yours in a comment below.)

It’s intriguing to explore Mystery through the lens of Oneness, because Oneness is where science and spirituality merge.

Spirituality and science, again

Sages and mystics from all traditions tell us Oneness is the ultimate reality.

Physicists agree. A single fundamental reality seems so obvious to them that they gave it a name — unified field — even though physics doesn’t have equations for that reality.

Or even a comprehensive theory. String theory moves in that direction, but isn’t a complete unified theory (according to my physicist friends).

(Full disclosure: I’m not a physicist, not even close, so if you have an advanced physics degree, and you disagree with anything here, please educate me.)

Basic Oneness

One thing fundamental to Oneness is that whatever it is, there’s only one.

When you experience even a glimmer of Oneness — whether during self Reiki or meditation or prayer, or out in nature, or any time your mind stops and your heart opens — the Oneness you experience is the same Oneness I experience.

It’s the same Oneness everyone who experiences Oneness experiences.

Even the people you have a beef with. Because there’s only one One.

Oneness is not material

Physics tells us about the material world. It explores the “there” that’s “there.”

But Oneness isn’t there, or anywhere. It’s everywhere. All the time. Timeless.

Oneness has no substance. Oneness is not material.

Oneness expresses as (among other things) the material world.

But Oneness itself isn’t material, and doesn’t have any of the limitations associated with matt.

Oneness is limitless and timeless; it’s spiritual (not metaphysical).

Oneness is transforming

Because Oneness is without limits, you don’t have to have a full out experience of Oneness to be transformed.

Even a glimpse of Oneness moves you, making pettiness less interesting, and opening your vision to ever-deepening Truth.

You move into Oneness incrementally, one practice at a time. That’s why daily self practice brings you so much more benefit than occasional, when-you-feel-like-it practice.

Reiki spiritual practice

It really wasn’t a leap for me to practice self Reiki every day because I was a meditation teacher when I learned to practice Reiki.

A meditation teacher pregnant with her second child. A meditation teacher who remembered well the impossibility of meditating daily with a newborn.

And a meditation teacher who understood that as a mother of two young children, I’d have greater need for the resilience that comes with daily practice, that it would make me a better, more loving mother.

My leg up

I brought everything I’d come to know about the benefit of daily spiritual practice to my Reiki practice from the beginning.

I didn’t practice just when I felt like it; I practiced every morning (the easiest time for me), no matter how I felt.

I self practiced daily because I knew that’s what it takes to open the spiritual support I needed and longed for.

And my self Reiki rewarded that commitment.

What about you?

Do you struggle with daily self practice? I probably would have at first if I weren’t already a daily meditator.

I came to Reiki with some knowledge of the commitment needed to get the most from spiritual practice.

And it’s easy to commit to daily self practice because you start to feel the benefits immediately. At least that’s what my students tell me.

If your practice isn’t opening you spiritually in the way you want, please know there’s more.

That more isn’t a matter of more bells and whistles. More likely, it’s a matter of less.

Less distraction, more immersion. More delight. More steadiness. More peace.

But how?

Two possibilities come to mind.

The first: consider taking my comprehensive, traditional First Degree Reiki training online, in small group, live, interactive sessions.

My next class is on the afternoons (NYC time) of January 11, 12, and 18, and right now, there’s space available. Details here.

The second possibility for Reiki immersion is the Reiki Vacay Retreat in Mexico February 15-22.

I call it a Reiki Vacay because it’s fun and relaxing with a small group of like-hearted people. I’m talking dedicated downtime.

And it’s a retreat because it’s dedicated downtime with 2 group practice sessions each day, a communal guided self practice before breakfast, and table practice before dinner, watching the sun set over the Pacific Ocean. That alone is transforming.

Transformation doesn’t have to be hard, you know. In fact, sometimes your belief in hard is what’s in your way.

If that rings true for you, it can be challenging to get out of your way, because hard can’t help you there, can it?

Dedicated downtime with spiritual practice and heartfelt community — and did I mention fresh, delicious food? — does what hard can’t do. That combination sets the stage for transformation.

All you have to do is step in. That’s the only way a good idea becomes your reality.

Email me to share your thoughts because we have only a couple spaces left.

I do hope you’ll join me as we retreat into Mystery, retreat into Oneness, and emerge transformed, and happy.

Reiki Vacay in Mexico details here.

I look forward to practicing with you soon.

This is the second in a series that starts here.

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