Reiki Meditation With Level
II Energies/Symbols
This
is a form in development, for your Reiki path may continue to Shinpiden
(Master), which would give a radical boost to your spiritual efforts.
The
sounds/symbols you now have are, however, a very strong start,
especially if you
are new to the discipline of meditation. These are steps for the
beginner.
Set
aside a twenty minute period in the morning, before your day begins,
and
an equal time at night, before you go to sleep. As long as your spine
is
erect, head and body aligned comfortably, you can sit on a chair, bed
or
the floor. The surface must not be too yielding, and although posture
is
not rigidly emphasized here, it is one of the aspects that need
improvement
and attention as you move along. Designate an area and always meditate
there. Try to sit at the same times each day. You may face a blank wall
or have an altar. When you first sit, do it with great intention and
purpose.
An invocation or prayer may be offered at the start and finish.
For
the duration of your sitting, very gently and slightly turn your eyes
up
toward the spiritual eye. Meditation is basically a process of
concentration,
deepening and expansion. Another way to say it is that the
consciousness
and energy need to be withdrawn from the five senses, to become settled
in the subtle centers along the spine, then directed toward the
spiritual
chakras, establishing oneself in the highest centers in the brain.
Always
begin with concentration. Invoke CKR and continue to visualize it as
you mentally chant its mantra. Once there is a flow of spiritual
current
and interiorization of the mind and senses, continue with deepening;
invoke
SHK and visualize it as you chant inwardly. A greater sense of harmony
and equilibrium will pervade your experience. Enjoy that. Feel it. Let
it become a part of you. When you invoke, visualize and chant HSZSN
feel yourself open up to Spirit. Apart from total peace, you may have
an
experience of illumination and presence. In this expanded state
continue
to sit with awareness. Keep the eyes and attention gently at the
spiritual
eye. Feel the Divine coursing through you.
Take
moments between the sounds/symbols to savor, and sensitize to what is
happening.
Technique has less to do with success than your attentiveness to that
Sweet
Presence, although without technique it is difficult to detach from
sensory
conditioning. When all three phases are done, leave time to be in the
company
of the spiritual Reality. This is the Source of your being, your very
existence.
Honor It and feel the Great Love in which you live.
This
is only a basic form to get you started. Gather your experiences in
Reiki
meditation and bring into it everything you know about Reiki. You will
develop a solid meditation practice by following your own lead and
inner
guidance.
Reiki Prayer
Prayer
and silent, spiritual meditation go together. There are many types of
meditation,
guided or self-applied, used for specific purposes; personal growth,
health,
emotional well-being, accelerated learning. To erase spiritual
ignorance,
however, we must practice a form of sitting, silent meditation as
described
above and in all perennial wisdom traditions. It is the surest way to
commune
with the Divine.
This
type of meditation is receiving from God. Prayer is sending to God.
Prayer
can be a petition, asking for yourself; intercession,
asking
for another; confession, asking for forgiveness; lamentation,
asking for fairness; adoration or devotion,
expressing love,
honor and praise for God; thanksgiving, a perpetual
state of gratitude;
invocation,
calling forth the Divine Presence; and declaration,
making a firm
statement of truth. It can also be directed (specific) or nondirected
(surrender).
However, prayer is a profound and personal experience and there are
endless
ways in which to pray. 
One
of the best times to pray is when Divine contact has been made at the
culmination
of a period of sincere meditation. When we pray we take essential, pure
thoughts and feelings, beyond words even while using words, and give
them
as gifts or offerings to the Source of our being. We use all our
internal
power (love and will) to so touch this Great Being as to change the
fabric
of life.
What
Reiki can add to prayer is its special way of increasing and moving ki,
life force. The power of this method is derived from the effect Reiki
has
of energizing thoughts, feelings and visualizations and increasing
their
vibration so as to lift them to the spiritual level. The prayer we
generate
at the level of our bodily earth existence, is sent to the level at
which
prayers are answered in a vitally charged way.
Reiki Personal Power
RecoverySM (RPPR)
This
is a step by step technique that encompasses Reiki on the subtle
bodies.
It is a strong energy therapy and needs to be respected as such. The
client's
situation and response will modify each application. Work on the subtle
bodies can be done within each Reiki session, whereas RPPR is an entire
session on its own. You will develop an understanding that lets you
know
when this technique is appropriate.
RPPR
utilizes an altered state of consciousness (ASC—another
term is "nonordinary
state of consciousness"—NOSC)
so easily accessible with Reiki. For this
technique and ultimately for healing to be successful, the dominance of
a limited, only-matter-is-real, externally focused consciousness has to
be surpassed. For the client to consider, feel and eventually
experience
the rich content and dimensions of his or her being, for unhealthy
intangibles
to be recognized and released, the consciousness and vision of
possibilities
has to be expanded.
The
overall concept of RPPR is the management of personal power or energy.
Not the physical energy that is the fuel of all activities, although
that
is included, but energy in the sense of the quality and condition of
vitality,
the heart's harmony, the
mind's focus and the soul's
illumination.
A
personal power deficiency, seepage, or total unavailability is so
common
that healing could be essentially defined as the reclamation and proper
distribution of personal energy and power. The soul is all-powerful. We
are born with this power intact. What makes it a power is the soul's
knowingness
of its own nature: worthy, loved, joyful, beautiful, creative,
limitless,
a piece of God, a divine design originated in truth and Light.
However
the karma game is that the soul continues to evolve and participates in
the universal plan through physical incarnation. It has been doing this
for eons. Each incarnation collects karma (literally action; every
action
has a consequence, good or bad). These karmic seeds sprout in future
lives
and determine certain aspects of those lives, but the seeds are
reversible,
transmutable and completely governed by personal choice. In other
words,
we have total power over our life and destiny. To activate and apply
this
power is what the spiritual path is all about.
It
is a process that can be baffling, painful, and heavy. Yet the soul and
God are always with us at every twist and turn. Since our true nature
is
the nature of the soul, all the aspects of our being belong to the
soul.
Therefore personal power interruptions could be called "soul loss" or
the "loss of soul parts." Soul loss can happen at any age, under any
circumstance.
When
a soul part (or any part of our psyche or soma) is lost, stolen,
denied,
abandoned or abused, it creates an energy and power deficiency in our
overall
system. Either the fragmented part takes a certain unit of power with
it,
or some of our energy continues to be fed to it, even though it no
longer
serves a purpose. So there is this disembodied entity that either needs
to be brought home, or released completely and transmuted. Otherwise it
literally causes serious problems in the availability and management of
personal power. Are you in full possession of your entire presence?
Healing
is the ability to change consciousness. It is the consciousness of
disempowerment
that has to change first. Choice is the switch that controls our
energy.
Once choice is aligned with harmony and wholeness and we dispense or
preserve
our energy with higher, discriminative will, then consciousness can be
refined and stabilized in a new, healed state.
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