Love and Reiki
We feel better when we feel loved. It is well accepted that to have more love in our life, we have to allow more love to flow through us. It is all very well to be aware of this but how do we do it. How can we replace negative emotions like anger, dislike, intolerance – emotions that we all experience from time to time despite our best intentions to be good, with love for ourselves and for other people in our life.
Love, love consciousness, filling our heart with love and gratitude – I have become more and more aware of these teachings recently. These messages have been appearing in my life from several different sources. I happened to read the following words from Rhonda Byrne, author of The Secret, and they brought forth some thoughts:
“Think of love as water in a glass, and the glass as our being. When a glass has only a little water in it, it is empty. You can’t change the water level in the glass by waging war on the emptiness and trying to rip out the emptiness. The emptiness goes by filling the glass with more water. When you have bad feelings (like sadness or anger), you are empty of love, and so when you put love into yourself, the bad feelings are gone”.
These words reminded me that Reiki is also described as unconditional love. I feel that each Reiki treatment that we receive helps top up our love balance. For me being able to give myself a Reiki self healing treatment is a huge strength that my Reiki practice empowers me with. When we give ourselves a Reiki treatment everyday, we keep topping up our love balance regularly. Over time, with daily self treatments, the level of love in our being keeps getting higher. I feel that maybe this is another way that Reiki works. By helping more love to flow through us, the bad or the negative seems to lessen over time.
I learnt Reiki nearly 10 years ago. I have been giving myself a Reiki treatment everyday over the years. Well nearly, to be truthful. In the beginning I used to slip up occasionally, but once I started to feel the benefits I started to do it everyday. I do feel that over the years, the bad feelings have lessened. I continue to feel better about myself ie I feel more comfortable in my own skin. My relationships with others keep improving and my outlook on life continues to become more positive.
The nicest thing about this shift within me is that it has just happened over the years, gradually, naturally, without my having to do anything specific except for daily Reiki self healing treatments.
Thanks to Nutdanai Apikhomboonwaroot for the image.
I also feel empowered since I have learnt Reiki. It helps in keeping my attitude positive and I feel more balanced. You are a constant source of inspiration behind my daily self treatment. May God bless you with more love and happiness.
Thank you Vandana for sharing these beautiful thoughts.
I feel very much the same way Mamta, thank you for sharing this. As I have grown and healed I have loved myself more. Through that self love I have found myself more able and willing to surround myself with love, and more accepting of love and life in general. I strongly feel that increasing capacity for love and acceptance really brings a great deal of peace and inner stillness. Since learning Reiki 1 with/from you a few months ago I have found that my journey has spring boarded in a new direction, and I have a very wonderful tool to carry with me both in times of happiness, and times of challenge. Thank you.
Very wise words Michelle. I agree with you. Reiki is indeed wonderful – enriching our lives in so many ways. And isn’t technology wonderful – enabling us to keep in touch from such distant parts of the world.
Your blog has really inspired me to do reiki daily, as I am very lazy in it. Thanks a lot
Thank you Samira for sharing this. I am really glad that to hear that these thoughts have inspired you. Please keep in touch and let me know how you are getting on with daily self treatments.
Dear Mamta thank you for such a lovely blog. This is certainly touching and thought provoking.
Thank you Fatma. It is nice to know that you read and liked the blog. I shall be writing about the workshop with Anita Moorjani soon. Hope that will resonate with you too.