The Ten Rules of Reiki: Rule #3

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Practise mindfulness

Although mindfulness is something that doesn’t tend to turn up very often on most Reiki courses, it was actually a very important part of the system that Mikao was teaching, dovetailing with the precepts and the energy work to create a powerful method for self-healing and personal development.

And as you will have heard earlier, the practice of mindfulness is hidden in the Reiki precepts, hidden inside the phrase “just for today…” which for me is the most important part of the precepts: the phrase from which the other precepts flow.

So what is mindfulness?

Well mindfulness is a form of meditation that you can do anytime, anywhere.

You don’t need to be sitting alone in a quiet room, setting aside time each day for your mindfulness practice: mindfulness is a meditation that can become part of your daily routines and activities. You can be mindful when you’re doing the washing up, you can be mindful when you’re eating your dinner, you can be mindful when you’re typing on a keyboard or sipping cup of tea.

It is something that you can incorporate into your daily life as your daily life unfolds before you and it’s not something that you need to set aside special time for, which makes it such a versatile way of meditating.

When you are mindful, you are consciously and fully aware of your thoughts and actions in the present moment, non-judgmentally, just existing in the moment, and in such a state you are free from thoughts of the past or the future, and free from the anger and the worry than can flow from such a dwelling on the past and the future.

By fully engaging with each moment, you are actually living your life, because all you have is this moment, this current awareness of the present: your life is a whole stream of present moments, and if you spend your time in the past and the future you are missing out on your life, because your life is here, now, not in the past, not in the future!

Find out more about mindfulness

The two books that I recommend about Mindfulness are both written by a Buddhist monk called Thich Nhat Hanh (pronounced: “Tick Nut Hunn”). The two books are “The Miracle of Mindfulness” and “Peace is every step: the path of mindfulness in everyday life”.

I’d just like to read a small quote from Thich Nhat Hanh about mindfulness and washing dishes. Here goes:

“To my mind, the idea that doing dishes is unpleasant can occur only when you aren’t doing them. Once you are standing in front of the sink with your sleeves rolled up and your hands in the warm water, it is really quite pleasant. I enjoy taking my time with each dish, being fully aware of the dish, the water, and each movement of my hands. I know that if I hurry in order to eat dessert sooner, the time of washing dishes will be unpleasant and not worth living. That would be a pity, for each minute, each second of life is a miracle. The dishes themselves and that fact that I am here washing them are miracles!”

So mindfulness is all about being fully aware of yourself, other people and your surroundings in the moment, focusing your awareness on each moment as it unfolds. And by doing that, you can savour each experience as it appears.

Getting started with Reiki mindfulness

Now obviously, when you start to practise mindfulness you are only going to gain little glimpses of that lovely ‘in the moment’ state, before your mind drags itself off to think about the past and the future, taking you away from your actual existence, and you need to be forgiving and compassionate.

This is a new way of doing things and it will take a while before your mind starts to understand how to do mindfulness consistently. Mindfulness is a work-in-progress and you’ll find that over time those little glimpses of being ‘in the moment’ occur more frequently, you may find that occasionally you bliss out on some lovely mindful moments, and these moments, these glimpses, will build over time and become just a normal way of existing for you.

If your mind wanders, just gently bring your attention back to hat you were doing, what you were experiencing.

There’s no harm done.

Mindfulness lives in your Reiki practice already

You might be surprised to find that mindfulness is an integral part of your practice of Reiki.

When you’re treating someone and you’re in that lovely, merged state, blessed out on the energy, you’re being mindful, just there in the moment, with the energy and the recipient, no expectations: that’s mindfulness.

When you’re sending distant healing, you’ve set your intent, maybe you’ve visualised something and you’re just there, letting it happen, no thoughts of the past or future, just there with the energy: that’s mindfulness.

So your mindfulness practice in your daily life – when doing the washing up, when eating a sandwich – will benefit your experience of mindfulness when using Reiki, and your experience of mindfulness when treating someone, or self-treating, or sending distant healing, will help you to experience mindfulness more easily during your everyday life.

You are training your mind, over time, to approach things in a different way, and your mind will learn what to do.

About the 10 Rules

taggart king reiki evolutionThe Ten Rules of Reiki were put together by Taggart King as a helpful guide to getting the most out of your Reiki.

If you like what you’ve read, Taggart has a wealth of Reiki resources for you to use to get the very best out of your Reiki.

Read comprehensive manuals, listen to audio CDs or MP3s and follow special guided meditations.

Click below for more info:

You can even use all these resources for your own Reiki students: Click for ordering manuals and CDs at discounted rates.

 

“The Ten Rules of Reiki” MP3s

“The Ten Rules of Reiki” will help Reiki practitioners and Masters from all lineages to deepen their experience of this wonderful energy we work with.

Learn important Reiki principles that take your practice to the next level

International Reiki Master Teacher Taggart King has over 20 years of experience in helping people to embrace Reiki healing as a way of life, using the energy to change things for the better on many levels.

During that time he has crafted a number of principles which, when adopted, can really move your experience of the energy onto the next level, principles that feed into and permeate the Reiki Evolution way of teaching.

On this hour-long audio collection you’ll hear Taggart talking about each principle in turn, why they are important and how to implement them in your life with Reiki.

Price: £12.98


 



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			The Ten Rules of Reiki: Rule #2
		

		
		

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Base your practice on the Reiki precepts


It’s interesting that whereas in the Judaeo-Christian tradition we are given a list of things that we shouldn’t do: “thou shalt not kill” etc, in Buddhism, followers are given a list of precepts or rules to live by that seem to be framed in more of a positive way.


And in Mikao Usui’s system, he also provided his students with a simple, or apparently simple, set of precepts to follow, which seemed to be a way of distilling the essence of Tendai Buddhist principles into a form that anyone could understand. His five precepts have a long history, coming from a Tendai sect of Shugendo that Usui was in contact with, and this is what they are:


Just for today

Do not anger

Do not worry

Be humble

Be honest in your dealings with people

Be compassionate to yourself and others


The most important precept


For me, the first phrase is the most important, the “just for today…”.


For me, this encapsulates all that follows it.


“Just for today” means being in a mindful state, fully engaged in the moment. If you are fully engaged with the present moment then you are in a state that is free from anger and worry, which are based on either dwelling on the past or imagining the future.


So “Just for today” means being in a state that is free from anger and free from worry. We don’t want to distract ourselves through fear and we can remind ourselves that all is illusion.


We can simply exist in the moment.


And in that mindful space, you have the room to be compassionate, compassionate and forgiving towards other people and compassionate and forgiving towards yourself, being mindful means being in a centred, nurturing space where you can embrace honesty (and being honest with yourself is as important as being honest towards others) a space where you can truly experience the many blessings that you have in your life.


It all stems from, “Just for today”.


The very heart of Usui’s system


These five precepts are at the very heart of Usui’s system and it was said that as much spiritual development could come through following the precepts as could come through carrying out the energy work.


So how can we work with the precepts?


Well we need to remind ourselves of them on a regular basis, and some people will say them out loud each day, perhaps as part of their routine of daily energy exercises and meditations. Maybe you could recite them in your head.


But it’s not enough to just know what they are: the precepts need to infiltrate themselves into our daily lives, our thoughts, feelings and our behaviour. And we can achieve this in a couple of ways…


Firstly, we can ponder a particular precept, examining it and how it might have affected our lives, had we lived our lives by that precept in the past. How would we have behaved in past situations, how would we have reacted differently, or dealt with people, if we had embodied that particular precept?


    

  1. What would we have felt, what would be have been thinking in different past situations if we were living that precept fully?
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  2. How would things have gone differently or been better for us and maybe for other people?
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  3. How would that precept have affected your relationships or your priorities?
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Do some mental ‘re-runs’ of past events and see how they would have been different had you been following that precept.


Doing this can provide you with some useful insights into how a particular precept can make your life flow more smoothly.


Precepts rehearsal


Secondly, what you can do is to imagine some future situations or scenarios, events where, based on what you have discovered about your past, you can imagine things going differently in the future.


Bring to mind typical future events or scenes which would benefit from the use of that precept, and imagine yourself in that future situation, embodying that precept, and notice how that future event runs its course; notice the differences in the way that you think and feel, become aware of the ways that you are behaving and reacting differently, responding to people differently. Bring to mind clearly the new you who uses that precept as part of their daily life.


Click here: Rehearse your future life with that precept.


If you do this over a number of days, you will have a very clear idea of how the precepts could have changed past events in a positive way, and a solid understanding of how the precepts can be used by you in the future in different circumstances and events, how the precepts will work their way through your life, changing things for the better in many ways.


The precepts are something that we drip-feed into our daily lives, a work-in-progress where, over time, they become more and more a part of our basic blueprint.


We don’t have to be perfect, though: we don’t have to follow the precepts every waking moment and then beat ourselves up because we didn’t achieve that. We are allowed to be human, we are allowed to not be perfect, which is all about embodying compassion and forgiveness for ourselves.


About the 10 Rules


taggart king reiki evolutionThe Ten Rules of Reiki were put together by Taggart King as a helpful guide to getting the most out of your Reiki.


If you like what you’ve read, Taggart has a wealth of Reiki resources for you to use to get the very best out of your Reiki.


Read comprehensive manuals, listen to audio CDs or MP3s and follow special guided meditations.


Click below for more info:



You can even use all these resources for your own Reiki students: Click for ordering manuals and CDs at discounted rates.


 


“The Ten Rules of Reiki” MP3s










“The Ten Rules of Reiki” will help Reiki practitioners and Masters from all lineages to deepen their experience of this wonderful energy we work with.




Learn important Reiki principles that take your practice to the next level


International Reiki Master Teacher Taggart King has over 20 years of experience in helping people to embrace Reiki healing as a way of life, using the energy to change things for the better on many levels.


During that time he has crafted a number of principles which, when adopted, can really move your experience of the energy onto the next level, principles that feed into and permeate the Reiki Evolution way of teaching.


On this hour-long audio collection you’ll hear Taggart talking about each principle in turn, why they are important and how to implement them in your life with Reiki.


Price: £12.98











 




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			The Ten Rules of Reiki: Rule #1
		

		
		

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Reiki is all about you!


Although in many circles, Reiki is seen as basically a hands-on healing system, a complementary therapy, something that you do to other people, it hasn’t always been like that and if your Reiki is mainly about working on other people then you really are missing out on a system that has the potential to transform your life in so many ways!


If we go back to the origins of the system and Mikao Usui’s original teachings, treating other people didn’t feature a great deal at all: it was all about working on yourself.


We know that the word ”Reiki” wasn’t used by Usui, and that he referred to his system as a “method to achieve personal perfection”, so that gives us a big hint as to the main thrust of his system: working on ourselves.


And I know that most Reiki systems will include hands-on self-treatments, and the precepts will be referred to, but there’s a lot more to Usui’s system in terms of self-healing, and spirituality, and self-development, if we can embrace the original practices and make them the foundation of what we do with Reiki.


What I’m talking about here are daily energy exercises and some form of self-treatment, I’m talking about the practice of mindfulness, and an ongoing focus on Mikao Usui’s original precepts. When taken together, these practices when carried out on a regular basis have the potential to make such a difference to people.


Interestingly, I have heard some people saying that it’s a bit selfish to use Reiki on yourself, that you should be spending your time working on other people, and I don’t agree with this of course: it seems a very strange belief to choose.


Firstly, by treating other people you are also benefiting from the energy that you are channelling, so there’s no way of separating out the energy so that it’s only benefiting the person you’re working on, and ignoring you.


Secondly, if we are following the Reiki system, following the precepts that deal with compassion and honesty, then how can we neglect ourselves? How can we deliberately refuse to nurture ourselves, refuse to give ourselves that special space in which to heal and balance?


I know it can be scary sometimes having to deal what’s holding us back in our lives, and change can be frightening, but it’s only by striving to be the best person that we can be – by letting go of emotions that are stifling us, by allowing the energy to heal us on all levels – that we can truly help others in the most powerful and positive way, because we can then channel the energy from a place of composure and mindfulness, a still calm vessel for the energy, channelled by someone who is a living embodiment of the many blessings that Reiki can bring into our lives.


So be an advert for what Reiki can do for you: work on yourself, let go of anger and worry, embrace compassion and forgiveness for yourself and embody the benefits of this wonderful system.


About the 10 Rules


taggart king reiki evolutionThe Ten Rules of Reiki were put together by Taggart King as a helpful guide to getting the most out of your Reiki.


If you like what you’ve read, Taggart has a wealth of Reiki resources for you to use to get the very best out of your Reiki.


Read comprehensive manuals, listen to audio CDs or MP3s and follow special guided meditations.


Click below for more info:



You can even use all these resources for your own Reiki students: Click for ordering manuals and CDs at discounted rates.


 


“The Ten Rules of Reiki” MP3s










“The Ten Rules of Reiki” will help Reiki practitioners and Masters from all lineages to deepen their experience of this wonderful energy we work with.




Learn important Reiki principles that take your practice to the next level


International Reiki Master Teacher Taggart King has over 20 years of experience in helping people to embrace Reiki healing as a way of life, using the energy to change things for the better on many levels.


During that time he has crafted a number of principles which, when adopted, can really move your experience of the energy onto the next level, principles that feed into and permeate the Reiki Evolution way of teaching.


On this hour-long audio collection you’ll hear Taggart talking about each principle in turn, why they are important and how to implement them in your life with Reiki.


Price: £12.98











 




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Hi,


I have some exciting news, which is that one of our team of teachers, Tina Shaw, will be running Reiki evening classes – for First Degree – from her base in Loughton, Essex (on the Central line), starting in NOvember of this year. First Degree will consist of five weekly sessions lasting for 90 minutes each, and the ‘evening classes’ will also be running during the daytime.


Learning Reiki in this way is a lovely way of echoing more the original Japanese system, where you got to grips with Reiki over time.


tina shaw


To find out more, hop over to Tina’s web site which you can find here: Absolute Reiki.


Best wishes,


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Hi,


I have been beavering away again with my recording equipment, and I have put together a collection of self treatment meditations that you might like to try out. At Reiki Evolution we like to give our students choices when it comes to things like self-treatments, so they can experiment and find the approach that works best for them, so I thought it might be useful to put together a series of guided meditations to make it a bit easier to get into the groove of a particular approach.


These are the approaches that I recorded for you:


(1) Meditation with the intent to heal – just about the simplest approach you can take!

(2) Intuitive self-treatment meditation

(3) Mikao Usui’s meditative approach to self-treatment

(4) Western hands-on self-treatment

(5) Intuitive hands-on approach


You can order these tracks in an MP3 collection now and be using them in minutes if you like.




Click here to order your meditations now. I hope you find them useful.


Best wishes,


Taggart


 


 


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			New Distant Healing meditations on MP3
		

		
		

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Hi,


I have been beavering away with my recording equipment lately, and I have put together a collection of distant healing meditations that you might like to try out. At Reiki Evolution we like to give our students choices when it comes to things like distant healing, so they can experiment and find the approach that works best for them, so I thought it might be useful to put together a series of guided meditations to make it a bit easier to get into the groove of a particular approach.


These are the approaches that I recorded for you:


(1) Simple distant healing – just about the simplest approach you can take!

(2) Distant healing using the ‘cupped hands’ method

(3) Distant healing using a ‘prop’ like a teddy bear or a pillow

(4) Distant healing using a DH book or box

(5) Sending DH to heal your past

(6) Sending DH to a future event


You can order these tracks in an MP3 collection now and be using them in minutes if you like.




Click here to order your meditations now. I hope you find them useful.


Best wishes,


Taggart


 


 


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			National Gathering Oct 6th 2012: here’s the schedule for the day
		

		
		

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Hi,


Only about seven weeks to go to our 2012 National Gathering at Baden Powell House in London, and I thought I’d share the schedule for the day so you can see what we’re going to be getting up to.


9.00am – Arrive

9.15am – Welcome

9.30am – Three workshops lasting for 1hr 15mins each (See NOTE #1)

10.50am – Free tea/coffee and biscuits for 45 minutes

11.35am – Drop-in sessions lasting for 60 mins (See NOTE #2)

12.40pm – Group distant healing session in the main hall, with Sarah Berrisford

12.55pm – Hour lunch break

 1.55pm – Three workshops lasting for 1hr 15mins each (See NOTE #1)

 3.15pm – Break for 30 mins

 3.50pm – Drop-in sessions lasting for 60 mins (See NOTE #2)

 4.55pm – Closing session in the main hall: Kotodama chanting with Hannah Shine

 5.10pm – Ends


NOTE #1: Three main workshops


We are hosting three main workshops, lasting for 1hr 15mins, and these will be repeated twice during the day so that people can attend two out of the three. Here are the workshops:


  • “Discovering your intuitive self” with Tina Shaw
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  • “EFT for personal transformation” with Martine Moorby
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  • “Energy Cultivation Techniques” with Rhonda Bailey in the morning and Thalbert Allen/Maggie Tarling in the afternoon
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    Everyone attending will already have made their choice of workshop online. If you haven’t, contact Taggart King now.
    

    NOTE #2: Drop-in sessions
    

    These are hour-long sessions, most of which you can just mill into and out of as the mood takes you. Again this session is repeated twice during the day so people can attend as much as they can. We have:
    

  • Reiki share, hosted by Faiy Rushton (morning) and Sarah Berrisford (afternoon)
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  • “Ask a Reiki teacher” – an opportunity to ask questions and chat to a group of Reiki Evolution teachers
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  • Reiju empowerments – receive a Reiju empowerment, or more than one if you like, from a group of Reiki Evolution teachers
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  • Bookable session (fully booked now): “Seeing auras” with Irene Forsyth in the morning, and “Reiki meditations” with Marilyn Harvey in the afternoon
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    So have a bit of a Reiki share, go and have an empowerment, and chat to a Reiki Evolution teacher for a while, or have an hour-long Reiki share, or listen to questions and chat with our Reiki teachers for an hour, any combination you like!
    

    I know I’m getting excited about the event and I hope that everyone who attends has a great time, trying out some new things, chilling out, chatting to new friends, and getting a great big dose of Reiki!
    

    Best wishes,
    

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    The Reiki symbols can occupy a slightly difficult position for some people who practise Reiki. On the one hand, we are taught that Reiki knows where to go and what to do, drawn according to the recipient’s need, and on the other hand we are given these symbols to use when we treat people, which sort of suggests that we can do better than plain old drawn-where-it-needs-to-go Reiki. I have found a way of looking at things that reconciles these two views.
    

    How it works for me is this: whenever we use a Reiki symbol (and at Reiki Evolution we use the symbols individually, not mixed together) we are narrowing the focus of the energy and in doing so we increase the potency of what we are doing, for example by using CKR to focus on physical healing, or by using SHK to deal with mental-emotional balancing, these symbols eliciting earth ki or heavenly ki respectively. We narrow the focus, emphasising a particular ‘frequency’, which I think is a useful metaphor, and make the heaing more intense. Ideally, instead of choosing ourselves to use a particular symbol, we should allow the energy (or allow the recipient) to guide us, so we end up working in partnership with the energy, focusing intensely on whatever aspect of the energy we are guided to emphasise when we treat someone, or when we work on ourselves.
    

    Some Reiki courses and systems have a lot of symbols available, and to be honest I don’t really like the idea of carrying around a big bag of symbols that I have to learn when to use in particular situations: it seems very cluttered, overly complicated, not very Japanese. I like to keep things simple.
    

    So what if there was a way to create a symbol which generated exactly what the client needed in that moment, not relying on a collection of symbols that you have to learn, but generated there and then, a perfect representation of just what the client needs in that moment, focused, intense? Wouldn’t that be a simple and powerful way to work? It would be free from clutter, a bespoke symbolic system that you could use for yourself and others, like a blank canvas, waiting for something to be created that is perfect for a person, focused and strong.
    

    Well that is what I have been working on, and I have put together a system that achieves just that, which I call “Reiki Synthesis”.
    

    

    I will be teaching the system for the first time in London on Saturday September 15th at Regent’s College, and you can find out more about the course and how to book your place by visiting this page: Reiki Synthesis.
    

     
    

     
    

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			The Right Time
		
    
		
		
    
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    A question often asked of me is: When is the right time? This relates to lots of aspects – When is the right time to start practising Reiki as a profession? When is the right time to meditate? When is the right time to start competing my horse? When is the right time to move on to the next chapter or level?
    

    Unfortunately this is a question for the person asking, not the teacher. It is a question that you can ask as many times as you would like to – and usually the answer doesn’t appear in Big Red Ink infront of you – never say never though!
    

    Inside of us everyone knows the right time, however, we put things off, we make excuses, we’ll promise to make time to sort things out or put more effort in, and then the time will be right for us to make a change or better ourselves.
    

    We all need to remember that: we can’t make time, we can only choose to use the time we have wisely.
    

    So my answer is this: if you are thinking of doing something new, making a change for the better and you’re asking or thinking, when is the right time?…
    

    Then it is time to Go For It! The simple fact that you are thinking about it, shows that your subconscious is hinting at you!
    

    The aspect of making a change may seem scary, but hey, fear is an illusion – fear is the monster that lives in the cupboard and becomes scarier and scarier, until one day, you open the cupboard door and realise there’s nothing there!
    

    The right time is now!
    

    

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    Sarah Berrisford Reiki Master Teacher, author or the popular books ‘The Handbook of Equine Reiki’ & ‘The Complete Guide to Animal Reiki’. Sarah is based on the Lincolnshire/ Cambridgeshire border, where she teaches Reiki, Equine Reiki Courses and Distant Learning Equine Reiki Courses.
    

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    When I arrived in Singapore in October 2011 I began my search for a local Reiki Community of like-minded folk. As Divine synchronicity would have it, my search led me to find voluntary work by connecting me with the Red Cross Reiki Team and, as I had time to give on my hands, I contacted them. The Team were set up a few years ago by Anne Richardson and activities are now run by Bronagh Tucker, both Reiki Masters with a generous Spirit and hearts of gold.
    

    The Team meet deliver Reiki to the mentally and physically handicapped men, women and children of the hospital for a couple of hours a week.  Such encounters are not for the faint-hearted and many volunteers come and go, either through choice or destiny, but there are a core group of about 7 who are able to attend most weeks.
    

    

    The Red Cross Reiki Team, Singapore 2012
    

    Right to Leftt: Frances, Ying, Wendy, Sham, Anna, Bronagh and Debbie (Elaine sadly absent)
    

    The hospital is multi-cultural and observes a ‘non-religious’ approach in order to maintain polite neutrality (known affectionately by many expats as the Singapore PC!).  As such, there are clear boundaries we must not cross, some are obvious but others, at times, has resulted in a faux pas or 2 on our part (!) as we unwittingly upset the Singapore PC applecart.
    

    Of course, all Reiki Practitioners understand that Reiki is not about religion but, as yet, the general public don’t, on the whole, and we must recognise and honour this (Humour and humility!)
    

    Luckily Bronagh is wonderful and is able to undo any wrongs with the ease and Grace of a true Diplomat 🙂
    

    Enough of the background and on to the main blog
    

    By the time I arrived in Singapore, in October 2011 I thought that, over the last few years, I’d learned all there was to learn about humility and being humbled
    

    Oh how wrong I was!
    

    For those who haven’t yet experienced true humility, or don’t need to as you are already simply ego-less, this is when the ego is well and truly reeled in and silenced! Mine can be a feisty little so and so, but I’ve learned to laugh at it now 
    

    My first time at the hospital was memorable indeed.
    

    Now, you would have thought with nearly 30 years of Nursing experience, and more latterly Midwifery, that I would have seen pretty much everything  humanity and the human condition has to offer……….. I certainly thought I had!
    

    But, oh how wrong I was!
    

    The sheer number of beautiful Souls trapped inside mis-formed bodies and ill-communicating minds, simply blew me away. Had I not been working with Anne that day, I think I would have snuck away and shed a million tears in the ladies toilet then made a hasty exit!
    

    The disabilities do, of course, vary from person to person but many of them have severe physical disability and most have communication problems of one sort or another.  On reflection perhaps one might recognise it as actually us, and not them, who have the communication issues as many of those less ‘dis-abled’ seem very able to communicate with each other with great ease and, I suspect, at times that the joke may even be upon us 😉 (Humour)
    

    Humanity: so good at jumping to conclusions, so good at judging still!
    

    Maybe it is us who are trapped within our own perceptions and mis-perceptions of who and what we are and just what ‘life, the Universe and everything’ is really all about! (Humility)
    

    I had no idea how to start working with these beautiful Souls, but as Reiki does the doing, really that’s all you need to do, simply channel, with no pre-conceived outcome, and allow the non-religious ‘Source’ (whoever or whatever that is) to do the rest
    

    For, without getting religious or too philosophical, we do not know what Soul contract they may have has that brought them to this life the way they are.
    

    I began to learn that many of these lovely Souls can indicate whether they want healing and where they want it, which is clearly a bonus! Not many of them can walk but there are a few who can drive their own wheelchairs better than most Singapore taxi drivers can drive their cars (!) and some even come and ‘join in’ when you are giving Reiki to another person. They are naturally intuitive in the same way that children and animals are when it comes to energies because they don’t have the left brain butting in and demanding ‘proof’ or explanation like the rest of us do!
    

    At other times it’s useful to scan first in order to pick up areas that are ‘shouting’ for Reiki so working with the Byosen is a more useful way of working, particularly with limited time for treatments.
    

    (If anyone would like a recent article on working with the Byosen, please contact me by email which is below the blog)
    

    It’s a delight to see Reiki being well received as some respond by becoming calmer and begin to drift off into that blissful space that most of us know well, the ‘Reiki zone’. It affords you the time to ‘just be’ with them, on a different plane. For those who are more sensitive, this is a space where you can meet aspects of them that exist outside of the 3D we know and are familiar with. A space where their true Soul exists without dis-ease, without dis-ability.
    

    YES, another very humbling and beautiful experience, one that teaches you that, actually, all really is well and we are all merely playing out the game of choice (Ascension) in our way and at our own pace.
    

    What strikes me even more, whilst in this space, is the ever increasing feeling of Unity Consciousness. That ‘oneness’ and how it opens your heart and allows you to give, to be generous of Self, to share. For this is our true nature, not one of fear and recoil, withdrawal from Self and others as we try to hang on for dear life to what we have and what we are. When all we really need to do is to ‘let go and let God’
    

    These beautiful Souls continue to teach me that, no matter what the circumstances of our lives, Love and Joy can shine through in a simple smile and Light up the world! (Humour)
    

    Despite their disabilities (should we even call them that?) Perhaps I will say ‘differences’ and possibly true to say ‘limitations’,  it’s such a joy to get a smile out of them. When they smile, it’s genuine, no hiding behind a painted smile for them, oh no, unlike the rest of us sometimes! (Humility and a generous lashing of humour)
    

    We are, of course, unsure of the overall long-term effects, but those who have been visiting the hospital for a while say that they have noticed marked differences in some of the people there.
    

    What we do know is that their joy is infectious and yes, another humbling moment as you consider their lot compared to yours and the sheer number of times we whinge about the most minor inconveniences in our lives!
    

    I realise now that they are teaching me, so the least I can do is offer what I can in return:
    

    Reiki and a smile 🙂
    

    Namaste
    

    Singapore, February 2012
    

    I honour deeply the work that the team are doing and the wonderful individuals who make up that team. It is my great pleasure to share with you some of their own words and experiences to end this blog
    

    The Red Cross Home for the Disabled relies on volunteers to support the work they do. Passing on small gifts with Reiki is truly a special experience. My time with the residents giving and sharing from the heart is something very meaningful. I am very fortunate to be able to volunteer at the Red Cross Home, it has definitely enriched my life.
    

    Bronagh
    

    Whether it’s providing a full-body treatment or simply holding a hand and singing some songs, each visit to the Red Cross Home for the Disabled is different.
    

     What I love about Reiki is that it transcends any physical or mental disabilities that the residents may have, and any preconceptions or beliefs I may hold. To be able to connect with the residents – energy to energy, spirit to spirit – is both a rewarding and humbling experience.
    

     Anna
    

     The most touching experience I’ve had was seeing the resident I was assigned to give Reiki to playing a sort of peek-a-boo game to cheer up and calm down another resident who was highly distraught . I’m in awe of the huge compassion these residents show to others and am truly humbled when I reflect on myself. I look forward to my weekly visits to the Red Cross because every visit is an opportunity to learn from these beautiful residents lessons on gratitude, humility and compassion. 
    

    Sham
    

    Volunteering for Red Cross Disabled Home has been the most humbling experience in my life, and while I give the residents reiki, they have given me so much more! They have so little, yet so little makes them happy. They teach me how to truly experience happiness, and appreciate and be thankful what I have in my life.
    

    I feel the residents are especially sensitive to reiki, almost like children in their innocence. As such, they definitely reap the lovely benefits very quickly 🙂
    

    Elaine
    

    Website: www.reiki-glow.com
    

    Mobile: 9488 2454
    

    As a South African living in Singapore, I was truly honoured to have been led to give Reiki to the mentally and physically disabled at the Red Cross Home and also honoured to work with my wonderful Reiki colleagues, who hail from many different countries around the world, uniting in administering universal life force energy to the men, women and children of the home. However, the most rewarding part of this work is when a resident’s condition improves and they recognise your voice, straining to see you from their beds or you receive a hearty wave in recognition. These people are very special beings.
    

    Frances Lingris
    

    Usui Reiki Master /Teacher and a Karuna Reiki Practitioner
    

    

    

    


    

    

    

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    Debbie McDougall is one of the Reiki Evolution team of teachers offering training in the East Coast region of the exotic city of Singapore
    

    

    I began my Reiki journey in 2004, eventually leaving the NHS in 2008 after nearly 30 years as a Nurse, and more latterly, a Midwife.
    

    I also trained in other forms of Holistic healing and started my own business in Salisbury, UK, teaching Reiki Evolution Reiki and running regular workshops & groups designed to empower others to heal themselves and take control of their lives and their destiny.
    

    I left the UK in September 2011 following my husband to Singapore where I continue to teach as a Reiki Evolution Teacher (currently the only one in Singapore!)
    

    I also run Munay Ki workshops to pass on the beautiful and profound Ascension Rites of the Incan Shamanic lineages and I write my monthly ‘Earth Change Updates’ and Newsletters available on my website.
    

    

    

    

    

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    Email: DebbieMcDougall@heaven-wisehealth.co.uk
    

    Mobile: (+65) 81686460
    

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    simple reiki symbol method
    

    Why so complicated?
    

    In the West we like to make things complicated, and the way that most of us now use symbols is a world away from the simple approach that Usui used.
    

    So how can we work with symbols in a way that echoes more the way that Usui taught his students?
    

    Well firstly, Usui taught symbols to a very small number of people, just in the last few years of his life. The vast majority of his students were taught in a very different way.
    

    Most of his students were given meditations to use so that they could, over a long period of time, become more and more familiar with the three energies taught at second-degree level, for example. Once they were thoroughly familiar with the energies, once they had *become* the energies again and again, then they were given a shortcut – a trigger – to connect them to those energies.
    

    The triggers that they used were mostly ancient Shinto mantras called kotodama or jumon, not symbols.
    

    In the West we do it backwards by comparison: we are given a trigger (a symbol) to connect us to an energy that we are not familiar with, and with which we may never become familiar, depending on how we have been taught to use the symbols. Usui had his students become the three energies again and again and again, and when they were ingrained, when they were innate, only then would you be given a way of connecting to the energies that were already within you and thoroughly familiar to you.
    

    The symbols’ energies were viewed quite differently
    

    The first energy was not seen as some sort of ‘Power’ energy, in the way that the first symbol is seen as the ‘Power’ symbol in the West.
    

    The first energy was simply earth energy, energy of the physical body, a physical healing energy. The second energy was seen as heavenly energy and the third energy was said to produce ‘oneness’. Usui’s students learned to get to grips with these energies through meditation, so how can we learn to experience earth energy and celestial energy?
    

    Well, we can do this by using the symbols.
    

    Try this Reiki symbol meditation
    

    Sit comfortably in a chair with your eyes closed and your hands resting in your lap palms uppermost.
    

    In your mind’s eye, visualise the first symbol up in the air above you, and say its name silently to yourself three times.
    

    Now imagine that cascades of energy are flooding down onto you from that symbol, cascading into your head, your torso, your hands; endless cascades of energy or light keep on flooding into your body, flowing over you and flooding through you. Do this for several minutes.
    

      

    • How does that feel?
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    • What impressions do you get of the energy?
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    • Where was your attention focused?
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    • What were your thoughts?
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    Now repeat this exercise using the second symbol, again visualising it up in the air above you, saying its name three times, and drawing down endless cascades of energy into your body.
    

    How does this feel by comparison? What impressions do you get of the second energy? Where is your attention focused? What is going on in your head?
    

    Try this with a Reiki friend
    

    reiki symbol channel energy othersIf you have a Reiki friend to hand, you can do this exercise together: one person sits comfortably in a chair and the other stands behind. The person standing up is going to send energy from the first or second symbol in quite an intense way.
    

    What they do is this: ‘charge’ your hands with the energy of the first symbol, say, by drawing the symbol over your palm, saying the name three times, and press your hands together to ‘transfer the effect across’ to he other hand.
    

    Now in your mind’s eye draw out the first symbol up in the air above you and say the name three times.
    

    Move your hands so that they are hovering alongside the recipient’s temples, and imagine that you are drawing down cascades of energy from the symbol above you, which flood into your crown, through your arms and out of your hands into the recipient. Keep on visualising.
    

      

    • How does the energy feel as it comes through your hands?
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    • What impressions do you get in your body?
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    • How does it feel for the recipient?
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    • What adjectives can they use to describe the essence of the energy that they have received?
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    Now repeat this exercise using the second symbol.
    

    How does this differ from the first energy?
    

    Having carried out this exercise countless times and with many, many students, I can generalise about the sort of impression that most people tend to get from the two symbols, the two energies. Maybe you will notice some, though not all, of these experiences.
    

    The first energy seems thick, dark, heavy, dense, solid, maybe oppressive or claustrophobic sometimes, hot, fierce, coarse, penetrating, with pressure and slow pulsation, your focus is on your physical body. The second energy seems soft, light, gentle, ethereal, like soft fluffy clouds or marshmallows, cool, blue, expansive, exhilarating, and uplifting.
    

    What you have experienced is the essence of earth energy and the essence of heavenly energy, and these are two energies that you have available to you when treating others.
    

    These energies are the essence of Usui’s system at second-degree level.
    

    The first energy focuses on the physical body, and the second focuses on thoughts and emotions and our spiritual nature. They are so different, so distinctive.
    

    Try using them on their own, just one energy, just one focus, without mixing symbols together. Keep things simple and uncluttered by focusing like a laser beam on one thing at a time, and see what happens.
    

    And with time, and with familiarity with the two energies, try producing those energies directly, using intent, and see what happens.
    

    Over to you
    

    Carry out the meditations and exercises I’ve suggested above.
    

    How did you get on?
    

    Is it new to you to experience the energy of a symbol on its own, rather than mixing the symbol with others all the time?
    

    How did the energies of CKR and SHK feel to you, or your Reiki friend?
    

    Need help with your Symbol meditations?
    

    reiki meditation audio cds musicIf you’d like some help with your Reiki symbol meditations, I have just what you need!
    

    On my “Reiki Meditations” CD (or MP3 collection) I have these helpful meditations, which can be carried out by people at all Reiki Levels:
    

      

    • Hatsurei ho (daily energy exercises)
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    • Self-treatment meditation
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    • Distant Healing meditation
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    My “Reiki Meditations” CD is by far my most popular CD and is used by Reiki teachers all over the world.
    

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    I think perhaps that when the ‘person on the street’ thinks about a Reiki practitioner or teacher, they will have an image come to mind of some New Age person, maybe in a kaftan, with incense, crystals, chanting something, and while this may be a valid description of some Reiki people (and I don’t have a problem with that, by the way), Reiki is actually something that is learned and practised by people from a whole load of different backgrounds. A while ago I asked people to let me have their occupations, so I could prepare a list, and I have included that below. If you practise Reiki and you have a job/background that isn’t on the list, let us know by posting a message at the foot of this blog. Here’s the list…
    

    Account Analyst
    
Accountant
    
Actress
    
Airline Pilot
    
Applied Scientist
    
Archaeologist
    
Aromatherapist
    
Artist
    
Bank Clerk
    
Bathroom designer/installer
    
Bowen Technique Therapist
    
Builder
    
Business Manager
    
Butcher
    
Call Centre Training Coach
    
Career Adviser
    
Chemistry Teacher
    
Childminder
    
Chiropodist
    
Circus Performer
    
Civil Engineer
    
Civil Servant
    
Clairvoyant
    
Composer
    
Conductor
    
Counsellor
    
Credit Administrator
    
Croupier (Casino)
    
Database Administrator
    
Delivery Driver
    
Dentist
    
Disability Advisor
    
Doctor
    
Dog Trainer/Behaviour Consultant
    
Drama Teacher
    
Driving Instructor
    
Engineer
    
Farmer
    
Financial Controller
    
Florist
    
Hairdresser
    
Headmaster
    
Health Visitor
    
Healthcare Assistant
    
Herbarium technician
    
Holistic Therapist
    
Homoeopath
    
Housewife
    
Hypnotherapist
    
I.T. Manager
    
Inventory Controller
    
Insurance Consultant
    
Interior Designer
    
Iridoligist
    
Jewellery Quality Controller
    
Job Analyst
    
Journalist
    
Kinesiologist
    
Lawyer (USA)
    
Legal Secretary
    
Librarian
    
Life Coach
    
London Cab Driver
    
Lorry Driver
    
Magician
    
Manager/Teacher at Secondary School
    
Managing Director
    
Masseuse
    
Make-up Artist
    
Management Consultant
    
Market Research Executive
    
Martial Arts Instructor
    
Medical Rep
    
Meditation Instructor
    
Midwife
    
Molecular Geneticist
    
Musician
    
Network Engineer
    
Nurse
    
Nursing Manager
    
Nutritionist
    
NVQ Assessor
    
Occupational Therapist
    
Personal Assistant
    
Phlebotomist
    
Physiotherapist
    
Police Officer
    
Porter
    
Potter
    
Priest
    
Primary School Teacher
    
Principal Business Analyst
    
Production Manager
    
Program Manager
    
Professor
    
Psychologist
    
Publican
    
Receptionist
    
Reflexologist
    
Retired Teacher
    
Retired Lecturer
    
Revenue Controller
    
Salesman
    
Secondary School Teacher
    
Shop Owner
    
Social Worker
    
Software Tester
    
Speech and Language Therapist
    
Spiritual Healer
    
Student
    
Systems Analyst
    
Telephone Market Researcher
    
Translator
    
Travel Consultant
    
Tree Surgeon
    
University Lecturer
    
Veterinary Surgeon
    
Ward Manager
    
Web Site Producer
    
Writer
    

     
    

     
    

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