Usui Reiki presents highly effective meditations, cleaning methods, and instruments to create a system of self-healing. Whereas some lineages have moved away from the standard give attention to meditation, to hands-on-healing, some emphasize the significance of the long-established teachings. In immediately’s publish I’m sharing 5 methods and meditations that honor the traditions of Japanese Usui Reiki. Some are useful in directing vitality, whereas others assist to turn out to be delicate to lifeforce, and purify the thoughts. Every of those Usui Reiki meditations and methods could be practiced by itself, or as part of your hands-on-healing routine. 

Joshin Kokyu Ho

Joshin Kokyu Ho is a foundational meditation apply within the custom of Reiki. This apply builds the Hara, improves focus and clears the vitality discipline. 

Find out how to Follow Joshin Kokyu Ho

1. Discover a snug seated place and lengthen your backbone. Carry the palms to the touch in Gassho. Set any intentions that you’ll have for the apply.
2. Permit the palms to relaxation in your mid-thighs. Let the middle of the chest open ever so barely.
3. On the inhale, comply with the breath because it travels via the nostril, chest, and to the Hara (beneath the stomach button). 
4. Maintain the breath for a second as you observe your physique, thoughts, and vitality discipline.
5. On the exhale, let the lifeforce in your Hara increase to your complete physique. Let it radiate past your self and out into your environment. With constant apply, it’s possible you’ll really feel snug increasing out to all the Universe.

Follow this meditation for about quarter-hour. This meditation can enhance the move of breath, and Reiki within the physique and thoughts. It could possibly reduce the results of stress, and assist you to floor your vitality discipline. 

Should you’re thinking about studying Joshin Kokyu Ho, entry my free guided Reiki meditation at Empower the Reiki Healer Problem.

Seishin Toitsu

This conventional Usui Reiki therapeutic apply is used to unify the thoughts with intention, so you possibly can join with Reiki. Seishin means “spirit, thoughts, soul, or intention”. Toitsu means “to unite”. This visualization apply additionally builds the Hara, however helps improve our sensitivity to Reiki. 

Find out how to Follow Seishin Toitsu

1. Sit comfortably, together with your backbone lengthened. Carry the palms to the touch on the coronary heart’s middle.
2. On the inhale, visualize white gentle touring from the fingers, via the arms, coronary heart, and all the way down to the Hara. 
3. On the exhale, visualize white gentle touring again up from the Hara, and out the guts to the fingers.
4. Proceed training for a minimum of 10 minutes. Visualize your meridians clearing with every breath. 
5. On the finish, give thanks and gently launch your meditation.

You could discover your palms turn out to be heat, transfer involuntarily, or tingle. You might also really feel spaciousness in your physique and thoughts. The sensations can range vastly from one practitioner to a different so enable your self to witness your experiences with out judgement. Be happy to remark down beneath together with your insights when you do attempt any of those meditations. 

Kenyoku Ho (Dry Bathing Approach)

Dry Bathing is a fast routine which you could apply at first of your Usui Reiki meditation or hands-on-healing apply. It’s practiced to cleanse the physique, thoughts and spirit. We apply Kenyoku Ho with the intention to clear something that’s stopping us from being an open and receptive channel for Reiki. It may also be used to floor and disconnect from individuals, and conditions which might be taking you out of the current second.

Find out how to Follow Kenyoku Ho (Dry Bathing)

1. Gassho – Carry the palms to the touch in entrance of the guts’s middle. Maintain the intention to clear something that stops you from being a transparent and open channel for Reiki.
2. Breathe in. As you exhale, sweep diagonally down from the left shoulder to proper hip.
3. Breathe in. As you exhale, sweep down diagonally from proper shoulder to left hip.
4. Breathe in. As you exhale, sweep diagonally down from left shoulder to proper hip.
5. Breathe in. On the exhale, sweep down the left arm together with your proper hand.
6. Breathe in. On the exhale, sweep down the suitable arm together with your left hand.
7. Breathe in. On the exhale, sweep down the left arm together with your proper hand.
8. Gassho – Carry your palms to the touch on the coronary heart’s middle to acknowledge your apply. Domesticate gratitude for your self and your apply.

For an illustrated information to performing Kenyoku Ho and 5 guided reiki meditations for novices, be part of the free Empower the Reiki Healer Problem.

Byosen Scan

Your hands-on-healing apply could be successfully guided, by scanning the aura or performing a Byosen Scan. Byosen actually means “sick lump” and refers back to the buildup of bodily, psychological, emotional or energetic toxins that may accumulate in an space. 

Find out how to Follow Byosen Scanning

1. Along with your palm, “comb” over your individual or a consumer’s aura, with the intention to establish areas that want therapeutic
2. You could really feel sensations comparable to heat, coolness, tingling, or throbbing in your fingers
3. The areas wherein you are feeling heat, coolness, tingling or throbbing, are more likely to be areas of disharmony. Take these sensations as alerts to remain in that space and proceed providing hands-on-healing, till the sensations turn out to be much less pronounced. 
4. You could talk together with your guides and ask, “What vitality is saved right here? What’s shifting in my thoughts, physique and spirit? How can I assist this space?”
5. Scan the physique a number of occasions to repeat this course of

The Byosen Scanning method ought to be practiced commonly on your self and others that will help you develop sensitivity. With apply and time, you’ll start to know the place Reiki is required, the place the foundation of a problem is, and the place a recipient is holding toxins. 

Notice: Byosen Scans in Reiki are usually not meant to diagnose well being circumstances. Once you really feel an space of dense vitality, you possibly can share that remark with the recipient however watch out to not affiliate it with any well being points. 

Nentatsu Ho

This Japanese Usui Reiki meditation permits us to reprogram ideas and patterns. “Nen” interprets as thought. “Tatsu” interprets as to achieve, attain, or notify. “Ho” means technique. You need to use this therapeutic meditation to attach with the unconscious and launch habits and beliefs that aren’t serving you. 

Find out how to Follow Nentatsu Ho

1. Sit up in a meditative posture or lie down comfortably. 
2. Place one hand on the brow and one hand on the bottom of the cranium (the place the neck meets the top). 
3. Recall to mind a thought or intention that you just wish to solidify. For instance, “I’m secure.” or “I honor the love in me”. Preserve your assertion within the current tense, and optimistic. Chorus from utilizing the phrases “no or not”. 
4. Welcome Reiki vitality to move into your physique and thoughts, as you imprint this new thought into your consciousness.
5. Repeat your new perception for about 5 minutes, whereas sharing Reiki. 

These conventional Usui Reiki meditations and methods are sometimes taught in Reiki Stage 1 coaching, however whether or not you’re a newbie, or have been training Reiki for years, it’s useful to return again to the foundational practices. They assist us in sustaining energetic hygiene, constructing the Hara, and balancing the thoughts. Different parts of your Reiki apply such because the Precepts, mindfulness, attunements, and hands-on-healing could also be simpler to apply as you develop a gradual meditation apply. 

Which of those meditations are part of your day by day self-healing apply? Do you apply a meditation or a method that I didn’t point out? Go away a remark beneath so we are able to chat!