| Dear Friends, During
the Usui 21 Days of Reiki, we co-create a virtual Retreat space,
a forum for Reiki healing.
The Usui 21 Days Retreat is a do-it-yourself process.
Below is a discussion of these types of practice options for
doing your/our Retreat:
* Forethoughts for Beginners
* Healing Intentions & Prayers
* Practices
* General Focus Questions
Forethoughts for Beginners
If you are new to intensive energy work and retreats, please
consider these recommendations and thoughts:
When undertaking a lot of spiritual or healing work, such as
a lot of meditation, do so in consultation with an experienced
person. Start simply.
Don't make drastic changes in diet for more than several days
without supervision.
A Retreat is a moment-by-moment, day-by-day practice. Even one
day of relative quiet and reflection is a wonderful thing.
If you "miss" a day of Retreat due to distractions,
that can be a valuable learning experience. Spirituality includes
the everyday and the sublime.
Remember the first two Usui principles, just for today, I will...
Let go of Worry
Let go of Anger
Don’t resist and don’t dwell on any experience of
negativity or obstacles that might arise... pace yourself. Just
take time to let Reiki be more central in your life. Be in the
Retreat moment by moment and day by day... starting over each
new day with a beginner’s mind, a mind open to new experiences.
Keep a balance of activity and inwardness that is right for you.
When you settle into a regular practice of Reiki and spiritual
practice for some time, wonderful things can happen.
At the end of a Retreat with a lot of spiritual practices, plan
for a "reentry" time of a day or two of gentle normal
activity.
Healing Intentions & Prayers
You can make a healing list for use affirmations and Distance
Reiki.
In general, you can say a prayer of your choice and hold the
intentions of the Usui 21 days.
Here are some sample intentions for:
* Individual healing & growth
* Our group distance healing practice.
* Opening prayers
Individual healing and growth
In addition to doing Reiki on yourself and getting appropriate
health care, you can choose to focus on:
* a body mind area for healing
* a life direction purpose to clarify
* developing an affirmation to strengthen a healthy behavior
* and release an unhealthy one a general focus area for insight
--
see focus questions at end of this note
If you make a time commitment for your practices and healing
work, it could facilitate a deeper Retreat. Be easy on yourself
is you miss some practice time or stop -- just start again...
Our group distance healing
In general, at a time convenient to you, please hold the intention
of offering distance Reiki to Mother Earth, our communities, our
Reiki circles and each other for the highest good and as it is
accepted.
Here is one way to visualize this:
In starting, we can visualize Mother Earth (or have a picture)
and intend healing for Mother Earth, our communities, our Reiki
circles and each other. We can further intend spiritual growth
for all of us and that we grow a field of healing Reiki.
During your distance healing sessions, you can visualize yourself
connected to a field of love and light around Mother Earth. You
might visualize a sphere of light beings around Mother Earth and
feel all of us amongst them... Visualize the field of light and
love intensified about yourself and flowing from yourself to the
Mother Earth and any healing subjects on which you focus.
In closing, feel one with love and light within, above and about
our Mother. Melt into Love and into our Mother. Then rest a bit
in the glow of this light.
Send you healing at a time that works for you. An option is to
send at 12:00 noon Eastern Standard Time (16:00 Greenwich Mean
Time). Some folks on Retreat will be synchronizing our sending
at that time. If you send at another time, you might wish to time-capsule
(intend that the healing harmonize with those sending at that
time each day.
Opening prayers
Here is a simple prayer which could be used before your distance
healing sessions:
We pray for healing and awakening for ourselves and our world,
so that we may learn to trust unconditionally in Divine harmony
and act with compassion in all we do.
With humility and gratitude, we build a network of light, uniting
with each other in love, to serve the highest good of all concerned.
We give thanks for the blessings and assistance of Divine Grace
and the highest and most holy spiritual guides.
Here is another longer prayer that could be adapted to your beliefs
to intend a connection to spiritual blessings in Reiki healing:
Divine Being, Mother-Father Goddess-God,
We pray together for you to be with us now,
To bless this virtual Usui 21 days Retreat with sacred healing
energies,
To fill our hearts and minds with your loving Grace,
To weave a field of loving light to heal and bless our Mother
Earth,
our communities, our Retreat friends and ourselves
We are deeply grateful to be here sharing the profound gift of
Reiki,
We ask our spiritual teachers to be present,
For Mikao Usui and our Reiki master lineage to bless us,
May we attune to our Innermost Self and
open to the blessings of Divine Spirit,
May our hearts open to all their love,
May our minds open to their wisdom,
May our will be turned to the path of light,
We give deep thanks for this opportunity
and intend that these Divine blessings flow onward and forward
in our lives of service and growth and love.
We pray that it is so.
Practices
Foremost, follow your heart and wise grounded intuitions about
practice. Do what you feel works well with the focus of the Usui
21 Days on healing and growth in Reiki.
It is recommended to pick a couple of practices or "ways
of being" as a foundation of your Retreat and making a modest
time commitment to those. Add other "ways" as you are
so guided. Here are some practices to consider:
A full body self-Reiki session once/day.
if it is a real struggle to do an hour, do a half hour.
Share hands-on Reiki daily with family, friends, pets, plants,
etc.
Read the Usui principles each day. Give thanks in your way for
the blessing of Reiki. Contemplate the meaning of one principle
(at a time) in your daily activities. For example, make a conscious
practice of being kind in your heart, thoughts and actions to
everyone you meet...
Offer distance healing to Mother Earth and the Retreat as discussed
above.
Perhaps save a second distance healing time during the day for
your personal distance healing work.
Organize a Reiki marathon (with an experienced Reiki teacher)
and/or a regular Reiki sharing circle.
Increase your time and/or periods of meditation, prayer, contemplation,
etc.
Read sacred books.
For folks new to spiritual practice periods, find a teacher and
start simple--maybe 10 minutes/day for contemplation, meditation,
etc.
Keep a journal of experiences, poems, insights, etc.
In finding time to do extra Reiki and spiritual practice, this
might be a good time to suspend watching TV, reading the whole
newspaper, etc.
This might be a good time to give up smoking or another addiction.
If you have an addiction, we recommend working with a counselor
and/or enlightened health care provider too.
Spend more time in nature.
General Focal Points
As we settle into quiet spaces, here are seven questions for
healing and insight to consider in these days of the Retreat...
Each of these points speaks to a specific aspect of our being.
It could be helpful to focus on one or two of these questions
during the Retreat. These questions can be approached in general
way, being mindful of this sphere of yourself (e.g., if dealing
with physical healing, name the issue of healing, and then when
doing Reiki rest in mindfulness of the healing of the body).
General Focal Points for healing and contemplation:
1. Sensory Awareness
2. What is my physicality telling me I need for healing and
how does that resonate with my energy work experience? Harmonious
Life Energy
3. When are my passions and life-force in harmony with Spirit
-- and how does this relate to the practice of Reiki? Self-Inventory
4. What is needed to remember how our process evolves in the
practice of Reiki, a being art form? Empathy
5. When am I most loving and in harmony with others? How does
this relate to the practice of Reiki -- and to the living global
community? Visualization
6. What would it be like to go about life intuitively in resonance
with compassionate energy medicine? Awareness
7. What's the way to best express Reiki given my process and
interconnection with physical and energetic realms? Wisdom of
the Elders
What would the great awakened geniuses of the world and my innermost
self [this phrase added] have to say about our practice of Reiki
and its place in the global community?
These above general points are adapted from focal points for
growth presented in One Degree Beyond--A Reiki Journey into Energy
Medicine, by janeAnne Narrin.
In our ongoing sharing of Reiki,
may we settle deep
into the source
of Love and Light...
Love and Blessings,
Mari
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