The Power of Reiki: Balance for Body, Mind and Emotions

With this article we officially open the Blog of Feng Shuiing Your Life.

I created this website to give voice to hope, to a positive message and to open the doors to the POSSIBILITIES… the infinite possibilities we have to feel good, to love ourselves and to be authentically, and above all, always, happy. 

This year will be the year in which I complete a couple of projects I have started and that needed time to be accomplished. 

For example, I am completing the Reiki path: at Christmas I will have the third level. 

Today, I would like to tell you what Reiki is for me and when to do a Reiki Treatment.

When I was very young I spoke the language of the heart. I read wonderful books that taught me how to speak and communicate with the heart. 

Leo Buscaglia, Anthony de Mello, Kahlil Gibran …

I read the lives of people who stood out for their incredible deeds: Dr Albert Schweitzer, St Teresa from Avila, Maria Montessori, Marie Curie…

I was in Harmony with my nature: heart, body and mind. Then I encountered a different world: the environment, today it is called “corporate”, of companies. … I met all kinds of bosses … (you already know, but if you don’t, ask me)

My Soul knew it was not the world for me. It struggled like a tiger … then becoming like a real tiger in captivity … gradually losing the will to laugh and to live. The only reason, the only two reasons, why I have somehow moved on are called Sarah and Noemi, my daughters.

I prayed, 

I meditated, 

I accepted all sorts of help and support from plants, crystals, flowers…

I changed my reading, 

I changed my music, 

I changed the films I watched…

and most of all I changed my thoughts…my words

Slowly my Soul realigned itself with Heart and Mind, and by doing this all physical ailments vanished. How? I’ll let you in on a secret:

our body produces hormones and neurotransmitters according to the emotions it experiences: for example if I am in a situation where I feel fear, my body produces adrenaline so that I can REact to the situation that generated the fear, am I in danger? Should I run away?

If I am addressed with words that I interpret as offensive, my body produces anger and annoyance… if I get used to reacting with anger not only when I feel offended but also when I feel misunderstood, I feel treated unfairly, I feel not valued… my body will get used to receiving large doses of cortisol and adrenalin. The trouble is that large amounts of cortisol cause the cardiac output to increase and thus the blood pressure to rise, the muscle tone to increase, the breathing to become labored. Basically, I am in a continuous state of “preparation for war”. 

So, I get into a vicious circle of anger, tension and stress, exhaustion and in the long run unhappiness, with the addition of making my body very sick. FOR NOTHING. 

It is about breaking this circuit. Regardless of the situations we experience, it will be necessary to nip the mounting negative emotions in the bud. I use gratitude a lot. Whenever I feel anger mounting I look up to the sky, or into the branches of the trees, or immediately think of my daughters, I thank my body that always supports me… so, immediately, my bomb is defused and then as I feel calmness returning I repeat the 5 principles of Reiki and give myself a treatment, or I repeat the Hawaiian mantra of Ho´oponopono (if you are interested contact me, it is a truly wonderful and pacifying practice) which refocuses me on the neutral situation and on my sense of responsibility in having chosen Souls who bring important lessons. Even those who have chosen to be the tormentors in my existence. Unquestionably, theirs is an even more painful and ‘thorny’ position than mine.

Reiki rebalances the physical state:

If I face a strenuous and highly accelerated journey I feel that my body is projected (catapulted) forward while my mind, my Soul is misaligned. Reiki treatment, especially in the head area, slows my heartbeat, regularizes my breathing and really allows me to realign my thoughts and physical sensations.

If I eat food that my body perceives as harmful, either because of the quality of the food itself, but more importantly, if the way I ingested it was not in keeping with how I felt, for example at the end of a complex meeting, or with people I cannot esteem, the Reiki treatment on the stomach and the entire digestive system allows me to resume digestion without further physical discomfort. My belly, my radar, which tells me how I feel, in fact swells out of all proportion in these cases. For a long time, I suffered because it really was almost instantaneous. The meeting would start and 10 minutes later my belly would explode… Then I learnt to love this sensitive belly of mine and now I think with my belly. If it is lying down I am fine.  If it swells my whole system goes on alert and I understand that the situation I am in is not to be changed. 

Reiki works on persistent ailments… I have suffered from tinnitus since I was 34… in traditional Chinese medicine the ears are connected to the kidneys, the seat of vital energy. When I am too worried or tired…the tinnitus gets worse. The Reiki treatment targeted at the kidneys allows me to rest better and as a result the background buzzing becomes practically inaudible. 

When I get too angry my carotids throb until they hurt. If I do a self-treatment I calm down so well that the pain vanishes….

Reiki balances the emotional field

If I am going through a difficult time of high stress, I do a self-treatment as soon as possible. This combined with the exercise of gratitude lifts me out of the state of suffering and gives me relief, peace and serenity.

In this way I move from an attitude of continuous, exhausting combat to an attitude of pure trust in my Soul and in the support of the Universe: 

‘When you want something, the whole universe conspires for you to realize your dream’

P. Coelho, The Alchemist

Then I let it happen. There are only 3 steps to follow:

1) ask and wait for it to happen

2) the waiting time does not really matter… everything happens when we are ready to welcome

3) the most beautiful of all lessons: When something happens that you don´t like…don´t struggle, don´t stand in judgement, in complaint…:

BUT BE READY TO RECEIVE SOMETHING WONDERFUL

It took me almost thirty years to realize this… do you want to try and take less?

Feng Shuiing Your Life is my path for you! Just for you. Meetings 1:1

If you want to ask me for a Reiki treatment, contact me. Change is possible. Be happy you can.