Reiki and the dark side
Posted on August 13, 2013 by Sylvia Lane, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
A look at how reiki can heal darker aspects of ourselves, bringing these aspects to the light and releasing them.
Sounds ominous I know, but its not really. It seems everyone has now come to accept that we are made up of energy and we are more than what we yet realize. It is through this power that we are able to create our own reality.
Creating our own reality is great when everything is going well. When the goals you wanted to achieve, have been realized. When the new house, car, clothes or whatever it was you wanted has finally come into fruition, it feels amazing to say “I did that, I created my new house.”
But what about when you don’t get what you want, the brand new house ends up being a run down shack that is not to your normal standard. Or what about when the car breaks down yet again and no new car materializes for you. It doesn’t feel so good to be responsible for creating that! And many people simply refuse to believe they had any say in the matter and immediately move into victim mentality – it was not my fault, no one is buying any houses at the moment, I had no choice but to move into this old crummy shack!
This is what I call our dark side – where you simply don’t want to accept responsibility. And yet the Law of Attraction clearly states “like unto like" so it seems fairly obvious to me that you are responsible for the good and the bad!
I recently encountered a situation where I had numerous contact with a person that just seemed able to “push” my buttons. Try as I might, I just did not seem to be able to smile at her with sincerity, it was more of a sneered grin across the face that I am sure must have seemed rather scary to her. So I decided to get to the bottom of all this.
I know when this situation occurs it is normally because the person has lovingly come into your live to show you an aspect of yourself that you do not like, love or honour. These feeling have very often turned inward because of life experience, things we have been told as a child by family or peers. It becomes our Dark Side, harbouring resentful, hurt feelings. The only way to heal this dark side is to face it and bring it out into the light. The thing is, understanding that is different to figuring out what aspects of yourself need healing (aren’t we all rather perfect in our mind’s eye until something like this happens?)
I knew that when I figured it out and sent some healing to myself that I would grow so much as a person just because of the personal power I would be able to step into. This would make all the discomfort of the process bearable. I decided to use Reiki to aid me in this process. Sitting in meditation, I started to analyze the situation, about how I felt and what situations surrounding this other person made me feel negatively towards her. I then thought about all this in regards to myself and my own behaviours. As the feelings started to come up in my solar plexus chakra, I did not judge them, but sent beautiful healing Reiki energy to my whole being with a strong focus on my lower hara (Japanese believe we have three hara’s or energy centres, the lower hara encompassing the solar plexus chakra and giving us a grounded stability). As I sent the Reiki energy through my body I felt such love and compassion for myself, memories rose to the surface giving me greater insight into my own behaviours and then gently dissolved away.
Since doing this, I find the situation has completely resolved and is no longer “a situation” at all!
If you are able to perform Reiki on yourself I would highly recommend this for yourself, but if not you can still do the same thing at home by practicing the above with a meditation and sending white healing love to yourself instead of Reiki. If you find the situation does not resolve to your satisfaction, you can always get a Reiki session done for you, setting the clear intention that resolution of the situation is what you are after in your session.
I invite you to explore doing this technique to heal your darker side as it arises, it is so empowering and exciting and will bring so many benefits to your life!
In love and light,
Sylvia
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