Reiki: Should you heal others?

Having been initiated in reiki, I started practising healing for self and others. I had been told that you are just a channel and healing others will actually heal you also since the healing reiki energy is passing through you. When I started healing others though, there were things that happened which kept giving the message from within that there is something wrong about my healing others. I could feel the solar plexus chakra getting impacted and overall feeling of being unwell.

I started thinking about it and my conclusion was that when we use reiki / pranic healing or any other type of healing, we are interfering with the karma of the recipient. Yes, we can turn around and say, that while the higher power has bestowed us with something, we should use it for greater good, but as I understand, all of us come taking along a fixed baggage for the lifetime and when we are intervening through universal energy, it is actually interfering with their karma pact. You are trying to act as “the highest power”.

Apart from that, inspite of saying that you are just the medium, you do tend to get connected to the person you are healing and that in turn leads to negativity flowing to you as well. You may also be attached to the outcome of the healing session and will again get intertwined in the recipient’s destiny and tend to attract some negativity.

I feel that reiki is very effective and everyone should learn it, but only for self-growth and healing and not for healing of others. Now, we can also argue that when we are healing self, it is also interfering with the karma … well the only difference as I see it is that you are doing it for yourself and hence are working towards your karma though in a different way and its still between you and the universal energy.

This is my view which is contrarian to most of the views on reiki or other healing techniques … would like to know what others feel about it.

Reiki and Guru

Since long, I have had a mind to get initiated into reiki and this year I finally managed to do that.

There were a lot of experiences but what I would like to share here in this blog is an insight which I had about Guru- Disciple relationship.

I have heard from a lot of people that if you get accepted by a guru then from there on the guru will know about all that is happening to you. I have been given an example that though you have a lot of hair on your head, but still even if one hair is pulled, the pain is felt and similarly, you are connected to your guru… whatever happens to you is known to him.

When I got initiated into reiki, the thought that struck me is that the way this whole universe (brahmaand) is part of the same energy, and when you are initiated into reiki, you become a channel and its easier to tap into this energy, similarly when a guru accepts you, there is a energy channel which opens between you and the guru. 

The channel helps the guru to support you in your spiritual endeavors and you are able to tap into that channel for self-healing of all kinds. I have believed for long that we are part of the ONE and are connected, but I guess the commitment fine tunes and makes the communication channel much better between you and the GURU. Guru mantra is, what I would look at as a key, to unlock the channel and make the connect to the Guru into a high speed highway J

Pl share your views. 

Being Centered

I was having a discussion with a friend, when she commented that I keep hearing that stay centered, but no one explains what it means to be centered; how do you define this state?

I told her that I have no idea what others mean, but for me being centered means being authentic and being in the moment.

By being authentic, I mean being the true me- devoid of any influences caused by social conditioning or expectations of others. Being in the moment- so that I do not have any baggage from earlier experiences and neither do I have anxiety and fear about the future.

How do you define “being centered”?

Seven Year Cycle!

I remember reading it long time back, that there was a place where the ritual was hat every seven years, people would go and drown all of their belongings in the river near the city. Honestly, I cannot remember where I read it and what was the context in which it was written or whether it is true or fiction, but this aspect that people used to throw everything every seven years has just occupied my inner space and stayed with me.

I wonder if we had this kind of arrangement, wouldn't all of us stop hoarding unnecessarily? As it is said that there is enough for everyone’s need but not everyone’s greed, it would make all of us more sharing in nature. When people know that they will have to throw away everything, possibly it will be easier for them to share with others. People may have more fulfilling lives as they will not keep earning unnecessarily … I feel most of us keep earning as if we are the only one who needs to take care of the next ten generations. We forget that if we can earn our living, then so can our next generations. People would be able to utilize money the way it should be- on their individual passions and greater good of the society.

It would be a better world… but again I feel that tinge which tells me that we humans will still continue the same way. Think about it, it may not be seven years, but isn't it that whatever material assets we earn, we leave with this lifetime and we are still not realizing that.

Do you see any hope, or you think, all would have still stayed the same..

Karma Account or Probability

The other day I was having a discussion with a senior retired teacher and karma theory came up in discussion. He was of the view that maybe we need look at probability and not karma theory to find answers to different circumstances of people in the world. In a single sentence, probability assigns likelihood of a certain event to happen.

My basic disconnect with this theory is that to use this we will have to assign probability ratios to each set of circumstances … now on what basis can you assign these probabilities?

Any thoughts…

Free Will Vs Destiny

A very common question keeps coming up in discussions – “ DO we have free will or is it all destiny?”

In my view or understanding, destiny gives us certain situation and what we do in those circumstances is our free will.

Let’s take an example wherein two people lose their legs in a very tragic accident… one person gets into the victim mode, wallows in self- pity, curses destiny, higher power, stays depressed and turns into a center of negativity. The other person feels as horrible, but finally accepts that this is what life has offered and I have to make the best out of what I have. He starts working on researching and finding the best possible prosthetic limb, get’s into rigorous physiotherapy, finds the companies where he can be properly employed and leads as normal a life as possible.

Now some people who believe in destiny alone, will argue that it was the destiny of one to be unhappy and the destiny of the other to be able to overcome these circumstances. Though, my view is that how you react to a situation is guided by free will. There can be couples who are unable to have a child and become a emotional wreck, whereas some others may adopt, get involved with well-being of kids through institutions, get a pet, or take it as an opportunity to travel the world.

I do not know astrology, but I have been told by someone that even in astrology, every human has a house of free will. In case of people where it is very strong, predictions will become very difficult to make. This happens as no one can predict how such people will act given a particular situation.

One caveat though – I definitely feel that one should seek the grace of the higher power to ensure that we use our free will in such a way that we are led in the right direction.

Other views pl.

One Noise to Drown Another

The other day, there was a heated political debate on a TV channel and I was in the other room- to own up, I have lost all interest in politics L. Anyway, the fact is that though I was in the other room, still the noise was very unbearable. To avoid listening to that noise, I switched on some music – not for the first time that I had done it, but it triggered a thought …

“I am drowning one noise with another”.

It is true that I have more pleasant sound around me (Its pleasant so it is sound, else it becomes noiseJ), but has the unpleasant sound disappeared… NO. Have I really not added to noise levels … YES.

Aren’t we doing this in our lives too? We are discontent with a certain aspect and we start making up for that lack in another aspect. My belief is that all of us simply want love and peace, and we keep working to achieve the same.

Whenever there is something that disturbs our peace and love, we start looking at achieving money, power, place of honor – basically these are again tools to get love. I have no issues with these external acts, but at the same time, don’t we need to address the core issue.

My first thoughts on this is that we need to first accept things the way they are in that moment. If there was a sound which was not to my liking, probably, if I accept it as it is, if I focus on it from aspect of love, then I would have been able to accept it and maybe learnt something as well.

Well, I guess what I am trying to say is that we are not addressing main issues and simply cover them with something else. And a possible way out I see is that we need to accept things as they are – no I am not saying that we resign to the situation, but accept it, and keep our energies free to tackle the situation in the best possible way, so as not to add further to disagreeable situation. In a very simple way, we need to stay aware as to what we are doing!

Any thoughts…