Welcome Back to the 30 Day Reiki Challenge! Are you all set for Day 10? Did you complete the Day 9 Challenge? I hope so, because today’s challenge is similar in many ways yet distinct in others and it will be very helpful for comparison purposes if you have successfully completed yesterday’s challenge. Do you have any experience with mind reading? No? Complete today’s challenge and you will!!

Today’s Challenge also draws from the Day 6 Challenge for Mental Self-Healing, so completion of that one will help out a great deal as well. So lets just dive in, shall we?

Mental Healing

There is often some confusion between mental healing and emotional healing (and some styles of Reiki just group them together) and there is said to be a fair amount of overlap between them, but I find the differences in the thinking/feeling dichotomy pretty clear cut. Emotions come from the heart and thoughts come from the brain and if you don’t try to over-analyze it you should have no trouble in determining which is which.

As we know, Mental Self-Healing is primarily concerned with correcting imbalances created by blocked mental energy channels, and today we are going to look at the kinds of things that cause mental blocks and the best way to approach breaking through them. Recall, that when we are working on mental blocks, we are working on the mental energy field which regulates such things as memory, attitude, beliefs, moral and ethical values and filters for perception. For many years I tried to gain some understanding of how the brain actually worked and through such works as:

• How the Mind Works - Steven Pinker
• The Metaphoric Mind - Bob Samples
• The Holographic Universe -Michael Talbot
• Frames of Mind - Howard Gardner
• Gifts Differing - Isabel Briggs Myers
• Lateral Thinking - Edward DeBono
• Thresholds of the Mind - Bill Harris
• The Creative Brain - Ned Hermann

I developed some limited understanding, but it was not until I read The Structure of Magic by John Grinder and Richard Bandler, that things actually began to make sense. For those of you that don’t know, Bandler & Grinder are behind the science of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) which is a branch of behavioral psychology. There are quite a few NLP Techniques which work very well with Reiki (like setting Reiki anchors and hypnotic language patterns for use in relaxation and overcoming negative beliefs about healing and/or energy work which can greatly reduce the effectiveness of Reiki). I’m not going to go into detail here, but for an understanding of the mental properties involved in healing I would recommend at least an introductory NLP Class (but be warned, good teachers are few and far between) and I also recommend any (or all) of the books listed above.

Mental Problems

So, what kind of problems need mental healing? And exactly how can we use Reiki to help? Alcoholism, Overeating, Insomnia, Anxiety, Grief, Depression and more technical conditions like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder all qualify as mental problems, or conditions that have gone out of whack due to a mental energy imbalance of one kind or another.

There is a lot of overlap between these and emotional problems as there are emotional components (just like there are mental components of many emotional conditions). As mentioned previously, anger in the stomach (or gut) is an emotional problem while anger in the head is a mental one.

Generally speaking, mental conditions have reasons (and many of those are highly irrational) while emotional problems generally contain the reasons in and of themselves. For example, the pain of a broken heart is caused by the broken heart, yet the reason one overeats, or abuses drugs or can’t sleep is usually thought based in nature.

By applying Reiki to the mental energy body, and directly to the condition itself, the energetic imbalance can be corrected, and as a result, the condition will disappear.

One of the funny things with Reiki is that quite often, when dealing with mental healing, once the problem is gone the patient will almost always deny they had it in the first place. If you expect it, you won’t be surprised when it happens… and it probably will.

Mental Healing With Reiki

I mentioned yesterday that folks are rather sensitive when other people are poking around with their emotions and this is double true with people poking around with their minds. The biggest difference is that its usually easy to understand peoples emotions as they are generally quite honest, but people’s thinking is often so irrational that it really makes you stop and wonder exactly what they’re putting in the water.

As healers though, it is not our job to question why people think the way they do, we just want to restore them to as close to a sense of sanity as possible, which is often easier said that done, especially if you are dealing with irrational beliefs.

In the Mental Self-Healing Challenge from Day 6 you were asked to attempt to discern between your real mind and the monkey mind. Did you have any success? If not, don’t let it get you down, there are Zen Practitioners who have spent 25 years trying to do just that (and another 25 trying to stifle it). Again, an honest attempt is all that is necessary to signal the unconscious mind that this is something you desire and your unconscious mind, being the trusting and loyal servant that it is, will start arranging things to better accommodate your request the next time you ask. Watch The Secret for details if you are so inclined…

Your challenge for Day Ten of the 30 Day Reiki Challenge in case you haven’t already guessed, is to perform a Mental Healing on someone. Now, as opposed to emotions (which are stored throughout the body) mental healing occurs primarily in the head, so in this healing you will be concentrating solely on the head. Again you will want to connect to your higher self and give the instructions for relaying information to you, and if you have experience with NLP, you can try setting a Reiki anchor (by anchoring the relaxation and using that anchor to bring them deeper into relaxation and then resetting the anchor). If you don’t know what that means, don’t worry about it, its not important. For this challenge you are actually trying to read the others person’s mind as you give them Reiki, not in the sense of prying information out of them, but more along the lines of listening for the communication with your own unconscious mind to deliver information to you. Some people are better at this then others, so don’t worry if at first you don’t succeed. Best of luck to you!

That’s all for today and we look forward to reading your comments both here and in the forums and we?ll see you tomorrow!!

Recommended Reading

Here are a few more articles that are recommended for making sure you get the most out of today?s challenge.

Reiki & the Law of Attraction

Reiki and Hypnosis

Reiki and Abundance

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!