Welcome Back to the 30 Day Reiki Challenge! Are you all set for Day 11? Did you complete the Day 10 Challenge? Was it easy? Any questions?

If you’re sick you go to medical doctor (although with the way they are specializing nowadays its getting increasingly more difficult to find a left nostril specialist for white people with blond hair in their forties… but that’s a story for another day ) if you have mental problems you book a session with your personal 24/7 on-call psychiatrist, if you have emotional problems there are literally millions of help lines and support groups waiting for you, but if you have spiritual problems who you gonna call? Used to be that priests were there for that, but it seems the schism between religion and spirituality has grown so wide that it rivals the Grand Canyon, and seeking a “spiritualist” smacks too much of Harry Potter, so the simple (and it really IS simple) act of spiritual healing and the capacity for it in our society has been sadly misplaced. Never fear… Reiki is here!!! And I do believe it’s just what the spiritual doctor ordered!

The question of the day is “How does one go about healing someone spiritually?” And if you’ve been paying attention over the past few days the answer should be painfully obvious. Spiritual Self-Healing is done by correcting imbalances created by blocked spiritual energy channels. Do you need superhuman spiritual powers to do so? No! You only need Reiki! Just as you don’t need to be a medical doctor to treat physical problems with Reiki and you don’t need to be a psychiatrist to treat mental problems with Reiki and you don’t need to be trained in dealing with emotional problems to treat emotional problems with Reiki, so too you don’t need to be an occultist, or a palm reader, or a shaman to treat spiritual problems with Reiki.

Having an understanding of what is involved with spiritual healing can assist you a great deal and make your Reiki more effective (just as emotional healing can be more readily done with an understanding of emotional intelligence) and that is exactly what today’s challenge is all about.

Spiritual Healing

So what exactly is involved with Spiritual Healing? The spirit or the soul is man’s connection to the universe and spiritual healing is needed when that connection is either blocked or broken. The new age movement (which includes Reiki) involves mankind (and womenkind… of course) searching within for liberation, enlightenment, empowerment, peace, answers, fulfillment, happiness (not necessarily in that order) or any of a number of other missing pieces of the puzzle, so to speak, and is the result of mankind reaching a point where spirituality has gone full circle to becoming important again. In that spirituality means different things to different people it is sometimes confused, and confusing, but when one realizes that we are basically all looking for the same thing, we just call it by a different name, and take different paths to reach it, one can accept all of them as having something to offer towards that end.

I’m going to resort to the word “God” here, although I don’t necessarily use it the same way you do. I believe that by now we’ve all realized that God isn’t some jealous, white bearded old man that lives in heaven. Although, if that’s the way God manifests himself, herself or itself to you… that’s fine. There is a whole module devoted to the spiritual aspects of Reiki that we are working up to (or working down to, or sideways to… as the case may be) so I’m not going to go into any detail here. At this point we are interested in healing the spirit, not necessarily in understanding it.

Spiritual Healing in Reiki

Spiritual Healing in Reiki involves focusing Reiki energy on energetic imbalances in the spiritual energy field. First you have to locate those imbalances if you wish to treat them. The ability to see auras is extremely helpful in doing so, but for those who can’t there are other ways. The 12 Basic Hand Positions, for example, bring Reiki energy to most necessary parts and treating the chakras also sends Reiki energy in the right direction. Today, we are going to continue our practice in listening, by connecting to our higher selves and letting our unconscious mind do the heavy lifting… all we have to do is listen, and as I’ve mentioned before, most people are terrible listeners, so it may be a bit rough for some of you.

Your challenge for Day Eleven of the 30 Day Reiki Challenge is to get another of your willing assistants, and perform a spiritual healing. Go through the 12 Basic Hand Positions and listen for communication from your unconscious mind to linger in a certain hand position, go to a certain hand position, or even avoid a certain hand position. Don’t question it, just listen and follow. In Spiritual Self-Healing we were endeavoring to silence our mind, but you can’t meditate for another person (otherwise the rich and famous would keep full-time meditators on staff). Once thing you can do to help, is watch the spiritual attunement video again (or for the first time if you haven’t) and/or have your patient watch it before the session. You may be surprised at the results!

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 and Auras

Reiki and Shamanism

Reiki and Religion

Reiki and Religion Revisited

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

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