Welcome Back to the 30 Day Reiki Challenge! Are you all set for Day 12? I know many of you have been waiting for today, as distance healing is one of the truly marvelous features of Reiki, and I hope I don’t disappoint!

How’s your listening doing? Are you able to isolate the right voice to listen to? I hope so because we are going to depend on that voice in our distance healing exercise as well.

Distance Healing

Distance healing has always been one of the more mysterious aspects of Reiki for me. Coming from a family of engineers I was always curious as to how things work, and would make every effort to engineer or reverse engineer any given problem until I was satisfied with the solution, and an attempt to understand Reiki in the same way underwent the same processes, yet in the case of distance healing I was never quite happy with the explanation derived.

Actually, my understanding of the distance healing aspect of Reiki didn’t become solidified until completing my Haumana Training in Hawaiian Shamanism in 2002. In Hawaiian Shamanism, or Huna as it is popularly referred to, there are 8 principles which I believe may have been applied to Reiki in the creation of Huna Reiki, one of the countless Reiki styles I’ve noticed in various Reiki forums, although I’ve never been drawn to learn that particular style of Reiki (there really are just too many to keep up with).

In Huna, one of these principles is “energy flows where attention goes” and this follows similar principles to those found in many martial arts practices, shamanic traditions and other esoteric belief systems. In our upcoming study of Reiki energy and the Quantum nature of energy itself, we are going to go much deeper into this (at least that’s the plan) but the short version is that when you focus or concentrate on something you willingly or unwillingly cause an energetic bridge to be formed between you and that thing you are focusing on. Distance healing is merely the practice of creating that bridge and energetically crossing it in order to perform your healing.

The energetic fabric of the universe is still largely a collection of mysteries and while we will be attempting to unravel some of these mysteries as far as healing is concerned here, I don’t believe it is possible (nor necessarily desirable) to understand them all… we can only hope for brief glimpses into that reality, or brief moments of clarity which in Japanese is referred to as satori… or enlightenment.

Distance Healing in Reiki

In Reiki, the same basic rules apply as those for other distance healing traditions, with the exception of the distance symbol, which is unique to Reiki. The distance symbol creates both visually (with the symbol) and auditorially (with the mantra) the energetic frequency necessary to build a bridge between healer and healee. I’ve found the way the symbol is used and taught varies widely from one Reiki style to another, and the question is not which is right, but which is right for you. And the only way to find that out, is to experiment or play with the symbol until you’ve gained some familiarity with its unique energy and ability. But more on that later…

My own way of performing distance Reiki (and I’m not saying that any other way is incorrect) is to make sure I have a very strong link with the person I am sending Reiki to. For me, just drawing the symbol over a picture is not enough, I need to focus on that person very strongly until I feel the connection has been established. If you noticed, during the spiritual attunement video, the first symbol I drew was the distance symbol, in order to create this bridge. Once I feel the bridge, or link has been created, I can then continue with the task at hand. Today’s Reiki challenge is your own attempt to do just that.

Your challenge for Day Twelve of the 30 Day Reiki Challenge is to perform a distance healing. You can do this healing with whoever you like, and if you want to have some fun, connect with another 30 Day Reiki Challenger in the forums and swap distance healings… this way you can compare experiences as both the sender and the receiver. For this particular healing, I’d like you to use whatever distance healing method you’ve learned (if you haven’t learned any than take a picture of the person you want to send healing to, hold it in your hands and just send Reiki to it). Once again, connect to your higher self before you begin, by communicating your intention to your unconscious mind… tell your conscious (and unconscious) mind:

1. that you would like your unconscious mind to get in touch and stay in touch with your higher self for the duration of the Reiki session
2. that you would like your higher self to get in touch with your patients higher self and form a bridge between the two
3. that you would like your patients higher self to communicate with your patients unconscious mind and report any and all conditions or sensations (new or previously existing) as they occur
4. that you would like your unconscious mind to communicate these conditions directly to you as they are reported by your patients unconscious mind

Sound familiar? I hope so! Best of luck and don’t forget to report your results in the forums so we can all share them.

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.

Ho’oponopono and Reiki

Distance Reiki

Psychic Reiki

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

Reiki, distance healing, Reiki distance healing, distant healing, Reiki challenge, long distance healing

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