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Living the Five Principles of Reiki - A Progressed Understanding

The spiritual essence within ourselves is always pure and does not need healing. The matter surrounding it needs to be healed in order to permit the spirit-self to shine forth. All spiritual efforts mean cleansing of that matter and the personal identification with conditioned matter.

That identification of self is the first and last obstacle in our own healing. This identification takes the false ego platform, "I am the doer". In sanskrit, this is termed as ahankaar.

Reiki is a beautiful spiritual connection that purifies us. During our cleansing process and looking for higher guidance much dust is thrown up. Often what we think is higher guidance is in fact deadly ahankaar. The antidote is Reiki and humility. The dictionary meaning of humility is simply: "to be aware of one's own faults and defects." Spiritual connection, the Reiki connection, awareness and subsequent rectification in fact and deed is the antidote to the victimization of matter.

Living the five principles of Reiki protects us from all material evils:

1. "Just for today, I shall live in the attitude of gratitude". All that comes to me comes from the Divine. Reiki channels are invited, called and summoned by the Divine for a higher purpose. The more I heal myself the more grateful I am.

Let me heal myself further so that I am able to convey even more healing. Soon I experience that the more healing I convey to others, the more I am healed inwardly, and the more I heal myself by touch, the more the external world is healed.

The Divine sends others to me for receiving Reiki's love and I must permit it to flow even to my so-called enemy. No holding back. As a natural unforced consequence, I experience more divine love, and hence gratitude.

2. "Just for today, I shall not fear or worry." Worry, fear arises first from fear of losing what I am attached to, and finally, fro the ownership identification with matter. AS I begin being detached, being a witness without accepting or rejecting, something different happens. Ownership-anxiety begins to dissolve.

In practise, when I experience being a channel for the Divine, I realize the truth of "like attracts like" where I experience that the immortal, pure, joyous Divine touches and connects with me through that part of me which is also immortal, pure, joyous. I also see that Reiki looks after me in all circumstances.

I am not the doer so why shall I worry?

3. "Just for today, I shall not get angry." Anger arises out of a lack of control of the situation facing us internally and externally. We are unable to be the controller-doer and this angers us, depletes us, contaminates us. The external world is only a mirror of our internal condition.

If I see something that angers me, I should see that the anger's source is within and not outside. My internal condition is what I can and must deal wtih and resolve, and the external will soon come to refect this. If enough of us do it, the world is healed visibly.

4. "Just for today, I will do my work honestly." In order to get the desired results, I must do my work honestly and completely and leave the results to Reiki and the Divine. I shall not be lazy expecting Reiki to heal someone.

I must invoke healing with compassion, gentleness, care and commitment but not attached to the results. Therefore I must constantly work at understanding how Reiki works in different circumstances. The one closest at hand is myself, so let me heal myself and learn from the shades of my experience the certain knowledge that arises out of realization that the mechanism of the other person's illness is no different from mine. This results from doing healing sincerely and honestly.

5. "Just for today I will respect my parents, elders and teachers". The dictionary explains "respect" as a feeling of approval, having regard for someone - to give everything it's proper place , position. When we can respect our parents, elders and teachers we can connect sincerely with others. All beings are connected to the Divine through Reiki. That flow of spiritual connection links us and draws my automatic respect, my regard. Those that are Reiki channels or spiritually elevated attract a special esteem.

In a hospital of sick people some doctors are there, and the rest the sick. On this planetary hospital we see sick people who are not really themselves. And if we are not ourselves entirely, and they are not themselves, what judgment shall we pass on anyone? If someone has come for being healed he is naturally not in a good condition, otherwise he would not be here - just like us. So what judgment shall we pass?

Criticizing or judging anyone from the false ego platform is a hindrance in our own spiritual development and connection with Reiki. For some temporary false illusion of being superior we pass judgment. So, "just for today I shall not pass judgment, but respect all living beings."