Connecting Into Reiki: A Guide to Activating Your Reiki Flow
Reiki is a gentle, yet powerful energetic healing practice. Check out my other blogs for more information about Reiki and the benefits to adding to your self-care practices.
This blog is a step-by-step guide to help you connect to Reiki. You can use this whether you have been attuned or not to Reiki frequency as we all have this life force energy flowing though us. If you would like more information or to be attuned (connected to Reiki energy) get in touch!
Step 1: set an intention
Formulating an intention is like drawing an arrow and aiming it at your target. Its much easier to focus on where you want the arrow to go when the bullseye is your focus. Where focus goes, energy flows!
Consider why are you wanting to connect in this moment? What would you like to invite in with this beautiful, nourishing energy? Would you like the energy to flow through:
~Your physical body? (for example: release pain, calm a stomachache etc)
~Your mental/emotional body? (release stress, worry, anxiety, overthinking?)
~Your spiritual body? (Help to meditate, manifest etc)
Step 2: ground & relax
Take a moment to pause and feel your feet flat on the Earth.
Whether you are sitting or standing, allow your body to relax into this present moment.
Begin with slow, deep belly breaths, inhaling through your nose and gently exhaling through your mouth.
Let the breath flow deep into your abdomen, inviting your nervous system to relax.
The more relaxed you are, the more energy can flow through you.
Let go of any tension or distractions. Just be here in the present moment now.
Step 3: Activate Your Reiki Connection
There are many different ways to activate, I activate with my intention. However some will say out loud or internally
“Reiki on.”
Visualize a golden or white healing light, (the light of the Sun, the Universe, or Source),
gently descending from the sky, flowing down into the top of your head (crown chakra).
Feel, see or imagine this light moving down through your:
Head, Neck and shoulders
Down into your heart space
Flow down your Arms and into your hands & out through the center of your palms
Gently rub your palms together, activating your healing touch. Feel warmth, tingling, pressure or simply a soft awareness of energy in between your hands.
Step 4: Spiritual Connection Invocation
You are supported by your Reiki guides, spiritual family, and Source energy.
You may wish to speak this Reiki Invocation aloud or in your heart (or write one that resonates with you):
“Dear the Divine, dear Source Consciousness, dear Vital Life Force Energy,
dear all my Reiki Guides, my Spiritual Teams, my Spiritual Mothers and Fathers,
Ancestors and Descendants… I love, honor, and appreciate you.
Please open my Reiki connection, so that I may offer this practice to serve Mother Earth and all sentient beings.Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”
Step 5: Feel the Flow
Continue rubbing your hands, then slowly pull them apart just a few inches.
Notice the ball of energy/light gathering between your palms…
You may feel:
A gentle warmth or tingling
A magnetic pull or push
A sense of light, color, or unconditional love
See and feel the healing energy growing between your hands.
Now allow that energy to expand outward:
Fill your entire body with love and light
Let it radiate beyond your physical body, cleansing your aura
Surround yourself in a bubble of nurturing, protective energy
Step 6: Be & feel Love
Reiki is love. Feel the frequency of love, the emotion of love inside your heart. Hold yourself with deep love, gratitude and compassion.
Know that this energy is always available to you. It is you.
Stay in this loving frequency for as long as you like. A beautiful way to meditate, ground or clear any funky energy (from yourself or others!)
When you feel complete, you can say thank you in your heart and close your practice in gratitude.
“Be still, and know that healing flows through you when you surrender to the present moment.”
May this information support your healing journey.
If you have any questions or would like to have a Reiki healing session, get in touch!
Abundant blessings, Sheryl xox