Last night, I heard my son calling from his room, “Mom, I need you!” I went to him and he told me that he had gotten a headache and self-Reiki wasn’t helping. It was a bad one. He needed “mom” Reiki. I gave him a hug and gently kissed his forehead, the focal point of his pain. Then I sat cross-legged and the head of his bed and lay his pillow over my lap. I had him lay back down with his head on the pillow and began Reiki. I started with his favorite hand position, and the most effective for this type of headache, with my hands placed gently over his eyes. When I felt guided to, I moved on to the sides of his face, to the Heart Chakra, and had just moved to the Solar Plexus when he thanked me and told me he felt like taking a little nap. He woke about 30 minutes later, totally refreshed and pain free.
Combining Reiki with a mother’s loving touch and healing kisses is a sure-fire way to bring a child relief. When we touch our children lovingly, we make them feel safe and loved. This feeling of secure love helps them to fully relax into the flow of Reiki. It also triggers their feelings of trust in us and that trust is often then more easily extended to Reiki, helping the child accept with ease the energy flowing to the them.
As parents, we are not likely to be able to separate the power of our love for our children from the Reiki we channel to them. It will flow naturally from us, emanating from our hearts and combining with the Reiki flowing to our child. This induces a wonderful bonding experience between the parent and child. It is just as healing an experience for the parent giving the Reiki as for the child receiving it. I find that this experience is the same when my children give me Reiki and that they feel the benefits from that, as well.
Combining Reiki with motherly love comes naturally when channeling it to my children, but with a little effort I am able to combine it when channeling to others, also. In order to do this, at the beginning of the session, after I have thanked Spirit and invited my Spirit Guides, Angels, and ascended masters to join me in the healing, I focus my mind for a moment on the birth of my first child. At the time of her birth, I was introduced to the powerful force of motherly love. The power that bursts through and settles in your heart at the first sound of your child’s cry. I go back to that moment in my mind and I focus on that very powerful love. I let it fill my heart and spread to the rest of my body and fill me until I am overflowing, then I focus it outward, toward my recipient. It only takes me a few moments to do. I am then able to hold on to the power of motherly love as I leave the memory and refocus completely on the recipient. At this point, in addition to the Reiki flowing from my hands I am aware of the love flowing from my heart.
When I am finished, I ask Reiki to assist me in detaching from the recipient and in cutting any emotional cords that may have been produced, then use my hands and the image of the power symbol to physically remove any cords I may feel between the recipient and I.
I enjoy combining Reiki with mother love in this way. I find this to be a very powerful and profound practice. It seems to provide an addition layer of healing. Please give it a try if it resonates with you, but I do recommend cutting any emotional cords created during the session after such a treatment unless the recipient is a close family member.