Cultivating Gratitude with Reiki this Thanksgiving

Invite Reiki to be part of your Thanksgiving celebrations this year.  This week, infuse your life and practice with gratitude. Recite the Reiki Principles, create a Gratitude List, engage in self-Reiki, bless gatherings, Reiki the food, and express thanks for your Reiki journey. By doing so, you can celebrate this season in alignment with the healing energy of gratitude, fostering happiness and well-being for yourself and others.

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Just for today, Allow for Perfect Imperfection

The Reiki Principles do not tell us never to anger or worry or to always be thankful, honorable, and kind. Instead, they tell us to do these things just for today. Saying the principles each morning and night brings them into our daily practice and keeps these goals always in our sight but stating “just for today” allows for our imperfection.

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Gratitude Creates More for Which to be Grateful

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Just for today, be grateful.  For there is so much to be grateful for!  Gratitude is the easiest way for me to raise my vibrations.  As one of the Reiki principles, it is a cornerstone to my healing practice.  A grateful heart heals so much easier and faster than a resentful one.  It is so much more resilient against dis-ease.

Gratitude is easy for me at this point in my life.  I am doing well.  I feel financially secure.  I’ve finished paying off a reliable vehicle.  I love my home.  I am in a loving relationship with my best friend.  Our kids are all healthy.  Life is good and gratitude comes easy. 

I feel like my resting point has become a place of gratitude, interrupted by small moments of stress, anger, or worry from time to time.  It used to be very much the opposite.  Stress was my natural state, interrupted by small moments of joy and gratitude.  I think that to look at my life now, one might think that I am grateful because all this good has come into my life.  And they would be right, except I believe that it is a wonderful cycle that began when gratitude helped me bring this good about in the first place. 

I used to be miserable.  I was always in pain from Fibromyalgia.  Paying bills was a juggling act.  My relationships with men were toxic.  I was always saying things like, “if it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all” and “if it’s not one thing going wrong, it’s another.”  Life sucked and that is all I expected of it.  I was unhappy and resentful, and life just kept giving me more to be unhappy and resentful about.

Things began to turn around for me when I found Reiki and started practicing the principles.  In trying to practice gratitude each day in accordance with the principles, I started actively looking for things to be grateful for.  It hurt to walk when I first started practicing, but I COULD walk.  I was in sick and in pain, but my kids were healthy.  Financially, I had always struggled, but I always found a way to keep bills paid.  I stopped focusing so much on all that was wrong and turned my focus to the small, less obvious things that were good. 

The more I focused on those little things I had to be grateful for, the more they began to grow.  It was magical.  It is still magical, as my blessings continue to grow with my gratitude.  The little things became big things.  The stuff I stressed about began to fade away.  Personal disasters happened less and less.  Life is good, it is wonderful, and that is what I expect of it.  And every day I am in awe of it’s wonder and filled with gratitude. 

Just for Today, it is Okay to Reprioritize

Just for today, living honorably means acknowledging that priorities have changed for the time being. It means forgiving myself when business gets put off and the house becomes a mess. It means being grateful for the opportunity to spend my days with my children and sharing this unplanned and unexpected experience with them.

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Reiki as a Lifestyle

Once we have learned to use the system of Reiki to tap into the universal energy field and channel that energy, we can set our intentions to use Reiki in countless ways in our lives. Using Reiki to bring physical, mental, and emotional wellness to ourselves and others is the foundation of most of our practices, but we can build so much more onto that. We are only limited by our own beliefs.

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The Healing Power of Living the Reiki Principles

Master Usui titled the Reiki Principles, The Secret Art of Inviting Happiness/The Miraculous Medicine of All Diseases.  That double title is very fitting.  The Principles are a guide to living that can brings us peace and contentment.  When we attain the inner peace that comes with living life by the Principles, much of the inner turmoil that is at the core of our physical dis-ease will dissipate.  Whereas hands on Reiki helps to treat dis-ease once it has set in, I have come to think of the Reiki Principles as preventative care.  They help us to live in such a way that we can stay in alignment with a healthy and happy life, minimizing our chances of becoming ill in the first place. 

 

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How Gratitude Transformed My Life

Just for today, be grateful. These words have life changing power when you put them into practice. Teaching me to be grateful for all of my blessings is another gift Reiki has given.

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3 Ways to Release Worry

The Reiki Principles tell us not to worry, but that can be easier said than done. It is one thing to state, “Just for today, I will not worry.” It is another to actually calm your mind and let your worries go. When we learn to let go of our worries and faith that we find the right solutions to our problems, the right solutions are more likely to come to us.

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Using Reiki Principles to Manage ADHD Aggression

Life can be challenging, especially when raising a child with ADHD. Finding ways to help them stay calm and focused feels like an ongoing struggle. This is the story of how a simple daily practice brought peace to our home. By incorporating the Reiki Principles into our routine, my son and I found new ways to handle our emotions and connect more deeply. Read on to learn how these principles have made a difference in our lives and how they can help you too.

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Just for Today...I Will be Realistic

I think of the principles as daily goals working towards a healthy and happy life.  "I will never," is not a realistic goal.  We were never meant to be perfect beings.  Our imperfections give us our opportunities to learn and grow and become enlightened. 

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