Reiki self treatment - love and understanding.

I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk

- Atticus

When I first started self treatments, I had to build up a tolerance for entering a meditative state, so I started off with 10 minute sittings, not being hard on myself if thoughts were swirling around my head. Just letting it be, allowing whatever came to be acknowledged as a temporary visitor that would soon pass. As many people experience, speaking to ourselves from a place of love and understanding can be unthinkably hard, even when we are so good at lifting up the people around us. For his self practise I told myself (with love) that I needed to be kind and compassionate to myself, as the precepts guide.

I gradually built up the tolerance to stay in a meditative state for longer, the reiki self treatment that I will share below was a 30 minute session. Sometimes with self treatments the experience can leave you with a lovely sense of calm and grounding if that is what your mind, body and spirit needed at the time. Everything that happens during these sessions is exactly what is supposed to happen.

Before starting the treatment I asked to be given healing, and whatever I need for my highest good at this time.

Length: 30 mins

A strong heat from my left hand and icy cold from the right. I saw lots of colours from the start, almost like a kaleidoscope, and I got the sense of it pulsing as the colours moved and merged.

I felt like I was in a tunnel saying “Hello.” and then listening to the echo.

There seemed to be two people in robes joining hands or shaking hands, the imagine was not clear, but the overall feeling was calm.

Then two hands were reaching forward from me, but they were not mine, but I felt compelled to move forward.

I started to see lots or reds, that turned to blue.

Whenever I experienced thoughts of the pressures I was under the colours left and everything felt dark and bleak, but as those thoughts left, the darkness was replaced with a white light and a feeling of hopefulness took over.

The treatment overall had a really relaxing effect. I feel calmer and more grounded.