Reiki As A Spiritual Practice

This is our focus this week at the Usui Virtual Retreat and because it is a topic that is so close to my heart, I wanted to share it here as well.  Our facilitator, Pamela Miles, gives us a working definition of spirituality as follows:  "...that part of us where we sort it all out, where we work out our relationship to ourselves, one another and to life itself...where we cope with uncertainty, where we go beyond the anxiety and the anger that uncertainty can trigger.....our place of inner retreat..."

I couldn't even begin to come up with a better definition of what Reiki is to me other than to add that:

Reiki for me is about stillness, whether I'm doing a self-treatment, treating someone else, meditating on the precepts and/or doing breathwork, it is a slowing down and going within, observing and connecting with what lies there.  Even more than that, though, for me Reiki is about taking that stillness into the world, a world that, for the most part, seems anything but still .

Feeling very grateful today to be taking part in the retreat and to be walking this path.

Namaste,
Janet