Reiki Relaxation Circle Session 12

About three-quarters of the way through 2020, I felt that there was an immense need for healing, of humanity, and of the planet, and began doing a weekly online Reiki Relaxation Circle. This need continues today and I would love to have more people able to access these healing meditation sessions so I am sharing them here on Insight Timer. In this session, we focus on the connection that exists between us all and every other living thing in this universe.

Transcript

Good evening everybody.

Welcome to the live Reiki Relaxation Circle for today,

Wednesday the 18th of November 2020.

I'm Arwen from Evenstar Wellbeing.

I'm a holistic health coach and I am also a Reiki master.

I would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands on which I practice from this evening which is the Wurundjeri lands.

I'd like to pay my respects to the elders of the Wurundjeri peoples past,

Present and emerging.

So for those of you who've been playing along at home for the last few months while I've been doing these sessions what I'll say to begin with will be pretty familiar but I do just like to repeat it so that anybody who's tuning in for the first time is not going to wonder what on earth is going on.

So we do two different meditations in this practice tonight and in the first one we are focusing on directing healing to ourselves and in the second one we are focusing on directing healing out to everyone and everything else and back to the planet as well.

So we are using Reiki which is a Japanese word meaning universal energy and you will find that most healing traditions have a practice of energy healing.

May call it many different names but it's really the same thing the world over.

It's something that's available to everybody so basically what happens is we are tapping into energy that is all around all of us all the time and if you are trained and attuned to tap into that energy as I am as a Reiki practitioner then you're able to access it and use it and direct it wherever you want to send it.

So for tonight I am using my abilities to tap into that energy and to send it to you and then further on from you we will direct the energy out to everyone else and everything else that you're connected with and we're all connected with the planet and the planet is our first source of energy and of life of course.

So we're going to direct energy back to the planet.

I started doing these sessions a few months ago trying to help everybody get through to the end of this year through the global pandemic and where I am in Melbourne Australia.

We're in a good place right now but I know that there's many many other places around the world that are in terrible straits still with this virus so if there's anyone that you want to share this video with then please feel free to do that and because this energy is unable to be destroyed it doesn't matter the energy doesn't know what time or place you are participating in this practice so you're able to access it whenever you like it doesn't have to be live.

My intention is that whoever watches this video at whatever time or place they watch it will receive this healing energy and that is how it works.

So for today we've been focusing on the principles of Reiki for most of the other sessions but today I wanted to do something different.

I was reminded of the beautiful Buddhist meditation the Sohom meditation which is really means I am that that's what the phrase means.

With our first meditation throughout all the practices that I've done we have used something as a mantra as a mind vehicle something to focus our mind and help us to meditate that's really what meditation is is constantly refocusing your mind on something.

So for today we're going to use rather than one of the Reiki principles we're going to use the Sohom phrase.

So it means I am that and it's really about universality about how everyone is connected and everything is connected and really that's what this whole practice is about and especially with directing healing even further than those who are participating now using you to spread the web even further.

I thought that was very resonant with the practice and the mantra of Sohom.

So it's I am all always within me all guides and protects me so it's really tapping into especially our crown chakra what I like to call our connection energy and activating that and using that connection for us to feel supported and for us in turn to therefore be able to provide energetic support to everyone else.

So so important to fill up your own cup you cannot pour from an empty vessel and if you don't take the time to re-energize yourself in ways that really do that then you're going to gradually deplete deplete deplete until something goes very wrong some incident of mental or physical health will occur if you continue in that way.

So I think that's all I need to say about Reiki if you do have any questions about that I've spoken about it more in some of the other sessions and obviously feel free to direct message me and ask me whatever questions you have there's lots of information on my website again just even so well being dot-com and there's an FAQ section with lots of questions that people commonly ask about Reiki so feel free to check in there as well.

So for now I would invite you to get yourself really comfortable you don't need to be watching so you can most certainly lie down if you'd rather sit that's absolutely fine as well but just make sure you're comfortable make sure your temperature is comfortable you may need a blanket depending on where you are and just making sure that no physical discomfort is going to distract you from your meditation and healing practice when you are in position then just closing your eyes lightly down and starting to focus on your breath and really slowing the breath down on making the breath the longest and deepest and slowest breaths that you've taken all day today so far really feeling that breath in your body as well noticing where you feel that feeling into your belly you should be breathing all the way deep down into your belly feeling your chest and the movement in the chest perhaps even noticing the sensation of the air on your nostrils or your lips as it goes in and out of your body and starting to visualize as well that air that oxygen as energy which indeed it is so for our first meditation we're going to direct the energy to you so I'd invite you to place your hands upon yourself palms facing towards you if you have a part of your body that is painful or uncomfortable at the moment and you can reach that that comfortably with your hands and you can place your hands on that area and if you don't have anywhere particularly uncomfortable you can place your hands wherever it is comfortable and you may like to place one or two hands on the top of your head on that crown chakra area so it's right on the top of your head where a crown would sit and focus on sending energy there to help you with this whole process of connection so I'm going to use my Reiki timer app to play us some flute music and we're going to have a gong going off every minute this time so if you've participated before we've often done every 30 seconds but for today we're going to do every minute and what I'd like you to do now with that breath focus is starting to repeat to yourself saw with your inhalation hum with your exhalation you can say it out loud if you wish to but generally we just say the words in our head breathing in saw breathing out hum breathing in saw breathing out hum so I will start the timer we're going to do this for five minutes and every minute when that gong goes off I will just remind you of that mantra in soul out hum In,

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So just remaining with your eyes closed.

I hope you have started to notice the energy flowing through you.

You perhaps might feel heat or a tingling sensation in your hands.

You might feel very heavy.

You might feel very light and floaty.

You might feel nothing at all.

Whatever it is,

Just know that you are receiving energy now.

So we're now going to direct that flow of energy out further beyond us,

Out to the planet beyond all the living creatures on the planet.

So I'd invite you now to turn your palms away from your body so that your hands are facing away from you,

Sending that stream of energy outwards from you.

So know that you're still going to be receiving the energy and your body knows what it needs.

So if you need to be taking a good portion of the energy that's continuing to flow through you for yourself,

Then your body will do that.

But our intention now is to direct energy out beyond us.

So focusing once more on the breath and really noticing the breath within the heart space this time.

So focusing on the sensations within your chest,

The movement,

The expansion and contraction of your ribs and your lungs.

If you focus on it,

You can feel your heart beating within your chest and we're going to bring a focus to the energetic aspect of the heart as well to our love energy.

We're going to open that up,

Fire that up using gratitude.

So I'd invite you to bring something to mind that you are grateful for,

Something that's happened in the last 24 hours,

However small.

And then carrying that thought of gratitude into your heart space.

So feeling grateful within the heart and noticing how that makes your heart feel bigger.

It expands the magnetic energy of your heart is activated with gratitude and sent even further and deeper away from you.

This magnetic energy attracts what you need and want to you and certainly allows for a very important connection with all other living beings.

So now we will focus on specifically sending energy outwards in bigger and bigger circles like dropping a stone into a pond.

So breathing in now and then with your exhalation visualising and sending the energy out from you to anyone else who is in the same building as you right now.

And not just people but animals and plants as well.

Every living creature is receiving the energy that you are sending out.

Then another inhalation and breathing out,

Sending energy out to everyone in your neighbourhood,

The neighbourhood where you are right now is receiving this healing energy.

Another inhalation and with the exhalation sending energy,

Love,

Healing out to everyone in your town or your city.

A deep intake of energy of breath and then sending the energy out from you with your exhalation to everyone in your state or province or territory.

Breathing in once more and with the exhalation sending energy out to everyone in your country.

Breathing in once more and then with the out breath sending energy out to every living creature on this planet.

Visualising the connections of everyone practising and participating,

Joining up,

Visualising a beautiful web of energy engulfing the planet in love and in healing.

And then one last time a big deep breath in and with the exhalation sending the energy back to Mother Earth.

Thanking her,

Blessing her,

Wishing her healing.

And whilst you continue to focus on your breath and on the sensation of energy moving through and out of you we'll go through a guided meditation from my favourite complete handbook of quantum healing by Dr Diana Minnick.

Today I chose a meditation to help us to relieve and heal any pain or discomfort in the neck and shoulders.

I chose this today for slightly selfish reasons because it's something that I'm experiencing at the moment and it's really something this area of the body,

The neck and shoulders where we hold all our tension,

Where we hold the weight of the world as we see it and feel it.

Just about every single person that I see in my practice when I ask them if they have any aches or pains that is what they will mention that neck and shoulder region.

So let's take a bit of a focus now to that area to help us all improve flexibility.

We get a stiff neck when we're perhaps not wanting to put our neck out when we are perhaps being too rigid about something and the shoulders very much as I said feeling the weight of your responsibilities as you see them which is often very much only your perspective and not in fact how other people around you see them.

So I'm continuing to send healing to you as we go through this.

So gently cradle your neck in your hands if that's comfortable for you to do and continuing to notice the breath sinking into you and gently being released from you.

Feel the heaviness and the pain in your neck.

Let that sensation speak to you.

Listen to it carefully as its voice clearly has not been heard.

What does it say?

Thank this part of your body for giving you this information,

For giving you a sign that you may have felt a lack of support,

An inability to choose and to put together.

It may make your life feel unpleasant or heavy.

Allow the concerns of your neck and shoulders to be heard and to then evaporate.

With each concern that they share the voices of the heaviness and the pain become quieter until finally they dissolve,

Melting away like butter and leaving your neck supple and soft free of any obstruction or pain.

Take a breath in and visualise the breath being the colour of a bright blue sky.

As you inhale this sky energy,

Extend its essence and the vastness of it throughout the terrain of your neck.

You can feel it helping you to open and expand your neck,

Opening the flexibility of your neck,

Allowing you to tilt your head in whatever direction you need to,

Especially up to the sky.

Visualise yourself looking up to the sky and when you peer into it you're reminded of the infinite choices in your life.

With each cloud that sails by,

There returns to you the easygoing nature of living.

The tightness and armour around your neck has fallen off and now you are free and light.

You watch the sky turn from light blue to deep indigo,

Revealing a universe filled with stars that sit in the heavens like diamonds.

They sparkle,

Serving as another reminder of the many facets of your life and how they shine depends on how you see them.

Now take a deep audible sigh,

Being able to hear that exhalation as it leaves your body.

Tilt your head slightly downward so that your inner gaze is focused on the middle of your chest at your heart centre once again.

Visualise your beautiful heart bundled up in many layers like an onion.

It calls you to unravel it,

To explore its depths.

Gently you begin peeling back the intricate layers of your heart and as you do so a cacophony of whispers is released.

Your passions are unveiled,

All of your dreams,

Your sense of purpose,

Your talents and gifts hiding within the layers of the heart,

Buried deep,

Remaining unexpressed are now revealed.

You choose to honour them by letting them float upwards to the neck,

Releasing them into the world in the form of your resonant voice,

Your meaningful words.

Allow yourself to say whatever needs to be said.

Give thanks to your neck for being the vehicle of your authentic self.

Finally,

Make a promise to yourself to continue the exploration and discovery of your heart field,

Of your love energy and its fruits of passion,

Dreams and expression throughout your daily living,

Giving your neck the support it needs to allow their release,

Their life,

Their expression.

Thank you so much for your participation whenever and wherever you choose to do that.

I'm very grateful to have you join me.

I hope you have a wonderful rest of your week.

Namaste and be well.