Reiki Relaxation Circle Session 7

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 through 2021 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 being communication and managing Mercury Retrograde by speaking our Truth, activating the Throat Chakra.

Transcript

Here we are anyway talking about relaxation and about the mercury retrograde which has just started today and goes for the next three weeks. So I'm Arwen from Evenstar Wellbeing and I'm running these Reiki relaxation circles every Wednesday evening at 7. 30 Australian Eastern Daylight Time and I wanted to do that to try and get everybody through the last few months of 2020 which has been one hell of a ride. Before I go any further I would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands on which we are all participating in the circle tonight. For myself that is the Wurundjeri peoples I would like to acknowledge their elders and pay my respects to them the elders past present and emerging. I have been practicing Reiki for six years and as well as being a Reiki master I am also a holistic health and well-being coach and I wanted to just give everyone an opportunity to be a little bit relaxed every Wednesday evening to receive some Reiki which is energy healing. The word Reiki means universal energy and it is a Japanese word so Reiki itself is the energy healing practice from the Japanese tradition but you would find if you looked into most traditional cultures throughout the world that there is some form of energy healing and that is because this is energy that is all around all of us all the time it is available to anyone and everyone whenever we want it. As a Reiki practitioner I am trained to attune and sorry trained and attuned to that energy which means that I'm able to direct it and channel it wherever I want to send it and for tonight I am sending it out to you. Now even if you're watching a recording of this video the energy doesn't know time or place or space so whatever time you are watching this video you are going to receive the energy healing. We're going to do one segment of tonight where we are directing the healing to you yourself and then the second segment where we're sending the healing out to the world so out to everyone every person every animal every plant and also to Mother Earth herself who is really our first source of energy to start with. So this practice if you haven't come across Reiki before and you don't need to have to be able to participate in the circle this practice is something that is a bit hard to get your head around sometimes but you really just need to let the head go and participate with your heart and you are going to feel the energy and I'd love you to let me know when you do and what you feel and what you experience but you might like to think about it like a radio station so your favorite radio station is always always there but unless you have a radio tuned in to that correct channel you're not going to be able to listen to the music or the talkback or the podcast or whatever it is that you want to listen to on your favorite radio station and that is where I come in so you can think of me as being the radio making that energy available to you right now or and it's really right now whenever you are watching and listening to this. So very importantly you need to be as comfortable as possible you don't need to watch I'm not going to do anything interesting so you can certainly just listen you can lie down and not be able to see the screen you can be sitting you can be lying in whatever position you prefer but being comfortable is really important so that your body doesn't distract you from what you're going to experience. So within this circle we are acknowledging that we are all connected and if you think about some times where you have perhaps had a premonition that something was going to happen or you've thought about someone and then they call you that's how you know that that that statement is true. Okay so let's go into our first section for tonight which is sending healing to you so you will receive the energy for yourself and as I mentioned at the start which was so hilarious that I had all these technological problems I wanted to focus today on the mercury retrograde this is pretty commonly known astrological phenomenon there's lots of you know memes and gifs and jokes on social media about mercury retrograde it happens a few times a year and sometimes it can feel like we're always in mercury retrograde retrograde means that a planet and in the view from the earth a planet appears to be slowing down stopping and then even going backwards now of course the planet doesn't actually go backwards in its orbit around the sun but that is how it appears and the energy feels like that so mercury as you may know was a messenger of the gods in mythology and the planet itself the planet mercury is associated with communication with being a messenger especially our everyday communication and nowadays we communicate so much using technology therefore it's become very much associated with technology as well also in mythology mercury travelled to deliver the messages and so the planet is is also associated with travel so retrograde energy tends to slow things down but it gives us the opportunity to actually look more closely and reflect and introspect about these aspects so especially about communication in this case so the key points to be aware of are potential to experience delays and frustrations with communication so if you just allow more time for your messages for your communications to get through or to sink in or whatever it is same with travel so allow more time there may be delays editing your writing so reviewing and finishing off things especially to do with communication is great at this time rather than starting new processes of communication backing up your data on your technology definitely this is the time to make sure you are doing that and the other thing is delaying anything that is a major has a major involvement of communication so such as making an agreement or signing a contract even a big purchase it's best to not do that during this period it goes for 21 days so it's through until I think it's the 3rd of November because it's going backwards as well and allowing us to reconsider and review things you may reconsider old relationships in your professional or personal life at this time so we are going to focus our healing today on the energy of communication which is our truth energy one of the seven essential energies and you may know this as the throat chakra I try and avoid using those terms because I don't like to think about it just as like one little spot in your body which is how people tend to think of the chakras and that's not how they are but rather call them energies so this energy helps you to speak your truth to express yourself authentically to make choices that are true to you and to reveal what is in your heart to the world truthfully so for the first part that we're going to do we are going to meditate using a mantra or a mind vehicle so using a sentence which is what we focus our mind on remembering remembering that meditation is not about having an empty mind that is literally impossible so we use a mantra as the focus for our mind and the practice of meditation is continually refocusing on that statement on that mantra what we are going to use as our mantra today is I now completely trust and fully express my authentic self so I would invite you to close your eyes and start paying attention to your breath to start with and place your hands on yourself now ideally because we are working with this truth energy it would be wonderful if it's comfortable for you and this will probably only work if you're lying down although you might be fine sitting but placing your right hand just gently on your throat and then with your left hand placing it very low on your abdomen like right you know kind of resting your hand in your lap if you're sitting but right low down on around so below your belly button right as low as you can get close down to your hips if that's not comfortable please place your hands wherever you would like on yourself so palms facing you and if you have pain anywhere then I would certainly understand and ideally suggest that you should place your hands where you have that pain because we're going to be sending healing energy now so closing the eyes down slowing the breath down and focusing on the breath to start with what I am going to do is start to send you the reiki energy in just a moment but for now just making sure you're taking the fullest deepest breaths that you've taken all day so breathing completely into your belly so feeling the belly expand as you breathe in and very importantly also releasing the exhalation fully and completely a lot of the time we hold on to some of our breath we do not exhale fully you need to let go through the breath you may start to feel the flow of energy through your hands you may not and it doesn't matter either way it's happening so for five minutes we're going to use our mantra I now completely trust and fully express my authentic self what I'll do is I will just periodically remind you of the mantra so that is the focus for your mind at the moment breathing deeply and focusing on the mantra we're going to do this for five minutes I now completely trust and fully express my authentic self so allowing your mind to be filled with only those words and your breath and every 30 seconds I will remind you of the mantra so that you can bring your mind back to bring your mind back to that focus and practice meditation I now completely trust and fully express my authentic self I now completely trust and fully express my authentic self I now completely trust and fully express my authentic self I now completely trust and fully express my authentic self I now completely trust and fully express my authentic self I now completely trust and fully express my authentic self I now completely trust and fully express my authentic self I now completely trust and fully express my authentic self I now completely trust and fully express my authentic self I now completely express my authentic self we're now going to leave the mantra but just remain with your eyes closed and hopefully continuing to feel the energy flowing through you and if you don't feel any tingling or heat or heaviness then that doesn't mean that that energy is not flowing through you and you will feel the benefits afterwards but now you're going to send the energy out to every other being on the planet and to mother earth herself so I'm using you as a connection to spread that healing further I would now invite you to place your hands with the palms facing upwards rather than towards yourself in whatever position is most comfortable so if you're lying you might like to do the full yoga shavasana position the corpse pose with your arms a little bit away from your body and the palms facing up but really the main thing is that you are comfortable so just holding on to that sensation of energy traveling through you because I am still sending it to you and through you we are sending it further out into the world just breathing and focusing on the breath once again and really noticing this time that although you continue to breathe right down to the bottom of your belly you're feeling the sensation of the breath within your chest within your heart space if you really focus on it you can feel your heart beating within your chest and as well as being that all-important organ in the body the heart is an incredible source of magnetic energy and this energy can be used to move outwards from you and be sent wherever you want to send it so we're going to even increase that magnetic power of your heart even further first of all using gratitude so bringing something to mind that you're grateful for it doesn't matter if it's something very small like the fact that it was an amazingly beautiful sunny day here in Melbourne today something that makes you feel grateful happy joyous carrying that thought into the heart space and using that to further activate the energy of your heart your love energy taking a big deep breath in into that energy breathing the energy of the earth into your heart and then as you breathe out sending that energy to everyone else in your household breathing deeply in again and then breathing out and sending the energy to everyone every animal every plant every person in your neighborhood and in again to top up your own energy and activate your heart and out breathing energy to everyone in your city or town or local area local area breathing energy in again and as you exhale sending it out to everybody in your state or territory or province and breathing in again deeply and fully and then as you exhale sending the energy out to everyone in your country and then breathing in and with the exhalation the energy is traveling to every living creature on this planet visualize that energy wrapping all around the world and breathing in one last time and then with your exhalation visualize the energy traveling back to the earth to nourish to show our gratitude to appreciate this planet so keeping the focus on the breath and you may also like to continue to feel the energy within your truth energy center at the throat and i'll read through a another meditation which i'm basing on one from a book called wheels of life by anadaya judith before the beginning all was darkness and all was void the face of the cosmos was deep and unmanifest indeed not a face at all but endless nothing no light no sound no movement no life no time all was null and the universe was not yet created nor even conceived for there was no form in which to conceive or to be conceived in its emptiness the darkness fell upon itself and became aware that it was nothing alone and dark unborn unmanifest silent can you imagine this silence the silence of nothing can you quiet yourself enough to hear it can you listen to the silence within you breathe deeply but slowly so the breath is silent in your lungs feel your throat expand with the air coming in listen for the nothing listen for the quiet listen deep within yourself for the place of stillness slowly breathe into this void a deep and peaceful breath in its infinite quiet darkness fell upon itself and in its emptiness knew itself to be alone and alone it desired another in this silence the darkness fell upon another in this desire a ripple moved across the void to fold and fold again upon itself until it was no longer empty and the void was full with birth in the beginning the great unmanifest became vibration in its own recognition of being and that vibration was a sound from which all other sounds were born it came from the sun in his first emanation it came from the moon in her eternal answers in their union the sound arose and spread through all the void and filled it and the sound became one and the sound became many and the sound became the wheel that turned and turned the worlds under the dance of life forever singing always moving if you listen you can hear it now it is your breath it is in your heart it is in the wind the waters the trees and the sky it is in your own mind in the rhythm of each and every thought from one sound does it all emerge and to one sound shall it return and the sound is ah chant it now inside you quietly let it build within your breath let the sacred sound escape you moving on the wings of air rhythm building deep vibration rising up from deep within chant the sound of all creation sound that makes the chakras spin louder now the voice arises joins with other sounds and chants deeper now the rhythms weaving all into a sacred dance rhythms pounding voices growing echoing the dance of life sounds to words and words to music riding on the wheels of life guiding us along our journey moving spirit deep within chant the voice that is within you this is where we must begin up from silence breath and body calling now into the void hear its answer in the darkness fear and pain have been fear and pain have been destroyed sun is the first vibration moon is the flow sound unites us in our vision harmonizing all we know soon the silence comes again with echoes of primordial sound purifying all vibration echo of the truth profound i hope that has given you some amazing energy in your truth energy center i hope you have felt wonderful feeling and sharing energy out with all other living beings and that you have experienced relaxation and healing yourself this evening and send you my blessings for this week and for this mercury retrograde period namaste