60 Minute Reiki: Truth & Stillness

This hour-long guided reiki session leads you through multiple different visualizations, breathwork patterns, and nervous system reset tools to facilitate alignment within your energetic system, purging what no longer serves, and ushering in stillness within self that makes space for Truth. This is tailored to those who may be experiencing desire for rest, a deeper sense of knowing oneself, and finding steadiness and comfort with the act of turning inward. You'll be ushered to find the flow through trust during the continued softening, returning, surrendering, and opening. Treat yourself to an hour of guided relaxation!

Transcript

Hello!

My name is Eden and I am a Reiki master teacher,

A therapist,

And a meditation guide.

And today we have a 60-minute Reiki session oriented around truth and stillness.

And finding truth in our stillness.

So wherever you are,

Just starting to find some comfort in your body,

In your surroundings.

Maybe relaxing in your bed,

Getting the pillows just right,

The tuck of the blankets,

Feeling just the way you like them.

And we start to just allow ourselves to release the day.

So imagining there is just a little basket outside the door.

And we mentally just put everything in it that we don't need for the next 60 minutes.

So this is that to-do list.

This is the past,

The should'ves,

The could'ves,

The would'ves.

This is the what-ifs.

This is relationships.

It's work.

It's all of those beautiful little mundane pieces of our lives that we are in relation with and that we just don't need for these next 60 minutes as you take time for yourself and as we really deepen into stillness.

As we start to offer stillness to ourselves.

And just knowing if anything else comes up from the day,

From the past,

From the future,

That starts to roll around in your mind while we're here together.

Just allowing yourself to notice what's come up.

And just imagining that you place it in that basket outside the door again.

And just knowing that when we're done,

When we move back into our day,

Our lives,

You can pick back up anything and the choice will be yours.

So together now,

We'll just take three rounds of breath.

So go ahead and find the bottom of your exhale.

Inhale through the nose.

And sigh it out the mouth.

Two more just like that in through the nose.

And sigh it out.

Last one.

And just releasing that breath,

Gently letting the breath flow in and out as it pleases,

As it wants.

And just softening the space between your eyebrows.

Allowing the eyes to rest in their sockets.

And the cheeks gently fall down the cheekbones.

The jaw relaxes,

The tongue rests in the mouth.

And just taking a tiny little tuck of the chin,

Maybe even imperceptible to anyone else,

Feeling the spine elongate all the way through the crown of the head.

Allowing yourself to just get a little longer while maintaining comfort and relaxation.

And we take another moment here to map out the breath as it arrives in the body.

So just turning your awareness inward.

Where does the breath naturally travel to in the body?

Maybe noticing where the breath goes first,

Second,

Third,

Last.

Really allowing yourself to notice the particular movements of the breath.

And then too,

Maybe you notice a texture in the breath.

Maybe you notice if the breath is heavy or light.

Maybe a color comes into your mind as you trace the breath and picture the breath.

Just noticing.

No judgment here.

We're just witnessing the breath.

Letting ourselves get to know it,

Become more familiar with it.

Once you feel like you have a little bit more understanding of the breath as it moves through you today,

You can gently release that awareness,

That focus on the breath.

Thanking the breath and knowing that you can always come back to it and map it out again for a few rounds to just notice what might have changed or shifted or stayed steady during our time together and beyond.

There's so much information in our breath.

It's the largest tool within our body to change how we interact with the world.

Because our breath is this link between the mind and the body.

It's this part of our physiology that both is always happening to support us even when we aren't thinking of it and we can shift it through thinking,

Through asking,

By taking a different breath,

A deeper breath,

A higher breath.

That's how it's the gateway from the mind into the body and vice versa.

And what a powerful,

Gentle tool it is.

So just knowing that as we usher in some stillness here,

That the breath is that gateway also into trust.

It's the steadiness also in the stillness.

That is shifting and changing,

But steady all the same,

Trustworthy all the same.

Even if you forget to ask the body to breathe,

It will still do it.

So knowing your mind doesn't have to be perfect to keep breathing,

To still trust in your own internal stillness and steadiness.

Because trust does not necessitate perfection.

We don't need perfection to access our trust.

So go ahead and just taking a few slow,

Deep breaths into that idea,

Into the first little nugget of wisdom that your energy has offered me in this moment.

Softening any little muscles of the body,

The face,

The shoulders that have tensed back up.

And then allowing yourself to settle into your stillness right here.

Wherever you are.

Allowing yourself to rest with a curious mind.

With a curious mind.

As I take just these next few minutes to clear the space in both of us and to usher in this universal life force energy of Reiki to hold us here.

And just right away as I open up the space and connect to your energy,

There's this idea,

There's this reminder.

That when we offer ourselves stillness,

Our mind then has space to turn inward.

And what we find when we turn inward is often not still or steady.

Because it's a new idea or a new part of ourselves or a new thing that has come up because we have interacted with the day,

With our life,

With the world.

So when we allow ourselves to turn our eyes inward in stillness and ask the question over and over again,

What is here?

What is here?

It's often not stillness that's here.

Absolutely it can be.

There can be just this beautiful soft stillness,

Like a quiet lake.

But often and especially when we are new to turning our eyes inward during stillness,

We more notice the ripples of raindrops on the lake,

The lack of stillness as these pieces of ourselves come up.

And that's beautiful and that's necessary and that is your humanness showing itself again.

And while it can be so easy and understandable to only see and focus on these ripples when we turn our eyes inward,

It's imperative to also allow ourselves to remember the steadiness that exists under the water,

The calm that's there when you fully submerge.

And this is the same as our witness state within us.

It's this capacity to notice the thoughts,

To notice the change,

To notice the emotions,

The patterns,

The stories.

It's the you that watches the movie instead of being enraptured.

So just allowing yourself to settle a little deeper into your witness state,

That curious side of your mind that notices what comes up in your mind instead of being that thing that comes up in your mind.

And this is a mental muscle to be flexed.

No one is perfect at it.

We release perfection here.

Noticing desire for perfection as just something else to be curious about,

To witness in you.

Oh yeah,

There's that desire again.

There's that perfection.

We release it.

Again,

Knowing that you can always ask yourself,

What is here?

What is here?

That allows yourself to both notice the ripple moving through you as you offer yourself stillness and step into the witness part of you,

That steadiness below the surface.

By being the one who notices what's here.

Two-fold here.

Offering yourself embodiment of the whole lake,

The movement and the steadiness that exists in the stillness.

And we build this trust of self by getting to know both sides,

Knowing that they are different and also both parts of you,

Both deeply interwoven with one another.

Deep breath in and long breath out.

Softening anywhere in the body that is already tensed back up,

Noticing even the tiniest of muscles in the face,

Shoulders,

The jaw,

The neck,

The belly,

The hands,

Letting them go.

Finding space,

Finding comfort.

And just taking another moment now to usher in the Reiki symbols,

Placing them in our space and in our energetic bodies.

And as I place this power symbol in this space with this intention,

The way that your system is receiving it is almost in the shape of like a whale tail that's almost submerged underwater,

Still aligned with this water theme,

This submergence,

This strength and depth.

And this idea of how deep do you need to go in order to commit to a new evolved version of you.

And what's coming through here is this reminder of discernment.

Discernment.

Discernment.

Knowing that you will never excavate everything all at once and that we need this process of layering and unearthing gently,

Slowly,

Kindly,

To allow ourselves to constantly be becoming.

So trusting that whatever is coming into your field of awareness recently as a desire to change or shift or shed or grow is enough.

And that you don't need to do everything in order to evolve and to be proud of the newer version of self.

We must allow ourselves to feel pride in the version of us that exists right now.

As an act of evolving into the next version of self.

Neurologically,

We need to access gratitude for right now.

For right now as you exist.

So that when a newer version of you arrives,

You can access gratitude for them too.

Because if we only live in the story of no I'm not there yet,

No I'm not there yet,

When we do get to the place we say we wanted to be,

The version of us we have dreamt of,

We won't neurologically have the pathway of yes I'm here,

Yes I'm here.

We'll only still have the no,

Not yet.

We need,

We deserve to build this story in our minds now of yes I'm here.

Wow,

So much gratitude for this version of self,

Knowing that evolution is on its way.

So that when we up-level,

We leap,

We hold this new version of self.

We have that pathway built in us already,

Ready to receive this new version in deeper gratitude and reverence and pride.

Which then informs our own capability to be fully embodied as this version of self,

Finding familiarity in the newness,

So you can settle into them even easier.

Deep breath in,

Long,

Slow,

Gentle breath out.

And taking a few more of those,

Softening the body where tension has crept back in.

And then taking a few breaths here to find a few different points of gratitude for yourself as you exist right now,

That feel true,

That feel true.

That's the key,

Not something you think you should be grateful for,

But what is something you already can feel that spark of gratitude for in this moment.

Find it,

Offer it to yourself,

Thank this version of you.

And gratitude is also allowed to be one of the answers to the question,

What's here?

What's here right now?

That we ask ourselves in moments of stillness to foster that trust through familiarity and curiosity.

And a few more slow,

Deep breaths.

And then we're going to usher in a specific breath pattern.

Really what we'll be doing is just holding the breath at the bottom of the exhale.

I'm just going to take a moment to explain this before we dive on in.

So just maintaining your beautiful,

Soft,

Gentle breath right now.

Another incredible tool of the breath is that we can start to invite in what we want through the breath without needing to be tested in our lives.

So what I mean by that in this moment is that as we consider truth and stillness and the trust that that builds,

That that necessitates,

We can start to experiment with what that is like in our bodies right now without needing to go out into the day and into relationships and into moments of stillness outside of here yet.

And so with holding at the bottom of our exhale,

I will invite you to find your stillness.

Now it's a place within our physiology that can easily instill a little bit of panic,

Right?

Because we need the breath.

Breath is life.

And we know that we can hold our breaths.

For moments at a time and be absolutely okay.

So it's an invitation to find safety and calm within your stillness when a heightened emotion might want to arrive.

This is what will then help us hone some trust,

Some resilience,

And make space for truth.

When we can get these heightened emotions out of the way,

We can start to settle into truth.

When we can release the panic for just another moment and find that calm,

We invite in truth.

Through that stillness,

You will survive holding your breath for a few moments.

Can you offer yourself calm and stillness?

And maybe,

Just maybe,

You will experience some moments of expansion.

So we'll do this for a few minutes here and I will release you to do this at your own pace as everyone can hold at the bottom of their exhale for a significantly long or different period of time.

But we'll just do the first few together.

So go ahead and take a deep breath in through the nose.

And then release the breath out the nose or mouth.

Releasing all the stale air,

Belly button to spine,

And then hold at the bottom of your exhale.

Three,

Two,

One.

Find one more moment of calm and then inhale through the nose.

And exhale.

Finding that exhale again.

Three,

Two,

One.

One more moment of calm right here.

You got it.

And then inhale.

And one more together.

Exhale.

Holding at the bottom.

Three,

Two,

One.

Finding one more moment of calm,

Letting something expand within you.

Calm,

Calm,

Calm.

And inhale.

Good.

And just I invite you to hold your bottom of your breath now at your own pace and maybe it would feel nourishing to take a few regular rounds of breath between the holds as well.

Just replenishing the body,

The oxygen in your bloodstream,

Knowing there are no rules here.

And that this is a space to just experiment with your physiology,

With your stillness,

And noticing what your stillness can offer you.

That it doesn't have to just be unfamiliarity or panic or tension or the desire to control.

Allow yourself to find this calm,

This steadiness,

This expansion,

This trust in the body and the mind,

This truth that can be ushered in.

Letting it just be an experiment that's personal.

Maybe noticing that edge when you want to inhale again and just prolonging that discomfort for a second longer.

Telling yourself,

I'm still okay.

Offer yourself your calm.

Offer yourself your trust in a moment of discomfort that builds resilience.

That builds resilience.

And perhaps you start to notice that when you hold your breath and make it through a little hiccup of discomfort,

This desire to inhale again.

On the other side is often a few more moments of calm,

Maybe this expanse through the system.

You start to notice the ebb and flow that even exists in the stillness.

We'll take just another minute here.

And maybe during one of those holds,

You ask yourself,

What's here?

What's here?

Softening all the little muscles of the face,

The neck,

The shoulders.

And let this next hold be your last.

Offering something to yourself within that hold,

That stillness,

That spaciousness.

And finding that nice,

Soft,

Nourishing,

Gentle breath once you release this hold.

Imagining this fresh prana,

Maybe a white or golden light,

Just moving all the way around the body,

This oxygenated blood,

Letting this trust get to all corners of the body.

It's almost as if the trust extends out so that the truth can come in and they are their own ebb and flow.

And we offer trust out from the heart so that the truth can come into the heart.

Ebb and flow.

And finding myself energetically called now to the shoulders.

And you are welcome to bring your attention there or just continuing with a soft inner gaze,

Just generally on the body as you notice any shifts or changes or downloads.

Letting yourself relax.

And there's just a lot of energy being discharged from the shoulders,

The chest,

The throat area.

So if it feels supportive to your system,

You can breathe in and out through the mouth.

It's just a little bit more effective way of releasing energy than the nose.

And just inviting in a specific breath now that lets the shoulders expand out and away from the midline of the body,

From the heart.

Just seeing if you can breathe in such a way that essentially allows you to take up more space,

Growing wider,

Releasing any tense muscles through the chest and traps and shoulders that are closing the shoulders in.

Noticing that when we allow ourselves to deeply relax,

We then have more space to grow,

To let the breath fill up and expand.

The tension in our bodies is there because at one point,

Having all of that tightness kept us safe in some way,

And now it is just familiar.

We don't need to be tense around the heart,

The shoulders.

Of course,

There's a time and place for tension in the body,

But we release the tension that stays,

That stays when we don't need it.

What can you relax and can you let it?

Letting yourself take up more.

It's one thing to trust the version of us that exists right now,

That's familiar,

That we know,

That we can predict.

It's another thing entirely to trust our capital S self,

That more pervasive part of us,

That witness state,

The steadiness within us when the outside world changes.

And so we usher in that trust to capital S self as we familiarize your nervous system with taking up more space and relaxing,

Right?

Because there's a newness and an unfamiliarity here that we can learn to get to know,

To soften to,

To trust.

And so we usher that in right now as you continue to soften through the chest,

The shoulders,

The throat,

The upper back,

Taking up more space.

It's knowing that you deserve that space.

You are that space.

The only thing that's kept you from growing into that space is this tightness within you,

Which we release with thanks,

Knowing it was only ever there for protection,

Out of love.

Thank you,

Thank you,

Thank you.

We release you tension.

We usher in space,

Trust for this more true,

More full version of self to arrive.

And it's common to,

To have experiences of discomfort with this unfamiliarity of relaxing through these areas of the body that often hold tension.

So just honoring that discomfort,

Knowing that that is a sign of growth.

It is different than pain.

We don't need to avoid discomfort.

Discomfort is our signpost of where to go next,

Where to grow next,

Because it's a sign of what our system naturally is drawn to and deserves and wants to step into,

But that just feels a little new and unfamiliar.

Three more breaths of just softening this upper body the most that it's been all day,

All week,

All year.

Noticing whatever feelings arise,

Thanking them,

Being the witness to them.

And with your next exhale,

You can gently let that mental focus go.

And letting the breath flow wherever it pleases,

As it pleases.

Thank you,

Thank you,

Thank you.

Knowing that that was a gift to your system,

To your mind,

To your body,

To find some familiarity in the newness.

And that no work is really ever done in a day.

We just add and add and take away and take away,

And we flex this mental muscle so that one day we notice,

We can take up new space with more ease.

We can offer ourselves stillness with more ease,

With more trust and truth.

All in good time.

And I'm going to take a few minutes here to just roam around the system,

Releasing any pockets of stuck energy.

As I do this,

I'm going to refrain from speaking for a bit so that you do have an opportunity to be in your own stillness even more.

Knowing that you are well-resourced to hold yourself right here,

Right now.

Maybe if you need some guidance,

Knowing you can always return to your breath and that question,

What's here?

What's here?

To usher in that truth.

Continuing a nice,

Soft breath.

And relaxing anywhere that is already tensed back up and settling into stillness for just another moment.

Letting something move through you.

And the energy that's coming through now is almost like opening these two windows,

Ones that open out like French doors.

And as we let your energy open and open over and over again in this way,

The energy lightens and calms,

Giving us the reminder that looking at self and digging in deeper,

There will always be discomfort the first few times we offer this to ourselves.

And may that not be a deterrent.

May we keep showing up.

May we have courage to open those windows the first few times to start to really see the landscape within so that that familiarity can start to creep in too.

We'll never know what we don't allow ourselves to see and seeing is up to you.

And offering yourself to yourself.

Deep breath in and long,

Nourishing breath out.

Good.

And taking one last moment here to imagine that two beautiful threads of energy move in to your being through the soles of your feet.

And these beautiful threads of energy travel up through the shins,

The knees,

The thighs,

The hips and intersect at the base of the pelvis.

And again in the sacral.

And again by the belly button.

And again at the heart.

And again at the throat.

And again at third eye center and then these energetic threads travel up through the crown and gently dissolve into the space around us.

Softening to that visual for one more breath.

Letting the corners of your mouth gently upturn.

Good.

And then starting to notice now the breath in the body again.

Noticing how the body shifts to accommodate each breath of the breath.

Opening and closing,

Getting larger and smaller.

And then noticing how your clothes,

Your blanket,

Whatever might be around you also shift in relation to the breath,

Each breath.

And then sending that awareness out a little further to the corners of the room,

The ceiling above,

The floor beneath.

Noticing how your body shifts gently in relation to the room with each breath.

Filling up more of the space and then less.

Knowing there is no rush but whenever you are ready to return to this day you can lovingly blink the eyes open to rejoin.

Thank you and see you next time.