Monday, January 2, 2017

Meditating on the 5 Reiki Principles for the New Year

For the New Year I decided to review and mediate on the 5  Reiki Principles.

Before New Year's Eve I started with the first principle.

Just for Today, I will not be Angry

I wanted to go into the New Year by cleaning up all my bodies (physical, emotional, mental and spiritual). I didn't want to take any energy that was no longer serving my highest good into the new year. This first principle was a great place to start. Understanding and working through Anger sets the stage to freeing blocks on many levels.

From my meditations on this saying I have come to understand It to mean Free yourself from becoming anger.
Anger is a valid emotion, how we work with and through it is important. If we select to understand where the anger comes from and what it has to teach and then let it leave our body/being we are free.
Denying anger, holding onto it in our bodies, or directing it at others can create blockages within our body/being and we become anger and invite disease/illness and pain.

Anger can come to us from disappointment, dissatisfaction  over issues connected to our past, present or future or a multitude of other reasons. When we get stuck or fixated on the Dis-appointment or Dis-satisfaction of an issue or situation we bring the energy into your physical body and create Dis-ease.

Anger in its positive form motivates us to create change in the world. When we listen to anger and seek a positive action we create movement of energy away from our physical body and transmute energy into a more productive form. If we can't find a solution to our "Dis" of our situation then doing something that creates movement away from the body helps free us  from fixation and buys us time to develop an action plan.  Dancing, martial arts, vocalizing (singing, toning, yelling), punching a pillow or punching bag are great ways to direct anger away from self and others.

Energetic body work techniques teach the practitioner that the blockages in the physical body often start in the non-physical. Many come from emotions one being anger. The longer the non-physical body goes without attention the more the energy is drawn into the cells of the physical body. We fine many emotions trapped in the organs. Some organs are more prone to attract certain emotions over others. Thai massage (based on Chinese medicine) has taught me the Liver tends to hold anger.  Along with the liver you can find the Gallbladder housing anger.

When you have experienced anger where have you noticed it in your body or have you? Have you noticed more issues with gall stones, trouble eliminating toxins, issues of the bile,  high blood pressure, pain in the right side of your mid- body, a reddening of the face or chest or migraines. 
Also if you find yourself having a hard time overcoming a cold/flu asses your liver and any possible stored anger. The liver is connected to your immune system. If anger is causing stagnation of the liver your immune system can become weakened and colds can persist. 

Watching young children (usually before they turn 5) can teach us a lot about the tools to work with emotions. What I have noticed from children is the emotional body works best when we stay in the present moment and we allow the emotions to be felt and move through us as quickly as possible. Young kids will yell and stomp their feet  expressing their anger; promoting action and movement. When you ask them about it later they are not attached ,they often can't even remember the moment. Once they release one emotion they move on to the next. It is easy for them to move from anger to laughter/joy seamlessly. As we become adults we start to move away from feeling our emotions to analyzing them. Frequently, this keeps us stuck in the past looping back to a situation over and over again, which begins to trap the emotion in our cells. Now any movement, smell, or experience that resembles the original occurrence will trigger the cells to respond as though we are back in the original point of emotional disturbance.

In ideal situations we express emotions before they get lodged into our cells and require physical release from the body. I mentioned a few options above to moving the anger through your body. Another technique Thai massage taught me is the 6 healing sounds connected to the internal organs. The sound for the liver is "Sh" like you are telling someone in the library to be silent. How we use it is to take a breath in and on the exhale we release the sound "Sh" and repeat 2 more times. You will notice the more you perform  this technique the sound does not have to be very loud and can at times be more of an internal process.  I hope some of these techniques can help you find ease of expression of your anger.

I invite you to explore this Reiki saying for yourself and see how it helps you enter  the New Year. I hope this saying helps you become more connected to your body and more empowered to healing yourself. 

I invite you to share, if you feel moved , your insights from exploring :



Please remember any and all information shared is from my own personal experience and learning and is not meant to serve as health advise. You should always consult your MD or other health care practitioner if you have any illness or disease. 

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