Healing & Feeling

Today’s post will go over feelings and healing. When I began my Reiki journey, I was seeking to be resolved of adverse feelings and emotions. Surely, if I healed myself enough, I wouldn’t feel uncomfortable emotions so deeply or have to deal with them anoymore. Throughout my journey reconnecting with myself though, I’ve learned that no amount of healing will stop me from feeling uncomfortable emotions or stop me from feeling deeply. There’s no magic “off switch.”

As there shouldn’t be.

Despite how difficult strong or uncomfortable emotions can be to process, they serve an important purpose in helping us navigate our lives. They notify us when our actions or surroundings don’t match our values, inform us of crossed boundaries, and act as a signal when something in our lives doesn’t resonate with us. Realizing this helped me reframe my attitude and view towards healing and the way I use Reiki in my daily life.

Instead of using Reiki to try and “cure” myself of feeling uncomfortable emotions, I began using Reiki to support me in working through these emotions. By sitting with hard emotions, I feel out where they’re coming from and what they’re telling me about a situation. In this space, I’m able to think about and feel my emotions rather than using distraction to avoid them, and letting them build.

Some ways I’ve used Reiki to support me in holding space for my emotions:

• Writing what’s on my mind down on a piece of paper, and drawing the distance and CKR symbols on the paper, intending for Reiki to support me in finding a solution to a problem or hold space for feeling an emotion

• Meditating with the emotion: asking where it’s coming from and what it’s trying to tell me

• Using Reiki to help reveal the root cause the emotion is stemming from

• Reiki meditation to discern what areas of my life I’m using avoidance as a strategy, so I can bring awareness to unrecognized emotions

I’d love to hear how you use Reiki to work through emotions and how your view of healing has changed and developed throughout your journey! Feel free to comment below with your experiences.