Reiki for Those Who Cannot Visualize
Many teachers tend to combine Reiki or meditation and other similar practices with visualisation. Now, this can be complicated, because not everyone is visual. Confused by the way she was taught Reiki self-healing – through visualisation – a woman recently asked a question.
Can everyone visualise? I find it do hard to do. I can sometimes imagine something if I’ve seen it but generally I can’t, so i struggle to imagine a bright white light coming in my crown chakra and my palms. I struggle to ground myself for the same reason. It’s making me not want to do Reiki. How do you visualise? Is it clear? Is it in colour? I’ve tried self healing and meditation (again I struggle with meditation for same reason)
Here is what I would say to anyone struggling with the same problem:
First, if you are visualising, you are not meditating, you are a step behind meditation. Meditation is just witnessing – if your mind is ‘doing’ (eg visualising, chanting) something, then you are doing what in yoga is called dharana – directing the mind. Dhyana – meditation – is merely to be a witness. Visualising is useful for people who have no idea about meditation and would like to prepare themselves for the real process.
Second – there are 3 broad kinds of people – visual (about 80% I think), auditory and kinesthetic. Since a large majority is visual, most processes are oriented towards them – including education. People belonging to the latter 2 categories usually struggle with everything for this reason, not just guided visualisations. If you can’t visualise there’s nothing wrong with you, you’re just better at something else. Take a visualisation and convert it to something that makes sense to you. (For eg if you’re asked to imagine the most relaxing place, but you’re auditory – then imagine the most soothing sounds/ music/ voice)
Third, Reiki does not required visualising at all. I never teach it in my classes. I probably never had to fall back on visualising because I’m not visual myself. Reiki works through intent and surrender. Intend for it to flow, and surrender to the process. That is really all you need, simple as it sounds. If you want to ground yourself but cannot imagine, say a prayer to the earth instead, or whatever you can do to feel connected to the earth.
Author of ‘Healing Through Reiki’, Ashwita learned Reiki in 1997, and started teaching it in 2006. She now incorporates other forms of energy healing, as well as hypnotherapy and past life therapy in her work. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, crafts, reading and painting.
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Working with Energy Therapies, and that is what is so confusing, every thing is Energy, Frequency & vibrations, the creations cone from language & symbols all designed to increase the vibrations of the Chakras and the the 3 bodies but, very few have any idea as to how to increase the connections between the 4th dimensional body and the Physical 3rd.
When a person learns how that happens then, the connections between the 4th, mental emotional and the 3rd physical healing does take place but, if the time that you spend within this incarnation is up then nothing can stop you leaving but somebody may receive information as to why you leave then the whole big picture is working.
very good article about reiki but your maximum talk was meditation related,, you have very deep knowledge about meditation and i m keep reading your entire blog and also bookmarking to come back tomorrow . i have a question is i m researching about reiki then i have some interest and take 2 nd degree course in my local country . when i finished this so many problem was disappear but on of them are not going that was constipation do u have any advised for that pleas i m waiting and also i do my daily reiki self practice thanks a lots keep that kind of great article to your collection
To many people claim that they can expand the System of Reiki but they fail to work with Reiki as it is supposed to work. The system is composed of Energy/ Frequency & Vibration and when a sentence is applied by the use of an Attunement into the the Psychic/ Mental/ Emotional through the Physical and those bodies are combined the applied Energy/ Frequency & Vibration within the Chakras are permanently raised, that is a physical application and not an Intent. The main use for the System is to clear the Psychic/ Mental/ Emotional Body an instill a sence of Calm when that happens the Physical has the ability to self Heal. However if your time is up you will leave.
Thank you for this. I’ve been really lost lately because I am Aphantasia full level ( Cannot see, visualize, all my senses are not working ) and it’s been a pain, people telling me to ” force myself to visualise ” smh now I understand it a bit better. I still struggle with intentions because concepts are weird for me