I thought I would share with you a technique that I created, something that allows you to really embrace one of the Reiki precepts, in fact any of the precepts that you feel would benefit you more if it could become more fully a part of how you are.
I call this method “Precepts Rehearsal” and it is a form of meditation based on a powerful hypnotherapy technique called ‘future pacing’.
Future pacing is all about getting yourself into a meditative state (or a trance state: they are the same thing) and spending some time imagining yourself behaving in a way that shows your subconscious mind how you want to be… you are rehearsing being the person that you wish to be, the person that you are becoming.
So, let’s assume that you would like to experience compassion more in your life.
You start a Reiki meditation, getting yourself comfortable where you are sitting, resting your hands palms upwards in your lap, and you start to bring Reiki through your crown down to your tanden as you breathe in, flooding the energy out of your body to the universe as you breathe out (this is called “Joshin Kokkyu ho” and is a basic technique used in Original Japanese Reiki).
Just allow the energy to keep on flowing and release that visualisation after a while: the energy knows what to do now.
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