Reiki Self-Treatment Procedure
by Rev. Jason Storm
Begin by making yourself comfortable, either sitting upright or lying down. Make sure that your back has enough support for your comfort. Keep ankles and wrists uncrossed, and if sitting up, feet flat on the floor with spine straight and shoulders relaxed. If you are familiar with a technique for doing so, induce a light state of meditation or trance. Rub your palms briskly together to stimulate the blood and energy flow and place your hands in the first healing position.
You can use the traditional position, or whatever position comes to you intuitively. Flowing Reiki with hands over the ears first can quickly help induce a deeply relaxed state, as the ears have connections to every acupuncture meridian and can be very relaxing for the entire body when done for just a few minutes. Allow your breathing to be comfortable and natural, breathing into the diaphragm. When done correctly your stomach will move out as you inhale and the shoulders will not move at all. This is called belly breathing and is crucial to all relaxation and self-heling techniques. Have you ever watched a sleeping baby breathe? They know how to do it right! When you can breathe like that again, you will find your energy levels dramatically increasing.
You may continue your treatment session by using the traditional and/or optional hand positions, or let your guides show you the way. By all means experiment and see where the energy takes you. The important thing is that you DO IT, not that you do it rigidly or mechanically.
As your experience increases, you may find that after time you can give yourself a treatment without placing your hands on your body. After time, many pracitioners simply flow Reiki into the places they need to. Remember: "ENERGY FLOWS WHERE THE MIND GOES." In all of the Taoist Reiki techniques and exercises this is a primary technique, using the mind to send and directr the energy. It will be most helpful to you to understand and master this technique now if you think you may wish to learn Taoist Reiki in the Future. Many of the meditations in this online course are designed to strengthen your ability to visualize and use your mind to direct energy. This is most unique and unlike any training you will find elsewhere.
Allow your self-treatment to continue for as long you feel necessary, but I try to treat myself for not less than 20 minutes. I find I can treat every part of me in that time. Again, experiment and find what works for you. Give yourself a treatment every day for two weeks and see if you don't FEEL AMAZING results after that time. It is a habit that is most worthwhile to develop and will only increase your understanding of and capacity for Reiki and healing.
