Transcending Emotions with Reiki

Our human emotional experience can prove one of the key inhibitors to our experience of pleasure. Reiki provides the unconditional love to support our journey toward emotional bliss. In article, we will look into the human emotional experience, how we can shape that experience to suit our own preferred reality and how Reiki can support this. It is possible to tap into our emotional banqueting table to provide a feast that replenishes, rather than experiencing a fast food dinner that can be a slippery slope to something more toxic! We can begin to transcend our emotional experience into a peaceful realm by creating from a place of love .

Forming your Perceptions

If you have been alive for a few years now, you have probably realised that emotions can get us fired up, fired down or some other version of this. However, did you realise that how emotions affect us, is down to how we choose to experience them?

Handling the sensation of an emotional experince in our body is not yet commonly taught from a young age. In fact, we may be taught to attach to emotions and own them in limiting ways. This occurs through the stories we tell ourselves or are told at the time we are experiencing them, coupled with the suppression of the emotion. For example, if something made us cry, our caregiver may have quickly tried to stop this urge and then immediately overlaid it with a story that invoked a different emotion.

Examples of this could appear as: ‘Don’t cry – here have a sweet/candy’. This response to the situation has the power to enable emotional eating habits as well as unhealthy suppression of the emotion. Another version might be, ‘Stop crying, show everyone how brave you are’. This response attributes the sensation of braveness and courage with unhealthily suppressing the emotion. It engenders the belief that shutting down emotions is empowering and that to do so is important to be accepted in society. Both approaches lead to the burying of one emotion beneath another, without the original one being expressed.

Although both these approaches can temporarily alleviate suffering (particularly for the caregiver!), the child in these examples, begins to experience their reality through the lense their caregiver provided.

Creating Belief Systems

In the examples above, the child, as the minor, takes on or ‘owns’ the perception offered by the caregiver, as their story. They may also inadvertantly build upon the story themselves during future emotional disturbance by labelling it similarly e.g. it becomes a part of thier internalised belief system. Meanwhile, it is likely they will continue to be subjected to the repeated sabotage (albeit unintentional) from their caregiver. Over time, this can lead to a belief system grown from a repressed sense of self. It can also generate a sense of confusion about how we are truly feeling or worse, ‘supposed’ to feel.

The above provides a simple example in a childhod situation, but of course theses emotional playing fields are occurring relentlessly within us, whilst also being constantly fuelled by those things going on outside of us too.

Create from Love

Although only providing a snapshot, these examples show us the potential of the complex emotional web that we weave for ourselves, and others. Our choice of words and ensuing created perceptions have the power to be deeply self-limiting or deeply self-empowering. Also highlighted, is the importance of experiencing and witnessing our emotions in a way that recognises sovereignty, responsibility and vulnerability. This in itself is empowering. When emotions are masked or suppressed as per the above examples, we miss the potential to learn that emotional expression can be short lived. Sitting, witnessing and experiencing our emotions enables us to release them. In becoming a conscious part of the experience, we can choose to bring nurturing compassion to our emotions and heal them even more rapidly.

So, much of the work I do with Reiki, especially with it being Holy Fire® Reiki (which heals us toward our authentic self), reveals people to themselves by lifting masks and clearing perceptions. Gently it peels away the layers that have formed on top of our original, authentic light.

Beginning to tap into our emotional playing field in this way can be deeply enlightening. With dilligent work and deeper understanding it can lead to us developing a more positive relationship with our emotional state. As we begin to heal, it can also be helpful to progress our internal emotional relationship through other practices such as meditation, mindfulness and wellness therapies that align with our inner guidance. These help us to become a player within our emotional field rather than a victim of it.

The Self Work

Once we recognise these practical facts, it is possible to start to shift our reality around our emotional playingfield straight away. It can be fascinating to tune into our conversations with other people, to see how we ‘own’ our emotional stories. We can soon begin to recognise the walls of the prisons we build for ourselves. We may also notice times we are our own ‘champion’ or ‘warrior’ and where we enable ourselves to sit as ‘victims’ in a cycle.

It can be helpful too, to tune into the stories of others to hear how they label, describe, catalogue and tell themselves limiting stories about their experiences. This can be a great way of improving our own emotional awareness.

When we really start to pay attention to the words that are spoken by ourselves and others, we can begin to notice how powerfully restrictive or liberating they can be. What is really fascinating is noticing how one person can imprison another by the words they choose too. This is a really important trap to watch for in the words of others. When you notice someone attempting to join you into their perecption, inadvertantly dimming your light, be sure to correct their statement (gently yet clearly, to clearly reflect the truth you wish to own).

Once you truly begin to grasp how we each shape the perception, the belief system and ultimately, the reality, of the person who is receiving our words (namely ourselves), you will want to choose your words carefully. Always anchor your words into a positive reflection – every time you open your mouth.

The Bigger picture

This of course, is only the very beginning of the path to self knowledge and inner healing. It is a useful place to start and not too challenging. Step two involves tuning into our thoughts and external information sources with the same dilligence.

Healing around this subject often comes up in reiki sessions with clients, and this is one of the key, yet simple homework tasks I offer as a means of supporting the energy work that happens in the Reiki session. It is well documented within the field of positive psychology that positivity breeds positivity (See this article surrounding the work of Barbara Frederickson), and Martin Seligman is a great author to read if you want research based, evidential guidance too.

There is still so much more to unpack here, but I really hope this helps to provide a tiny step on the ladder toward that sense of emotional awareness, self knowledge and healthy emotional regulation that brings about that ultimate sense of inner peace that is so much sought after 🙂

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