Unfortunately, the stress is “byproduct” of modern society and it seems that everybody is to the certain extent “infected”. Even-though so many people suffer there is no one-for-all solution available and everybody has to find his/hers own way of coping and managing the stress.
Reiki is becoming very popular among those suffering from stress due the fact that one of the “side-effects” of practicing Reiki is deep relaxation. This alone coupled with the fact that reiki is safe and easy to practice bring more and more people to Reiki.
Before we look into how Reiki can help in stress management let’s first see what in the world is stress.
What is stress anyway?
Stress is something that we feel. It is a way our body responds to threat (real or even perceived one) and sometimes it is not a bad thing for it keeps us focused and motivated. However, if we stay exposed to stress for extended period of time it might seriously affect our health.
As mentioned above our body responds to real threat as well as to perceived threat the same way. Our nervous system produces more of the so called stress hormones (adrenaline & cortisol) preparing our body to “fight or flight” response. We can experience this as:
- Heart Pounding
- Muscle Tensions
- Fast Breathing
- High Blood Pressure etc.
If we are not able to release stress it could lead to many serious health conditions such as:
- Headache, stomachache and/or any other pain
- Heart Disease
- Weak Immune System
- Depression and many more.
What causes stress and how to deal with it?
Unfortunately, many things can cause stress and it is commonly known as a stressor. Some of the most common stressors include:
- Life Style and/or major changes in our life style (getting married etc)
- Death in the family (or dear friend)
- Work related (work too demanding, unreasonable boss etc)
- Relationship related
- Financial Difficulties
- Kids and/or family related
- Social related issues (such as being discriminated against for any reason (race, gender, color, sexual orientation etc) being poor and so on.
This list can go on and on and all of these stressors could be called external stressors. As if we don’t have enough to worry about with all these external stressor we also self-create many more so called internal stressors such as:
- Negative self talk
- Pessimism
- Perfectionism
- Inability to let go and so on.
How To Deal With Stress?
If we are looking for a “magic pill” ..well as much as we do not like it– simple put there is no such thing. Instead medical society teaches us to manage our stress. Some of the recommendations to manage stress include:
- Come up with new way of thinking. When we discover that we worry to much we should stop that thought and learn to “let go”.
- Organize our time better so we can accomplish more in less time.
- Find better ways to cope with stress. As always something works and something doesn’t work.
- Get plenty of rest.
- Do not smoke.
- Look for the help.
When it comes how to release the stress out of our system it is recommended to:
- Exercise (walk)
- Express your feelings (talk, laugh, cry-usually with somebody you can trust)
- Get some hobby.
- Learn to relax. (breathing exercise, yoga, tai-chi, massage etc)
- Try to laugh more (read comics, watch funny movies etc).
- Try self hypnosis or meditation.
- Practice Reiki Daily (Including Reiki Precepts)
Reiki And Stress Reduction?
How Reiki Can Help With Stress Management and Stress Reduction?
As Albert Einstein and Niels Borh (who is Nobel Price Winner) have discovered that everything is energy including our body and our thoughts and on that premise it becomes much clearer how reiki can help since Reiki itself is universal life force energy or as many say spirituality guided energy which in very simplified will “scan” and “re-pattern” our energy body. (Here is my article on How Reiki Works
Reiki Techniques For Stress Reduction:
Reiki Full Body Treatment
Reiki Full Body Treatment is excellent place to start. I particularly like to do reiki full body treatment each night when you go in bed and follow up with the chakra balancing in the morning. And here is the challenge for those who are reiki practitioners. Try out this technique for the month and see the difference for yourself. (Bellow You will find short video that will show how I do full body treatment. Please pay attention that I use slightly modified reiki hand positions)
Video Coming Soon!
Reiki Precepts
While above reiki techniques will help reduce and control our stress level in order to move to the next level and be stress free one should apply Reiki Precepts. Reiki Precepts are at the heart of each serious reiki practice. They provide us one of the best recipes for long lasting happiness. Here is one of the many translation:
The Secret Method Of Inviting Blessings
The Spiritual Medicine Of Many Illnesses
Just For Today, I Will Be Free Of Anger
Just For Today, I Will Be Free Of Worry
With Gratitude
I Will Live My Life Honestly
And Be Kind To All Living Things
In The Morning And At Night, With The Hands Held In Prayer,
Think This In Your Mind, Chant This With Your Mouth.
The Usui Reiki Method To Change Your Mind And Body
For The Better,
The Founder,
Mikao Usui
It is important to remind ourselves that when we recite the reiki precepts we should bring some enthusiasm and not do it as if somebody forces us to say it. For those who have difficulties to believe what this can do let me show you this amazing video by Rebecca Marina who demonstrates how EFT techniques can change blood. Watch this Now!
Reiki Mental/Emotional Healing
This technique will be available for those who are already attuned to Reiki Level 2. As I plan on putting out an article specifically designed to explain what is and how reiki mental treatment work at this point I will not go over the details. I assume that Reiki 2 student will be familiar with this technique.
Reiki For The (Future) Events
This technique will also be available for those Reiki Practitioners who are already attuned to reiki 2. Based on my experience many reiki practitioners do not use this technique for various reason. However, I have very good experience with this reiki technique and would highly recommend it. This technique will require some ability to visualize and standard distant/future reiki technique.
Reiki And Affirmations
Reiki works very well with the affirmations. Even-though everybody talks about affirmations they could be little bit tricky. In addition to “being tricky” it does take some time to overcome resistance and the “time factor” seems to be one of the main reasons why many people give up practicing affirmations. Luckily, there are some great software programs that work great and I have/am using two of them (NP2-Brain Waive Entrainment and Mindmaster based on the power of subliminal messages) My full review of both programs is coming soon.
Balancing Third and Sixth Chakra
One of the quick ways to reduce stress is to balance our third and sixth chakra. If we discover during the day that we are stressed we could take short break and for couple of minutes balance our 3rd and 6th chakra. (The video below will show how to balance 3rd and 6th chakra).
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Keep in mind again that Reiki is not meant to replace a professional medical care but rather to support it.