Reiki Cairns Teaching Usui Shiki Ryoho, the gentle folk healing art of Reiki

If you looked at the news today, or the web, or anywhere in fact, you may have noticed the world is chaotic. It’s always been that way, we just get to hear more and faster than before. What makes it all so mind bending is what human beings are prepared to believe. Politics, fashion, money, health, religion, sport, education, and everything the human race gets involved in are all belief systems.

You can believe anything you want, make up your own beliefs, use someone else’s, no matter how fantastic, no matter how magical, no matter how contrary or unreal that might be. Individual and group belief systems become the levers for mass media influence and control. You might not find any support for your belief, you might be called crazy, or, you may gain a following, be called divinely guided.

Where did your beliefs come from? Your beliefs about the world began when you were new to life. Your parents gave you theirs. You may have retained some of them, moved on to new ones, or even be caught in between conflicting beliefs. By and large, your beliefs will have been other people’s beliefs that you have accepted, sometimes without question. Questioning and weeding out unhelpful beliefs is hard work. Life quickly teaches us that its often safer and less effort to stick with the belief systems of those around us.

You may have guessed that this is leading to the belief systems that exist in the world of Reiki. It is said that Reiki is not a belief system, that belief is not required. That is true enough, you do not need to believe anything, belief is not required. However, this is a world of belief systems. Beliefs there are, and strongly held ones, but these are the beliefs of people, and often beliefs from other experiences and practices overlaid on the Reiki practice.

The Reiki practice offers the opportunity to unravel our belief systems by consciously experiencing life with a “practised” everyday experience of having been in stillness and of being present for some part of each day. We get to know in our bodies the difference between when we are living in moment to moment awareness and when we are not. Our everyday life experience then holds the potential for conscious choice, of not being on auto, run by our beliefs and needs and emotions.

My belief, which seems healthy enough, is that the Reiki practice is a way that leads, if we are willing, to the healing that exists for us in every moment of life, a way for uncovering an “original” self. A self that we were when we entered into this life, before we learned belief systems that create separations and divisions, before “I”, “me” and “my” were known. 

That doesn’t have to be your belief of course, it’s OK to believe differently. I encourage you however to examine just whose beliefs you are holding as your own, and from where they learned those beliefs. That can be an enlightening experience.