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

From time to time friends ask whether they should meditate. There are no “shoulds” of course, but in my experience its beneficial to do so.

There are many different ways to engage in the meditative experience. Meditation takes many  forms, active or passive, still or moving, alone or in groups. There are no right ways and no wrong ways, only ways.

Meditation is a state of mindfulness, entering into the space of stillness and being present. Simply being present wherever you are, experiencing being there with every sense, as if for the first time, is a meditative state. 

Reiki treatment is itself a meditation form, its mindfully entering into mental stillness and being present, “doing without doing”. Doesn’t get simpler than that.

This year of 2012 and the December 21 date are a source of major interest. Something great or something life changing is expected, and maybe it will be so. Quite definitely something will happen. Its guaranteed. That’s true of life a minute from now, or months from now.

Some believe that magically everything will be different, a new age of enlightenment will be upon us, there will be heaven on earth. It will just happen. That could be true also, but you don’t have to wait for December 21. Start now, this very minute.

“Fake it til you make it” is an old saying, but its not being fake to imagine the best you that is possible, and to begin to live that way no matter what. The magic moment is now, it always has been.

Do that every day, be the best you can be, be in the now moment as far as its possible for you to be, don’t give up, and no matter what transpires this year you will be living in an enlightened way, maybe discover that heaven is actually here right now. 

The stories told of Mikao Usui, the founder of what we know as the practice of Reiki, begin with him going in search of an answer to a great question, the nature of healing, how the great healers performed their miraculous healings.

I don’t know if he had a sense of where this great question would lead when he began his search, but he surely found that this question led to the great question we all ponder at some point in our life, the nature of our being, “Who am I, and why am I here?” That’s where all the great questions inevitably lead.

The short version of the story is that he discovered that the answer he sought was to be found in himself, and this is so for each of us, in our seemingly separate lives.

Unlike the X-files, the answer isn’t “out there”.

Truth can be found in the most unlikely places. I was surprised to read the following as a chapter intro in a fantasy fiction novel. (The Farseer Trilogy, Robin Hobb)

“Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the now, the time that stretches eternal. and is the only time there really is. Then in that time, you will finally have time to BE yourself.”

If you’ve ever tried to “stop” thinking, then you will know what a process that is. But it can be done. It happens. And then the rest is a natural consequence, not that thinking ends, “monkey mind” ends and knowing begins. Knowing what is yours to do, knowing what is next to do, knowing that oneness IS.

Don’t be surprised if the experience slips away. That also happens, and it will find you again …and again.