Alternative health therapies encourage a healthy lifestyle. When I
learned Reiki energy healing, I was really overwhelmed by the five
principles of Reiki. They are known as Reiki creed. Dr Mikao Usui,
founder of Reiki Healing System, worked extensively with his healees
and realized that healee's participation in the healing process is
essential. Healee's desire to get well initiates and promotes healing.
Through active participation in healing process, a healee can learn
his life lessons he is destined to learn through disease and
challenging situations in life.

Dr Mikao Ususi stressed the importance of a healee requesting healing.
Healing process takes place only if there is a desire to get well. One
has to take responsibility to change his or her life circumstances.
Another important fact is: healing should not be offered for free.
Energy exchange is essential. Some sort of give and take should take
place while requesting and offering healing. Otherwise it creates
Karmic bondage.

Dr Mikao Usui also noticed that some of his patients were not
receptive to the healing energy. Some of them reverted back to the
disease after getting cured. He noticed that healthy people have
certain state of mind and being. So, he realized the importance of
attaining a certain state of mind to initiate healing.

By aligning oneself to this mindset, we can be open and receptive to
Universal life force energy. In this receptive state, Reiki energy
flows in abundance throughout our body. He gave five principles of
Reiki to attain this mindset. Though these five principles are simple
and easy to understand, they have immense potential to generate
health, healing and even abundance on material plane.

Reiki Creed

1. Just for today, I will live the attitude of gratitude.
Attitude of gratitude is important to align oneself with the universal
life force energy. When the channels through which life force energy
flows are blocked or paralyzed, disease, poverty and other challenging
life situations emerge. Attitude of gratitude makes us aware of what
we have, instead of what we lack. Focus on what we lack generates the
feeling of lack and poverty. Focus on what we have creates the sense
of abundance. Feeling abundant attracts more health and healing in
life. Law of attraction!

2. Just for today, I will not worry.

Worrying is the most futile and harmful feeling. It imposes
limitations and sense of separateness from the Source. It indicates
lack of trust in the Source. Thus it blocks the channels that receive
Reiki energy. Surrender to the higher self and faith in universal
timing help in releasing worrying attitude. Just by discarding
worrying attitude, synchronicity of events can be experienced. True
and heartfelt desires are fulfilled in timely manner.

3. Just for today, I will not anger.

Anger is depression vibrating at a higher frequency. It is very
destructive energy to experience. By expressing, it hurts others. By
withholding it inside, it harms oneself. It should be released in a
careful manner. Anger is the most ego centric vibration that arises
out of unfulfilled expectations. It is an outcome of insecurity, and
desire to control. People and situations that invoke anger are out
greatest teachers. They make us aware of our needs, desires,
insecurities and expectations from others. Just by becoming aware that
we don't have to be dependant on people for our needs and survival,
but the Source provides us everything we desire, we can convert anger
into attitude of gratitude.

4. Just for today, I will do my work honestly.

Here on Earth our main work is to live our lives and learn the lessons
we have chosen to learn. So, by living our lives as honestly as we
can, we go through some very fulfilling life experiences and learn our
lessons. Living our destiny and living our life purposes can be a very
rewarding and fulfilling experience. By loving oneself and others
unconditionally, we can align ourselves with the higher self.

5. Just for today, I will show love and respect for every living being.

When we all come from that divine Source and we all will go back to
that Source, there is no need to feel superior or inferior. We all are
connected at the level of our soul. To love and respect all life forms
on Mother Earth is to love and respect ourselves. Such attitude
generates much positive energy.

Healing can be initiated by a conscious decision, heartfelt desire or
intent. By being in a proper state of mind, healing can be
accelerated. Certain food, improper lifestyle, polluted environment
and unhealthy relationships can create imbalance and thus obstruct the
process of healing. So in my next post let us discuss how to gain
momentum in healing process and maintain it with proper lifestyle
choices.

With Love, Peace and Joy

Preeti