There has been a lot of conversation in the healing community lately around awareness and active participation in matters of race, justice, and equality. The concern at hand is that many in the healing arts and alternative fields tend regard themselves as too spiritual to be involved with these issues. They are above around and through it all because, after all, it is all about oneness and that is what we all are. The dodge is to be a good, neutral, open and welcoming to all individual and divest oneself of any further responsibility. After all, the healing arts are not political. They are not social justice venues. They are personal healing venues.
Yet all our clients come from political and social backgrounds and economic situations. One person is a walking political, social, economic being. To offer service to one person we must be fully aware. To be fully aware, we must first be aware of ourselves. In Reiki practice, full awareness requires the ability to see clearly. Racial ignorance is blindness in a very deep and hidden way. Blindness to ourselves, to our humanity and to the world we live in. As healers we are part of that world and responsible for bringing light and healing to it. As healers, our own healing can often require seeing and working with unrecognized parts of our own nature, acknowledging the unlovely and doing the spiritual work to bring about needed change within ourselves. Racial awareness and shining the light on our inner hidden biases is the spiritual responsibility of practitioners who practice honesty, truth and light in their own lives. Healing happens when we become agents of change for ourselves first and then for others.
How can Reiki help – apply liberally to oneself first before applying to others.
In short, if you are a Reiki practitioner, this means observe your daily reiki practice with consistency and intention. Honoring our individual time of meditation and self-reiki allows our conscious awareness of self to become more sensitive. Being a responsible healer also means to stay informed. Many around us are feeling overwhelmed by the events and news of the day. With an established Reiki practice, a practitioner can be open, listen, read and be aware, know when enough information has been received, check sources for truth and accuracy and ground themselves for the work needed.
In these times of stress and distress, with the threat of disease and the societal upheaval and social changes needed to preserve health, and the social/cultural threat of uncovering and eradicating racism amidst the shattering violence of its pain and injustice, the practice of Reiki can provide strong, grounded, aware, compassionate and courageous citizens who are able to anchor and lead communities, families and the nation through times of crisis and change.
Do you have a practice?
Do you have one that grounds you, gives you the strength and resilience to look inward to make necessary changes and then look outward to advocate for others?
Now is the time to equip yourself with the resources to live purposefully and with out fear. Apply Reiki liberally daily.
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