Sleeping Better with Reiki

I rarely have trouble sleeping.  Since I started practicing Reiki, I've had even less trouble sleeping.  But there is always that particular situation that might make it difficult to go to sleep or go back to sleep.  This is what I do:

1. I give Reiki to my pillow and/or mattress.
2. I draw a SEI HEI KI on my forehead.
3. I give myself the auto treatment right before going to sleep.
4. I give Reiki to the particular sleeping situation.  When my husband is really tired, it is very difficult for me to get a good night's sleep because he is so deep in his sleep that he forgets he shares a bed.  I give Reiki to this particular situation and it helps a lot!  Reiki also helps with not being able to sleep because of another person's snoring.

I have four stitches on my index finger which made it impossible to sleep the first night.  When I woke up, I made a mental note to use some of the techniques mentioned above.  I slept better than I had in a long time.  As a matter of fact, I have been oversleeping.

Should you concentrate when giving reiki?

I was taught that you could give reiki while watching TV, reading, riding the bus, sitting in a meeting, etc.  I am glad I was told this because I might not have committed to just Reiki time while doing nothing else.  I like multitasking, and this allowed me to give myself a lot of Reiki.


I was also taught that some Reiki is better than none and that Reiki always works.  That the Reiki energy is intelligent and does its job whether we concentrate or not.

After a year and a half practicing Reiki, and having read and experimented a lot, I feel that when I concentrate, I reach deeper levels for the energy to work.  I cannot say that you "should" concentrate all the times, but I can say that if you want quicker healing it is worth concentrating.  I also feel this applies more to level 2 practitioners because healing is not only physical.  I feel it is even more so if you are a Reiki master.

I also feel that it is good to have the liberty to give myself Reiki whenever I want to do so, but I am inclined to concentrate whenever I give myself an auto treatment.

If you are charging for Reiki, there is no question about being really focused on the person for the time agreed.  If you are exchanging reiki sessions or giving or receiving multiple Reiki, ask the person receiving Reiki permission before engaging in a conversation with the other Reiki practitioners and try to do this only if really needed.

If the receiver is concentrated, they can see and feel things that might help you direct the energy towards a faster and better healing.  If I am initiating chatting with the receiver I am not tuned with my intuition and I am not letting the person experience their own. 

If the receiver needs or wants to speak, then I listen carefully to what they are telling me and respect their free will at all times.  Some people need to voice out experiences while receiving their Reiki treatment.  It's their way to heal.  As I always say, we are all different.

Grounding Meditation

It is important for the Reiki practitioner to meditate. Grounding meditations help a lot, because they are a meditation that can connect you to the Universal Energy and also Root yourself to earth.

Too much spirituality without ground or roots to Mother Earth is also something we must avoid. While we might feel like flying, it is always important to obtain balance. And roots are necessary to nourish and be nourished from the mother (earth).

I have read various exercises, and have come up with one of my own. I am not saying that I have invented it, but that my guides have instructed me to do it this way through meditation.

Meditation:

1. I like to use meditation music. It always helps me isolate from noises and achieve better concentration.

2. Sit on a chair or stand with your back straight and both feet touching the ground. Even if you are not on a first floor, the ground will connect you to the earth.

3. Concentrate on your respiration and start breathing energy from your crown chakra.

4. Breathe white energy and let it reach your solar plexus chakra. Do as many inhaling and exhaling as necessary until you reach each chakra.

5. Keep on breathing energy, to each one of your chakras until you reach the first or base chakra.

6. Feel how you start growing roots from your feet; feel them sink into the earth.

7. Start breathing also from the earth to your base chakra.

8. You become a perfect and beautiful column of white light. It is ok if the light has another color.

9. Feel how you pass light up and down this column as you inhale and exhale all the condensed (bad) energy that is inside you, exhale sickness, problems, exhale everything that is not Universal light and love. I see myself blowing black smoke from my nose. Continue this way until you see yourself inhaling and exhaling only pure light and love. Until all the negative things have gone out. Until you exhale just breath and not some anymore.

10. Continue to breathe this way exhaling pure love and light as long as you want to.

11. To end the exercise, thank your guides for this cleansing, thank the earth for the rooting, and thank the Reiki energy for the love.

12. Slowly start moving all parts of your body until fully aware and out of the meditative state.

You might be a little dizzy at first, or relaxed. Be careful if you are to do an activity that requires your full attention after this meditation.

It usually takes me 5 minutes to complete this process. The more I do it, the easier it gets to expel all that I do not want inside me and start breathing only love.