In
the Reiki Level 2 course students learn how to send Reiki back to past events
in order to bring about healing and resolution in the present. Traumatic events
in our past can still affect us negatively today, especially when the emotions
surrounding them have been suppressed and unacknowledged or when forgiveness is
needed in order to release hurt and wounding that you may be holding onto. Even
if the event was too traumatic for true forgiveness to take place at the
present time, just feeling more detached from the circumstances and emotions
involved can be very beneficial. Sending forgiveness to the past can minimise
the effect the event had, and still has, on you in the present and release the
negative karma between the people involved.
Forgiveness
can be extended to others but also to yourself. Maybe you have been
continuously beating yourself up about something you did or didn’t do many
years ago. Chances are that it is you who is the one still hurting – anyone
else involved will most likely have let it go by now. Forgiveness is giving
yourself permission to move on.
In
recent years several scientific studies have shown that by revisiting specific
events that happened earlier in this life, or even those you believe happened
in a past life, and adding information, compassion or forgiveness into those
events, this can affect the energy of that event as it flows into the present.
Going back to that event in the present gives the opportunity to add
information from your adult self that your child self would have been unaware
of. It also gives you the opportunity to imagine hearing the other person’s side
of the story. In other words, it helps you to view the event from a more
detached, objective, different perspective and bring compassion and forgiveness
into the situation where needed.
When
we want to heal the past with Reiki we bring the event to mind, visualise the
people and feel the emotions involved, then visualise/imagine the scene turning
out well, with forgiveness offered and accepted, or just viewing the situation
with detachment. Letting the Reiki energy flow as you acknowledge painful emotions
can help with the releasing process. We are not actually changing the past
itself but we are changing the emotional charge and energetic imprint
surrounding that event. Afterwards, when you think about the traumatic event,
you will find that its emotional impact is reduced and its effects bother you
less and less. It really is possible for people to turn their lives around when
they go back in their minds to add information, forgiveness and healing to past
events because this helps change the way they feel and behave in the present.
Grudges and anger can be released and the person who benefits most is you!
On a
wider scale, you can imagine how much greater the effect could be at a global
human level. Whenever terrible events occur around the world, our usual
response is to react with fear and negativity. However, if people were to send positive
thoughts with the intention to heal the situation with love instead, this would
help release the negative karma that was created and help to heal the whole.
If you
want to send healing to events in your own past, it is possible to do so
without being attuned to Reiki. Hold the vision of the event and hold the
intention to forgive those involved. In your mind ask the people involved to
voice their side of the story. Insights can be profound. Their actions may have
been terrible but understanding does at least remove some of the fear around
the event. When you can truly let go of the painful emotions involved and
extend forgiveness, if possible, this will help to purify the karma between you
and set you free. This is one of the most healing spiritual practices you can
do.
Helen
Shortland is a Reiki Master Healer/Teacher, Meditation Teacher and Holistic
Therapist based at 15 Wheeler Gate in Nottingham city centre. Helen offers
several healing treatments such as Reiki, Angelic Reiki, Faery Reiki, Angel
Therapy, Fairy Blessing Guided Journey and Crystal Chakra Balancing; holistic
therapies including Reflexology, Indian Head Massage, Back Massage, Hopi Ear
Candles & Facials; as well as Usui Reiki and Faery Reiki training courses
and tarot readings. She has been on the spiritual path for 18 years and has
extensive knowledge of healing and the healing journey. For further
information about her Reiki courses, therapies and workshops, please visit her
website http://helenshortland.com or visit and ‘like’ her Facebook page Helen Shortland
Holistics & Healing.
