Welcome to the 2008 Reiki Alphabet Challenge!!! Its great to have you here!!! This challenge is designed to give you something new to Reiki every day by giving you a new letter to focus on each day. Hopefully, by the end of the challenge you will have Reikied things you hadn’t considered before and thereby increased the boundaries of your Reiki world. So let’s get started…

Today’s letter is “C” and our focus is on Causes. Oftentimes when Reiki Practitioners give Reiki to specific conditions or situations they treat only the condition or situation itself without the necessary attention to the root causes of that condition or situation. Applying Reiki directly to those root causes can not only heal the specific condition or situation itself, but by healing the cause, it is possible to prevent the problem from ever occurring again.

For example, if you are treating a headache, send healing Reiki energies to the cause of the headache as well as the headache itself. According to health-cares.net “Headaches have a wide variety of causes, ranging from eyestrain to inflammation of the sinus cavities to life-threatening conditions such as encephalitis, brain cancer, and cerebral aneurysms. When the headache occurs in conjunction with a head injury the cause is usually quite evident; however, many causes of headaches are more elusive. The most common type of headache is a tension headache. Some people experience headaches when they are hungry or dehydrated.”

If you don’t know what the cause is, as is most likely the case, allow the intelligent nature of Reiki energy to find it for you. Set your intent to do so and then just sit back and let Reiki to do its thing. This is actually a very good practice to get into whenever you are doing Reiki healing, always treat the cause as well as the effect, and if you have a choice… in many cases you may actually want to go for the cause first.

So for today’s challenge, heal something… anything you like… and consider the cause of whatever it is you are healing. It may not be obvious at first… but it’s definitely there!

During the Reiki Alphabet Challenge, please do not feel you must limit yourself to the suggested letter of the day. Use the comment option below to send your own suggested ideas beginning with the letter of the day so that we might all get some new ideas, motivations and understandings of this wonderful world of Reiki. And as always, extra points will be given for originality and awesomeness!!

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!