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 “D” and here’s Lynda with a lens on Death and Dying:

Most of the time we think about healing to save lives, to assist people in living longer. But Reiki is about making people heal and feel better on all levels (physical, emotional, spiritual), which sometimes means assisting the dying process. How can life force energy assist dying?

In the grand scheme of things everything is life force energy and when we die the energy leaves the physical vessel of our bodies. We tend to hold on to that vessel, whether it is our own or that of someone we love and care about, so the dying process is not usually an easy one for anyone involved.

Reiki can assist those who are in the process of dying by helping to calm the emotions, ease physical pain, and promote sleep and relaxation. Reiki can assist those close to the dying person in the same way. A Reiki master can give attunements to the dying and their close friends and relatives to give them the tools to help themselves and one another, thus giving people more control over a process that seems completely dictated from outside of ourselves. Distance Reiki can also assist here.

So today I would like you to send Reiki to everyone you know of who is either dying or supporting someone who is dying. Send Reiki to your physician, to any surgeons, doctors, nurses, and caregivers you know. Think about volunteering at a hospital or hospice to help those close to death go through the process with greater ease and comfort. If you are dying send Reiki to yourself to ease your own departure.

This is not an easy subject to think about, write about, or work with. But death is a part of life, and Reiki can assist here as much or more than it can in any other situation. Peace.

Well done Lynda! You’re right, this is not an easy subject to deal with, but it is certainly necessary to think about… before its too late!

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!!!