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 “M” and our focus is on Meditation. Since spirituality is such a strong component of Reiki, one of the main pillars, if you will, and since meditation is the primary practice involved with spirituality, meditation plays should play a strong role in every Reiki practitioner’s practice.

Meditation comes in many different shapes and colors and it is certainly not a one-size-fits-all type of thing. In Zen Buddhist meditation can be practiced in the traditional zazen (sitting meditation) style, during a walking meditation, through the chanting of sutras and mantras and even while sweeping steps… and let us not forget the old wax-on-wax-off meditation. Meditation is one of the eight branches of Yoga and it is practiced in one way or another in most major world cultures whether using music as a guide, drums, imagery, visualizations, binaural beats, meditation machines, or the help of any of a number of ‘medicinal’ concoctions. Actually, finding the meditation style that’s right for you is perhaps the greatest challenge of them all as far as spiritual practice is concerned.

For today’s challenge I am going to recommend a Reiki empowered meditation. This will work equally as well regardless of if you are a beginner to meditation or able to leap large buildings (or universes) in a singe bound. To begin, chose any type of meditation you like. 5 to 10 minutes before you actually start meditating… send distance Reiki to the meditation. Your intent should not be on sending Reiki to yourself, but rather to the meditation itself, as if it were a separate entity (which it is). Now whether you are doing a traditional Reiki meditation (such as Hatsurei Ho), or a type of meditation that has nothing to do with Reiki… it will be magically transformed into a Reiki empowered meditation. After you have sent the Reiki, just continue with the meditation as usual…. and enjoy!!

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