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 “P” and our focus is on Pain…. here’s Lynda to enlighten us… 
One the most popular reasons why people seek out Reiki healing is to relieve pain, whether physical, mental, or emotional (or sometimes all three, even if they don’t know it yet). Reiki is extremely effective at pain relief, vanquishing headaches, joint pain, and even post operative pain quickly. The calmness that Reiki brings to the system is apparent.
As Reiki practitioners we often forget that we can work on our pain. It’s interesting, because during the training and attunement processes we go through intense detox with prescribed daily self healing for three weeks that enable us to strongly go into our pain as it goes away. I can remember the amount of emotional discomfort that came up as I worked with the second Reiki symbol and how some of that emotional pain lodged itself in my shoulders and my lower back and was very stubborn about leaving!
So for today’s challenge I first want you to give yourself Reiki to heal on every level. If you are in physical pain you may open yourself up to the idea that your pain may have emotional or spiritual dimensions of which you are as yet unaware. Keep in mind that the pain may become more intense before it goes away, as it tries to cling as much as possible.
This may be highly uncomfortable and may take a while, so stay with it. Breathe, focus, and try to feel the source of the pain.
Then send Reiki with the same intent to anyone you know who is in pain on any level. Try not to send with preconceptions about where you think the pain is coming from, just let the energy do its work for the highest good.
Once you have identified sources of pain, you may send Reiki back in time to the situations that started the cycle, and forward to help you handle future situations of that kind.
I need to get to work on this challenge myself…
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!!!
