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 “Y” and our focus is on Yesterday. And here’s Lynda with her final Reiki Alphabet Challenge entry… I’d like to thank her on behalf of all the Alphabet Challenge participants for her wonderful contributions to the Challenge!!! Thanks Lynda!!!

We are taught in Usui Reiki II that we can send Reiki to any times, including the past. I have often wondered why it would be important to Reiki past events since they have already happened and the fallout from them is usually done. But lately I have experimented with sending Reiki to events in the recent past and the results are quite interesting.

How many times have you sat down and mulled over the events that happened yesterday and worried about things that happened? We relive things and think, “Did I say that right?”, “I wish I hadn’t said or done that.”, “Well that person probably won’t call or speak to me again.” Reiki can give us the opportunity to reduce our stress and response to yesterday’s events in a way that will make us more productive and better able to focus on today.

For today’s challenge start by sitting quietly and thinking about everything that happened yesterday, good or bad. Don’t dwell on things, simply revisit the events of the day. Then send Reiki first to any “bad” situation that occurred, to the situations themselves and to the players involved; and send Reiki to the “good” situations to strengthen them. Finally send Reiki to the whole day with the intention to minimize the effect that any negative situations will have on the present and future and maximize the effect of what was positive.

In doing this exercise you may start to look at or judge situations less critically and with greater ease and sensitivity. This is good! Use Reiki on Yesterday to help make Today and Tomorrow that much better. Enjoy!

I believe the Beatles wrote a song about today’s challenge… who would’ve thought they were into Reiki!

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!!!