Yesterday we were discussing the importance of balance on the mental plane, as it were. If you’ll recall the basic idea was that Reiki is all about (re)balancing our natural energies. Reiki, as intelligent energy, is drawn to energetic imbalances like a magnet is drawn to its polar opposite.Today we are going to shift that discussion to the emotional plane.
Emotional Health
The basic premise of yesterday’s discussion concerning the nature of mental health bears a striking resemblance to today’s premise concerning emotional health. The bottom line was that mental health basically refers to the absence of a mental disorder (or a block in the mental energy channels as far as Reiki is concerned) and so today we will refer to emotional health as the absence of emotional disorders (or blocks in the emotional energy channels).
Emotional well-being denotes a general balance in all of the emotional faculties. This includes all of the activities under the jurisdiction of the heart (as opposed to the brain… which we discussed yesterday). Affairs of the heart such as loving, caring, sympathizing, empathizing, etc. are all included here (as well as the myriad others covered in Daniel Goleman’s Treatise on Emotional Intelligence). In its simplest sense, when all of these things are running smoothly we have a state of emotional well-being.
Balancing Your Mental Health
I’m going to cut and paste a bit from yesterday’s post as the practice of balancing mental and emotional healths are so similar that there is no need to reinvent the wheel (so to speak) that was created yesterday. I will, however, be sure to point out any noticeable differences.
As was true in yesterday’s post on mental imbalances and the previous day’s post on physical imbalances, whereby Reiki was said to intelligently provide the counter energy necessary to correct the imbalances, Reiki works exactly the same way with emotional imbalances. If you could see energy, than something like our example of a broken leg would appear like a black cloud of energy in the area of the injury. Emotional “injuries” would appear the same, i.e., as black clouds somewhere around the heart. Again, if you could see energy, you would be able to witness Reiki energy as it attacks this black cloud, not in a violent sense, but more like pouring cold water into a pot of boiling water until the water was at room temperature (which represents balance).
With Reiki (as with other similar healing modalities) it has long been acknowledged that these energy imbalances are, nine times out of ten, in the form of energy blocks. That is, one (or more) of the natural rivers that carry energy to and from vital nerve centers in and around the heart are blocked. Kind of like a dam. As that energy builds up and backs up it begins to stagnate and harden and becomes more and more difficult to break through with each passing day. This is the main reason I encourage my students to always use distance Reiki to send Reiki back in time to when the block was first created… because it is much easier to deal with new blocks than with old ones. That technique is quite powerful when used in conjunction with hands-on healing.
Again, for extreme cases, and for general ease in not so extreme cases, Reiki also has the added bonus of a special symbol used in mental/emotional healing which acts like an amplifier for the balancing of Reiki energy. If you are only at Level One and haven’t learned the symbols yet don’t worry, this symbol is not necessary and is generally used to speed up the healing (when and if used correctly).
Tune in tomorrow as we take this discussion to a whole new level and continue in relation to spiritual health. Better yet, invite everyone that you know to invite their friends so you can all enjoy it together! 
For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!
