There seems to be even more craziness than usual occurring of late in this old world and during my daily voyage into the unknown (i.e., my daily Reiki meditation) I believe I’ve stumbled across both the problem… and the solution.

Okay, So What’s The Problem?

I really think there is just too much going on nowadays and that our senses are being bombarded with meaningless tripe at every turn. The result is sensory overload, which is technically a condition usually reserved for mentally handicapped people, but due to the nature of the nonsense we are consistently being assaulted with, it is rendering the normal logical functioning of our brains to be greatly diminished resulting in the inability to distinguish between right and wrong, good and bad and other dichotomous constructs.

Those with a natural ability to deal with all the confusion being met are more inclined to remain calm and rational, while those with a lower threshold for coping with so much nonsense are being affected in profound ways. The media is especially throwing a lot at us, while music (especially forms like rap and heavy metal are so intense that they cause the high logic centers of our brains to completely shut down while it tries to sort things out. Movies are also getting more and more dramatically stimulating and nighttime dreams, which are usually reserved for dealing with the sorting of all this stimuli are not performing their function due to the diminished ability to reach the necessary levels of relaxation during sleep.

Henry David Thoreau said that the secret to a happy life was to “simplify, simplify” but I feel that dropping everything and moving to a lake, while quite an enticing notion, is not very reasonable in this day and age and luckily, Reiki provides a more practical solution.

Okay, So What’s the Solution?

I believe the answer lies in Reiki meditation itself. I’ve been meditating for at least an hour everyday for the past 2 years. In my post on Reiki and Meditation I discussed how there are different types of Reiki meditation and how one must find the type that’s right for them. Previous to my current daily style of meditation, I tried many different techniques and none were the right fit for me, until finally I happened upon the style that is currently taking me where I need to go. Previous to this daily meditation, I was overstressed and couldn’t get the quality of sleep I needed to function the way I needed to. All of that changed when a proper meditation became a part of my daily Reiki ritual.

You see, during the night, our dreams are necessary for sorting and making sense out of our daily experiences. Information is transferred from our minds to a place where they can be dealt with effectively. Then, through the process of dreaming, that understanding is stored in our unconscious minds for retrieval at the appropriate time. With the level of sensory overload being what it is, as well as the levels of stress and unconsciousness, dreams aren’t performing their function effectively and a new breed of mental dis-ease is the result. A daily Reiki Meditation assists the mind in functioning correctly by focusing on the most pressing issues and guiding our minds towards an effective solution.

The key here is in effective Reiki meditation, as opposed to just any meditation. You need the ability to go deep inside and bring those thoughts and ideas circulating in your conscious mind into your unconscious mind where they can be processed. When Dr. Usui recommended putting your hands together in gassho every morning and every evening in contemplation of the Reiki Principles he was referring to proper meditation, wasn’t he? Morning meditation takes vital information garnered form your nightly dreams and brings them into your day’s consciousness while they are fresh on your minds, while evening meditation prepares the thoughts and experiences of the day for the dream state which will attempt to make sense of them.

Science can’t really explain the how’s and why’s of how meditation (or dreaming) works. There have been some honest attempts made towards their understanding but they always reach a point where the mind just goes “bye bye” <technical term> after which it is only guesswork. In fact, the brain is still like a big black box sitting on our shoulders and scientists really have no clue as to how it works. Therefore, the possibility that it may be broken is quite alarming because if they don’t know how it works they certainly can’t really fix it now can they? A daily Reiki meditation allows it to fix itself and perform as it should… and it is quite effective in doing so.

I believe all of this sensory overload, confusion and dis-ease is actually a blessing in disguise. The ability to to rise above the noise and confusion and effectively deal with it all will ultimately take you deeper and deeper into enlightenment, into a place where there are no problems… only challenges… and exciting ones at that!

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