This post is mainly directed towards the Reiki teachers out there, but can equally applied to dedicated Reiki Practitioners at any level as well. In that we are gearing up for a little mini-challenge here, there is a bit of the challenging spirit in the air, and it would be of great benefit to make sure those energies are pointing in the right direction… whichever direction may be most personally beneficial to you.

The idea of a challenge, whether conducted by yourself or by others, like testing in school, is to motivate you to stretch just a little bit more than you would otherwise. In Reiki this stretching can be done in many different ways, depending on exactly which Reiki muscles you’d like to stretch. Stretching yourself to learn more, to practice more, to meditate more, to teach more, to do more hands on or distance healing, to become more familiar with the subtle Reiki energies, etc. are all ways in which one might wish to extend or expand or evolve their Reiki abilities.

As Reiki teachers it should be part of what we do to challenge our students to improve their Reiki. Whether being directly challenged, tested, dared, cajoled, or any other type of motivational stimulus. A little bit really does go a long way.

Personally, I have never had such motivation from my own Reiki teachers. In Japan, the teachers expect you to fend for yourself and the idea of actually helping their students to improve is simply not part of the job requirement. There is an old Japanese proverb something to the effect of the student needing to steal techniques from his (or her) master if he (or she) wishes to improve. This goes for grade school as well as Reiki and, for many possible reasons, this sort of thing is simply not part of the curriculum. Therefore, the only challenges I have had are the ones I have given myself. They are also the way by which I have learned the most.

So I would encourage you to challenge yourself and others to be the best they can be, to constantly strive for improvement, to go for the gold ring… the rewards are simply too good to pass up.

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