Imagine Reiki were a person. What would that person be like? What would that person look like? What character traits, personality, quirks, charms, demeanor would that person possess? If you put a face to Reiki, who’s face would it be? Dr. Usui’s? Quan Yin’s? Your teacher’s? Mine? Yours? Studies in psychology show that personifying things makes them more real, more alive, more vibrant and understandable. Let’s take a moment to apply this concept to Reiki.

Personification means giving human characteristics (qualities, feelings, action, or traits) to non-human objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas). We often hear descriptions of Reiki including such adjectives as compassionate, intelligent, warm, all-knowing, caring, etc., which give quite the human touch to Reiki, and this is exactly how it is personified. How would you describe it?

I remember Old Bessie. When I was young we had this old clunker of a station wagon that seemed to be forever on its last legs. We only used it for errands around town travel, taking the boat to the lake, teaching us kids to drive, and stuff like that. But Old Bessie, as she was affectionately called, had a personality of her own and just wouldn’t quit. Every time we took her out we wondered if it were her final drive, but that old gal had some spunk in her. She coughed and gasped but she never let us down.

Ask B.B. King about Lucille and you’d swear he was talking about a woman. Ask any fishermen about their boats. Bikers about their rides. Skateboarders about their wheels. Firemen about fire. And of course lets not forget John Henry’s hammer. What kind of things have you personified over the years and what extra dimension did that add to whatever it is you were personifying?

When you first allowed Reiki into your life, was it a what or a who that you are letting in? As you became more familiar with the Reiki energies did this change at all. When you think about Reiki now, is it merely an energy field or have you built it in to something more in your mind. Did you know that the more you actually do build it in to something more in your mind the more energy you are putting into transforming Reiki into that which you are instilling into it? You are actually manifesting a Reiki that is much more than it was when you originally got a hold of it.

Now imagine that millions of Reiki practitioners around the world are doing exactly the same thing, and that what they are manifesting is connected to what you are manifesting. Get the picture? When we talk about the evolution of Reiki, or its organic nature, we are not only talking about he scientific development of the ability to manipulate the Reiki energies… there is much more to it… and the only limit to what it will be come is the limits of our imagination.

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