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What should you visualise when giving Reiki?

When giving Reiki, visualization can be a powerful tool to enhance your practice and focus your intention. However, it’s important to remember that visualization is a very personal experience—what you see in your mind’s eye while channeling Reiki will be unique to you. It’s also crucial to understand that visualization is not about controlling the outcome of the Reiki session; rather, it’s a way to set your intentions and create a supportive environment for healing. Reiki energy itself is in control and will always go where it is needed most, regardless of what you visualize. Your role as a practitioner is to be a clear and open channel for this energy, trusting in its wisdom and purpose.

Here are some common visualizations that Reiki practitioners use while giving Reiki, each serving as a tool to help set intentions and create a focused, healing atmosphere during the session:

1. White or Golden Light:

Visualize Light: Imagine a pure white or golden light flowing from the universe, entering through your crown chakra, and flowing down through your body, out through your hands, and into the recipient. This light represents the healing energy of Reiki, bringing balance and harmony to the person you’re treating.
Surrounding the Recipient: You can also visualize this light surrounding the recipient in a protective and healing bubble, enveloping them in peace and calm.

2. Energy Flow:

Flowing Energy: Visualize the Reiki energy as a gentle, flowing stream or river that washes away blockages, pain, or negativity, leaving the recipient with a sense of clarity and well-being.
Chakra Balancing: If you’re working on specific chakras, visualize each chakra as a spinning wheel of light. See the energy flowing smoothly into the chakra, balancing and aligning it with the others.

3. Healing Symbols:

Reiki Symbols: If you are attuned to Reiki Level 2 or higher, you can visualize the Reiki symbols (such as Cho Ku Rei, Sei He Ki, and Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen) being drawn in the air, over the recipient, or directly into specific areas that need healing. See the symbols glowing and radiating their unique energies.

4. Healing Colors:

Colors Associated with Chakras: Visualize specific colors associated with the chakras (e.g., red for the root chakra, green for the heart chakra) infusing those areas with vibrant energy. This can help focus your intention on healing and balancing those particular chakras.
Calming Colors: You can also visualize soothing colors like blue or green to calm and relax the recipient, or warm colors like orange or yellow to energize and uplift them.

5. Healing Imagery:

Healing Scenarios: Visualize positive imagery that represents healing, such as a garden full of blooming flowers, a radiant sun shining down, or a calm ocean gently washing over the recipient. This imagery can help create a peaceful and healing environment for both you and the recipient.
Release of Tension: Imagine any dark or cloudy areas in the recipient’s energy field being dissolved or washed away by the Reiki energy, leaving them feeling light, clear, and rejuvenated.

6. Intentional Visualizations:

Specific Intentions: If you have set a specific intention for the Reiki session (e.g., relief from pain, emotional healing), visualize the desired outcome. See the recipient free from pain, calm, and happy, or emotionally balanced.
Empathy and Compassion: Visualize yourself as a channel for universal love and compassion, sending these feelings to the recipient and helping to elevate their energy.

7. Grounding and Protection:

Grounding: Visualize roots growing from the soles of your feet deep into the earth, grounding you and providing stability as you channel Reiki energy.
Protection: Visualize a protective bubble of light around both you and the recipient, ensuring that the energy exchange is pure and that you are both shielded from any negative influences.

We Asked our Reiki Healing Association Members to Share their experiences

“I envision white light entering the crown of my head going through each blood vessel of my body out through my fingertips and into the client. “
“I see a light capsule of Reiki energy that embraces the whole of the person I send healing to and moves exactly where it’s needed to. I become a witness too. “
“I envision white light or the light in shapes of hearts coming from my hands into the clients and moving to where it’s needed.”
“Pastel rainbows flowing to the client. “
“I usually see a pyramid.. Always a pyramid..
“Each person or situation are within this pyramid and it gets filled with beautiful warm light.”
“I imagine that a bright white energy from the universe enters my head and passes from my hands to the aching area and erases the pain there.”
“Bright, warm, white light. “
“Beautiful white healing light, flowing through me and into my client.”
“I see a 3D translucent hologram of their body with the aberrated systems in a red throbbing light… Sometimes I see their being as a landscape; where sometimes the trees are on fire or the lakes are dried up and I just work to restore balance to this landscape.”
“I imagine that a bright white energy from the universe enters my head and passes from my hands to the aching area and erases the pain there.”
“I don’t visualize anything, since you can feel the energy. I do repeat in my mind that I’m receiving in love and light from the source and giving in love and light.”

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Conclusion:

Visualization is a personal practice, so choose the images and symbols that resonate most with you and align with your intentions for the session. The key is to stay focused, relaxed, and open to the flow of Reiki energy, trusting that it will go where it is needed most.

If you have any further questions or need more guidance on visualization during Reiki, feel free to reach out.

Namaste.

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