Intention at the highest level
Prayer and Reiki touch at a quiet point: both can be an expression of alignment. Yet they are not the same. Reiki is first a practice of being a channel, of laying on hands, of receiving and passing on energy. Prayer is a conscious turning toward, request, gratitude or surrender. When both come together, a special form of depth arises, provided you do not mix them thoughtlessly.
Many people carry their own stories inside with the word prayer. Some associate it with comfort, others with confinement, duty or religious language that has become foreign to them. Therefore it is important not to prescribe a narrow form in Reiki. Prayer does not have to be confessional. It can be a silent asking, a giving thanks, an entrusting, a sentence without many words or even a very simple inner bow.
**What prayer can do in Reiki**
Prayer orders intention. Reiki flows, yet the inner space in which you meet it is not unimportant. If a treatment happens only technically, it can be correct and still remain flat. Prayer brings remembrance into it: I am not doing this in order to prove something. I open myself to something greater than my personal will.
An example: you treat a person close to you and notice how strong your wish for a particular outcome is. Exactly then prayer can help purify the attitude. Not: "It has to become this way." Rather: "May what truly serves this person happen." That changes the quality of the treatment clearly.
Another example: you yourself are ill, exhausted or inwardly uncertain. Then prayer can prevent Reiki from becoming merely a repair measure. It reminds you that healing can be more than freedom from symptoms. Perhaps today it is about peace, courage or patience.
**Prayer is not control from above**
A common mistake is to use prayer as a higher lever. As if: if Reiki alone is not enough, I will simply ask even more strongly. In this way prayer easily becomes a hidden attempt at control. Mature prayer is different. It brings honesty and humility. You do not tell life what it has to do. You consciously place yourself in relationship with what you do not fully make.
That is why prayer in Reiki may also end openly. Not every request is fulfilled as the ego imagines it. Yet even then prayer can comfort, clarify or soften inner resistance.
**Which symbols can be meaningful here**
Cho Ku Rei is a good beginning for prayer work with Reiki. It calls the energy here and now and helps create gathering. If prayer otherwise easily runs off into thoughts or formulas, this power symbol creates density.
Sei He Ki is important when prayer is blocked by soul states. Some people want to pray, but notice only bitterness, fear or inner numbness. The symbol dissolves states, including psychological states, and can make the space more able to open again.
Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen is especially suited to intercession, distant treatment and prayer across space and time. If you pray for a person who is far away, or if you want to hold a coming situation in Reiki and prayer, this symbol is especially fitting.
Dai Ko Myo brings a wide, luminous quality into the master degree. It provides maximum energy and can lead prayer out of mere wish tension into deeper surrender.
**Forms of a mature prayer**
Prayer may be short. Before a treatment, a single silent sentence can be enough: "May this treatment serve the good." Or: "May clarity, peace and right strength be present." Such sentences are reliable because they do not manipulate.
There is also thankful prayer. To say quietly after a treatment: "Thank you for what has shown itself", changes much. Gratitude keeps you from measuring Reiki only by visible successes.
Finally, there is the prayer of not-knowing. This is often the most mature. You do not know exactly what should happen now, but you remain open and faithful. Especially in difficult situations, this is of great value.
**Practical examples**
You accompany someone before an operation. Instead of creating hope with many words, you could hold the hands calmly, set Cho Ku Rei and inwardly pray: "May this person be carried. May the treatment be well guided. May peace be here." That is simple, concrete and respectful.
Or you treat yourself in a phase of life in which you have no answers. Then prayer can sound like this: "I do not yet see the path. But I do not set myself against what I have to learn today." Such a sentence is neither resigned nor sentimental.
In distant treatment too, prayer often becomes clearer. With Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen you can take up the connection and then consciously take back everything personal a little. It is not your will that should travel, but your willingness to serve the other in a good way.
**What should be avoided**
Pious theatre should be avoided. Prayer needs no religious pose. Nor should prayer be used to cover up uncertainty or to run over other people with one's own convictions. In Reiki, prayer is clean when it remains respectful and never works against the other person's freedom.
An old Reiki master would perhaps say: the best prayer in Reiki is often not the longest. It is the one after which your hands have become quieter and your heart less self-willed.
Your answer belongs in your personal Reiki journal. It grows with every day and stays with you alone.
Prayer and Reiki touch at a quiet point: both can be an expression of alignment. Yet they are not the same. Reiki is first a practice of being a channel, of laying on hands, of receiving and passing on energy. Prayer is a conscious turning toward, request, gratitude or surrender. When both come together, a special form of depth arises, provided you do not mix them thoughtlessly.
Many people carry their own stories inside with the word prayer. Some associate it with comfort, others with confinement, duty or religious language that has become foreign to them. Therefore it is important not to prescribe a narrow form in Reiki. Prayer does not have to be confessional. It can be a silent asking, a giving thanks, an entrusting, a sentence without many words or even a very simple inner bow.
**What prayer can do in Reiki**
Prayer orders intention. Reiki flows, yet the inner space in which you meet it is not unimportant. If a treatment happens only technically, it can be correct and still remain flat. Prayer brings remembrance into it: I am not doing this in order to prove something. I open myself to something greater than my personal will.
An example: you treat a person close to you and notice how strong your wish for a particular outcome is. Exactly then prayer can help purify the attitude. Not: "It has to become this way." Rather: "May what truly serves this person happen." That changes the quality of the treatment clearly.
Another example: you yourself are ill, exhausted or inwardly uncertain. Then prayer can prevent Reiki from becoming merely a repair measure. It reminds you that healing can be more than freedom from symptoms. Perhaps today it is about peace, courage or patience.
**Prayer is not control from above**
A common mistake is to use prayer as a higher lever. As if: if Reiki alone is not enough, I will simply ask even more strongly. In this way prayer easily becomes a hidden attempt at control. Mature prayer is different. It brings honesty and humility. You do not tell life what it has to do. You consciously place yourself in relationship with what you do not fully make.
That is why prayer in Reiki may also end openly. Not every request is fulfilled as the ego imagines it. Yet even then prayer can comfort, clarify or soften inner resistance.
**Which symbols can be meaningful here**
Cho Ku Rei is a good beginning for prayer work with Reiki. It calls the energy here and now and helps create gathering. If prayer otherwise easily runs off into thoughts or formulas, this power symbol creates density.
Sei He Ki is important when prayer is blocked by soul states. Some people want to pray, but notice only bitterness, fear or inner numbness. The symbol dissolves states, including psychological states, and can make the space more able to open again.
Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen is especially suited to intercession, distant treatment and prayer across space and time. If you pray for a person who is far away, or if you want to hold a coming situation in Reiki and prayer, this symbol is especially fitting.
Dai Ko Myo brings a wide, luminous quality into the master degree. It provides maximum energy and can lead prayer out of mere wish tension into deeper surrender.
**Forms of a mature prayer**
Prayer may be short. Before a treatment, a single silent sentence can be enough: "May this treatment serve the good." Or: "May clarity, peace and right strength be present." Such sentences are reliable because they do not manipulate.
There is also thankful prayer. To say quietly after a treatment: "Thank you for what has shown itself", changes much. Gratitude keeps you from measuring Reiki only by visible successes.
Finally, there is the prayer of not-knowing. This is often the most mature. You do not know exactly what should happen now, but you remain open and faithful. Especially in difficult situations, this is of great value.
**Practical examples**
You accompany someone before an operation. Instead of creating hope with many words, you could hold the hands calmly, set Cho Ku Rei and inwardly pray: "May this person be carried. May the treatment be well guided. May peace be here." That is simple, concrete and respectful.
Or you treat yourself in a phase of life in which you have no answers. Then prayer can sound like this: "I do not yet see the path. But I do not set myself against what I have to learn today." Such a sentence is neither resigned nor sentimental.
In distant treatment too, prayer often becomes clearer. With Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen you can take up the connection and then consciously take back everything personal a little. It is not your will that should travel, but your willingness to serve the other in a good way.
**What should be avoided**
Pious theatre should be avoided. Prayer needs no religious pose. Nor should prayer be used to cover up uncertainty or to run over other people with one's own convictions. In Reiki, prayer is clean when it remains respectful and never works against the other person's freedom.
An old Reiki master would perhaps say: the best prayer in Reiki is often not the longest. It is the one after which your hands have become quieter and your heart less self-willed.
Your answer belongs in your personal Reiki journal. It grows with every day and stays with you alone.
Prayer and Reiki touch at a quiet point: both can be an expression of alignment. Yet they are not the same. Reiki is first a practice of being a channel, of laying on hands, of receiving and passing on energy. Prayer is a conscious turning toward, request, gratitude or surrender. When both come together, a special form of depth arises, provided you do not mix them thoughtlessly.
Many people carry their own stories inside with the word prayer. Some associate it with comfort, others with confinement, duty or religious language that has become foreign to them. Therefore it is important not to prescribe a narrow form in Reiki. Prayer does not have to be confessional. It can be a silent asking, a giving thanks, an entrusting, a sentence without many words or even a very simple inner bow.
**What prayer can do in Reiki**
Prayer orders intention. Reiki flows, yet the inner space in which you meet it is not unimportant. If a treatment happens only technically, it can be correct and still remain flat. Prayer brings remembrance into it: I am not doing this in order to prove something. I open myself to something greater than my personal will.
An example: you treat a person close to you and notice how strong your wish for a particular outcome is. Exactly then prayer can help purify the attitude. Not: "It has to become this way." Rather: "May what truly serves this person happen." That changes the quality of the treatment clearly.
Another example: you yourself are ill, exhausted or inwardly uncertain. Then prayer can prevent Reiki from becoming merely a repair measure. It reminds you that healing can be more than freedom from symptoms. Perhaps today it is about peace, courage or patience.
**Prayer is not control from above**
A common mistake is to use prayer as a higher lever. As if: if Reiki alone is not enough, I will simply ask even more strongly. In this way prayer easily becomes a hidden attempt at control. Mature prayer is different. It brings honesty and humility. You do not tell life what it has to do. You consciously place yourself in relationship with what you do not fully make.
That is why prayer in Reiki may also end openly. Not every request is fulfilled as the ego imagines it. Yet even then prayer can comfort, clarify or soften inner resistance.
**Which symbols can be meaningful here**
Cho Ku Rei is a good beginning for prayer work with Reiki. It calls the energy here and now and helps create gathering. If prayer otherwise easily runs off into thoughts or formulas, this power symbol creates density.
Sei He Ki is important when prayer is blocked by soul states. Some people want to pray, but notice only bitterness, fear or inner numbness. The symbol dissolves states, including psychological states, and can make the space more able to open again.
Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen is especially suited to intercession, distant treatment and prayer across space and time. If you pray for a person who is far away, or if you want to hold a coming situation in Reiki and prayer, this symbol is especially fitting.
Dai Ko Myo brings a wide, luminous quality into the master degree. It provides maximum energy and can lead prayer out of mere wish tension into deeper surrender.
**Forms of a mature prayer**
Prayer may be short. Before a treatment, a single silent sentence can be enough: "May this treatment serve the good." Or: "May clarity, peace and right strength be present." Such sentences are reliable because they do not manipulate.
There is also thankful prayer. To say quietly after a treatment: "Thank you for what has shown itself", changes much. Gratitude keeps you from measuring Reiki only by visible successes.
Finally, there is the prayer of not-knowing. This is often the most mature. You do not know exactly what should happen now, but you remain open and faithful. Especially in difficult situations, this is of great value.
**Practical examples**
You accompany someone before an operation. Instead of creating hope with many words, you could hold the hands calmly, set Cho Ku Rei and inwardly pray: "May this person be carried. May the treatment be well guided. May peace be here." That is simple, concrete and respectful.
Or you treat yourself in a phase of life in which you have no answers. Then prayer can sound like this: "I do not yet see the path. But I do not set myself against what I have to learn today." Such a sentence is neither resigned nor sentimental.
In distant treatment too, prayer often becomes clearer. With Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen you can take up the connection and then consciously take back everything personal a little. It is not your will that should travel, but your willingness to serve the other in a good way.
**What should be avoided**
Pious theatre should be avoided. Prayer needs no religious pose. Nor should prayer be used to cover up uncertainty or to run over other people with one's own convictions. In Reiki, prayer is clean when it remains respectful and never works against the other person's freedom.
An old Reiki master would perhaps say: the best prayer in Reiki is often not the longest. It is the one after which your hands have become quieter and your heart less self-willed.
Your answer belongs in your personal Reiki journal. It grows with every day and stays with you alone.
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