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Meditations for your personal use,
This page contains the sections: Bread cast on water, Positive Affirmations, Hatsurei Ho, Self shiatsu. Positive Affirmations Feed your mind with positive affirmations. They can overcome persistent negative thought and help to promote a healthy state of mind. Affirmations combat negative baggage in your brain. Without realising it you tell yourself negative things constantly. The result is a destructive belief system which holds you back and prevents you succeeding. One very effective way to change this belief system so that it becomes helpful to you is to replace misguided negative messages with new positive ones. Affirmations will only work if they are true! The following affirmations are some of those I use and which may be helpful for you. You can also develop others of your own. The power they have to alter your life will make itself felt if you repeat them DAILY and when you are thinking negatively. Try to focus on one affirmation and consider what it means to you in your life. Tell yourself: · I deserve to be happy and successful · I have the power to change myself · I can forgive and understand others and their motives · I can make my own choices and decisions · I am free to choose to live as I wish and to give priority to my desires · I can choose happiness whenever I wish no matter what my circumstances · I am flexible and open to change in every aspect of my life · I act with confidence having a general plan and accept plans are open to alteration · It is enough to have done my best · I deserve to be loved Inspirational and motivational quotes can change your life! Inspiring sayings and quotations can increase your self esteem. Quotations can change your attitude and motivate you. Reading positive quotes and famous quotations and reflecting on them will help you refocus on your life. Quotations increase your motivation and self esteem. I love these quotations about opportunity : · Those who follow the crowd are quickly lost in it · You will always miss 100% of the shots you don't take · You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore Motivating quotes give you something to aim at. Can you see how you can incorporate the message of these quotations into your life? Improve your self esteem , read these quotes and meditate on the meaning and how they apply to you ..... · The great thing in this world is not where we are but the direction in which we are moving · Luck is when preparation meets opportunity · Obstacles are those annoying things we encounter when we lose sight of our goals · It is never too late to become what you might have been · and ... if you want to be motivated, inspired and achieve the things you want.. then this is for you... Hatsurei Ho Many practitioners believe that the Hatsurei Ho meditation is possibly the most effective way to increase the depth, quality and intensity of ones connection to the Reiki phenomenon. [It should be pointed out that there are currently several slightly different versions of Hatsurei Ho being taught by various Reiki Masters] Regular daily practice will enhance your ability to channel the phenomenon that is Reiki, and, it is said, the accumulative effects of the meditation will positively affect your spiritual development. Hatsurei Ho can be practiced either seated on a chair, stool or bench, or in a cross-legged posture, or in the seiza posture. As with all the developmental practices, choose a time and place where you are unlikely to be disturbed. And wherever you are doing this exercise - indoors or out, make sure (if seated on the floor) the floor/ground is both comfortable and warm. Do not practice this on cold floors/ground; do not practice in the cold, generally. The Hatsurei Ho meditation is divided into several sections: 'Focusing', 'Dry Bathing', 'Connection', 'Spirit/Soul Cleansing Breath', 'Praying Hands', etc'. However, this is essentially to make the meditation easier to learn (i.e. taking it in 'small bites'). In practice, Hatsurei Ho is worked through as one seamless whole. Hatsurei Ho (When practiced in a group Hatsurei Ho is called: 'Shuyo ho'.) Sit up straight (comfortably so - no need for rigid military-style posture - this will only impede the technique). Rest your hands, palms down, on your legs / in your lap. Close your eyes and 'hara-centre' yourself: focus your awareness on your seika tanden - an area deep inside your body mid way between your navel and the top of your pubic bone. For a few moments, simply 'be' - silently and restfully 'watching the breath': loosely focusing on the natural rhythms of your breathing. There is no interference with the natural process - no seeking to consciously breathe - merely to be aware that you are breathing effortlessly. Focusing (Mokunen) Next, make a silent statement of your intent: “I'll begin Hatsurei-ho meditation now” 'Dry Bathing' (Kenyoku) [The first part of Hatsurei Ho is an 'energy cleansing' or 'aura smoothing' practice, and can also be used in a stand-alone sense to disconnect from people, things, thoughts, emotions, feelings, situations, energies, etc. The kenyoku element of the meditation is where the main differences occur in the various versions of Hatsurei-Ho.] This can be done either with actual physical contact, or can be done 'non-contact' just off the surface of the body, in the aura. While allowing the breath to remain as effortless as possible, inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth. First, bring your right hand up to your left shoulder, the tips of your fingers at a point near where your collar-bone ends, palm flat and facing the body. Move your hand diagonally down across your body from the left shoulder towards your right hip, in a smooth, measured, sweeping or brushing action. [In Hiroshi Doi's version of Hatsurei Ho, you exhale with a 'haa' sound as you do so.] Next, bring your left hand up to your right shoulder, the tips of your fingers at a point near where your collar-bone ends, palm flat and facing the body. Move your hand diagonally down across your body from the right shoulder towards your left hip, in a smooth, measured, sweeping or brushing action. [In Hiroshi Doi's version of Hatsurei Ho, you exhale with a 'haa' sound as you do so.] Repeat this sequence twice more - making a total of three sweeping/brushing gestures from each shoulder to the opposite hip. [Note: In the first version of Kenyoku I was introduced to, (Gendai Ho version) the sequence was: right hand brushes from left shoulder to right hip; left hand brushes from right shoulder to left hip; right hand brushes from left shoulder to right hip; then: placing your right hand in the edge of your left shoulder - with left arm held straight out in front of you - move your hand along the outside of your left arm, and down over the end of the fingers; repeat this with the left hand on right arm; repeat with right hand on left arm. The Gendai Ho version of kenyoku is presented as being the original 'Usui' version - however, some other sources claim the Usui version (in place of brushing along the outside of the arm) involved brushing along the inside. Yet another version still involves brushing from wrist to fingertips across the open palm - instead of the arms. I would suggest you allow intuition to guide your choice as to which version to work with...] 'Connection' [This step is part of Hiroshi Doi's version of Hatsurei Ho, yet apparently was not part of the original form]. Raise your hands up above your head, keeping them in line with your shoulders. Your palms face upwards, fingers pointing out to the sides. In your mind's-eye see and feel the Reiki energy flowing down from above, pouring into your uplifted open hands as a stream of crystal clear light. It flows down your arms and through your body, down into your seika tanden. When you can feel the flow of Reiki, gently lower your hands to your lap once more, this time with palms up. (Although the Hatsurei Ho meditation is described here in 'stages' or steps, this is simply for instructional purposes. In practice, the Hatsurei Ho is seen as one single flowing unbroken meditation) The 'Spirit/Soul Cleansing Breath' (Joshin Kokyu ho): With hands resting palms-up on you lap, again, for a moment or so, simply 'be' - silently and restfully 'watching the breath': loosely focusing on the natural rhythms of your breathing. There is no interference with the natural process - no seeking to consciously breathe - merely to be aware that you are breathing effortlessly... Bring the focus of your awareness gently to your seika tanden once more, and as you breathe in - naturally, effortlessly - in your mind's-eye see and feel the Reiki energy flowing down from above, as a stream of crystal clear light. The light floods into your crown, and flows down throughout your body into your seika tanden. In the moment before your body - naturally, effortlessly - begins to exhale, be aware of the light: feel it growing stronger and brighter, radiating throughout your entire body, dissolving and dissipating all trace of stress and negative tension, and supporting the positive energetic integrity of your entire being. As your body exhales, be aware that you are emanating the light from every single pore - from the entire surface of your being - and the light radiates out in all directions to infinity. Continue in this 'awareness of the light' for as long as you feel comfortable. Allow your body to maintain its own natural breathing rhythm. There is no interference with the natural process - no seeking to consciously breathe - merely to be aware that you are breathing effortlessly. Some people may experience energetic flows, heat or other sensations while doing Hatsurei Ho, this is quite normal. 'Praying Hands' (Gassho) When you are ready, slowly bring your hands up together in the gassho (prayer) position, and gently move the focus of your awareness to where the pads of the middle fingers touch. Forget everything else. Maintain this awareness for as long as you feel drawn to so do. [We are told that this is the final stage of Hatsurei Ho as originally used by Usui-Sensei, however Hiroshi Doi and others add the following elements:] 'Concentration Meditation' (Seishin Toitsu) [It is at this point that Reiju may be given] When you feel ready - your body still breathing effortlessly - be aware that as you inhale, the crystal clear Reiki light is being likewise being 'breathed' in through your hands and pours straight into your seika tanden. In the moment before your body begins to exhale, be aware of the light: feel it growing stronger and brighter in your seika tanden. As your body exhales, be aware that the crystal clear Reiki light is being likewise being 'breathed' out from your seika tanden - and on out through your hands. Stay with this process for as long as you feel drawn to so do. Repeating the Precepts Three Times (Gokai Sansho) When you feel ready, repeat the Gokai: the Five Reiki Precepts three times "...out loud and in your Heart..." Kyo dake wa - Just for today Okoru-na - Don't get angry Shinpai suna - Don't worry Kansha shite - Be grateful Gyo o hage me - Work hard Hito ni shinsetsu ni - Be kind to others Focusing (Mokunen) Returning your hands to your lap, silently state: "I am finishing Hatsurei Ho now." Then, when you are ready, allow your attention to turn outwards once more. Self Shiatsu Rub Hands. Massage forehead, working in strips. Squeeze eyebrows. Work points on inside and outside of eyebrow. Work round eye socket. Smooth over eyelid. Rest palms on eyelid. Clear sinuses (pull hands down sides of nose while breathing in sharply). Work points at base of nose by rubbing on either side and in the middle of base of nose. Massage gums, top and bottom. Work under chin with thumbs. Flick and rotate ears. Massage scalp. Pound top of head in two pairs of lines (1”and 3” apart). Massage back of neck. Work under occipital ridge with thumbs, starting on outside and working in towards the middle. Stretch the neck, forwards and to either side. Massage the shoulders, including point on top of shoulders (contra-indicated in pregnancy). Pound the arms in three pairs of lines, going towards the hand on the inside and away from hand on outside. Work point in centre of hand, at apex of triangle between thumb and index finger (contra-indicated in pregnancy), on little fingers side of wrist between wrist creases and point in centre of wrist, between tendons, three fingers up from wrist crease. These are for fatigue, general vitality, insomnia and sickness respectively. Pound down the back. Rub kidneys and sacrum. Pound down the legs in three pairs of lines (front, sides and back). Go down on outside of legs and up on inside. Rotate foot. Work the sole with thumbs. Work between tendons on top of foot. Pound the sole. Rub ankle. Smooth off the foot. Massage the abdomen in a circle centred at naval. Press in on out breath as you bend forward. Work up on your right, down on your left. |
