WHEN actually practiced
and incorporated into our life every day, the
Reiki Precepts are the most important, most powerful element of Mikao Usui's "method for achieving personal perfection." If you find that hard to believe, you may want to read the article
"Mikao Usui and Deliberate Creation" (and then please come back to this page and continue).
There are numerous translations of the Precepts. I believe it's good to read different ones, and then to come up with our own wording, one that we find especially meaningful and resonant. I prefer the following:
Have Faith (let go all fear and worry)
Worry is a type of fear, and all fear
comes from lack of faith in our
connection to Source.
Have Peace (let go all anger)
Anger is a refusal to be satisfied with what IS;
a desire to make situations and people (including ourselves)
conform to our personal wishes. We cannot have peace when we have anger.
Give Thanks
The daily practice of genuine gratitude for everything that comes our way:
trusting Divine Providence and acknowledging that we don't always know
what is best for us.
A grateful attitude alone can attract countless blessings into our lives.
Love All That Is
We can learn to extend a vibration of love
even (
especially!) to people and things we don't like.
Do Your Work
(fulfill your purpose on Earth in this lifetime; be true to Self and Source)
Our true work begins with remembering our spiritual identity and why we are here.
The path to this awareness is created by the practice of the earlier Precepts:
the letting go of fear and anger, the exercise of gratitude and love.
THERE'S a breathing exercise, very simple and remarkably powerful, which can help us incorporate the Precepts at a deep level. This way of breathing, in itself, is very good for balancing the energy in our bodies, improving awareness, and putting us immediately into a meditative state. It's officially a yoga exercise, but I first learned it from a book called
The Law of the Rhythmic Breath*, which claimed this was the original, natural pattern of human breathing. (Maybe that's why it seems to connect us more to our true nature.) It can be done standing, sitting, or lying on the back, with the spine straight and body relaxed. One cycle of breathing consists of the following:
* by Ella Fletcher; now available in a 1997 edition from Kessinger Publishing
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