Reiki Vibes
Just as it is not possible for us to know exactly what color another person is actually seeing when they look at a red (for example) Ferrari there is likewise no way of knowing what they are feeling when they experience Reiki. Let me back up a bit…
When we look at the car in the image above we (unless we are colorblind) can easily identify it as being red. That is the name of the color assigned to that particular distribution of light energy and wavelength that our minds are perceiving. However, how do we know that the person standing (or sitting, as the case may be) next to us is seeing the same color as we are. We both call it red, because that is the name assigned to it, but how do we know they are not seeing what our mind perceives as blue? Or any other color for that fact? Obviously, we can’t.
If we ask them, they will say it is red, because that is the color’s name. But how do we know its the same red as we are seeing? Unless we can see through their eyes, with their brain interpreting it for us, there is no way of knowing if we are actually seeing the same color at all.
Now let’s apply that same logic to Reiki. Reiki vibrations are easier for some people to experience than others. Personally, I connect to Reiki by holding my hands over my head with the intent to connect for whatever purposes lay (or is it lie… always getting them confused) before me until I feel that familiar Reiki vibration, or sensation, or Reiki Vibes, if you will. If I am with a group of people, for example at a Reiki Share, and we are all connecting to Reiki in the same way at the same time, how do I know that the Reiki Vibes that I am experiencing are the same as the person next to me? Is it possible? I don’t think so.
One thing that is possible, is that, as may be true with colors, we are all experiencing something completely different, and calling it Reiki… cause that’s its name. Pretty neat, eh?
Okay, so honestly, does this even matter? I think it does, because it might explain some of the negativity that some people experience where Reiki is concerned. Perhaps, the red that one person sees is a hideous color… and they look at a red Ferrari and have to struggle to stifle their gag reflex (whereupon they will almost certainly purchase the black one instead) while the rest of us think it is a beautiful color (well… most of us anyway). Reiki… being the Ferrari of energy healing modalities that it is, might also encounter the occasional perceiver, who finds that energy repulsive.
The bottom line here is that unless we are comparing apples to apples, it is quite difficult to be sure we are on the same wavelengths with people we are discussing Reiki with. It is said that the meaning of communication lies (or is it lays) in the response you get. This means that the perceptions of the listener determine the outcome of the conversation. Likewise, it is the perceptions of the Reiki Receiver that give it meaning. In my post on the fifth Reiki principle I offered the lyrics to a Hank Williams song that stresses the importance of compassion in dealing with other people. The possibility that none of us, on this great Earth, are experiencing the same things, even in regard to simple things like color, really makes you stop and wonder. And I just wanted to share that notion with you…
For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!
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Hi Duane,Thanks for the info.Highly appriciative.As each one can perceive even Reiki differently,:roll:Is it possible to ROB some ones ENERY in the name of healing?.Iìll be highly indebted if you can solve my predicament.(Let me make it more clear… I am a person very much interested in learning Reiki..but without any means.I had a very bad chest pain which a student friend of mine cured me…80%.Then told me that when her Guru will do mass healing…..long distance that she’ll help me cure 20% and she did keep her promise.But since then my energy level as well as finaces, have gone down,no interest in life etc has totally brought my downfall….this was brought to my notice by my other friend:?:I am a person absolutely have no knowledge in these matters and trust every one)
I been practicing Reiki off and on for over 15 years, I just decide to go to shares and do self Reiki and take the master class. I have been doing research on Reiki for I want to also work with other Reiki professional. This post explain how some people have negative response to Reiki. It just is it but does not make Reiki bad.
Mary
Since i started having some depression due to relationship issues and other problems, I got help from a friend that got me through a reiki session that made me feel a wonderful sensation of good energy. I have heard about reiki before, but now I’m more interested on going deeper and reading a little more about it
Now, day by day I feel like reiki has been part of my life since long time ago, I was not associating it with reiki because I didn’t even know what that was.
The example here presented was an idea that I’ve explored since very young, the idea that any perception I have, any experience I go through, it can be perceived in a total different way by others, and the only way for us to share it is through communication. However there is no way through regular communication to find out if we were having a totally different perception.
Due to what i have been through in my life lately, regarding my relationship that got to an end and I still feel I’m not able to let it go, I feel the end is not the solution. I fell into anxiety and depression so as my wife, and at some point I found that what was making me depressed was not the situation but the way I was seeing, perceiving it, and I also could find (even if often difficult due to my emotions taking control of myself) is that we can change, jump, look to other points of view to get a different perception and interpretation…
Then, since there was so much love in our relationship but with some other things not working, I started thinking that we just need to change our view points to reach a new and common perception, a different common experience, and we could keep on living our love.
When I tried to pass this idea to my wife, she refused it, saying that is her way to see things, that’s the reality things don’t work between us, that she’s never going to change the way that she sees things, because that she is because she’s seeing the reality. Then in her opinion it is better to give up on love since other things don’t work. I must say here that many times when I was trying to explain to her my idea about different but common points of view that we could archive and get our relationship working, she was getting upset accusing me of trying to manipulate her mind. And many times I got the sensation that she was getting my message completely wrong, giving a feedback totally out of track, like, just to explain it was like when I was saying “my car is in the garage” and she was replying “no no… these apples are for fruits salad”…
What I see is that there is many realities regarding the same thing, since there is many points/ways of view, like the glass of water story… just half… half full… half empty… all them are different realities perceived by different points of view.
So, now I face myself with these questions… since Love can lead us to the light, what would be the best path:
Let it go, letting my wife stick to her point of view and find love on someone else, since other things aren’t working between us? (Is this her reiki path?)
or
Keep on trying to communicate with her, trying to show her that there are more points of view showing different realities, she just needs to look through it and see that our relationship works since there’s love. (is this my reiki path?)
I hope I’ll find the answer through reiki…
I don’t know if I got myself understood, sorry but my first language is not English!