Personal Growth

The most powerful benefit of Reiki is its ability to bring us home to ourselves. This is a part of Reiki practice that is very underrepresented. Essentially Reiki can become a deeply spiritual practice with most dedicated practitioners agree that Reiki has been fundamental in helping them connect more deeply with their inner wisdom.

In collaborating in the Reiki Lights book, all of the authors were struck by this consistent finding that no matter what our personal circumstance, when we practice self-healing, all of us find we drop the layers and mask and roles that can feel so suffocating and return to the truth of who we are, our real or authentic selves.

Personal Growth with Reiki

Home Coming

The most common feeling when having a Reiki treatment, or self-treatment, the feeling of landing or grounding

Self-care

Many of us come to Reiki overwhelmed, exhausted or stuck. This is often our first gift to ourselves after years of giving to others

Permission to just be

Reiki helps us gently release expectations, doubts, roles, identities that stop us feeling free

What is Personal Growth?

Lucky for us, personal growth in the 21st Century is all about reconnecting with our unique and individual expression. Back in the 1980s and 90s it was very much goal oriented "Be better, be stronger, be more!" Think better, be positive, change your outlook, ie. gaslight yourself to fit in with what society decided was right. Thank goodness that's over.

Personal Growth with Reiki is about discovering who YOU are. Your talents, your desires, your journey. It encourages us to be more ourselves, not less. This movement has allowed all parts of us to shine, with more sensitivity in society for neurodivergence, gender choices, sexuality. And more options and less judgement for lifestyle and career choices. We're not saying things are perfect or fair, but we have more permission than ever before to simply be ourselves.

Why does Reiki help us with this? This is a very good question. We would say that when the body is energised and balanced, when the mind is calm and the nervous system relaxed we simply see ourselves, our lives, and what is or isn't working with more clarity.

Dive into Personal Growth

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Stopping the people pleasing

Family gatherings are fascinating, like little microcosms of intense behavioural analysis over short periods of time – all your childhood trauma and patterns on display for a few days. I always learn so much! The theme for this holiday was people pleasing. I have always been a chronic people pleaser. I have gotten much better, able to draw boundaries with clients, students, some friends. But family and loved ones? Much harder. I was pondering the roots of this, why can’t I ju

Why manifest the future when the present is right here?

I used to believe in Law of Attraction, the idea that I could manifest whatever I wanted by bringing my energy into 'better alignment', but with honest investigation, I am finding that idea harder to find evidence for. The reality seems to be quite different. As I am landing into a more and more sensitive barometer of what is aligned, and what isn’t, I am finding it harder and harder to believe that I am navigating, authoring, manifesting, controlling anything at all in my li

My problem with Western Mindfulness

I recently completed a course called Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), I took it to see what secular mindfulness was all about. The course was nice enough, but I have to say I struggled with the pointlessness of it all, if I was coming at it fresh without any spiritual background, it would have gone straight in the bin. To get some perspective, mindfulness is actually mind training, a bit like relaxation is body training. It comes from the eastern tradition of medita

What One Can Be, One Must Be.

"What one can be, one must be" - Abraham Maslow I read this quote recently in an article where the author was emphasising it as – we ‘must’ become whatever it is we can be, i.e. we must strive towards it like a duty. If we don’t, we feel the pain of wasting our life. I do resonate with the pain part. I have had many times when I feel driven by an impulse to not ‘waste’ my life. But I also often wonder if this pain is really a need for external striving, or an inability to sim

How do I know if my insight is Intuition or Ego?

When I have questions or problems that I’m dealing with and I take time out to meditate and clear my mind, I sometimes get answers during the meditation. How do I tell whether these answers are my intuition or my mind? They feel like a hunch but then after the meditation I end up rationalising that hunch and can’t tell if the original answer was intuitive or my mind. Do you have any advice on how I can tell the difference between an idea generated by my mind and pre-existing

Manifest What I Want or Going With the Flow?

There are essentially three stages to spiritual growth. The one most of us recognise is the external seeking, goals and climbing ladders, being successful. Often that then shifts into internal seeking, self-improvement, personal growth. Then finally we see the error of both ways moving into a deep appreciation of the flow of life. It can be confusing when tools seem to contradict, so it is handy to have a road map that helps you to put tools into perspective – where they belo

What is 3D(imension) and 5D(imension)?

“3D” or “5D” is terminology used in many spiritual forums and the general idea is that these past few years has been an acceleration of our evolution towards 5D beings. The age of Aquarius, the splitting of the timelines, the stepping into the light. But what does all this actually mean? What is the 3rd Dimension? When we talk about “3D” we are talking about the level of living that would be considered “normal” ie: 1. Survival of the fittest – the desire for more. More ac

Spotting the Subtle Art of Control

I talk a lot about boundaries, I am fascinated by subtle power plays, probably because most of my life I have fallen unconsciously into these manipulations many many times. I notice how my body is a perfect lie detector - contracting at lies someone tells me, or I tell myself. By lies I don't mean the obvious ones, though those count too, but the untruths within your authentic self. Over the years I have begun to pay more and more attention to this, coinciding with my desire

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