It’s no secret that caring for children requires our best human traits, and whether you are caring for 1 child or 5, at some point they will push all your buttons! Reiki is a useful tool for maintaining calm and decorum but will also help with much more. Read on to discover five ways of using Reiki when raising children:
1. Maintain your daily practice
Ok, I know what you’re thinking but bear with me, when we are disciplined in our Reiki practice, we are starting from a grounded and loving place and it shows. Our desires are clear and demeaner is full of certainty. With these traits firmly in place, the children around us are already experiencing our sense of certainty and are ready to oblige with (most) of our requests. From this place, our good friend ‘patience’ will take much longer to become our fickle friend 😉
And yet, our patience is likely to fail us at some point, when this happens, we can easily be kind to ourselves and take a minute to give self-Reiki and re-compose. This will look different to many people, maybe you will need to place your baby in the cot while you take 10 minutes to give self-Reiki, maybe you can shut yourself in loo for 5 minutes or ask a friend or relative to take the child/ren while you re-align with a Reiki meditation. Self-practice is your key to consistent parenting skills.
2. Children respond soooo well to hands on
With Reiki being predominantly a hands-on practice, and children responding well to touch, it’s a match made in heaven. Let’s look at this theory a little closer; hands off or hands on, Reiki flows through us to reach our intended destination. Therefore, the more often we are intentional with the direction of Reiki, the more often it is in our consciousness, and we are aware of our personal experience of the energy, heat and tingling for example. This maintains our centredness and will inevitably affect the children around us (see point 1). Touch gives children of any age positive attention and that will show them they are valued, which is important in supporting their self-image and development (taken from the Australian Parenting Website – Raisingchildren.net.au). By placing a hand on the arm or shoulder of a child, when asking something of them, helps them to focus and listen. Include Reiki in that touch and they are feeling the request in its most genuine and gentle manner.
3. Form a hands-on habit
Following directly on from point 2, how many times can we engage in hands on Reiki during the day? Children love to be active, so an hour on the treatment table is highly unlikely! It is easier than you may think to accumulate an hour plus of Reiki activity. Here are a few to get you thinking;
~ Nappy changes
~ Breast feeding
~ Picking up for carrying or consoling
~ Holding hands when walking
~ Arm around them when watching TV
~ Part of bedtime routine
My daughter started refusing Reikiat bedtime because it made her sleepy, and she didn’t want that! What other occasions can we intentionally engage in hands on Reiki?
4. Reiki assists the prevention and the cure
Sickness is inevitable when children begin to socialise, implementing the System of Reiki for those around us, helps reduce the longevity and severity by being mindful of our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects, which in turn supports strong immune systems and healthy life habits. When they do become sick, it is easy to offer Reiki more often and helps keep us calm in their time of need. It is never easy seeing the little ones in pain or discomfort and when we have taken all the physical steps, we can make them comfortable, having Reiki to offer, will help everyone.
5. Reiki-ing the past, present and future
Using Reiki to soothe our children is one of the greatest gifts. When learning Reiki 2, sending to people, places and events has huge benefits personally but how may we use this with the short people in our lives? Using the symbols we can send Reiki and if you are not attuned to Reiki 2, you can initiate Reiki in your usual way, or while holding your child and think of where you would like Reiki to go. Intention is very powerful when combined with energy.
So, how can we support children in this way? Let’s look at a few examples.
Sending to past events such as a traumatic labour, a bad experience in a medical setting, healing the family tree if historical family habits concern you, or to fall or event that happened in your absence.
Sending to current events such as vaccinations in real time, we could also give hands on Reiki in the vaccination area on the child’s leg or arm before and after. First day at day care or school.
Sending to future events such as sleep and nap times, exams, appointments or holidays including flying on a plane for the first time.
Literally, anything that may cause you anxiety, your child will feel so giving Reiki to both of you is sure to support the occasion.
Of course, there are only a few examples given here. When we are mindful of Reiki throughout the day more and more opportunities arise and as many teachers repeat; the more we use the energy, the more we become the energy.
Article by Amy Brandon
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Amy Brandon
Originally from the UK, Amy Brandon learned Reiki in Perth, Western Australia, where she was initiated into Reiki 1, 2 and Master levels of the Usui Shiki Ryoho system. After a few years of treating and teaching Reiki in Houston, TX, Amy has returned to Perth and continues in the position of Vice Chairperson and Volunteer Coordinator for the Reiki Association of Western Australia, she enjoys teaching the Usui system of Reiki and her own course for Animal Reiki.
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