Integrating the Five Reiki Precepts (Also known as the Reiki Ideals, Reiki Principles, or Gokai) into your daily life is a powerful tool for self-reflection, present-moment living, growing self-awareness and self-compassion, as well as caring for all aspects of your being. The Precepts ask that we be mindful and fully present in the here and now. When we stay in the present, we keep our energy and spirit with us instead of sending them out into the future with worries or concerns, or back to the past with resentment, blame, or guilt. When focused on the present, we are more aware of our blessings in the here and now.
One way to incorporate the Five Reiki Precepts into your life is to:
Sometimes just being aware can help you look at things more objectively and release an issue for healing.
Just for today
Do not anger
Do not worry
Be filled with gratitude
Devote yourself to your work
Be kind to people
Technique:
- Choose one precept at a time and focus on it for that day, or a week, or for however long you desire.
- Bring your awareness to the chosen precept and notice your feelings, thoughts, and behaviors related to the precept. Ask yourself these questions:
- During the designated time, did you catch yourself getting angry, worried, being unkind, etc.?
- What was going on at the time?
- How did that make you feel?
- What issue(s) did it bring up for you?
- What dialogue did you have with yourself when you noticed an unwanted behavior or thought pattern? (What did you say to yourself?)
- How could you respond differently next time?
- Looking back, did you notice any themes: patterns of behavior or thoughts during the designated time?
- At the end of the designated time, what new awareness did you have?
© 2025 Kathie Lipinski
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Kathie Lipinski RN, MSN, CH, is a Holistic Nurse, Master Teacher of Usui/Tibetan Western Reiki, a Shihan Teacher of traditional Jikiden Reiki, a Certified Hypnotist and is Board Certified in Massage Therapy and Bodywork. Kathie has over thirty three (33) years’ experience working with and teaching Reiki and other mind-body healing modalities. With her nursing and Reiki background, she specializes in helping people prepare for surgery with Reiki and hypnosis/guided imagery.
Kathie’s extensive nursing career has taken her from Intensive Care to Diabetes Education and now Holistic Nursing.
She currently has a private practice Healing from the Heart NY LLC, where she uses various modalities to help individuals identify and heal imbalances in their lives. She also trained with Brian Weiss in Past Life Regression Exploration.
Kathie has taught Reiki to more than 4000 people, lay people as well as health care professionals. She was an adjunct professor teaching Reiki for college credit in the Nurse Practitioner program at Stony Brook University and the College of New Rochelle. As part of the Innovations in Care Grant in 2011 and 2012, Kathie’s taught the staff at the VA Medical Center in Northport, NY. She also taught for the NY Presbyterian Hospital System in New York City from 2014- 2017 and most recently at the NYU Langone Hospital in Mineola, NY.
Kathie has been a guest speaker at various Reiki and Holistic Health Care conferences across the country including Reiki Rays of Hope in Cleveland, OH: The Mid-Atlantic Conference in Maryland, and the Celebration of Reiki conference in Boston, MA.
Some of her most popular topics have included “Reiki and PTSD”; “Making Reiki Real: What is Credible Reiki Practice?”; “Reiki and Mental Health”; “Teaching Reiki”; “Reiki Myths and Misconceptions”; and many more.
Kathie has written many articles for Reiki News Magazine which are available on her website. She is the co-author of the chapters “Reiki: Defining a Healing Practice for Nursing” and “Reiki, Nursing and Health Care” in the Nursing Clinics of North America Journal Winter 2020 edition on Complementary and Alternative Therapies.
You can reach Kathie via e-mail at kathiekaruna95@aol.com
Website: kathielipinski.com
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