Why Yin Energy?
Do you ever feel pressured to always be active, productive, and available? Does this sometimes leave you feeling exhausted, restless, or irritable? I’ve been there too. Like many people, I spent years in a high-performance mode, basing my self-worth on my achievements. However, as a highly sensitive person, I had to learn that rest and pauses are essential. The principle I had neglected for too long was Yin energy.
More and more people are seeking peace, gentleness, and a deeper connection to their inner selves and intuition. Yet, in our fast-paced world, many find it challenging to connect with their Yin energy. Even in spiritual circles, there is sometimes a tendency toward self-optimization and an outward-focused approach. It is no surprise that a countertrend is emerging, with more people consciously awakening and cultivating their Yin energy to restore inner balance and tranquility.
While many women feel drawn to this work, the practice of Yin energy is by no means beneficial for women alone. Men can also work with their Yin energy, as both Yin and Yang exist within every living being.
Ancient Wisdom Rediscovered
The concept of Yin and Yang originates from Chinese Daoism. Yin and Yang complement each other, forming a whole. Yin is associated with receptivity, stillness, and lunar energy, while Yang embodies activity, action, and solar energy.
Looking at modern society, we can see that we live in an excess of Yang energy: everything must be fast, and structures are designed for continuous optimization and achievement. This is why spiritual seekers have drawn inspiration from Yin and Yang, as well as from goddess traditions, establishing practices that emphasize connection with intuition, lunar energy, and the feminine.
Reiki as a Union of Sun and Moon
In this article, we will explore how Reiki can help us strengthen the Yin principle in our lives. To do this, it is helpful to create a dedicated space, take time for ourselves, and integrate small rituals into daily life.
Reiki is a non-dual energy originating from the Great Sun Buddha, Dainichi Nyorai, within Tantric Buddhism. Reiki unites Yin and Yang, fostering harmony between these two principles. Thus, Reiki practitioners can harness this energy for themselves and others to enhance inner balance and well-being.
Moon Meditation and Shadow Work
One of the foundational meditations of the Japanese Shingon school of Tantric Buddhism is the Moon Meditation. This practice focuses on introspection and exploring one’s emotions. It also involves acknowledging and accepting our suppressed inner aspects. The Moon Meditation is a gentle yet powerful tool for calming the mind, allowing emotions to flow freely, and engaging in shadow work.
The power of Yin energy is particularly noticeable in mantra meditations, which are a hallmark of Tantric Buddhism. Before beginning an advanced meditation, foundational practices such as the Moon Meditation should always be performed. If I skip this preparation, my spiritual experience is only half as profound.
In Shingon Reiki, Reiki treatments can be enhanced by incorporating the mantras and symbols of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, just as in Shingon Buddhist meditations. This invites these spiritual forces to actively participate in the process. Unlike meditation, however, performing the Moon Meditation beforehand is not required for Reiki. Nonetheless, it remains a valuable practice for any Reiki practitioner wishing to deepen their connection to Yin energy.
If you conduct moon rituals to honor your femininity, you can also integrate Reiki energy and treatments into these practices. This can help you relax more deeply and experience a profound sense of unity with nature and its cycles.
Reiki for the Belly and Intuition
Through hands-on healing, Reiki also supports the awakening of Yin energy on a physical level. You can place your hands on your lower abdomen, creating a loving connection with your body. Often, we expect our bodies to function without truly feeling them amidst the busyness of daily life. Sometimes, our bodies resist this neglect, signaling a need for rest and attention.
With Reiki, you have the opportunity to reconnect with your body, especially your belly area and intuition, at any time. You can use these Reiki pauses to turn inward and check in with your emotions and needs.
I personally value Reiki for the belly because it helps me experience my menstrual cycle more consciously. When combined with Buddhist abdominal massage, it allows me to perceive my body and femininity with greater mindfulness.
Reiki for the Yin Chakras
The lower abdomen is also home to the Sacral Chakra, an energetic center associated with emotions, emotional flow, receptivity, joy, sensuality, and playfulness.
To reach the Sacral Chakra with Reiki, it is best to hold your hands in the aura rather than placing them directly on the body. The Sacral Chakra, Heart Chakra, and Third Eye Chakra are considered Yin chakras, while the Root Chakra, Solar Plexus Chakra, and Throat Chakra are Yang chakras.
Reiki can help cleanse and balance these chakras, allowing you to engage consciously with their corresponding life themes.
Tantra and the Goddess of Compassion
In the Tantric Buddhism of the Japanese Shingon school, Yin and Yang correspond to the Womb World Mandala and the Diamond World Mandala. These mandalas symbolize lunar and solar energy, compassion, and wisdom. Both qualities are united within Reiki energy, which originates from the Great Sun Buddha, Dainichi Nyorai.
Alongside the Great Sun Buddha, Senju Kannon, the Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva, is a central spiritual presence in the Reiki tradition. Senju Kannon is connected to the Mental Healing Symbol and supports Reiki practitioners in addressing inner challenges. In Japan, Senju Kannon is seen as a young prince, while in China, the Bodhisattva is also venerated as the goddess Guanyin.
Reiki Mental Healing – Transformation through Compassion
The core quality of this Bodhisattva is compassion, which plays a key role in Reiki Mental Healing. Through Senju Kannon, we connect with the infinite compassion of the Womb World Mandala and the transformative aspect of feminine creative power. Mental Healing focuses on our mind, habits, and belief systems, which have a profound impact on our emotional world.
Therefore, emotional regulation and engagement with difficult emotional states are crucial aspects of Mental Healing. By connecting with the Bodhisattva of Compassion, we cultivate self-compassion, allowing us to accept ourselves more fully. Acceptance and self-love are prerequisites for transformation, enabling us to overcome inner patterns.
The inner work of Mental Healing has greatly helped me detach from my emotions and external circumstances. Time and again, I have experienced how my Reiki practice empowers me to see myself as the creator of my life – approaching it with a relaxed Yin attitude, free from pressure, perfectionism, or the need for optimization.
Reiki and Yin Energy
Reiki unites Yin and Yang, offering various ways to invite the Yin principle into our lives and establish a balance between activity and stillness. Our Reiki practice reminds us of the profound strength found in gentle qualities such as compassion, mindfulness, and lunar energy. How do you wish to embrace your Yin energy and create more space for awareness and transformation?
Article by Eileen Wiesmann
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Eileen Wiesmann is a Usui Reiki Master, Shingon Reiki Master Practitioner, Coach for Qigong and Meditation
She came to Reiki after an emergency operation with a near death experience. Given up by conventional medicine, she started to learn Shingon Reiki. With this combination of Usui Reiki and Buddhist-Daoist Healing, Eileen was able to start a new life without chronical pain and frequent operations. In 2020, she wrote an article about her personal healing story in the German Reiki Magazine.
As a historian with a focus on religious history, it is very important to Eileen to bring spirituality and science together. She was born as a highly sensitive scanner personality and as an empath. At an early age, she developed an interest in spirituality. She felt a deep connection to nature and animals and secretly sneaked into the forest to connect with forces of nature. From childhood she collected stones and crystals, whose ascribed energetic effects she learned extensively.
Then there was a phase in her life she devoted herself fully to science and didn’t want to have anything more to do with spirituality. She found a substitute for her spirituality as a goth lady in the gothic subculture and enjoyed reading fantasy novels such as Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.
But deep in her heart she never forgot spirituality and always came in contact with people who recognized her spiritual and medial abilities at a glance. Since 2015, she has been practicing meditation intensively and soon afterwards began to learn Qigong and Tai Chi. In Qigong lessons, she noticed parallels to Reiki and other methods with hands on healing. To find out more about these relationships, in addition to Shingon Reiki training, she also attends Qigong, martial arts courses and calligraphy training.
While searching for like-minded people who believed in a synthesis of spirituality and science, she finally met Mark Hosak. In him, she recognized a true soulmate and he encouraged her to work with spirituality full-time. He also shares her enthusiasm for crystals and they exchange ideas regularly. In addition to that he also never gave up on her during her serious illness and nursed her back to health for months with Shingon Reiki and all the resources at his disposal.
Today she combines her passion for stones and crystals with Qigong, Reiki and meditation. She loves the creative work with spirituality that invites the inner child to play and laugh as much as the cultural and historical background. So she is also planning a doctoral thesis on Daoism and Japan. Due to her closeness to nature, she is intensively educating herself in the field of shamanism and is happy to be able to integrate the crystals there as well.
You can reach Eileen via e-mail at: eileen@shingon-reiki.de
Website: www.shingon-reiki.com
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