REIKI for Mental
and Emotional Healing

By Terra Rafael (formerly Terra Palmarini Richardson),
Reiki Master, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Midwife

Reiki can be used for mental-emotional healing once a practitioner has been initiated to Level II. (Clients should be doing psychotherapy with a qualified psychotherapist in addition to any work on serious issues.) Symbols used at Level II are specifically indicated for this use.  The symbols are confidential to maintain their sacred nature, best revealed in the initiation ceremony which empowers the practitioner to actually use them.  I'll discuss the symbols with their usage names:  the Power symbol, the Mental/Emotional symbol and the Distance symbol.

The Power symbol is useful for protection, clearing and blessing.  It is a focus for the attention of beneficent forces in the form of Reiki.  It is especially used in physical level healing, which can include healing and strengthening the nervous/ hormonal system, thus impacting mental/emotional health.

The Mental/Emotional symbol is also known as "to create a new habit".  It is specifically for healing at this level and acknowledged as such by different lineages of Reiki.  It would be used in sessions where the intention is to do some kind of emotional work.

The Distance symbol is useful to work at a distance, but also to work at a distance in time---the past or the future.  Diane Stein, one writer in the Reiki field, shares that for her the distance symbol is for mental level healing-after the emotional work is released, that it is most suited for creating a new mental framework to work from, replacing the dysfunctional one created to survive a traumatic situation in the past.

Specific Applications of Mental/Emotional Healing
with Reiki

Clearing a room, Protection, Blessing:   Invoke Power symbol; Stein encourages M/E symbol also

Strengthening Nervous/Hormonal System:  Power symbol

To relax or sleep:  M/E, Distance, & Power symbol-to cover mental, emotional & physical reasons. 

Changing emotional state:  M/E, Distance, and Power symbol - ex.  I was feeling irritable , possibly going into a depressive state.  I invoked the Reiki energy & the symbols then affirmed "I can go beyond the prickly husk around me, deeper into the love that is always inside of me, ", repeating it 3 times.  This seemed to work very well!

To apply positive affirmations:  The changing emotional state was one example.  Another, with a client :  I invoked Reiki energy & the symbols.  Her intended affirmation for me to send her was " You are naturally prosperous."  While sending the Reiki I received information that her negative belief was that she must work hard to prosper, that she must struggle.  She felt that the energy in her body felt as though it built up and unblocked around this.

To heal a past situation in this life or a previous incarnation:   Use the distance, m/e & power symbols, have a picture of the time if possible-at least a visualization by the receiver, name the trauma/past problem and ask for the Reiki to go to the cause & heal it.

Use Reiki with tonglen:  Invoke Reiki with distance, m/e & power symbols, to breathe out Reiki to the person as you breathe out the sattwic, clear energy towards them. (remember to have permission)  OR direct Reiki to oneself to help in the transmutation of the heavy, dark, warm, painful yucky energy breath into the sattwic, clear energy. (These techniques by a client & myself)

To improve memory; help with studying, learning or taking tests:  Use m/e symbol, power to amplify.

For exorcism, spirit release:  Invoke distance symbol, ask Ascended Masters to help the being to go to its highest possible place.

Trauma release:  Serious , long standing trauma may need several sessions. Works best if already has released emotional component & just needs to reprogram the mind pattern.  Until emotional is mostly drained just use the M/E symbol with Power symbol.  When ready  -- Use Distance, M/E , and Power.  Session one:  Ask receiver to describe self at time of trauma.  Use Distance symbol again. Have receiver take energy to the self- at- time- of- trauma and let past self know that s/he is not alone.

Session two:  All symbols.  Have receiver describe day or evening before the trauma. Use Distance again. Have her/him "describe" what it would have been like if not traumatized at that time of trauma.  Then what next hour would be like, next day, next week, next month, next 6 month, next year, next 5 yr, etc up to today.

Can use this technique with past life trauma pattern-use symbols then ask receiver to remember the FIRST time the pattern was enacted.  Then use Distance and have her/him tune into day before that and find a new way to solve the problem or avoid the situation.  Bring into rest of THAT life, see that death "without emotion, as if a movie'.  Bring healing into present life.  Check if there are any other lifetimes needing to be healed of this pattern.  Leave integration time before next session.  Review past lifetimes to be sure picture changes have held.  Check if any more lifetimes to be healed of this pattern.

CREATE ONLY POSITIVE SOLUTIONS THAT YOU WOULD WANT AS PART OF THE PRESENT & FUTURE.

I look forward to working more with Mental /Emotional healing and Reiki.  I anticipate using Flower Essences , Aromatherapy, and Ayurvedic herbs in conjunction for a full program.

Reiki Sutras for Practitioners