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Reiki and The Secret: A Dynamic Duo

Reiki News Magazine

At first I was nonplussed, or maybe even resistant. I had heard of “The Secret” but thought it was a rehashing of things I already knew. Then I met with a therapist colleague of mine at a local soup and sandwich place. I was hungry for new clients and she was having lunch. I had made ten calls to therapists in the area asking if we could meet, relating that I was new to the area and was trying to build my therapy practice. I received three responses, one of them from this therapist.

            “You’ve seen The Secret,” she said with that matter-of-fact tone that assumed I had (for sure). I hadn’t. She proceeded to tell me how she had used the principles contained in ‘The Secret’ to achieve the success she is now enjoying. She has a full practice and just the kind of clients she loves to work with. “When people used to ask me how my practice was going, I would respond, ‘I have a full and rewarding practice.’ And now look, I have a full practice and I have clients I love working with.” I learned that she is a Reiki Master who believed in creating her own destiny with Reiki and sharing healing with others.

Needless to say, soon after this meeting, I found a copy of The Secret and began my own journey with The Secret. Then I got the DVD and took note of how blessed the speakers were, how full of light they were, and how truly in touch with their own abundance they were.

            In case you are like me, nonplussed or resistant and haven’t read or seen “The Secret” in a nutshell the secret is the law of attraction-like attracts like, thoughts become things. And yet it is so much more. What I’d like to do here is to take you along with me on my journey as a Reiki Master through discovering the beauty and simplicity and freedom that is offered to us through the insights and revelations held in The Secret and how we can combine the lessons of The Secret with the power of Reiki to create a new future for ourselves and others.

How Reiki Prepared me to receive The Secret

            Prior to this first introduction to The Secret, I had been a Reiki Master for eight years. My first knowledge of The Law of Attraction had occurred many years before and I had even understood and used the Law to create many life enhancing changes in my life. But, it wasn’t until I was a Reiki Master, fully attuned to the more subtle energies and healing powers of Reiki that I truly began to transform my life to a better “fit” for my individual purpose and destiny. With Reiki I was able to see that what I was doing in my life’s work was good, but not as good as it could be.  I went from being a college professor to adding my Reiki practice to my counseling practice. Because Reiki is guided by a higher wisdom, divine wisdom, it enhances that process of guidance. In receiving guidance with Reiki at the core, we avoid any pitfalls that could occur in our seeking the manifestations of our wishes. With Reiki we can be sure that calling upon

“The Highest Healing Good” protects us from manifesting that which may not be in our best interest even though it looks good at the time. Reiki taught me that going within to seek the guidance of my own intuition and Reiki guides got the best results. With Reiki I could let go of ego-driven desires and relax into the knowledge and belief that Reiki would bring everything to me for my “Highest Healing Good.” Because of this preparation in the art of manifesting that Reiki brought into my life, I was ready to receive and use the message of The Secret to the fullest and purest extent of its power.

The Secret is Out!

            Rhonda Byrne writes in her foreword to The Secret: “I’d been given a glimpse of a Great Secret–the Secret to life. The glimpse came in a hundred-year-old book, given to me by my daughter Hayley, I began tracing The Secret back through history. I couldn’t believe all the people who knew this.  They were the greatest people in history: Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, Hugo, Beethoven, Lincoln, Emerson, Edison, Einstein.”(1)

With this opening, Ms. Byrne, the author of the book and executive director of the DVD, The Secret, conveys her excitement in discovering the law of attraction. With her discovery, Ms. Byrne entered an amazing journey of her own and her passion led her from one ancient book to sharing her discoveries with millions.

 Key Concepts

1. “Thoughts Become Things.”(2)

            Simple as it may seem, this  concept holds a key to a healthier, happier life. Let this phrase wash over you, surround you and teach you. As we become comfortable with this idea, we begin to grow into the knowledge and peace that come with mastery over any negative thinking that may make its way into our lives.

2. You are a powerful transmission tower. (3).

            Ms. Byrne uses the analogy of the transmission tower of a television station. Consider yourself a transmission tower. You are constantly sending out frequencies and these transmissions go out to the Universe. What you send out comes back to you in the pictures of your life. Your transmission creates your life. Just as you can change the channel on your tv, you can change your frequency and change your life.

3. Feelings are Keys to our Thoughts

            “The emotions are an incredible gift that we have to let us know what we are thinking.”(4) Our feelings are our sign of what we are thinking. Going throughout our day we can tell if we are thinking good thoughts or bad thoughts by our feelings. If we are suddenly anxious and fearful, we can trace that feeling to some thought that passed through our mind, or stayed there, and created a sense of anxiety or fear.

4. Gratitude is a Shortcut to Abundance

“Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life.” (5) Just for today, I will be grateful. Usui teaches us to be grateful always, one day at a time. Through a grateful spirit we attract more of what we are grateful for into our lives.

Secret “Things To Do”

1.”Thoughts become things, Choose the good ones.”(6)

I thought that I was very careful in my language to include only that which is positive, because I knew that the Universe and the angels listening would only hear and pick up on the words, not the adjectives. So, If I said, “I don’t want to have a headache today,” I could very well end up with a headache because I created the thought form of “headache” in that wish. With my new look at “Thought Become Things, Choose the Good Ones” I up-ed the ante and monitored my spoken and unspoken thoughts for their focus-positive or negative. Whoa! I was amazed. For a fairly positive individual I was surprised at how often my focus was on the negative. Sometimes it was in relationship to small things, like whether there would be a long line at the grocery store. Sometimes it was about larger things like my closest relationships being in trouble. With this kind of vigilance, I began to see how often I was worrying or putting some negative thought out there that I really didn’t want to be my focus. So, as soon as I found myself thinking about the line at the grocery store or my relationships being in trouble, I would turn the thought to a positive. For example, “I will get the fastest, nicest check out person.” Or,  “My closest relationships are strong and healthy.” It worked like a charm!

2. Change your frequency in a minute! - Secret Shifters

Bob Proctor in The Secret tells us: “When you’re feeling down, did you know that you can change it in an instant? Put on a beautiful piece of music, or start singing–that’ll change your emotion. Or think of something beautiful. Think of a baby or somebody that you truly love, and dwell on it. Really keep that thought in your mind, Block everything out but that thought. I guarantee you’ll start to feel good.” (7) To help you in learning to change your frequency in a minute, it’s fun to make a list of what Rhonda Byrne calls, Secret Shifters. Secret Shifters are things that you choose that make you smile and feel good. My list of Secret Shifters at one point included my great-nephew playing cards with me, my great-niece snuggling in for a hug, Even right now, my frequency has changed as I write about these things. You can do the same. Create a list of things that make you smile, that make your heart sings and that fill you with joy. Have this list handy. When you find yourself feeling down, your thoughts are on a negative binge, go to your list, choose a Secret Shifter, choose to shift. Choose to change your frequency. With a little practice, you will automatically go to your Secret Shifters when needed.         

3. Be grateful.

“Every morning when my feet hit the floor, ‘Thank You’.” (8) James Ray, another teacher in The Secret,  describes how he begins his day with ‘Thank You’. When his feet first touch the floor in the morning he begins to think about all the things he is grateful for. Now, I incorporate this into my daily routine. When I put my feet on the floor in the morning, I say, “Thank (left foot down) You” (right foot down). A friend has created what she calls a “Gratitude Walk.” She walks every day in her neighborhood and with each step she says, “Thank you, thank you.”

Activating The Secret with Reiki

Reiki Creates Mindfulness

In order to do any of the things suggested in The Secret, you need to know how to focus your mind and heart. Reiki has taught us that. Every teacher included in the book and DVD of The Secret meditates regularly. Meditation quiets the mind. Reiki meditation quiets the minds and opens the heart.

 The Power Symbol and Secret Shifters

As mentioned earlier, Secret Shifters allow us to change our frequency in minutes from a downward spiral to a smile. Take your list of Secret Shifters and visualize the Power Symbol over each one of them, drawing to you all the joy and love within them. I have been able to use the Power Symbol in the midst of some negative thinking by bringing into my mind and consciousness one of my Secret Shifters and then drawing the Poser Symbol and saying its mantra three times. To my joy and amazement, suddenly I am smiling and I can’t even remember what I was thinking before! Just a note: Sometime I am also led to use the Distant Healing Symbol with Secret Shifters. Follow your Reiki guidance on this!

Harmony Symbol for Emotional Cues

Since feelings are the keys to our thoughts and thoughts become things, we want to become attuned to our feeling states. What are you feeling right now? Take a moment to focus on how you are feeling. If you are satisfied that you are feeling good, great!  If you aren’t satisfied that you are feeling good, follow your feeling back to the thought or thought pattern that created the “bad” feeling. Once you find the thought that was creating the “bad” feeling, use the Mental-Emotional Symbol for healing. Breathe the symbol into your heart and mind. Using the Mental-Emotional Symbol we become better stewards of our thoughts and feelings.

Heart Chakra Reiki Infuses Gratitude

Reiki is love, Universal Love. Reiki is a major tool in creating more love in our hearts and lives. Gratitude comes from a loving heart and vise-versa. It’s an unending circle of love. Reiki creates and maintains the continuous circle of love creating gratitude creating more love.  Rhonda Byrne suggests we keep a gratitude journal in which we can write those things which we are grateful for now and also those things which we feel gratitude for before they happen. The page on the left is for things you are grateful for now(friends, accomplishments, Reiki) and the page on the right is for those things that have not happened yet(dreams, wishes, desires). For the left page, I use the Power Symbol to bring the power of Reiki into all of those things I am so grateful for in my life. For the right page, I use the Distant Healing Symbol to instill all of the gratitude I feel for those things yet to come. It is like Reiki-ing the intention and feeling the results and gratitude already.

Summary and Conclusion

A year and a half ago I sat with my colleague and was first introduced to The Secret. As I said, I was hungry for clients, having recently moved to the area and starting my counseling private practice. Today, I have “a full and rewarding practice” of just the clients I love to work with.  I have trained seventeen new Reiki practitioners, seven of them completing the Reiki Master training. Coming to a new area, starting my private practice and teaching Reiki was a dream to me. Along the way, I used the practices outlined in this article combining Reiki and The Secret. Mine is a story of amazing changes in positive thinking, the power of Reiki within the process of creating from nothing that which I saw as vital to my journey. When things weren’t happening as fast as I wanted or in the exact way that I had in mind, I would begin to get discouraged and immediately realized that I would be sending the frequency of discouragement only to create more of the same. I developed a closer relationship with The Universe as a power that wants only what is best for me and is granting my wishes all along the way. Chess pieces are being moved about all the time creating events, people, and things that will lead me to my divine destiny. Already having the solid base of Reiki, adding the enlightening and freeing tools of The Secret, I have been truly blessed in the art of creating dreams that come true.

Citations:

1. Byrne, Rhonda (2006). The Secret. Atria Books, NY, NY and Beyond Words, Hillsboro, OR., p. ix.

2. Ibid., Mike Dooley, p.9

3. Ibid., Rhonda Byrne, p.11

4. Ibid., Bob Doyle, p.30

5. Ibid., Marci Shimoff, p.74

6. Ibid., Mike Dooley, p.9

7. Ibid., Bob Proctor, p.37

8. Ibid., James Ray, p.75

May All Who Read This Be Blessed With Reiki