Reiki and Karma

To understand how Reiki can help with karmic experience we need to examine the concept of Karma. Karma is most often misunderstood.  Many think it is strictly “an eye for an eye” natural law, but that is a false and oversimplified explanation for a complex belief.
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Karma is defined by Merriam-Webster as “the force generated by a person’s actions…to perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical consequences to determine the nature of the person’s next existence…”.  Simply put, Karma means that for every action there is a reaction.  Whatever energy is put into the world, the same energy will come back to the sender.  Karma is not a punishment that is meted out based on our actions, but rather a natural consequence of our choices.  Buddhists believe that Karma is generated by emotional attachments, and that emotional attachments are the cause all suffering in life.  Karma is the result of choices based on suffering resulting from emotional attachments. 

Karma is influenced by the lessons that we have chosen to learn.  Errors in life must be understood and remedied to be healed.  Our lessons must be learned to move past the energetic mess we have made with our negative choices.  Karma is the act of learning the lessons and replacing negative choices and actions with positive choices and actions, which will attract more positive choices and change. 

Karma is also instrumental in fulfilling agreements made while preparing to enter the current lifetime.  We all make soul agreements with our guides and with our soul groups regarding the lessons that will be learned, and a tragic event or a terminal illness may be the agreed upon circumstances to create the learning experience.  For example, a person who has suffered life-long chronic illness or injury may not be resolving karma from causing others to physically suffer in past lives.  The karma playing out could be a way of learning to receive or to be patient. 

So how does Reiki healing help karmic resolution?  If the karmic situation has its roots in past life circumstances, Reiki can help to provide space to learn the karmic lesson associated with the prior events.  The Reiki session itself is a meditative space that will allow the receiver to connect with still, small voice of the soul, providing insight into the relationship between current circumstances and past life experiences. 

Also, because Reiki energy healing works first on the high vibration energy body it will impact the high vibrational thoughts, beliefs, and emotions.  These thoughts, beliefs, and emotions can be directly tied to karmic issues such as explained fears or phobias.  Clearing out these thoughts, beliefs, and emotions can clear the karmic energy associated with them, leading to release and healing. 

Karma is a natural law that dictates that one will receive the same energy that one puts out into the universe.  This can happen quickly, or it may take lifetimes to fully resolve.  Reiki can have an impact on one’s karmic journey by providing gentle, quiet space to explore the karmic reasons for current events.  Reiki will also strengthen, support, and clear the energy body of residual negative energy resulting from thoughts and beliefs reaped from past actions and experiences.