Often we don't recognize miracles, because they don't come with a neat label - Bagust

 
   
 
Little Miracles

 

When you experienced First Degree Reiki, you learned that Reiki is balance. You experienced the balance of the two faces of Reiki, both the:


“Spiritual Medicine of Many Illnesses”

and the

“Secret Method of Inviting Happiness”


Now you know, from your own experience, that Reiki is balance. Through working with Reiki energy, and through living the Reiki principles, you will find that balance is now in your life, because Reiki works on all levels, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual and the spiritual.


You will have experienced for yourself that Reiki is a healing energy. You will have found on the physical level that Reiki speeds wound healing time, or lowers blood pressure, or reduces stress, or is effective in managing pain.


You will have discovered that Reiki complements other healing practices.


You will have also found that Reiki works not just on humans, but on other species that share our world: on animals and plants as well as on uncooperative machinery.


If you have incorporated Reiki into your daily devotions, you will have found that Reiki even enhances the food we eat and the water we drink.


By incorporating the Reiki Principles into your life, you may also be at the stage on your journey when you discover that your journey through life itself is getting far easier.


You may discover that your daily round is easier to manage, because you are choosing daily to react with non-anger and non-worry, you are choosing to count your daily blessings, you are choosing to work with honour, and you are choosing to follow the Buddhist path of being kind to all creatures. It is possible you will also start to see a pattern.


At first you reacted to every situation with ego and the learned responses that were part of your social conditioning.


Then, you incorporated the Reiki principles into some chosen situations.


Now, by living the Reiki Principles, you have learned how to stop your ego/conditioning earlier in the cycle of learned responses, or perhaps by now you are free of your ego/conditioning and free to respond to every situation with kindness.


By now you may also have experienced Reiki working on levels in your life that you didn’t anticipate. Think back to your First Degree Reiki class, when your teacher warned you that Reiki is full of little miracles.


Did you experience little miracles?

Little synchronous happenings, that you can’t explain using logic?


You’ll probably find, when you look at your “little miracles” that they helped you deal with a situation in which you experienced discomfort. Not pain, and not fear, just discomfort.


But through these synchronous happenings, you looked at your discomfort at some deep molecular level, and on that level learned you could handle the situation, and learned to accept your own power by bringing balance to all areas of your life.


One point I’d like to emphasise with your little miracles – have you noticed how gentle the learning is? It’s like an amiable nudge that you can accept, or reject, as you please. I have found, in my own journey, a paradox: that Reiki becomes more gentle the stronger it becomes.


Reiki is a Way to Be.

   

One experience:

For your consideration

My own experience in Little Miracles was with children and dogs. I saw small children as both fragile and vulnerable and feared dogs because I had been attacked and treed by a dog when I was a child. But I would emphasise to you that I did coexist with both species, I just didn’t initiate any friendly overtures.

After completing First Degree Reiki, I found that I made the friendly overtures on such a deep level that I didn’t recognize it. Every time I dined out, every unrestrained child would make their way, on their bottoms or their belly or, if they were old enough on their own feet, to rest at my feet and lean against my legs. Some would promptly fall asleep. Others would just lean.

I did notice during these experiences that I lost my discomfort with small children. It was a funny time and I laughed at the experiences, but at the same time I wondered why.

Learning to live with dogs was even funnier.

On Saturday morning I would walk from my flat on the hill down to the real estate agent to pay my rent. It was easily a half-hour walk and every week my friends would come with me for the outing. By the time I’d reached the end of my street I would have five or six dogs walking with me. They didn’t bite, or bark, they did occasionally nuzzle each other and me, but we strolled along enjoying our walk together until we reached the real estate agents. Then my friends would wait outside, although the boys would sometimes get bored and urinate against the awning supports, while I paid my rent and again assured the agents that I didn’t have any pets in the flats, as the rental agent peered suspiciously through the window at the gathering outside on the footpath. Then my friends and I would retrace our steps, with dogs returning to their own yards as we walked past their homes. And I noticed that I lost my discomfort with most dogs, so much so that I now share a home with a dog as well as the cats.

While learning how to live with a dog or interact with a small child is not a story that would make the evening news, it was for me a small miracle that helps me to live my life better than before.

Sue Bagust


May you discern with compassion