A question which we are asked very often is why we would need a healing system like Reiki in our lives. One reason, one of the most important. is for our emotional and mental health. In our lives today we face so many stresses and anxieties that most of us ignore. For example, how many of us take into account the stress of driving around in an overcrowded and polluted city like Delhi? Have you ever noticed how tense and on edge you feel combating all that traffic day in and day out? Think about it. And what about all those queues we must face, whether in a government building or in an embassy or even at the milk depot? These little frustrations, although we may not realize it, sap us of our energy and drive, making us listless and without enthusiasm. One of our favourite examples about the miracles we have seen with Reiki is the one with traffic jams. There are loads of traffic jams all over Delhi, and yet when we go into Delhi we face none, because we always give the situation Reiki so that by the time we reach the red-light it turns to green and we are on our way. It never ever fails. In fact, this is the first thing that most of our students learn to do with their Reiki.

Back to the stresses and strains of daily life. What these small little problems do is that they sap our energy and leave us drained and unable to do what is really important to us. Think about it. In the morning, on your way to work you get stuck in a traffic jam that gets you late for work. You reach the office in a bad frame of mind, fretting and fuming and the next thing you know is that your boss is yelling at you for being late. That gets you even more mad, so you yell at the person under you and he messes up the important project you are working on and that leads to another yelling from the boss and you get to stay back at the office to work late. You leave the office and get stuck in another traffic jam and that really sets your teeth on edge. You get home and you find that your family is annoyed with you because you were supposed to take them for a movie but got stuck at work. So by the time you get to bed you are in a really foul mood and you cant sleep because what the boss said to you keeps on playing back in your mind and now you’re even feeling scared that you might lose your job and how are you going to pay for your car if that happens?

When you have a spiritual tool like Reiki,  then not only can you deal with the big problems in your life but also with the daily stresses and strains that you face. By ridding yourself of these irritations you are then left with a whole lot more energy and enthusiasm to tackle the tasks that hold true value and importance in your life. If, for example, you could be sure that you are going to have a good day at office and you don’t have to face rush hour traffic, you get to your office with an already positive frame of mind. You get cracking at your project with a positive attitude and your enjoyment then affects all those around you and then everyone becomes positive and a team feeling is engendered where everyone remembers they are working towards a common goal. And this is just one example. There are so many hundreds of ways in which you can enrich the quality of your life using the help of the Reiki energy. You can feel constantly safe and protected and go about your life without fearing anything, secure in the knowledge that you are always capable of dealing with whatever you face in life. Can you imagine having that kind of peace in today’s troubled times where most people don’t even trust their own neighbors for anything? And the best part is that to achieve this confidence all you have to do is receive an attunement or initiation from a Reiki Master, which takes all of ten minutes.

Another very big change that can occur with Reiki is that of a change in attitude. If you pay attention to what is going on around you, you will come to the realization that very few people have anything good to say about anything. A very good reflection of this is our newspapers. This shows us that our society today has become very negative and pessimistic in its approach. If you have a happy family life it is an exception, if you are satisfied with your job there has to be something wrong with you, if you try and share your happiness with your friends they will probably tell you that it can’t last. Have you ever noticed? It is sad to see that society today takes for granted that the world is a bad place and that if anything good happens then there must be something fishy going on behind it. And if you check your reaction to this statement you will probably find yourself thinking, “ but its true!” What we don’t remember is that society is made up of individuals and that it is these individuals acting collectively who decide what the attitude of the whole will be. Life has a habit of living up to our expectations so if you expect the worst that is what you will get.  One of the first things learnt in Reiki is to take responsibility for your actions and thoughts as an individual. When you can do this and accept that as a human being you owe yourself and your children a safe and wonderful world to live in then you can begin to have a beneficial effect on the environment and that section of your society that you live in. It is not enough for you to think that someone else will clean up the world for you. Reiki offers you a simple but extremely effective way of doing this, without your having to make any drastic changes in your way of thinking or your way of life.