Reiki Meditation for Healthcare workers

Reiki meditation adapted for presentation at Long Term Care Medicine 2010, the annual meeting of the American Medical Directors Association.

"Now we would like to join together in sharing a common mission, as physicians and health care workers, to give compassion to our patients. When we cannot "Cure," we can continue to "Care."

We recognize that all living beings are connected through a universal spirit or life force, and that part of being a good physician is dispelling loneliness and loss of hope.

We ask that this place be filled with the energy and spirit that binds all living things.

Close your eyes and raise your hands above your head and feel the Universal energy that flows all around us.

Now with your eyes closed, focus on your breathing. Feel with each breath that you are relaxing more and more, relaxing any tension, or stress that you might have.

Now, as you inhale, slowly breathe in radiant light from the top of your head through the spinal column to the center of your abdomen. Fill this area called the tandien below your belly button with this energy.

Feel the radiant light start to expand throughout your body from your tandien point, the inner center of your body. Imagine yourself emitting a brilliant light.

Once we are connected to this energy from a spiritual dimension, you are blessed with the healing energy of love and harmony.

In this space which you create by your breathing and your intention, any unbalanced energy such as worry, anger, sorrow, pain and anxiety simply cannot exist.

Now focus on your exhalation. As you breathe out gradually, expand the energy and brilliant light throughout your body. This light becomes a brilliant shining aura expanding eternally. Once you receive this healing energy of love and harmony, it is important to return it to the earth. As you practice, it is easier to reach this place filled with peace, calm, and a sense of connection.

Remember, you can connect to this place and free yourself from worry and stress whenever you need to do so. Even when you cannot cure your patients, you can help them reach a place of connection.

Now gently open your eyes and stretch your body and fully awaken yourself.

Thank you for sharing a moment of commitment to compassion, kindness, and harmony to our patientys and to all human beings. As we bring ourselves to a palce of calm, we become more effective physicians and happier human beings."



This mediation is adapted an not in exact form of thoseI have been taught. However, the concepts in the meditation are inspired by my training in Gendai Reiki, the system developed by Hiroshi Doi, as taught to me by Amy Rowland and Rick Rivard.

I thank all who have taught and gone before, and all who Share the Journey of compassion.