The Reiki Principles are more than a practitioner's "Hippocratic Oath."  If you repeat them daily as a mantra of sorts, it will help in restoring and maintaining a calm mind and heart. 

The Reiki Principles are principles for living.  Repetition creates familiarity.  When one is familiar it becomes easy.  The instructions contained in them create a harmonious spirit.  A harmonious spirit is at peace with the world.  Peaceful spirits attract blessing.

Why not?  When we were born, it was the kindness of others that protected and clothed and fed us.  It's only natural to return that kindness.  But to show kindness to those who may be indifferent to us, or even despise and hate us, is to rise above.  By rising above, we are also lifting them up.  By lifting them up, we lift up ourselves, because we all are truly One.  The leaves on a tree do not attack the trunk, nor do the roots attack the leaves.

A peaceful spirit affects not only itself, but others around it.  There are noticeable affects on one's attitude, disposition, and ultimately their physical health.  The affect of a peaceful spirit reduces stress, thus allowing the physical body to use its preventative and curative energies without interference.

Twice each day is the way to infuse this into our consciousness.  It doesn't take any time at all.  By holding my hands in prayer I include and involve my body in the practice.  I show reverence for life, for kindness, gratitude, humility, and appreciation.  This promotes enthusiasm.

Letting yesterday dissolve into the nothingness it is, and tomorrow be an empty vessel, I can be accepting of Today.  I live life Today, right now - not yesterday, not tomorrow.  I do not allow the negative-ness of worry and anger to stain my Now. 

My mind is sometimes a restless child.  Unless I give it something positive to do, it finds negative things to do.  By contemplating these verses daily I am training my mind to think positively and peacefully.

It's not possible to be grateful and not humble.  It's not possible to be humble and not grateful.  We are not the Source, but the Source lives in us.  We are inter-dependant on all of Creation.  Gratitude destroys anger.  Humility destroys worry.  This verse gives the positive attributes with which to replace the negative.

I chant to involve my body further.  The sounds vibrate my entire body from the inside, and my hearing from the outside.  I am creating a perpetual vibration field around me when I chant using my mouth to form the words, my tongue to shape the vowels and consonants, my lungs to create the force, my throat to expel the air, my larynx to create the resonance, and my ears to receive the gift of sound.

When we appreciate what we have, we cherish it and it becomes something precious.  "Your work" here is your life's purpose.  By fulfilling our life's purpose, we are fulfilled as well.  Like a good meal fills us, but does not make us full, fulfilling our life's purpose completes us but does not burn us out.  It gives meaning to our existence.

I am not plagued by afflictive emotions which create havoc in my body.  Having made this part of my practice, I improve a little bit each day, each time I practice the mantra, each time I share Reiki energy with others.  I Am Whole.  I Am One.

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