Reiki and the Drama Of Life

When I went to see my aunt, I was having a cold. 'You have caught a cold?' she exclaimed. 'Yes, why?' 'You are a Reiki channel and yet you caught a common cold!', she exclaimed rather sarcastically.

I was taken aback by her response, but have since grown used to similar comments.

I know of some Reiki channels who no longer practice Reiki because they were disappointed. They were told initially that once you practiced Reiki regularly, within one week, whoever wore spects would no longer need them. Of course that didn't happen and that made them lose faith on a beautiful self-healing system.

Some people have the misconception that after becoming a Reiki channel, one won't be affected by any disease or misfortune. Just pause for a moment and think. What for have we been given this human form? It is only the humans who can rationalize, who have the freedom of choice. In all other life forms, everything is programmed. When they feel hungry, they will eat, when they feel sleepy, they will sleep.

Only man has the choice to do fasting, or postpone sleep when he has to meet a deadline. By rationalizing and choosing the right path in life, it is possible for a human being to attain salvation. The human body form has been granted to us to strive and reach the ultimate.

The path to any treasure is strewn with thorns and stones. Likewise, the journey to salvation is tough one, not only that, there are many tests in between. Just as a child has to prove his proficiency to go from first standard to second standard, we have to pass many tests before reaching the ultimate goal. So, for onlookers, a spiritually inclined person may seem to be suffering.

In reality, spirituality is not about controlling the circumstances and events. It is about controlling your inner self. We come to realize that spirituality is becoming in unison with the nature's laws. An inner strength develops to be in tune with nature.

We come across people who suffer throughout life from similar type of incidences again and again. Each incidence in our lives is planned to teach us some lesson in life. The moment we grasp that particular lesson, similar incidence will no longer recur.

With any event in life, we have two approaches. One is to drown in self-pity. There is nothing more damaging in life than the 'why me?' questioning. "What did I do to deserve this type of suffering?" is one thing which all of us must have asked at least once in our lifetime.

When something good happens in our lives, we never ask ourselves a similar question. Because we think we rightfully deserve all good things in life. We never hesitate to own up the responsibility for our success in life, but failures? That is entirely different matter. We will pin the reasons for failures on luck, cheating by our friends or anything else.

Instead of wallowing in self-pity and cursing the circumstances, you can adopt the second approach. Believe firmly that the particular event has a lesson in it for you to grasp. Analyse the incidence, detaching yourself from it. Look at it like a third person. And then the lesson will be so glaringly evident that you wonder how you had missed it earlier. Now imbibe that lesson in your life and you will again be on your forward path.

If we analyse our lives carefully in retrospective, we will realise that there is nothing like coincidence. Each event has been a loop in the chain of life. It is like a big jigsaw puzzle. Due to our shortsightedness, we see only the pieces and get confused. In fact, each piece fits in perfectly into the full picture.

The fact that everything is preordained, is a depressing thought. Does it mean that we can't have any influence on the course of life? Consider an example- there is a black board, which is our life. If we want to make it pure white, it may not be possible. But life is not a black board, it is a blue board. If you add yellow (your thought out actions) to the board, you can change the color to green.

It is said that life is a drama, we are only actors. Our role has already been fixed. Don't get disheartened by that. Even if we are here to perform our role, don't you think that we should perform to the best of our ability?

Now coming back to the question we started with, about a Reiki channel catching cold, it will be interesting to know that though they do, it gets over within two or three days. This cannot be explained by medical science, because according to that, a person takes seven days to be freed from common cold.