REIKI AND THE VIBRATION OF TRANSFORMATION

 

 

 

TAKING RESPONSIBILITY IN LIFE THE ELEVATION OF VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCY

 

"What the caterpillar calls "the end of the world", the master calls "butterfly"."

 

 

REIKI AND THE VIBRATION OF TRANSFORMATION

 

Growing is never easy, and everyone has their own pace, but a person's real evolutionary path cannot exclude a minimum degree of understanding of the tools they intend to use and, most importantly, a conscious and responsible acceptance of them. Reiki is not a game or an experiment to be taken lightly, nor is it a universal panacea that allows one to escape the challenges of everyday reality.

Reiki is an extraordinary and wonderful means of personal growth. But is the human being truly willing to grow? Often, we believe we want to grow while simultaneously, at an unconscious level, resisting any attempt at transformation with all our might. Powerful and often unconscious fears push us to present ourselves in ways that do not correspond to reality. Thus, we give life to various false selves.

 

 

The person hiding behind a false self replaces authentic action with living "as if." They create, as everyone does, their own balance, but even that balance becomes an aspect of the "as if." In an individual's life—which is also that of a person, or "mask" according to the Latin etymology—there are essentially two different ways of facing experience, which, although in opposition, often intertwine.

 

 

FALSE OR TRUE

 

In extremely simplified terms, this bipolar pair can be described as follows: the mode of "as if" and the mode of "authenticity."

The mode of "as if" finds expression in what resembles daydreaming, in phantasmatic living, in illusion. The "as if" elegantly and effortlessly wears the veil of Maya. The "as if" is the realm of the Ego that holds back, that merely observes, that stands outside the experience. The "as if" identifies only with the "as if," with illusion itself: it is deceit and subtle self-satisfaction. As a result, its highest expression consists of denying being "as if."

 

 

The mode of "authenticity," on the other hand, manifests in total identification with the real experience (being present in the here and now), which, paradoxically, brings with it a high "risk": the loss of the Ego in its experience. This is going beyond the art of self-deception, engaging in the process, opening up to change, and recognizing the pain usually hidden... Only a strong, mature, harmonious Ego centered on the heart plane can desire such a risk, because it seeks authentic expressions and does not allow itself to be dominated by fear—a potential driving force, but more often a powerful inhibiting factor—of dissolving into the experience and no longer being present in the world. Only a spiritually evolved Ego or one that has done much self-work and experiences the authentic acceptance of the Self can face the fear that would otherwise push it to the "safe" tower of the "as if," the realm of the virtual.

Presence, being-in-the-world (for the primitives), or identity (for contemporaries) represent enormous, indispensable values for the Ego. Consequently, the crisis of presence or the identity crisis represents the dark side of the coin: panic. It is logical to think that every being clings with all their might to a certain, stable, and lasting identity and that, to achieve this, they need to maintain the various and multifaceted parts that make them up in an equally certain, stable, and lasting balance.

 

 

 

THE FALSE PERSONALITY

 

After all, each of us has spent a lifetime becoming what we are, starting from thousands of reference models of identification until we become particular, original, unique. This is our greatest masterpiece, the thing we are most attached to: the "False Personality," the "Mirror of the Reflection of the Self," the mask, the "Character."

A balance, even if not authentic or the result of a thousand defenses and compromises, is still fundamental to the survival of the human being. Only with a certain degree of balance can we cope with the countless demands of daily reality, which "impose" on us to remain steadfastly identical despite the constant changing of content. Consequently, any attack on our personal balance will tend to be avoided or confronted with all our might. If this defensive mode safeguarded the real, authentic balance of a person, we could certainly say that it demonstrates enormous evolutionary value. But more often than not, it chains us to our Character, to rigidity, to the status quo, to immobility.