While you are practising Reiki, you should also ensure that your lifestyle is such which keeps your energy body clean, positive and strong. This will be very favourable to your Reiki healing practices.
- Stop or minimize caffeine drinks (e.g. coffee, tea, soft drinks, chocolate etc.). They create imbalance in the nervous and endocrine system and hence in the energy body.
- Stop alcohol intake.
- Minimize taking sweets and white sugar products.
- Stop or minimize smoking.
- Refrain from eating meat. Such foods contain lot of toxins secreted by animal during killing. Moreover, meat is considered Tamsik food with lot of negative energy.
- Do occasional fasting with water and fruit juices. It will keep your system clean.
- Relax and meditate regularly. Sitting postures of meditation (with straight spine) help a lot for balancing your pranic flow in the body.
- Reduce time in watching TV, listening to Radio, reading newspapers and stray magazines. Excessive involvement in these things distract the mind and thereby affect the balance of energy body.
- Go for regular walks in morning/evening in fresh air. Do moderate exercises and yogasanas with special emphasis on spinal exercises to keep it supple and straight.
- Drink water stored in copper vessels. Water charged with copper becomes filled with positive energy. Magnetized water is equally good.
- Do Pranayama or breathing exercises. They are very effective in balancing and strengthening your energy field. Specially develop the habit of rhythmic and diaphragmatic breathing as your moment to moment resting breathing. It has a very benevolent effect in maintaining a healthy aura.
- Spend time with nature whenever you get opportunity. Take sunbath in the morning. Fire element of our body is easily rejuvenated by sunbath.
- Have regular water bath and do friction rubbing of body either by hand or by bath brush before bathing. Bathing in flowing river water is very good. Occasional bathing with salt water helps in cleansing the negative energy as salt has the characteristic of breaking down the negative energy. Among salts, sea salt is said to be especially useful.
- Some people do foot soaking in salt water. Water can be lukewarm, hot or cold depending upon your body’s demand at a particular time. This is a very effective method for removing the negative energy of the body through the feet which is sucked by salt water. After foot soaking, this water should be thrown into water channel because this water becomes impure after absorbing negativity.
- Foot soaking in salt water is said to clear our Swadhisthana and Solar Plexus chakra.
- Walk barefoot on earth specially near river and countryside and on grass wet with morning dew. The earth element sucks lot of negativity through our feet and clear our Mooladhara chakra (or Root chakra). Sole chakra is an extension of Root chakra and is related directly to it. Sole chakra is also said to be related to Heart chakra.
- Increase your awareness and attention in every task you do. This will increase your power and sensitivity to sense subtle impressions and sensations within and around you.
- Laugh a lot. Laughing is a potent medicine for supplying you with instant positive energy. If you find difficult to laugh in your normal life routine, then read jokes in magazines/books, see comedy serials on TV, read entertainment columns of magazines etc. Also develop the habit of cutting and hearing jokes frequently (within limits of decency). Try to wear a natural smile on your face. This will keep you effortlessly positive.
- Be aware of negative emotions (e.g. anger, fear, jealousy, hate, worry, impatience, hurry, revenge, etc.). Whenever they are arising in you, nip them in the bud at the very outset. Negative emotions throw your energy body completely out of balance
- Take some measures for keeping your home and work environment clean for creating a positives energy field as mentioned below:
- Evaporate pure camphor crystals. An easy way to do it is with the help of an electronic mosquito repellent. Place the camphor on a used mat. This way the camphor evaporates very slowly over many hours.
- Burn incense (‘Agarbatti’s and ‘Dhoops’). Their smell also purifies the energy of the surroundings.
- Following oils have the power to create positive energy and neutralize negative energy. Hence burn oil lamp of the following oils:
(a) Mustard oil
(b) Sesame (Til) oil
(c) Ghee or clarified butter
Candle burning also neutralizes negative energy and creates positive energy. ‘Trataka’ on candle flame is very good because its light clears out the negative energy. This practice is said to clear Ajna Chakra.
Salt water specially sea-salt water has great potential for neutralizing negative energy. One can mop the floor with sea-salt water or one can even keep a bowl of sea-salt water in a corner of the room. Every now and then put the bowl in the sun for a few hours and top it up and also change the water completely after certain days.
Fresh cut flowers with leaves and stems intact, placed in water in a vase or bowl and indoor plants are great positive energy generators and negative energy neutralizers. Yellow, orange and blue/violet flowers are quite good for this purpose.
Use those colours in your surroundings (room walls, curtains, carpet, furniture, wearing clothes) which promote positive energy and transmute negative energy. Such colours are white, blue-violet, green, yellow, orange, rose etc. Even visualizing these colours in meditation helps you in getting their positive energy.
Just like colours, there are certain sounds which generate positive energy and transmute negative energy. All Satwik sounds and music come under this category.
These sounds are found generally in old melodious songs and music, devotional songs, soul stirring bhajans, classical music, flute music, sound vibrations generated by blowing into a conch shell (‘Shankh’) and sounds simulating nature sounds e.g. sound of waterfall, flowing river, moving breeze, chirping of birds etc. By listening to such sounds, you always feel calm, centred, joyful and elevated. On the other hand, the modern Rajasik music like pop music only gives momentary thrill and excitement and hence it is not good for energy body.
Foodgrains, specially rice (uncooked), have the capacity to absorb and transmute negative energies. In particular, on the eleventh day of the waxing and waning moon cycle, this absorption is at a maximum. This day is called ‘Ekadasi’ (eleventh day). Hence they are kept in ‘Pooja’ (worship) places.
Tulsi leaves are very effective in destroying the negative energy and purifying the atmosphere by creating positive energy. Hence always keep Tulsi plants in your terrace/balcony.
Chanting of Mantras and Nam-Japas creates an energy pure environment mainly because of effect of pure sound vibrations. However, mental japa of mantras is equally effective in purifying the environment because the pure though vibrations created by mental japa also act on the energy atmosphere around because of the relationship between thought and life energy.
