Guided Reiki Meditation: Loving Heart Embrace to Help You Relax [10 mins]
Friends! Today I have for you a short, guided reiki meditation that will help you relax and recharge. As you may already know, I am a big, BIG believer of meditation and its power to help you heal. Emotional, physical and mental. This 10-minute meditation is here for you to try completely for free. You can also download it for free if you subscribe to my newsletter [See sidebar.].
This meditation, which I am calling “Loving Heart Embrace,” is infused with energetic cleansing and charging using reiki energy.
In this post, I’ll explain what this meditation is intended to do and why it works. Here is Loving Heart Embrace, a guided reiki meditation that will help you relax and recharge.
WHY THIS MEDITATION WORKS
There are all kinds of meditations. Meditations to move energy, meditations to strengthen certain energy centers (chakras), meditations to connect with your intuition, and meditations to connect with higher beings, just to name a few.
I created the Loving Heart Embrace meditation primarily for the beginner meditator. It is intended to help you relax and be open to receive the reiki energy that accompany the sound file. Advanced meditators who are looking for a quick relaxation might like this one, too.
This guided reiki meditation will benefit you in the following ways.
IT IS PROTECTED AND SUPPORTED BY HIGHER BEINGS OF LIGHT
Although you cannot hear it, this meditation starts with an invocation of higher beings for their help and protection. My invocation includes calling upon Source, archangels, Mother Theresa (my reiki guide) and my divine soul. The meditation also ends by thanking them for their help.
Invocation strengthens and protects the energy work we do. I made these parts silent, because I didn’t want them to get in the way of some folks enjoying the meditation.
I didn’t always use invocation before meditating, and sometimes still don’t. When I first heard my reiki teacher using invocation, I was simply intrigued by the diversity of beings called upon. It was just something that she did.
But somewhere in that experience, and it was pretty fast, I started to feel energy coming in as my teacher would start her invocation. For example, I felt tingling vibrations come down both of my arms as she invoked before a reiki attunement.
Since then, I’ve been invoking and calling upon higher beings for their help regularly before doing spiritual work. Meditations included. And it has made my practice super powerful. I also feel the protection of Love if and when I need it.
Invocation is not about dogma or religion. You can call upon any higher being of light to whom you feel connected.
I will tell you, though, that once you start using invocation in this way, you may connect to your guides differently. For example, while I am far, far from the Christian religion in my daily life, I have come to feel a special connection to Archangel Michael. It’s hard to explain. But yes. We Connect.
If you don’t especially feel for the higher power, that’s okay too. I was there once. That’s why I made these parts silent. For me, I find a world with loving, powerful and helpful beings so much more comforting than one without.
IT CALMS YOUR MIND
I’ve been meditating now for more than two decades. Silently, following guided ones, sitting alone or with other people, and walking alone or with other people. Strenuous breath techniques, or not. But if there is one common theme across all these different ways, is that meditation calms your mind.
By design, you are placing your attention on something. In this case, my voice and the music behind it. You also try to let go of all other thoughts.
I have a very active mind. Even after all these years, it is a constant practice to let go and surrender. In some ways, my mind feels even more wayward than before. Somewhere inside, I must be thinking that I already know how to do this, so I don’t have to try so hard.
That’s the trick, though. It is a constant process. A practice.
We all have good days and bad days. But the trick is to endeavor.
Loving Heart Embrace was recorded to help you relax and let go. When your mind is calm, it is easier for your body to relax. When you’re relaxed in mind and body, you free up your own energy to heal. It also opens you up more to the flow of energy from other sources.
IT IS PROGRAMMED WITH ENERGETIC CLEANSING.
This meditation starts to clean your energy body from the get-go. I learned how to cleanse energy through my reiki mastership program. The idea is that there may be blockages or blocakages that prevents ideal flow and functioning of your energy body.
All disease manifests first in your body’s energetic form. We all have an energetic blueprint of our physical body. Our emotions, actions, thoughts and interactions with the outside world all have specific impacts on the energy body. What starts as a disturbance in your energy body, over time and accumulation, will manifest as illness in the physical body.
One can cleanse this energy body on their own, through physical purification techniques or meditation. Even physical exercise helps. But in reiki, and certain other healing modalities, a healer can “sweep” an energetic field to remove the disturbance.
In Loving Heart Embrace, I start with general cleansing of the listener’s energy body. From head to toe, front and back, and all around the sides. This clears up your energy body for what comes next, the recharge.
IT FILLS YOU UP WITH REIKI ENERGY
After the sweeping of disturbance in your energy field, I call upon all of the symbols of Usui and Karuna reiki to fill you up. Usui reiki is the first level of reiki, and has five main symbols. Each symbol has different aspects or frequencies. Karuna reiki is a higher level of reiki that includes eight symbols. Reiki energy is pure white light and cannot do any harm.
Each of the reiki symbols, or energies, are said to be intelligent. This means that they know where to go even if the practitioner does not. It is beyond the scope of this post to go into the details of each reiki symbols. But some of the frequencies represented include: strengthening, balancing, cleansing, healing of past lives, healing at the cellular level, peace, grounding, heart-based love, and manifestation.
The bulk of this meditation is programmed with sending you all these energies. I recorded a session of healing on top of the sound files.
Talk about being recharged, right?
Okay. This was probably more detail than you needed to understand what you’re getting in this meditation. But, it being the first one that I created for you, I wanted to give you a proper introduction to what I’m doing and why.
I hope you find this meditation helpful in your mindfulness and/or healing journey. I would love, love to know if you liked it.
This post was all about Loving Heart Embrace, a free guided reiki meditation that is designed to help you relax and recharge.