I have lived with Reiki for 26 years. I believe that my soul understood Reiki perfectly, from the very beginning. My conscious mind has been gradually catching up, gradually understanding more about what is happening when I offer my hands.

Of course, I am offering more than my hands. I am offering my heart and my presence. I am offering Reiki, I am offering a connection to the Light.

What is Reiki? None of us know. Even Usui Sensei said he was not certain. But it seems to me that our connection reaches to the realms of pure light, and we become available to a great consciousness. When we allow Reiki to flow through us, we surrender to something that is beyond our understanding and yet fundamental to our being.

The Reiki path is a path of surrender. In offering Reiki, we let go of so very much of ourselves. But in so doing, our deepest aspect is revealed. My essence, your essence, the essence in all of us, seems to be composed of this same Light. When our essence recognizes Reiki, we are bliss through and through.

This morning, I woke out of a Reiki reverie, my hands on my heart, understanding more what happens to us when Reiki flows through us, and how that affects the experience of the receiver.

As Reiki flows, I become the light that I truly already was, and when I am in that state and I look at you, I see the light that you already are. I see you as completely precious, fundamentally intact, spiritually perfect.

I see you and Reiki sees you and you are seen, in all your intrinsic glory.

Perhaps Reiki is Love. I think so. If not, it is Love’s next door neighbor. They occupy the same vicinity, over there in the realms of pure light. Over here in the realm of pure light, because the Light is everywhere.

And do buds not bloom beneath the light? Are we not more able to be our true selves when we are truly witnessed?

If you are like me, in some moments, you struggle to let go. You fight against surrender. In some moments, we are exquisitely present, and in other moments, presence is like gravel in our veins. But eventually, we do let go. In each of us, there is a part of us who understands that we are only letting go into our essence.

As we become Light together, so very much becomes possible. Beyond our imagining, beyond our intention, fundamental and relentless, there is the healing power of the Light.