The Chi Activation Precepts

If you’ve learned Reiki, you know it has five precepts.

Think of them as something like a cross between Reiki philosophy and affirmations.

They are powerful because they help our mind run on a constructive operating system.

They help us live intentionally.

They help us choose our thoughts and emotions so we are not simply reacting unconsciously to the world around us.

So we are not simply living according to the societaldefault mode.

Because if we aren’t intentional, that is what is going to happen.

We will mirror the world around us as we unconsciously absorb its values, and its thought and emotional patterns.

But by programming our mind each day with the Reiki precepts, we can harness a more constructive ‘operating system’.

We can get our mind thinking about things that actually matter.

We can focus on how we want to show up in the world.

And it was with this in mind that I created my seven Chi Activation precepts.

They are the operating systems that I wanted to instil into my mind at the start of each day.

They are my attempt to program my mind before the world does it for me.

Reflect on them. Share them, and use them if they resonate.

Using the Chi Activation Precepts

The Chi Activation precepts are all about training ourselves to focus on and feel the things that matter.

They are all about energy and ‘connectivity’.

They are about being the most radiant being that we can be.

Like most things, the effect of working with them will fade, so we need to continue to stoke their fire. Otherwise, we will understand their worth intellectually but no longer feel them in our heart and body.

So the best way to practise them is to meditate on them daily, and as you do so, try to feel the energy behind them in your body.

(Note: I currently teach the Chi Activation precepts in my CA Master Level, but I’m sharing them here so more people can use them. The following explanations are taken from the Master Level manual).

Explanation of the Seven CA Precepts

Precept 1: I am one with energy.

Chi Activation (life in general!) is all about energy. It is about learning to tune into it, to harmonise with it, to connect to it, to flow with it.

Feeling a ‘oneness’ with energy is the ultimate in energetic connectivity. So focusing on this, intending this with the precept, helps us to connect to energy in a richer, fuller, more powerful way.

Precept 2: I am one with perfect health.

As it says in the Bible: our body is our temple.

Near everything we perceive in our life comes through the ‘filter’ of our body. So it will always have a big say in our experience of the world.

Naturally, we do not know our ‘destiny’, and it is probably too much to hope to be in perfect health all the time.

That said, we can give ourselves the best chance of optimum health by energetically intending it, by energetically harmonising with the intention.

We feel the energy of perfect health in our body, and this helps manifest perfect health in physical form.

We go from idea to substance (“In the beginning was the Word…”).

Precept 3: I am one with my intuition.

Intuition is our inner GPS. It cuts through mental clatter and through emotional confusion. It tells us how to act

Our intuition is always speaking to us, the challenge is simply to hear it. So often, it is drowned out by a tsunami of thoughts and emotions, by the hurly-burly of our day, by our rush to get things done.

So to hear it, we need to slow down (at least on the inside). We need to find a place of inner calm and stillness.

Then, from that place, our intuition will shine forth loud and clear.

Meditating on this precept creates the inner space and intent to do this.

It lets us practise tapping into our intuition in good conditions, so we can then do so in harder ones.

It helps us tune into the totality of our being with our ‘higher senses’ so that, over time, they become a natural extension of us.

It is like hearing your name spoken amid a babble of voices. Somehow, despite the acoustic chaos, you hear it.

You do this because it is meaningful to you. You do this because you have practised hearing your name.

In time, your intuition can be like this.

The world around you might be full of sound and fury, but even so, you can still pluck your intuition’s suggestions from out of the chaos.

Precept 4: I am one with the flow.

Everything is impermanent.

Everything is in a state of flow.

We live in a single ‘cosmic soup’, an ocean of energy of which we are all a part.

The Second Noble Truth of Buddhism states that ‘Desire or attachment lead to suffering’, and this is true.

We want things, and we want to hold onto them.

We feel good, we feel great love for a person, and we want such states to last.

We dream of permanent, unchanging well-being (bliss, etc.).

But since everything is in a constant state of flux, of change, then trying to keep things fixed and permanent will only lead to pain.

We will be torn from whatever we cling to, and suffering will be the result.

But the more we can learn to go with the flow, to ride energy in whatever form it takes and whatever direction it goes, the more we will enjoy the ‘rush’ of life without being torn apart by change.

At its most fundamental level, everything is energy. So this precept is about connecting to that energy and flowing with it.

A stick caught in the current of a swift stream can have an exhilarating ride. But if the stick tries to battle the current, it will be torn apart.

So, practise this precept. Learn to flow with the energetic/emotional/thought currents around you and enjoy the feeling of aliveness this gives you.

Precept 5: I am one with my Higher Self

We are body, and we are spirit.

Two entities inhabiting the one space.

One of the keys to life is learning to have a foot in both worlds.

We enjoy the physical world we inhabit, but even as we do so, we stay connected (plugged into) our spiritual side.

Here, I am not talking about what we do and what we think. I’m talking about a feeling within us, a feeling of connectivity to something greater.

While people will define our Higher Self in many different ways, I like to see it as the higher aspect of ourselves that transcends the physical part of our being.

It is the spirit within us.

It is the part of our being that stays connected to Source, the part of our being that can see the totality of our being (in all of its incarnations and planes of existence).

It understands the reasons for our present incarnation on Earth.

It understands our purpose.

And it is always there to guide us, if only we tune into it.

But to do this we have to tune into the part of our being that transcends the physical, to find a place of inner calm and stillness.

Hence the value of this precept. It helps us to create the space and inner state to do this.

We open up our being to communion with our Higher Self, and we drink from its wisdom.

Precept 6: I am one with love.

Spiritual practice always needs to be infused with love. Otherwise, we can be so determined to find enlightenment, to improve ourselves, that we become disconnected from this crucial part of our being and, as a result, from the world around us.

Love is the great ‘connector’.

Love lifts us up and charges us with energy.

Love makes us feel whole and complete within ourselves.

So meditating on this precept is an opportunity to swim in the energetic seas of love, to feel its energetic embrace.

It gives a warmth and comfort to our practice, so we never feel lonely and isolated – even if we are working on ourselves in solitude.

Precept 7: I am one with all that is.

Call it God, Source, the Universe, or as I’ve chosen, ‘all that is’.

Whatever name we give it, it is the Oneness. It is the greater ‘something’ of which we are all a part. It is the great Cosmic Soup.

So connecting to the Oneness, to ‘all that is’, helps us to connect to our essence on its most fundamental level.

We come from Source. We are part of Source. We are one with Source.

Meditating on this plugs us into something greater than ourselves, and curiously, into the source of energy we draw from when we channel Chi Activation.

And like when we meditate on ‘love’, it helps us to feel whole and happy, even when we are alone.