The Power of Infinite Reiki

If you’re like most of us, you have one or more needy friends.

They’re the ones who come to you when they’re struggling, when they need emotional support, when they need a safe place to unburden themselves of all their worldly woes.

And so you welcome them into your home. You listen to them patiently. You give them some advice, and when you’re done, they smile, give you a hug, and tell you they feel so much better.

Then, with a spring in their step and a lightness in their heart, they depart, leaving you, more often than not, feeling like a popped balloon.

What’s amazing is that this entire scenario can even play out on the phone.

They can be thousands of miles away. They can be on the other side of the planet, but not long after they start unloading on you, you begin to feel the ‘slime’, and by the time the conversation is over, you’re not feeling much better than a dirty dishrag.

If this has happened to you over and over again with the same person, a part of you might well start scheming up ways to avoid them.

“Oh, I’m terribly sorry,” you can imagine saying, “I’d love to chat, but I have something really pressing to take care of right now.”

“How about tomorrow then?” your imagined conversation partner might reply.

“I, um, tomorrow isn’t good either. I have an appointment.”

“And the day after that?”

“I’m so sorry, this week, it’s just hectic! When things slow down, okay?”

(And if they do, I’ll do my taxes, clean my toilets, watch golf on TV with my father-in-law for five hours, or do whatever is required to stay busy!)

Naturally, a part of you does want to help them out when they’re struggling. You have a good heart. You like to lift people up when they’re down.

But you also have to take care of yourself.

And you don’t want to feel like you’ve just had all the energy sucked out of you, like you’re being forced to digest thirty years of someone else’s stress and anxiety.

And that’s why it can be so tough being a healing type.

You’re sensitive to energy. You feel like you ought to help people. You have more energy than most people – and as a result, they flock to you like moths to the light.

Which is why two of the biggest challenges many healers face are:

Protecting themselves from negative energy.
Avoiding getting drained of energy.

And there are a lot of ways people commonly get energetically drained and slimed.

Bad company.

Bad environments.

Needy friends and acquaintances.

It’s so easy for your environment to twiddle with your energy.

So how do you defend yourself against energy vampires? Against people and places that leave you feeling tainted?

If you’ve been reading my materials for a while, you know there are some excellent methods for ‘protecting’ yourself in the Reiki system, and my favourite three are:

Strengthen your hara (i.e. an energy centre a few centimetres below the navel) and become like a mountain. The mountain is solid. Grounded. So it has no issues with whatever you throw at it: rain, hail, lightning, the storm of the century – it’s all the same to it. It is too solid to be hurt. And that is how you start to feel when you strengthen and develop the hara.
Focus on the positive. Since what you focus on grows, it is easy to make a bad situation worse by focusing on all of its ‘bad’ aspects. And that is why it doesn’t typically help to try to ‘defend’ yourself against negative energy, because the moment you do that, you are focusing on – surprise, surprise – the negative energy. As a result, the negative energy grows along with your ‘shields’ and continues to ‘slime’ you. But if you find and then focus on the positives in any situation, you will ensure that these are the things that grow.
Raise your energy vibration. The idea here is that since like attracts like, you can only get ‘slimed’ if a part of you is vibrating on the ‘slime’ level. So even the most negative of environments won’t be able to harm you unless a part of you shares in the negativity. To make sure that negative energy can’t stick to you, simply do everything you can to raise your energy vibration and, as a result, remove yourself from the negative energy orbit.

These techniques all work wonderfully well, but I would now like to discuss an even more daring one, which I call Infinite Reiki.

Infinite Reiki has an advantage over the other techniques because it won’t just ‘protect’ you from negative energy; it will also, potentially, use the negative energy to increase your energy!

The success of Infinite Reiki is based on the following assumptions:

There is an infinite supply of Reiki energy in the universe.
Anyone who gives Reiki immediately receives some Reiki.
The key to channelling Reiki is intent.
You don’t have to consciously focus on Reiki energy for Reiki energy to flow.
Reiki energy can flow from your entire being, rather than just your hands.

Infinite Reiki works when you set your intent to let Reiki flow through your body to anyone who needs or desires it.

For example, imagine you are in the company of a needy friend who always leaves you feeling drained.

Well now, thanks to Infinite Reiki, the moment you meet such a friend, you will simply intend for Reiki energy – and only Reiki energy! – to flow through you to them in as great a quantity as they require.

After that, you simply sit back and let it happen. If all goes well, they can feast on Reiki energy instead of your energy, and as they draw Reiki energy through you, you will also receive some Reiki.

If you are in a crowd full of energy vampires, you simply intend for anyone who wants energy to take as much Reiki energy – and only Reiki energy! – from you as they want. Then you simply stand back and enjoy Reiki’s energy gift to you as it flows through you to the ‘vampires’.

You can also offer Reiki energy to any place that needs it. Do this and, instead of the place energetically draining you, it will simply fill up on the Reiki energy it draws out of you (and, in the process, you’ll receive a little Reiki as it flows through you).

Finally, as long as you let Reiki energy flow through you, you won’t get slimed. It’s just like when you’re working on a client – you can never catch anything off them.

Giving Reiki somehow keeps you safe. It’s like it creates a protective shield around you.

I can’t say I exactly understand how this works, but in over 20 years of working professionally with Reiki, I’ve never once been slimed by any of my clients.

And the same goes for non-professional settings, when I’ve used Infinite Reiki.

So the beauty of Infinite Reiki is twofold:

You avoid being either energetically drained or ‘slimed’.
You both heal the energy ‘vampires’ and boost your own energy reserves at the same time.

So give it a try. Intend that negative people or places draw as much Reiki energy – and only Reiki energy – through you as they either need or desire, and then sit back and enjoy the results. Reiki energy is infinite, so you can afford to be generous.

(Article by Jeremy O'Carroll)