This exercise creates a trusting and open relationship with others. Reiki is about opening up your heart and living life in a compassionate, loving way. Here is a technique to open the heart up to each other.
- Stand opposite your partner.
- Make and maintain eye contact throughout the whole exercise.
- Place your palms flat against theirs (right against left).
- Your right hand gently clasps their left wrist (your partner doing the same).
- When you feel the link is made at eye-to-eye level and you begin to feel your partner’s energy place their left hand on your heart chakra (your partner doing the same).
- Stay like this until you feel you have opened enough and exchanged enough energy. This could be as little as 30 seconds or as long as 20 minutes.
- Now move your hands so that you and your partner are palm to palm again.
- Slowly bring all four hands together to form a diamond shape between index fingers and thumbs, your hands still palm to palm.
- Bring this up to eye level and maintain your eye-to-eye contact through the diamond’s centre. Stay like this for a moment, maintaining eye contact.
- Raise your arms up as far as you can reach above, still maintaining eye-to-eye and palm-to-palm contact.
- Let go of your partner and fan your arms slowly out horizontally and then embrace each other.