Being in service to others

[paddy]

Anyone want to try to transform friends and family around them?

I'll offer that some care be taken in this regard. I think for many with difficult family situations it may be difficult to hold feelings of goodwill in a disciplined way toward fellow family members. I also think that attempting to manipulate situations energetically may backfire in some cases.

An example of this may come from a story of Reiki. The story of Dr. Mikao Usui, a founder of modern practice, who apparently worked in the slums attempting to liberate people from their horrible conditions. At some point he became disillusioned with the effort, where his choice for the suffering people was not aligned to the choices of the suffering people who perpetuated their suffering. It may be a story of good intentions crashing up against the principle of freewill infringement. Out of this experience, Usui was able to develop the 5 principles of Reiki (which may help a person align, as they choose to do so, to the idea of improving their condition.)

As a person develops their understanding of Reiki healing, at some point they may learn to open themselves as a channel and move their conscious mind aside to better allow the intelligence of the energy flow in ways best. Such detachment from outcome have been shown to be effective at improving situations without a sense of manipulation or infringement. I think also, such a detached neutral perspective may be easier to sustain, than say holding insincere feelings of goodwill, for some ill situations that many people may be confronted with.


paddy