"If we take responsibility for being mindful, and directing Reiki with our intent, where does our intent come from? Where does the intent of the recipient come from?"
I, personally, do not "direct" Reiki during a session. My intent/purpose/job is to enter a state where there are no words and I feel the flow.
I am periphally (sp?) vigilant/mindful of dispensing intellectualization or rationalization or verbal labelling during the process.
I also am periphally aware of a need to move/stay. These are not words; it is more an "urge", as opposed to self-talk such as "I need to go there".
This is done within the framework of the traditional positions, which I use as an outline, and the practitioner and recipient fill in the blanks.
I think the "messages/urges" come from a level beyond intellectual, and so it is important for me to keep the intellect out of the process, along with other verbal or ego manifestations. I am me, but not me as I function in the normal day.
That is my mindfulness. That is my intent.
Perhaps the intelligence of the sender and receiver is at a level of intelligence beyond what we know as intellectual intelligence.
Perhaps we do not need to know, nor can we know, what it is, while we are in this form. But we can become alert to it and respond to it. Words are labels, boxes, and subject to personal projections and interpretations.
I'll never understand what the process is.
I gave that up.....I just try to develop my abilities to lessen the interference of intellectual and the rational "I", and develop sensitivity to the energy existance.
That is why I feel there are other levels of awareness by the practitioner and recipient, and we let them come to the front of the stage, during Reiki.
These ideas are totally undeveloped! I've been doing this for ten years, and have never verbalized to others, my inner processes.
Sometimes it is so awesome, that all I can do is stand in reverence for something so beautiful, that I will never understand, yet am able to experience and share.
Robin
