12/23/2023
While I don’t generally support Reiki initiation for newborns, children are never too young to learn the value of appropriate human touch.
Not only is touch from loving individuals healthy and even healing, children can also learn to support themselves through one or all of the 8 basic Reiki hand placements long before they receive Reiki initiation.
Try substituting Time Outs with Time Ins, quiet time when the child can recover from the overstimulation of the world around them.
You can model this experience for them by placing. for example, your hands over your heart, closing your eyes, and resting back into a comfortable chair.
Children will want to do what they see the adults around them doing.
Inspire them in self-care; never enforce it. That only creates backlash.
If you give it a try, let me know how it goes.
And if you want support for your self practice, join my free online guided group self practice sessions.
Our next session is today Tuesday at 4 PM New York City time. Register even if you can’t participate live, and I’ll send the replay an hour after we finish. https://reikiinmedicine.org/online-community-reiki-self-practice-sessions/
I’d love to practice with you!
—Pamela
P.S. My book REIKI: A Comprehensive Guide is an easy way to introduce friends to Reiki practice. It’s the only Reiki book written for mainstream public and Health Care audience. It’s very traditional and also evidence-based, including a discussion of Reiki and Medicine, and Research. https://reikiinmedicine.org/pamelas-book/