Creative Visualization, Intention and Reiki

I was asked recently if Reiki is anything like creative visualization. There is visualization in Reiki. However, the energy I feel with my hands has density, color and temperature. So I think of visualization as a switch, like a light switch. You visualize the flow of energy and it turns on, begins to flow and becomes quite real and present. I visualize to focus myself on being a channel rather than the source of the energy that I am sending to another person.

When I am doing distance Reiki, I visualize the person within the dome created by my cupped hands. If I have never seen the person, I review what information I have about them and direct (intend for) the energy to go there.

It is very difficult to keep my healing intentions out of it. I continuously check to see if I am releasing my personal intentions and simply sending universal life force energy to the recipient. What they do with that energy is not really for me to say.

I personally want people to suffer less and enjoy life more. Since suffering is optional, I send the desire for people to release themselves from suffering. I have no way of knowing whether their pain can be relieved/healed or not. But with an influx of energy, perhaps they can manage and deal with their pain better, perhaps heal themselves. I hope people will be refreshed, and in a more refreshed state of being, will not only be better able to heal, but will choose to release themselves from any suffering they may have unnecessarily created for themselves.

Namaste.