Lately I have been reviewing the Reiki Study Guide written my Reiki Teacher, William Bagley. As part of my spiritual practices, I regularly make vows, commitments, and intentions. Today I committed to doing the following practice: each day I will read aloud the following vows and visualizations/intentions and allow them to create a force of energy in my aura. I intend that the force of this spiritual practice will emanate from me and make more things possible around me. These vows and visualizations/intentions are adapted from William Bagley’s Reiki Study Guide.

Four Vows to Generate Healing Energy

1. I vow to have compassion towards all sentient beings and wish to do what I can to help alleviate their sorrow. I will make my livelihood based on serving the needs of sentient beings. I will help them end sorrow and the causes of sorrow. I will help them find happiness and the causes of happiness. I choose to develop my skillfulness and energy in order to transmute as much sorrow into joy as possible in each moment.

2. I vow to purify my subconscious mind of all craving, negativity, and confusion… I will dedicate myself to becoming enlightened for the sake of both myself and others… I realize that my own emotional energies can either uplift or hurt those around me. I choose to purify my mind so that I may remain a positive force in the lives of others.

3. I vow to develop all the potentials of my divine nature to their fullest… I surrender to the higher energies which want to evolve me further and lovingly release all the life patterns which do not serve my growth. I will not settle for attaching to and indulging in material comfort and sensory pleasures which are transitory and turn into pain when gone. I choose to use my time wisely for my growth and to support the growth of those around me. I choose to have enough material comfort and sensory pleasure to nourish me, while focusing more on evolving myself and experiencing the deeper joy that growth offers.

4. I vow to rest in my natural enlightenment and experience life moment to moment, deepening, expanding, stabilizing, and enriching this experience over time… simply being myself as I arise from oneness in each moment… I relax into being myself and let the mystery of myself unfold in each moment.

Healing Visualizations/Intentions

The Roar of the Lion. I AM. I exist. I am alive. I am here. I have created my life. Everything which has ever happened to me is something I have attracted, allowed, created, and interpreted into existence. I own my whole past as my creation. I forgive myself for any pain I created myself. I will not give my power to anyone outside myself. I will re-script my past from this view and change the thoughts which caused me pain. If anything painful happens to me, I will assume that some thought in me must be released. It is never anyone outside myself who causes me pain. The people I attract to myself reflect different sides of me.

The Violet Flame. I am a violet fire. I blaze through my body and cleanse it of all karma and all illness. I visualize myself blazing through every cell and purifying it. I am breathing the Violet Flame into a full blaze. I let it burn away all the past. I am clean. I am renewed.

Would you like to join me in reading these vows and visualizations/intentions aloud each day? Simply make the commitment to do so, and then let me know how it goes for you. Please email me anytime: teja@yogini-bliss.com 

May all beings know the Deep Bliss that arises from serving others.

Om Shanti (Peace),

Yogini Tejaswini

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