EMBODIMENT

Last week, I was leading meditation and, as we always do afterward, we opened the floor for discussion.

One of the participants asked me a question:

“What does your personal practice look like? Do you practice Reiki every day?”

I was stumped for a moment.

What does my practice look like?

I had to sit with that question.

I’m currently in two qigong classes, both year-long commitments that require daily practice, so my immediate answer was easy: yes, I practice qigong every day.

But what about Reiki?

Do I sit in Reiki practice every day?

Reiki was a daily practice for me for years

After that conversation, I started paying closer attention.

What I noticed was that somewhere along the way, my practices had begun weaving themselves together.

They had become so interwoven that I almost stopped noticing I was doing it.

I begin by reciting the Reiki principles. I sit with Reiki meditation practices before moving into qigong. I end with sitting meditation, which is also part of my Reiki practice.

My practices have become so woven into daily life that I no longer stop to ask what I am practicing.

I am simply practicing every day and allowing whatever organically wants to arise to arise.

In many ways, this is also how I am learning to approach life—and how I teach.

Practicing consistently until the practice is no longer something you do, but something you embody.

I will end with this from the Tao Te Ching

“Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.”

Peace,

Sok Hwee