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On being with the quarantined
Let’s review Reiki techniques of ‘distance healing’
There’s the problem now of sick people having to be quarantined, even facing death when alone, and so a problem for loved ones: How to show love in such difficult moments? We might review the Reiki techniques of ‘distance healing’ for some ideas.
Think about a great viral video—with 16.5 million views so far—showing a young woman in self-quarantine, offering a glimpse of her parents eating ‘with her’ from a different room.
To be ‘with’ someone involves intention. You could be sitting next to me and still feel remote. The Reiki techniques are about being present when not in the same place.
I think of a sentence I read once in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park: “They were two solitary sufferers, or connected only by Fanny’s consciousness.”
A moment set aside for a distance healing session might be a practice for you to be your highest self—communicating with the higher self of another.
If that is possible, then distances wouldn’t matter.
You might think of the session as a form of meditation—intended to bring the highest good to another person, which might be to reassure them they’re loved in whatever condition they are in.
