How to Prepare Yourself To Send Animal Reiki

Let’s say you’ve recently taken my Animal Reiki online course training and are going to start volunteering at your local animal shelter or add Animal Reiki to your existing private Reiki Practice.

First of all, kudos to you! You are furthering your ability to send Reiki, for every time you practice Reiki, the stronger it gets as it clears out your inner channel for the energy to flow through.

Not to mention that the animals of the world can certainly use the Animal Reiki. They have been encouraging me to “Get on with it, already!” and do everything I can to help this world transition to a more heart-centered one.

The more that I “get on with it”, the faster we can help everyone wake up, raise their vibrations and thus help the animals currently suffering. For when we are vibrating at higher frequencies, we naturally are repelled by animal cruelty and factory farming and the like.

Even one minute of closing your eyes and listening to your breath will help center you for your Reiki session.

So if you will be working with animals and sending them Animal Reiki (well, just “Reiki” really, but we humans love to classify things, don’t we? ; ) the best thing you can do to prepare beforehand is to center, balance and ground yourself.

You want to do this before sending Reiki to people as well, but when practicing Reiki on animals it is particularly important because of their higher sensitivities to energy.

Closing your eyes to the outside world before a Reiki session allows you to open your eyes to your inner world.

Chances are that you were attracted to Reiki in the first place because you have natural empathic abilities that were ready to be used constructively. Whether or not you used your intuition or learned to repress it from society, your empathy was there, even if it remained dormant and latent.

And just look at how we empathic people can pick up the energy of others. Since animals are so much more empathic than we are, and simply live in a world dominated by energy, they will read our vibration immediately.

And is an animal going to want to be around a person with scattered, sparky, unbalanced energy? Or would he or she prefer that calm, gentle person, who, through a consistent Reiki practice on themselves and possibly others, has cultivated deep peace within and an ability to be truly present when sending Reiki.

If only we could see energy like this… Perhaps animals can?

Let’s say we humans pick up someone’s ‘negative’ vibe as a low, annoying hum in the background. To an animal adept at perceiving energy- since he uses energy as a guide for his actions all day long- that person’s vibe will sound like a fire truck’s siren as it races down the road.

Therefore, we want to enter the Animal Reiki session feeling comfortable and relaxed. If you’ve had a stressful day, even taking a minute to close your eyes, practice a simple Reiki meditation – like the Gassho Meditation with your hands at your heart – or paying attention to your breathing can help you immensely for the upcoming Reiki session.

You can invite the five elements: Air, Water, Fire, Earth and Ether – to be present in your Animals Reiki session as well.

The higher your vibration, the easier it will be for the animal to relax and perhaps even take a “Reiki nap” – where the recipient sleeps outwardly so they can heal on the inside.

Your energy field can literally raise the field of the animal. Thanks to entrainment, which means that one vibration will affect those around it, you literally have the power and ability to raise the vibrations of others.

Idea: Send Tiger Energy to a cat during an Animal Reiki session. One cat who receives regular Reiki, Maya, loves it!

For example, if you put two grandfather clocks together that are swinging at different rates, after a while they will sync up and swing together. If your vibration is high, eventually the animal’s will raise up to meet yours. It has to.

So put your focus on keeping your vibration positive. This is an extremely powerful state of being to be in – to be relaxed and free of any expectations about the outcome of the Reiki treatment – yet empowered and confident at the same time.

The more we can direct our vibration, the better we can affect the animals we are working to help. Pets such as our dogs raise our vibrations all the time by encouraging us to spend time with them and simply being so cute. Let’s pay them back by continuing to think in ways that keep us strong and our vibrations high. They deserve that and then some, don’t you think?

Pure, positive Reiki energy in action!