The Reiki Vision Board: Tracking Colours & Images
Do you ever find that your Reiki clients see colours or images and want you to explain to them what they mean? But ultimately, any meanings are the clients own but it is great for us as practitioners to help them to navigate that and get their thoughts down on paper.
Most of us love a good vision board for mapping out the next year or two, pinning up photos of our goals for the coming future. But there’s another way to use that same visual method to help clients to make the most of their Reiki sessions.
Some of your clients may already keep a Reiki journal, but if they feel like being a bit more creative, a vision board can help track their Reiki sessions and help connect meanings and feelings as they go along.
What do the colours and images mean?
During Reiki, it’s common for your clients to see colours and/or images that don't necessarily make sense at the time to them. By putting these onto a vision board, they can start to see if a pattern is forming over time.
When you guide your client on how to create their vision board, you can prompt them to think about what their experiences might mean:
Colours
Did a specific shade or colour appear during your session?
Note down how that colour made you feel at the time.
Keep an eye out over the next few days. Does that same colour keep popping up in your day to day?
If the same colours appear session after session, you’ll start to get a feel for what they actually mean for you.
Images
Did you see any specific images during your Reiki session?
Did the image give you a particular feeling or emotion?
Did you recognise the image, does it have a meaning in your life?
Note down all the feelings and thoughts you have related to the images.
Keep an eye out over the next few days if the same image comes up in your dreams or day to day.
Also, keep an eye out on if that same image comes up in any of your next sessions and note down what happens in that session.
Sensations
Another good thing for your client to note down is what they actually felt and experienced during the session:
Did they feel weight on their shoulders?
Did they have tingling?
What did the sensations feel like, comfortable or a little bit unusual.
Did the sensations fully pass after the session?
It can be good to keep a list of the sensations to see if the same ones occur in the next sessions. It then becomes possible to link those sensations to perhaps parts of themselves that are beginning to heal.
After Reiki Sensations
Another good thing for your client to take note of is how did they feel after their session.
Were there any sensations outside of your session that they noted, such as a headache?
How did they care for themselves? By drinking water or going for a walk?
Did anything improve or stay unchanged?
It’s Your Client’s Own Message to Themselves
When a client sees images, colours or has specific thoughts, they are their own messages to themselves. By tracking how they feel, they can start to understand themselves a lot better and if their unconscious mind is perhaps trying to tell them something.
How They Can Build Their Board
Some ideas for your clients to be creative as they like:
Grab a magazine and tear out scraps of paper that match the colours they saw.
Sketching quick doodle of a shape or an image .
Nothing down their mood in the days following. Does the feeling they had during the session continue into the days after?
Your client can keep their vision board to themselves or if they do want to discuss it with you, they could bring it with them into their next session. Ultimately it’s their own experience and interpretation and we shouldn’t really be influencing that, but it can be good for them to bounce ideas of you so that it helps them to perhaps piece the information together for what it means for them.
It also gives a tangible real feeling to their Reiki sessions, that it is leading somewhere, that they can actually see the results on paper and how things are changing each time. This can encourage your clients to keep up their sessions and working towards their overall wellbeing.
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