Sweeping an Aura Before a Reiki Session
Before you start giving Reiki to yourself or a client, Aura Sweeping will prepare the aura for the energy healing that is about to occur. Aura sweeping involves sweeping your hands through your client’s aura or energy field. It only takes about a minute to do and can make a real difference to the effectiveness of your Reiki treatments.
When to Sweep an Aura
Do this after setting an intention and right before the laying on of hands. Do this at the beginning of distance Reiki sessions where a surrogate is used for sending the healing.
What Does Aura Sweeping Do?
- This process removes any superficial energy build-ups.
- These are any negative energy areas in your or your client’s energy field. By removing them now, you stop them from adhering to the energy field and causing problems down the line. Also, by getting rid of them before you begin the session, you don’t waste your session time or Reiki’s focus dealing with them.
- It also brings harmony to the aura, drawing in a lovely soothing and balancing energy.
- With a client, it helps to form a positive rapport between your client and you. It does this in three ways:
- By getting both of you energetically in sync.
- By getting you tapped into their energy field.
- By helping your client to feel more at ease with you, their practitioner.
- Preparing your client’s aura with aura sweeping also gives you an extra opportunity to feel their energy field and discover any spots that will need a little extra Reiki. So pay attention to your hands during the preliminary aura sweep. Use your intuition and sense for any possible blockages or hot spots you will want to focus on during the Reiki session.
How to Sweep Your Client’s Aura Before a Session
- Run your hands in your client’s aura about six inches above their body.
- I prefer to keep my hands in the standard Reiki pose, i.e., gently cupped with fingers held together. But I have seen people do this with their fingers spread wide like they’re raking their client’s aura.
- Move from their head to their feet in a slow, smooth motion.
- Repeat this process at least three times. You can do it more if you feel that it’s needed. Use your Reiki senses or instinct to determine this.
Now you would do whatever your version of a complete Reiki treatment is, whether that’s standard hand positions, intuitively guided or a combination.
Finishing Up the Reiki Session with a Final Aura Sweep
Complete the treatment by sweeping the aura again. Finishing up with aura sweeping removes energetic debris released during the session. Doing the Reiki session can shift a lot of energy, so performing a final sweep ensures that nothing residual needs clearing.
How to Sweep Your Client’s Aura
- Sweep your client’s aura with your hands held a few inches above their body.
- Move from over their crown chakra to down to their feet.
- Make sure to continue past their feet.
- Now flick the energy away from both of you.
- You can use one long motion or a series of smaller strokes to sweep the aura.
- Repeat this sweeping process a total of three times.
Be sure to add some intention for some extra oomph:
- While doing this, visualize any negativity you are removing being transmuted into light.
- If you’d like to, you can visualize a violet flame on the floor just past the end of the Reiki table.
- You can send the energetic debris you are sweeping off your client and right into the flame.
- Know that as you do so, it is instantly transmuted.
- You can also speak the following intention (silently to yourself): “I ask that any energetic debris that I remove be sent to the light for the good of All. And so it is. Thank you.”
Now you’d move on to sealing the session and giving thanks.