It is said that conscious mind creates our reality but all our life as well. The conscious mind is very powerful and affects our whole life, the events, situations, the people we come across, our life situation including the job we do and the results we get out of our activities. It affects our decisions, how and what we communicate with others etc. it is a collection of all our experience in previous lives and combines them to produce the resultant action or reaction in our world. as everything is energy, it all is the interplay of energy which manages and delivers everything that we did, are doing and will do in our lives. This unconscious mind has both positive and negative aspects and the negative aspects are called the shadow self. The good and bad experiences in our lives are the results of these aspects of our energy field which get them converted or transformed into ‘reality’.  As Reiki deals with the energy field only, there is a strong connection between Reiki and our self. We begin to experience whatever good or bad is there in our conscious energy field. So if you want to eliminate the bad experiences in your life you must know the shadow self, how it works and help it to heal to produce good results that you want to experience.

During our life we experience the negative feelings such as anxiety, anger, frustration, jealousy etc which are not right. We are asked to curb these traits or habits and do not indulge in any such things by our elders. These are basically negative emotions, feelings and ideas which learn to keep inside us as time passes because we are not allowed to do them very much. As a result these feelings are buried inside and these ideas start processing inside our minds. Then a time comes when these feelings, ideas and emotions start appearing in our behaviour. This happens so much indirectly that we do not even know that we are exhibiting them in some entirely different way. They become part of our behaviour and we are unable to distinguish them as a separate set of behaviour as a result of the earlier subdued emotions. It also means that our behaviour is not our own but the result of unconscious processing of the previous ideas and feelings. It can be termed an automated process of which the physical body is a part through which the energy manipulation takes place.