Every one of us faces unwanted feelings which do not seem to go away! At least, they are extremely difficult to remove from our minds. These feelings, emotions and ideas continue to accumulate in our mind, and if not tried to controlled, they have the potential and do actually take big and serious form in our minds. Over long term, they tend to become part of our personality and assume the form of something which can be called ‘shadow self’. As they are part of our nature, there is a time when the shadow self and its expression is stronger and is required to be controlled by the person for a better life. It has lot of energy and intent to express itself but it is in the unconscious mind and we do not realise its existence. It is able to direct or manage our lives as its influence and effect is automatically included in our lives and they manifest themselves to create our lives or what we are, what we would be. The effect of shadow self creates everything that we know about ourselves or our lives. It creates positive effects if they are positive and difficult times if they are negative. It is through Reiki that we come to know about them and the ways and methods to cure them as well.

Whatever unwanted things we experience in our lives are the reflections of this shadow self. All our experiences in life are stored at the unconscious level and express in our lives as good and bad experiences, good and bad luck, good and bad daily results etc. These observations of us are stored in the shadow self of our personality and they even determine our reaction to different things that we face in our lives.

That is why it is important that we realise what we are doing and why. Doing this, helps us realise why we are doing a particular thing or even why we are facing something at all instead of not facing. We must know and understand that whatever is happening in our lives, or has happened or would happen has its roots somewhere else. It all is rooted at the subconscious, unconscious levels or stages of our lives. It can also be interpreted to say that we are not a product of what we think but products of what we experience. This is because these things do not get or fade away and remain forever with us.