This foundational practice invites you into the heart of both mindfulness and Reiki. Breath is not just a physiological process, it’s a bridge between the conscious and unconscious, the body and energy, the moment and eternity.

In this meditation, you’ll be guided to use the breath as a dynamic anchor for awareness. As described in Mindfulness Meditation and the Art of Reiki, the breath becomes a “swinging door” that dissolves the illusion of a fixed self, revealing instead your essential nature, fluid, impermanent, and interconnected with all that is.

Practising breath awareness develops your capacity to be fully present. You learn to experience each inhale and exhale not as a means to an end, but as a complete event, a moment of stillness, insight, and healing. For Reiki practitioners, this is especially powerful. The breath becomes the vehicle through which Universal Energy flows, grounding you in the hara and awakening the subtle pathways of the body.

Whether you are new to Reiki or have been practising for years, returning to the breath will deepen your sensitivity, expand your presence, and help you reconnect to what is always here: this moment, this breath, this being.

You can download your own copy of the meditation on this page.