Just this week, I started a meditation class at a favorite yoga studio in Phoenix, and my instructor is amazing. I have homework of doing a meditation of counting breath in both morning and evening, which I love. I have been committed to meditation for years, but, like everyone else I know, I am all too human at finding reasons to not totally devoting my full abilities to it. I do find it's easier when someone else is calling the shots and telling me what to do when it comes to mediation. It needs to be mindless for me before I can become "mindless" in meditation.I have enhanced my meditative state while doing Reiki, allowing me to be a better channel or vessel to a stronger Reiki level, and increasing my intuitive response to my clients. Amazing how just a little new instruction can have such a swift impact. Thinking about it, I have found so many workshops, books, instruction from others in such things as yoga to have a direct influence on my Reiki practice. For instance, I am currently reading "Ask and It Is Given," by the Hickses, and the Law of Attraction so well described in the book made a huge impact on me in understanding patterns in my own life. Understanding how doubt, pessimism, and worry can attract the wrong energy and wrong worldly reality, I am even more committed to a clear, quiet mind before, during, and after Reiki, so I don't unintentionally bring something to the table neither my client nor I desire. I'm well aware of the divine nature of the Reiki energy itself, but that does not exclude the attraction of less-than-divine energies into a room where human beings gather, for whatever the reason (including Reiki). Now, I can see a more powerful response from clients with the little changes I am making in ME and my philosophy to live by.