The following meditation by thich nhat hanh is a a simple meditation which I use each day.  It can be practiced where ever you are.   You could  be in your  meditation space, walking, sitting with your back to against a beautiful tree or stuck in a traffic jam which could offer you the space to meditate.

This meditation was taught by Dr. Usui to his students.  I learnt it from Frank Arjava Peter's teaching on Dr. Usui Legacy.

I always start any meditation with settling my mind by first listening to the sounds around me and then turning my attention to my in and out breath....

Now Gassho by by placing your hands together in front of your chest

Focus your whole attention at the point where the two middle finger meet

If you find your mind wandering, it does not matter, you do not have to judge or analyse your thinking

Gently let go or whatever the distraction has been

Begin again focus your attention on the point where you two middle fingers meet

Many, many times in your mind will arrive a deluge of thoughts, images and aches and pains 

Without judgement recognise that you have lost touch with the awareness of the two middle fingers of your Gassho hands - begin again

If you  have to begin again a million times it does not matter - that is what meditation is.
Re-focus your attention and begin again and again.......

You may feel energy in in your hands or in your spine. Observe this and then return your entire focus to your two middle finger.

                Practice this daily if it feels right for you
                    Take the time that is right for you


 

This one of the most helpful quotes I have ever found:

If my mind doesn't go out
to disturb the noise,
the noise won't disturb  me

Ajahn Chan

It is so easy to get distracted from practicing meditation by noise outside our meditation space, Sometimes we can even become angry and blame the noise for not being able to meditate.  If we accept the noises around us without anger and resentment we can continue with our practice without disturbance. I always begin a meditation by listening to the sounds around me without judgement as to whether the sound is good or bad.

The Reiki symbols are powerful tools we use to focus the healing  energy of  Reiki, The traditional western descriptions of the symbols and their uses are  not the way Usui Sensei would have described them. The CHR symbol known in the  west as the power symbol was described by Usui Sensei as the energy  of the  earth Ki, and is the energy of the physical body, it is physical healing   energy. The second symbol SHK was seen as heavenly energy and the third symbol   HSZSN was said to produce oneness with the Universe. The Usui DKM symbol can be  described as Universal Energy' beaming Reiki's golden light and represents our  Buddha nature.  Usui Sensei’s students would have learnt the symbols' differing  energies through meditating on each symbols and this wonderful way to feel the
essence of the energies.

 Meditation

Sit  comfortably in a chair with your eyes closed and  your hands resting in your lap with the palms uppermost. Start by listening to the sounds around you, then  focus on the in and out of your breathing: 

 
                         When you are ready Gassho* and connect to Reiki 

 in your mind  visualise the CHR symbol up in the air above you, and say its name silently to
yourself

Now imagine that the light of Reiki's golden energy is cascading down on your from the symbol and is flowing into your crown Chakra 

CHR's light and energy is now flowing into your heart Chakra and from there to every Chakra in
your body,  feel it filling every cell of your body with healing light

 Now Imagine that the golden healing light of the Reiki symbol CHR is flowing into your palm Chakras. 
       
Sit and meditate on this energy for several minutes.

When you are ready open your eyes -  Gassho and give thanks.

Then in your Journal write about this experience of meditating on  the symbol.

Repeat  this exercise with the other Reiki  symbols.

(I cannot remember who taught me this  meditation but I m grateful to them for giving me and my students this lovely  way to experience the Reiki  symbols)


*Gassho conveys  respect, request, faith, thankfulness, prayer and devotion.   By joining our two hands together we  become present in the here and now.