Elaine Hamilton - Exploring Nonduality, Reiki, Meditation and Mindfulness

A lovely calming meditation when you feel jangling energy, either within yourself or in the environment. Recorded at our weekly meditation community meeting.

This meditation is dedicated to Reiki Master Teacher Deborah Lindsay, my dear friend who has now found joy and peace, an honour to have known you my friend.

Thoughts are energy fields and have impact. Good thoughts make us feel good, bad thoughts make us feel bad. Fears have an energy vibrational frequency. The root cause of your fears could come from your life trauma, through epigenetics (memories passed down through ancestral fear), or even past life events.

Epigenetics and past life work doesn’t necessarily respond to exposure therapy or CBT.

Sending Reiki helps to direct universal energy to help harmonise the fear or phobia. Simply write out the sentence “to the root cause of my fear of....” or “to harmonise my fear of...

I’m so excited to be speaking at the 11th annual global Reiki Summit themed “The Path of Embodied Light: Anchoring Energy into Everyday Healing” presented by our friends at Reiki Rays from November 7-11, 2026.

My talk, Extending Your Reiki Peace Beyond Self-Treatment, takes a deep dive into shifting our enquiry away from “how do I reduce my stress with Reiki?” into “what takes me out of my Reiki peace?” You can Register for free and get instant access to my interview as well as my specially recorded Heart Chakra meditation as a free gift, 4 other interviews and free goodi...

A quiet, deep meditation for returning to yourself, the stillness within.

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New historical documents have come to light (via Justin Stein) that suggest Hawayo Takata was telling the truth when she said Usui was headmaster at a Christian School! His CV includes time in the US and Taiwan, much as Takata had described. Hawayo Takata’s account was dismissed as story telling in the late 1990s and early 2000s when evidence researched by Frank Arjava Petter and others indicated Usui was in fact Buddhist. But it appears he took his wife’s name - Suzuki - and perhaps this is what hindered research at the time. This is an important adju...

Keep focus on the Bigger Question: Who am I really? Am I really just this little human character running around the planet - born, work, relationships, grasping, stressing, die? As long as you believe you are only this small character, you will constantly push and strive and compare. We have brainwashed ourselves well. The Inner Critic may well become softer, more loving, less harsh, but good cop, bad cop will continue to run the show. Or am I something more? Eternal, conscious, playful What if you can pop out of this delusion and see that you are eternal, aware...

The Essence of Reiki is the connection of your own personal life energy with the greater Universal life force. When you learn Reiki, the teacher or learning method is secondary to this primary connection.

If you are totally new to Reiki and energy work, it makes sense you would want more guidance and a teacher who can provide support, tips, practice, and reassurance. In this case, a face to face class with teacher interaction and post-class support makes the most sense.

If you are already experienced with energy work, or trust your own intuition, it...

Reiki Education has changed enormously over the years. From the 1980-90s oral tradition of hierarchy, teacher-student, strict levels and pricing, secrecy and rules. To the 2000's new Japanese lineages, historical insights, new tools. To the post covid online expansion and proliferation of schools, courses.

As a Reiki teacher this can feel threatening, difficult, like Reiki is being diluted or destroyed. Or it can be embraced as the expansion of Reiki learning, accessibility of knowledge, growth of Reiki community and acceptance.

The more people who learn Reiki, the more Reiki there is in the world...

Take some time for your Reiki healing, a good meditation to do when you need to calm yourself, be more open and allow the opportunities to flow.

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Have you tried using AI to help you sort through difficult emotions, issues or relationships? It can be a super helpful tool when used with discernment.

Interested in doing a nondual deep dive with me? Get in touch x For nondual enquiry, community and personal sessions: https://www.elaine-hamilton.com Join Reiki events: https://www.reiki-centre.com For online Reiki courses, please see here: https://online.reiki-centre.com

A deep dive into the anatomy of deep healing. Often when we trigger we blame the messenger instead of looking at the wound that triggered the reaction in the first place. So the wound remains and we trigger over and over. Lets take a closer look at the wound itself and keep looking until we land on the contract, inner agreement, or decision we made (usually as children) to keep holding onto the burden, hurt, disappointment - and let it go.

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Melanie Lam to talk about her new podcast, Soul Conversations. We talk about her previous corporate career, what led her into Reiki and other healing modalities and what sparked her inspiration to start a podcast! Melanie is also one of the authors in our latest Reiki Lights anthology, it's lovely to see the next phase of her personal and professional growth.

Melanie is the founder of Healing Skies, a private practice that provides soul-led coaching, private therapy and wellness services. She believes that healing is the true gateway to wellness and...

Tips for when giving Reiki to others, common beginner pitfalls. Why do you feel dizzy, nauseous, ill, pain, emotional when giving others treatments? Discussion as to possible issues and what to do about it.

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The Lions Gate is a potent energy opportunity for manifestation, every year it peaks on 8/8 but you can take advantage of a 2 week window to dream and declare to the Universe your desires and wishes. Why not give it a go? Enjoy the meditation and do it a few times, particularly around the peak of 8/8.

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From Radical Nondual teachers to gentler and ego dismantling tools, everything has a place along the journey. There may be a pathway to follow, and there may not, but there is always an unfolding happening that is absolutely correct for you.

Radical Nondual speaker examples: Tony Parsons, Jim Newman, Kenneth Madden, Richard Sylvester

Mindfulness and Inquiry led teachers: Adyashanti, Rupert Spira, Angelo DiLullo

Loosening tight beliefs: Byron Katie

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It can be very confusing in the spiritual community when every other person claims to be "spiritually awake" or to have undergone an "awakening", lets look at the definitions and the very different outcomes. Clarity of your own direction of inquiry helps you orient correctly!

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Investigating the actual truth of how life unfolds and the reality of our situation can be liberating, and allows us to stop adding further suffering to our lives. Thinking we are in control of making decisions and the outcome of our life is a big source of angst for many of us - time to deep dive into the truth of the matter!

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Spiritual growth is never over, it just gets more subtle. The hidden and deeply rooted assumptions we make about the simplest of things can colour so much of how we approach life, how we treat ourselves, and how we constantly chid and criticise ourselves. Remembering that everything unfolds with perfect timing and decisions can release so much personal judgement and mental noise.

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A 15 minute Reiki healing meditation set to music to bring balance and clear energies. Grounding and gentle, bringing healing and expansion. Enjoy! For nondual enquiry, community and personal sessions: https://www.elaine-hamilton.com Join Reiki events: https://www.reiki-centre.com For online Reiki courses, please see here: https://online.reiki-centre.com

We are so delighted to announce the launch of Reiki Lights, meet three of the authors: Melanie Lam Fengyi, Meghna Kamath and Stephanie Danandjaja.

The book follows the deeply personal stories of life unfolding for 13 Reiki Master teachers. Describing their lives before Reiki, and the profound shifts and changes that occurred with a dedicated Reiki practice. From corporate slave to spiritual warrior, from a Doctor deep in R&D to intuitive healer, from doing Reiki to simply being Reiki. All the authors have trodden the path less travelled and reaped enormous rewards.

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We are so delighted to announce the launch of Reiki Lights, meet two of the authors: Aeriel Peh and Svetlana Rao. The book follows the deeply personal stories of life unfolding for 13 Reiki Master teachers. Describing their lives before Reiki, and the profound shifts and changes that occurred with a dedicated Reiki practice. From deeply unhappy marriage to true love, from rational lawyer to intuitive healer. All the authors have trodden the path less travelled and reaped enormous rewards. Be inspired by their practices, tips and tools to deepen your own Reiki self-practice and embark on your own quest...

We are so delighted to announce the launch of Reiki Lights, meet three of the authors: Hilary Ridley Lee, Karen Taylor, and Nirupama Soni. The book follows the deeply personal stories of life unfolding for 13 Reiki Master teachers. Describing their lives before Reiki, and the profound shifts and changes that occurred with a dedicated Reiki practice. From high flying executive to artist, from debilitating illness to wellness, from the dark night of the soul to freedom and authenticity. All the authors have trodden the path less travelled and reaped enormous rewards. Be inspired by their practices, tips and tools...

We had some great questions based off the last video, so here's Part 2! Less about Reiki and more about the questions you asked: 1. What helped Ella with regulation? 2. How to cope with executive disfunction (decision making) 3. What is pattern recognition 4. "Coming out" as autistic - who do you tell, and when and how do you go about doing it? 5. Learning to unmask, especially around people you've know for a while. 6. Autism, masking and culture 7. How do we build a network of friends and a community of support? 8. Resources and books, especially on late diagnosis in women? I think we...

The enticement of the personal growth world is full of half-baked promises of "be more spiritual, be more awake, be more enlightened and you'll know what to do, you'll be guided, you'll be better, more content, more happy, more more more, oh and by the way, give me money and I'll show you how". This is simply not true. More peaceful? Maybe. More alert, aware, awake? Definitely. But the promise of the big fat cookie at the end of all your work is simply ego keeping you from waking up. Don't buy into this BS! What has being awake...

Affirmations can be a powerful way to shift negative thought patterns for a more positive self talk, we discuss this in more detail and the advantage of working with one focal point at a time. For nondual enquiry, community and personal sessions: https://www.elaine-hamilton.com Join Reiki events: https://www.reiki-centre.com For online Reiki courses, please see here: https://online.reiki-centre.com

Belief systems of any sort are your mind's way of feeling secure, but ultimately, none of them are true, so hold them lightly. If they are helpful, keep them, but if they cause stress or fear, its time to remind yourself you are simply experiencing life through the eyes and mind of a human form, but it is temporary and illusory. You are not your beliefs, and you do not need beliefs to be safe or secure. For nondual enquiry, community and personal sessions: https://www.elaine-hamilton.com Join Reiki events: https://www.reiki-centre.com/reiki-events For online Reiki...

Somehow, as humans, we have made transactional - something we give or receive. But love is what we are, its our natural state that is triggered by acts, behaviours, memories - often by others. So self-love is not something we give to ourselves, it is a triggering of the love that already resides in us, the energy is always present. For nondual enquiry, community and personal sessions: https://www.elaine-hamilton.com Join Reiki events: https://www.reiki-centre.com/reiki-events For online Reiki courses, please see here: https://online.reiki-centre.com

Hypnosis has been used for 1000s of years and was the method for numbing pain in surgery before the invention of anaesthetics. Self-hypnosis can be an effective tool to help you manage and reduce chronic pain and help your nervous system reset. It takes time to develop these skills, so don't give up on the first few tries! For nondual enquiry, community and personal sessions: https://www.elaine-hamilton.com Join Reiki events: https://www.reiki-centre.com/reiki-ev... For online Reiki courses, please see here: https://online.reiki-centre.com

We live in challenging times, responding to a question about how to regulate our energy as empaths when we notice we are giving it out to situations, people, places in pain and suffering. For nondual enquiry, community and personal sessions: https://www.elaine-hamilton.com Join Reiki events: https://www.reiki-centre.com/reiki-events For online Reiki courses, please see here: https://online.reiki-centre.com

Using the analogy of the different states of H2O to describe the impossible task of mixing quantum physics with classic physics. Is it possible to be in the no self, no time, no one, no where with desires for a different future? I think not. For nondual enquiry, community and personal sessions: https://www.elaine-hamilton.com Join Reiki events: https://www.reiki-centre.com/reiki-events For online Reiki courses, please see here: https://online.reiki-centre.com

A discussion around the use of nondual techniques as mechanisms to create intentional goals, personal transformation and desired futures. Becoming no body, no one, no thing, no where, no time to step out of ego and into the quantum field, in this space apparently we can then manifest a new reality. Am I missing something here? No one creates no thing? Is this just another guilt trip to keep you locked in the philosophy of "not enough"? For nondual enquiry, community and personal sessions: https://www.elaine-hamilton.com Join Reiki events: https://www.reiki-centre.com/reiki-events For online Reiki...

Something a bit different, relating my personal experiences around death, transition and afterlife. Underlying all my experiences is a deep sense of love, support and holding that takes place that helps me feel unafraid and comforted. Hope it helps you too! For nondual enquiry, community and personal sessions: https://www.elaine-hamilton.com Join Reiki events: https://www.reiki-centre.com/reiki-events For online Reiki courses, please see here: https://online.reiki-centre.com

Shifting discomfort can only be done when you turn to investigate and face it. Running away, avoiding, projecting with anger or hiding with fear only pushes the emotions back down. Any resistance just keeps the emotions trapped in the body. A step by step description of how to face emotions via the sensations of the body. For nondual enquiry, community and personal sessions: https://www.elaine-hamilton.com Join Reiki events: https://www.reiki-centre.com/reiki-events For online Reiki courses, please see here: https://online.reiki-centre.com

So often we don't see clearly that dwelling on the past, or on things that 'should' have happened stop us living the reality of our lives. In doing so we fall into the fantasy of our mindscape and live life in regret or disappointment. Take time to see what you are doing and discipline the mind so that you can reclaim the life you actually have, and not live in lalaland. For nondual enquiry, community and personal sessions: https://www.elaine-hamilton.com Join Reiki events: https://www.reiki-centre.com/reiki-events For online Reiki courses, please see here: https://online...

A frank discussion around needing to hold a philosophy around what happens to us when we die. Do we need an opinion around this? Does it really keep us soothed and secure, or is it just adding more stress? The good news is that we can survive perfectly fine with no opinions about anything! And in actuality, it creates even more peace to know you don't know. For nondual enquiry, community and personal sessions: https://www.elaine-hamilton.com Join Reiki events: https://www.reiki-centre.com/reiki-events For online Reiki courses, please see here: https://online.reiki-centre.com

Some teachers would say you are either awake or asleep, enlightened or not. This can be misleading as there are stages - to me they are more like the dream state: 1. Totally asleep and dreaming, not knowing you are dreaming and identified with your dream like it is real 2. Awake but still in the dream, knowing you are dreaming but still identified with the dream and what is going on, but more relaxed about it, you know its a dream - lucid dreaming. 3. Awake from the dream - the activities and character you played in the dream is gone...

As seasoned spiritual seekers, we often come across inconsistencies with one teacher saying one thing, and another teacher saying the complete opposite. So what about LOA? How does it fit into the picture of the nondual seeker? I think Rupert Spira explains it best! https://youtu.be/aBAM-NJvC3U?si=7dAbHWwSu_QM2qBP For nondual enquiry, community and personal sessions: https://www.elaine-hamilton.com Join Reiki events: https://www.reiki-centre.com/reiki-events For online Reiki courses, please see here: https://online.reiki-centre.com

Ok, a bit tongue in cheek, but let's think about this, so much of our responses, behaviours and thought patterns are simply programs we have accepted and then continue to run. We are so much more than this and our identification with our A.I. brains brings so much suffering. Time for a different way of looking at things? For nondual enquiry, community and personal sessions: https://www.elaine-hamilton.com Join Reiki events: https://www.reiki-centre.com/reiki-events For online Reiki courses, please see here: https://online.reiki-centre.com

Thanks for dropping by! I've been a Reiki teacher for 30 years so there is a lot of videos here on Reiki and its application. But I am shifting focus to nonduality and exploring the uncoupling that can happen and the great peace and relaxation this can bring about when you realise the reality of consciousness, and your true being. This is not prescriptive, I'm bumbling through and it gets messy. It's a description of things I observe, a questioning, and a curiosity. Hopefully it activates questions and insights in you too and we can journey together! For nondual enquiry...

A deeper dive into the distinction between practicing hands on Reiki healing and the spiritual path of flowing with universal life force. Tips to help you distance or step back from identification with thought and back into your true nature of peace and calm. Join these monthly free Sunday Reiki healing meditation: https://www.reiki-centre.com/reiki-events Join our weekly members community or Sign up for Transform your Life 2026! : https://www.reiki-centre.com/community For those interested in learning Reiki or advancing their skills, I run online Reiki courses for beginners up to teacher training, please see here: https...