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| The Essence of Reiki | Contents | Reiki relieves the symptoms
and heals the problem. It taps the healing power of the universal life
energy, source of health and well-being, and is independent of faith
or belief. Completely safe and natural, Reiki works beautifully in combination
with all other types of healing — including pharmaceuticals
and prayer, herbs and massage. |
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Reiki is universal. It is no more an “Eastern” system of healing than rice is an Eastern food. Reiki is healing with touch — an approach that has been used around the world for millennia — and still is. The discoverer (or re-discoverer) of Reiki was Dr. Mikao Usui, head of the Christian school in Kyoto, Japan in the mid-Nineteenth Century. The gift of Reiki healing that Dr. Usui left us is not dependent on any religious affiliation or belief and is used with equal potency by believers and nonbelievers of all sorts.
Is Reiki like massage?
No, not really. In fact, for the healing energy to flow, actual physical contact is not required. When there is contact it is held still. In a lot of ways the soothing effects of Reiki for relieving tension and stress remind people of the benefits of massage, but the two are quite different. In fact Reiki and massage complement each other beautifully as healing modalities, and many massage therapists seek training in Reiki to include in their repertoire of healing skills.
This is the hardest rules for beginners to remember and means that both the Reiki practitioner and the recipient of the energy. Think of it as like “short-circuiting” the energy. Crossing the ankles or the knees reduces the actual amount of energy flow into the needy area to nearly zero. Your hands may still feel as if energy were flowing, but we have numerous example where energy-sensitive recipients could tell something wasn’t right, even though they could not see the crossing of the healer’s legs.
Alert to practitioner: Be careful when a recipient’s legs are covered with a blanket — especially when they are talking, it is all too easy for recipient to throw one leg over the other out of habit. You will then be wasting your time and depriving them of the healing they need.
“Scattered fingers means scattered energy,” as Virginia Samdahl liked to say. It is much more potent to keep fingers together, although the thumb (having a stronger, individual energy field) may be separated from the other fingers if needed (e.g., to fit a large hand against a small neck). In general, it is probably a better habit to keep all fingers, thumb included, together whenever possible to develop this habit early — scattered fingers is a wasteful practice.
The flow of energy to the areas in need occurs while the hands are within about an inch and one-half. If your hands are sensitive, you may feel something happening even when your hands get even near an injured area, but that is not the same as the powerful flow of Reiki healing actually getting to the area in need.
You will read in various healing systems about “beaming” energy, across the room for example. There are many varied methods of directing energy by aiming the hands at a distance, but you may rest asured that when someone talks about “beaming Reiki” that they are not really using Reiki in the true sense offered by Dr. Usui’s universal system. If you start to dabble in such methods, please be sure you know what you are doing, and please don’t call it Reiki.
Rule 3-1/2, staying awake:
Okay, this really is a rule, not just a recommended strategy. The practitioner needs to stay awake for the energy to flow. Here is another case when energy-sensitive clients have proved the point during a team treatment, saying something like, “Hey, I’m not feeling the Reiki down at my foot where it was so strong before.” We then had to stir the volunteer who was asleep at the switch. Fortunately, the recipient may fall asleep (or be in a coma even), and Reiki is just as powerful as ever.
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