The Japanese symbol for Reiki
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
What is Reiki and How Does It Work?
Reiki is a Japanese healing technique in which the universal life force energy is channeled through the practitioner and transferred to the person being healed. Reiki was started by Mikao Usui, and brought to America in the 1970’s. Modern science has proven the transference of energy from one person to another can be measured and quantified. Science has also proven that Reiki energy improves the healing of tissue and bone.
Reiki raises the vibrational field of the person who receives it. Reiki is like a laser, healing whatever needs to be healed. Reiki energy heals by flowing through the affected parts of the energy field, displacing negative energy and charging the energy field with positive energy. It raises the vibratory level of the energy field in and around the physical body where negative thoughts and feelings linger. Reiki opens the free flow of energy throughout the person's energy field, with emphasis on the Chakras. Reiki can also be applied to areas where injury has created a blockage, to improve energy flow to the area and promote healing. Reiki clears, strengthens and heals the energy pathways, thus allowing the life force to flow in a healthy and natural way.
Reiki is the universal life force energy. It can only be channeled by someone who has been attuned. Everyone who legitimately practices Reiki has been attuned by a Reiki Master in a direct line of practitioners from Mikao Usui. Reiki symbols are sometimes used to help focus the energy. Reiki can be done in person in a hands-on treatment, or at a distance. The Reiki practitioner connects with the energy field of the person being healed, and channels the energy. There is no distance in spirit. My practice consists largely of distance healing. Distance Reiki is every bit as effective as hands-on Reiki.
Reiki can never hurt the person giving it or the person receiving it. It is pure life force energy. Receiving a Reiki treatment is a breath of fresh air for your spirit. Reiki has an innate inspiration. The Reiki practitioner does not control the energy, but simply transmits it. The energy itself knows exactly where to go and what to do! Reiki is a spiritual practice. It is not a religion, nor is it affiliated with any religion.
How does a reiki treatment work? Reiki energy flows through the practitioner's hands onto the client. The client is usually lying on a massage table, but treatments can also be given while the client is seated or even standing. The client remains fully clothed. The practitioner places their hands on or near the clients body in a series of hand positions. Each position is held for a few minutes, depending on how much reiki the client needs at each position. The hand position is maintained until energy begins to flow freely through the area.
Feelings of deep relaxation are usually reported following a Reiki treatment. People may also feel a calming, glowing radiance that flows through and surrounds them. Reiki encourages one to let go of all tension, anxiety, fear or other negative feelings. A state of peace and well-being is experienced. Some drift off to sleep or report floating outside their bodies or have visions and other mystical experiences. At the end of the treatment, one feels refreshed with a more positive, balanced outlook. Intense and miraculous healing has been reported all over the world due to Reiki.
Reiki raises the vibrational field of the person who receives it. Reiki is like a laser, healing whatever needs to be healed. Reiki energy heals by flowing through the affected parts of the energy field, displacing negative energy and charging the energy field with positive energy. It raises the vibratory level of the energy field in and around the physical body where negative thoughts and feelings linger. Reiki opens the free flow of energy throughout the person's energy field, with emphasis on the Chakras. Reiki can also be applied to areas where injury has created a blockage, to improve energy flow to the area and promote healing. Reiki clears, strengthens and heals the energy pathways, thus allowing the life force to flow in a healthy and natural way.
Reiki is the universal life force energy. It can only be channeled by someone who has been attuned. Everyone who legitimately practices Reiki has been attuned by a Reiki Master in a direct line of practitioners from Mikao Usui. Reiki symbols are sometimes used to help focus the energy. Reiki can be done in person in a hands-on treatment, or at a distance. The Reiki practitioner connects with the energy field of the person being healed, and channels the energy. There is no distance in spirit. My practice consists largely of distance healing. Distance Reiki is every bit as effective as hands-on Reiki.
Reiki can never hurt the person giving it or the person receiving it. It is pure life force energy. Receiving a Reiki treatment is a breath of fresh air for your spirit. Reiki has an innate inspiration. The Reiki practitioner does not control the energy, but simply transmits it. The energy itself knows exactly where to go and what to do! Reiki is a spiritual practice. It is not a religion, nor is it affiliated with any religion.
How does a reiki treatment work? Reiki energy flows through the practitioner's hands onto the client. The client is usually lying on a massage table, but treatments can also be given while the client is seated or even standing. The client remains fully clothed. The practitioner places their hands on or near the clients body in a series of hand positions. Each position is held for a few minutes, depending on how much reiki the client needs at each position. The hand position is maintained until energy begins to flow freely through the area.
Feelings of deep relaxation are usually reported following a Reiki treatment. People may also feel a calming, glowing radiance that flows through and surrounds them. Reiki encourages one to let go of all tension, anxiety, fear or other negative feelings. A state of peace and well-being is experienced. Some drift off to sleep or report floating outside their bodies or have visions and other mystical experiences. At the end of the treatment, one feels refreshed with a more positive, balanced outlook. Intense and miraculous healing has been reported all over the world due to Reiki.
Chloe's Energy
There is a single infant on the Daily Healing List, little Chloe, who was born with terrible birth defects. The first time I connected with Chloe's energy, I was stunned at the clarity, lightness and optimism that filled my hands and my space. Her energy was the loveliest I have ever felt. It was a blessing for me to be in touch with it. I realized that Chloe doesn't need energy healing. Her energy field is open, bright and healthy. If only the rest of us were more like little children.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Loving Them
The other day, a man walked into a church and shot an abortion doctor dead. The doc had just been acquitted on all criminal counts related to his practice, in which he conducted late-term abortions. He was one of very few doctors in the U.S. who would do that kind of an abortion. There are people who saw him as a hero of the pro-choice movement. There are people who see the man who shot him as a hero of the pro-life movement.
Were either of these men heroes? I personally find it difficult to support either of them, as far as the choices they made in their lives. The doctor is dead now, and his killer will be in prison for a long time to come. In a very real way, both of these men chose violence. Both of them chose to end another person's life. The doctor surely ended many lives, lives that had hardly begun. The doctor, as it happened, had a long life. He was a grandfather. Undoubtedly, both the doctor and the man who killed him thought they were right. Which frankly is beside the point. They were both killers. That is more to the point, I think.
Under natural law, you reap what you sow. The doctor reaped a violent death, and that is just what he dealt in. He drew it to him like a magnet draws a nail. The other fellow is harder to understand. How do you take the position that you are a stand for life, and then take another person's life? What was he doing? Playing the percentages? Did he think if he saved a lot of lives, it would be okay to take just one? Well I can tell you I wouldn't want his karma. Gandhi had it right. He stuck with non-violence. To be sure, it is easy to love Gandhi. But how to love these other two?
But that is the challenge. To have compassion for the murderer as well as the abortionist. To extend unconditional love to both of them, in the same measure as we extend unconditional love to our own children, to the newborn baby, to the unborn baby in the womb, to our mothers. We are here to practice this, and the suffering will not lessen until we get busy.
Were either of these men heroes? I personally find it difficult to support either of them, as far as the choices they made in their lives. The doctor is dead now, and his killer will be in prison for a long time to come. In a very real way, both of these men chose violence. Both of them chose to end another person's life. The doctor surely ended many lives, lives that had hardly begun. The doctor, as it happened, had a long life. He was a grandfather. Undoubtedly, both the doctor and the man who killed him thought they were right. Which frankly is beside the point. They were both killers. That is more to the point, I think.
Under natural law, you reap what you sow. The doctor reaped a violent death, and that is just what he dealt in. He drew it to him like a magnet draws a nail. The other fellow is harder to understand. How do you take the position that you are a stand for life, and then take another person's life? What was he doing? Playing the percentages? Did he think if he saved a lot of lives, it would be okay to take just one? Well I can tell you I wouldn't want his karma. Gandhi had it right. He stuck with non-violence. To be sure, it is easy to love Gandhi. But how to love these other two?
But that is the challenge. To have compassion for the murderer as well as the abortionist. To extend unconditional love to both of them, in the same measure as we extend unconditional love to our own children, to the newborn baby, to the unborn baby in the womb, to our mothers. We are here to practice this, and the suffering will not lessen until we get busy.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Unconditional Love
It takes a gentle touch sometimes to tell people what they need to hear and do so they can heal. The information comes to me straight and direct, undistilled, blunt. If I delivered it the way it occurs to me, well it would land like a brick. Better to suggest, and better yet to ask questions that lead the healer to see it for themselves.
What we deny kills us. ("I'm not angry.") What we hold onto kills us. ("I'm not ready to forgive that person.")
We have to let it all go. Face it, and then give it up. There is only one healthy way, and that is unconditional love.
What we deny kills us. ("I'm not angry.") What we hold onto kills us. ("I'm not ready to forgive that person.")
We have to let it all go. Face it, and then give it up. There is only one healthy way, and that is unconditional love.
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