What is Reiki?
How Does Reiki
Work?
Do All Healers
Use Reiki?
Reiki Can Never
Cause Harm
What are Chakras?
A Brief Overview
The
knowledge that an unseen energy flows through
all living things and is connected directly
to the quality of health has been part of the
wisdom of many cultures since ancient times.
The existence of this "life force energy" has
been verified by recent scientific experiments,
and medical doctors are considering the role
it plays in the functioning of the immune system
and the healing process.
Reiki
is a technique for stress reduction and relaxation
that allows everyone to tap into an unlimited
supply of "life force energy" to improve health
and enhance the quality of life.
An
amazingly simple technique to learn, the ability
to use Reiki is not taught in the usual sense,
but is transferred to the student by the Reiki
Master. Its use is not dependent on ones intellectual
capacity or spiritual development and, therefore,
is available to everyone. It has been successfully
taught to thousands of people of all ages and
backgrounds.
A
treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance
that flows through you and surrounds you. Reiki
treats the whole person including body, emotions,
mind and spirit and creates many beneficial
effects including relaxation and feelings of
peace, security, and well-being. Many have reported
miraculous results. Reiki is a simple, natural,
and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement
that everyone can use.
Rei - Spiritual Wisdom
Mrs.
Hawayo Takata, who introduced Reiki to the West,
said the word Rei means universal and
this is the definition most have accepted. However,
Mrs. Takata also indicated that this interpretation
is a very general one. The kanji ideograms have
many levels of meaning. They vary from the mundane
to the highly esoteric. So while it is true
that Rei can be interpreted as universal,
meaning that it is present everywhere, this
level of interpretation really doesn't add to
our understanding of Reiki.
Research
into the esoteric meaning of the Japanese kanji
character for Rei has given a much deeper understanding
of this ideogram. The word Rei as it is used
in Reiki is more accurately interpreted to mean
supernatural knowledge or spiritual consciousness.
This is the wisdom that comes from God or the
Higher Self. This is the God-Consciousness which
is all knowing. It understands each person completely.
It knows the cause of all problems and difficulties
and knows what to do to heal them.
Ki -- The Life Force
Ki
means the same as Chi in Chinese, Prana in Sanskrit
and Ti or Ki in Hawaiian. It has also been called,
odic force, orgone, and bioplasma. It has been
given many other names by the various cultures
that have been aware of it.
Ki
is the life force. It is also called the vital
life force or the universal life force. This
is the nonphysical energy that animates all
living things. As long as something is alive,
it has life force circulating through it and
surrounding it; when it dies, the life force
departs. If your life force is low, or if there
is a restriction in its flow, you will be more
vulnerable to illness. When it is high, and
flowing freely, you are less likely to get sick.
Life force plays an important role in everything
we do. It animates the body and also is the
primary energy of our emotions, thoughts and
spiritual life.
The
Chinese place great importance on the life force
or what they call Chi. They have studied it
for thousands of years and have discovered there
are many different kinds of Chi. The "Yellow
Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" which
is over 4,000 years old, lists thirty-two different
kinds of Chi or Ki.
Ki
is used by martial artists in their physical
training and mental development. It is used
in meditative breathing exercises called Pranayama,
and by the shamans of all cultures for divination,
psychic awareness, manifestation and healing.
Ki is the nonphysical energy used by all healers.
Ki is present all around us and can be accumulated
and guided by the mind.
We
are alive because life force is flowing through
us. Life force flows within the physical body
though pathways called chakras, meridians
and nadis. It also flows around us in a field
of energy called the aura. Life force nourishes
the organs and cells of the body, supporting
them in their vital functions. When this flow
of life force is disrupted, it causes diminished
function in one or more of the organs and
tissues of the physical body.
The
life force is responsive to thoughts and feelings.
It becomes disrupted when we accept, either
consciously or unconsciously, negative thoughts
or feelings about ourselves. These negative
thoughts and feelings attach themselves to the
energy field and cause a disruption in the flow
of life force. This diminishes the vital function
of the organs and cells of the physical body.
Reiki
heals by flowing through the affected parts
of the energy field and charging them with positive
energy. It raises the vibratory level of the
energy field in and around the physical body
where the negative thoughts and feelings are
attached. This causes the negative energy to
break apart and fall away. In so doing, Reiki
clears, straightens and heals the energy pathways,
thus allowing the life force to flow in a healthy
and natural way.
All
healers use life force or Ki, but not all
use Reiki. Reiki is a special kind of life
force that can only be channeled by someone
that has been attuned to it. It is possible
that some people are born with Reiki or have
gotten it some other way. However, most healers
who have not received the Reiki attunement
from a Reiki Master are not using Reiki but
another kind of life force. People who already
do healing work consistently report an increase
of at least fifty percent in the strength
of their healing energies after taking the
Reiki training.
This
was verified for me when I first began teaching
Reiki. There were two clairvoyant healers I
knew who had highly developed abilities. They
could easily see the life force flowing through
a person's body, as well as see the aura and
chakras. They could also communicate with a
person's guides and Higher Self. They were adept
at moving negative psychic energy out of the
body as well as channeling healing energies.
In my twenty years of metaphysical work, they
were the most accurate and effective psychic
healers I had met.
They
told me later they had doubted there was anything
I was teaching they couldn't already do, but
that they took the Reiki training anyway, simply
to support me in my new work. After the attunement,
they were amazed at the difference they could
feel between the healing energies they had been
using and Reiki. They said the Reiki energies
were more powerful and of a much higher frequency.
They noted also that Reiki didn't have to be
guided like the other healing energies they
were using, and that the Reiki energies began
flowing without having to enter an altered state.
They also indicated the attunement process itself
was a powerful healing experience, releasing
restrictions relating to their healing work
they had unknowingly acquired when they were
healers in past lives. They were very pleased
they had taken the class.
Because
Reiki is guided by the God-consciousness, it
can never do harm. It always knows what a person
needs and will adjust itself to create the effect
that is appropriate for them. One never need
worry about whether to give Reiki or not. It
is always helpful.
In
addition, because the practitioner does not
direct the healing and does not decide what
to work on, or what to heal, the practitioner
is not in danger of taking on the karma of the
client. Because the practitioner is not doing
the healing, it is also much easier for the
ego to stay out of the way and allow the presence
of God to clearly shine through.
