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Posted: Tue Dec 25th, 2007 04:55 pm | 1st Post |
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Reiki is a Japanese form of healing that is becoming increasingly popular worldwide. What makes Reiki unique is that it incorporates elements of just about every other alternative healing practices such as spiritual healing, auras, crystals, chakra balancing, meditation, aromatherapy, naturopathy, and homeopathy.
Reiki involves the transfer of energy from practitioner to patient to enhance the body's natural ability to heal itself through the balancing of energy. Reiki utilizes specific techniques for restoring and balancing the natural life force energy within the body. It is a holistic, natural, hands-on energy healing system that touches on all levels: body, mind, and spirit.
Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a Japanese word representing universal life energy, the energy which is all around us. It is derived from rei, meaning "free passage" or "transcendental spirit" and ki, meaning "vital life force energy" or " universal life energy".
Reiki practitioners channel energy in a particular pattern to heal and harmonize. Unlike other healing therapies based on the premise of a human energy field, Reiki seeks to restore order to the body whose vital energy has become unbalanced.
Reiki energy has several basic effects: it brings about deep relaxation, destroys energy blockages, detoxifies the system, provides new vitality in the form of healing universal life energy, and increases the vibrational frequency of the body.
The laying of hands is used in Reiki therapy also as in spiritual healing. There is a difference though. In spiritual healing, a person with a strong energy field places his or her hands above a particular part of the recipient's body in order to release energy into it. So, here the healer is the one who is sending out the energy. In Reiki, however, the healer places the hands above the recipient; however, it is the recipient that draws the energy as needed. Thus, in this case, the individual being healed takes an active part in the healing process as opposed to having a passive part in spiritual healing. The individual takes responsibility for his or her healing. The recipient identifies the needs and cater to them by drawing energy as needed.
Although there are a few positions in which the practitioner is in contact with the patient (such as cradling the head), most Reiki treatments do not involve actual touching. The practitioner holds his or her hands a few inches or farther away from the patient's body and manipulates the energy field from there.
Reiki is believed to have begun in Tibet several thousand years ago. Seers in the Orient studied energies and developed a system of sounds and symbols for universal healing energies. Various healing systems, which crossed many different cultures, emerged from this single root system. Unfortunately, the original source itself was forgotten.
Dr. Mikao Usui, a Japanese Christian educator in Kyoto, Japan, rediscovered the root system in the mid- to late 1800s. He began an extensive twenty-one-year study of the healing phenomena of history's greatest spiritual leaders. He also studied ancient sutras (Buddhist teachings written in Sanskrit). He discovered ancient sounds and symbols that are linked directly to the human body and nervous system which activate the universal life energy for healing.
Usui then underwent a metaphysical experience and became empowered to use these sounds and symbols to heal. He called this form of healing Reiki and taught it throughout Japan until his death around 1893.
The tradition was passed through several grandmasters of reiki such as Dr. Chujiro Hyashi, Hawayo Takata, and Phyllis Lei Furumoto.
There are many forms of reiki being practiced now. The two principal ones are: "the Usui System of Natural Healing" and "the Radiance Technique."
The Usui System of Natural Healing balances and strengthens the body's energy, promoting its ability to heal itself.
Reiki is useful in treating serious serious illnesses as well as others. Examples are: sports injuries, cuts, burns, internal diseases, emotional disorders, and stress-related illnesses.
Reiki was introduced to the Western world in the mid-1970s. Since then its use has spread dramatically worldwide.
Reiki energy is regarded as life energy at its most effective-with the maximum vibration. It is considered to have an almost divine quality and as such includes everything, in a world where problems and disorders are deemed to be due to the feeling of detachment from the world. There is no division of Reiki energy into positive and negative forms but when a person undergoes a session of therapy, they allow the energy to be taken into themselves with beneficial effects. Essentially, those receiving Reiki energy decide subconsciously just how much of the life energy is taken in.
Those who use Reiki regularly often find they are more joyful, lively and their own in-built energy is enhanced-almost as if their batteries had been fully charged! Existing conflicts within the person are broken down and there is a greater vitality, leading to relaxation and a stimulation of the body. As this improvement develops, the natural processes of renewal and removal of toxins are enhanced and rendered more effective, ultimately opening up more of the body to the life energy.
Body organs such as the skin, and protective systems such as the immune system are improved providing the individual is prepared regularly to undertake Reiki and in the first place to undergo an attunement or initiation into Reiki energy. The initiation is merely a means whereby the universal life energy is bestowed through the Reiki master. The master acts as a channel and a link with God to release the healing power.
An initiation is not absolutely essential but it allows the individual access to the universal life energy, which is used rather than their own life energy. Also, an initiation conveys a greater capacity for using Reiki energy, with no associated tiredness and further, it provides a protective mechanism against any negative manifestations.
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Posted: Thu Dec 27th, 2007 06:03 pm | 2nd Post |
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Reiki is the Shnizzle! It really works!
If someone had told me a year ago that not only would I be the recipient of a Reiki Treatment, but would obtain my Reiki Practitioners License and be currently studying to be a Reiki Master, I truly would have laughed my butt off.
Well, weird things happen when you really start to scientifically understand the nature of reality. Through the study of Quantum Physics, particularly String Theory and M-Theory, one truly begins to understand that everything in reality is the culmination of energy and information. One can then understand that because our conscious mind is manipulating the information that is guiding the energy (via our intention) that Reiki can be very effective in overcoming many aspects of reality.
Reiki is all about intention. It is about holding a thought of what you intend for the energy to do and it will do it. Ask the energy to flow a certain way and it does. Ask the energy to repair dis-ease and it will. Reiki is the art-form of balancing Energy and asking it through conscious intention to do what ever you need it to do.
Your Other You,
FORD
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Posted: Sat Dec 29th, 2007 12:28 am | 3rd Post |
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I'd like to expand on this a bit, adding my slightly different perspective :-) The best advice my Reiki teacher gave me was "let Reiki teach you" Here is a little of what I have learned since my first attunements in 95 and becoming a Master Teacher in 97...
While intent is always important, in my experience Reiki has a consciousness of it's own and is wiser than a human mind. And as with most things of a Spiritual nature, Reiki itself is constantly evolving.
Sometimes what we "think" needs to be treated is not the issue at all. The beauty of Reiki is that one can do no harm. If you just channel the energy and let it flow with no attachment to how healing will manifest, amazing things can happen!!
Another really cool aspect is Distant Healing. There are symbols that let one transend time and space to send the energy wherever and whenever it is needed. The possibilites are limited only by our thoughts about it...
Namaste,
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Posted: Sat Dec 29th, 2007 04:28 pm | 4th Post |
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Yes, you are absolutely correct. It is completely arrogant to think that source needs our guidance. I was just trying to rationalize the concept for those who don't understand Reiki. Before I understood the methodology of energy and conscious intention I had a hard time believing that "Hands on Healing" was anything but hocus-pocus. However, through understanding how energy flows and further more how it is intricately connected to a single conscious mind is strangely comfortable.
Although I am a newbie at this practice, I have already experienced some pretty curious things while both practicing and receiving Reiki. You have been doing this quite a while. I would love to hear any great stories you have of experiences you might have encountered in your practice.
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Posted: Sun Jan 6th, 2008 03:20 am | 5th Post |
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Hi guys! I'm a newbie to the forum as well as a newly certified Reiki Master! (as of last Friday!) Whoo-Hoo!
FORD wrote: I would love to hear any great stories you have of experiences you might have encountered in your practice.
Ask and it is given!
This is my most recent experience as an after-effect of channeling energy...
Of courese, as part of my certification requirements, I was to give practice sessions to willing participants. One of my clients was a friend of mine who was pregnant. During our sessions, I would feel the baby's energy come in...
I'm not really sure how to explain how it felt... It was just different than the Mom's energy... More "pure"? Well, yesterday I had a chance to visit the Mom & the newly arrived Baby Girl... I held the baby briefly and although it was such a delight to hold someone so tuned into Source, it seemed so familiar to me, energy-wise. On my road trip home, as I was reminiscing about the experience, I realized what I had felt. Of course the energy felt "familiar" to me! I had felt the baby's energy before and I was unconsciously recognizing her vibrational imprint upon my holding her!
I love Reiki and I'm eager to expand as I evolve in my Reiki journey.
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Posted: Fri Jan 11th, 2008 06:07 pm | 6th Post |
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That's an awesome story, Natty, thanks for sharing it! Babies are so close to source, as are animals and being around them helps us to remember our connection too!
HERE'S TO BABIES AND ANIMALS! 
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Posted: Thu May 8th, 2008 07:17 pm | 7th Post |
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As of june 1st i will be starting my reiki training. i am so excited!!!
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Posted: Wed May 14th, 2008 05:46 am | 8th Post |
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That is AWESOME, Jamie!!!
I bet you are so excited! Please be sure to tell us all about your experience and all the cool healing stuff!
I know you will love it, ENJOY!!
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Posted: Wed May 14th, 2008 01:17 pm | 9th Post |
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I am looking forward to incorporating it into my reflexology and pressure points that i already do.  
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Posted: Sat Jun 7th, 2008 01:22 pm | 10th Post |
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This is so cool! My dad is studying reiki, he went off to a class today. I'm learning more about it from him & from you all 
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Posted: Sun Jun 8th, 2008 05:08 pm | 11th Post |
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| well since i was attuned i haven't had too much practice yet but i did do my friends dog, who i am dog sitting, and 2 of my cats. one cat kit loved it. just laid down and didn't move but Gilbert hated it i couldn't get anywhere near him he was so funny he would meow and move away if i tried to touch him but sat there purring and rubbing against me as long as i wasn't touching him with my hands.
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