Basics on Reiki Healing

 

Energy is source of life and life is energy. Energy is a multi-directional force. All together Reiki is a word composed of 'rei' [Rei: rain of] and "ki" [Ki: life force] which means Universal Life Energy brought through personal healing for the purposes of healing. Enter a library, a bookshop or visit the internet and collect as much as you want about Reiki. It is there it is available, it is rich, it is often colorful and even more often, peaceful and grateful.

The energy around us is life force energy and it can be used for healing purposes, naturally and effortlessly. Unless on meditative state, only a change in the smell or feeling of the air that would raise consciousness of the existence of air and energy. Most of the time breathing is natural, automatically. Breathe in, breathe out. Noticing a change in the air would only occur in presence of a smell, or a feeling about it (cool, hot, perfume, pollution). Experience the air upon entering a room where a baby is sleeping, or a temple, a church, a cave, or a room where an argument just occurred. This is called to open to consciousness of existence. Become conscious of the breathing. Just as oxygen can be extracted from the air and given to a person who needs it, there is a healing, balancing band or vibration in the energy surrounding that can be channeled and offered to a person in the same way. Reiki balances the energies in the body and strengthens the life forces. Energy is a vibrational frequency that permeates life and can be channeled, for healing purposes. One way of doing this is through healing treatments and further initiations in the Usui System of Natural Healing. Reiki practitioner learns how to filter the energy, transmit healing energy to ourselves and to others or whatever we touch. Quantum physics describes energy and its frequency and the interconnection between one field [the body] and the other [the surrounding] field There is a common understanding that the human body energetic fields comprise of a physical body, and an etherical body [the aura] both interacting with the larger energy field, the Universe. Reiki is activated through hands-on treatments, and once the practitioner is aligned to the Reiki energetic field s/he can move to deeper levels of understanding of healing, through symbols and meditation reiki guided meditation.

Beautifully, Reiki is not a sect, a mysterious practice, a religion, nor a dogmatic teaching. Reiki is a philosophy of life. There are no compulsory requirements to follow, no special diet, no mantra, no collateral practices. It is pure, simple transparent and common sense. The corollary of a healing process is the birth of a way of life with layers of unnecessary habits dropping one by one, cleansing the body and the mind from energy blockages and opening the chakras. One cannot expect to undertake healing and continue to eat processed, fatty, fried, oily and colored food. It just is a contradiction. One can indeed expect healing to foster an immense liberation from both mental and physical toxins, through regular treatments. Fees for treatments are set, and an agreement is made prior to a treatment about it, there is neither speculation nor gambling. As a healing technique and although rooted in the Eastern tradition, Reiki is neutral, comes from the universe and blends with all beliefs and ways of life. It can be used as a self-healing and personal development tool or expand into a holistic practice for others and the universe, a broader goal of serving others and offer healing.

Reiki is the Magic YOU Can Do!

 

Do you find the title intriguing? The intention is not to intrigue but motivate and convince you that the magic of Reiki is within you reiki meditation symbols.

Reiki is a benign energy that brings happiness and light into the lives of everyone who embraces it. It is an energy that can be harnessed to fulfill the little desires of life. Often the way Reiki works seems like magic.

Reiki asserts that the world is energy vibrating at different frequencies. Thought is energy and action is also energy. Every single object in the physical world is energy vibrating at different frequencies. Since energy cannot be destroyed, it remains in its current state until it is converted into other forms or reactions to form new energy vortices. Reiki gives you the power of conversion-the power of making the negative, positive.

However, Reiki energy, by itself, is neither positive nor negative. It corrects negative energy and stimulates the flow of positive energy. It releases blocks and enhances energy levels and makes dynamic all that is sluggish and diseased. Reiki is not a healing method alone it is also a method of developing yourself spiritually.

A number of meditations are taught while a person is initiated into Reiki. People who have been meditating earlier would find that they are able to attain the perfect state easily after Reiki initiation. Those who are new to meditation would find that with almost no ascetic practice they are able to enter the meditative state. They would also find that their relationship with God and the universe is being subtly altered and they are able to relate intensely with both animate and inanimate things.

A person who constantly uses Reiki to heal themselves and others will find that their thought processes are clearer, their memory is improving and that they have more energy for everything. The fundamental demand that the energy makes of us, is that we surrender to its intelligent power and allow it to guide us to the goals we desire.

Innovative uses of Reiki

Having said that let us examine how Reiki can be used innovatively to make our lives better.

A Reiki practitioner who met me during one of our discussion sessions told me of some strange ways in which she had used Reiki energy. She had gone with her family to a hill station. She has a little daughter aged four, who would eat her meals only if nursery rhymes are being played. As soon as the cassette player had been switched on preparatory to feeding her, she found that the batteries were dead and she had forgotten to bring fresh batteries. In desperation she decided to do Reiki to the batteries and charge them. Her husband laughed at her while she focused all her attention on energizing the batteries. After about fifteen minutes of doing Reiki she inserted the batteries into the player and lo behold, the batteries functioned normally for almost an hour. Her husband, who was a skeptic till then, became a believer. He enrolled for Reiki immediately on return from their holiday.

Plants and trees respond to Reiki, just as human beings do. Reiki enhances plant growth and increases their life energy. Start by doing Reiki at the roots to enhance their function of providing sustenance to the plant as a whole. When you intuitively understand that enough energy has been given move your hands to the stem. Hold your hands a few inches beyond the leaves and feel the energy flow. When plants have to be replanted, Reiki helps them take root easily. A friend who experienced the wonderful impact of Reiki on plants narrated the following episode to me.

She had several indoor plants in her drawing room and she was very fond of them. She would talk to them while she cleaned them and took them out for sunning. Suddenly she was called away from home to attend to her sick aunt. She left strict instructions with her maid to tend to the plants. When she returned after ten days, the maid was in tears. She said that she had taken care of the plants as directed but they seemed to be dying without reason. My friend was shocked and upset. She saw that most of the plant leaves had browned and fallen off. The plant itself was also drooping. In tears herself, she began talking to the plants and doing Reiki to them. She could not sleep all night and spent most of the night giving Reiki energy at repeated intervals. In the morning she dozed off and woke up hearing the exclamations of her maid. The plants had suddenly revived and had even sprouted fresh new leaves!

Fruits and vegetables respond to Reiki and remain fresh for a long time. The energy content in the food is enhanced and improves the health of the individual who ingests them. Though I have not tried it, colleagues who have tried it tell me that; Reiki improves the taste of sticky toffee! However, I can authoritatively state that you can increase the taste of food if you do Reiki to it while you cook.

Animals who are sick and distressed by injuries can be soothed and comforted by Reiki. Homes can be energized by thoroughly cleaning the rooms and drawing the first symbol of the second degree of Reiki in the four corners of the room. You can secure your home by visualizing a pyramid over it and drawing the power symbol on the four faces of the pyramid. You can do the same for your children or your family members who are leaving home for work or school.

A friend of mine who was accident-prone was extremely distressed when a series of accidents marred the best day of his life. He began the day by falling off his bed and slipped on the wet bathroom floor while bathing and banged his head on the sharp edge of the tub. While rushing to the hospital, his car skidded and he hit the meridian and ended up with a fractured arm. While setting his bone, the nurse accidentally pricked him with the hypodermic she was preparing. He rushed to my clinic straight from the hospital before the hospital fell on him! I gave him Reiki to reduce the pain of the fracture and quicken the healing. I asked him to visualize himself in the center of a colorful beach ball. I asked him to surround himself with giant power symbols and pray to the Reiki energy to protect him from accidents and negative energies for the next five days. He was so desperate that he went through the entire exercise sincerely. He did not have a single accident for the next five days. He was so elated that he rushed to the phone to ring me up on the sixth day babbling with joy. He promptly banged himself on the nearest chair and I was greeted with an "ouch!" as I picked up the phone. Needless to say, he promptly sat down to get his Reiki insurance for the next five days!