REIKI

[di]

REIKI


Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words - Rei which means "God's Wisdom or the Higher Power" and Ki which is "life force energy". So Reiki is actually "spiritually guided life force energy."

A treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and wellbeing. Many have reported miraculous results.

Reiki is a simple, natural and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement that everyone can use. It has been effective in helping virtually every known illness and malady and always creates a beneficial effect. It also works in conjunction with all other medical or therapeutic techniques to relieve side effects and promote recovery.

An amazingly simple technique to learn, the ability to use Reiki is not taught in the usual sense, but is transferred to the student during a Reiki class. This ability is passed on during an "attunement" given by a Reiki master and allows the student to tap into an unlimited supply of "life force energy" to improve one's health and enhance the quality of life.
Its use is not dependent on one's 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.
While Reiki is spiritual in nature, it is not a religion. It has no dogma, and there is nothing you must believe in order to learn and use Reiki. In fact, Reiki is not dependent on belief at all and will work whether you believe in it or not. Because Reiki comes from God, many people find that using Reiki puts them more in touch with the experience of their religion rather than having only an intellectual concept of it.
While Reiki is not a religion, it is still important to live and act in a way that promotes harmony with others. Dr. Mikao Usui, the founder of the Reiki system of natural healing, recommended that one practice certain simple ethical ideals to promote peace and harmony, which are nearly universal across all cultures.
During a meditation several years after developing Reiki, Dr. Usui decided to add the Reiki Ideals to the practice of Reiki. The Ideals came in part from the five prinicples of the Meiji emperor of Japan whom Dr. Usui admired. The Ideals were developed to add spiritual balance to Usui Reiki. Their purpose is to help people realize that healing the spirit by consciously deciding to improve oneself is a necessary part of the Reiki healing experience. In order for the Reiki healing energies to have lasting results, the client must accept responsibility for her or his healing and take an active part in it. Therefore, the Usui system of Reiki is more than the use of the Reiki energy. It must also include an active commitment to improve oneself in order for it to be a complete system. The ideals are both guidelines for living a gracious life and virtues worthy of practice for their inherent value.
The secret art of inviting happiness
The miraculous medicine of all diseases
Just for today, do not anger
Do not worry and be filled with gratitude
Devote yourself to your work. Be kind to people.
Every morning and evening, join your hands in prayer.
Pray these words to your heart
and chant these words with your mouth
Usui Reiki Treatment for the improvement of body and mind
The founder , Usui Mikao

[di]

Developing Your Reiki Practice

The International Center for Reiki Training

The Promise of a Developing Reiki Practice

People coming to you with many different problems, difficulties and illnesses sometimes as a last resort. Watching them leave relaxed, often radiant with joy and new hope. Seeing them improve over time, watching them grow, gain confidence and become more trusting of life. Seeing some make major changes and life adjustments. Occasionally witnessing miracles. Feeling the wonder of God s love pass through you and into another. Sensing the presence of spiritual beings, feeling their touch, knowing they work with you. Being raised into ever greater levels of joy and peace by simply placing your hands on another. Watching your life grow and develop as your continual immersion in Reiki transforms your attitudes, values and beliefs. Sensing that because of your commitment to help others, beings of light are focusing their love and healing on you and carefully guiding you on your spiritual path. This is the promise of a developing Reiki practice.

[di]

Intention is the Most Important Thing

The most important thing concerning the development of a Reiki practice is the quality and strength of your intention. The mind is like a magnet. The quality and strength of your thoughts will determine the quality and strength of what you attract into your life. Therefore it is important for you to develop and maintain a positive mental attitude about your Reiki practice.

Decide with clarity, determination and commitment that you are going to create a thriving Reiki practice. Decide that you are worthy to do this and that there are many people who will benefit from your service. Decide that the value you and your clients will receive from your Reiki practice will far out weigh any effort or sacrifice that might be involved in creating it. Picture in your mind the results you want to create and how it will feel when you are actively involved in a thriving Reiki practice. Meditate frequently on this image and these feelings. Allow them to fill you up and surround you and reach out to others. Use this to motivate you and to help you continue on in the face of doubt or discouragement. Know in your heart that the freedom, joy and satisfaction of having your own Reiki practice is a valid goal and that you are creating it. Believe in yourself and in your purpose.

If doubts arise about your goal, know that this is normal and assume that they have entered your consciousness because they are passing out of you. Whenever we take on a new level of healing or commit to a new goal, old negative thoughts and feelings that have been stored inside and have gone unchallenged are dislodged and begin moving through our consciousness. If your commitment is strong, these old negative feelings and thoughts will break up and be released. If you feel negative feelings and thoughts come up, know that this is part of your healing and that you are releasing them up to the Higher Power to be healed. Use your Reiki to speed this up and make sure to ask for treatments from others. Reiki psychic surgery can be especially helpful.

Compassion Brings Help From Higher Sources

There are higher sources of help you can call on. Angels, beings of light and Reiki spirit guides as well as your own enlightened self are available to help you. They can help you develop your Reiki practice by directing clients to you and assisting with treatments. They can be of great benefit, but you must have a strong spiritual intention for your work if you are to recruit their aid. If you are doing Reiki in a selfish way, only for money or to gain control over others or to take on an air of self-importance, or for any other negative purpose, then it will be very difficult for these spiritual beings to work with you. There must be congruence, an alignment within you in order for the Higher Power in the form of Reiki to flow through you in a powerful way and in order for the angels, Reiki spirit guides and other spiritual beings to work with you. Reiki wants only the best for you, but you must align with the nature of Reiki if you are to gain the greatest benefit. The more you can open to the true nature of Reiki which is to have an unselfish heart centered desire to help others, then the more the Reiki spirit guides can help you. Focus on helping others and on healing anything within yourself that may stand in the way of an uninhibited flow of love and compassion. This is what will make your Reiki practice a success!

The development of a spiritual attitude toward your Reiki practice can be facilitated through the regular use of affirmations and prayers. Try the following prayer: "Guide me and heal me so that I can be of greater service to others." By sincerely saying a prayer such as this each day, your heart will open and a path will be created to receive the help of higher spiritual beings. They will guide you in your Reiki practice and in the development of your life purpose.

Competitiveness is Not a Part of Reiki

One thing that can get in the way of developing a spiritual attitude about your Reiki practice is fear of competition. This has caused more problems and created more restrictions and negative energy in the Reiki community than any other area of misunderstanding. Lack is an illusion and this is especially true for Reiki! There is a far greater need for healing on the planet than there are Reiki practitioners who can provide it. Fear of competition goes directly against the nature of Reiki energy and because of this, it can repel people from you who might otherwise be interested in receiving a treatment. Reiki comes from an unlimited supply and does not fear competition. People who do Reiki together find that their Reiki gets stronger as more people join the group. If Reiki was competitive, then just the opposite would happen, it would be strongest when you were alone and get weaker as more people joined the group.

The nature of Reiki energy is one of cooperation. It understands the concept that we are all one and flows freely to anyone and everyone. It works in harmony with all other forms of treatment. It is clearly apparent, the wisdom of Reiki is to welcome all other practitioners as allies. If the spiritual purpose for your Reiki practice, is to help others and to heal the planet, then you can only rejoice when you hear about another Reiki practitioner in your area as they are helping you fulfill your purpose. Accept the wisdom of Reiki as your own wisdom, that all others who practice Reiki are helping you. The more you can do this, the more your Reiki practice will thrive. Don t worry about taking clients away from other practitioners. Each practitioner has their own value and special way of helping others. You will attract the clients who are right for you. Others will attract the clients who are right for them.

Reiki Will Soon Be in Great Demand

An important trend is developing in society that will soon create a great demand for Reiki practitioners. More and more people are discovering the value of alternative therapy. A recent study conducted by Dr. David M. Eisenberg of Boston s Beth Israel Hospital indicates that people in the US are beginning to turn away from modern medicine and make greater use of alternative health care techniques. The survey concluded that 34 percent of Americans said they used at least one alternative therapy in 1990 and that Americans are spending nearly $14 billion a year for this treatment, most of which comes out of the patients own pocket. The therapies most used are meditation, touch therapy (such as Reiki), guided imagery, spiritual healing, chiropractic, hypnosis, homeopathy, acupuncture, herbal cures, and folk remedies.

Also of note is the fact that the National Institutes of Health has created an Office of Alternative Medicine whose purpose is to research alternative healing methods and establish their value. Already many healing techniques formerly considered quackery by the medical establishment have been proven valid by this new office. These include chiropractic, acupuncture and homeopathy and they will soon be studying touch therapy and Reiki. Clearly, a paradigm shift is taking place toward the general acceptance of alternative medical treatment. It is likely that Reiki will become widely accepted as a valid form of healing before the end of the decade! Think what this means for anyone with a Reiki practice. A great need is developing for Reiki practitioners!

[Felix]

Hi Di....i just wanted to ask you how long you have been practicing reiki and what level you are......?
Thanx in advance

[di]

Originally Posted by Felix

Hi Di....i just wanted to ask you how long you have been practicing reiki and what level you are......?
Thanx in advance

Im not practicing Reiki But Ive had therapy and its really helped alot .. My sister in australia has a health clinic and she is A REIKI-Therapist .. She has alot of customers that come to her clinic .. So I get all the information from her ..shes hoping to come somday to lebanon to open a health clinic ... so I was just wondering if anyone besides me have heard about reiki ..

[Felix]

Oh, I thought you may have been a practitioner...with all the information you provided

I was a level 2 practitioner of usui reiki for 5 years. There are a few lineages of reiki, its good stuff lol, but i no longer practice or recieve reiki.

It can be used on all life forms, and in most circumstances, studies on the healing time of patients in hospitals have shown that its effects are on par with prayer, and is often used in drug and alcohol rehabilitaion, due to its relaxing effect....the only exception is mental illness/psychosis, as reiki brings psychological issues to the surface, and can have a negative impact on the mentally ill.
Reiki works in many ways, but an important aspect of it, is that it hastens the evolution of a person. Even if it is not given/recieved for this purpose, as it effects the chakras.

Usui reiki consists of 3 levels.....the third being reiki master, where u learn specific symbols that are used to open the chakras of others and attune them to give reiki....it is a level for ppl who have a passion to atune others, just as many masters charge up to $1000 to attune someone, many masters do not charge $ at all, but ask for something else, ie barter system.
Level 2 encompasses power symbols and distant reiki, where u dont have to give reiki in person. And level 1 is basic reiki.

Usui reiki also teaches to let reiki flow when ever it 'turns on', and often my hands would begin to heat up and burn untill i directed it....sometimes i would be moving my hands subtly in different directions untill i felt the heat disperse and the 'flow' of ki slow down....lol its a pretty wierd feeling.

I feel that spiritual things are a journey, and for me the reiki journey came to an end...as helpfull as it was at the time, it was only a season in my life

[Bodhisattva]

Originally Posted by Felix

Oh, I thought you may have been a practitioner...with all the information you provided

I was a level 2 practitioner of usui reiki for 5 years. There are a few lineages of reiki, its good stuff lol, but i no longer practice or recieve reiki.

It can be used on all life forms, and in most circumstances, studies on the healing time of patients in hospitals have shown that its effects are on par with prayer, and is often used in drug and alcohol rehabilitaion, due to its relaxing effect....the only exception is mental illness/psychosis, as reiki brings psychological issues to the surface, and can have a negative impact on the mentally ill.
Reiki works in many ways, but an important aspect of it, is that it hastens the evolution of a person. Even if it is not given/recieved for this purpose, as it effects the chakras.

Usui reiki consists of 3 levels.....the third being reiki master, where u learn specific symbols that are used to open the chakras of others and attune them to give reiki....it is a level for ppl who have a passion to atune others, just as many masters charge up to $1000 to attune someone, many masters do not charge $ at all, but ask for something else, ie barter system.
Level 2 encompasses power symbols and distant reiki, where u dont have to give reiki in person. And level 1 is basic reiki.

Usui reiki also teaches to let reiki flow when ever it 'turns on', and often my hands would begin to heat up and burn untill i directed it....sometimes i would be moving my hands subtly in different directions untill i felt the heat disperse and the 'flow' of ki slow down....lol its a pretty wierd feeling.

I feel that spiritual things are a journey, and for me the reiki journey came to an end...as helpfull as it was at the time, it was only a season in my life

where did you learn and why did you stop?

[Felix]

Originally Posted by Bodhisattva

where did you learn and why did you stop?

Hi Bodhisattva,

A close and influential friend is a usui reiki master and she attuned me to both level 1 and 2.
I didnt have a passion to atune others, and so didnt pursue the attunement to level 3.
Im not sure if u know much about reiki, but the attunement process opens and widens the crown chakra, where ki enters and flows through all charkras and fills the body, it then 'overflows' so to speak, through the chakras in the palms of the hands.
it is this process of ki running and balancing the chakras that assist evolution.
All reiki practice can assist in the raising of kindalini (hinduism) if your into that.

The reasons i stopped are complex and personal, and i feel it was an evolutionary thing, where i had reached an end to that phase of my life.
Im now a christian and continue my spiritual journey with that basis.
My reiki days were a time of great growth and awareness and i have no regrets

[Bodhisattva]

Originally Posted by Felix

Hi Bodhisattva,

A close and influential friend is a usui reiki master and she attuned me to both level 1 and 2.
I didnt have a passion to atune others, and so didnt pursue the attunement to level 3.
Im not sure if u know much about reiki, but the attunement process opens and widens the crown chakra, where ki enters and flows through all charkras and fills the body, it then 'overflows' so to speak, through the chakras in the palms of the hands.
it is this process of ki running and balancing the chakras that assist evolution.
All reiki practice can assist in the raising of kindalini (hinduism) if your into that.

The reasons i stopped are complex and personal, and i feel it was an evolutionary thing, where i had reached an end to that phase of my life.
Im now a christian and continue my spiritual journey with that basis.
My reiki days were a time of great growth and awareness and i have no regrets

does it have a selfhealing effect as well?

p.S: goodluck on your journey :), regrets.. never

[Lebanese_Nationalist]

These two annoying people who volunteer to do Reiki on you are always around at my university campus. They annoy the hell out of me. I let them "Reiki me" once and it had no affect on me except that my face felt warmer, but that was probably from feeling so embarrassed.