REIKI-the Healing Touch

  Categorised under: Alternative healing, Distance healing, Practical applications

Rei means higher knowledge or spiritual consciousness. This is the wisdom that comes from God and is the God-Consciousness which is all-knowing. It understands each person completely. It knows the cause of all problems and difficulties and knows how to heal them.

Ki – is the vital energy that fuels all creation. Different cultures or spiritual paths have different names for this energy. In China it is called Qi, and in India Shakti or Prana. This is a non-physical energy that animates all living things. As long as something is alive, it has life energy circulating through it and surrounding it; when it dies, the life energy departs. If your life energy is low or there is a constriction in its flow, you are more vulnerable to illness. When it is high and flowing freely, you are less likely to get sick. Life energy plays an important role in everything we do. It animates the body and has higher levels of expression. Ki is also the primary energy of our emotions, thoughts and spiritual life.

Attunement.

We all have a connection to Source, but sometimes the ‘door is closed’ or we forget to open it. The ‘door’ to the Reiki energy is at the crown, the top of the head. When you have a First Degree Reiki Attunement this door is re-opened for you and will remain open for the rest of your life, so that you can tap into this Divine Reiki energy whenever you wish.

When you practice Reiki, there is a powerful flow of energy through your body, so concentrated that it fills the heart with tremendous warmth which passes down our arms and out of your hands. Reiki feels as if it is a ‘living ocean of energy.’

What is more, this ocean of energy is an intelligent force. The practitioner does not need to guide it with her mind, and it goes where the person needs it, not just to the area under the practitioner’s hands.

The ability to give Reiki is learned simply through an oral tradition and a series of initiations from a master to a student. These follow the original teachings founded by Reiki Grand Master Mikao Usui in the Nineteenth Century.

During the attunement process, the Rei or God-consciousness makes adjustments in the student’s chakras and energy pathways to accommodate the ability to channel Reiki and then links the student to the Reiki source. These changes are unique for each person. The attunement energies are channelled into the student through the Reiki Master. The Reiki Master does not direct the process and is simply a channel for the attunement energy flowing from the Higher Power.

Reiki is a useful tool for self-awareness and personal transformation. It offers support for the person to release many unwanted issues from the past. Reiki is a non-invasive therapy. In order to give a Reiki treatment, there is no need to undress the client; Reiki works just as effectively through clothes, blankets and in the case of an accident, plaster casts. Reiki can be used in conjunction with many other therapies. Reiki is not affiliated to any religious dogma or practice. Reiki is not based on belief or faith or suggestion but on the direct experience of those who practice or receive it.

After an attunement all that is necessary for practitioners to use Reiki, is to place their hands on the “person to be healed” with the intention of facilitating healing. The Reiki energies will begin flowing automatically. Reiki heals by flowing through the person, plant or animal and charging them with positive energy.  Reiki raises the vibrations of the energy field of people, plants and animals causing negative energy to break apart and fall away. Reiki thus clears and heals the energy pathways, allowing the life force to flow in a natural and healthy way.

For Reiki to have lasting results, the person receiving Reiki must accept responsibility for their own healing or take an active part in it.

Reiki never causes harm because it is guided by God-consciousness. One need never worry about whether to give Reiki or not it is always helpful.

Because Reiki is channelled healing energy, the practitioner’s energies are never depleted. Both practitioner and client benefit from Reiki and after a treatment feels an increase in energy and are surrounded with loving feelings of well-being.