Spiritual Coach Willowhawk

Introduction

Reiki is a Japanese form of healing that is becoming increasingly popular worldwide. What makes it unique in the West, 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.

It involves the transfer of energy from practitioner to patient to enhance the body's natural ability to heal itself through the balancing of energy. It 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.

It 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".

What Is It?

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.

Th 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 this 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 this discipline however, the healer places the hands above or on 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.

History according to the West

Reiki is believed in the west 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 Buddist 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.

There are many forms of this discipline being practiced now. The two principal ones are: "the Usui System of Natural Healing" and "the Radiance Technique." We practice the Usui System of Natural Healing.

The Usui System of Natural Healing balances and strengthens the body's energy, promoting its ability to heal itself.

It is useful in treating serious illnesses as well as others

Reiki Energy

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 this 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 this energy decide subconsciously just how much of the life energy is taken in.

Those who use this 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.

Everyone can learn it. In order to learn Reiki one must undergo an attunement or initiation into the energy. The initiation is merely a means whereby the control or “channeling of the universal life energy is bestowed through the Reiki master. The master acts as a channel and a link with the ONE to release the healing power.

An initiation/attunement/blessing 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 this energy, with no associated tiredness and further, it provides a protective mechanism against any negative manifestations.

Once you have experienced it and are interested in being able to give yourself treatments talk to your Reiki Master.

The Open Circle

An open Circle is a group of individuals who would like information on what it does for self healing, how it works with the various energy systems of the body and to answer any questions in a safe, secure, and open environment. During these circles the leader will answer all questions and with other practitioners, at the request of the individual perform short 10 minute Reiki chair session.

Here is a link to some GREAT Reiki Meditation Music. Music Click Here

the Reiki I, II, and III manual page

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