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Writer: Richard (Rick) Rivard

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What is Reiki?

Reiki (ray-key) is a natural healing technique that feels like a flow of a high frequency of energy into and through a practitioner, and out the hands into another person. Thought to have originated thousands of years ago, Reiki was re-discovered by Mikao Usui, a Japanese man around 1914. It may have been his purpose to find out how famous healers like Buddha and Christ healed the sick, without depleting their own inner energy. During his quest he studied many ancient teachings, especially those related to healing, including Ki-Ko, the Japanese version of Qi Qong (Chi Kung). Finally, he experienced a solution we now call Reiki, while meditating during a retreat on the Holy Mountain of Kurama Yama, just outside of the spiritual city of Kyoto, Japan. According to Reiki history, he was actually hit by some form of energy, and awoke with the healing ability.

Mr. Usui tested this new found energy on his family and friends, then took the resulting process out to the Japanese public. He travelled to Tokyo and began healing and teaching others there. He also found he could easily transfer the ability to access and use this energy, to anyone.

The word Reiki was actually an adjective that Mr. Usui used, attributing the source of this energy to his ancestors. He called his technique Usui Reiki Ryoho (healing). In Western translation however, the word Reiki is seen as being made up of two Japanese words - Rei and Ki.

Rei can mean supernatural force or spiritual intelligence; Ki can mean life energy. Thus Reiki is often described in the west as "spiritually guided life force energy". As each colour in the rainbow is actually a different frequency or vibration of white light, the Reiki ray can be considered a range of vibrations of the Universal Energy or The Light, but perhaps a range that is beyond the normal access of each individual.

What is a treatment like?

A standard Reiki treatment includes placing the hands above, or on, the head, shoulders, stomach and feet. In addition, other positions may be used for specific conditions the client may have. Each position is held 2 to 5 minutes and the entire treatment lasts 45 to 90 minutes. Originally Mikao Usui (we call him "Sensei" or "Usui-sensei") would have placed his hands on a few places on the head, then worked on the places of illness or injury, all while the patient sat on the floor.

A treatment creates a wonderful radiance that is deeply relaxing and includes many beneficial affects for both client and practitioner. At the very least, you will feel very relaxed during a session, often to the point of falling asleep. A Reiki session always seems to impress those who say they find it difficult to relax.

As a Reiki practitioner, you can also treat yourself by placing your hands on yourself. Reiki will flow into you and begin its healing work. As in other forms of energy healing, a Reiki practitioner can also "send" a treatment to another person who is not in the same room or location. This is usually called Distant Reiki.

What can be treated?

In oriental cultures, healing disciplines like Reiki may be applied to healthy people as a preventative method. However, Reiki may also be used to assist you in returning to a state of health.

Reiki is both powerful and gentle. In its long history of use Reiki has aided in healing virtually every known illness and injury including serious problems like cancer and heart disease as well as skin problems, cuts, broken bones, headaches, colds, sunburn, insect bites, insomnia, lack of confidence, etc.

Reiki can also be used to relieve stress, to overcome unwanted habits, to achieve desired goals, and to protect from harm.

Many Reiki practitioners have found that plants and animals also respond well to a Reiki session.

Who can learn REIKI?

The ability to use Reiki is transferred to the student by the Reiki Master through an empowerment within an attunement process or ceremony. It is like a re-awakening of a talent that is laying dormant within you. For some, it may be possible to re-activate this ability on their own. But for most, it is far simpler to receive a Reiki attunement. Because of this, virtually anyone can learn Reiki with no prior experience or ability necessary. The attunement process opens the heart, crown and palm chakras and creates a special link between the student and the Reiki source. The Reiki Master then explains and demonstrates its use.

After that, the student simply places her or his hands on someone with the intention of healing and the Reiki energies will automatically flow through the student into the recipient. Because of this unique attunement process, Reiki can be easily taught during a one day class, or less.

The Reiki Empowerment is actually a powerful healing experience in itself.

Can children learn Reiki?

Children can easily acquire this abilit., even small children. Since no focus or concentration is required, they can even watch TV, read a book, talk, etc. while giving a very effective Reiki session. I have found that I could encourage my young children to give me a Reiki session while they watched their favourite TV program or video. Their energy was always strong and constant. I simply moved their hands to different positions when I felt they had been in one place long enough, or they felt to hot for me <smile>.

How does REIKI work?

Reiki is an amazing energy that comes from the highest spiritual source. It has its own intelligence and knows exactly where to go and what to do. It is multi-dimensional and will heal the cause of a problem on whatever level it may exist - body, mind, or spirit. It does not have to be directed by the practitioner. Because it is a channeled healing, the Reiki practitioner's energies are never depleted. In fact, when giving a treatment, the Reiki practitioner is healed as well and always experiences an increase in lifeforce energy. People that already do healing work report their healing energies increase by at least 50% after receiving Reiki training.

An Analogy

Consider whenever a person goes outside to water the garden. S/he turns on the water tap, picks up the hose and focuses the nozzle of the hose towards the garden. (Let's assume there are no water use restrictions in effect <smile>). The person isn't usually concerned with the water running out, nor with the possibility of anything foreign coming in through the sides of the hose. The person also doesn't worry about anything coming back up through the nozzle as the water pressure is too strong. While this person could just let the water run and it would work its way to all parts of the garden, s/he likes to direct the water to her/his favourite plants, then possibly the balance of the garden. However, if there is a part that is much drier than the rest of the garden, the water will accumulate more here, so as to balance the entire garden's water content. And it is usally quite obvious where these spots are, as more water gets absorbed here, than elsewhere.

The water can be thought of as the Reiki energy. It comes from a source outside of you, and seems to have no limit to its availability. The person is the Reiki practitioner. The hose is like the purified Reiki channel that is opened within the initiated Reiki practitoner. It is very pure and strong and nothing can penetrate it; i.e. your energy does not get mixed with the Reiki ray before it leaves you. The energy flows out the palms of your hands, your nozzles (as well as other chakras in the body), and the recipient's energy does not flow back into the practitioner (so you don't take on their mis-qualified energy). The Reiki practitioner can just stay in one place projecting the energy on or towards the person who is receiving it, but typically moves around the body, starting with the recipient's head (just like watering the favourite flowers first). While the Reiki energy fills and surrounds the recipient's body with its gentle vibrations, if there are parts that require more balancing of energy (called energy blocks), the Reiki ray will focus more in those places. The potential end result is a balancing of all the energy in the body (not to mention the other levels of the aura).

The Reiki channel can also be thought of being similar to a sprinkler hose with little holes all around the sides of it. Like the sprinkler hose, the Reiki also "leaks" out into the Reiki practitioner, causing her/him to receive a gentle Reiki session also.

The result of this latter fact is that the Reiki practitioner feels energized and vibrant after giving a Reiki session, and is quite capable of performing several sessions in a row.

Am I Already Using Reiki?

I often get comments like this one - "What you describe here sounds very much like an ability I have been using for some time. Am I already using Reiki?" This may come from students or from people over the internet. Some of them have been born with healing abilities, while others have learned similar energy techniques.

First of all, what I qualify as "Reiki" would be the same energy that Mikao Usui originally experienced sometime before his move to Tokyo in 1921, and then taught to his students. This implies that a person has received the energy in a way that Mikao Usui used to pass it on to his students; that is, by way of an energy empowerment, usually given in a Reiki class, by a Reiki "master".

Perhaps it would be more appropriate to discuss whether a person is using the same energy as Reiki. In my experiences with those who have a healing skill, all who have gone on to receive the Reiki attunement have told me that the energy they had previously thought was Reiki, was either quite different, or not as strong, or not as easily accessed as Reiki. They talk about Reiki as being a higher vibration, or that it has a different colour, or that it flows through them differently, than what they were previously using.

I think the only way to determine if your energy is the same as Reiki would be to receive a Reiki attunement, or to ask a very good clairvoyent to compare your energy to that of a Reiki practitioner. Or you may simply want to sample a Reiki session yourself. This is not to say that Reiki is better than what you are already using. There are indeed other energies that seem to work the way Reiki does, but have a differrent feel or vibration to them. Yet I wouldn't be surprised if some children are coming into the world now with this energy already flowing - a legacy to our most unusual times.

I have found that the most benefit seems to come from a combination of the person giving the energy, the person receiving, the situtation, the presence of compassion and Love, and the energy technique.Sometimes a hug is the most powerful technique.

Writer: Richard (Rick) Rivard

http://www.threshold.ca/reiki/home.html

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