Reiki is a very simple, yet powerful healing art, you can use on yourself as well as on others, and anyone can be easily taught how to do it

What Is Reiki? And How Can Energy Healing Help You?

by Taylore Vance

Until around 2000 years ago most people with varying degrees of success practiced laying-on-of-hands as a healing method. Of course, there were the famous few who were really proficient at healing. These great ones were thought to have a special gift because of their healing results.

Very few realized that everyone is gifted similarly. The great ones such as Apollonius, The Buddha, and the most well known, Jesus, to name the three you may have heard the most about simply had learned the procedure more thoroughly.

Reiki (pronounced "ray-key") is a spiritual healing technique, which involves, but is not limited to, the laying-on-of-hands. It was rediscovered in the late 1800's by Dr. Mikao Usui in Japan, and is thought to have originated as a health practice thousands of years ago.

Reiki is a very simple, yet powerful healing art, you can use on yourself as well as on others, and anyone can be easily taught how to do it. Even children are inclined toward Reiki. It helps them cope with the outside world.

Reiki is not a religion, cult, or new age, but it is spiritual in nature and connects you to the Source Energy that most people call God. Its practice brings inner peace and joy.

Easy To Learn And Use

"Reiki" is derived from two Japanese words -- "rei," meaning "soul" or "spirit," and "ki," meaning "life force energy." It is Universal energy that seems to have its own consciousness (a mind of its own) and is able to provide exactly what is needed on all levels. The practitioner using Reiki should be neutral and simply flow the healing energy. We all are hard-wired to flow the Universal Life Force Energy. It's a natural ability for the human body to be able to flow this healing energy.

Just like your computer (if you have one) is hard-wired to run Windows or do Word processing. All your computer needs is the program -- the software. You already have the ability to flow this healing energy for yourself and for others. The Reiki training--includes attunements and symbols which are like installing software into the mind. It is a "program", which gives you permission to become a healer and flow source energy.

Training teaches you how to go about using the healing techniques and the attunements (software)that multiplies the amount of Reiki energy you can flow.

Reiki Treatments Work By Dissolving Or Eliminating Toxic Energy

Toxic energy and emotional energy blockages are found on many levels of being: the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Energy healing will ease the pain on all these levels.

Becoming Reiki helps people connect to Source Energy, which brings joy, happiness and a deep sense of well-being. The 911 attack on WTC caused such terror in the hearts that the trauma disconnected people from Source Energy. That is the main reason everyone felt so bad.

Reiki reconnects you with Source Energy. In the center of chaos you will still feel safe and protected.

Reiki is a natural healing system that millions around the world are using to balance energy, remove stagnant energy, and restore peace and harmony in the body, mind, and spirit.

Since the methods were rediscovered and renamed Reiki by Dr. Usui, people in nearly every country of the world are again using "the laying-on-of-hands" method for healing the physical body in one form or the other.

Many registered nurses, as well as massage therapists are finding that Reiki is the perfect compliment to their hands-on health practice.

Reiki Helps To Create A Balanced Environment

A balanced environment within one's being is important so that healing can take place. Healers who have been attuned to the Reiki healing "flow" find that their natural healing energies have been enhanced. They also describe their healing energies as being more powerful and directed than before. Many traditional health practitioners are adding Reiki to their credentials.

Reiki Is Transferred To Students By A Reiki Master/Teacher

The Reiki master passes the training through a series of attunements. During the attunement process, sacred healing symbols are sealed into your energy field, so that you can flow the higher vibrations of energy. The attunement process opens you up permanently to the Reiki energy so that you can give Reiki treatments to yourself and others.

When you are attuned you become an open channel (or pipe) for the Reiki energy to flow through to yourself and others. The energy gently and constantly circulates in your body filling your heart area first, and flows out from that point on through your hands. When you place your hands on an object, whether it is a person, a pet, your plants, your food, or a crystal, the healing Reiki energy flows into that object as well.

Reiki raises the vibrational frequency of the person receiving the treatment.

Sickness is low vibrational frequency.

Wellness, health and joy are higher vibrational frequencies.

Three Benefits In Learning Reiki:

1.You will not use your own energy to heal others. You will always use the Source energy. You'll be taught how to protect your own energy and not get drained when healing others.

2.You will not take on other peoples' problems as your own.

3.Reiki will not harm anyone. The Reiki energy is always a benefit to the recipient. The more practice you get, the more benefit there is. Just like any tool you use, it gets better and better with practice.

Reiki works well with all healing modalities traditional and alternative, such as: nursing, massage therapy, Acupressure, Acupuncturists, Bach Flower, Chakra Balancing, Chi Gong, Chi Kung, Chi Nei Tsang, Cosmic Energetic Healing, Laser Reiki, Crystal Work, Dowsers, Essential Oils, Falun Gong, Feng Shui, Flower Essences, Gemstone Therapy, Healing Touch, Body workers, Homeopathic Medicines, Hypnotherapy, Tai Chi, Vibrational Healers, Yoga, Hellerwork, and all Holistic activities.

These healers above are adding Reiki certification to their tool kit. Mothers, kindergarten teachers, and schoolteachers are also learning Reiki because it makes their jobs easier

Ever since men and women were thrown out of the Garden of Eden it has been necessary to heal the body. Life then became hard. Those people were taught how to heal -- to "run energy" through their natural vortexes located in the palm of the hands.

At one time it was common knowledge to use this energy to raise the frequency and therefore heal the body of illnesses. Down through the ages this health knowledge was put into the hands of the priests, shamans, and witch doctors that used this special knowledge for their personal power. Finally this healing process got lost until a Japanese monk rediscovered it about 100 years ago.

Reiki Has Been Traditionally Taught In Three Degrees Or Levels

There is a specific attunement (software for the mind) for each degree of training, which is passed down from Master to student.

First Degree Reiki: --This is primarily for giving physical and etheric healings. It has a tremendous ability to balance and harmonize the chakras (energy centers in the body). Reiki I will remove negative energy from a person's auric field, relieve stress, and heal the physical body of dis-eases in general. (Many students take these workshops over and over because of the healings they receive while doing the workshops.)

Second Degree Reiki: --This energy adds healing on the mental and emotional levels. The first-degree energy is enhanced and amplified greatly, and the student is taught how to send the healing energy over long distances and to other points in time. The student learns techniques for using the Reiki symbols to cleanse and protect the aura (an invisible etheric energy field around the physical body.) The symbols can be used to remove bad energy from your home or office. The second-degree techniques are used to facilitate deep emotional healing, which is often the true cause of dis-ease.

Third Degree Reiki: --This is very spiritual in nature and deals with self-empowerment. The Master level (third degree) amplifies both the first and second-degree energy to its highest levels. It integrates one's being and initiates a more complete contact with your Higher Self. Reiki Masters can teach others and give Reiki I, II, and III attunements.

Everyone -- Young And Old -- Can Give Energy Healings

Children are a natural at flowing this energy. You can feel it flow out of their eyes and faces until about 3-4 years old when they begin to shut down. We are all hard-wired to flow this healing energy. The Reiki Attunement just opens the channels even more allowing an increase in energy flow. It is your God given ability to flow Reiki and everyone is special in this way. The Average Certification Prices To Learn Reiki Vary From Teacher To Teacher

Reiki I may cost $150-300. The cost of Reiki II is usually $250-400, and Reiki III, the Master level, is still taught from $350 up to $10,000 and more. There are some teachers giving premium training for a lot less.

At one time there was a 5-10 year internship to become a Reiki master. It took all those years of free service to their master before the student was certified. This is not a requirement these days, but it still pays to meet regularly with your teaching master to keep up to date.

Reiki is just the beginning point to energy healing and better health.

Whether you intend to go into business or just heal yourself, your family, friends, plants or animals, Reiki is a wonderful tool for everyone to have!

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