What is Reiki?

The following will give you a little background about Reiki and help to explain what it is and what it is not.  Love is an interesting energy! Everybody I have ever spoken to tells me they want love, however many of them run a mile when it is offered to them. 

Fear of the unknown is the only obstacle that you have to overcome to experience your happiness. The universal unconditional love manifests itself, is experienced, in the form of a personal comforter; this comforter is none other than the Reiki energy.

The key to gaining your greatest benefit comes from acceptance and trust.  Relax, allow, give yourself permission and most of all enjoy the love that you will experience.

REIKI’S FOUNDER: Dr. Makao Usui

The story begins in Reiki in the mid 1800’s with a teacher,     Dr. Makao Usui, searching for the ancient healing system used by Christ, Buddha, and all the ancient great healers.  His quest enabled his final accomplishment of achieving enlightenment. It was through his inner realisations that he gained the wisdom to help others achieve their own path to enlightenment and developed the Reiki system of healing.

Dr. Usui started by opening a school to teach his spiritual teachings, he also offered individual healing sessions for physical illness and emotional distress.

Dr Usui's legacy has now spread throughout the world like a great fire burning all separations of prejudice in its path. Reiki is now practiced regardless of the practitioner's religion, creed, race or social status.

WHAT IS REIKI ENERGY?

The word Reiki means ‘Universal Energy’.  Eastern medicine has always recognised and worked with this energy, which flows through all living beings and is vital to the well-being of life. The energy is known as ‘ki’ in Japan and ‘chi’ in China, and ‘prana’ in India.  Acupuncture, tai-chi and yoga are also based on the free-flow of this energy in a person.  It is available to everyone because it is non-religious.

As a therapy and a personal development tool, Reiki is an effective and simple way of tapping into this energy and activating it for the benefit of the receiver, to stimulate the body’s own natural healing potential. Reiki is a complementary non intrusive method of helping heal a variety of illnesses; physical, emotional and mental.

WHAT CAN REIKI DO FOR YOU?

In Reiki, the quality and flow of your own inner healing energy is what determines your physical and emotional health and well being.  When you are unwell you are experiencing a block in this natural universal healing energy and that blockage shows itself to you as illness or emotional distress and pain.

The Reiki healer acts as a channel for this healing energy like switching on a light switch in a dark room reconnecting you once again allowing the flow of your own inner healing energy to bring your body, mind and emotions back into balance and harmony, restoring you back into a state of well-being and health.

QUESTION - WHY DO I LOVE THIS ENERGY?

Because it is from the beyond - beyond our mind, beyond the self, it is from the essential nature of The Divine.  Reiki is purity. Reiki accepts all that allows its presence.  

Reiki is a living comforting balancing energy never changing in its compassionate intention.  It has no belief system.  Reiki exists eternally and its function is to bring wellness within dis-ease, to bring actual proof of a living Beloved Universal Divine Consciousness to everyday human life, this is why it is identifiable and available to all faiths.

THE REIKI DEGREES, INITIATIONS & ATTUNEMENTS

The ability to bring about healing during Reiki is gained through receiving energy attunements during a special initiation ceremony.  The energy attunement opens a channel for the universal life energy to flow through to wherever it is most needed on a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual level.

The attunements are given by a certified Reiki Master-teacher, and the students have the opportunity to progress in their learning through three degrees.  Each one deepening and strengthening their capacity to serve as a channel for the universal life energy.  

The first-degree mainly deals with the self healing process and the recognition of one's own healing potential.  Self healing is the critical first step in becoming a Reiki channel.  Only when we take responsibility for our own healing are we in a position to support others in their healing process.  

In the Reiki first degree you will receive three attunements - these are also known as initiations.  They create an open channel for more universal life energy to flow through the upper body and out through the hands. The techniques learnt in the first-degree are complete in themselves. 

If the student does feel drawn to work with this energy at a deeper level the second degree training is recommended where upon completion you can practice as a Professional Practitioner Healer and are able to charge a fee for your services.

REIKI FLOWS DIRECTLY FROM THE SOURCE OF CREATION

The Reiki practitioner also understands that he or she is only a channel.  In a Reiki session, the practitioner does not direct his or her own personal energy to the recipient but merely serves as a conduit for the universal life energy.  

The Reiki attunements help to cleanse and clear any obstacles that might be blocking your capacity to receive and transmit the energy - a capacity that is, in fact, natural to all of us. 

Second and Third degree trainings include learning unique Reiki symbols and their mantras, which are handed on from Reiki Master to student in confidence during the second and third degree teachings.

BASIC REIKI PRINCIPLES

Reiki works with the endocrine system and regulates hormone balance in the body and metabolism. On an energetic level, the endocrine glands correspond to and interrelate with the ‘chakras’ in the energy body.  

This powerful natural energy is available to all of us and sustains our lives every day.  It is this energy that we draw and in the course of our daily activities. And if our lives were perfectly in balance, it would be naturally replenished throughout interactions with others in the loving environment, and with rest and relaxation, fresh air, clean water, and wholesome, natural food.  Of course, our lives are not perfectly in balance, and that is where the power of Reiki can be of help to everyone.

CAUTION - GUIDELINES FOR YOUR SAFTETY WITH REIKI Reiki does not take the place of conventional medicine.  Always consult your Doctor for an acute or infectious condition and any problem of urgent concern.  Reiki is a complementary therapy that works effectively alongside orthodox and alternative solutions.