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About Reiki

What is Reiki?
Reiki (pronounced Ray-key) translated from Japanese means spiritual energy.

Reiki symbol translation

Reiki is not a religion; it is a holistic, light-touch, energy-based healing method introduced to Japan by Tendai Buddhist priest, Mikao Usui (Pronounced Mick-cow Ew-suey), during the early 1900's.

How does Reiki Work?
Your physical body is sensitive to the energy of thoughts and emotions. When you experience negative feelings or thoughts about yourself, develop negative thought patterns and beliefs or experience a physical or emotional shock, you will be affected at your auric energy level which can create emotional and physiological blockages that eventually disrupt your health. Remember, all energy follows thought, therefore, you are what you "think". Your physical level displays imbalance first as symptoms, but if the symptoms are continuously ignored, they will eventually manifest into "dis-ease" or illness.

The energy of Reiki gently and effectively opens blocked meridians (an energy pathway or channel) and chakras (an energy receptor/transmission center) clearing the energy bodies of blockages, accumulated toxins and lower energy (or negative) vibrations. By freeing and re-aligning your body’s energy system on all levels –emotional, mental, physical and spiritual, deep relaxation is created to help restore your energy balance and vitality. As symptoms such as pain or allergies are released, your general health is further restored.

At the Emotional body – Reiki calms, soothes, balances and disperses negative feelings such as fear, abandonment, anger/rage, rejection or despair.
At the Mental body – Reiki helps you to focus and promotes clarity. It also reduces memory loss, confusion, anxiety and obsessive thinking.
At the Physical body - When Reiki is applied to your aches and pains, it helps repair the underlying dis-ease, thus promoting "ease" to your body.
At the Spiritual body – Reiki allows you to connect with your spiritual self or soul, giving you the ability to discover and understand your immense potential as a powerful healing energy being.

Reiki is also very effective when administered to children. It is applied in the same manner as for adults, but the treatment time is for a shorter duration, usually 30 to 45 minutes, depending on the size of the child. Allow your intuition to guide you.

Do You Need to Believe?
It is not necessary for you to believe or fully understand how Reiki works. But for it to be more effective, it helps to remain open minded and to be willing to take responsibility in altering negative life patterns or issues in order to create your own healing.

Degrees, Levels and Symbols
Traditionally there are three degrees or levels of learning and with each Reiki level you receive attunement to sacred symbols that act as short-cuts to trigger specific functions. One Source Learning Centre teaches traditional Usui Shiki Ryoho, which maintains three degrees or levels of learning and employs Reiki five symbols.

1^st degree or Reiki Level 1, is about self-healing and with attunement you "sense the Reiki energy." During the attunement ceremony, the Reiki symbols are placed in your aura (energy field surrounding the physical body), where their energy is unconsciously dispersed through the hands. After completing this level, you have the ability to heal yourself or to apply Reiki to others or to animals on a non-professional basis .

2^nd degree or Reiki Level 2, focuses on becoming a professional Reiki practitioner, plus performing distant/absentee healing and with attunement you "call the Reiki energy." As a Reiki practitioner, you call upon and consciously direct the flow of universal life-force energy. During the attunement ceremony, you are attuned to three Reiki symbols. Your heart chakra is opened so you can receive and experience unconditional universal love and compassion.

3^rd degree or Master/Teacher Level (taught in the traditional 3-level format), focuses on committing yourself to living the spiritual life of a Reiki Master (to master the healing art of Reiki) and with attunement you "become the Reiki energy." During the attunement ceremony, you are attuned to two symbols enabling you to pass attunements to others. The importance for becoming a Reiki Master/Teacher is not so much about teaching, it’s really about making a commitment, for life, to understand the healing art of Reiki, plus to make a commitment to offer a healing practice, to make a commitment to maintain spiritual discipline and to make a commitment to show un-conditional love, plus empathy for all living things.

Today, there are dozens and dozens of Reiki off-shoots adapted from the traditional style, some which have been trademarked. While many claim to enhance the healing power of the practitioner, in reality, intention and focus is what truly generates the amount of universal life-force energy channelled and generated through the practitioner to the client.

What is a Reiki Attunement?
The Japanese refer to this ceremony as Reiju (pronounced ray-joo) and translated, it simply means "Spiritual Blessing." A Reiki Master/Teacher does not pass along any special healing powers, but merely provides or creates a safe place for the student to draw upon universal life-force energy by connecting to the universal energy source. By receiving attunement or Reiju at each Reiki level, the student accepts universal blessings, which supports them on their journey of self-responsibility for their own spiritual progress.

Benefits of Reiki

Balances your blood pressure
Beneficial for healing plants and animals
Charges and purifies gemstone elixirs, medicines, herb tinctures or homeopathic remedies
Cleanses negative energies from home, office or sacred space (environmental cleansing)
Clears and charges crystals and gemstones
Clears food and beverages of impurities
Distant/absentee healing for others and planet
Energizes and balances glands and bodily functions to strengthen your immune system
Energizes your body, mind and spirit
Frees to balance blocked emotions, blocked energy, toxins and impurities from your body
Increases creativity and awareness
Increases serotonin and endorphins released by your brain to relieve pain
Relieves stress and induces calmness
Supports and activates your body’s natural ability to heal itself, plus accelerates healing

Reiki Beliefs

There must be a change in your consciousness for healing to occur
There must be an appropriate exchange of energy; one that honours both

What Happens During a Reiki Treatment?
Reiki treatment can be given anywhere, anytime, sitting or laying, while you are fully clothed. A full healing session takes approximately 60 to 90 minutes, in which the practitioner moves from head to foot covering both your front and your back areas. The practitioner may either lightly lay hands on your body or can have them slightly above your body.

Universal life-force energy is channelled through the practitioner and the energy automatically flows to the area that requires healing. You will experience total relaxation and some people often describe themselves "floating" or "feeling very light" after a treatment; many relax to the point of falling asleep. Some feel another presence in the room or feel tingling, heat, pain movement, body movement, emotional release or "phantom" hands elsewhere on their body. The experience is unique to each person.

Reiki re-establishes a normal life-force energy flow of Ki (pronounced key) [Japan] within you to heal your body, emotions, mind and spirit. In essence, Reiki is the energy of power, light and love. (Note: life force energy is also known as Chi or Qi (pronounced chee) [China], Huna [Hawaii], Ka [Egypt] or Prana [India]).

Reiki Principals
Reiki hands

Just for today, let go of anger
Just for today, let go of worry
Just for today, honour your parents, teachers and elders
Just for today, earn your living honestly
Just for today, show gratitude to every living thing

What Makes an Exceptional Reiki Master/Teacher?
When choosing a Reiki teacher, careful consideration should be applied before choosing. Although many have completed Reiki Master/Teacher level, not all are conditioned to teach and there is a vast difference between being a teacher and being an exceptional teacher. Here are some evaluation guidelines that may be helpful.

An exceptional teacher is someone who:

Allows freedom of thought, freedom of expression and freedom of action
Avoids enabling unhealthy co-dependent relationships
Avoids enforcing personal opinion or "will" on others
Continuously searches and learns to enhance own personal growth
Encourages and empowers others to recognize and acknowledge their own special gifts
Exudes a positive, approachable attitude and personality
Has received Reiki Master/Teacher attunement
Has taught and attuned at least one student
Inspires others to seek, develop and believe in their own abilities
Is a doer, not a follower
Is a self-starter
Is compassionate and empathetic towards people, animals, as well as global and universal conditions
Is an open-minded, individualist
Is reliable and punctual
Knows the procedure and ceremony for passing attunement for all three levels
Listens attentively to others and honours the opinions and feelings of others
Lives by the Reiki principles, practicing what is preached
Money or personal gain is not the main focus for teaching
Not only teaches, but mentors others to develop themselves into their highest potential
Provides a safe, clean and comfortable setting for teaching
Provides relevant, original course material or handouts
Shares time, knowledge and wisdom willingly, without expecting recompense
Teaches for the love of teaching and receives fulfillment by assisting others to develop their own true potential
Upholds and maintains a high degree of personal integrity

How can Reiki Benefit Animals

Accelerates healing for sprains, pulled tendons or ligaments, strained muscles or broken bones
Alleviates lethargy and depression
Balances blood pressure and strengthens immune system
Calms high-strung or overly-sensitive animals
Eases their transition period by promoting peace
Energizes and revitalizes the ill or the aged
Promotes self-healing and faster healing after surgery
Reduces inflammation due to arthritis, rheumatism or other debilitating conditions
Relieves pain, stress, induces relaxation and promotes balance on all levels
Removes toxins, impurities or energy blockages

Does an Animal Need to Believe
The answer is simply – no. Animals demonstrate trust, as well as un-conditional love without scepticism or judgment and because they instinctively use their natural inner senses to guide them, they are usually very cooperative and quite willing to accept the warmth and healing vibration of the practitioner’s hands. When applying Reiki to animals, we return the loving, healing energy that they readily and naturally give us, plus teach us, instinctively.

How Does Reiki Work on Animals?
The physical body of the animal is sensitive to the energies surrounding them, especially the energies of its owner. When it experiences a physical or emotional shock or injury, it is also affected at its auric energy level, which may create emotional and physiological blockages that eventually disrupt its health. On the physical level, imbalance first displays as symptoms and if the symptoms are continuously ignored, then they will eventually manifest into "dis-ease" or illness.

Because animals respond so well to Reiki, the healing energy gently and effectively opens blocked meridians (an energy pathway or channel) and chakras (an energy receptor/transmission center) clearing the energy bodies of blockages, accumulated toxins and lower energy vibrations.

By freeing and re-aligning the animal’s energy system on all levels – emotional, mental, physical and spiritual, deep relaxation is created to help restore their energy balance and vitality. As symptoms, such as pain or allergies are released, general health is further restored.

Emotional body – Reiki calms, soothes, balances and disperses negative feelings such as fear, abandonment, anger/rage, rejection or despair.
Mental body – Reiki reduces confusion and anxiety by strengthening focus and promoting clarity.
Physical body - When Reiki is applied to aches and pains, it helps repair the underlying dis-ease.
Spiritual body – Reiki allows telepathic connection and communication.

What Happens to an Animal During a Reiki Treatment?
Reiki treatment for animals can be given anywhere, anytime, sitting, laying or while holding them. With focus and intention, universal life-force energy is channelled through the practitioner and the energy automatically flows to the area that requires healing.

A full healing session may take from 30 minutes up to 60 minutes, depending on size. The animal may instinctively move away when they have had sufficient healing.

The practitioner may intuitively target key areas or move in a particular pattern over the animal’s body. If it’s impossible to physically touch the animal, then Reiki energy is sent via distant/absentee healing (taught in Reiki Level 2) to its auric level (energy field surrounding its physical body) and the healing energy automatically travels to where it is needed.

Usually the animal will experience total relaxation often falling asleep during treatment and waking up when it has had enough, but the experience is unique to each animal and to each situation. After a treatment, the animal will be more relaxed and will often want to nap.

Animals establish their own way of showing their gratitude. Many will promptly lick or rub against you, tail wag or communicate either by sound or telepathically.

As with humans, after a Reiki treatment, it is important to provide the animal with plenty of pure drinking water, further helping to eliminate toxins and impurities from its body, plus to circulate energy throughout its body.

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Disclaimer
The above information is not intended to replace, diagnose, prescribe or treat any ailment or to be used as a replacement for medical treatment or consultation. It is only intended to enhance your knowledge or general interest and is offered as an alternative and complimentary source of information. In all cases, it is recommended that you continue to follow medical treatment as prescribed by your medical physician.