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Reiki Healing F.A.Q.
 

What is Reiki?
Reiki (pronounced Ray-key) translated from Japanese means spiritual energy.  (Note: In other cultures life force energy is known as Chi or Qi (pronounced chee) [China], Huna [Hawaii], Ka [Egypt] or Prana [India])

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.  In essence, Reiki is the universal energy of power, light and love.
 

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 (also known as Shoden), 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, (also known as Okuden), 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 (also known as Shinpiden and is 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."   By receiving attunement or Reiju at each Reiki level, the student accepts universal blessings, which supports them on their journey toward developing self-responsibility for their own spiritual progress.

A Reiki Master/Teacher does not transfer or pass along any special healing powers of their own.  The teacher merely provides or creates a safe place for the student to open up to their own spirit healing team and to connect, plus draw Reiki (or universal healing energy) from universal consciousness (or the source). 
 

Benefits of Reiki

1. Balances blood pressure

2. Beneficial for healing plants and animals

3. Charges and purifies gemstone elixirs, medicines, herb tinctures or homeopathic remedies

4. Cleanses negative energies from home, office or sacred space (environmental cleansing)

5. Clears and charges crystals and gemstones

6. Clears food and beverages of impurities

7. Used for sending distant/absentee healing for others and planet

8. Energizes and balances glands and bodily functions to strengthen your immune system

9. Energizes your body, mind and spirit

10. Releases and balances blocked emotions, blocked energy, toxins and impurities from your body

11. Increases creativity and awareness

12. Increases serotonin and endorphins released by your brain to relieve pain

13. Relieves stress and induces calmness

14. Supports and activates your body’s natural ability to heal itself, plus accelerates healing

Reiki Beliefs

1. There must be a change in your consciousness for healing to occur

2. 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, while the client is sitting or laying and while fully clothed.  A full healing session may take approximately 45 to 90 minutes, but on average it's usually 60 minutes.  Depending on the client's health condition and personal preference, the practitioner may either lightly lay hands on the body or can raise them slightly above the body, thus eliminating direct contact.

The session may start with the practitioner first checking the client's aura and energy flow either by hand testing or by using a pendulum.  Universal life-force energy, Reiki, is then channelled through the practitioner to the client.  The practitioner uses a set of Reiki hand positions, moving from head to foot that includes both the front and back areas.  Some Reiki practitioners choose to incorporate crystals and gemstones, colour or sound techniques.

The practitioner's focus and intention aids the healing energy to automatically flow to the area that requires healing.  The client experiences total relaxation and often describes a sensation of "floating" or "feeling very light" during and 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 individual.

Ultimately, Reiki aids in re-establishing a normal flow of Ki (life-force energy) "within" to heal on four levels - the body, the emotions, the mind and the spirit.
 

Reiki Principals
    

  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
 

© Margaret I. Jang
www.onesourcelearn.com
Jan. 4, 2007

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About the author: Margaret Jang is a spiritual poet and inspirational writer, as well as an intuitive arts teacher focusing on psychic/channelling development.  She also dedicates her time to soul numerology readings and is a Reiki Master Teacher and practitioner.  Margaret established One Source Learning Centre for Inner Healing in 2005 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.  She may be contacted via e-mail: admin@onesourcelearn.com.

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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.
 

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