ABOUT REIKI
Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by “laying on hands” and is based on the idea that an unseen “life force energy” flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one’s “life force energy” is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.
The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words – Rei which means “God’s Wisdom or the Higher Power” and Ki which is “life force energy”. So Reiki is actually “spiritually guided life force energy.”
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A treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind, and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and wellbeing. Many have reported miraculous results.
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Reiki is a simple, natural, and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement that everyone can use. It has been effective in helping virtually every known illness and malady and always creates a beneficial effect. It also works in conjunction with all other medical or therapeutic techniques to relieve side effects and promote recovery. An amazingly simple technique to learn, the ability to use Reiki is not taught in the usual sense but is transferred to the student during a Reiki class. This ability is passed on during an “attunement” given by a Reiki master and allows the student to tap into an unlimited supply of “life force energy” to improve one’s health and enhance the quality of life.
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Its use is not dependent on one’s intellectual capacity or spiritual development and therefore is available to everyone. It has been successfully taught to thousands of people of all ages and backgrounds.
While Reiki is spiritual in nature, it is not a religion. It has no dogma, and there is nothing you must believe in order to learn and use Reiki. In fact, Reiki is not dependent on belief at all and will work whether you believe in it or not. Because Reiki comes from God, many people find that using Reiki puts them more in touch with the experience of their religion rather than having only an intellectual concept of it.
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While Reiki is not a religion, it is still important to live and act in a way that promotes harmony with others. Dr, Usui, the founder of the Reiki system of natural healing, recommended that one practice certain simple ethical ideals to promote peace and harmony, which are nearly universal across all cultures.
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During a meditation several years after developing Reiki, Mikao Usui decided to add the Reiki Ideals to the practice of Reiki. The Ideals came in part from the five principles of the Meiji emperor of Japan whom Mikao Usui admired. The Ideals were developed to add spiritual balance to Usui Reiki. Their purpose is to help people realize that healing the spirit by consciously deciding to improve oneself is a necessary part of the Reiki healing experience. In order for the Reiki healing energies to have lasting results, the client must accept responsibility for her or his healing and take an active part in it. Therefore, the Usui system of Reiki is more than the use of the Reiki energy. It must also include an active commitment to improve oneself in order for it to be a complete system.
The ideals are both guidelines for living a gracious life and virtues
worthy of practice for their inherent value.
THE SECRET ART OF INVITING HAPPINESS
The secret art of inviting happiness
The miraculous medicine of all diseases
Just for today, do not anger
Do not worry and be filled with gratitude
Devote yourself to your work. Be kind to people.
Every morning and evening, join your hands in prayer.
Pray these words to your heart
and chant these words with your mouth
Usui Reiki Treatment for the improvement of body and mind
The founder , Usui Mikao
STORIES OF LIVES CHANGED
Heart Healed
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I sort of bumped into Reiki. In 2000 I wasn’t feeling well, and after a lot of tests, I was told that I had had a silent heart attack. I have diabetes. I was told that I needed a heart catheterization, so one was scheduled. I live in a rural area and traveling to Syracuse, New York, was necessary. There was also a two-week wait. During this time I went with my partner to a college graduation party. There I met a woman who asked me if I was feeling OK. We discussed a few things, and then she asked me to come to her house during the week. Our schedules were pretty full and the only night I could go was the night before I traveled four hours to Syracuse for the test. I went, not knowing what I was invited for. She asked me if I had ever heard of Reiki, and I had not. She asked if she could do a treatment—what did I have to lose? The treatment was wonderful and lasted for about an hour. I became very calm, then very emotional—such a release. When she was done she let me talk about anything I needed to talk about. I felt so loved, protected, and different. I had the procedure the next day. I was scared; I won’t deny that. During the treatment I began to cry; fear was taking over. The doctor told me to look at the monitors. There must have been ten of them against the wall. He then told me what he saw, and didn’t really understand. He said there was a very healthy heart on the screens, very healthy. There was no evidence of a heart attack, just a small valve problem. After the procedure, he came to my room to talk with me. He said that he was sure I had had a heart attack—the echo, ultrasound, etc., had all indicated that I had, but there was no evidence of a heart attack. He didn’t understand it, he said. I said I did. After I got home the next day I called my friend, my Reiki teacher, and told her the story. At that point, my desire to know and use Reiki began. She was a Reiki Master, and from her, I too have learned. Do I believe the Reiki made the difference? Yes, with all my heart and spirit. I tell this story when I teach Reiki, and always become emotional, as I am now.—Kay
Doctor Uses Reiki
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I’m a 30-year-old medical doctor from Romania, and I have two healing stories I would like to share with you. The first one is about a young woman (22 years old) who just ran away from the hospital because she was very afraid of the surgical intervention the doctors wanted to perform on her, in order to remove the 7-cm cyst (confirmed on ultrasonography) on her right ovary. She contacted me on the telephone (she heard about me from a friend); fortunately for her, I was available, and I went to her that very evening. She was lying in her bed, with her boyfriend and the family gathered around her, and she was having very intense pain in her right lower abdomen… she was hemorrhaging and was feeling really ill… At that time I had a pretty good perception of the aura, and I saw a hole in her right lower abdomen, about at the location of her right ovary, through which her energy was leaking. The rupture was caused by energetic aggression of some kind in her aura. That’s where she was having the pain, she told me. So I started the first healing session using distant Reiki, not hands-on, from classical Reiki and from Karuna Reiki® and Seichim – over the “diseased” area, and over her entire organism. After one hour and 5 minutes, the area where she had the pain was literally “numb” (she described it exactly like that) – she did not feel the pain anymore – and she got off her bed and asked for something to eat. In the following days, I performed another 2 (shorter) healing sessions (she was already feeling much better), and after that, her doctor saw on the ultrasonography that the 7-cm cyst was completely gone! The second one was a case closer to me – someone in my family was having intense abdominal pains and severe diarrhea that day (probably an alimentary intoxication from spoiled aliments). She took some medication, but to no avail… and finally, at 10 o’clock in the evening, she called me and asked me to help her. So I asked her to sit down in an armchair, and instructed her how to relax and breathe calmly, with her eyes closed. I began passing her symbols (mainly, power symbols and calming ones) – and after 30 minutes her abdominal pain was gone, and she went to bed and slept soundly that night. The next day all the trouble was gone. As a doctor, and as a holistic medicine practitioner, I believe Reiki can be one of the many powerful healing systems – too good to be described even in many, many words – and I am opened to dialogues and sharing experiences with others.
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—Adrian Petre, M.D.
Reiki Helps Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
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This past December, my 20-year old Niece was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. She was told she would receive 8 sessions of chemotherapy every other week and she would need to look for a wig by the second treatment for she would lose her hair. I began to send long-distance Reiki to her in December. But after her first session of chemo, she needed daily injections of a drug to keep her white blood count up while the chemo wiped out her immune system. Since I am a nurse and live close to her I saw her daily for two weeks to give her injections until she was confident to do them herself. I of course offered her Reiki each visit. The first visit was between her first and second chemo session and she had just returned from shopping for wigs, none of which she bought because she did not like any. I said in passing to her while giving her the Reiki, “Wouldn’t it be nice if the divine energy saw to it you could keep your hair?” She said. “Yes of course”, and we both forgot about it. As each session of chemo passed, her doctor and all of the other “bald” patients in the department where astounded she was not losing her hair. The physician said if she didn’t lose her hair by the fourth session, she would not lose it. He was totally amazed and said he never saw anything like it!
My Niece is now getting her radiation and doing fine. She had minimal sickness after the chemo sessions, where most people suffer tremendously with nausea and vomiting. This type of Hodgkin’s is a very curable cancer, so I’m not surprised my Niece is doing so well. The miracle is in having no hair loss and also minimal sickness during the hard doses of chemotherapy.
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—Gerri Delmont RN
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9 Reasons To Learn Reiki
1. Invest in your own spiritual growth.
Reiki is a connection to universal energy that can us heal on many levels physically and emotionally, with an open mind and heart Reiki eventually teaches us.
2. As a Self-Empowerment Tool
Easy to use you as a healing method of energizing harmonizing the body and to share with others in need.
With Reiki we can offer comfort, hope, relief, and real healing when confronted with the pain of others, it is empowering for the giver and the receiver. Reiki is good energy medicine.
3. Lower Your Stress
Stress is a known contributor to many illnesses and detractor to quality of life. Practicing Reiki is helpful for improving your situation and eases the sense of helplessness of not being
able to control the situation and helps protect your own energy in the process of helping others.
4. For Highly Sensitive People and those who are looking to become a little more sensitive
Reiki helps connect one to their psychic intuition and removes enough stress from the psyche to increase the understanding of our emotions and strengths.
5. Your Spiritual purpose
Spiritual guided life force energy if you feel there is something missing from life, and can't pinpoint it; you may desire spirituality or a purpose in life. Reiki helps deepen the connection to both and offers new tools of discovery.
6. Reduce Phobias and emotional issues
Techniques using reiki are very helpful on phobias and fears, often clearing in a single session.
7. Reiki – Reiki can help booster your overall immune system and doesn’t require any belief. A Judgmental attitudes will not hinder the work of Reiki although it is increasing evident that being open to receiving increase the speed of healing.
. Reiki is a wonderful way to assist in difficult situations while lessening our need to solve - meaning we can always contribute.Reiki helps you connect to your joy!
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8. Celebrate the Healing Process
Techniques using Reiki are great for providing people with deeper insights into the dynamics of their healing offers you a great deal of information about yourselves often times a spiritual awakening. Those so inclined can also use it to connect deeper to the divine, or to work with healing and releasing past life issues.
9. Community Circles of Love
Sometimes, holistic spiritual people feel very isolated. Reiki is a way we can connect to other like-minded people and increase the level of support. Create your own Reiki community! Learn to Teach Reiki!