Healing Energy

Reiki is a specialised healing therapy that is at home in the field of directed energy healing.

A study in Alternative Therapies ^*1 found that there were over one million Americans that had chosen Reiki treatments in 2002.

Reiki has been gaining popularity in hospitals and clinics on a worldwide basis. As one example, the UK-based NHS (National Health Service) employs Reiki as part of its CAM program (Complementary Alternative Medicine) for day-care patients. ^*2

The technique of Reiki is based on healing intentionality - the intentionality of the therapist in interaction with the client's intentionality. Just as a famous saying goes "When the student is ready, the master will arrive," so it is assumed that the client's intentionality to be receptive to healing is established by actively choosing Reiki therapy.

The healing art and therapy of Reiki originated with the Japanese master (Sensei) Mikao Usui, born in 1865. Usui Sensei attended a Tendai monastery from the age of four, where he remained for several years. While a monk, he also studied Qigong (Chi-Gung,) called Ki-Kou in Japan, and reached a reputedly very high level of accomplishment in this technique which he used in Qigong "projection healings."

The philosophy of Reiki implies the active channeling and intentional re-direction of universal life energy, variously called Chi (Qi) or prana. ^*3 Universal life energy is assumed to be omnipresent, and to constantly weave through all beings, all reality including animate and inanimate things.

Confirmed effects of Reiki treatment have been reported in peer-reviewed alternative medical journals. These benefits concern biological indicators of relaxation and increased immunity, improved blood pressure, reduced heart rate,  reduction of pain, anxiety and depression. ^*4 Mice with transplanted carcinogenic cells, guaranteed to suffer a 100% fatality rate, recovered to live fully normal lifespans with directed energy healing. Re-injection of cancer cells in mice in remission did not take, confirming a strongly enhanced immune response. A control group in this experiment suffered the predicted fate. ^*5

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Steering of Energy

In order to direct energy where it is needed, Reiki therapy uses a combination of several principles which intensely involve functions of consciousness -

Visual symbols were originally introduced by Usui as symbolic imaging attractors of the therapist's attention and intention, "yantras" as compared with "mantras" which are the aural (acoustic) equivalent in meditation techniques. These Reiki symbols, sometimes referred to simply as "the four symbols" form the basis of a more expanded set where some were historically superseded by more effective ones. Each of these traditional symbols is associated with one of four main Reiki aspects and energies. ^*6

Two of the main Reiki techniques, Byosen Reikan-Ho, the detection of "byosen," disease, or dis-ease, by means of "Hibiki," detection resonance, acutely and characteristically felt in the Reiki therapist's hands, and Reiji, "allowing Reiki to guide energy to an area of greatest need," are fundamental procedures.

		Universal healing energy enters the seventh, crown (or Sahasrara) chakra at the top of the head, following natural meridian channels to the fourth, heart (or Anahata) chakra, and from there streams out through the therapist's hands and fingertips. The images at the top, left to right, show high-frequency Kirlian photography of a healer's fingertips before, and during a therapy session. Notice the increase in radiance, strongly flaring blue, indigo and violet energy fields extending beyond and in between the healer's fingertips. The images below show the fingertips of the receiver before and after, clearly now showing greater energy levels, completeness and regularity.*7

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Experiencing Reiki

Reiki is a deeply relaxing experience during which the client may experience sensations of tingling, heat or cooling of particular body areas, including "deep effects."

The client will be asked to lie down comfortably, and the Reiki therapist will move her/his hands closer to, over and sometimes touching parts of the body, often remaining at particular points for a substantial amount of time. Different hand and finger positions will often be used to focus energy in specific ways.

Although a therapist will treat specific body-domains one at a time, Reiki is generally aimed at being a whole-body therapy as a fundamental principle is that all body systems are intimately and inseparably interrelated. Usually all parts of the body will be addressed and receive Reiki energy over a period ranging from sixty to ninety minutes. In the case of small children, the elderly or infirm, this may be reduced to shorter periods of around twenty minutes.

It is usually advised to remove jewellery, rings, earrings, watches, etc. as these are believed to interfere with the unimpeded flow of energy. Non-metallic or non-crystalline materials, or those not containing mineral content such as organic materials or clothing, do not impede free flow of Reiki energies.

Reiki is often combined with other therapies such as crystal therapy, aromatherapy, or used after various massage therapies to enhance their effect and ensure longer-term benefits.

Reiki is also ideally combinable with deep guided meditation, either offered as two successive phases, or in alternation throughout a therapy session, where the centering of consciousness around specific attractors of attention and focus mediates a valuable synergy and receptiveness for healing energy. As an alternative, Reiki works wonderfully well with guided autotherapy, a technique based on informed visualisation together with the guided steering and application of your will, your own intentionality. Guided autotherapy can be continued in the client's own time and mediates longer-term benefit and sustained or progressive healing effects.^*8

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Key Benefits

•  Eliminates toxins, facilitates elimination of waste products
•  Enhances the immune system
•  Dissolves energy blockages, allowing energy free flow throughout the body
•  Is essentially controlled by the client's subconscious and can do no harm
•  Enables deep relaxation and release of stress-tensions, organically, mentally, emotionally

•  Accelerates injury recovery and assists conventional and other healing therapies

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This article was researched and written by Frank Valentyn.

Copyright © De-Stress Refuge Wellness Centre, 2006 to present - All Rights Reserved.

*1 (Jan / Feb 2005 Issue) The publication site is located at http://www.alternative-therapies.com/at/login/index.jsp

*2 Reported in an article on Reiki in Wikipedia Encyclopaedia

*3 See the much expanded explanation of this energy in this site's article on Kinesiology, under the headings "It's all about Energy," and "The Energy Approach."

*4 Miles P, True G. "Reiki: Review of a Biofield Therapy: History, Theory, Practice and Research." Alternative Therapy Health Medicine; March/April 2003. (9)2 pp 62-72

*5 Journal of Scientific Exploration. The experimental mice were injected with mammary adenocarcinoma (code: H2712; host strain: C3H/HeJ; strain of origin: C3H/HeHu), having a predicted 100% fatality between 14 and 27 days subsequent to injection. Apart from the total remission, recovery and immune response reported in the test, three replications using skeptical volunteers and laboratories at Queens College and St. Joseph's College produced an overall cure rate of 87.9% in 33 experimental mice.

*6 The Reiki symbols are by no means regarded as an indispensable means without which Reiki healing cannot be practiced. The Reiki student may be given them more as "training wheels" in order to begin sensing and handling the energies involved. As a student, advancing through several levels of proficiency can accurately sense, recognise and intentionally steer these energies, the use of the symbols becomes redundant. The use of these symbols in Western Reiki practice has somewhat branched off from that in Japan where the original society, the Usui Reiki Gakkei, rarely uses them, except in cases where a student encounters enduring difficulty. (From Frank Valentyn's book, "The Nature of Being")

*7 These Kirlian photographs are by kind permission of Konrad Rooschütz of Dagon Mir, expert Kirlian photographer and analyst.

*8 As an example of the efficacy of guided autotherapy, see Case One in Cases and Testimony.

The greater part of this article has been taken from Frank Valentyn's book, The Nature of Being; Part Two, Chapter Nine, "Beyond Mind," pp 228+

This article was researched and written by Frank Valentyn.

Copyright © De-Stress Refuge Wellness Centre, 2006 to present - All Rights Reserved.

 

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