Short introduction to Reiki healing path

Reiki is pronounced (ray-key) it is an ancient Japanese practice that uses "Universal Life Energy" or " God directed energy"

In the 19th century Dr Mikao Usui discovered a way of channeling energy and created the Usui system of Natural Healing or Usui Shiki Ryoho, which is better known simply as "Reiki".

The Higher Intelligence that sustains and balances all life guide Reiki on this planet. Reiki healing is an intelligent energy of love and wholeness. It understands the cause of problems and what healing is necessary. The Reiki energy has wisdom of its own, healing and balancing all aspects of a person's mind, body, emotions and spirit.

A Reiki healing treatment is simple to perform. The practitioner is taught hand positions in which they place his/her hands above the person's energy centers, with the intent that healing occur, the energy then begins flowing, accelerating the bodies own natural healing ability. The energy has an intelligence of its own and knows where the healing energy has to go and what is needed. It never does any harm. The Reiki practitioner is a channel for the healing energy.

If one uses Reiki healing energy daily, it can distinctly reduce the tendency toward illness and support the body's natural healing ability to keep healthy.

Reiki can also be a way of promoting the growth of one's spiritual path. Each one of us walks our own path but certain spiritual practices can increase deeper levels of being.

Each Reiki healing treatment is unique and deeply relaxing. All will have a different experience during a treatment. Some will feel heat, tingling or maybe nothing at all, the energy is working even though we maybe not be aware of it.

Benefits of Reiki healing:

1. Reiki healing releases blocked and suppressed feelings

2 Reiki relaxes the body and significantly reduces stress, tension, anxiety, surgery discomfort & depression

3 Reiki provides relief from acute or chronic pain, anxiety, depression, insomnia, lack of confidence, addiction and fear based illness.

4 Reiki healing makes ones transition at the end of life more comfortable and less anxious

5 Reiki promotes creativity and Increases vitality & energy levels

6 Reiki releases blocked and suppressed feelings and makes ones transition at the end of life more comfortable and less anxious

Reiki healing usually brings about slow, gradual improvements over a period of days and weeks. With conditions that have been present a long time, it may take months until maximum benefits are achieved. While occasional healing "miraculous" cures have been reported, these are relatively rare.

Advanced Reiki practitioners are able to give treatments without the recipient being physically in the same place, sending treatments at a distance, called a distant (remote) Reiki treatment.

How Reiki is learned:

Reiki is very easy to learn, it is not a knowledge-based system. Someone who has his or her Master Teacher level teaches it. There are 3 levels that must be taken in sequence. You usually are provided with a manual for each level, an attunement(s), a certificate, instruction and support

Reiki healing is also fast becoming accepted in mainstream healthcare settings such as hospitals, hospice, operating and recovery rooms, nursing homes and many other institutions helping to demystify its effects and adding a much needed boost to the spiritual healing of the planet.

Reiki Degrees

There are three degrees in Reiki healing

Reiki I

During the first-degree course you will receive the attunements that will open you up to reiki energy and allow you to receive the energy and pass it on. You also learn the hand positions for applying hands-on Reiki.

Reiki II

During the second-degree course you will receive one attunement. You also learn three symbols that will enable you to send Reiki over a distance.

Reiki III

The third degree course will make you a Reiki Master, so you can start attuning others.

Some Reiki Masters have split this course up into two courses to accommodate students who want to take Reiki a step further without necessarily becoming a Reiki Master. These courses are called Reiki IIIa and Reiki IIIb, or Reiki III and Reiki IV. The first of these courses offers just the third-degree attunement and the second one will make you a Reiki Master.

Reiki attunement:

The Reiki attunement is a powerful healing and spiritual experience. You may be initiated individually or in a group setting depending on the courses offered. Reiki attunements open up the energy pathways so that more life force energy can flow through the body. Some people may have mystical experiences- healing, visions, colors and body sensations. Some feel nothing at all. Attunements may increase ones psychic ability. Everyone's Reiki attunement is unique. Once attuned to the energy, you can never lose it, it's with you for life.

It must be understood that each person is at different places in their spiritual path when doing an attunement and will receive from the attunement what they are capable of receiving at the time.

Many people, because of the negativity in their lives, stressful living, unhealthy foods, chemicals in the atmosphere, have a fairly low energy vibration level. They may feel little during the attunement or Reiki treatment and will have to work to develop their awareness of the healing energy. The Reiki Attunement raises our vibration level within the body to that of the energy added during the attunement. However, our bodies have to adjust to this higher vibration and some people may have a temporary/mild physical or emotional reaction and go through a cleansing process.