Reiki

[baubin2]

Been reading the journals of a couple reiki practicioners, what exactly is it?

Yours in MA

Brianna

[reikislapper]

Been reading the journals of a couple reiki practicioners, what exactly is it?

Yours in MA

Brianna

Hi there baubin2,
What is reiki?
For many people the first contact they have with reiki as a healing treatment, and and this is how it is most commonly described, The name itself however may be split into two parts Rei =Universal and KI=Energy; so Reiki as a word describes a universal energy field that surrounds everything.
If you want to know more then just ask.
lisa xx

[Lohan]

As Lisa said, Reiki is universal energy that is innate in everything.

It is a form of healing where the practitioner puts there hands on or off the patient and transmits energy to them. It can be done on yourself, on others, on plants, animals and over long distances. It can be sent to heal things in the future or the past as well. It can also be used to purify crystals or other inanimate objects and protect your house or car. It is not a religion.

A person is able to do Reiki after being attuned nd there are levels taught. In levels 2 and 3 a person learns certain symbols which enable you to use the energy in different ways.

Reiki heal on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritul levels.

I practice Reiki as a hobby and teach occassionally.

Paul

[reikislapper]

As Lisa said, Reiki is universal energy that is innate in everything.

It is a form of healing where the practitioner puts there hands on or off the patient and transmits energy to them. It can be done on yourself, on others, on plants, animals and over long distances. It can be sent to heal things in the future or the past as well. It can also be used to purify crystals or other inanimate objects and protect your house or car. It is not a religion.

A person is able to do Reiki after being attuned nd there are levels taught. In levels 2 and 3 a person learns certain symbols which enable you to use the energy in different ways.

Reiki heal on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritul levels.

I practice Reiki as a hobby and teach occassionally.

Paul

Hi Paul,
Thanks for putting the extras on as I should have, sorry baubin2 hope you forgive me for that one.
At the moment I'm doing my reiki 2 and learning the symbols you mention and done a bit off this already with the distance healing so I know it reaches the person affected.
You forgot to mention you can also reiki the food which you eat and the water you drink as well. I'm not sure how this works totally but I suppose you can ask the others about that one.
lisa xxx

[cheesypeas]

I know very little about reiki but I am uneasy about the use of symbols and guides (angels)

I had my one and only reiki treatment last year and it freaked me out.

My main question to any reiki poeple out there is : how can anyone be qualified to treat others after (what seems to me) such a short training and assesment period.

I am not being deliberatley dismissive, simply trying to understand.

Peace.

[jonmonk]

I know very little about reiki but I am uneasy about the use of symbols and guides (angels)

I had my one and only reiki treatment last year and it freaked me out.

My main question to any reiki poeple out there is : how can anyone be qualified to treat others after (what seems to me) such a short training and assesment period.

I am not being deliberatley dismissive, simply trying to understand.

Peace.
I believe that everyone has the ability to heal in this way. I think that what happens with Reiki attunements is that you become more aware of what you're doing and in doing so you find that the effects can become more concentrated. Reiki flows by intent. The system of using symbols and mantras focusses this intent.

From what I can gather, Reiki as it's practiced in the west bears little resemblence to what's practiced in Japan. They're much more secretive about it over there. I suspect this is because of it's roots in Tendai which is one of the more esoteric types of Buddhism. I think there are a lot of similarities between Reiki and spects of Mikkyo which, I believe, has it's roots in Shingon, a type of Buddhism very simillar to Tendai.

I'm sorry your reiki treatment didn't go well. I quite like it myself :D

[reikislapper]

I know very little about reiki but I am uneasy about the use of symbols and guides (angels)

I had my one and only reiki treatment last year and it freaked me out.

My main question to any reiki poeple out there is : how can anyone be qualified to treat others after (what seems to me) such a short training and assesment period.

I am not being deliberatley dismissive, simply trying to understand.

Peace.


Hi Madfrog,
Time to be serious, As you know I'm stuck up in Derbyshire as I'm doing my reiki2 at the moment. I know how you feel about people having only a short time in doing their reiki 1 and the rest. I've been so lucky to have a 10 week course run through my local college and I have a great reiki master which is teaching me so much about the difference in energies and how to use the reiki in a better way in healing. The course I'm doing at present is a registered Open College Network Certificate and we are the first group to go through the course so you can say we are getting tested twice as much as students. We also have to do write ups on the clients no matter who they are but don't have to disclose who they are. I wonder how many other reiki classes will be following suit as I feel that it's a lot better to go through something which is college based and not a reiki course which is only a few hours long and you get forgotten then. I'm lucky as I still get the support of my reiki master even when the course is finished and hope I get the certificate at the end.

If you ever want to try for another reiki session but with me doing it then let me know as you already know me and don't have to worry about anything.
I spent ten weeks on the reiki 1 course and I'm doing another 10 for my reiki 2 so you can see that I have had plenty of practice sessions with a good teacher.
lisa xx

[Kinjiro Tsukasa]

I'm moving this thread to "Traditional Healing". There are some other threads on Reiki there, as well.

[baubin2]

Hmmm... sounds rather like psychic abilities. I do not actually disbelieve in psychic abilities, but I do take the stories I hear about them with a grain of salt, and it'd probably take quite a bit for someone to convince me that they actually had them. So I hope the reiki people here will forgive me for having trouble believing that reiki actually works. Maybe someone could try at a distance with me.... what does it take to do a reiki treatment anyway?

Edited to add:

Also, maybe this can't be explained over a forum, but how does one perform a reiki treatment? What do they have to do, both pysically and mentally, in order to heal someone using Reiki?

[Lohan]

Also, maybe this can't be explained over a forum, but how does one perform a reiki treatment? What do they have to do, both pysically and mentally, in order to heal someone using Reiki?

A reiki treatment involves the practitioner working on a clothed patient. The practitioner sets their intent to carry out a healing session and then either lays their hands on or slightly off the body. The practitioner may also do a ritual to assist in focusing their intent. The hands are placed on specific positions (or by being intuitive) and kept there until a flow of energy is felt. Sometimes an imablance can be felt in a position and the hands can be placed over that place until a balance is felt.

Since a reiki practitioner is the "channel" for the energy it is the person who is having the healing who is the "healer" and the energy is passing through the practitioner to them.

Paul

[jonmonk]

Hmmm... sounds rather like psychic abilities. I do not actually disbelieve in psychic abilities, but I do take the stories I hear about them with a grain of salt, and it'd probably take quite a bit for someone to convince me that they actually had them. So I hope the reiki people here will forgive me for having trouble believing that reiki actually works.
I doubt anyone would get upset if you don't think Reiki works. No belief should be forced on anyone :D How about thinking about it this way though. My son is an avid skateboarder and has been for a while now. He's only 10 and so when he first started he fell off quite a bit. This usually involved him coming into the house grazed and upset. As a parent, my first reaction is give him a hug and empathise. My second is to clean out the graze and put a plaster on it. IMHO both of these reactions allow healing to take place more quickly.

The way I'd view it is that in falling over and injuring himself it is more than just his skin that was hurt. He also suffers a drop in confidence or a drop in self-esteem that could, if allowed to accumulate over a period of time, cause a problem for him. As a general term I might describe this as an 'energy imbalance' but as soon as I say that:

a) It sounds like I'm a hippy;
b) The physicists get in a tiz because their view of 'energy' is different.

I could give it a name from another language less likely to offend western science, let's say 'ki' but that causes many people to have fits too because their concept of ki is that it's some kind of Hollywood magic involving fireballs and levitating old men with huge staw hats and long white beards :D These are just labels. We could just as easily call it "schplurg!" That way there can be no pre-conceived ideas.

In order to heal the emotional damage and the damage to his self-esteem I give him a hug and empathise and this allows 'schplurg' to flow through me into my son and within a few minutes he's happy and healed. Sometimes the effect of this is remarkable. He's up and off and decides he doesn't need the plaster at all. Sometimes it's not enough although thankfully to date, he's not had to visit the local hospital (touch wood). I'm not saying that giving a child a hug heals the physical wound but I would say that IMHO a happy child will heal faster. I think it's true that our minds and our body are intertwined.

For me, and this is just my opinion as I'm only a Reiki level 2 and so haven't been doing it that long, Reiki is, at least in part, a formalisation of this healing process. By setting the intent to heal we encourage 'schplurg' to flow from one place to another (perhaps we could describe it as 'compassion energy', dunno). This provides fertile ground for physical, emotional and spiritual healing to take place and I think this is (at least partly) what makes it work for so many people.

:D

[Jang Bong]

In conversation with my G.P. yesterday - it came up that he has had (and enjoyed) reiki. With my wife long-term ill, I keep my eyes open for other ways forward - and one of her college friends has connections with this art/ability/service/????

One odd throw-away comment was the while being 'treated' he had butterflies coming out of his foot :confused: Has he gone completely round the twist? or does this make sense to some of you??

Yours in open-minded interest... JB