In an age where health
care is in transition, it's comforting to know that REIKI is a steady healing presence which is immediately available
to all of us.
REIKI is a balancing/healing system of
incomparable ease and power. Reiki is a part of every one of us. It was once universal and was never meant to be lost. There
are many books about Reiki - and even more websites to search on this subject. Great!
First of all - Reiki IS NOT a massage. The healing/balancing
energy is BEAMED towards the receiving person/animal/object/event.
The Reiki Practitioner acts as a conduit for the high frequency energy to go through - and the
person receiving needs to raise his/her vibration to match the frequency for the self healing to manifest.
We can raise our frequency by changing our thoughts to positive,
life affirming.
The act of laying hands on the human or animal body to comfort
and relieve pain is as old as instinct. When experiencing pain the first thing most people do is to put their hands on it.
A mother's instinct when a child is feverish or ill directs
her to place her hands on the baby's forehead. Human touch conveys caring and love.
The living body, human or animal, radiates warmth and energy.
This energy is the life force itself, and has as many names as there are human civilizations: MANA (Polynesian Hunas),
ORENDA (Native American Iroquois), PRANA (India), RUACH (Hebrew), BARRAKA (Islamic cultures),
CH'i (China), Ki (Japan), Holly Ghost (Christianity), Animal Magnetism (F.A.Mesmer) -
well, you get the idea.
In the life force energy of REIKI, the person who is attuned
as a Reiki healer has had her body's energy channels opened and cleared of obstructions by the Reiki attunements. She/he now
not only receives an increase in this life energy or Ki for her/his own healing(balancing), but becomes connected to the source
of all universal Ch'i or Ki.
This source can be described in any way the healer chooses
to name it. I call it Universal Source of All That Is. Other terms might be God/Goddess, the Higher Self, the First Source,
the Universe, or whatever termed primary creation or life energy.
REKI IS NOT a religion or affiliated with any religion. This
life force energy is the source of life itself and far older in concept and fact than any religious philosophy.