Have
you ever said the following or heard:
“_____ has so much energy, “
“I
have no energy to go (or) do _______”
Have
you ever felt someone before they have entered the room?
Have
you ever felt ‘drained’ after being around certain people or places?
Have
you ever felt ‘uplifted’ or ‘relaxed’ around certain people?
Have
you felt good when someone pats you on the back or given you a hug?
If
you said yes to at least one of these questions you have been
interacting and
experiencing Reiki, Energy.
REIKI EXPLAINED
Reiki in the United States is gaining recognition as a hands-on healing and are curious to try a healing session or take a class to learn how to administer Reiki to oneself and to others.
Below is my explanation:
Reiki Background
Reiki—The
word is based on two Japanese kanji’s “rei” and
“ki” the American translation of this kanji is “rei” meaning flow,
light,
universe and “ki” meaning energy.
Together the acceptable translation to English is “universal life force
energy.”
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According to many different Reiki authors, it was
founded
by a Japanese man, named Mikao Usui in the early 1900’s after Usui
meditated on
a mountain called Mt.
Kurama.
In
the 1940’s a woman by the name of Mrs. Takata, a Japanese-American went
to Japan
to learn about Reiki after her own miraculous healing she experienced.
She moved back to the
U.S. and started
teaching Usui Reiki to others, and that, is the short version of how
Reiki came
to the western world.
Reiki, Prana, Energy, Energy Medicine, etc, it goes by many names,
and many different
styles but it all deals with the energy in the body and surrounding the
body.
It is experiential, think of
getting a hug from someone that loves you unconditionally, that is what
an
Energy/Reiki session feels like.
Remember, when someone says
"Reiki" they are saying "Universal Life Force Energy."
This is why
Ojai Reiki uses both terms Reiki, Energy to remind you of what you are
learning about.
What
does Reiki, Energy do?
A common question posed to a new student in Reiki, Level I, is: what do you do when you stub your toe? You put your hands on it, and the pain diminishes or disappears altogether.
There is a natural balance and flow to the body that can sometimes get clogged--like a sink pipe, when there is debris over time, buildup can occur. This can produce blocks which misdirect the natural flow of energy throughout the body causing physical or emotional disconnections in certain areas of the body. These blockages prevent you from being your Optimal Self.
Just as there is some sort of grace that automatically tells the brain to send signals to perform such operations as breathing, cellular generation and degeneration, or make the heart pump blood, there is a grace that automatically tells a Reiki or Energy Practitioner what to do when he or she performs a Reiki/Energy session on a person. There is an ‘energy’ something that can be felt by both practitioner and client (sometimes the client doesn't feel this) that emanates from in and around person’s body.
We know how the brain sends signals to the rest of the body and these signals fire simultaneously at warp speed to tell the hand to move off the hot pot or to make the bones grow new bone cells, but the question is: Why does the brain do this? An answer could be, to create homeostasis in the body. Okay, that’s part of an answer but it doesn’t answer the whole question, why does the body do what it does? You can get even more existential and ask why do humans exist on Earth anyway?
Okay,
so where does this 'energy' come from?
In my humble
experience, over the years of practicing hands on healing (Reiki,
Energy) on myself, it seems to me that the 'thing' that tells a cell
divide, comes from the same Source and here are a few debatable names of
that same source: Source, Love, Divine Energy, God, etc.
Not so scientific--for you can create your own conclusions using
whatever words
for the experience you have during a session.
Philosophically speaking, words are arbitrarily created
by us (humans), lexicons are a consensus based on mass usage of a word.
Words are also created from powerful
organizations that get to create new words things based on who
discovered what (a species of
bugs names after famed cartoonist Gary Larson creator of the Far Side).1
The point is that if you are looking for a legitimate answer that is culturally relative, then I challenge you to go beyond everything you think you know and seek your own information based on your own experience.
Research Studies on ReikiScientists are trying to figure out
how Energy works.
There are studies being performed on the benefits of
Reiki because of the exciting results--better health without
prescription
medications, or in some cases, without surgery.
Please see these links for more information on the recent
studies being conducted on this ancient technique.
Whole-istic
Reiki this Reiki practitioner compiled links from studies from
PubMed.com.
Fibromyalgia
Reiki study
Federally
Funded Reiki Study at UW
Reiki
study on Autonomic System
1. Image from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Okay, so does it work?
Absolutely.1. HOW MANY TIMES SHOULD I GET A SESSION?
2. WHEN DO I SEE RESULTS?
Answer to questions #1: This question gets asked a lot and here's the answer:
YOU TELL ME...
Yes, you!
You are an individual with your own needs, wants and desires. How much time are you willing to commit? How seriously are you about improving certain aspects in your life?
Typically, at least 3 consecutive sessions will give you the results that you seek especially, in the same week. I have seen people who were in a high anxiety stressed state, and after a two weeks, dramatically changed for the better, the person ended up taking Reiki Level 1 from me.
So it depends on the situation you want to create, every situation is different, and with a committed attitude for a graceful change, a series of Reiki & Energy work can bring amazing shifts for you.
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Answer to question #2: Maybe immediately, after the session and for days afterward...again, everyone is different, some will feel the energy move throughout the session and some will not recognize the energy but will still feel really, really good during and after the session.
