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Chapter 1
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting a basic idea of what Reiki is - and isn't
Finding out about the Reiki system
Discovering the energy and origins of Reiki
Seeing ways to experience Reiki
Selecting a practitioner or teacher
Listing the benefits of Reiki and revealing the symbols
You're deeply relaxed while lying on the Reiki table as the practitioner lays hands on different parts of your body. Impressed that this gentle laying on of hands can bring you such peace and joy, you want to know more about it. You've come to the right place. This book is a guide to the basic practice of Reiki.
This book describes how to use Reiki to heal yourself and your family members and even treat people who are far away. Reiki techniques can also be used for your pets, your food, and the earth. The more you use Reiki, the more uses you'll find for it. In this chapter, you find out how Reiki works, where Reiki comes from, and what help Reiki can give you. You can even discover how to channel the Reiki energy yourself so that you have a lifelong tool to use for yourself and others. You get a taste of what Reiki is all about in these next several pages.
Reiki is both of the following:
Because Reiki originated in Japan, you can understand many of its concepts and terms more deeply when you consider the language and culture in Japan in the early 1900s. If you're interested in studying more about the language or culture of Japan, start by looking at some of the resources in Appendix A.
Reiki is available to everyone. Anyone of any age or level of health can receive Reiki. Even newborn babies or people at the end of life can benefit from the relaxation that it provides. See Chapter 6 to find out how every member of your family, including your pets, can use and benefit from Reiki.
As an intelligent energy, Reiki gives you what you need, whether it's a release of tension, an energy boost, or both. To help you more fully understand what Reiki gives you, here are some terms used to describe Reiki:
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FIGURE 1-1: The Japanese characters for Reiki.
Knowing what Reiki isn't is as important as knowing what it is:
Reiki isn't the personal energy of the practitioner but the energy from the universe transmitted through the practitioner.
Reiki is a system of connecting to, transmitting, and receiving the Reiki energy.
Connection to Reiki energy is made through
Reiki is transmitted through
The energy can be transmitted through gentle touch, be beamed across the room, or be sent by distance through techniques for distance healing (see Chapters 11 and 15). The ability to be a conduit for Reiki energy is taught through Reiki classes. (See the later section "Taking Reiki classes" as well as Chapter 7.)
For receiving, all one needs to do is relax and be open. You probably know how to receive the energy from the sun, from a friend or family member or a pet, or from a forest or body of water. Reiki is the same.
Reiki is a system of energy healing. You don't actually need to understand how the energy of the body works to use or benefit from Reiki, but it helps to know the basis for the way that Reiki works, which the following sections examine.
As a child, did you ever gaze at the stars with wonder and awe? The sun, the moon, the stars, and all the different life forms on our planet radiate a universal energy. Because this is the energy that animates humans and other living beings, it's called the universal life-force energy. This energy is known by different names. You can call it universal life-force energy, love, God, or spirit.
Reiki is a system that allows you to tap into and benefit from this universal energy.
The term subtle energy refers to the energy of Reiki and the energy fields that are associated with your body. When something is subtle, you must get quiet to feel its presence. (Chapter 2 describes other types of subtle energy systems.)
Meditation is frequently used before giving Reiki treatment so you can get quiet enough to sense the presence of the Reiki energy. (See Chapter 9.)
The energy field surrounding the human body is also called an aura, and it can be sensed with the hands as well as visualized with the eyes (with some practice).
When you receive a Reiki treatment, the energy may not feel subtle as you experience the heat from the practitioner's hands and perhaps the waves rushing through your body. Each person senses the Reiki energy differently, and with time, your sensations will change. After you're attuned (initiated) into Reiki energy, you may feel Reiki more keenly. And the practitioner might sense the emanations of life-force energy from the recipient. Certain Reiki techniques utilize the ability to sense energy. (See Chapter 11.) But don't worry; you can still practice Reiki with the standard hand positions even if you don't sense anything.
Reiki still works even if you don't feel its energy.
As an energy-healing system, Reiki works to heal you at the level of your energy to the root of any disease, imbalance, or disharmony. Reiki works at the level of the whole person, including mind, body, emotions, and spirit.
Healing at the holistic energetic level with other forms of energy is actually quite ancient. Traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, and other cultures have identified and classified aspects of this energy that runs throughout the body. (See Chapter 2 for a discussion of chakras and meridians.)
As a healing energy, Reiki is considered to be positive (no harm can come from it) and intelligent (the energy heals what is needed even if you don't consciously know what you need). The recipient draws the right amount of energy to just where it's needed. Frequently a practitioner feels their hands "drawn" like a magnet to a certain place. In this way, the practitioner is the conduit of the universal life-force energy.
Energy healing is part of many different cultures. Whether it's acupuncture or the laying on of hands, the use of energy to treat illness is part of human history. (See the nearby sidebar "Universal Reiki - with humor and humanity.")
Reiki offers a way to achieve spiritual and personal growth and to heal others. But Reiki isn't the only system with these goals. Two systems with similarities to Reiki are
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