Back in May ‘07 I became a Reiki master. Years before I had become a Reiki 1 and 2 practitioner as I had wanted to heal other people. I did both courses in the same weekend. I’d been asking myself for years “What can I do in order to help other people heal?”
The thought that I may need healing myself was never a factor in my process or decision to study Reiki. I soon knew that Reiki worked as I’d had a very profound experience after my initiation. This had followed self-treatments for six weeks after my course.
Despite this, I had huge reservations as to the intent and motivation of my Reiki master. I clearly had my own issues going on at the time and he was the perfect target for my projections. Consequently, I did not seek his guidance and proceeded on my own, using my intuitions to assess the energies that I was channelling. Since I was working night shifts I used my breaks to give myself long treatments.
On that occasion I soon developed a large pain in my chest, at the location of the heart. Fortunately, as I was working in a Coronary Care Unit (CCU) at the time I knew the symptoms were asymptomatic of angina and just trusted the process. This was despite a daily increase in the pain after each self-treatment.
After six weeks the pain was so great that I could barely drive my car, since it was too painful to turn the steering wheel. I cancelled all of my shifts at work and treated myself for a few more days, and now my sleep started to suffer.
One day, whilst in the bath, I had a huge catharsis and began to see my life flash before me. Everything that I had done was starting to become apparent and I started to wonder what message I would have left the world if I had died just then. I cried for England as the bath filled up further.
I spent the next three days acting as though I was Scrooge on Christmas morning! This led to me telling all of my friends and family, who were around me at the time, how much they meant to me, whilst shedding plenty more tears. With each proclamation the pain eased a little more.
Despite the profundity of this experience I stopped using my Reiki, except for the odd, intermittent treatment, for several years afterwards. During my Reiki 1 and 2 course I met two very dear friends, Alan and Annette. We have remained in contact ever since and shared our respective journeys.
When Alan asked Annette and I if we wanted to become Reiki masters last year I decided that it sounded like a good idea. He had found a Reiki master that he liked and we would need to meet up four times over three months.
We attended the course and, like before, I started to do a few treatments on myself. Shortly after I developed a pain in my shoulder, which worsened over time and Reiki. As there was plenty going on in my life during that period I had not considered the synchronicity of becoming a Reiki master and developing this pain.
My NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) training had led me to believe that I had created this pain for a purpose, so I set out to find what I needed to do to resolve it. I addressed issues with family and friends over the following months, which yielded numerous positive outcomes, yet the pain still remained. I performed Time-Line Therapy and self-hypnosis, releasing many things but still the pain remained.
I then attended a therapist who dealt with past-lives who regressed me to a battle numerous lifetimes ago where I received a spear in my shoulder. Surely this was the breakthrough that I had been looking for? Apparently not. Although the pain lessened considerably, I was left with a residual ache.
Earlier that year I had picked up a form from the Reiki Association, telling me about the annual Reiki gathering. Last September I decided that I would attend, as it would be a good opportunity to find out a bit more about Reiki and meet other practitioners.
During the gathering I experienced some huge energetic and emotional shifts, which frequently had me on the verge of tears. I was also humbled by an array of profoundly talented masters and practitioners.
During a group healing with a wonderfully insightful couple, Rosemary and Trevor, I was informed that the pain was due to a chip that I had on my shoulder. They also brought many other profound insights into my consciousness, giving me a healing stone to help me on my path. I was surprised; as I thought that I had forgiven everyone that I could think of, whom I’d had an issue with.
Further treatments during the gathering intensified the emotions that I had been experiencing and several questions surfaced for me. Fortunately, I was helped by the insights and healing energies of the attendees of the event.
Then, finally, on the last day I sat next to another Reiki master, Ian, and started chatting to him. He listened to my Reiki story and very gently informed me of a couple of things that I needed to know. Firstly, that I was not ready to initiate any master’s into Reiki as I was clearly not ready. Indeed, watching many of the Reiki 2 practitioners during the gathering had already made me realise that I had a long way to go in order to match their skill.
Secondly, he let me know how important it was to get permission from your Reiki 1 master before getting another master to further the Reiki journey. Suddenly, I had a light bulb moment. This led to the following e-mail correspondence with my first Reiki master, which, in turn, led to another cathartic moment and the release of all pain in my shoulder.
Dear Reiki Master,
I realise that you will probably not remember me, yet it is important that I write this mail. I took a Reiki 1 and 2 weekend with you about six years ago and felt very negative about you and your teaching style afterwards. The consequence has been that it has taken me this long to understand the error of my perception.
My Reiki journey has been confusing and resulted in periods of neglect, self-doubt and disillusionment with regard to my spiritual and healing practice. During that weekend I felt that there were too many students and not enough opportunities to ask the many questions that I had at the time.
When some of your teachings were contradicted by other Reiki masters I decided that I had been short-changed and chose not to contact you about it.
Although you have not been consciously in my thoughts for several years now I have recently found my way back into Reiki through becoming a Reiki master a few months ago.
Recent attendance of a Reiki masters’ gathering, with The Reiki Association, has caused some powerful energetic shifts within me and led me to talk about my early Reiki experiences. Once again, I found myself feeling very negative.
However, I now know that my negativity towards you was only a projection of my negativity towards myself. I am now in a place where I am ready to own it and apologise humbly to you for any energetic consequences that may have happened as a result of my actions.
I would also like to acknowledge the gift that you gave me during that weekend and how it has now led me to a place of very profound, deep and meaningful healing. I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart and offer my unreserved apologies for my lack of insight into the nature of Reiki and what happened to me during my initiations with you.
Peace, Love, light and healing energy,
Adam Shaw.
Dear Adam
Apologies for delay – have been in Mexico building our cancer centre, conducting research studies with children in schools with ADHD, and developing projects with the Mexican NHS.
Your email is certainly appreciated. Although you will discover as you tread your path that it is not important what a minority of others think about your work. There will always be those who do not understand – and there are countless reasons why they cannot understand.
The most important things to know as we work our soul missions are that
1. we are coming from the best possible motivation of love to help our world
2. we are attempting to help the highest majority of people who seek our help
Blessings for your good works
Reiki Master
I may not be a master of Reiki yet in anything but title – though healing comes in many forms.
My healing came the day I changed my question to the universe. It is only through honestly asking myself on a daily basis “what do I need to be consciously aware of to achieve the maximum healing in the minimum time” that led me back to Reiki.
Real, sustainable healing occurred for me the second that I decided to take responsibility for everything that has ever happened in my life. Only through this process of self-empowerment can sustainable healing occur.
My Reiki journey has led me to one of the most profound experiences of my life. For this I am filled with gratitude.
Posts Tagged ‘Energy’
Pain Before Pleasure – My Journey into Reiki
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009Reiki, a Powerful Tool for Mind, Body and Spirit
Saturday, December 19th, 2009
The interest in alternative medicine is growing rapidly today. Among the huge number of healing methods available, Reiki has become very popular around the world, especially since science has verified the existence of the universal life energy that Reiki is based on. Reiki is a powerful holistic healing system; it heals on all levels, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
So what is Reiki? Reiki is the Japanese word for Universal Life Force Energy. It is a very simple method that uses universal life energy, the energy which permeates our entire universe and all living things. This universal life energy is called qi or chi in China, prana in India, and ki in Japan and this is where the Reiki name derives. It circulates throughout the body and in an energy field surrounding the body. This energy field, long been known to healers and mystics, is now verified by scientists. Recent scientific experiments have verified the existence of this life force energy. Scientists have proven that everything in the universe, at a sub-atomic level, is made up of energy. Health is the harmonious flow of life energy, while imbalances in this flow, due to unhealthy habits or negative emotions lead to illness. So this subtle energy is responsible for the processes in our body on all levels: physical, emotional and mental. Reiki is channeled through the hands of the practitioner into the body of the receiver and balances the energy flow in the body.
Reiki is a holistic healing system, i.e. it addresses the whole person: the physical, mental, emotional and the spiritual levels. The body is not made up of isolated parts to be fixed, but an amazing web of energy, and in order to truly return to health, all the levels of our being must be addressed.
Reiki works on four different levels:
The physical level: Reiki strengthens the immune system. It helps in pain relief. It balances and harmonizes the function of glands and organs. It heals by opening the blocked energy channels, the meridians, and balances the chakras. With regular practice, good health and well-being is maintained.
The emotional level: Reiki reduces stress and improves relaxation, this in turn strengthens the immune system and maintains health. Reiki clears energy blockages and suppressed emotions.
The mental level: Reiki enables the person to become more positive and reach a different outlook on life. You feel more empowered and find it easier to overcome obstacles and achieve goals.
The spiritual level: Reiki enables you to feel more connected to your higher self. It aids meditation, increases intuition and provides limitless benefits of spiritual growth.
Reiki is so simple yet so powerful, and this is what makes it a unique healing system that anyone can learn, because it does not require any previous experience or special ability. The Benefits of Reiki are infinite. It enables you to take an active part in your own wellness, and increases your growth on all levels.
Distance Healing – Powerful Alternative Healing
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Distance healing is a powerful alternative healing when done correctly. Long distance can be an easy and remarkable form of energy healing. With proper skill you can either give or receive the most effective alternative therapy available in the alternative healing field.
Pure Potential of the NOW Moment –
When a healing is done via distance it can have a longer and more permanate effect than you would anticipate. The limitations that normally would get in the way are completely removed. Time and space become unimportant as all the energy gathers in the now moment. When all the healing energy is brought into present tense the blocks of the past or future seem to disappear leaving only pure potential.
Lasting Results is Assured –
Distance Healing is gaining in popularity as more people become aware of the truth about healing. As the holistic health mind set continues to develop, seekers will make great discoveries. It will become common knowledge that distance healing is a powerful alternative healing that really works. The ancient wise people always knew this and it is time our world catches up.
Tried and True Healing Method –
Health and balance can be attained far more easily than we have come to think. More therapist and healers are using the distance tried and true method to ensure long lasting benefits to their clients. More and more people are also learning to this type of energy work for themselves and their loved ones.
Many Names of Distance Healing –
This form of alternative medicine is sometimes referred to as, vibrational medicine, remote healing, absent healing, long distance, quantum healing, Angel healing, Energetic healing, absentee transmission, Energy transmissions, alternative healing, absent Reiki healing, Spiritual healing, divine healing, metaphysical therapy, shamanic distance healing, etc. You will hear many names that refer to this powerful treatment.
You get the idea …the names may change and the methods may vary slightly, but all these therapies fall into the same category. The best thing would be to super charge your healing with access to all of these various off shoots rolled into one potent spiritual journey! Distance Healing – Powerful Alternative Healing for todays world.
As a holistic therapy, healing through distance can be credited with many miraculous outcomes. Often miracles are spoken of when clients have these health treatments. The bottom line is that it works. I must caution you however to be careful and make sure that, any distance healing you partake in, is done with a trained professional who has experience.
4 Free Techniques For Reiki Self Attunement
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Reiki is natural healing with energy. Reiki heals by bringing in balance and harmony to those who embrace it. Everything and anything in this world is made up of different energy that vibrates at different frequencies. Because energy can not be destroyed, it remains in its constant state until it is converted.
Free techniques for Reiki self attunement allow one to replace negative energy with positive energy in order heal the mind, body, and soul.
Listed below are the 4 free techniques on how to self attune yourself to Reiki to better understand how simple and effective this energy healing can be.
1. Preparation to self attune yourself to Reiki is important. Meditation starting one week prior to your self attunement session is best. Meditation helps clear and relax the mind and body. It allows us to open up on a more spiritual level. One should also stop smoking and drinking alcohol one day prior to self attunement since these can cause blockage in the body.
2. On the day of self attunement, it is helpful to sit in a meditative position. Try and imagine all negative energies releasing from your body through your crown chakra. Your crown chakra is located at the top of your head. When I do this, sometimes I imagine an angel coming down with a bucket to collect my negative thoughts and energies and rid them from me. (Picturing an action like the angel works best for me.)
3. Mentally repeat to yourself which Reiki level you wish to be attuned. If you wish to start with Reiki Level 1, then repeat this to yourself and meditate on it.
4. Feel the Reiki level that you request enter through your crown chakra and flowing through each and every part of your body. It helps to picture this Reiki level as a white light. Enjoy the meditative feeling you are in for roughly 30 – 45 minutes. Once your whole body clears, you can ground yourself.
There are a lot more different techniques to Reiki self attunement. The above provides a brief lesson for someone interested in self attuning them self to Reiki. A person who embraces these techniques to heal themselves, will think clearer, and find that they have more energy to perform in their daily lives.
Reiki Self Attunement For Beginners – Level 1
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009Reiki is based on the principle that there is a higher power we are all part of. Reiki teaches those to access this higher power through meditation techniques and then directs it in a form of energy healing.
The beginner level is the most important since the learner becomes initiated into the Reiki healing energy. The learner is then introduced to different aspects of Reiki through dialogue. When one learns Reiki through self attunement, the different aspects are usually written, thought or shown on video. This is mostly used as an instruction guide to the learner.
Learners are educated on self-treatments, treatments on others, treatments on animals, and how to heal chronic situations. Practical sessions are more beneficial than theoretical sessions since Reiki is a hands-on technique and focuses more on placing the hands on the body. However, theoretical sessions of Reiki are dynamic in that they can develop the learner into using Reiki to its fullest capacity.
Reiki has been proved to be extremely beneficial to many people all over the world. This spiritual healing technique never fails to heal people at all levels.
Over and above, Reiki self attunement at a beginner level is a good way to become familiar with Reiki and can set you on the path to improve relationships, or to aid in other personal aspects of life to make a difference to yourself and to others.
Reiki – the Re-discovered Art
Monday, December 7th, 2009Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness, that most frightens us…..
Nelson Mandela
1994 Inaugural Speech
A Japanese system of natural healing called Reiki is based on channeling healing energy through the hands. This healing art was lost for centuries but was rediscovered by Dr Usui in the early 1900’s in Japan. Reiki is a special kind of healing energy that has its own consciousness. The practitioner does not guide Reiki energy.
This healing energy guides itself by communicating with the clients higher self and goes naturally to where the client needs healing.
When a practitioner of Reiki, is doing a healing they sometimes feel heat or cold or tingling in the hands when the hands pass over an area that needs to be healed. The Reiki energy will automatically go where the healing needs to be done.
A Reiki Practitioner does not need to learn how to do Reiki as you would learn other healing techniques. Reiki is simply passed on to the student through a Reiki Master. This is called an attunement. The Reiki master uses different symbols to pass on for different levels of Reiki. There are 3 levels of Reiki and the Master Level.
It is a very simple and easy process. The student can immediately start giving Reiki treatments. To start giving the treatments the Reiki Practitioner draws the symbols for what level they are at, in the palms of the hands to activate the healing energy. Your intentions alone can activate the energy itself to do a healing. The Practitioner
is shown where to place the hands on the person to be healed. Then the healing Begins. When you are healing with energy time and space are irrelevant. Therefore Reiki Healing can also be sent at a distance. This is called long distant healing.
In 1938 Mrs Takata brought Reiki to the western world. After the second world war Mrs Takata was the only practicing Reiki Master in the world.
She was the only teacher to be taught from and she was very rigid in her teaching trying to keep the tradition going. Some students became more concerned in keeping the tradition they ignored there own intuition and inner knowledge.
In 1970 to become a master she would charge a fee of $10,000 dollars for the Master Level training. This would discourage many would be teachers. She discouraged students to expand their many different levels of guidance. Her way would be the only way.
Eventually Reiki lost some of it vitality for each teacher passed on a little less than the time before. As time went on and more teachers were trained the price to become a master went down. The nature of the Reiki energy began to heal its own expression. Deeper aspects of healing began to surface. Reiki was found to heal deeper and deeper.
Students were being allowed to branch off and listen to their own guidance and healing techniques. They began experimenting, adding knowledge and talking and exchanging information with others.
By doing this depth was added to their understanding and they developed their own style, improving the effectiveness of their own healing abilities.
Because people have opened up Reiki has been able to evolve, develop and grow.
Reiki heals and guides all those who practice it. To choose a teacher you want to pass the attunements on to you use your own guidance and be aware of what this persons energy feels like to you, Then decide.
Understanding Reiki Healings – Part 2 of 3
Friday, November 27th, 2009Reiki healing treatments give many benefits. A total healing can occur and at times …there are amazing miracle recoveries. But traditionally, Reiki removes the old negative energy-layer by layer.
Reiki Benefits Those In Hospitals
The Reiki energy is a natural energy from the Universe. It’s unlimited and it seems to know what to do without any effort on the part of the practitioner except for them to start the flow by drawing the Reiki symbols in the air or just thinking… Reiki heal.
The client always feels refreshed after a treatment. When the healing treatment is combined with the sincere desire of the healee to do whatever it takes to get better, the results are very beneficial. Some times there is a healing crisis (a release of toxins causing some discomfort) because of the cleansing within their physical, emotional and spiritual body. When this happens, toxins are released within the body, and the client should drink plenty of spring water and take it easy for a few days. Further Reiki applications assist the body in cleaning itself and dissipating the released toxins.
Reiki healing is beneficial to the health of men, woman (even pregnant women), children, babies, pets, farm animals, plants, garden flowers and you can even bless your water and your automobile with this energy.
There is great respect among those in the Reiki (healing arts) community. Reiki people know and feel there is a common bond between them. They know that they are helping the world become a better and more peaceful place.
It’s wonderful that almost all practitioners feel the harmony and joy that flowing The healing Light brings to each one of us. It is a natural high without drugs.
When you are Reiki you are taught not to take on the problems of others and not to use your own energy for healing.
Reiki healing energy is an energy tool you take with you everywhere you go. It’s built into your body and hands for use at any moment, any time, anywhere for on-the-spot treatment for your automobile’s stuck starter, a dead battery, your friend’s stress release, pain relief from injury, and/or even to give yourself a quick burst of energy while driving on long trips.
Reiki Helps People With Negative Or Blocked Energy
Most people suffer a little bit from blocked energy flow. When your “Life Force Energy” is disrupted, weakened, or blocked the physical body can no longer do its maintenance work to keep the body going. Because the body is weakened … mental, emotional and physical problems tend to occur.
When the flow of good energy is blocked the person has a low vibrational frequency. They are often found in destructive relationships and lifestyles. They appear to be on a self-sabotage or self-destruct path by continually making the wrong choices. They neglect themselves in many ways. Plus they don’t (or can’t) love themselves or others. That causes a real strain on relationships. They push away and hurt the people who love them. This emotional turmoil can be helped by Reiki treatments.
Reiki raises the vibrational frequency of the client and the healer. It promotes, health, joy, and well-being for all.
Animal Reiki: Using Energy to Heal the Animals in Your Life (Paperback)
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Review
A comprehensive guide that covers everything you need to know about this art of human-animal healing. — Dog Fancy Magazine, October 2006Animal Reiki brings the practice to life and gives us things we can all relate to with our own animals. — Holistic Horse Magazine, December 2006
Whether you’re a newcomer to the field of energy medicine, an experienced practitioner or an animal lover committed to learning everything you can about your companion’s health, Animal Reiki will open your eyes to a new level of healing and well-being. From dogs and cats to horses and birds, this book is everything you need to understand and appreciate the power of Reiki to heal and deepen the bond with the animals in your life. Reiki has many qualities that make it an ideal complementary therapy for animals. First and foremost, it is gentle, painless, non-invasive and stress-free for animals. Reiki heals at all levels of an animal’s being: ph (more…)
Shamanic Reiki: Expanded Ways of Working with Universal Life Force Energy (Paperback)
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Review
“No ordinary book, Shamanic Reiki introduces the combination of Reiki and shamanism with rare empathy, wisdom and insight. This is a book that touches the heart of the human condition.” — Ipupiara Makunaiman, Brazilian Amazonian shaman and healer of the Ure-reu-wau-wau tribe. “Shamanic Reiki opens a valuable toolbox for those seeking to expand their traditional Reiki practice. Roberts and Levy offer a generous array of approaches, encouraging the reader to choose what works best for them according to their unique relationship to spirit and whatever’s called for in the midst of healing. Shamanic Reiki gave me a lot of ideas for my own practice and variations to familiar techniques that I hope to explore.” — Christopher Penczak, Author of Magick of Reiki. “Shamanic healing techniques are helpful in removing obstacles on ones spiritual path. In the same way, they can help to remove similar energy blocks which create illness. The understanding of energy as a h (more…)