Reiki is a Holistic Healing practice -including mind-body-emotional and spiritual healing. It is all encompassing, giving the body space and a chance to heal, thereby activating it’s own healing mechanisms.
Here are a 3 basic principles Reiki is based upon:
Compassion is an essential element in this healing modality. If you are someone who is sensitive to others needs and to your environment this may be an excellent technique for you. Reiki helps us channel our compassionate nature in a way that is productive and does not “drain” ourselves. By accessing the universal life force that is all around us we are fed constantly. This universal energy source is like an endless river that we can access if we are feeling depleted in any way. This sense is very empowering and can be accessed at any time.
Intention is having a purpose of an outcome. When we begin a project or any task with a clear intention that task will be easier to complete. With more focus on the outcome it will be more effortless and focused as we move through the steps of achieving our goals. Intention in Reiki healing clarifies and creates a positive effectiveness to the work and any goal. For example: a job interview, snow shoveling or healing ourselves.
Gratitude, also a major principle of Reiki healing. In life there is grace. If we are caught up in greed and desire we fail to recognize grace. We fail to have gratitude. Focus on what we want and not what we have leaves us constantly hungry and never satisfied. We have the ability to be fed all the time in our lives by this connection to source energy. It is our choice, like a light switch to turn it on or to leave it off. Noticing what we are grateful for creates an immediate shift in our perspective and allows us to be a positive vessel in which the Reiki Healing can flow easily.
2/10/2012
The Short Story of Reiki
Reiki was founded by a man named Mikao Usui, born in Japan in 1865. Usui was a spiritual man and practicing Buddhist who avidly studied many different philosophies, as well as history, medicine and psychology. He was married and had two children. According to his memorial stone, around the year 1922 Usui underwent a 21-day meditation and fast on Mount Kurama where Reiki energy was revealed to him.
He discovered that he had the ability to connect with healing energy for himself and others. Returning home, he established the Usui Reiki Healing Society. He spent the next few years offering Reiki healings to the public, traveling and speaking. People came from all over the country to receive treatments from Usui, and he initiated over 2000 students to the practice of Reiki. He treated victims of the 1923 Tokyo earthquake and fire that affected hundreds of thousands of people. Mikao Usui died in 1926 at age 62.
Among Usui’s Reiki Master students was a man named Chujiro Hayashi, a retired naval captain and medical doctor. After Usui’s death, Dr. Hayashi established his own Reiki clinic and school, teaching many students and developing a healing guide and handbook. His most notable student was a Hawaiian woman of Japanese origin, Hawayo Takata. She is responsible for introducing Reiki to the West. She received her Reiki training in Japan then returned to Hawaii to open her own practice. She actively taught and practiced Reiki in Hawaii and on the mainland for over forty years. Upon her death in 1980, she had trained 22 Master students who have carried on her legacy.
Today, Reiki is worldwide phenomenon, practiced by people of many cultures and many faiths. The practice of Reiki since Usui’s time has evolved to include different branches and styles of practice. Reiki is widely becoming recognized as a viable complementary healing technique and is being integrated into conventional medical practices. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), the government's lead agency for scientific research on diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products, considers Reiki a type of energy medicine and is among those funding research into Reiki.
2/09/2012
Reiki Share in Gurnee - near Chicago
Reduce Stress - Promote Relaxation
Enhance overall health and a sense of well-beeing
Give and receive Reiki within an atmosphere of friendship and support
A Reiki Share consists of healing hands on one person at the time. One person lies on a table while participating practitioners facilitating a massive flow of Reiki energies.
What is a Reiki Share?
A Reiki Share is a gathering of Reiki practitioners on all levels who congregate for a combination of a social and a healing session. Group energies are very strong and are more penetrating than individual sessions. This type of Reiki treatment is a wonderful and often profound experience!
Is the Reiki Share for you?
People from all levels – from beginner to Master are welcome. The Reiki Share is for anyone who wants to experience Reiki, is familiar with Reiki or practice on yourself or others as well as Teachers and Masters.
The Purpose
Reiki Share is for practitioners on all levels to participate in giving and receiving Reiki within an atmosphere of friendship and compassion. Participating in a Share is also a beneficial way of honoring one another as healers.
Where
We meet in a Gurnee private home.
The address will be provided for you when you sign up: http://www.meetup.com/Reiki-Share-in-Gurnee/
When
3rd Thursday every month
Time 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Price
No contribution is required. At the Reiki Share you may make a donation you can afford.
Sign Up Here
WELCOME!
Enhance overall health and a sense of well-beeing
Give and receive Reiki within an atmosphere of friendship and support
A Reiki Share consists of healing hands on one person at the time. One person lies on a table while participating practitioners facilitating a massive flow of Reiki energies.
What is a Reiki Share?
A Reiki Share is a gathering of Reiki practitioners on all levels who congregate for a combination of a social and a healing session. Group energies are very strong and are more penetrating than individual sessions. This type of Reiki treatment is a wonderful and often profound experience!
Is the Reiki Share for you?
People from all levels – from beginner to Master are welcome. The Reiki Share is for anyone who wants to experience Reiki, is familiar with Reiki or practice on yourself or others as well as Teachers and Masters.
The Purpose
Reiki Share is for practitioners on all levels to participate in giving and receiving Reiki within an atmosphere of friendship and compassion. Participating in a Share is also a beneficial way of honoring one another as healers.
Where
We meet in a Gurnee private home.
The address will be provided for you when you sign up: http://www.meetup.com/Reiki-Share-in-Gurnee/
When
3rd Thursday every month
Time 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Price
No contribution is required. At the Reiki Share you may make a donation you can afford.
Sign Up Here
WELCOME!
What is a Reiki Share?
A Reiki Share is a gathering of Reiki practitioners who congregate for a combination social/healing session. A share can last anywhere from 3 to 4 hours or be an all day event. It depends on who is hosting the share and how many people are in attendance on how long a share lasts.
The primary purpose of having a "share" is for practitioners to participate in giving and receiving Reiki within an atmosphere of friendship and love. Participating in a share is also a beneficial way of honoring one another as healers.
A Reiki share consists of many healing hands on one person at a time. One person lays on a table while the participating practitioners gather around that person, laying their hands upon him/her facilitating a massive flow of Reiki energies.
Group energies are often very strong and can be more penetrating than individual sessions. This type of Reiki treatment is a wonderful and often profound experience!
Try it, I can promise a great experience you will get addicted to!
The primary purpose of having a "share" is for practitioners to participate in giving and receiving Reiki within an atmosphere of friendship and love. Participating in a share is also a beneficial way of honoring one another as healers.
A Reiki share consists of many healing hands on one person at a time. One person lays on a table while the participating practitioners gather around that person, laying their hands upon him/her facilitating a massive flow of Reiki energies.
Group energies are often very strong and can be more penetrating than individual sessions. This type of Reiki treatment is a wonderful and often profound experience!
Try it, I can promise a great experience you will get addicted to!
Reiki Defined
Reiki is a complementary healing practice that facilitates health and well-being through self-treatment and treatment of others. Reiki is a Japanese word that means “universal life force energy”. Reiki holistically moves the body’s energies back toward balance physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
Reiki is safe, gentle and non-invasive and is offered by placing one’s hands lightly on or just above the body.
Reiki is easy to learn and is practiced throughout the world by many peoples and cultures. The benefits of Reiki include
Reiki is safe, gentle and non-invasive and is offered by placing one’s hands lightly on or just above the body.
Reiki is easy to learn and is practiced throughout the world by many peoples and cultures. The benefits of Reiki include
- relaxation
- stress management
- mental clarity
- enhanced sense of well-being.
2/06/2012
Reiki Resources
Here are some resources if you are interested in learning more about Reiki:
International Association of Reiki Professionals
www.iarpreiki.org
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
www.nccam.nih.gov
The Center for Reiki Research including Reiki in Hospitals
www.centerforreikiresearch.org
Reiki, Medicine and Self Care with Pamela Miles
www.reikiinmedicine.org
The International Center for Reiki Training
www.reiki.org
And here is a reading list:
Honervogt, T. The Complete Reiki Tutor. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2008
Lubeck, W., Petter, F. A., & Rand, W.L. The Spirit of Reiki. Twin Lakes, WI: Lotus Press, 2002
Miles, P. Reiki: A Comprehensive Guide. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher / Penguin, 2006
Quest, P. Reiki for Life. London: Piatkus Books Ltd, 2002
Stiene, B. & Stiene, F. The Reiki Sourcebook. New York: O Books, 2003
And some articles you will find published on the internet:
Miles, P. & True, G. “Reiki—Review of a Biofield Therapy, History, Theory, Practice and Research”.
Alternative Therapies 2003; 9(2): 62-72
Miles, P. & True, G. “Reiki—Review of a Biofield Therapy, History, Theory, Practice and Research”.
Alternative Therapies 2003; 9(2): 62-72
Miles, P. “Reiki for Mind, Body and Spirit Support of Cancer Patients”. Advances 2007; 22(2): 20-26
Vitale, A. “An Integrative Review of Reiki Touch Therapy Research”.
Holistic Nursing Practice 2007; 21(4): 167-179
Holistic Nursing Practice 2007; 21(4): 167-179
Believe in Reiki?
There are many stories of people experiencing healing from Reiki. It could be a general sense of well-being, a lowering of high blood pressure, healing of digestive issues, a reduction in stress level or it could be healing of pain and discomforts in a specific area of the body. How can energy work help such issues? It is valid to be discerning regarding healing work. What is it to experience the healing from Reiki and why are some sessions more profound and some more subtle? Does faith play a role in having a placebo effect in healing Reiki? Being critical makes a better believer or a better receiver!
How healing Reiki works
From a scientific perspective healing modalities such as Reiki can actually stimulate a parasympathetic nervous response in the body. The parasympathetic response is the nervous system’s rest and digest mode of response. These include digestive, endocrine, respiratory systems as well as others. Helping aid these responses in the body create an optimal immune system response when dealing with any kind of ailment. When we have better rest and better digestion the entire body is more able to heal itself.
Healing Reiki energy works with what is known as the subtle energy system of the body. This can also be referred to as the auric field. The Chakra system is part of this auric field. The chakras are wheels of energy that are said to correspond with different feelings, states of being, colors and much more with the body. Because Reiki effects this subtle energetic body, the healing which occurs in it can at times be imperceptible to us. We may not feel the healing Reiki energy till days or weeks after a session. It is not always the case however. Generally there is at least some shift felt on the part of the receiver even if it is simply being more relaxed.
Our minds and intention have a great deal with the effect that a healing Reiki session has on us. If we go into it with a doubtful and too critical mindset we are blocking off the bodies (and spirits) ability to let go and surrender into the process of healing Reiki. A principle in healing Reiki energy is that it will not work if the recipient is not willing to receive it. When our mind is stuck in a suspicious mode and not in an open mode we are blocking the energy with our negative thoughts. Discernment is important as it protects us. If we are in the hands of an intelligent and well intentioned person there is nothing to fear. We are our own first healer. Why not make it easier on our bodies systems and let it work? Even if one is able to receive the rest and relaxation needed in our stressful lives through healing Reiki, it is a gift and will eventually help in strengthening the bodies immune system responses.
Whether it is a placebo effect or faith who cares?
How healing Reiki works
From a scientific perspective healing modalities such as Reiki can actually stimulate a parasympathetic nervous response in the body. The parasympathetic response is the nervous system’s rest and digest mode of response. These include digestive, endocrine, respiratory systems as well as others. Helping aid these responses in the body create an optimal immune system response when dealing with any kind of ailment. When we have better rest and better digestion the entire body is more able to heal itself.
Healing Reiki energy works with what is known as the subtle energy system of the body. This can also be referred to as the auric field. The Chakra system is part of this auric field. The chakras are wheels of energy that are said to correspond with different feelings, states of being, colors and much more with the body. Because Reiki effects this subtle energetic body, the healing which occurs in it can at times be imperceptible to us. We may not feel the healing Reiki energy till days or weeks after a session. It is not always the case however. Generally there is at least some shift felt on the part of the receiver even if it is simply being more relaxed.
Our minds and intention have a great deal with the effect that a healing Reiki session has on us. If we go into it with a doubtful and too critical mindset we are blocking off the bodies (and spirits) ability to let go and surrender into the process of healing Reiki. A principle in healing Reiki energy is that it will not work if the recipient is not willing to receive it. When our mind is stuck in a suspicious mode and not in an open mode we are blocking the energy with our negative thoughts. Discernment is important as it protects us. If we are in the hands of an intelligent and well intentioned person there is nothing to fear. We are our own first healer. Why not make it easier on our bodies systems and let it work? Even if one is able to receive the rest and relaxation needed in our stressful lives through healing Reiki, it is a gift and will eventually help in strengthening the bodies immune system responses.
Whether it is a placebo effect or faith who cares?
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