Reiki

[cl2008]

What are your experiences with this?

Please share. Thanks.

[jojo]

I give reiki to horses and humans. I love it, its so much more powerful when giving healing to horses for some reason. And when they totally chill out, lie down and respond to the healing it is amazing because they have no preconcived expectations or predujeces... so for me, it is conformation of its power.

[siriusc]

I've had very positive experiences with Reiki treatments. Not all practitioners are competent, but if you find someone who you really click with and has a natural healing ability it can be a wonderful and beneficial experience.

I've received "temporary" relief of pain (as with my conditions no treatment is going to eliminate it), release of negativity and blockages, increased circulation and chakra balancing to a degree I wasn't able to accomplish myself.

I recommend it with the usual warnings, know something about the practitioner, don't overpay for the treatments and the last warning, "it probably isn't for everyone" you need to be open to the benefits of it.

[fekdemasons]

I just had a Reiki 2 attunement today and having part 2 on Sunday.

It was quite a powerfull experience.

I'm learning the three symbols and their applications as well.

I took Reiki 1 about 9 months ago and have mainly used reiki on our baby son to settle him off to sleep.

Trouble is once he's off I go as well.

Most people I know seem ammused that I do this , Big lump of an anglo saxon who drinks beer etc. Nobody has aked me to give them a treatment so I don't push it. Shame really as I know the energy is a real and anybody can get the benefit if they want it.

I see this energy in a violet colour and particularly against a dark background.
Anyone else see this ?

[jojo]

^^^

i tend to see green energy :) i bet your baby loves it!

[noesis]

I did up to Reiki master level about five years ago. I'd been progressing to the point of wanting to explore healing but my main motivation at the time was to help me get through a period of illness.

Since i have done reiki on and off mainly on family and friends, and my cats - they dont care for it much. I tend to want to combine massage and reiki and see myself one day doing a massage course so i can do it with some authority - that's the plan anyway - that or doing animal healing.

I get a lot of psychic information when i'm doing reiki and i have probably pulled back on offering reiki to people because of this as 1. i find people put too much pressure on me to interpret the information i'm getting and 2. you can get information you dont want to know, particularly when practising on family!

Practising reiki brings me a lot of joy but i know i'm not using it as much as i should because i feel that it's hard to manage people's expectations. I also feel that because i still have so much work to do on myself, that somehow i'm not 'qualified' or 'going to be good enough' at it, which i know is ridiculous but old habits die hard :)

[siriusc]

Interesting you mentioned the psychic information, I get psychically active while I'm being worked on. Everything to third eye openings, trance states, etc.

[mila]

Interesting you mentioned the psychic information, I get psychically active while I'm being worked on. Everything to third eye openings, trance states, etc.

I recognize this, have the same. I have up to master-level (awful word)
Years ago when I had my first treatment I almost had an OBE when her hands were on my head.

Since I started sending/channeling energy to others, when I do a visual scan in my mind of their body I can see where the problems/blockages are in a form of white light in the area (I don't see the physical body then, it's transparent)

Have you guys heared of Steve Murray? This guy gives atunements trough dvd's, I only found out about him after my atunements.

this is his website: http://www.healingreiki.com/
It's something different than the so called Reiki-Alliance con's who ask $10.000 for a third level.....

And what about the symbols? I stopped using them, 'cause I started doubting everything and what kind of powers they really 'envoke'.
I notice that I don't even need them; when I focus my intention on love very strongly, I can feel it flowing even stronger.

[jojo]

^^^^^
I know what you mean. I use the word "Reiki" because people know of it, but I prefer to use the word energy healing. using whatever chanels through me for that particualr person or animal. from the earth and from infinate oneness.

I always connect up to the part of us that is oneness, then let whatever energy the person/animal needs to flow through me.

Reiki can become corupt in a way via "master" level, ridiculas costs, the fact that they say if people dont pay for something then they dont appreciate it (bollox btw) and specific symbols. I perfer to use my own symbols which come into my minds eye as I am healing.

[mila]

^^^^^
I know what you mean. I use the word "Reiki" because people know of it, but I prefer to use the word energy healing. using whatever chanels through me for that particualr person or animal. from the earth and from infinate oneness.

I always connect up to the part of us that is oneness, then let whatever energy the person/animal needs to flow through me.

Reiki can become corupt in a way via "master" level, ridiculas costs, the fact that they say if people dont pay for something then they dont appreciate it (bollox btw) and specific symbols. I perfer to use my own symbols which come into my minds eye as I am healing.


I'm lucky I've had reasonable prices compared to that New-age con-Reiki-Alliance.
To pay something like that for a universal lifeforce??
Something that is for everyone?

My life has changed since working with the energy. A couple of amazing experiences, one of them- seeing my grandma's spirit leave her body when she passed away while we were 1500 km apart... Still get shivers when I think about it. Ten minutes later I received the call that she had passed away. I knew that already!

It's great when used for plants and animals and children love it as well.
I've seen burns disappear in a few hours.
And great when you have your period! (warm hands!)

Something else; I'm very aware of my chakra's and the energy flowing since working with it.

[unusual_suspect]

Great thread Jojo. I have just found someone to attune me to level 1, I am still thinking about where and how I want to do it, eg indoors outdoors at her place at mine.

My 10 year old son has suddenly got really interested in crystals and has been asking loads of questions about Reiki and the like (my partner aleady does it) wants to do the attunement with me :eek:

[jojo]

thats great news :) my 9 yr old son loves it too and everytime I have a client over for healing ben insists that he has a session too :)

It really is life changing and its something that can benifit everyone. universal energy rocks!!! :D

[mila]

Great thread Jojo. I have just found someone to attune me to level 1, I am still thinking about where and how I want to do it, eg indoors outdoors at her place at mine.

My 10 year old son has suddenly got really interested in crystals and has been asking loads of questions about Reiki and the like (my partner aleady does it) wants to do the attunement with me :eek:

My atunements were four years ago, I still remember the opening of the chakra's: when my heartchakra was opened I cried when I was outside and I was loving the trees, the grass, the birds...everything! (It still is like that, but you get used to it)

And the opening of the crownchakra; I felt pressure on the skull and with my eyes closed I saw a bird spread her wings and come out of a can! Special, ha?
Some people say they feel nothing; I had many sensations and emotions.
When it starts to flow, tingle and you get warm hands...You'll know it!

[cl2008]

Thank you all for your responses.

Anyway, presenting two other perspectives about reiki:

1) Christian Perspective - its of the devil. It does work but you are summoning these "reikidemons" through the symbols. And it gives you happiness for a period of around 15 years, then after that, you will end up being depressed and suicidal and have divorce and all sorts of bad luck and mental illness happen to you because its of the devil.


2) Skeptical Atheist perspective - It doesn't exist and there's no such thing as universal energy. All the "healing" that people receive are mere placebo effects.


Any rebuttals to these claims?

[asha loka]

You mean apart from the fact that they can't both be right?

[mauviene]

A reiki handjob would be comforting.

Do they sell those?

[unusual_suspect]

Thank you all for your responses.

Anyway, presenting two other perspectives about reiki:

1) Christian Perspective - its of the devil. It does work but you are summoning these "reikidemons" through the symbols. And it gives you happiness for a period of around 15 years, then after that, you will end up being depressed and suicidal and have divorce and all sorts of bad luck and mental illness happen to you because its of the devil.


2) Skeptical Atheist perspective - It doesn't exist and there's no such thing as universal energy. All the "healing" that people receive are mere placebo effects.


Any rebuttals to these claims?

To number 1 I would say each to their own.

To number 2 I would say if it works don't knock it :D

Jojo, did you have to pay alot of money to be qualified to heal other people?

Do you have to do anything special to do it for a living like insurance etc?

Sorry to be cheeky, just curious.

[lhaull]

Remember one thing.
Reiki is not a magic save all.
Like anything else in this field, if the vessle is sound, then the energy should be ok.
If the vessle is tainted, the energy will be tainted.
I speak from loooooots of experience.

[unusual_suspect]

Remember one thing.
Reiki is not a magic save all.
Like anything else in this field, if the vessle is sound, then the energy should be ok.
If the vessle is tainted, the energy will be tainted.
I speak from loooooots of experience.

That sounds very interesting, would you care to elaborate? :)

[lyrag]

Reiki saved my life!! i cant help but feel anger at skeptics when throughout my life iv seen so many doctors, therapists, specialists, non of which made me better and made me worse in some cases. it also opened me up more psychically also, after treatment i get bizzare spiritual/psychic things happen.
Im wanting to learn it soon, mainly to work on horses, i agree with how well they respond to it but it is also important to find the right person for you, i had someone else do reiki on me and either it felt/was very weak compared to the other woman who i recieved it off, or...it wasnt working? dont know if thats possible , maybe the lady i recieved it off was very powerful, because i could feel it pumping through me and the energy in her hands. iv heard that salami hands are a good sign.but obviously nothing to go by, just go with your intuition!

[lhaull]

That sounds very interesting, would you care to elaborate? :)

Sure.
I have experience of dealing with 'Reiki' practicioners, who have been attuned to whatever degree, 1, 2 or 3. Not only Reiki folks but sechim and other names for healing. I have experienced recieving energy from some very pure vessles, and others who lets say were out of tune.
The problem is, it seems from my experience that once someone has a certificate to say they are a healer, or are reiki 1, 2, or 3 for example, that they develop some kind of identity with that. 'Oh I can help you, I am a healer.'
Sadly if you have paid a thousand bucks to be attuned and someone has made it thier business to attune you, is seems often that the attention to a fundimental part of channelling energy is skipped.
That is the state of the vessle that the energy passes through.
Example.
Take a woman, lets say her name is X. X has had a rough life, abused, beaten, battered by her husband Y. She escapes and gets on with her life but never truly deal with her internal damaged circuits. She comes to be interested enough in energy to train in Reiki, she pays her fees and is attuned to Reiki 1, 2, and then 3.
She loves it, is excited about the feeling of the energy passing from her.
She begins to heal.
She meets someone who is in need of help, she offers aid. As the session begins, she is focussed and the energy coming through her is clean, but after a few moments, a minute or 5, she begins to accept the energy herself, because she is also in need of it. So rather than acting as a conduite for the energy, she self heals. This is not uncommon, and not neccessarily a conscious choice. As she absorbes the energy in to herself, she is still pumping energy in to the client. However what the client is recieving is the overflow from X's personal energy and not the Reiki (or whatever) energy she is supposed to be passing to them.
As energy and consciousness are linked, she is also passing her thoughts, fears, likes, dislike, images, memories, desires along to the client on an energetical level.
So the session finishes and the healer feels good, she therefor asks the client, who perhaps does not know what to have expected from a healing session...'How do you feel?'
The client has recieved say 15% of the pure energy and so he feels ok, better than he or she did. But they have also downloaded the healers garbage.

Which will manifest itself and very possibly intensify problems which they were experiencing, especially if the issues were mental, emotional in nature.

Basically, imagine a pipe and a clear fresh water lake.
You can't reach the lake yourself so you put the pipe to your lips and start to drink. Are you getting the clean pure water?

Depends whats lurking in the pipe.

Make sure your healer is sound before you allow them to work on you.

[kurupted_flesh]

What are your experiences with this?

Please share. Thanks.

Unnecessary once one realizes the fundamental nature of reality - thus one's inherent, absolute power over everything w/in one's reality.

+ A lot of places/practioners of these type of things are just as scammy and self-serving, and often more disingenuous - albeit rarely as painfully ignorant - as conventional practicioners IMO.

Flesh.

[fekdemasons]

[QUOTE=cl2008;1047912]Thank you all for your responses.

Anyway, presenting two other perspectives about reiki:

1) Christian Perspective - its of the devil. It does work but you are summoning these "reikidemons" through the symbols. And it gives you happiness for a period of around 15 years, then after that, you will end up being depressed and suicidal and have divorce and all sorts of bad luck and mental illness happen to you because its of the devil.


2) Skeptical Atheist perspective - It doesn't exist and there's no such thing as universal energy. All the "healing" that people receive are mere placebo effects.



Any rebuttals to these claims?[/QUOTE)

To number 1 , Yes the church dont want you to find out about this cause it means then they no longer control your mind and make you put 2 quid in the collection box.

Christian perspective ? Is this what Christ would have thought. Or would he have said , great ..... people want to give healing energy to each other.

Remember , he loves us all .

To number 2,

If it works on some level then who cares. People are conditioned to think that they can't heal themselves. SO they need a third party to look to.

A placebo tricks the mind , the mind thinks , you know what I am feeling better. The body responds. Dah dah your healed.

Reiki Energy is free to all and not an intellectual property , so leave your ego behind . All we are is transmitter recievers , an attunement is exactly that. Tunes your receiver into the frequency and opens up your transmitter (crown) to pass it on.

[fekdemasons]

Sure.
I have experience of dealing with 'Reiki' practicioners, who have been attuned to whatever degree, 1, 2 or 3. Not only Reiki folks but sechim and other names for healing. I have experienced recieving energy from some very pure vessles, and others who lets say were out of tune.
The problem is, it seems from my experience that once someone has a certificate to say they are a healer, or are reiki 1, 2, or 3 for example, that they develop some kind of identity with that. 'Oh I can help you, I am a healer.'
Sadly if you have paid a thousand bucks to be attuned and someone has made it thier business to attune you, is seems often that the attention to a fundimental part of channelling energy is skipped.
That is the state of the vessle that the energy passes through.
Example.
Take a woman, lets say her name is X. X has had a rough life, abused, beaten, battered by her husband Y. She escapes and gets on with her life but never truly deal with her internal damaged circuits. She comes to be interested enough in energy to train in Reiki, she pays her fees and is attuned to Reiki 1, 2, and then 3.
She loves it, is excited about the feeling of the energy passing from her.
She begins to heal.
She meets someone who is in need of help, she offers aid. As the session begins, she is focussed and the energy coming through her is clean, but after a few moments, a minute or 5, she begins to accept the energy herself, because she is also in need of it. So rather than acting as a conduite for the energy, she self heals. This is not uncommon, and not neccessarily a conscious choice. As she absorbes the energy in to herself, she is still pumping energy in to the client. However what the client is recieving is the overflow from X's personal energy and not the Reiki (or whatever) energy she is supposed to be passing to them.
As energy and consciousness are linked, she is also passing her thoughts, fears, likes, dislike, images, memories, desires along to the client on an energetical level.
So the session finishes and the healer feels good, she therefor asks the client, who perhaps does not know what to have expected from a healing session...'How do you feel?'
The client has recieved say 15% of the pure energy and so he feels ok, better than he or she did. But they have also downloaded the healers garbage.

Which will manifest itself and very possibly intensify problems which they were experiencing, especially if the issues were mental, emotional in nature.

Basically, imagine a pipe and a clear fresh water lake.
You can't reach the lake yourself so you put the pipe to your lips and start to drink. Are you getting the clean pure water?

Depends whats lurking in the pipe.

Make sure your healer is sound before you allow them to work on you.

Good advice ,

Reiki Master etc is all bollocks , Ushui never intended for the original teachings and message to get polluted into an egotistical heirachy.

I just let people know I can offer it and if I'm asked then great. If not then no sweat. It will be what it will be.

As for being payed , If you love doing it and want to set up full time , everyone has to eat and pay their bills. Ok if you go for a session and the guys loaded and scamming people with dodgy books courses and dvds thats a different story...

[mila]

Good advice ,

Reiki Master etc is all bollocks , Ushui never intended for the original teachings and message to get polluted into an egotistical heirachy.

I just let people know I can offer it and if I'm asked then great. If not then no sweat. It will be what it will be.

As for being payed , If you love doing it and want to set up full time , everyone has to eat and pay their bills. Ok if you go for a session and the guys loaded and scamming people with dodgy books courses and dvds thats a different story...


You learn so much through your experiences. I remember the lady who atuned me years ago always made me take off jewelry, small earrings even. Now I never do it anymore. One positive thing is that I stopped wearing a watch back then. You get used to it fast and you learn to feel how late it is without having to use a clock. When I come to think of it, this lady and most people who were involved then had no clue about the energy whatsoever. She told me to say someone's full address, name, say birthdate in my mind before starting a distant healing!

Really, I've channeled energy to someone in a hospital (I was asked to) that I had never seen before and I didn't know how he looked like and I could see where he was sitting and where the windows were and the area the hospital was situated in.

I've learned a lot from the healingreiki.com site of Steve Murray (Facts and Myths about Reiki) and practise is everything!

I think it's beautiful and it raises my spirit every time.

[airkraft]

Can anyone recommend a good reiki healer in the chester area please.

[jojo]

Can anyone recommend a good reiki healer in the chester area please.

nathan sorea is in that area. hes not just an energy healer but uses sound and other things as well to heal holisically. :)

[h2pogo]

Can anyone recommend a good reiki healer in the chester area please.

i know of a faith healer in shropshire i think what she does is reki but i am not sure exactly what reiki is.
i can pm her number if you want.
what is reiki btw..
i know some one who does reiki but wasnt aware she is a healer. i know for fact she has unbelievabley good luck.

[nirvana]

I can remember talking to a reiki guy a few years ago in Derby. He wanted £250 for level one. I was too skint so never did it.
The talk he gave was interesting. He said when hundeds of reiki masters gather together they can cause healing to a whole country or community.

If this is true why not lower the prices and hold mass healing sessions.

[jojo]

I can remember talking to a reiki guy a few years ago in Derby. He wanted £250 for level one. I was too skint so never did it.
The talk he gave was interesting. He said when hundeds of reiki masters gather together they can cause healing to a whole country or community.

If this is true why not lower the prices and hold mass healing sessions.

exactly! I hate the fact that "reiki" is about money and levels of mastership...

I prefer to use the term energy healer when describing myself for this very reason.

[h2pogo]

I can remember talking to a reiki guy a few years ago in Derby. He wanted £250 for level one. I was too skint so never did it.
The talk he gave was interesting. He said when hundeds of reiki masters gather together they can cause healing to a whole country or community.

If this is true why not lower the prices and hold mass healing sessions.

i would of thought £250 would be a piss in the ocean given the money your on:D
i am still not sure exactly what reiki is though.
i read a bit about it a while back and thought it a comercialized art of using chakras which is something we can all do without giving our cash away.
if these masters can heal a whole country why dont they?
or will they only do it if paid enough if so i dont think it would work.because from my understaning this chakra thing only works for the common good.

[mila]

I always do healings for free
as giving=receiving.
When you're connected to love and you give, you will always receive.

[2013]

i was taken up to master level with my GF 10 years ago. It was by a friend whose healing circle we were involved in .I didn't like the use of the word
Master until i realized it is about mastering yourself not anyone else ,so i can live with that . I know many very good healers not many of them practice reiki . we were attuned for free, even though she ran classes . We gave level one free to friends as i believe we can all heal if we choose to do so and it shouldn't be about money for a gift we are born with .
During sessions we did get lots of psychic clairvoyant stuff happening ,although this is something we were already doing anyway .One thing when we went to friends houses we had their dogs and cats joining in the group healing around the table we used and the jumping on the table when it was empty for healing themselves! It's true what has been said here find someone you resonate well with for healing the exchange will be more beneficial that way .:D

[jojo]

Can anyone recommend a good reiki healer in the chester area please.

also there is a really good healer in nantwich (about 30 mins drive from chester) called Elizabeth Bates. I cant believe I forgot about her! i recomend her whole heartedly and she is a very powerful healer.

ill pm you her details

[jp13]

I've had some powerful experiences with Reiki, and was given it free to begin with from a charity (Turning Point), from what I know, originally Reiki had nothing to do with Chakras, people chose to add this later to expand and explain the unexplainable, as fekdemason says 'let the ego get out of the way' or words to that effect, that's what my teacher told me, and open yourself to Reiki energy, he also said that Reiki can't harm anyone, it can only have positive effects.
I would like to believe this, part of my cynical mind thinks that anything that can affect a persons energy can be used for good or ill, but that is the Ego coming in again.
At one time I would have said that anyone who asks for money for anything from a Reiki treatment to a Tarot reading was a charlatan and all these things should be free!
I see it as an exchange of energy, or a lot of people don't value or take seriously anything that is given for free. If you booked time with a Herbalist or Acupuncurist, would you expect it to be free, or would you trust say a dentist or a oesteopath if they offered treatment for free?
I think it is up to the person who is giving the 'treatment' and how adept they are at giving a treatment i.e. a 1st degree person may not feel confident enough at first to ask for payment or a donation, and obviously not everyone who needs healing will be able to afford it, so there should always be room for these people in the heart of the healer.
Another thing that used to amaze me, was when you ask someones permission, or their full name, they seem to wake up to the fact that they are dealing with something real, otherwise why would you need their permission, I have noticed that Doctors also do this i.e. ask your permission to do something, whether it be an examination of sorts, or could you just say Aah!