Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 12:17:59 -0400
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Protection 1 By: Reverend R Clark <clark@acceleration.net>
Pages One, Two, and Three. Note: This thread on Advanced Reiki Topics began with message #200 "taking on other people's stuff" continued with "Re: taking on other people's stuff" and now is called "Protection."
Greetings Carol and ALL!
At 01:09 PM 10/6/2004, Carol wrote:
I remember when I was a student my teacher explained that we had to be careful NOT to take on other people's stuff when giving treatments. It has been My experience that YES you CAN take on others people's stuff when giving treatments if you are not careful. Therefore I ALWAYS teach my students to remember and love from a distance, even with their hands on the other person, and to keep their shields up.
“Necessity is the mother of taking chances.”
- O.K. I did the Quaker method and pushed down the impulse to weigh in on this thread several times... it kept popping back up in my mind and on the list.
- Mark Twain
Einstein said, “Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
- I don't do "protection" typically, seems like kowtowing to fear to me. “Fear knocks at the door, Faith opens the door and nothing is there.” I know various rituals and prayers to ward off the more disguised blessings and to simplify my life and practice I stopped.
“A loving person lives in a loving world; A hostile person lives in a hostile world; Everyone you meet is your mirror.”
- Ken Keyes in "Handbook to Higher Consciousness"
“Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough is true security to be found.”
- While I do pay for insurance on my household, as far as Reiki and my spiritual practice the most I do is wash my hands thoroughly. I feel since us humans are so chronically in the state of perceived lack of connection between ourselves and others it's at cross purposes to close a Reiki session or attunement. What I need is more connection not less. So I affirm with intent to remain an open channel for whomever I make a Reiki connection if the need should arise.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
- Helen Keller
“Go beyond reason to love - it is safe. It is the only safety.”
- Thaddeus Golas in "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment"
I usually visualize the Reiki going into the other person, and their pain/illness is coming out of them into my forearms and OUT my elbows, being transmuted by my spirit guides into an energy the mother earth can and will use.
- It seems there are at least three ways that folks can handle imposed aggression. One might be that the threatened draw a circle in the sand around their extended family, seeking to consolidate and protect. A second way may be where the threatened draw a line in the sand and say, “Cross That Line... and I Will Annihilate You!” The third could be where the threatened draw a line in the sand and say, ”Cross That Line... and We Will Both Be On the SAME SIDE!” Ideally, if we can assimilate through welcoming and become one with what is perceived to be an opposing force then there ceases to be conflict.
My husband also feels the pain or whatever in whatever part of his body for information about how to best help the person. Sometimes it gets SO overwhelming he has to put physical distance between himself and the person.
- This sounded like a spiritual high colonic for some reason, and it tickled me deeply <grin>.
“Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?”
- Elisabeth Cady Stanton
“In a human-potential story you are told to imagine yourself walking down a road by the sea when you come upon a drowning man. Because you don't know how to swim, you can deal with the problem in one of three ways:
1. Sympathy: You jump in the river and drown with him.
2. Empathy: You sit down and moan and cry about him drowning.
3. Compassion: You do something about it. Throw him a rope or run and find someone who knows how to swim.”
- Dick Sutphen in "The Oracle Within"
“Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism. Beauty allows us to forget the pain and dwell on the joy.”
- I've had my time with the drama of Sympathy and Empathy, hopefully I can retain the intuitive aspects of each and change up to this compassion thing and that basic respect for anothers path thing. To date the most uncomfortable feeling I've had during Reiki is a tingling sensation on the palms of my hands, no war-rhyz. I occasionally hear others in my circle and on lists complain of sensations seemingly dread and way uncomfortable. All my experiences with Reiki have been profoundly positive, what a blessing.
- Matthew Fox in Original Blessing
And after giving a few treatments in a day, I notice I am completely exhausted, and require some time to rest and re-energize.
“” A Zen student asked his "roshi" the most important element of Zen.
The "roshi" replied, “Attention.”
“Yes, thank you,” the student replied.
“But can you tell me the second most important element?”
And the "roshi" replied, “Attention.”
- Dan Millman, "Way of the Peaceful Warrior"
I "know " that Reiki doesn't take anything from me, and have not been able to understand but figure it may be that I become so relaxed when giving Reiki that I too, need the rest the same as my patient does.
- I've experienced this and it was when I didn't consciously connect with source. To put it in dollars and cents maybe I don't have any "spare change" energy to throw around and I knew almost immediately that I was cashing my energy check.
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.”
- Chuck Reid
- So you have knowledge of an intellectual theory that Reiki is channeled, yet in practice you get depleted. We do have our own life energy and we Can use it to heal others, and to do so Is draining. Are you making sure you connect with Source? Perhaps ideally in my experience both practitioner and receiver feel relaxed, alert and energized.
- This is simply my experience and hopefully may be of help and or insight to someone else.
- My 2% self-expressed, also.
“Our 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. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
- Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections On The Principles of A Course In Miracles, p. 165, HarperCollins, 1992) Quoted by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 Inaugural Address
“Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to structure, whether mental, physical, or social. Attachment and resistance are appearances with the same root: when you resist by pulling away your awareness, the emotion is one of fear, and the contraction is experienced as a pull like magnetism or gravity; that is, attachment. That is why we often fear to open our minds to more exalted spiritual beings. We think fear is a signal to withdraw, when in fact it is a sign we are already withdrawing too much.”
- Thaddeus Golas, "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment"
“A Sufi teaching tells of the man who visited a great mystic to find out how to let go of his chains of attachment and his prejudices. Instead of answering him directly, the mystic jumped to his feet and bolted to a nearby pillar, flung his arms around it, grasping the marble surface as he screamed, "Save me from this pillar! Save me from this pillar!" The man who had asked the question could not believe what he saw. He thought the mystic was mad. The shouting soon brought a crowd of people. "Why are you doing that?" the man asked. "I came to you to ask a spiritual question because I thought you were wise, but obviously you're crazy. *You* are holding the pillar, the pillar is not holding you. You can simply let go." The mystic let go of the pillar and said to the man, "If you can understand that, you have your answer. Your chains of attachment are not holding you, you are holding them. You can simply let go.“
- Dick Sutphen in "The Oracle Within"
“Come to the edge,” He said. They said, “We are afraid!” “Come to the edge,” He said. They came. He pushed... and they flew!
- Guillaume Apollinaire
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