Reiki intro 2

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:27:56 -0400
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Reiki Intro 2 By: Reverend R Clark <clark@acceleration.net>
Greetings (pick one or more, please) Cassandrah! Eric! Folks!

At 02:51 PM 9/17/2004, Cassandrah wrote: MM,

Merry Meet, to you as well, you write beautifully, clear and pretty much in accord with my studies in Reiki.

<snipperino>the original Reiki "Master" (he never insisted on being called a "Master", this is a more recent trend),

One I am reversing as best I can. Currently, I describe myself so, “I hold the third degree in Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki as Master.” if I am formal and most times as “I hold the third degree in Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki and am certified to teach.”

I am reluctant to accept titles beyond "Reverend" one to which I make grudging acceptance as I typically find such titular descriptions confining and limiting and that one is the exception, it truly says at lot about where I am coming from. An example of a title I reject: Musician. I Love to drum, I don't call my self a drummer... if someone calls me a drummer or musician then that's fine I won't argue with them about how they make sense out of the world classifying folks, I simply don't apply it or any others to myself.

Mikao Usui, discovered Reiki during a 21-day retreat and meditation. In this way, it is said that he was "attuned" to Reiki. Now, Reiki is passed on to new students in the form of an "attunement". The attunements open up the chakra channels in the student and the Reiki symbols are used to allow for that energy to travel through the student. For most people to be attuned to Reiki, you need to have a Reiki Master perform the attunement.

Reiki, laying on of hands and so on, is as universal as the energies channeled. Every living thing channels life energy. "Reverse Entropy" I've heard it called. However, just as in "My Fair Lady," where a woman is taught how to walk with poise, so something as normal as walking can be refined and improved especially if we can witness another perform the skill we wish to gain.

Essentially, this is an alternative method of being attuned to "universal energy" instead of going to a mountain retreat alone for 21 days and hoping that you will receive the attunement.

There are reputedly published methods of self attunement on the Internet, and there is a Yahoogroup called Grass Roots Reiki that offers free distance attunements and certificates. They even do an "all-in-one" right on up to Mastership. Poof! More power to 'em if folks can get Reiki cheap and easy like that as we need all the healers we can get. I admit to some small skepticism and I certainly don't have the last word on anything and truly I don't discount their experience one jot, and can only give testimony on mine. Momma Theresa said, “I love all religions, I am IN Love with mine.”

As with nearly anything, disagreement and debate may occur on any field. With regard to the Reiki symbols, they are not actually required to heal someone - at least in person. They are used during the attunement to help open the chakra channels and allow the energy to be channeled.

The symbols are for the symbol-minded <grin>. I needed them. I needed training wheels on my bicycle, also. Once I gained the skill accessing and channeling these energies... once I gained the skill of balancing a bicycle... these aids became minor unneeded encumbrances.

You might be able to find some websites with the symbols.

If you Search "Reiki 2" and you will get a lot of returns to read.

Some traditions in Reiki have two levels for Master level. I do not agree with that because essentially the are saying you have to "master" Reiki before you can teach it.

As I understand and have attuned:

Level Three "A" is third level without teaching certification.

Level Three "B" or simply Level Three is full teacher certification.

I do not believe anyone can be master of "universal energy".

For true. However, there are teachers and there are Teachers that put things in a form we can readily absorb, as well.

<snipper> but not everyone should be attuned to Reiki. You must remember that the attunement opens up the chakras so that the energy can pass through. For someone who is not ready for this or has some form of mental instability, an attunement can be potentially dangerous.

I feel this to be incorrect. Kundalini work and some Tantric techniques I've heard of are reputed to have taken people on some mind benders with physical complaints and Reiki? No, not ever, never. Reiki is entirely safe, normal and natural in every way, IMNSHO.

As with any chakra work, Reiki helps opens any blockages and in some cases unleashes a floodgate of emotions. Usually, a well-adjusted person can ride this out and in the end, be better off.

Each attunement does bring about positive change up toward a person's true potential, in some this may be dramatic, in others subtle.

<snipperama>It is really only if you intend to teach Reiki and make a career from it that you would have to worry about symbols and some of the disagreements within the Reiki community.

The first Reiki precept (a kind of code of honor) reads: “Just for today, do not worry.”
I am teaching and want it to be a career and no worries, I study the various schools of thought on Reiki and there are many I disagree with none so far except on minor points of dogma.

the symbols aid in the treatment and amplify the healing, at least that is what is written.

More than any symbol there is what the symbol represents, I think that familiarizing oneself with the energy through self-treatment is key, learning to get ego out the way, essential.

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:39:34 -0700 (PDT) Eric erizona <ericerizona@yahoo.com> writes: How is reiki energy different from chi, which is energy someone can harness and redirect for healing purposes?

I assume Chinese "Chi" is the same as Japanese "Ki" and I think it important to point up that Reiki is something channeled. We do have our own life energy and we can use it to heal others, and to do so is draining. Better to connect with Source and have both practitioner and receiver feel relaxed, alert and energized.

Thanks for Everything!
One Love, R

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