Kundalini Reiki

By: Alice LangholtReiki is a method of energy healing, during which the practitioner channels Ki, or life force energy, to the recipient. This happens using either a light touch or channeling this energy over a distance. The guided energy reaches the recipient through the intention of the practitioner. Reiki energy flows from above the crown chakra, down through the body and out of the hands of the practitioner to a recipient. Kundalini Reiki utilizes these energy forces and is used for healing treatments.
Kundalini energy is spiritual energy that comes up from the earth through a person's chakra system. When the Kundalini energy is "awakened," it can cause painful, emotional symptoms, including confusion, apathy, fear and disconnectedness.
Kundalini Reiki is a variation of Reiki developed by Ole Gabrielson. It is said to use a combination of the practitioner's Kundalini energy with Reiki energy in healing treatments. Kundalini Reiki is used to heal the symptoms of an accidental Kundalini awakening in oneself or others.
Unique Features of Kundalini Reiki:

• There are no symbols. While traditional Usui Reiki and others use symbols to focus the intent of the energy, Kundalini Reiki does not use symbols.
• There are no hand positions. While traditional Usui Reiki and others follow a series of hand positions for treating different parts of the body, Kundalini Reiki practitioners simply intend the healing and steadily hold their hands on the recipient's shoulders or in the air (for distance healing), and the healing energy goes where it is needed.
• The practitioner will treat a recipient for five to seven minutes, while the recipient will feel and benefit from the treatment for up to an hour. Each recipient gets as much energy as needed, in the areas where it is needed, to facilitate balance and well being. The energy simply stops flowing when it is finished.
• Attunements to Kundalini Reiki do not involve ritual. While traditional Usui Reiki attunements involve symbols, blowing and front and back rituals, Kundalini Reiki is different. The practitioner doing the attunement simply intends that the recipient receive the attunement of the specified level, and the attunement is sent. There are three attunements for Kundalini Reiki, equally effective through distance or in person.

Celestial Reiki

By: Alice LangholtCelestial Reiki involves channeling energy from Ki, and also from the stars and planets. Celestial Reiki involves symbols, which include the planets and zodiac symbols. The symbols and zodiac teachings allow the practitioner to channel healing. The practitioner develops an awareness of the transitional movement of the stars and planets, and the effects of astrology on the unique energy of each.
Reiki is a form of energy healing, used for the purpose of relaxation and enhancing wellness throughout the entire person: physical, emotional and spiritual. During a Reiki session, the practitioner channels Ki, or life force energy, to the recipient. This happens through either a light touch, or channeling energy over a distance. The guided energy reaches the recipient through the intention of the practitioner. Reiki energy flows from above the crown chakra, down through the body and out of the hands of the practitioner to a recipient. The recipient may feel heat, cold, tingles, a magnetic sensation or a sensation outside the ordinary.
Unique Features of Celestial Reiki:

• Symbols include many zodiac symbols. These help to connect the practitioner with the energy emissions of each planet's frequency.
• Astrology teaching is included with Celestial Reiki and helps the practitioner connect with the energy of the planets, sun and stars.
• There is one attunement to Celestial Reiki. This attunement allows one to learn, practice and attune others to Celestial Reiki.
• Attunements to Celestial Reiki may be passed through distance or in person. Treatments may also be channeled through distance or in person.
• Celestial Reiki includes techniques for self healing as well. When becoming attuned to the energy of the shifting planets and stars, one learns ways to sense and channel these powerful energies for purposes of aligning with higher consciousness in the Universe. The practitioner is taught to incorporate these Universal energies with life force energy, and channel them together for self healing and the healing of others.

History of reiki

History of reiki

Dr. Mikao Usui

Quest for Knowledge

Reiki was rediscovered and revived in the middle of the 19th Century by a Christian monk by the name of Mikao Usui. The story of Usui's search for the secret knowledge has been told many times by Grand Master Hawayo Takata (1900-1980).

Usui was the Principal of a Christian seminary in Kyoto, Japan. When his students asked him why they had not learned anything of the healing method used by Jesus, they asked Usui to demonstrate it for them, but he was unable to do so. It was at that time that he decided to relinquish his position as Principal of the seminary and he left to study Christianity in a Christian country until he gained the knowledge.

The Holy Writings

Usui's quest led him to America, where he attended the University of Chicago and became a Doctor of Theology. However, he could not find any answers in Christian writings regarding hands-on healing. Able to read Japanese, Chinese, English and Sanskrit, Usui searched Chinese scripts to no avail, and eventually traveled to North India, where he was able to study the Holy Writings.

Meditation and Revelation

Usui later returned to Japan where he discovered some Sanskrit formulas and symbols in old Buddhist Sutras which seemed to hold the answers to his quest. At the time of his find he was living in a monastery in Kyoto, from where he traveled to the Holy Mountain of Kuriyama. It was there that he decided to fast and meditate in solitude for 21 days with the hope of gaining contact with a level of consciousness as described in the Sanskrit formulas. Upon his arrival at the mountain, he placed 21 small stones in front of him, to enable him to count the number of days in his fast. As each day passed he would discard one of  the stones.

During his time on the mountain Usui read in the Sutras, sang and meditated. Nothing unusual happened until the last day, when he saw a shining light moving toward him at great speed. It became larger and larger until it finally hit him in the center of the forehead. He saw millions of little colored bubbles of blue, lilac, pink and all the colors of the rainbow. A great white light appeared, and he saw the little-known Sanskrit symbols in front of him glowing in shining gold. This was the birth of Usui's system of Reiki as revealed to him from the Buddhist Sutras.

The Healing Miracles

When Usui returned to a normal state of consciousness, the sun was shining high in the sky. He felt an elation of spirit and a sense of strength and energy, and thus he began his descent from the mountain. In his rush downward, he stubbed his toe on a rock and he fell upon the ground. His toe was bleeding, and when he instinctively grabbed his toe in both of his hands for a few minutes, the bleeding stopped and the pain disappeared. THIS WAS THE FIRST MIRACLE.

Usui was very hungry, and he stopped at an inn along the wayside and ordered a large Japanese breakfast. The innkeeper warned him not to eat such a large meal after fasting for so long, but Usui was able to eat it all without any adverse effects. THIS WAS THE SECOND MIRACLE.

The granddaughter of the innkeeper had a bad toothache from which she had been suffering for several days. Usui laid his hands upon her swollen face and she immediately felt better. She ran to her grandfather and told him that their guest was no ordinary monk. THIS WAS THE THIRD MIRACLE.

The Birth of the Ethical Principles of Reiki

Usui returned to his monastery but decided after a few days to go to the beggar City in the slums of Kyoto to treat the beggars and help them lead a better life. He worked for seven years in an asylum treating many illnesses. One day, however, he noticed the same people with the same old faces kept returning. When he asked them why they had not begun a new life, he was told working was too troublesome and that it was easier to go on begging.

Usui was deeply shaken, and he wept. He suddenly realized that he had forgotten something of great importance in his healing work, namely to teach the beggars GRATITUDE. In the following days he thought out the Reiki principles as follows:

              

Just for today do not worry

Just for today do not anger

Honor your parents, teachers, and elders

Earn your living honestly

Show gratitude to everything

 

Soon afterwards he left the asylum and returned to Kyoto where he kindled a large torch and stood in the streets. When asked why he stood in the streets with the torch, he said he was looking for people in search of the TRUE LIGHT - people who were ill and oppressed and longed to be healed. This was the beginning of a new part of his life, which he spent traveling around Japan teaching Reiki.

Usui is now buried in a Kyoto temple, with the story of his life written on his gravestone. It is said that his grave was honored by the Emperor of Japan. One of Usui's closest collaborators, Dr. Chijiro Hayashi, took his place, becoming the second Reiki Grand Master in a line of tradition. He ran a private Reiki clinic in Tokyo until 1940, where unusually severe illness and disease could be treated with Reiki. This clinic was where Hawayo Takata of Hawaii first received Reiki treatments that would later lead her to study with Dr. Hayashi. Takata returned to Hawaii after her studies and was made a Reiki Master by Hayashi when he visited the Island in 1938. Upon his death in 1941, Takata succeeded Hayashi as Grand Master herself when she was about seventy-four years of age, initiating 21 Reiki Masters to carry on the great work. On December 11, 1980, Hawayo Takata passed to the higher side of life, leaving 22 Masters in the United Stares and Canada.

The Reiki Symbols and their Meanings

Reiki is an energy therapy that was developed by Mikao Usui - a Japanese Buddhist monk in 1922.  It is a alternative medicine practice that uses a technique called palm healing which is said to transfer energy or qi through the body.
When used during a Reiki session, Reiki symbols are said to enhance the flow of certain life energy (depending on the symbol used) and also open higher levels of spirituality and awareness.
Most practitioners will say that all the Reiki symbols and their meanings are sacred because they originate from the ancient Sanskrit language which is said to be the language of the spirits.
Before a session of attunement the symbol is meditated on to increase the metaphysical energies that the symbol represents before 'drawing' it onto the patient.  

The Reiki Symbols and their Meanings

The four main Reiki Master Symbols and meanings used are:

Cho Ku Rei - The Power Symbol

Cho: Connect the
Ku: Power, Energy with
Rei: The Soul, The Universe, The Unity
This symbol represents power and will help with general body healing. When used during a treatment it can increase the energy flow to various parts of the body.
You can also use this symbol to clear the energy from a room or space (if you feel that there are negative energies in the area), or give extra power to other tools such as crystals and food.

Sei He Ki - The Mental and Emotional Symbol

Sei: I Point
He: the Bow, Arrow to
Ki: Live-force, Light, Awareness
This strange symbol represents balance and emotions and is used for healing emotional and mental health problems.  It is great for patients with depression, addictions, relationship problems and anger.
It promotes a lightness of being and calmness of the soul.

Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen - The Distance and Mental Symbol

Hon = Spirit, Source, Origin, Universe
Sha = Mind, Surviving
Ze = Space, Be, Being
Sho = Feeling, Emotions
Nen = Consciousness, Body, Attention
This symbol is used for healing that must be performed over a large distance in the case where the patient is not with the Reiki healer.
It can travel through space which makes it a great symbol for karmic healing.

Dai Ko Myo - The Master Symbol

Dai Ko Myo - “great shining light”, “great luminous shining”, “great enlightenment”
The Dai Ko Myo symbol represents wisdom and power.  This symbol is used to awaken a higher power or purpose within the individual or patient.
It's the strongest and most powerful of all the Reiki symbols and can replace any of the others as needed.  Most Reiki masters will use this with all their work to receive more power.

Reiki Attunement

What is meant by Reiki attunement? How does it happen? How is it done? These are just among the questions that bother your mind. Read on and you will learn more.

An Explanation
Generally, the attunement itself is the procedure which aids in the opening and expanding of your innate psychic abilities. Some believers of Reiki emphasize that the procedure assists in clearing you of the concerns that tend to bug your spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical bodies which furthermore enhance your own psychic gifts. To add to it, the attunement process brings about the healing energies. Although the latter are simply around us at all times, it does not follow that everyone can easily get them and be absorbed into their system because there are cases when their chakras appear to be imbalanced. It is also during the course of the attunement process that all of the metaphysical and universal laws as well as the Hermetic Law of Similarity are called for. There are also several other forms including the Usui, Tibetan, and Karuna Reiki which are employed by many to be able to perform the so-called distance healing symbols which are known to go across space and time. As a general rule, the experience that comes abound with the attunement requires no body of belief or religion for that matter. Also, the attunement can last for a lifetime and may be taken for several times.

Clearing the Misconception
The name psychic attunement is often utilized to mean the process of a Reiki learner being harmonized with Reiki energy and its significance. It has to be clear though that the Reiki energy is not in any way a psychic force since the practitioner does not make use of the mind’s power in the treatment session. Simply put, Reiki is likened to ESP, telepathy, or mind reading. Before, modern medicine was too stubborn to accept the efficacy of Reiky. However, after a few more struggles and proofs, it has somehow dedicated a certain spot for Reiky therapy. After all, it does not fall short of its effectiveness when the healing touch is being talked about.

Reiki and the Psychic Term
The term psychic basically points to the powers manifested by the human mind. On the other hand, Reiki is the word that is used in describing the life force or energy that encompasses every living thing. “Life force” may exist through different terms and names in various cultures and countries but the entire concept remains the same.

Therefore, the practitioners of Reiki are not in any way psychics. They are the people who have gone through a rigorous learning experience in expanding their knowledge about life in general. They are also the ones who have tried their level best to learn how the human physical body works and responds to the energy around.
Furthermore, Reiki therapy is qualified as an alternative and complementary medicine. It is also termed as the “energy medicine”. Although there are some people who may refer to it as the Reiki psychic attunement, it is to be understood that it does not fall under the category called psychic phenomena. The healers sense the illness or pain and when they get attuned, they can readily feel the warmth of all the energy just with the use of their bare hands.

Introduction to Reiki

What is Reiki?

Reiki is one of the more widely known forms of energy healing. Energy Healing involves direct application of Chi for the purpose of strengthening the clients energy system (aura).  Chi is the term used by the Chinese mystics and martial artists for the underlying force the Universe is made of.  Mystics in all cultures have talked about the physical universe being made of an underlying form of something, much as modern physics research is now coming to understand the Universe is made of energy which is subject to (or affected by) thought.  Just as modern physics says this energy is affected by thought the mystics also say this underlying form is affected by thought, going so far as to claim we create our own reality from our thinking and the thoughts we share between each of us every day.
Stop and reflect for a moment.  Imagine the implications of the universe around us made from energy which can be shaped and manipulated by thoughts.  This is the implication of both Quantum Physics and ancient Metaphysics.  Might this make some diseases easier to explain, especially those which have no apparent physical cause?  Might this make miraculous cures easier to explain?  For example there was research study done a couple years ago showing that prayer improves the health of those who are prayed for, the focus of intent in prayer sends thoughts out in the form of "I wish such-and-so to happen", so if the world is energy subject to the power of thought then prayers must work (depending on how clearly and carefully you hold and elaborate on the prayers or thoughts).  Remember this while reading here about Reiki.
Reiki is very easily learned, very simple to use, and beneficial for all.  It is one of many forms of healing through the use of the natural forces which were given the name Chi by ancient chinese mystics.  Some forms of healing using Chi energy forces are Chi Gong, Pranic Healing, Chelation (as taught by Brabara Brennan and Rosalyn Bruyere), and Polarity Balancing. All (apparently) use the same energies, with the difference being techniques of application and an energy quality commonly known as vibration.  (This term vibration is widely used in the "New Age" community to refer to the range in experience between the dense or low vibration of the physical world to the high vibration of the highest spiritual expression; while the term is inadequate to truly describe the differences, and while Reality is probably not a simple bipolar scale of experience, the term is descriptive of how the energy feels).  I'm reluctant to definitively say Reiki uses Chi because I am not an expert on what the Chinese mean by this word.  To my eye the force referred to with the name Chi is the same as Prana, Orgone, Odic, they are all names for the same force.
Since the word Reiki means Universal Life Force Energy, it (strictly speaking) refers to the energy and not the specific techniques taught by Reiki Masters. The techniques are more properly called the Usui System of Natural Healing after the founder of the system, Dr. Mikao Usui. However as Reiki is the common name, and a fine name at that, this is the name we will use here.
A Reiki healing is very simply performed.  The practitioner places his or her hands upon the person to be healed with the intent for healing to occur, and then the energy begins flowing. The Reiki energy is smart since the Universe is a very smart place indeed. The energy knows where to go, and what to do once it gets there, or else is being directed by a higher intelligence. The energy manages its own flow to and within the recipient. It draws through the healer exactly that amount of energy which the recipient needs. All this happens without direct conscious intervention by the healer.  The healers job is to get out of the way, to keep the healing space open, and to watch/listen for signs of what to do next.

Reiki's Capabilities

Reiki is capable of healing anything because it works at very fundamental levels of reality.  Even though the capability is there, this is not what always happens.  The limits to Reiki seem to be in the recipients willingness to cast off old habits and patters, to accept change and to accept healing. The level of reality where Reiki operates is the underlying energy structure of matter, as the physical matter we see around us is a solidified form of energy (Remember Einsteins famous equation which says that each unit of mass is equivalent to a certain amount of energy).  At the level where Reiki functions, anything can be changed because all is fluidlike and is very malleable. Or so is the theory and so is the experience of Reiki practitioners.  Emotional difficulties are just as healable as physical ones since emotional issues are even more directly present in the energy structures.
In this context, the word Healing has a somewhat different meaning from the widely accepted meaning.   The widely accepted meaning for healing seems to be curing of symptoms, for that seems to be what medical doctors and the like look to do in their practice.  The other meaning for healing, used in the practice of Reiki as well as other related areas, is the return to greater wholeness.  There is an ideal form each of us has, this ideal form being the highest and clearest expression of who we are.  Pain or disease comes from any deviation between the persons current form in the 3D physical world and this ideal form.  Healing, then, is to bring this physical form into closer alignment with the ideal form.
The way we aquire deviations from our ideal form is to accept limitations into our life.  Most of this comes from early childhood because that is the phase of life where we are the most open and inquisitive about life.  A limitation may be a parent yelling "BE QUIET!!" enough times that the child learns to not speak.  Another limitation may be a limp that continues longer after the physical injury has healed, maybe with phantom pains.  These limitations are behavior patterns, eating patterns, physical limitations, imagined physical limitations, psychological, mental, or emotional ways of being, living, expressing or loving that is not in alignment with our personal highest expression.
In any healing the goal is to find the limitation, recognize the pattern, recognize where it came from, and let it go.  Reiki accomplishes this by providing the recipient enough energy to step above (metaphorically) to see all that and have the courage to let go.  This usually does not happen consciously as a result of Reiki, but sometimes it does happen that Reiki gives the recipient the conscious awareness of the pattern and recognizing where it came from. Our lives are a constant flow of patterns of activity (such as the pattern used to accomplish eating breakfast) and it is our choice to have these patterns remain stuck in limited expression, or to release the old patterns and try on new and shinier ones.
Reiki is also a gateway shining pure love into the universe.  It is this love which allows us to transcend our wounds and help us remember our true nature.