Reiki
One form of holistic healing therapy that you can use is Reiki. Reiki can be carried out by a practitioner or you can do Reiki on yourself. This is a therapy using healing hands. Reiki is used as a healing for any mental, emotional, spiritual or physical turmoil that we may be suffering in our day to day lives.
I will tell you a little about Reiki and how it has come down through history. Reiki is made up of two Japanese words – Rei which can be translated as “the Wisdom of God or the Higher Power” and Ki which means “Life Force Energy.”
Reiki is a natural energy therapy that was developed and practiced by the Tibetan monks over 2500 years ago. What is remarkable about Reiki is that it can be passed on to anyone who wants to learn it. It is thought of, as a practice, that is used for healing the body but it also heals the mind.
The most well known type of Reiki in western society is the Usui System of Natural Healing. This type of Reiki was developed in the mid 1800 by Mikao Usai, who was a Christian minister, and also the principal of the Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. His students had questioned him regarding healings, as explained in the bible, so he embarked on a ten year quest to find out and learn the skills for himself. Usai turned to Buddhism to help him. He was informed by the Buddhist monks, that this teaching had been lost, but he still joined the Buddhist monks to learn the Buddhist teachings, known as the Path to Enlightenment.
Still unable to get the answers to his questions, he traveled to the United States and obtained a degree of Theology from the University of Chicago Divinity School. He returned to Japan still without the answers. He then joined a Zen monastery and decided to fast and meditate for 21 days straight. On the twentieth night, all was revealed to him in a dream. From that day on he was able to heal and these healings were known as “miracles.”
Reiki works on a subtle level where, when the practitioner lays their hands on or slightly above the client, this will open up the channels of healing or the various charkas and this healing travels throughout the body’s energy fields. The word chakra is a Sanskrit meaning wheel and it signifies one of the seven basic energy centers in our body. Energy fields or Aura are invisible to the naked eye,for the majority of people, they may be viewed through the use of Kirlian or Aura photography.
A Reiki session usually lasts about an hour and the client remains fully clothed. Reiki helps to accelerate the body’s own healing process but it does not in itself heal.
As with most healing therapies, the client may react very differently. Some clients, with deeply buried emotions, might cry of laugh while others may even fall asleep. Some tell of a dream they have had while others mention the extreme state of peace and contentment they feel at the end of the session.
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden
