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Archived issues of this newsletter are available for viewing at http://www.reikione.com/news/. I find the process of teaching Reiki to be one of education not just for the student, but for the teacher as well - particularly this teacher. I've been in the throes of working through some past baggage and wondered about teaching a class while in the middle of all this processing. I worried that I wouldn't be able to give the class my best. Interestingly, I discovered the opposite to be true. Because of the awareness that has been hitting me over the head lately, I found I was more open and in tune with the energy of the students . . . and they saw me. I know, that might sound strange but I'm not the kind of person to let others 'see' me, particularly energetically. But they did, during the attunement, while their eyes were closed, they told me I was outlined with light - some purple, some white, some gold. I brought up the possibility of it being something else, they all denied it and were emphatic it was me they were seeing. In the past, my reaction would have been one of fear - the old head movie playing telling me if someone really saw me they wouldn't like me. To my surprise, this tape didn't play out as it usually did. Instead, I felt good about being seen, knowing it was one of the results of the work I've been doing on myself lately. For once, I didn't feel the need to hide. I felt strong, the energy humming through me. And it was wonderful. Comments or thoughts? Email Teri at teri@reikione.com. Teri: My Reiki books were recently accepted by Amazon.com to be sold through their online store. If you've purchased one of my books in the past, I have a favor to ask. If you have a minute, please go to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-keywords=teri%20moore&search-type=ss&bq=1/002-6751080-4638436 (you might have to copy and paste this line in your browser - trouble with this link? go to http://www.amazon.com and search for 'teri moore') and post your review of the book(s) you've read. Thanks much in advance, I do appreciate your help with this! Trevor: I am a Reiki master from Australia and I have put together reiki sending and meditation events twice a month. I would like you and anyone of your friends and students to join us in bringing harmony to the planet and all sentient beings. If you do not feel you would like to participate then please just pass this to others who might. I have attached a format for the events. feel free to contact me if you need help working out the times etc. http://www.bodhichittacentre.com Malynda, on last week's Reiki Experience: For Michelle: I think we have to remember that we are a conduit for the Reiki, that makes us a little different from our clients, but we are also human. So, think about what Reiki is doing...it is coming thru us to be absorbed by our client to use as they need. It makes sense that if we have an issue, (which we all do) that when it (issue) is ready, we will experience the healing necessary that we are ready for. I think also that this healing is sometimes facilitated by the client on the table who has the same or similar issue. It is a hologram effect and it is human homeopathy; like attracts like, And, sometimes, when our client is not in a physical state to support the cleansing crisis, we are volunteer to do it for them... Ultimately, we are more than what we perceive, and no one knows what happened in that room but you. Ask your guide(s) this is your personal support system. Does this make sense? There are many possible reasons. Ask your guide. I would guess that it is more than just a drop in blood sugar, that is just the physical manifestation of what is happening on that energetic/etheric level. That is the origination source of the physical...the blue print that creates the physical. Our emotions and thoughts have chemical pathways in the body, it makes sense to me that what you were experiencing originated on the spiritual level and must be answered on that level. Lilly: Concerning your Reflections, I would like to tell you what happened to me. Last year, my friend told me about the severe sciatic pain she was in. I offered to send her Reiki, using the third symbol. I sent Reiki to her three nights in a row, and when she called me after the last treatment, she said all the pain was gone, and she was so grateful and happy. Then, late in October, I also had a severe case of sciatica down my right leg. I gave myself some Reiki, but the pain drove me to the doctor's. I was put on Vioxx, pain killer, then another pill, and then had to go to physical therapy. Finally, about a week before Christmas, it just went away, and I was fine! I often thought how much I helped my friend and was unable to help myself as much as I would have liked. Your article has given me some insight as to why I couldn't! As a postscript, I give myself Reiki when I need it, and Reiki has always been there to help me
.. Laine: its been awhile since I've read your news letter, as often the case, the message comes to me when I'm in need of some clarity. This is my fourth lease on life, I'm only 36, but I've been blessed to learn and get over the hurdles our paths are often laid with. In 1984, I had a cancerous brain tumor and just four years ago, I tried to take my life. I come to believe that every we go though in life, whether we name it "good or bad" is just an experience we're meant to go through and learn from it when we do. I have tried to explain and rationalize how I was changed, down to the last cell in my body, in only a week after taking the box of sleeping pills, but the only answer I come up with is, "It was a gift from God a miracle." Since than my whole life has changed where there is literally no negativity and the once confusing world seems to have melted away in to a place of peace, inside and out. The paths of life, which were nothing but a pain for me, now show me that JoAnn: I am so comforted myself and proud of you for your comments on taking meds when absolutely necessary. I am Reiki Master and have fibromyalgia. For years I fought major depression, fatigue and debilitating pain before relenting to meds. Until I read your words and confirmation that this is acceptable I was ashamed of my dis-ease, that I had to take meds in order to function (even after losing from a size 14 to a size 4 in 3 months). I practice Reiki at a Wellness Center at a hospital and the only person there who knows this is the director. And of course there is no need to tell my clients, but if I just can't function on a day I simply reschedule with no explanation to my co-workers. I do self-healing when I can but sometimes can't hold my arms up long enough. Then I remember St. Francis of Assisi who healed so many but was, himself, plagued with pain and dis-ease. When asked why he didn't heal himself he reminded everyone that God is the one who does the healing. So I feel as you do, that everything is in Divine order and just as it is to be. I can empathize with my clients' ailments and truly allow myself to be used as a vessel of healing that comes from my heart. With misty eyes and a heart filled with love, I thank you, Teri, for showing me that I can claim this dis-ease and know that this is where I'm supposed to be for now. Tere: On being criticized for not 'healing' - I believe critics are frustrated individuals who wish they could access their own potential in whatever field they are criticizing. And because they cannot create what their perfectionist's mind is entertaining, they criticize someone else's "imperfect" creation. And so with this explanation, I'm able to access a compassionate space of understanding, smile and let them be. It's useful to not take criticism personally, especially when it comes from relatives, if only for the first reaction. I try to look at the conversation from outside -like if I was at the moon and looking down on these 2 people talking here on Earth... I have a hard time relating Reiki to people as "hands-on healing", because one of the principles of Reiki is that we are each our own best healer; and as a reiki practitioner, I see my self as an assistant to the person receiving the treatment. That is, I become a channel of universal energy and put my hands close to the body or almost touching it so that if the person wants energy, there it is for him/her; and if the person has too much energy, there is the channel (me) to release the energy through. I find this perspective helps me keep my ego at bay and releases me from being someone else's 'hero'. Regarding my own ailments, though I am very aware that I have the potential to always be whole, healthy and vibrant, I know that I am here on a process as well. When there is an energy imbalance somewhere in my body and I find it dis-eased, it's usually the way the body has to tell me something needs to change. Bob: Re your article last week about depression. I am level two Reiki after having been attuned last year in the beautiful village of Hayfield Derbyshire England. I to suffer with depression and I am on medication to help. I have no problem with this and also practicing Reiki the one helps the other. My Reiki master was aware of my situation at my first attunement and saw no reason for me not to go ahead. Reiki has helped me enormously to get to grips with my problem and I would say to anyone else in my position, do not worry about using medication and practicing Reiki, after all would you suggest to the diabetic Reiki practitioner that they should stop using insulin. Reiki is wonderful it has changed my life but I realise that it a part of my health and works well with other medicines. Renee: what a great newsletter and i am thrilled to have found you ...the questions and answers from other practitioners are very useful - we have everything in common and supporting each other this way is wonderful ... i have wondered so many times too, that for some reason, with all the knowledge and insight i possess i am not able to "get" to myself at times --- thank you for bringing that up and shedding your light on it - reiki ( and hypnotherapy) are tools to be used, and when i treat a client i always trust the wisdom of healing taking place - i forgot to apply this to me. Tere, on an earlier Discussion topic: About schizophrenics and mentally ill people, each case is unique and needs to be addressed individually; but in no way can reiki hurt anyone, and if they can find a way to serve the world with reiki, more power to them! True, those people are vulnerable, but so is the rest of humanity. True, they are somewhat 'lost', but so is everyone else. I personally believe that they are gifted and have doors opened to rooms not many people have access to, and what they experience is not easily understandable to the mind. I once heard Deepak Chopra say that life belonged to lunatics, sages and pioneers. The rest are surviving, not living. I have seen artistic virtuosos who happen to be autistic, and a street beggar whose example changed an attorney's life around and well, there is SO MUCH going on in the spirit world that we've no idea of, that you don't truly know who's who. So I say, if a "mentally ill" wants to learn reiki, let it be. The first level is for oneself anyway. Comments? Suggestions? Complaints? They don't have to be about the newsletter, just about Reiki or other healing topics. Be heard! Send them in! teri@reikione.com Have an experience you'd like to share or comments on an experience posted here? Email it to me: teri@reikione.com. Now Available - the only publication of its kind: The Reiki Teacher's Handbook - a compilation of all the ReikiOne Manuals in one volume PLUS pages for notes and journaling and an extensive reading list! Visit http://www.reikione.com/pubs.htm for more info or to learn about the Artist Limited Edition of this book. If you'd like to share your teaching methods or ideas on Reiki, please send them in! teri@reikione.com. Reiki Treatment Poster (hand positions) and Second Degree Symbols Poster from the ReikiOne second degree manual. See both at http://www.cafepress.com/reikionep Send in your Reiki Haiku today! The formula is simple - 5 syllables in line 1, 7 syllables in line 2, and 5 syllables in line 3. That's it, 3 little lines, 5-7-5. teri@reikione.com. This column features a different question each week for your musing, opinion, and response. Comments received will be published in the next issue. Last week's question came from Nicholas: I would like to know if anyone has any experience of the effects of reiki during childbirth? The information that I have came across has the mother stating that it was the quickest, easiest and most painless childbirth she'd had. The midwife also conformed the ease of delivery. This however was in 1942, and the only case I have heard of. Anything anyone can share would be warmly welcome. Many thanks, and may the light of the universe shine through us all at this time! Jennifer: I am a Reiki master ... actually received my third attunement while carrying my daughter. I actually called upon Reiki for both myself and my daughter during the labor and delivery. I won't lie ... there still was pain and discomfort and all that ... but I really had a sense of serenity about me in the midst of all the chaos that I did not expect to have! I found that Reiki was much more helpful in keeping me focused and "in the moment" than any focal point or breathing exercises. My daughter was born fairly quickly, especially considering it was my first delivery ... and her one minute APGAR was a 9 - at five minutes she was a 10. And she has been extremely healthy for her first 9 months of life (of course, she got Reiki IN UTERO, too - and we continue now). I definitely thing Reiki has a place in childbirth ... and would recommend asking someone to be with the mother to channel the Reiki if she does not feel that she will be able to do so herself. Tere: About childbirth, I'd love to share that I practiced reiki throughout my pregnancy and during childbirth, and had my firstborn in 4.5 hrs., which I've heard is smooth. I have to add though, one thing I learned in pregnancy is that EVERYTHING is connected. So if you practice reiki but smoke, overeat, don't exercise and think negatively, don't blame reiki if the pregnancy ends in a c-sec. Helen: To answer Nicholas' question, the pregnancies and births of my two children were Reiki-ed. I was 37 and 40 respectively in 1992 and 1995. Both births were completely natural and drug-free, not without the pain, of course (!), but I believed the Reiki helped me to connect to that wonderful force and strength which helped deliver my babies with joy. A wonderful synchronicity was that the midwife at the Family birthing centre at the first birth was also a Reiki channel! I've found that babies LOVE Reiki and my gorgeous two still won't go to sleep at night without their Reikis! In 1993 I was privileged to be invited to Reiki the birth of a friend's child. She wanted a water birth so went to a facility at a Melbourne birthing centre. When I arrived my friend was in the latter stages of labour and didn't want to be touched so I put my hands in the water, used the symbols, and the water felt electrified! The birth was so gentle and peaceful and the love in the room was overwhelming. I'm sure there are many other accounts of Reiki being used during pregnancies and births and may they continue to grow. Peter: At 36 weeks pregnant I initiated my wife in Reiki I. Thankfully she did not suffer from the initiation. During the last weeks of her pregnancy she gave herself and the baby to be born lots of Reiki. During childbirth I stood alongside her and gave her Reiki whenever she needed it. Particularly during contractions she noticed the sharp pains were gone when I was giving her Reiki and it was all more acceptable (beware when she's been given anaesthesia for it might effect the duration). Now we have a healthy boy of 7 weeks old. He is very relaxed and easy to handle and pulls the Reiki right out of us when he needs it. We are very curious of how he develops spiritually in relation to his older sister. She still is reluctant to Reiki (as are more children) and only asks for it when she's in pain or otherwise hurt. Giving Reiki in her aura or distant Reiki works well though. Sara: Thanks for bringing up such a wonderful topic for discussion. Reiki is tremendously beneficial for the expectant mom and baby. While I was pregnant with my son, I did daily Reiki treatments. Although I used a midwife rather than a physician for my prenatal care, I went to a nurse practitioner midwife, thereby receiving all the benefits of a natural, holistic approach in partnership with all the gifts of traditional medicine. Right away my midwife became interested in Reiki due to the results of my standard blood tests. In every regard, my health checked out at better than normal. My energy was high and I felt wonderful. I did experience some morning sickness in the first three months but I am certain that Reiki helped me to maintain my normal function most of the time. I had, by contrast, a terrible pregnancy with my daughter, ten years earlier, pre-Reiki. The comparisons between pregnancies would take days to adequately chronicle! Reiki also opened the door for some very interested conversation with my son. More times than not, when I would be doing my daily treatments, I would be in very clear communication with my baby. Before my ultrasound confirmed it, I knew I was having a boy and knew what he wanted to be called. He told me about his past life experiences, allowing me to view him in different incarnations. He also explained his reasons for choosing this incarnation with me and helped to soothe some of my worries that some of the less than perfect circumstances in my life were in fact, part of what he was looking for in life experiences. When I went into labor, I used Reiki as needed to ease contractions. Once the contractions became insistent enough to not be noticeably reduced by Reiki, I used Reiki on my Heart and Solar Plexus, which helped tremendously in easing my nerves. It was very grounding, supportive, and I felt like I had the best birthing partner in the Universe! I can't speak to having less pain because frankly, the actual birth was excruciating. I have no doubt that it would have been made more comfortable for me had I had a friend doing Reiki for me during the most difficult part of my delivery. There was a point where I could no longer hold focus. My delivery was very swift however, and the pain was minimal in that regard. I have heard stories of women pushing for hours, which sounds horrendous to me. I was lucky in that my contractions were all productive and I only pushed through three contractions. There again, I think Reiki played a tremendous role overall. Once my son was born, I did Reiki for him immediately. His apgar scores were perfect with the exception of his breathing too rapidly (the medical people didn't buy my explanation that he was out of breath because he had been out of his body until the last minute - I have quite the astral traveler) they insisted that he remain in NICU until they could discover the cause of his tachypnea. They never did, because there was nothing wrong but in the three days that he was there, I had many opportunities to receive spontaneous feedback about the effectiveness of the Reiki treatments I was giving him. For instance, the nurses commented on his almost always being alert and seeming to listen to them, responding to their words. He was very calm, required little soothing, and instead of being the close fisted, fetal positioned infant they were accustomed to seeing, he slept stretched out with his hands relaxed. He scored abnormally high on his hearing tests and was tracking with his eyes from the moment of his birth. He never had the cross-eyed, out of focus baby look. Arthur is now two and a half years old and still validating for me the wonderful effectiveness of Reiki. He is more active and more inquisitive than many children his age. He is very serious. He does yoga with me, following along (I have never actually done more than acknowledge what he is attempting). I have attuned him to First Degree and he loves doing Reiki for our cats. Our horses love him because he puts his little hands on either of their cheeks and says "I do Reiki for you". They all take turns receiving from him. I hope this wasn't (a lot) more than you were looking for. I can't resist the urge to brag about my little man and the wonders of Reiki. Next week's question comes from Karen: I received my Reiki I attunement approximately 12 months ago, and I'm looking to take Reiki II within the next few months. However, I'd like to be able to send Reiki to the current war situation and I wonder if I can do that - i.e. without the use of the distance symbol? I read in an earlier issue that it was the 'intent' that mattered with Reiki and it was possible to manage without the symbols. If this is the case, how exactly do I send Reiki to a situation, please? Send your comments to teri@reikione.com with "Discussion" in the subject line. Have a question you'd like to ask our readers? Send it in! teri@reikione.com. If you miss answering a question from a past issue, please feel free to still send in your comments, please just reference the question you're replying to. Please send your ideas/experiences/thoughts/pitfalls on starting and maintaining a Reiki practice to teri@reikione.com. Read a good book or heard some good music, healing-wise? Write a review and I'll include it in the newsletter. Email your review to teri@reikione.com. Would you like your site featured here? 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Reflection by Teri Moore, RMT & editor
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Comments on last week's Reflection:
Katy: I thoroughly enjoyed your article about your sister-in-law who did not believe in Reiki and questioned your ability to heal yourself. Occasionally from time to time I get ill, run-down, out of balance and tend to beat myself up about it. Your article made me realize that illness, depression and other imbalances are part of life and do not hinder you as a Reiki practitioner. Thank you for bringing this to my attention!
they are meant for me to experience and learn. I learned 2 years ago or so that my great aunt was Hawayo Takata and my aunt took reiki training. My aunt told me about reiki after she heard my experience of change and I found out by reading the books she provided that, for what ever reasons I have been opened to the healing energy. Self healing and seeing the energy at night and during meditation have truly opened my spirit to new horizons. It took me quite along time to convince myself that I could indeed see the energy and the energy of my hands at night and actually heal myself. I could not rationalize for ever. I was a little dismayed when I could not heal some of the damage that occurred from my brain tumor and I've been thinking of it more and more- than I read about your experience with the head aches and feel more at ease. My spirit flies where once there was not and the joys of life and living are abundant in every direction. I bring my spirit to everyone I meet and there are angels all around, we just need to open our eyes and spirit to that reality.
On the Discussion of Mental Disorders and practicing Reiki:
Marilyn: As a read the feedback on last week's question about use of reiki by a person diagnosed with schizophrenia, the following thoughts occurred to me: All of us have wounds of one kind or another, whether physical, mental or emotional. How can we consider that a person with one kind of wound "should" not work with reiki without wondering whether reiki "should" be used by those with ANY kind of wound? Does one imperfection taint the energy while another does not? I hope we can agree not to go there!
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