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In my Reiki teaching experience, I’ve found some of the more difficult concepts to relate are Intent and Detachment. I put these together because I believe they go hand in hand in the practice of Reiki. Without intent, we couldn’t ‘do’ Reiki. When we put our thoughts toward the receiver, we intend to send energy to them. As we begin the channeling, we need to detach or let go of the outcome.

When I first learned Reiki, I was told I didn’t need to think about it, just let it flow. I was given ‘triggers’ to get the energy going; sayings like ‘hands on, Reiki on; hands off, Reiki off’ to direct my mind to begin letting the Universe through. I accepted this concept from my teacher, though I didn’t necessarily understand it. This was many a moon ago and I find students today really need a more concise explanation on how to channel Reiki. This need has brought me to teach intent and detachment, beginning with the First Degree class and repeated throughout the other degrees. In our world, we’re driven to control everything around us. Letting go can be both difficult and freeing. But I can tell you that when a student ‘gets it,’ comes to understand all we need to do is focus our thoughts and let go of the outcome, their eyes light up. It’s a wonderful experience, for both of us, when they realize they can do this. Their connection to the Universe kicks in and the energy flows. And this is Reiki.

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Reader's Corner

Hope, on a previous Discussion from Adrienne: In working with Reiki, I have found that you will feel warmth and tingling in areas that need Reiki. You may feel it more in those areas and less in areas that don't need it as much. You can hold your hands over or on the areas that need healing until the feeling changes, dissipates or until you get an intuitive feeling that it's time to move on. Some people feel cold in an area with a blockage. There are no real set rules on this. The important thing is that you use your intuition. I would like to suggest a book by William Lee Rand called "Reiki, the Healing Touch" and also "Reiki For a New Millennium" by the same author. If you would like to discuss it more, you can e-mail me at reikihealingforu@aol.com.

Aaron, on the same Discussion: Adrienne: whatever energy sensations you are feeling are fine. Reiki only ever works for the good of all concerned, no matter how we might choose to make it do otherwise. Just work on the areas (I think this is why most teachers teach hand positions - so we just Reiki away, not worrying too much about whatever energetic sensations we feel.

Laurie, on Adrienne’s earlier question: A big part of the answer to your question is what do you feel or intuit as you're working? At this stage you are developing your Reiki Language. Each client speaks a different dialect. If you're not certain ask your guides - What does this mean? You see symbolism, Reiki Language is a language of symbolism, can be interpreted differently by each individual. This makes it difficult to answer your question. If a client feels something during the session, ask them how they feel. Sometimes the symbols you get mean something to the client only. For example, as I was working with a client today the room was filled the scent of Maple Syrup. What does this mean? I don't know and I had the feeling I didn't need to know. It did mean something to my client though. If you feel energy being expended from someplace it may be that it is simply releasing whatever. It could also be an auric leak, someplace where your client's aura was torn. The only way to know for sure is 1) ask yourself how do I feel/intuit about this, 2) ask your guides, 3) ask your client, or 4) move to that area and check it out. Don't be afraid to step away from the form of your healing session. Go where you need to go.

Tina: In answer to Adrienne's question about energies during a reiki treatment, my own personal feeling is that you will be guided to do whatever is appropriate. If you are uncertain, take a breath, be calm and focus on the part of the body where you feel the energy. The best way to be sure is to get feedback from the person for whom you're doing the reiki. Ask questions, for example: I'm getting that the energy in this foot is different from the other. Tell me what happened with this foot.... etc. Hope these thoughts help.

Michael, in an earlier Discussion: In Response to Cheri's comments: "I have studied with numerous Reiki teachers, several Shamans and more than a few Christian healers. The energy is the same." Radio waves are radio waves. However, within radio waves there are many frequencies, and within the spectrum of healing energy there are also many different frequencies. I practice Reiki I, II & III daily, and utilize intent rather than symbols. However, Karuna Reiki can heal things Reiki I, II, & III cannot. The same is true for Lightarian Reiki. Cheri also notes that "The healing energy is from the creation and anyone who needs and wants has access to it." Many, but not all, healing energies are protected and those who have not been initiated to them can neither receive nor pass the attunements. As more research has been done on the origins of Reiki, many feel that, in keeping with social mores of the time, Mrs. Takata did not receive the full array of Dr. Usui's attunements. Some believe that Karuna Reiki is "the missing pieces" of Usui Reiki. Cheri also says; "We must look with our heart with all things and follow the creator's whisper instead of worrying about what the other children are saying." Thank you Cheri -- what a beautifully poetic contribution.

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New Experiences

New experience from Hope:

I have a question that I'm hoping someone out there can help me with. I'm a Reiki Master and I have recently acknowledged my channeling and psychic abilities. Although I've always had these, I never wanted that to be the focus. Instead I've focused on healing through Reiki and other modalities. But now I'm being brought information for others more often and in a more obvious way. The only thing is that yesterday after channeling some deceased loved ones for people, I got this immense headache along with enormous fatigue. A friend who is able to use a pendulum with Reiki determined that my third eye chakra was now closed along with my root chakra. This made total sense because I had been thinking that perhaps I shouldn't do the channeling of deceased people anymore since it gave me such a horrible headache.

My question is this: How do I allow my third eye chakra to remain open and still do the mediumship work that I feel I'm meant to do and not get the horrible headache along with fatigue? And is it possible that because I'm used to getting psychic information from Angels/beings of a high vibration that channeling these deceased people is some sort of an adjustment in vibration? If so, how do I make the adjustment?

Responses to last issue’s experiences

For Marion:

Michelle: Marion, I recently read that your hands get hot when working on the physical body & cold
when you are working on the spiritual body. It was the first time I have heard an explanation - but it sounds great!! In fact - I read it in (the ReikiOne First Degree) manual!!! (Teri) had a lot more usable information than what was supplied to me by my master. Thanks!!

Gloria: I would like to comment on Marion's question regarding the temperature of hands during Reiki sessions. All of my Reiki friends have very warm hands when doing Reiki. I, however, have very cold hands and always wondered why. One good Reiki friend suggested that perhaps my mother who has passed was helping me. We know that when a spirit comes into a room, there is a sense of cold around...so this makes sense to me that perhaps my loved one is holding her hands to mine while I am doing a Reiki healing session. I also get the cold chilly feeling from my shoulders and down my arms....It is no surprise to me that when I'm in the company of any psychic or intuitive, they always see my Mom standing lovingly behind me. I'd welcome any comments from others that have had similar experiences.

Lisa: On the Subject of Cold Hands: I am a RMT & one of those cold handed people ;o) We don’t seem to be the norm & I was most concerned when I first started doing Reiki, because I didn’t get the 'hot thing'!! Eventually after about 6 months I met someone else, but still I have only met a handful of people who do the cold thing. I actually have to put the heating on in my treatment room at unusual times, because otherwise it would be too uncomfortable for my clients & me! My body can be warm, but my hands freezing, particularly my right hand. If my body gets cold as well, it is most unpleasant! I always wondered whether my students would be affected - but they are all perfectly capable of doing the hot hand thing! After a little while (I think that I received a general attunement from white dove through this email list after my Level 2 – thank you white dove!), I started to diversify - so you can tell your student that over time she will get all sorts of types of feelings ranging from 'blinking freezing' -> 'cold' -> 'gentle' -> 'warm' -> 'hot' -> 'hot hands hot' -> 'hot flush hot' -> 'hot nose hot' (weird one!!) -> 'hot sweat hot' ;o) Someone told me that it is a more feminine, cleansing, nurturing, spiritual type of energy, but that maybe too much of a generalization. All it means is that the client needed that frequency of healing (different frequencies have been scientifically proved to affect/heal different organs or parts of the body). My personal belief is that Reiki is an awakener & once we start to channel that universal energy (I call it vanilla), we will naturally start to channel all sorts of other energies e.g. different reiki types, Angelic, elemental, hathor, st germaine's violet flame etc (e.g vanilla with strawberry or chocolate chips). I know that I don’t 'technically' channel Reiki, but I still call myself a Reiki practitioner - I don’t feel a need to name what I do - I just ask that my spiritual team will plug me into what is in the highest & best (remember the old telephone exchanges!). Hope this helps. Tell your student that I met one fab practitioner who didn’t get 'hot' or 'cold' but felt lumps under her hands where she needed to be, another sees the colour of the hand position & knows when to move because the colour changes. After all, life would be boring if we only had vanilla ice cream, but it is still my favourite that I return to as an old faithful every now & again!

For Gail

Hope: Gail, I would like to suggest that you send the boy who is in the home distance Reiki. I've found distance healing to be even more effective than in-person Reiki treatments in some cases.

For Norman

Rick Rivard: Reply to Norman: When I first began teaching Reiki, I collected many different versions of the symbols until I finally decided there were too many. (-: Apparently the differences originated due to the Takata requirement not only to keep them secret, but you couldn't even take them home written down. Many of the early students were more creative than analytical, and few had been exposed to Japanese kanji. What were phrases to Japanese, appeared as "symbols" to the Western world. William Rand explained that when a group of Takata-sensei's master students got together in 1981 (in the process of forming a support group) they compared symbols and were shocked at the differences - especially for number 3. But Takata-sensei did give some of her master students (lie Rick Bockner) a hand-written copy. Those versions do match the ones at my web page that Dave King copied at Mr. Tatsumi's house in Japan. In Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai - the original Reiki society - symbols are not taught to the Okuden or second level student. They do learn the kotodama or phrases, although in a slightly different way we do. The emphasis is on the energy - not the symbol, or even the kotodama. A Shinpiden (level 3) and Shihan (teacher) would have long before learned to release the need for either to invoke the energies. Some Western people have already found themselves going in this direction on instinct alone. So the symbol does not have to be exact, although it helps if you have a good access to or source for the energies. I noticed that some students in the old society have a stronger version of the symbols - this may be due to their constant use, and the fact their teacher (Koyama-sensei) practiced Reiki for 72 years. Diane Stein shows several versions of the 4th symbol on page 98. Some can be considered cursive or handwritten versions - as in English when you do not lift the pen from the paper. However, the Non-traditional Dai Ko Myo or Tibetan Dai Ko Myo (as it is called in some schools) is not the same energy. This symbol is actually a version of the Motor-Zanon symbol Kathleen Milner would share in her classes from 2 of her students. Now having said all this, Dave King learned from his Usui-Do and early Reiki system studies that the symbols are originally from the Taoist and Shinto aspects of old Japanese Buddhism. They were not presented as healing tools, but rather were used for inner reflection and would filter aspects of your own being such as focus, harmony, connection and empowerment. It seems that their use as healing tools began with Mr. Eguchi and Dr. Hayashi, the senior students, and over time their use has built up a strong energy base around each. My own 4th symbol energy comes form a very unusual source that I share in my Reiki 3 class. I hope some of this helps.

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This column features a different question each week for your musing, opinion, and response. Comments received will be published in the next issue. Have a question you'd like to get input on? Send it in!

Last week's question came from Naz: I wondered what people's thoughts are on protection during treatment. Do you have to make the intention to protect yourself and everything around you, or does the reiki do that automatically. If you don't make an actual intention, is it possible that you can end up picking up certain symptoms of the people you treat? Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

Aaron: protection isn't required. Reiki flows from wherever it comes from, through the practitioner to the receiver. It doesn't move like electricity in a circuit, so there is nothing coming back into the practitioner. I heard once that healer's take on the karma of the people they're working on. Sounds like a load of rubbish to me. If i took on the karma of all my clients, my life would not be worth living. I've also heard that some Reiki people have picked up the dis-ease of their clients. I've never experienced this and know of no-one that this has happened to. I'd be interested to know of anyone who has experienced this though, to find out how it is they're doing Reiki.

Hope: That's a controversial question. Some Reiki people are very adamant about not needing protection. However, I have come to realize from experience that yes, indeed you do need to protect yourself before a treatment in most cases. However, it doesn't have to be as complicated as some will lead you to believe. There are many schools of thought on this. If you pick up a person's pain during a treatment, all you need to do is say "thank you for this information but it's not necessary for me to feel the pain in order for me to treat this person I therefore release the pain now". You can even just say "I release the pain now". As you release it, visualize it going up to the light. If you believe in Angels, you can visualize an Angel taking the pain up to the light for transformation. Praying to whoever you believe in (God, the Arch Angels, etc) for protection and for a safe healing that is for the highest good of all concerned and filling yourself and your aura with white light before the treatment begins will protect you. Some people like to use different aura protection sprays or they smudge with sage or other things that are known for protection. Certain types of candles are also known to be protecting. Mostly your intent in asking for protection is all that's needed.

Laurie: Yes! You must use intent to protect, just as you use intent to heal. Applying protection is especially important when working in an area that you haven't worked in before. A really good book on this is "Dancing with the Devil as You Channel the Light" by David Ashworth. It is a provocative title and a very worthwhile read. I had to order my copy from Amazon UK because I could not get it in US Stores. The short answer is that protection is easy to do. Whatever you do do it with intent and know that it is done. Some people smudge and as they smudge the room they Reiki and/or place Reiki symbols in the corners. What feels most natural to me is to place the symbols on the client like a blanket and create a bubble of protection. This doesn't take long and it is easy to do. There are a lot of people (apprentices, practitioners, and masters) who are undereducated about this. Most people aren't taught to use protection or teach protection as part of their class structure. The very first thing I teach is a grounding/balancing/protection meditation. With practice it is a very easy to do. It is important to do this before you channel anything or open yourself to work with any other person's energy. I imagine this statement will offend a few people but it is true. Energy work without protection is like having sex without a condom.

Tina: I personally meditate and encase myself in a "bubble of positivity" before a treatment. That's probably enough, but if you should feel really uneasy about negativity swamping your work, just stop the treatment and reschedule, or take a break and talk to the person you are reiki'ing. As you can see, I'm a big fan of interaction between reiki practitioner and subject!

Jan: Yes I believe you have to protect yourself I imagine a bubble of white light around me and reiki symbols floating inside with me I also use the symbols in the room. If you don't protect yourself you will pick up that persons energy and feelings good or bad. I have experience when working on someone in pain I had not grounded and protected and afterwards for a few hours I experienced the same pain as her!

Next issue's question comes from Michael: When I learned Reiki II my teacher told me to send SHK to my car and the other drivers so that we might co-exist on the highway in perfect harmony. How else do your readers use Reiki in situations "other than healing"?

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Just for Fun

Father Sullivan was ministering to a man on his deathbed. "Renounce Satan!" yelled Father Sullivan.

"No," said the dying man.

"I say, renounce the devil and his works!"

"No," the man repeats.

"And why, in the name of all that is holy, not?" asks Father Sullivan.

"Because," said the dying man, "I want to wait until I see where I'm heading before I start annoying anybody."

AND

(ed. note: I had to share this one, this is something one of MY sons would’ve done when they were little!)

A sweet little boy surprised his grandmother one morning and brought her a cup of coffee. He made it himself and was so proud. He anxiously waited to hear the verdict on the quality of the coffee. The grandmother had never in her
life had such a bad cup of coffee, and as she forced down them last sip she noticed three of those little green army guys in the bottom of the cup. She asked, "Honey, why would three little green army guys be in the bottom of my
cup?" Her grandson replied, "You know grandma, it's like on TV...'The best part of waking up is soldiers in your cup.'"

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