Reiki Heals

Reiki is the teaching of the Japanese holistic ideas. There are a few differences between the Japanese and Western versions although it is really just a difference in the way things are done. One thing is that the western version doesn’t practice breathing techniques. With this practice you sit straight up in a chair and breathe in and out through the nose. At that time the energy enters through the top of the head. Another difference between the two is the ways of treatment. In traditional Japanese people go to meetings every week and meditation work is done on separate parts, as with western the healing is usually done as on the whole body. Also in western application there are three degrees or levels.

The first Reiki Degree course can be varied on the teacher. Some teachers have two classes over a two day period. Other teachers have four sessions spread over an extended period. They are taught meditation and hand placement for healing. At that time they can heal themselves and others. In the second degree students learn the use of symbols to enhance the connection between the healer and recipient. The use of these symbols helps to do the healing over distance and time. You can heal people without being with them. In Japan it has been known to take ten to twenty years to attain the second degree. It is dependent on the teacher. Most people do not make it to the third level. In Reiki, there is always learning involved. As with the third degree, there is a time that it takes to study and practice. It depends on the teacher as to how long it takes to attain third degree status. I could be a day or a year or more. When you are obtaining the third degree you are given another symbol.

It is thought that Reiki healing is used on the front and back of the body equally. It is usually started at the head and neck and then the other parts of the body. Reiki does not use medicine or instruments but feeling, blowing, tapping, and massaging. It is a practice that uses the energies that surround all of us always. Many western practitioners usually use a standard twelve position for whole body healing. The recipient is asked to lay down when this is being done. The hands are usually held at each position for five minutes. Some people say that they get a warm feeling where the treatment is being applied. There is also a hands off treatment that the hands are held as few centimeters away from the recipient. There is really no governing board for Reiki practitioners but there are organizations that want to standardize Reiki practices. If that should happen the Practice might be under government regulation and that could be a fatal blow the practitoners of today and of the future.