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Welcome to the 177th Carnival of Healing. This is the first time I’m hosting it and have enjoyed collecting the multimedia content presented.

To make the Carnival really fun and valuable, go ahead and visit each of the links, comment on those blogs to join the conversation, and also comment here.

One aspect of blogs that’s missed often is that real value is found in the comments that are sparked by the post itself.

Some of the content is actually in this post, while most of it links out to other blogs.

Make sure you spend time a little further down in this post with David’s The Blessed Discontent and Melanie’s healing energy charged art.

Your comments here would be appreciated in general, but you can also let me know what kind of content you most need, enjoy and would like to see more.

And in true carnival spirit, put on music you like best, make your favorite drink, settle and dive in.

Another way you can deepen this experience is to go back to the content you resonated with most and put it into practice, meditate on it and journal about it.

My collecting, reviewing and presenting of the material here was a considerable amount of work, so I hope it’s rewarding to you and I’d greatly appreciate your feedback.

Thanks also to all who submitted content.

Health tips

Maria Mora gives us detailed information about the many properties of the Helichrysum Species, which range from being antifungal, wound healing, good for muscle spasms and irritable bowel syndrome, to being used for colds, inflammation and allergies.

Edward Sanderson brings us ways to Wave goodbye to frozen shoulder which in Chinese Medicine is called 50 year shoulder because people tend to get it at middle age. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had shoulder pain since my twenties which healed greatly when I started meditating. Ed lists good solutions and links to some others as well.

Brad presents Cold Showers – Whew! including some studies that have been done regarding its benefits.

Julian Pollock presents Why Practise Qigong – for Health, Wellness, and Inner Balance in a simple, accessible piece.

Ross presents Health Benefits of Liquid Chlorophyll, a thorough look with a lot of support.

Healing / Transformation

And now on to some musical musings…musical and transformational. ggw_bach, yes that’s the name, is Bach in sunglasses! He composes classical music for today. You can listen to each piece at the end of posts, like the one he submitted for the Carnival: Step 19 – Regenerating the Core. After you appreciate it, go ahead and browse all the steps.

Here’s a quiet piece that packs a powerful message by Tim Rowe: On Healing. Tim’s post is full of golden nuggets about healing, the path and our place therein. Healers emerge from wounds; their own. He offers much including the basics of A Course in Miracles, synchronicity and projection.

Gina Loree’ Marks has “a strong belief in ‘messengers’.” There’s a quality of self-reflection in her posts that we could all adopt. In Discomfort Creates Awareness, she uses her interaction with a client to create clearer self-awareness and ask probing questions about how we hide from insights discomfort can provide.

Donald presents 10 Essential Tips to Change Your Life, a straightforward look at some cornerstones of change.

Lisis Blackston presents Finding Fulfillment. It’s a unique look at turning Maslow’s pyramid on its head.

Communication / Listening

Those of you who’ve studied Reiki with me, will be familiar with the next entry. Davina’s excellent post uses the simple quality of curiosity to lead to a richer experience and how it can become intuition. How Curious Moments Add Value breaks down ‘active,’ deep listening into three steps and what happens beyond…

Seth Simonds brings us More Than Listening: Being Present. In it he talks about the quality of being present that’s so lacking in many of our interactions: Truly caring about answers to questions you ask, feeling the subtext, and empathy.

Nonviolence

The Laughing Yogini, yes that’s how she is known, brings us Yoga Ethics #1: Ahimsa. This word literally means: a ‘non’ + himsa ‘injury.’ This precept isn’t only for the student of yoga, but for all of us. It’s quite the thorny one to practice and live, and Laughing Yogini provides much food for thought.

Miruh Sanderson comes to nonviolence from a different angle in Peaceful Thoughts. As I said, nonviolence is a thorny subject. I had blogged my thoughts about it back in Nov 08 in this post.

Healing Energy charged art

Moving Through Blocks

Melanie A. Stinson has a gift! “In Moving Through Blocks, the intention was to help individuals move through feeling “stuck” or blocked creatively and in any way in which the word applies.”

“The way to use the images is simply to gaze at them and breathe deep and slow as though you are breathing in liquid color and desire to “taste” the image with every fiber of your being. The colors and shapes invite the viewer to participate with the image, and, as in color therapy, the colors also serve to heal, transform, empower, bless, inspire and bring joy.”

Vortex of Creativity

“Vortex of Creativity, inspired by the Harry Potter books, holds an intention for creativity that I hoped would be as powerful as JK Rowlings’ books have been for readers all over the world.”

And last but not least by any means, please take time to read David Wodtke’s piece below. David is a soul brother of mine, who I’ve met only on webcam, over the phone and via email. That’s the beauty of souls and technology!

He’s also known as Pine Tree and publishes an excellent ezine of archetypal messages from animal spirits, to which you can subscribe at Earth Service.

The Blessed Discontent

by David Wodtke

“Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.”
–Tennessee Williams

Part of me feels very sorry. Sorry for myself and sorry for all of the sad people for being born into this miserable life of pain and disappointment. Failure and regret can eat away at your core until you collapse in a heap from exhaustion. But lately I’ve begun to feel oddly thankful for my discontent and to view it as one of life’s greatest blessings. It has been my teacher when I rejected all other guidance. Lately I’ve become grateful for my suffering which leads me in the direction I need to go. I’ve begun to feel a new source of strength and peace.

Of course, I want to be happy as much as you do. I’ve tried many ways to become happier and more peaceful. But all of the temporary pleasures of the world lead sooner or later to disappointment. This is most obvious with drugs and alcohol which seem to dull the pain for a time, but meanwhile weaken the body and will. That counterfeit peace soon causes even greater anxiety mixed with guilt. Other more benign pleasures can leave us feeling empty as well. Seeking happiness in romance, work, or even family can be disheartening. The lover leaves or dies. Work and family life go flat without a sense of inner peace and purpose. Everything in the world betrays us in the end. So what is behind this illusion? Where is the satisfaction that we all seek?

Do you remember a time beyond time when you lost all thoughts to the wonder and beauty around you? As a child I remember many times of great joy with no thought for the past or future. Music and writing take me close to that feeling of nowness. In fact, any time the mind is fully concentrated on one thing all worries vanish and a secret joy bubbles out from the core of being. Each moment is vibrating with sacred promise which can be felt in calmness. It’s only when the mind is scattered with thoughts of something more that worry and restlessness creep in. Where are the bursting joys and dire disappointments of yesterday? And where is tomorrow’s hope and fear of the unknown? All is happening now, the rest is imagined. I take comfort in the fact that the source of eternal love is always with me. I just need to relax and look inside myself to feel the blessing.

Meditation is a source of great peace and joy when the mind is calm. Creation and communion with the inner creator add satisfaction to everyday life by unlocking the heart’s natural love. When you least expect it, the gift comes, slipping in the back door on stocking feet. So when I feel sad or anxious lately I think to myself that it is a blessed discontent calling my mind back to the source of all happiness. Let that fear, worry, sorrow, or even mild apprehension be the trumpet call announcing the presence of the creator, locked in a dream tower of doubt and distraction. The worst mistakes and failures of the past are your greatest blessings. Give thanks for them and the prince charming of inner peace will come with the ladder of forgiveness to release you. Trials are not meant to destroy us, but to awaken us to the inner source of strength and beauty.

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It’s fortunate that today the full teachings of Usui Sensei’s Reiki are available:

1) Meditative Reiki which leads to inner mastery and evolution.

2) Hands-on Reiki which leads to healing.

The two form a complete and comprehensive spiritual teaching. There’s some crossover between them and one complements the other. Because Reiki is a spiritual teaching and not a healing art alone, or worse a modality (as some practice it), Meditative Reiki is the trunk of the teachings. This doesn’t negate the power and value of hands-on Reiki.

Hands-on Reiki is founded on, sourced from, and supported by Meditative Reiki, without which Reiki is a truncated teaching. This post details the pitfall such truncation causes.

Hands-on Reiki without its Meditative anchor

Until about ten years ago, Reiki was popularly known only as a hands-on energy healing practice, with Usui Sensei’s enlightenment teachings left out of the system. This error, unfortunately, persists to this day in many pockets of the global Reiki community.

Usui was really only interested in helping people alleviate suffering through their own self-realization or satori using meditation and other related inner practices. Because he was a dedicated spiritual practitioner, he had healing power and was involved in an ongoing conversation about “palm healing” with his contemporaries, but this wasn’t the main thrust of his work.

Healing power is part and parcel of any evolutionary path, as it is in Reiki. It’s there naturally as the practitioner evolves. Hands-on healing is simply an extension of this process.

Just like an apple has a core, spiritual teachings have a core which is meditation. Remove the core and the apple collapses in on itself.

I’ve been teaching and practicing Reiki for fifteen years continuously. I was first trained in Reiki without its core; then Usui-san’s original wisdom seeds were made available to me. This writing comes from my personal and professional experience of the Grand Canyon of difference between the two, as well as staying up-to-date on historical research, global observation of Reiki, and of course my own practice of the teachings I love.

Here are some of the results of Reiki without its core:

• It feels incomplete; some of the information is disjointed; leaves you with a lot of questions.
• This in turn leads to an attempt to complete the teaching with material from other traditions. A prime example of this is the inclusion of the yogic chakra system, whereas in fact Far Eastern spirituality revolves around the understanding of hara.
• The filling-in doesn’t stop there. A baffling array of Reiki flavors have emerged: Amanohuna Reiki, Angelic RayKey, Ascension Reiki, Blue Star Reiki, Karuna Reiki, Kundalini Reiki, Lightarian Reiki, Raku Kei Reiki, Shamanic Reiki, Shamballa Reiki, Tera Mai Reiki, Tibetan Reiki…ad infinitum! Many of these claim to be “more powerful” or “higher vibration.”
• The hunger still doesn’t stop, for without feeling complete and without an enduring practice Reiki folk can become collectors of all these flavors.
• And with all of this comes the addition of material and practices that are extraneous to Usui’s Reiki: Guided meditation, crystals, hui yin breath, unrelated symbols, violet breath, chakra balancing, manifestation techniques, Reiki or spirit guides, and channeling, to name a few.

Let’s look at two extraneous practices to highlight the main distinction being made:

A) Guided meditation

B) Chakra balancing

Guided Meditation: There’s nothing wrong with this practice. Often it’s a novice’s first introduction to meditation, and any meditation is better than no meditation. In the context of Reiki as an evolutionary practice, however, guided meditation skims the surface.

The entire teaching of Reiki and its native meditations is based on a perennial understanding of universal Ki. This Ki isn’t only subtle energy. It’s also a set of divine qualities which include nondual consciousness, compassion, wisdom, spiritual light and power, spiritual intelligence, harmony and balance, all wrapped up in an embodied experience of Oneness.

In Usui’s meditations, universal Ki travels along the subtle spine pooling in significant points along it, in time-honored practices which are designed to be transformative and enduring.

When meditations already included in Usui’s Reiki are not passed on, the void is filled with guided meditations or other breathing techniques. This inauthenticates and bloats a teaching that already has all the elements of a true spiritual practice.

Let’s examine in a little more detail. “Transformative” means that a teaching and its practices radically and permanently shift your being. “Enduring” means this shift doesn’t stall after one time, it continues to expand your paradigm, and the practices never get stale, bringing new insight and wisdom, staying fresh, creative and inspiring.

Firstly, if you’ve only been taught hands-on Reiki, it gives you only a certain view. Then, because it isn’t complete, it starts a false hunger and striving in search of more power and higher vibration, you start to collect Reiki styles and a mishmash of techniques. This search doesn’t fill the void.

When a spiritual teaching is properly designed as Reiki was by Usui Sensei, it has a graduated set of practices, knowledge, transformation and realization that’s built-in and that fulfills and advances the practitioner with each use.

As originally designed, Reiki gives the practitioner direct access to the power of the universe in a way that builds a solid, lifelong relationship, answering all needs and questions and making way for a meritorious life.

Chakra balancing: As mentioned above, chakras aren’t an understanding elucidated in Far Eastern spirituality which works with the hara model. This isn’t the aspect being discussed here, for that requires its own post.

Chakras are a part of the human subtle body and for Reiki practitioners what may work best is to solidify and embody Reiki’s native teachings on the hara, and then grow into a blended appreciation of both. This is still not what’s being discussed here.

What’s being highlighted is the idea that Reiki practitioners balance anything at all. The fact of the matter is that when giving Reiki to yourself or someone else the practitioner is in a state of nondoing. (More about this here and here.)

Reiki is not a practice of being actively involved in the delivery of healing. Practitioners don’t need to visualize, direct, focus, colorize, enhance in any way, or force Reiki. There also isn’t an evaluation in the sense of making choices of what is to be balanced. Nothing is removed and nothing is added.

There’s only receptivity, observation, witnessing, and allowing. Any other approach constricts the conduit.

Any healing action and balancing occurs between the intelligence of the recipient and Reiki. Another way to say this is that Reiki has a healing effect in the resonance between personal ki and universal Ki.

And this healing isn’t what it seems to be at first glance. Reiki does create better energy flow within the mindbody; it reduces pain; provides emotional support; calms and clarifies the mind and brings a host of other benefits. There’s an energetic aspect to it and it does work energetically with the person.

Yet what is often missed in the teaching and practice of Reiki as only hands-on is that real healing is happening deep in consciousness and not only in the subtle body. Reiki is spiritual healing even when administered via the hands which means that there’s a transformation of consciousness.

Let’s remember that Meditative Reiki is the source and ground of its hands-on application, that Reiki is first a spiritual practice of inner mastery and evolution. When a student receives the practices of the trunk of Reiki, the transformation made available through these methods is then available when applied as hands-on. The student must first be given the techniques, i.e., Reiki teachers worldwide stop passing on truncated teachings, and then the student must practice Meditative Reiki sincerely and regularly.

There aren’t any shortcuts. A practitioner can effect a meditative change and healing in consciousness through hands-on Reiki on self and others, if the inner practice is first known and then adopted in a devoted and disciplined manner. Otherwise, Reiki is reduced to only a form of energy healing with an inconsistent ratio of effectiveness.

(These posts explain how this is so in greater detail: Reiki as Consciousness — Parts I – II – and III.)

What Usui’s Reiki can truly offer the individual and the world

Usui Sensei graced the world with five simple but abiding precepts:

For today only: Do not anger—Do not worry

Be humble

Be honest in your work

Be compassionate to yourself and others

These precepts are simple, but they are not easy at all. There’s tremendous profundity to them and contemplation leads to many, many lifelong realizations. Right in the very center of the trunk of Reiki are these precepts. They are the living tissue of the tree of Reiki.

Another feature of spiritual teachings which are considered to be wisdom traditions is that in addition to guiding words, practitioners are given practices to fine tune the human instrument to actually be able to live the precepts.

True teachings can’t be embodied only intellectually. The intellect is an asset, but it must also be surpassed. To become and live Usui’s precepts, a transformation must take hold in the person. And this can only happen if the complete teachings are first deeply embraced by Reiki Masters and then fully passed on to students.

Let’s finish by imagining what the world would be like if Usui’s five precepts were well-established in all aspects of society.

Without anger, conflicts would be resolved and new ones circumvented. Without worry, fear would end and we wouldn’t exacerbate suffering. Humility is respect and the willingness to include all viewpoints. Honesty; would there be a worldwide financial crisis if there was honesty?

And compassion. Compassion is both a prerequisite and condition of enlightenment. In compassion there’s no separation, no other, no stranger. Compassion is the true democracy! Enlightenment is a state of Oneness. If there’s compassion, there’s understanding and appreciation. Compassion unifies and in that unity we find enlightenment.

Enlightenment isn’t only a spiritual pursuit. There can be enlightenment in government, technology, business, science and social systems.

This post has many areas that are begging for a more detailed look, and future posts will be expanding on these points. If you’re new here, please subscribe via email so you will be notified.

This post is also not complete. For instance, I’m eternally grateful for the hands-on function of Reiki. And the arguments above can be made in many other ways, all enlarging and enriching the global Reiki conversation. This conversation will be continued here and I invite you to join me by commenting and reading future installments.

This is another post in the Reiki 411 category. Some of the points in the first section were made in another way in Reiki semantics: Are you on autopilot?

Semantics

Let’s speak about the language we’ve adopted around Reiki. What first comes to mind is, “I’m doing Reiki” or, “Let me do Reiki on you.” Language frames our reality in a certain way. By changing language we can change our reality. It’s one of the ways in which what we attract and dispel can be set into motion. Hopefully it’s been impressed upon you in your training, with further validation in your own practice, that Reiki is less about “doing” and seriously about BEING!

We’re constantly doing in almost every area of life. We live in an industrial, technological society, mostly motivated by MORE is BETTER and I CONTROL how to get more. Since we’re a breed of “doers,” balance must be found somehow. If we frame Reiki as doing too, it’s hot water where cool is needed; cool, calm, restful.

Reiki is a state of non-action. The more you flow with incoming energy, the more it will flow and you’ll experience greater harmony and balance. Personal evolution and healing can’t be forced. We’re connected to the electromagnetic field of Earth; there are seasons, cycles and rhythms. Similarly, healing and transformation happen in a layered, spiral fashion. Life is interdependent and imbued with an ageless wisdom. Reiki gives us a huge chance to listen to this wisdom.

“Give” and “receive” Reiki, reserving doing to other areas of your life that respond well to that. Practice Reiki on and with yourself, others, Nature and its lifeforms. Remember, non-action isn’t inaction. Right action has its place as we conceive, mount, produce and materialize our life and work, with all of its details.

Neither is Reiki “sent” at-a-distance. Rather, we’re constantly helping the evolution and healing of others when we sincerely work on our own opacity versus our stuckness. And when we do formally sit to practice nonlocal healing, it’s a becoming of Oneness with the receiver, whoever or whatever that may be. We merge and participate in an eternal moment that lingers the entire course of the energy flow; a subtly pulsing dance of intention and sharing of this Divine gift, sans space and time limits.

Meditative Reiki

One of the gems that has appeared in the surfacing of the original Usui teachings, is the integral place of meditation in Reiki for the practitioner. This isn’t someone’s creative idea of how to meditate with Reiki, or guided meditation, or simple quiet sitting.

Reiki meditations are based on a perennial understanding of Ki, breath, the spiritual spine, significant points along it, and the cornerstones of personal evolution.

Posture is important, without becoming too rigid about it. You can sit cross-legged on the floor or furniture; sit on furniture with your legs uncrossed, feet flat on the ground; or sit on the floor Japanese style (seiza) on your knees.

Head and torso are aligned; spine is upright but flexible. Cast your eyes down about 2 feet in front of you, looking at the floor and close or half close your eyes. Your focal point is always the hara region, in particular your tanden.

The breath is smooth, continuous and lengthened, i.e., slowed down. You want to breathe abdominally, letting the diaphragm do its intended job, filling the lungs from the bottom-up, without the use of other muscles around the ribcage and chest. Essentially, your belly expands on inhalation and contracts on exhalation, with little movement elsewhere. If you’re practicing bringing Light in through the crown (one of the specific Reiki meditations), it can feel like the opening and closing of a flap or valve, about two inches above the hairline.

Most importantly relax in body and mind. Drop your striving; it’s not the place for it. Practice sincerely and observe without judgment or expectation. As Universal Ki interacts with you and your consciousness is elevated, you may find that the breath becomes finer and finer. You can cease whatever technique you’re practicing and actually meditate at this point. Just don’t make it too soon, without this natural development taking place, because breathing in certain ways has many other benefits than leading you into meditation alone.

Self-Treatment

Some of these pointers will also help with giving Reiki to others. What I see most that may detract from the experience is an uncertainty in the hands, how they contact your body and at which locations. The main correction here is to make as much contact with the surface area of your body, with as much of the underside of your hands as possible. Mold your hands to make good, solid contact with your body, centering the palms over the main body part being addressed. The hands are relaxed, fingers and thumbs together. As your sensitivity increases, you’ll find the palms lock-in to place, whether it’s a physical location, organ, or an aspect of your subtle body. (Off-body Reiki is not addressed here.)

Practicing with others

Always position yourself so that you can observe the recipient’s face. If you’re working from their RIGHT, your RIGHT hand reaches to the LEFT of their body. This automatically turns your torso and head so you can see their face. If you’re working from their LEFT, your LEFT hand reaches across.

You don’t have to look at their face constantly; often your eyes are closed. The face registers experiences and it’s good to be observant. By the time you reach the legs, this is less of a factor, but do look up once in a while.

It’s also absolutely vital that you take a stance with feet shoulder-width apart, weight distributed equally on both feet, legs bent a little. Even if you sit on a stool, this posture can be adapted. Centered and moving from the hara.

Hands-on Reiki is vibratory healing. Delicacy of touch, graceful movements around the table, quietude, lightness in every way greatly contribute to the overall experience, and significantly to the recipient’s ability to receive, go within and have insight, and further to really deepen their spiritual connection.

Precision and sensitive awareness is the name of the game. We live most other times in a speedy race to succeed or at least survive.

Reiki is a chance for all parts of us to be in the same room at the same time and catch up.

Our divinity and humanity thus align and life is meaningful again, purposeful, a joy.

In my interactions with practitioners and non-practitioners alike, I keep noticing the need for clarity and subtlety of understanding when it comes to the many aspects of Reiki.

To address this gap in information and knowledge, a new category is being added with this post: “Reiki 411.” Look for in-depth articles in the future by selecting this category.

I received this question:

I am Reiki III and started learning Reiki four years ago. I used to self-heal by placing my hands on my chakras at least once a day for a few years but in the last year or so, I have noticed I don’t regularly at all. The last time I did was about a month ago. I do however meditate daily with a combination of angel meditation…general mindfulness and some guided ones including chakra meditations but not hands on.

I don’t feel this is an issue as I naturally moved away from self-healing but I am curious as to whether I should be doing hands-on self-healing regularly still. I don’t really give anyone Reiki traditionally but use energy in my coaching, teleclasses and all I do really. It seems that Reiki was a way into other stuff but I’ve never had a desire so far to be a hands-on healer but more of a general energy worker in less of a traditional way, kind of like incorporating energy into everyday life for me and others.

So what do you reckon, should I be self-healing?

Hands-on-self Reiki

There isn’t a single answer. Everyone comes to Reiki for different reasons and stays with Reiki for their own reasons. The hands-on aspect of Reiki and that it can be shared with yourself is both unique and powerful. Just the wonder of it may be enough to keep practicing.

I’ve always felt and described this application of Reiki as the pinnacle of care and gentleness. It’s loving, nurturing, and healing. It’s such a complete way to embrace yourself. It honors you and your needs without pressure or criticism. There’s an inescapable charm to it: You take your hands and place them intentionally on your head and body, and experience both your hands and yourself in a completely new way each time. It changes your relationship with yourself and the world because you then want to touch people’s lives in the same compassionate way.

Hands-on-self Reiki is also about self-awareness and biofeedback. It’s like having a closed-circuit camera letting you into all parts of your body and being. Regularly communicating with yourself in this manner, keeps you updated and doesn’t allow for the accumulation of undesirable content.

A whole lot more can be said about Reiki’ng yourself. One last benefit that must be mentioned is wellness. Whether you have health insurance or not, go to an allopathic physician or not, when you give yourself Reiki your health is augmented immeasurably. The key here is that it goes past simple health to wellness which is a dynamic state of balance and harmony.

Going deeper

Meditation is an integral to any comprehensive spiritual practice. In fact the founder of Reiki, Usui Sensei, emphasized meditation and included specific meditations in his teachings. Reiki is essentially a two-limbed teaching, with its hands-on application being based on a solid meditation practice.

When students aren’t taught Usui’s meditations, either this valuable practice is ignored, or one has to find meditations from other traditions. The most natural and effective way is to have the native practices of the teaching you’re studying.

Any authentic meditation method is better than no meditation. The advantage of Usui’s meditations is that they are designed to bring the fullness of Reiki to the practitioner. These Reiki-specific methods tone the energy body with all of its intricate pathways, as well as the mind and heart, and establish a true resonance between the individual and the universal.

Reiki certainly opens other avenues of learning. Reiki is certainly valid and effective as a hands-on healing art. However, only the comprehensive training and practice of Reiki lets you experience its full impact. Here’s why:

Reiki is a stand-alone and complete enlightenment teaching.

Conclusion

There’s an energetic version, application and experience of Reiki. For that to be available, there first has to be Consciousness. This isn’t consciousness as brain activity, but Consciousness as a universal template. Better, stronger and more balanced flow of energy is healing and leads to wellness. Hands-on Reiki goes far in helping you create that. Even within this model, however, real healing and transformation takes place at the level of Consciousness. Transformation solidifies beyond the level of energy. Energy is simply an expression of Consciousness, so it’s more efficacious to work directly with it.

Reiki is a two-limbed teaching with inner mastery through meditation being the foundation and source of its hands-on application. The two limbs complete each other and form a whole. It’s tremendously fortunate that we can use our hands to heal and comfort, the hands are such a special part of the body and give the world so much. Yet, with the well of Reiki meditation to draw from, even hands-on Reiki amplifies into a radical shift of self.

Whether for self or others, Reiki’s true power emerges when both sets of practices are passed on and sincerely utilized.