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Reiki For Christians?
By Michael Golzmane

Many people today, in search of a more natural healing methods, have heard of an ancient healing energy technique called Reiki.

Reiki describes a technique wherein a practitioner lays his or her hands onto a client’s body, while “running energy” into the client’s energy field. Some of the most well-known and notable benefits of this healing work include: reduced stress, enabling the body to better heal itself on all levels, relaxation, relieving chronic pain, and helping to unblock and release old stuck emotions.

Traditionally, this technique was believed to have originated in Japan approximately 100 years ago, though there is some debate about its specific religious and spiritual beginnings. Some sources claim that Dr. Usui, the traditional founder of Reiki and a Japanese university professor, was Buddhist, while others claim he was Christian, and he was in search of the method by which Jesus did his miracles.

Some of the challenges Christians have had in pursuing this healing method, either as a client or as a practitioner, include the fact that there are no clear, unequivocal guidelines as to how Reiki should be practiced, and therefore it is open to the individual interpretation of each person. This can feel rather threatening, as some Reiki practitioners talk to guides, angels, and spirits, and work with healing energy in a way that seems to violate the beliefs and practices of the modern Bible-believing Christian.

However, I do believe that healing work is a clear mandate from Jesus himself. In John 14:12, we hear Jesus saying, “The person who trusts me will not only do what I’m doing but even greater things, because I, on my way to the Father, am giving you the same work to do that I’ve been doing.”

It is clear that Jesus is indicating that we should follow him in healing ministry–that we should also do what he is doing to heal others through God’s power.

In Matthew chapter 8, we read the story of Jesus healing the leper by giving him a healing touch. The Scripture says, “Jesus reached out and touched him, saying ‘I want to heal you. Be clean.’”

If properly understood, using energy techniques like Reiki can fit very well into helping us fulfill Jesus’ longer-term earthy mission. I personally prefer letting go totally of the word “Reiki” since it has so many “eastern” connotations, and simply calling healing by the laying on of hands “Christian Energy Healing.”

We can call upon the healing energy of the Holy Spirit, or Jesus, and of God the Father, we can lay our hands on ourselves and others, and we can stand in awe at the miraculous power of Christian healing.

Can there be such a thing as “Reiki for Christians?” I believe so. And it is my hope that many Christians will be able to easily let go of Reiki’s eastern baggage, and will be able to embrace the spiritual healing power of this wonderful God-given healing technique.

Michael Golzmane is a health educator, raw food enthusiast, and trained Reiki Master/Teacher, who specializes in bringing the “Good News” of Christian healing to individuals and churches worldwide.

Please visit Michael’s Christian Energy Healing site at:

http://www.ChristianEnergyHealing.com

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Reiki Healing and Attunements
By Steven Britain

I have now been a Reiki Master for about 6 years and have taught and attuned a number of aspiring healers who feel the need to give of themselves and to experience the joy and wonder Reiki provides.

Anybody can learn to be a Reiki Healer. We all have the ability within us, which at one point of human development long ago, was a natural skill. Over the millenia we have forgotten our true selves and have become obsessed with money and materialism. In turn we humans have walked a different path….Just look at the cruelty and disrespect for life we have today all around us, yet we seem to take a lot of that for granted.

The experience of a Reiki Healing is usually a deep feeling of relaxation, protection, safety and comfort. In this context, the word Healing has a somewhat different meaning from the normal meaning. The widely accepted meaning for healing seems to be curing of symptoms, for that is what medical doctors and the like look to do in their practice. The other meaning for healing, used in the practice of Reiki, as well as other related areas, is the return of mind, body and spirit to greater wholeness. There is an ideal form each of us has, this ideal form being the highest and clearest expression of who we are. Pain or disease comes from any deviation between the persons current form in the three dimensional, physical world and this ideal form.

The Universe is abundant and provides all our needs, if we could just trust in it..The wondrous touch of Reiki and similar healing arts reminds us that we do not have to be attached to money and materialism….It never occurs to the Reiki Healer that his healing will fail, thus she invokes the Law of Attraction within this healing art and more importantly her entire life.

The true master is detached. She is independent of status, finance or emotional need. He is free and immensely powerful. Attachment is conditional love…. A Master loves unconditionally and thus does not form cords of attachment….Reiki is a natural process within this concept.

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Article submitted by Steve Britain..Steve is 48 years old, divorced with an adult son at University he is a Reiki Master, Indian Head Massage practitioner and Hopi Ear Candling specialist. Steve has a keen business mind and a zest for life.

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