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Chakra Balancing the Reiki Way
By Silvana Rosati-Capizzano

Chakra is best described as one’s life force energy. It is our physical, mental and spiritual self. We absorb energy around us while at the same time transmit energy back into the universe.

Essentially there are 7 main chakras in the body. They run through the central line of the body, from the bottom of our spine to the top of our head. They influence your body shape, glandular processes, chronic physical ailments, thoughts and behaviour. If one a chakra is blocked, weakened or disrupted through such things as trauma (physical or emotional), injury, negative thoughts or feelings, fear, worry, anger, anxiety, depression, destructive relationships or neglect, it will result in an imbalance that will manifest itself in other area’s of our life.

Chakra #1: at the base of the spine represents – survival, instinct, support, peace

Chakra #2: at the sacrum and represents – desire, pleasure, emotion, yin/yang of existence

Chakra #3: at the solar plexus representing – will, purpose, energy, ego, power, freedom

Chakra #4: located in the heart representing – love, divine spirit, compassion, life, relationships

Chakra #5: located at the throat, representing – expression, truth, voice within

Chakra #6: located at the centre of the forehead, representing – vision, insight, imagination, clarity

Chakra #7: located on the crown of the head, representing – no limits, infinite awareness, wakefulness

Reiki with its gentle process through touch or touch-less therapy and pure in energy form, can balance chakras achieving stress reduction and deep relaxation. It triggers the bodies natural healing ability improves mental and physical health and maintains it. It gently balances our life energies and brings health and well being of the entire physical, emotional and psychic body.

Chakra balancing the Reiki way is truly a system of attaining and promoting wholeness of mind, body and spirit.

When we are relaxed, we are stress free and we are better able to naturally heal ourselves. With regular therapy, one will increase the bodies built in defences to fight or prevent illness, feel more confident, think clearly, feel grounded, feel in harmony within one self and become better equipped to handle stress, anxiety, depression and life’s surprises and disappointments.

Regular Reiki treatments, while relaxing and calming also bring balance to chakras so that one feels refreshed and renewed mind, body and spirit.

© 2007 Silvana Rosati-Capizzano

Silvana is a well respected Interior Decorator, International Feng Shui Expert and the Principal of the Award Winning Home & Life Design Firm: Blue Avalon. Along with her years of study in Home Decor and Feng Shui, she has the unique ability of being able create luxurious interiors with balance and optimum energy flow thus creating a beautiful environment of positive energy, balance and harmony. Silvana devotes some of her time to her passion in the field of Energy Work as a Reiki Master and Certified in Reflexology. She is well respected and sought after in this field through her work in providing Holistic Therapy through Reiki, Reflexology, Indian Head Massage and Hopi Ear Coning.

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Reiki and Everyday Living
By Janny Adkins

Reiki has helped my grandchildren sleep, find lost keys, difficult parking spaces, and write a book. From the practical to the seemingly impractical and everything in between, Reiki helps. And when I forget, it is always there to remind me.

Keys, Parking Spaces, And Grandchildren

Keys have always been problematic for me. It seems they have the ability to disappear before my very eyes. The mental /emotional symbol is best for finding my keys. Premium parking spaces seem to appear when the power symbol is used. The power symbol is a very versatile symbol. It is often used to seal in light, almost like shutting a door to keep warmth in a room. So perhaps the power symbol shines light on those hard to find parking spaces!!! I am using a play on words, but perhaps it is true. How much more practical can you get?

Belly Crawls

One of my grandchildren was a very light sleeper. Victoria had more energy than three children. From infancy on, she considered sleeping a waste of time.

I remember nights when we had played and laughed, and it was her bedtime. I always dreaded bedtime, because it was so difficult to get her to fall asleep. The singing, rubbing her back and feet, the reading of stories, and playing music would go on for 90 minutes or more. Her mother and father tried everything. It was difficult for her parents, Victoria, and me, her Nana. I specifically remember the night I realized there was a much easier way to help her fall asleep.

The tape cassette of lullabies, with a money back guarantee to produce sleep, clicked off for the sixth time. Each time, when the music stopped, Victoria would awaken and sit straight up in bed. We would then repeat the same process. I would turn on the music and rub her back. With a bit of luck, she would shut her eyes. I then would begin the ritualistic belly crawl, hugging the floor and praying she would not wake up before I could crawl silently out of her room. One night, it dawned on me to use Reiki. I did and it worked. I used all three of the Usui Reiki symbols, and that child went to sleep and stayed asleep. Oh, Thank You Reiki. No more belly crawls.

My Cooking Secret

Most people love eating whatever I cook. My toasted cheese sandwiches get rave reviews right along with the pasta marinara and a balsamic vinaigrette salad dressing. I love well prepared food that is beautifully served. My cooking style is a little bit country and a little bit gourmet.

Once people taste what I prepare, they often ask for the recipe. But I often cook without a recipe, or modify a recipe. I cook like my grandmother, a pinch of this and a dollop of that. But my secret ingredient is Reiki.

I use the trinity of Reiki Symbols. The power symbol, the mental emotional symbol, and the distance symbol all go into the preparation. Then whoever eats my food is blessed and receives all the blessings of the Reiki energy. The mental emotional symbol helps dissipate any negative feelings. The distance symbol goes ahead in time to create a wonderful healing experience for anyone who partakes of my cooking. It does a body good!

Over the years it has become humorous. When people ask for a recipe I always provide them with a written recipe. They prepare the recipe, and always lament that it never tastes like mine. If my friends have been instructed in the art of Reiki, I always ask, “Did you put Reiki into the food you were preparing?” They smile and shake their heads. The next time, they use Reiki, and they too, get rave reviews. I love knowing that whoever and whenever people eat my food, it nourishes them, mind, body, and spirit.

Reiki And Writing A Book

The Book. Well, for the past seven years, I have been saying, some day I am going to write a book about healing. Some day. You know how some day is. It just never happens.

Ironically, even though I use Reiki daily, I am somewhat embarrassed to admit, initially, I did not use Karuna Reiki in conjunction with writing the book. One morning that all changed. I realized I could use this spiritually guided life force energy to help create the circumstances, discipline, & resources required to make my book a reality.

Reiki Never Goes Away

Each morning, I awaken and mediate and activate all the Usui and Karuna Reiki® symbols to which I have been attuned. Both types of Reiki work well together. It was a unique experience during meditation that helped me understand the innate wisdom associated with the symbols, and specifically a Karuna Reiki® symbol.

It was a wonderful sunny day. The sun had been streaming through the windows because I remember how warm and good the sun felt on my face. I had been meditating for five minutes, when one of the Karuna Reiki® symbols appeared in my mind’s eye.

This beautiful symbol was an indescribable iridescent pink and violet color infused with white light. Words are inadequate to describe the image and the feeling accompanying it. The image lasted for seconds and then dissipated. My cat, Bentley, made weird cat sounds that he previously had reserved for intense Reiki sessions. He has a sixth sense about energy.

Over six years ago, when I had taken the Karuna Reiki® Class, I had studied and learned about this symbol. I had always used Karuna in tandem with Usui Reiki. But my use of the symbol was a very generalized use at the start of Reiki session with a client.

I ended my meditation, and hurried to find my Karuna Reiki® manual filed under K in the filing cabinet. I found the symbol.

A Perfect Symbol To Help

This symbol connects the higher self with the lower self for deep healing. I was very much in need in the deep healing department. Remember, the act of writing about healing brings up opportunities for healing.

It also improves learning ability, assists with mental clarity to organize our minds, and improves communication. Last but not least, this Karuna Reiki® symbol brings greater creativity by inspiring us with new ideas and adding depth to our projects. That pretty much describes what I needed. The wisdom of the Universe never ceases to amaze me.

This beautiful symbol is now posted on the bulletin board above my computer. I have renewed my appreciation, personal experience, and more in-depth knowledge with Karuna. I also discovered there is an additional Karuna Reiki® symbol that works well with the one that appeared in my meditation. The two work well together to manifest the development and fulfillment of creative projects. Yes, indeed, I am using those two, and all of the Usui and Karuna Reiki® symbols.

As I write this, I am thinking, why didn’t I remember to use that wonderful symbol earlier?

You know, we are all so very human. We get busy. And we forget. We get hyper focused on other life details. In retrospect those details don’t seem all that important. It is reassuring to me, know and remember that once attuned to these sacred symbols, they never abandon you. They never go away. They will be there always to support and assist.

Elmer’s Glue Of The Universe

From sleeping children, cooking, finding keys and writing a book, Reiki is like Elmer’s Glue of the Universe. Our intention and focus, supported by spiritually guided life energy of Reiki, creates possibility and connection with our dreams, and highest good. From the practical, to the not so practical, I have used Reiki everyday for 13 years. Usui and Karuna Reiki®, and their associated sacred symbols, act like keys, to open ancient doorways to universal light, love, peace & compassion. This process and the results never cease to amaze me.

Reiki is such a valuable resource. The use of Reiki can be very practical and paradoxically impractical. My positive Reiki experiences list continues to grow longer and longer. I am very grateful.

Reiki is a living tool and a life tool to be used every day. So from the esoteric to the practical Reiki is a dynamic life tool. A living tool, helping us create more compassion, peace, love and light. And know that as you read these words, you are blessed with Reiki. I used all the Usui and Karuna Reiki® symbols to enfold you and bless you with love, light, and peace and possibility.

Educated as a Registered Nurse and certified as a holistic nurse, Janny has dedicated her nursing career to bridging the gap between conventional and complementary health and medicine. She is a natural intuitive and has been certified as a Healing Touch Practitioner, an Usui Reiki Master Teacher and Karuna Reiki Master Teacher. Visit her website at http://www.jannyadkins.com

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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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Saturday and Sunday 28-29 February 2009

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Reiki Level 1

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Discover the personal negative messages that sabotage your happiness. Use that awareness to modify ‘stuckedness’ and repetitive patterns in your life.  A truly powerful ½ day workshop. 

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