Reiki - What It All Be Like

Welcome to the 2008 Reiki Alphabet Challenge!!! Its great to have you here!!! This challenge is designed to give you something new to Reiki every day by giving you a new letter to focus on each day. Hopefully, by the end of the challenge you will have Reikied things you hadn’t considered before and thereby increased the boundaries of your Reiki world. So let’s get started…

Today’s letter is “L” and our focus is on Life Force Energy… and here’s Lynda… direct from her Blackberry!

As we all know from our initial Reiki training, when we channel Reiki we are channeling life force energy (ki or chi or qi). This energy, as per its name, is the universal primary energy that gives and sustains life, soothes, heals, energizes, and generally keeps things going.

Now I assume that, like me, we all have days where we are tired, crabby, and drained and where the seemingly last thing we want to deal with is Reiki.

So today’s challenge is about using Reiki to help us get through those times faster and with greater ease. First I would like you to self treat, no matter how you feel before you start. Let the Reiki flow through you and into you and I guarantee that you will feel better. Second, I want you to think about the last time you felt drained like that and then send Reiki to yourself at that place and time. Finally, I want you think about the last time people close to you were feeling crabby and drained, and send Reiki to them at that place and time.

This is a good practice to schedule for yourself at least once a week or more often if it seems indicated.  You will stay clearer and will be helping situations by sending in the life force energy!

One addition using this line of thought would be to send Reiki to your future self for any situation you feel might be draining… then when you get there see if you notice the difference the advanced Reiki made. Thanks again, Lynda!!

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

Welcome to the 2008 Reiki Alphabet Challenge!!! Its great to have you here!!! This challenge is designed to give you something new to Reiki every day by giving you a new letter to focus on each day. Hopefully, by the end of the challenge you will have Reikied things you hadn’t considered before and thereby increased the boundaries of your Reiki world. So let’s get started…

Today’s letter is “K” and our focus is on our Kids… those of us that have them, those who don’t can easily borrow their neighbor’s, believe me, they won’t mind.

Kids are much more open to learning and receiving Reiki as most of the filters that might otherwise block an effective Reiki treatment are just not there. There are, however, other blocks that children tend to be more vulnerable to, mostly of an emotional nature, and some attention to these can greatly accelerate the healing. For example, when kids fall down and cry, it is quite often more the shock of the situation (and sometimes the embarrassment of having done so in front of their friends) that leads to the wailing which demonstrates the extent and depth of the perceived boo-boo <technical term> and thus validating the situation. The quick and easy healing of that emotional pain can lead to some of the most instantaneous healings imaginable.

Its also been my experience that kids also tend to be more inclined to ask for Reiki in the first place. many adults seem to have some aversion to asking for help of any kind in the first place, even in the direst of circumstances, whereas kids have less of a problem with asking for what they want or need. My children ask far more often than my wife or friends. They grab a quick dose and run off… all fixed.

So, your challenge for today is find a few kids to give Reiki to. Rent ‘em if you have to or if there are really none around, send some distance Reiki to any of the 30+ Million starving children in the world. You may not get a thank you… but if you do it will resonate within you for a long, long time.

During the Reiki Alphabet Challenge, please do not feel you must limit yourself to the suggested letter of the day. Use the comment option below to send your own suggested ideas beginning with the letter of the day so that we might all get some new ideas, motivations and understandings of this wonderful world of Reiki. And as always, extra points will be given for originality and awesomeness!!

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

Welcome to the 2008 Reiki Alphabet Challenge!!! Its great to have you here!!! This challenge is designed to give you something new to Reiki every day by giving you a new letter to focus on each day. Hopefully, by the end of the challenge you will have Reikied things you hadn’t considered before and thereby increased the boundaries of your Reiki world. So let’s get started…

Today’s letter is “J” and our focus is on Joy. Here’s Lynda with the details…

At the end of the day the purpose of Reiki is to promote Joy. More joy in our lives as Reiki healers, more joy in the lives of those we heal, and in general more joy in the universe. I have been thinking about this a lot lately as the Reiki community has its share of internal strife and politics, such as anger over people publishing the Reiki symbols.

So for today I would like you to practice sending more Joy through Reiki in every area of your life and the lives of those around you. Send Joy to your head and heart, Joy to your spirit and soul. Send Joy to your friends and family. Send Joy to the universe.

Think about how you respond to different forms of Reiki than what you practice and if there is any anger or disappointment there send Joy. Think about how you respond to other Reiki practitioners with whom you may be in competition and send more Joy into those relationships. Basically, wherever you feel any strife or resistance, send in the Joy!

I’ve heard enlightenment described as “an eternal state of Joy”, in which case this post is an excellent introduction to that sense of enlightenment… thanks Lynda!!

During the Reiki Alphabet Challenge, please do not feel you must limit yourself to the suggested letter of the day. Use the comment option below to send your own suggested ideas beginning with the letter of the day so that we might all get some new ideas, motivations and understandings of this wonderful world of Reiki. And as always, extra points will be given for originality and awesomeness!!

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

Welcome to the 2008 Reiki Alphabet Challenge!!! Its great to have you here!!! This challenge is designed to give you something new to Reiki every day by giving you a new letter to focus on each day. Hopefully, by the end of the challenge you will have Reikied things you hadn’t considered before and thereby increased the boundaries of your Reiki world. So let’s get started…

Today’s letter is “I” and our focus is on Intent. Intent basically refers to your intentions about exactly what you hope your Reiki will do. While you can’t actually control the Reiki energy, as it has an Intelligence of its own, Intent can help to focus the Reiki energy and is especially beneficial for distance healing. The stronger your Intent and the greater the focus, the added energy of that Intent will add to the Reiki itself. This makes Intent unnecessary (as Reiki does just fine on its own) but a very powerful addition should you care to add it.

Your challenge for today’s letter is to give or send Reiki healing to anyone or anything at or in any time or place, but this time create your Intent as vividly as possible. Spend about 5 minutes on the Intent alone, solidifying it so that your Intention is crystal clear. You can even spend a minute or two sending Reiki to that Intention itself, adding that extra empowerment to it before actually sending the Reiki onwards to its final destination. Keep in mind, the stronger the Intent, the stronger the healing.

During the Reiki Alphabet Challenge, please do not feel you must limit yourself to the suggested letter of the day. Use the comment option below to send your own suggested ideas beginning with the letter of the day so that we might all get some new ideas, motivations and understandings of this wonderful world of Reiki. And as always, extra points will be given for originality and awesomeness!!

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

Welcome to the 2008 Reiki Alphabet Challenge!!! Its great to have you here!!! This challenge is designed to give you something new to Reiki every day by giving you a new letter to focus on each day. Hopefully, by the end of the challenge you will have Reikied things you hadn’t considered before and thereby increased the boundaries of your Reiki world. So let’s get started…

Today’s letter is “H” and our focus is on Health and here’s Lynda with an obvious but vastly overlooked aspect of health to consider.

As Reiki healers who are steeped in the processes of natural non-invasive healing, we spend precious little time focusing simply on everyday health maintenance. This is partly due to the fact that most people come to us for Reiki to alleviate pain, emotional distress, or to ease symptoms of physical dis-ease and we become somewhat trapped in a very Western pattern of utilizing healing only when someone is already showing symptoms of dis-ease and energy disturbance.

This need not be the case! Reiki is a very powerful means of energy balancing and health maintenance, allowing us as practitioners to not only maintain our own well being very easily and with little time needed, but to also assist other in their own health.

So for today’s challenge I would like you to work on a daily practice of Reiki for basic simple health maintenance. First scan yourself and others you are working with for any dis-ease and work on that. When the system is a bit more balanced just send the Reiki on through for as much time as you can (as little as 10 minutes can be helpful). Remember that you can heal certain situations in the past, so that if there is a present issue that is clearly caused by a past situation you may send Reiki there as well.

Just 10-20 minutes a day can set you on a path to more balance and energy, to more health, within yourself. No need to wait for a disturbance!

Thanks again, Lynda… great post!!!

During the Reiki Alphabet Challenge, please do not feel you must limit yourself to the suggested letter of the day. Use the comment option below to send your own suggested ideas beginning with the letter of the day so that we might all get some new ideas, motivations and understandings of this wonderful world of Reiki. And as always, extra points will be given for originality and awesomeness!!

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

Welcome to the 2008 Reiki Alphabet Challenge!!! Its great to have you here!!! This challenge is designed to give you something new to Reiki every day by giving you a new letter to focus on each day. Hopefully, by the end of the challenge you will have Reikied things you hadn’t considered before and thereby increased the boundaries of your Reiki world. So let’s get started…

Today’s letter is “G” and our focus is on Reiki Goals. I view goals like destinations on a map… if you don’t know where you are going, how will you know which way to go and how will you know when you’ve arrived? If you know what your goals are, you can progress directly towards them, reorient yourself if you get off track, ask for directions if you get lost, and chart your progress along the way. So it is vital to know where you are heading or what you’d like to accomplish as far as Reiki goes, so you can increase your chances of success.

Reiki goals vary from practitioner to practitioner and really depend on your own personal reasons for being involved with Reiki. If you want to practice more… make that one of your goals, if you want to teach more… make that a goal, if you want to meditate more, make that a goal. The secret to realizing your goals lies in making them as specific and vivid as possible. Describe them as clearly as you can and you will increase your chances of realizing them.

A Reiki Practice without goals soon becomes stagnant and dull and can easily dry up and wither away. So in order to keep your Reiki practice vibrant, alive and growing you need to be aware of your goals, and check on them from time to time to see how you’re doing and see if they need changing.

And while you’ve got your Reiki Goals in mind, why don’t you send some Reiki to them… the extra empowerment goes a long, long way.

During the Reiki Alphabet Challenge, please do not feel you must limit yourself to the suggested letter of the day. Use the comment option below to send your own suggested ideas beginning with the letter of the day so that we might all get some new ideas, motivations and understandings of this wonderful world of Reiki. And as always, extra points will be given for originality and awesomeness!!

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

Welcome to the 2008 Reiki Alphabet Challenge!!! Its great to have you here!!! This challenge is designed to give you something new to Reiki every day by giving you a new letter to focus on each day. Hopefully, by the end of the challenge you will have Reikied things you hadn’t considered before and thereby increased the boundaries of your Reiki world. So let’s get started…

Today’s letter is “F” and our focus is on Family and Friends. Heeeeeeere’s Lynda…

In our excitement about Reiki and our need to spread it around we often discount those closest to us. Or we feel that they might judge us, think us a bit crazy, or not feel the energy! Whatever internal blocks we may have, it is important that we Reiki those closest to us as often as we can.

There is an old saying that we can choose our friends but not our family. If you, like many, still have some issues in dealing with your family, Reiki is a perfect tool for starting to work on unraveling those issues. Start with sending Reiki to the relationships themselves, and then to the individuals specifically. You may find that tensions ease a bit and people become more open and approachable.

Whether your friends believe in Reiki or not, a friend in any sort of pain is someone who needs Reiki! You can either approach them about a treatment, or ask their higher selves for permission and send some Reiki over. If you are having an argument with a friend, Reiki the relationship and the argument should stop.

So don’t just limit Reiki to paying clients or professional relationships! Use it in your personal friend and family relationships and they will only get better and easier with time.

And I have absolutely nothing at all to add to that… thanks, Lynda!!!

During the Reiki Alphabet Challenge, please do not feel you must limit yourself to the suggested letter of the day. Use the comment option below to send your own suggested ideas beginning with the letter of the day so that we might all get some new ideas, motivations and understandings of this wonderful world of Reiki. And as always, extra points will be given for originality and awesomeness!!

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

Welcome to the 2008 Reiki Alphabet Challenge!!! Its great to have you here!!! This challenge is designed to give you something new to Reiki every day by giving you a new letter to focus on each day. Hopefully, by the end of the challenge you will have Reikied things you hadn’t considered before and thereby increased the boundaries of your Reiki world. So let’s get started…

Today’s letter is “E” and our focus is on Entrainment.

Basically, the way Reiki energy works, is that it vibrates at a very high frequency and causes the things that it comes in contact with to vibrate at the same high frequency, thereby enabling them to break through energetic blocks that are interfering with the natural state of good health. The denser the block is, the more stubborn it appears, and the longer it takes for Reiki to break through.

The way entrainment works is simple. Imagine a room with two guitars. If you pluck the E String (top string) on one guitar, the E String on the unattended guitar on the other side of the room will start to vibrate. That is entrainment. This happens because atoms have a natural tendency towards more excited states, which basically means that they just love to dance. Generally speaking, diseased energy vibrates more slowly than its healthy counterpart, which means it has a lower frequency, and so when Reiki’s Ultra Higher Frequencies comes into contact with these slower (diseased or blocked) energies, the influence of the Reiki energy causes the slower atoms to vibrate at a higher frequency simply because they are entraining to the Reiki energy. Simple, eh?

I have found that focusing on this entrainment process, it actually speeds it up. Your attention to it actually adds more energy to it, which has tremendous influence in and of itself. So, your Reiki Alphabet Challenge for today, is to perform any Reiki healing you like, either live or distance, on yourself or someone/something else, and as you do imagine you can sense the entrainment happening. Using whichever sensory modality is easiest for you (auditory, visual or kinesthetic) visualize this happening. Actually, visual people will be more inclined to visualizations, while auditory people would actually tend to hear the vibrations (like in the guitar string example) while kinesthetic people would most likely feel the buzz. Just follow whichever is most natural for you.

If you find this entrainment enhancing exercise to your liking, feel free to make it a part of your regular Reiki practice… it’s certainly worked well for me!

During the Reiki Alphabet Challenge, please do not feel you must limit yourself to the suggested letter of the day. Use the comment option below to send your own suggested ideas beginning with the letter of the day so that we might all get some new ideas, motivations and understandings of this wonderful world of Reiki. And as always, extra points will be given for originality and awesomeness!!

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

Welcome to the 2008 Reiki Alphabet Challenge!!! Its great to have you here!!! This challenge is designed to give you something new to Reiki every day by giving you a new letter to focus on each day. Hopefully, by the end of the challenge you will have Reikied things you hadn’t considered before and thereby increased the boundaries of your Reiki world. So let’s get started…

Today’s letter is “D” and here’s Lynda with a lens on Death and Dying:

Most of the time we think about healing to save lives, to assist people in living longer. But Reiki is about making people heal and feel better on all levels (physical, emotional, spiritual), which sometimes means assisting the dying process. How can life force energy assist dying?

In the grand scheme of things everything is life force energy and when we die the energy leaves the physical vessel of our bodies. We tend to hold on to that vessel, whether it is our own or that of someone we love and care about, so the dying process is not usually an easy one for anyone involved.

Reiki can assist those who are in the process of dying by helping to calm the emotions, ease physical pain, and promote sleep and relaxation. Reiki can assist those close to the dying person in the same way. A Reiki master can give attunements to the dying and their close friends and relatives to give them the tools to help themselves and one another, thus giving people more control over a process that seems completely dictated from outside of ourselves. Distance Reiki can also assist here.

So today I would like you to send Reiki to everyone you know of who is either dying or supporting someone who is dying. Send Reiki to your physician, to any surgeons, doctors, nurses, and caregivers you know. Think about volunteering at a hospital or hospice to help those close to death go through the process with greater ease and comfort. If you are dying send Reiki to yourself to ease your own departure.

This is not an easy subject to think about, write about, or work with. But death is a part of life, and Reiki can assist here as much or more than it can in any other situation. Peace.

Well done Lynda! You’re right, this is not an easy subject to deal with, but it is certainly necessary to think about… before its too late!

During the Reiki Alphabet Challenge, please do not feel you must limit yourself to the suggested letter of the day. Use the comment option below to send your own suggested ideas beginning with the letter of the day so that we might all get some new ideas, motivations and understandings of this wonderful world of Reiki. And as always, extra points will be given for originality and awesomeness!!

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

Welcome to the 2008 Reiki Alphabet Challenge!!! Its great to have you here!!! This challenge is designed to give you something new to Reiki every day by giving you a new letter to focus on each day. Hopefully, by the end of the challenge you will have Reikied things you hadn’t considered before and thereby increased the boundaries of your Reiki world. So let’s get started…

Today’s letter is “C” and our focus is on Causes. Oftentimes when Reiki Practitioners give Reiki to specific conditions or situations they treat only the condition or situation itself without the necessary attention to the root causes of that condition or situation. Applying Reiki directly to those root causes can not only heal the specific condition or situation itself, but by healing the cause, it is possible to prevent the problem from ever occurring again.

For example, if you are treating a headache, send healing Reiki energies to the cause of the headache as well as the headache itself. According to health-cares.net “Headaches have a wide variety of causes, ranging from eyestrain to inflammation of the sinus cavities to life-threatening conditions such as encephalitis, brain cancer, and cerebral aneurysms. When the headache occurs in conjunction with a head injury the cause is usually quite evident; however, many causes of headaches are more elusive. The most common type of headache is a tension headache. Some people experience headaches when they are hungry or dehydrated.”

If you don’t know what the cause is, as is most likely the case, allow the intelligent nature of Reiki energy to find it for you. Set your intent to do so and then just sit back and let Reiki to do its thing. This is actually a very good practice to get into whenever you are doing Reiki healing, always treat the cause as well as the effect, and if you have a choice… in many cases you may actually want to go for the cause first.

So for today’s challenge, heal something… anything you like… and consider the cause of whatever it is you are healing. It may not be obvious at first… but it’s definitely there!

During the Reiki Alphabet Challenge, please do not feel you must limit yourself to the suggested letter of the day. Use the comment option below to send your own suggested ideas beginning with the letter of the day so that we might all get some new ideas, motivations and understandings of this wonderful world of Reiki. And as always, extra points will be given for originality and awesomeness!!

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

Welcome to the 2008 Reiki Alphabet Challenge!!! Its great to have you here!!! This challenge is designed to give you something new to Reiki every day by giving you a new letter to focus on each day. Hopefully, by the end of the challenge you will have Reikied things you hadn’t considered before and thereby increased the boundaries of your Reiki world. So let’s get started…

Today’s letter is “B” and our focus is on Beginnings. To present it I’d like to give a most warm Reiki welcome to our first guest Reiki Alphabet Challenge Poster, Lynda Lippin. <insert roar of applause>

We often think of sending Reiki to existing known situations, such as people, relationships, illnesses, even anger as Duane discussed yesterday. But it can be very helpful to send Reiki before something starts as a way to start something new on a more grounded and positive note.

So today I want you to focus on upcoming events, situations, projects, meetings, or anything that is stressful because it is unknown and simply send some Reiki to that future event and time. Focus on calming, grounding, equalizing energy and that the best scenario should happen (not necessarily the one you want or think best now) for all involved.

At the very least everyone will be a little calmer and more even, and you will be less focused on outcomes and more focused on New Beginnings.

Enjoy!

Thank you Lynda… that is truly in the Reiki spirit, and if I may add one point, as we know, energy goes where attention flows, and so by focusing Reiki energy on the new ideas, people, places, etc in our lives we are effectively empowering them in a most beneficial way… right from the beginning.

Anyone who wishes to join Lynda and I in presenting is more than welcome to do so. Just send your submissions to the contact us link above. Who knows… I might just learn something here, too!

During the Reiki Alphabet Challenge, please do not feel you must limit yourself to the suggested letter of the day. Use the comment option below to send your own suggested ideas beginning with the letter of the day so that we might all get some new ideas, motivations and understandings of this wonderful world of Reiki. And as always, extra points will be given for originality and awesomeness!!

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

Welcome to the 2008 Reiki Alphabet Challenge!!! Its great to have you here!!! This challenge is designed to give you something new to Reiki every day by giving you a new letter to focus on each day. Hopefully, by the end of the challenge you will have Reikied things you hadn’t considered before and thereby increased the boundaries of your Reiki world. So let’s get started…

Today’s letter is “A” and our focus is on Anger. As attention to this is one of the 5 Reiki Principles, Dr. Usui must have considered this quite important, or else he wouldn’t have included it. As our focus for today I’d like to put a twist on things. Your challenge is not to Reiki the anger itself… but rather, to Reiki the source of that anger. If someone is causing you anger, send them Reiki and as you do, try to view the world through their eyes. Take a moment to step into their shoes and try to notice the root of whatever it is that is causing them to send this feeling your way.

My experience is that generally speaking, people are good deep down inside and and are just trying to do the best they can with the talents, tools, instincts, awareness, intelligence, etc. that they have been given. All too often we see the world through our own filters and hence, may not be seeing exactly what other people are. Attention to this might cause the anger to go away… give it a shot!

During the Reiki Alphabet Challenge, please do not feel you must limit yourself to the suggested letter of the day. Use the comment option below to send your own suggested ideas beginning with the letter of the day so that we might all get some new ideas, motivations and understandings of this wonderful world of Reiki. And as always, extra points will be given for originality and awesomeness!!

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

This is a bit higher level for those of you who voted for more advanced Reiki techniques in the recent poll, and no, even though I recently wrote about Michael Crichton, this technique has nothing to do with his book Timeline, rather, it combines Reiki with Timeline Therapy for some amazing results.

What is Timeline Therapy?

Timeline Therapy is a branch of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) developed in 1988 by Dr. Tad James. I had the chance to study both NLP and Timeline Therapy (as well as Ericksonian Hypnosis) with Dr. James, and was certified in all three in 1997. In a nutshell, Timeline Therapy deals with the way memories (both past and future) are unconsciously stored and how our experiences, decisions, perceptions, etc. are influenced by the way we store these memories to create our personality. An understanding of how someone personally organizes their time (internally) can give us great insights into their behaviors, and, using Timeline Therapy, that information can allow us to both predict and change their behavior, in a wide variety of ways.

Some examples of how Timeline Therapy is used are:

• The Treatment of Phobias and Addictions
• Managing Memory
• Handling Trauma
• Changing Attitudes, Beliefs and Values
• Empowering our Future
• Dealing with anger, apathy, depression, sadness, anxiety, chronic fear, etc.

I really couldn’t even begin to scratch the surface in explaining Timeline Therapy, and luckily, for what I have in mind for today I don’t need to. If you are interested in learning more about Timeline Therapy, I highly recommend Dr. James training. There are many teachers out there, but their abilities to both perform Timeline Therapy, as well as to teach it, vary considerably.

Timeline Reiki Technique

Okay, so now that you are all experts in Timeline Therapy, I’d like to introduce you to a little technique I developed for my advanced Hana Reiki students. Instead of teaching you how to do it, I think you might enjoy it more if you actually experience it… and then you will know how to do it. So here goes…

Take a few deep breaths and make this time your own.

Did you know you have a timeline?

Everyone does.

Whether they know it or not.

Your timeline refers to the way you store time.

Think about any random memory from about 10 years ago.

Where is that memory?

Point at it.

Is it behind you? In front of you? Or perhaps off to the side somewhere?

Roughly half the people keep it behind them while the other half keep it in front of them somewhere.

How about your future… where is it?

Imagine any random event 10 years or so in the future.

You don’t have to imagine any great detail, just notice where that “future” memory is.

Is it behind you? In front of you? Or perhaps off to the side somewhere?

Most people have it in front of them, either directly or off to one side or the other.

If you connect those two points, your past and future, that is your timeline.

Easy enough?

Now just relax and free your mind of distraction.

Read until the end of the blue section so that you will know what to do.

Close your eyes and imagine you are looking down on your timeline.

Notice it goes out forever in each direction.

Your past goes back forever, and your future goes forward forever.

Time is limitless afterall.

The higher you go, the more you can see.

Now drift back on your timeline to an event that caused you some emotional distress.

Hover over that event so that you can see yourself experiencing that emotion.

Now reach out and give yourself some Reiki.

Continue as long as you like.

When you are finished, drift back up and come back to the present.

Open your eyes and sit for a few moments until you are reoriented.

Take a few deep breathes and remember that time you visited.

Can you feel the Reiki there? Has the distress changed at all?

Pretty neat, eh? This can be modified in quite a few ways going into the past or the future. And here’s the most wonderful application of all. If you read the above script to someone else, having them go to either a random event or a specific one, once they are there, if you give Reiki to them you are giving Reiki directly to the them at that event as well as to their current self. I repeat… Pretty neat, eh?

Timeline Therapists who are also Reiki Practitioners can, no doubt, think of a multitude of applications, the sky really is the limit. Timeline Therapy offers very powerful, effective and flexible techniques and when combined with Reiki you are dealing with healing abilities of a much higher order. If you don’t believe me, just travel on your timeline into the future and see what it has to offer.. guaranteed you’ll find Reiki there… I know… I’ve been there!!

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

In my assorted experimentations combining with Reiki and various objects I have discovered a very interesting combo… Reiki and Kukui Nuts, I have found that Kukui Nuts have the ability to hold the Reiki energy for extended periods… far exceeding that of other objects I’ve tested. Upon discovering this I decided to dig a little deeper into the Kukui Nut, and found some most interesting things.

Kukui Nuts, the product of Kukui Nut Trees (a.k.a. Candleberry, Candlenut, Indian Walnut, Kemiri, or Varnish Trees) are the National Tree of Hawaii and are rather similar to Macadamia Nuts. The Kukui Nut Tree itself is a symbol of enlightenment, protection and peace for the Hawaiians and said to contain Mana (the Hawaiian word for Ki). More common uses range from lighting/skin oils and soaps to fishing net oils and even a paste that can be spread over the seas to help fishermen find fish by creating a magnifying lens on the water’s surface. But of course, I’m not really interested in the practical uses… except for perhaps the use of Kukui Nut Oil as a Base Oil in Aromatherapy (as most base oils have no purpose other than to assist the essential oils in finding their way to the bloodstream, Kukui Nut Oil has a few hidden benefits that the more common ones, like Grapeseed and Sweet Almond Oil do not).

I found some of those uncommon uses in the Hawaiian Shamanic (Huna) uses for Kukui Nuts… that’s where things started to get interesting. I had been using a Kukui Nut Pendulum for a few years and never really thought about any other powers it might possess… until I happened upon an interesting article about one aspect of the Kukui Nut by Huna GrandPooBah Max Freedom Long located here, that gives you a taste of what traditional Huna is like as well as an indication as to how the Kukui Nut is esteemed is its practice.

As mentioned in that article I have experimented with this ability of the Kukui Nut in Huna to communicate with one’s higher conscious mind both in a Huna context as well as with Reiki and I found that use of the Kukui Nut in Reiki serves several purposes. First is this ability to communicate with your Aumakua, or higher conscious mind, to direct your intent in a very focused and concentrated way. I found uses in this respect in distance healing to be particularly effective as the ability to connect with the person you are healing at a distance is a vital and often overlooked factor in distance healing. I’ve used this in distance attunements as well and found the results much more satisfying.

Second is the ability of the Kukui Nut to hold a focused Reiki charge for great amounts of time. See my post on Reiki and Crystals and substitute Kukui Nuts for a unique, but similar experience in both self healing as well as the healing of others.

Third are the natural healing frequencies of the Kukui Nut itself. This applies more to fresh Kukui Nuts, the fresher the better, but have even been able to feel some charge in some dried nuts that had been sitting around for awhile.

Add some Reiki to those already fascinating powers and you have quite the potent combination. Besides crystals, I haven’t found anything similar and the Reiki.WhatItAllBeLike.Com super Pre-Alphabet Reiki Challenge Special Deluxe Modification is to actually give a Reiki attunement to your Kukui Nut Lei or your Kukui Nut Bracelet. I haven’t discovered exactly how far down the Rabbit Hole that particular modification goes, but so far its proving an interesting study!

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

I was greatly saddened today to learn of the passing of my favorite contemporary novelist, Michael Crichton, a man who’s inspiration, imagination and intelligence, to my reckoning, knew no bounds. Michael, if I may call him Michael, played a strong role in my being here today on several levels, and I’d like to take this opportunity to both thank him as well as acknowledge his contributions to my life.

First off, while many scientists found fault with his novels and attacked his scientific theories, what he proffered was, in all actuality, just stories. He was not writing for scientific journals or medical textbooks. The old adage that “the science fiction of today is the science of tomorrow” may someday escalate his scientific theories to actual science, but in the meantime they remain a source of entertainment… nothing more, nothing less. And it was great entertainment at that. Given his Harvard Medical School background, he was able to present his characterizations with an air of authority and just the right level of technical“evidence” to make them “real” in the minds of the reader. His escalation approach to disasters hooked his readers each and every time to create the page turners he was highly acclaimed for.

My interest in Michael’s work began in 1990 with the release of Jurassic Park… after that I was hooked. I went back and read all of his previous offerings and became a devoted fan for life. I have enjoyed each and every one of his novels and spent almost as much time anticipating new releases as I did enjoying the existing ones. Alas, once his last novel is released next year, the anticipation of what he has in store for us will be no more and I”ll have to content myself with re-readings and re-interpretations on the big screen.

Throughout my life I had always looked at things of a metaphysical nature with a great degree of skepticism. That is, until I read his book Travels, which, through his meticulous straight to the heart style discussions of his own experiences with auras, entities and psychic activity removed a great deal of that doubt, and I began to see such things through new filters based on my own interpretations of his imaginative, yet technically astute perceptions. It was right around this time that I had my first Reiki attunement, which, just a year earlier would have been dismissed outright.

For as long as I could remember I had always wanted to be a writer, although I never really felt like I had anything of any importance to write about, so I never actually took the time to sit down and put pen to paper. Michael’s descriptions and depictions of events leading to his becoming a writer cemented that desire all the more, and was extremely inspirational, and I always knew that someday the muse would strike and I would actually find the time and motivation to write. This blog is actually my realization of that desire. And while I wouldn’t categorize it as anything monumental, it is a start, attributable to Michael’s inspiration and influence (as well as that of Stephen King, another writer I hold in quite high esteem). I must admit that while I have a long way to go, I quite like the feeling and I am beginning to understand the intricacies involved.

So there you have it, indirectly leading to my study of Reiki and my writing about it here in this blog (and elsewhere) Michael Crichton played a great role in my being here today writing, and your being here today reading. Thank you Michael… and God Bless. While encouraging my readers to do the same, I am sending Reiki to your friends and family to help in what I know is a trying ordeal, as well as to you… wherever you are.

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

This post is directed towards the current state of the (world) economy and how Reiki might be able to offer assistance at such a time.

Let’s face it, the economy isn’t looking all too healthy, and with the election of a new commander in chief in the US, it looks like there will be a lot of hard work ahead in order to right the boat…. so to speak. If the current state of affairs can learn anything from similar events in history, we might brace ourselves for some tough times. So exactly where does Reiki fit into this picture, and what can we, as Reiki practitioners, do to help?

A psychic friend of mine recently confided that she saw an increase in the suicide rate over the coming months due to the current financial situation. People’s inability to make ends meet, to pay the rent/mortgage, to sufficiently provide for their families, heck, to even put a decent meal in their kids stomachs, is reaching epidemic proportions and while she sincerely hopes she is getting the wrong vibes this time around, her pinpoint accuracy in the past has (unfortunately, in this case) rarely failed her. With this bit of forewarning, does Reiki have something to offer? Can we, as Reiki practitioners do something about it? I believe it does and I believe we can.

The first step lies in observation. Keep a close eye on anyone around you that might be effected by this situation. It doesn’t take a trained psychologist/psychiatrist to notice grief, anxiety, despondency or a general state of angst. Pierce through the veils that these people are wearing and look within. Notice what you see. See them through your inner eyes and hear them through your inner ears. Notice the cries for help and the feelings of despair and helplessness. These people seriously need Reiki and in all reality, in many cases it may indeed be their only hope.

Regular Reiki treatments are valuable for people suspect of these tendencies, not only for the benefits Reiki itself has to offer, but simply for the effectiveness of having someone to talk to… someone who actually listens. That can be as effective as the Reiki itself and the combination of the two, in this situation creates quite the powerful team.

On a more positive note (although not obviously so) the greatest door to enlightenment, that is, the portal that has allowed more people to reach an enlightened, self-realized state than all the other routes combined, is suffering. Through suffering, barriers to self-actualization are dramatically removed, and while it isn’t exactly the most enjoyable experience, the result is. People passing this test, will be stronger spiritually, and again, while this may not be the most enjoyable time in one’s life, the amount of people reaching this state of enlightenment, and then helping others to do so, is actually one of the reasons why we are in a more enlightened age right now, and people are seeing the light, so to speak, at phenomenal rates, never before witnessed. So the old adage that for every plus there’s a minus, once again rings true.

I guess the bottom line, during such times, is PAY ATTENTION. Notice what people are communicating and let them know you are there to help. Now more than ever, the assistance of Reiki practitioners around the globe is needed. I don’t know if my psychic friend’s prediction is accurate, I really hope it isn’t, but don’t say you weren’t warned. And send some distance Reiki to good old Uncle Sam while you’re at it, look at that picture… he could really use it!!!

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

First off I’d like to congratulate President Elect Obama on his victory, it will be interesting to see what changes the future has in store for us as a result of this historic event.

Second, I’d like to remind everyone that there are still a few letters left (24 to be exact ) for the upcoming Reiki Alphabet Challenge (details here). Thanks Lynda! I like the sound of that!

And having those points out of the way we can safely move on to today’s post… Improved Focus With Reiki. So without further adieu…

The ability to concentrate seems to be one of those rare talents that some people find naturally while others struggle (and still others just give up on). I work with a lot of children every day and over the last 15 years or so I’ve noticed a marked decrease in the number of children that are able to block out external (and internal) distractions to the point where they can effectively give their full attention to the subject at hand. I’ve also noticed a marked decrease in communicative abilities all around (especially in regard to listening skills) and believe this is a direct result of the younger generation’s inability to properly focus.

With the numbers of distractions in our environments increasingly on the rise, this is no real surprise, and it should also come as no real surprise that Reiki has a solution to offer to those who would hear. Several, actually…

First of all it’s important to recognize the cause or reason for the lack of focus. The most obvious way that Reiki can help out is for an inability to concentrate that is caused by some type of mental or emotional block. One of Reiki’s strongest abilities is to break through energy blocks, and this holds true for mental and emotional blocks as surely as it does for physical ones. Therefore, if something is blocking your ability to focus, either on the emotional or mental level, Reiki can effectively be applied to dissolve those blocks. And sometimes, that is really all it takes.

Rather than being the result of an energetic block, lack of concentration can also be a result of an inability to create a block, that is, being able to effectively block out distractions. Again, Reiki can be of assistance here as well. Giving Reiki to something creates a connection between you, and whatever it is you are Reiki-ing. In Hawaiian Shamanism this connection is referred to as an Aka Cord, and the stronger the Aka Connection the greater the magnetic attraction between the two ends. Giving Reiki to your book, for example, creates a bond between you and the book, and the stronger that bond is, the stronger the connection will be, and the easier it will be to maintain that connection for extended periods.

Meditation is a great way to foster overall mental balance and Reiki Meditations are a great way to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, that is, meditate and perform a self (or distance) healing at the same time. The ability to meditate for longer periods of time is directly related to the ability to focus for longer periods of time, the developing of one being of tremendous benefit to the other, and for many people, it is much easier to develop good meditation skills than it is to develop good concentration.

Getting a good nights sleep is of great value for many things throughout the day. If your body and mind are well rested, concentration will be much easier. Regular Self-Reiki Treatments are a great way to improve the quality of your sleep. Keeping Reiki running while sleeping is another option here, as is sending your sleeping self Reiki during your regular Reiki Meditations.

Finally I’d like to touch on Reiki’s “Don’t Worry” Principle. Worrying is the process of projecting possible (usually negative) outcomes on various situations. This projection itself can be the cause of many distractions leading to an inability to focus. Following the “Just for Today” advise is a good way to strike worry from the day’s itinerary, and will also eliminate the distractions caused by it at the same time (yes, I’m heavily� into multi-tasking).

In conclusion, if it is your own lack of ability to concentrate, or perhaps that of a loved one (child or spouse) or colleague whose inability to focus is something you’d like to help out with, any or all of the above would be a good place to start… and of course I’ve only mentioned a few, so let your imagination discover others that may be more suitable to your own situation, and liking. An excellent way to begin would be to concentrate on which letter you’d like to sponsor in the upcoming challenge.

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

This post is mainly directed towards the Reiki teachers out there, but can equally applied to dedicated Reiki Practitioners at any level as well. In that we are gearing up for a little mini-challenge here, there is a bit of the challenging spirit in the air, and it would be of great benefit to make sure those energies are pointing in the right direction… whichever direction may be most personally beneficial to you.

The idea of a challenge, whether conducted by yourself or by others, like testing in school, is to motivate you to stretch just a little bit more than you would otherwise. In Reiki this stretching can be done in many different ways, depending on exactly which Reiki muscles you’d like to stretch. Stretching yourself to learn more, to practice more, to meditate more, to teach more, to do more hands on or distance healing, to become more familiar with the subtle Reiki energies, etc. are all ways in which one might wish to extend or expand or evolve their Reiki abilities.

As Reiki teachers it should be part of what we do to challenge our students to improve their Reiki. Whether being directly challenged, tested, dared, cajoled, or any other type of motivational stimulus. A little bit really does go a long way.

Personally, I have never had such motivation from my own Reiki teachers. In Japan, the teachers expect you to fend for yourself and the idea of actually helping their students to improve is simply not part of the job requirement. There is an old Japanese proverb something to the effect of the student needing to steal techniques from his (or her) master if he (or she) wishes to improve. This goes for grade school as well as Reiki and, for many possible reasons, this sort of thing is simply not part of the curriculum. Therefore, the only challenges I have had are the ones I have given myself. They are also the way by which I have learned the most.

So I would encourage you to challenge yourself and others to be the best they can be, to constantly strive for improvement, to go for the gold ring… the rewards are simply too good to pass up.

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

Reiki.WhatItAllBeLike.Com is pleased to announce another Reiki Challenge for its most honored and valued readership… this one is quite different from the 30 Day Reiki Challenge, much less intensive… but a challenge nonetheless.

At present I am calling it the Reiki A to Z Self Challenge (but that may change if a better name comes along) and it was inspired by the Reiki A to Z post of a few days ago. It will have its official kick off next week (November 10th), but I thought I’d give y’all a heads up.

Quite simply… for 26 days, a new letter of the alphabet will be focused on for you to give Reiki to. For example, on Day 1, the letter A will be introduced and I will write about something to do with Reiki that begins with the letter A. I could be about the Reiki Admirals, Giving Reiki to Animals, Reiki Applications, etc. In the comments field, you (my treasured readers) are all encouraged to post the various things that you are giving Reiki to that day that begins with the letter A. This is meant to both encourage others to give Reiki as well as give them ideas of how to use their Reiki in a practical way, on a regular basis. Easy enough? You bet!

For this challenge I am also looking for a few guest contributors. If you have some expertise in a particular area of Reiki (e.g., Reiki for Horses, Reiki for Dogs, etc.) let me know and I will reserve that letter for you and will include your contribution in that day’s post. Even if you don’t consider yourself an expert, you can take this opportunity to further the cause, as it were, and get your ideas out there… so don’t be shy… reserve your letter in the comment field below if you wish to take that particular challenge. Choose carefully though, because as of now you can only reserve one letter!

As was try with the 30 Day Reiki Challenge, this challenge will (hopefully) evolve as it goes along, so once again your participation is most wholeheartedly encouraged!

So reserve your letters today!!! They are available on a first come first served basis… and get ready for another exciting Reiki Challenge!!!

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!

A few folks have asked me about the 21 Day Cleanse when one is attuned to Reiki and while I’ve never experienced it, I know many people who have so I thought I’d take a moment to address it here.

Theory has it that when the Reiki energy is introduced to your energy system it must travel through the 7 main Chakras until it is assimilated. For some people this assimilation is instantaneous, and for others it takes a bit longer, all depending on your energetic constitution.

Most of my students have shown few symptoms that can be attributed to this phenomena, but a few have reacted quite severely, one in particular who actually spent the night in the hospital for observation of strange spots that appeared on her skin the evening of the attunement and had vanished by morning, leaving the doctor completely baffled.

Some people’s energetic systems are more permeable than others, that is to say that they vary in the degree in which they allow foreign energies to enter without incident. I haven’t been able to find any correlation between energetic sensitivity later on or the energetic quality of the Reiki in relation to this cleansing cycle, but it is certainly very interesting and something that merits further observation.

Anyone else have any experiences with this?

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!