Have
you ever said the following or heard:
“_____ has so much energy, “
“I
have no energy to go (or) do _______”
Have
you ever felt someone before they have entered the room?
Have
you ever felt ‘drained’ after being around certain people or places?
Have
you ever felt ‘uplifted’ or ‘relaxed’ around certain people?
Have
you felt good when someone pats you on the back or given you a hug?
If
you said yes to at least one of these questions you have been interacting and
experiencing Reiki, Energy.
Reiki Background
Reiki—The word is based on two Japanese kanji’s “rei” and
“ki” the American translation of this kanji is “rei” meaning flow, light,
universe and “ki” meaning energy.
Together the acceptable translation to English is “universal life force
energy.”
According to many different Reiki authors, it was founded
by a Japanese man, named Mikao Usui in the early 1900’s after Usui meditated on
a mountain called Mt.
Kurama.
In
the 1940’s a woman by the name of Mrs. Takata, a Japanese-American went to Japan
to learn about Reiki after her own miraculous healing she experienced. She moved back to the
U.S. and started
teaching Usui Reiki to others, and that, is the short version of how Reiki came
to the western world.
Reiki, Prana, Energy, Energy Medicine, etc, it goes by many names, and many different
styles but it all deals with the energy in the body and surrounding the
body.
It is experiential, think of
getting a hug from someone that loves you unconditionally, that is what an
Energy/Reiki session feels like.
Remember, when someone says "Reiki" they are saying "Universal Life Force Energy." This is why Ojai Reiki uses both terms Reiki, Energy to remind you of what you are learning about.
What
does Reiki, Energy do?
Universal Life Force Energy works physiologically on the
body which then affects your emotional, physical, mental and spiritual health. The Energy has a
positive affect, restoring every system in the body, bringing balance which
results in decreasing your stress in every area of the body that is worked on
during a session. We all know that
stress causes symptoms that lead to ill-ness—when stress is reduced, vitality
improves.
A common question posed to a new student in
Reiki, Level I, is: what do you do when you stub your toe? You put your hands on it,
and the pain diminishes or disappears altogether.
There is a natural balance and flow to the body that can sometimes
get clogged, like a sink pipe, when there is debris over time, buildup can
occur. This can produce blocks
which misdirect the natural flow of energy throughout the body causing physical or emotional disconnections in certain areas of the body. These blockages prevent you from being
your Optimal Self.
Just
as there is some sort of grace that automatically tells the brain to send
signals to perform such operations as breathing, cellular generation and
degeneration, or make the heart pump blood, there is a grace that automatically
tells a Reiki or Energy Practitioner what to do when he or she performs a Reiki/Energy session on a person. There is an ‘energy’ something that can be felt by both practitioner and client (sometimes the client doesn't feel this) that emanates from in and around person’s body.
We
know how the brain sends signals to the rest of the body and these signals
fire simultaneously at warp speed to tell the hand to move off the hot pot
or to make the bones grow new bone cells, but the question is: Why does the
brain do this? An answer could be,
to create homeostasis in the body.
Okay, that’s part of an answer but it doesn’t answer the whole question,
why does the body do what it does?
You can get even more existential and ask why do humans exist on Earth
anyway?
Okay so where does this 'energy' come from? In my humble
experience, over the years of practicing hands on healing (Reiki, Energy) on myself, it seems to me that the 'thing' that tells a cell divide, comes from the same Source and here are a few debatable names of that same source: Source, Love, Divine Energy, God, etc.
Not so scientific--for you can create your own conclusions using whatever words
for the experience you have during a session.
Philosophically speaking, words are arbitrarily created
by us (humans), lexicons are a consensus based on mass usage of a word. Words are also created from powerful
organizations that get to create new words things based on who discovered what (a species of
bugs names after famed cartoonist Gary Larson creator of the Far Side).
The point is that if you are looking for
a legitimate answer that is culturally relative, then I challenge you to go
beyond everything you think you know and seek your own information based on your
own experience.
1. Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Larson
Research Studies on Reiki
Scientists are trying to figure out how Energy works.
There are studies being performed on the benefits of
Reiki because it of the exciting results, better health without prescription
medications, and without surgery.
Please see these links for more information on the recent
studies being conducted on this ancient technique.
Whole-istic Reiki this Reiki practitioner compiled links from studies from PubMed.com.
Have
you ever said the following or heard:
“_____ has so much energy, “
Reiki—The word is based on two Japanese kanji’s “rei” and
“ki” the American translation of this kanji is “rei” meaning flow, light,
universe and “ki” meaning energy.
Together the acceptable translation to English is “universal life force
energy.” 
Universal Life Force Energy works physiologically on the
body which then affects your emotional, physical, mental and spiritual health. The Energy has a
positive affect, restoring every system in the body, bringing balance which
results in decreasing your stress in every area of the body that is worked on
during a session. We all know that
stress causes symptoms that lead to ill-ness—when stress is reduced, vitality
improves.
Okay so where does this 'energy' come from?