The following sections provide the practical hands on techniques that will help you develop your healing abilities. As always, use the reiki healing methods that you are drawn to, eliminate those that you’re not. Healing with Reiki is an intuitive process. Let your intuition be free to guide you towards the techniques which will be most effective for you.
This Reiki healing methods page is focused on self-healing practices. We have another section dedicated to practicing on a client, friend, or family member.
Reiki is a very simple healing system to learn. After receiving a Reiki 1, 2, or 3 attunement all that’s needed to start channeling the Reiki healing energy is to ask it to come.
Find a quiet place either in your home or out in nature. It's a good idea to turn off the ringer on the phone for a few minutes and request some quiet time from anyone else in your home. The spoken word has a compounding effect, so we recommend that you ask out loud that Reiki healing energy come to you now. This can be phrased anyway you like it. Here are a few examples:
* Reiki Guides, Spirit Guides, please send the healing energy of Reiki to me now.
* I open myself to the universal white light energy of Reiki.
* I ask that the universal white light energy of Reiki come to me now for my highest and greatest good.
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These are just ideas, as is everything on the www.energy-healing-info.com website. Feel free to use them as is, modify them in any way you want, or make up your own chosen words.
Tapping into energy healing is all about opening up to your intuition and divine guidance. Never feel restricted by something you read.
Everyone has a unique way of dancing through the universe and what may be right for one, could be wrong for another.
Once you have spoken your request, sit quietly in a meditative state for several minutes.
This will bring your vibrational energies into alignment with the universe, and allow you to be an open channel for the healing energies. You will know you're ready to begin when you feel:
* A sense of peace settle into your body
* A feeling of relaxation and calmness
* Your mind slowing and dropping into a meditative alpha state
* A tingling sensation in your hand chakras or crown chakra
* Your intuition tells you that you are ready to begin
Don't worry if you don't experience these sensations, or only experience some of them. These are guideposts that many reiki practitioners and energy healers feel when doing their healing work. If you are a beginner, it will take time and practice to reach a deep state of tranquility and receptivity. As you practice the Reiki healing methods, you will begin to feel these sensations more and more frequently.
The time it takes practitioners to settle into an alpha or theta brain wave state (the brain frequencies that many healers go to when doing their healing work) can vary. When you are beginning your healing journey, it may not come at all. With practice and time, five minutes of meditation will place you there. Eventually you'll be able to slip into the healing vibrational state instantaneously. As you practice Reiki healing methods more, you will develop the ability to turn the Reiki energy on very quickly and effortlessly.
Once you feel ready, or after meditating for five to ten minutes begin by placing your hands on your self and simply intend for Reiki to flow into your crown chakra, through your body, and out your hands. As the Reiki flows, you will feel a variety of sensations. Common feelings are a tingling on the top of your head (where the crown chakra is located), an energetic rushing sensation through your body, and a strong tingling in your hands. Many people will feel their hands warming up when they are doing Reiki healing methods, although this is not always the case.
Practice feeling the Reiki flow through you. Allow the energy to go where it is needed. Know that even as the Reiki is flowing through you and out of your hands, it is flowing back into you where your hands are placed on your body, creating a complete circle of healing.
Many people use elaborate hand placement on the needed healing locations. Other people find that they can choose one spot on a person’s body and the Reiki will choose the needed locations on it’s own. The Reiki energy is smart, and knows where to go, If you do Reiki to your abdomen, but have a health issue in your left leg, it will flow to your left leg. When someone is beginning to learn how to perform reiki, they often will want specific reiki hand positions. Do whichever feels most comfortable for you. First we will do a traditional reiki hand position, then we will do an intuitive hand position.
A Reiki Hand Position List
Below is a listing of the reiki hand positions. Try a reiki hand position out now, intuitively picking one from the list.
* Hands placed on the top of the head (crown)
* Hands placed over both eyes
* Hands placed over both ears
* Hands placed over the neck
* Hands placed on the shoulders
* Hands placed over the chest (heart chakra area)
* Hands placed on the stomach
* Hands placed over the knees
* Hands placed at the ankles
* Hands placed on the feet
Choose a reiki hand position from the list above and practice it now. Place your hands on yourself and feel the Reiki energy moving through you. Hold this position for several minutes and practice. Now choose another position and change locations. Allow your intuition to guide you and speak to you.
Go through the reiki hand position list, spending several minutes on each position. Now try an intuitive reiki hand position. Put your hands wherever they feel drawn. It could be a small mole on your arm, or a tender spot on your leg, anywhere you feel you might have an energetic blockage. Hold the position and feel the energy traveling to this spot, healing it.
If you follow these basic Reiki healing methods and practice on a regular basis you will find your abilities developing rapidly. Don't feel limited. If you only have two minutes to do reiki healing methods, go for it. Two minutes can be powerful. If you have twenty minutes, or even an hour, that's great too. Just make sure to try and do at least a few minutes every single day. Frequency will make the difference in your skills.
Reiki healing methods can be combined with any other healing modality. Massage therapists can channel Reiki healing at the same time they give a massage. Doctors and nurses can channel Reiki while they care for their patients. Reiki is suitable with Quantam Touch, Adamantine System, Radiant Heart Therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP), Emotional Freedom Technique, etc.
We combine Reiki healing methods with the healing power of sound using a combination of Reiki, Crystal Singing Bowls, Vocal Toning, Mantras, Shanti Chimes, Tibetan Metal Singing Bowls, and Native rattles. Allow yourself to experiment. With time you will develop a comfortable method for using Reiki also.
A few of our favorite methods (many of these advanced techniques are covered in other covered in other areas of the Reiki Healing section of our website) are using a focus crystal to channel the Reiki through, channeling Reiki while chanting Ohm into a client’s energy sphere, and channeling Reiki to a large crowd through the medium of crystal singing bowls. As you can see, there is a large variety of applications for Reiki. As you practice and develop your skills you will discover your favorite’s also.
Remember the most important thing is to practice Reiki every day. It can be as quick as five minutes while driving to work or petting the cat. Or as intensive as an hour of focused meditation and Reiki channeling. It is through extensive practice that your techniques will continue to develop. Receiving an attunement to Reiki 1, 2, or 3 simply starts the process of developing the skills. It opens up your energy to channel Reiki at the level you have completed. It is a starting point.
An important note for those of you who have completed Reiki 3 and are planning on working professionally with the public.
We recommend giving yourself at least a year of practice on friends, family, and pets before starting to work professionally. Take the time to develop your skills. With time and practice your ability to channel will be incredibly heightened.
We took more than three years after receiving Reiki 3 before we decided our skills were ready, and that was after over ten years of extensive daily energy healing practice. It takes time to develop any skill, and reiki is no different.
The traditional methods of learning Reiki mastery involved long-term, in-depth internships of over one year. The same level of experience can be accomplished through extensive practice and participation in Reiki-shares and energy-shares. Developing Reiki is a life long process. You will find that as you progress in your skills you will reach new plateaus of skill that once felt impossible.
If you follow these basic methods for how to perform reiki and practice on a regular basis you will find your abilities developing rapidly. We wish you the best of energies for your spiritual and healing path. Namaste.
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