Since it response to your particular circumstances, it is whatever you need it to be. This can be anything between assistance it relaxing to a path to enlightenment!
For a full description of what Reiki is and how to use it to the fullest, see Keith's book 'Reiki - Without Rules'.
This FAQ answers just a few key questions.
If that's the way you choose to see it. To many, it is a way of life.
A better question is "WHAT informs the practice of Reiki?"
To which the answer is: Reiki itself.
The experience of those who pursue Reiki as a practice integral to their life, is that Reiki, the Universal Energy is also the Ultimate Wisdom. It IS the omniscience and omnipotence of God, Tao, Allah, Yahweh, etc. Through Reiki we have direct, personal, access to this power and wisdom. We do not need any philosophy as a intermediary! We do not need anybody else to interpret it or tell us what it means! Reiki connects us to our higher self, our own inner truth, power and wisdom . . . which is both Universal AND unique to us! No written philosophy can say that! Reiki is beyond words, it just IS.
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No. Or at least, not the way that I was taught or teach it! My experience is that Reiki works perfectly well without any knowledge of chakras. There is no evidence that Usui worked with chakras. A Reiki treatment activates the Life-Force energy in every little bit of us - it doesn't need a chakra, meridian, or any other channel through which to flow! Just try giving a Reiki holding somebody's hand, or moving the 'giving' hand away from your chakra position - the energy still flows.
Click here to see an animation about channels of healing and peace
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* Development of Intuition - i.e. listening to our inner voice. This is what Reiki II is all about!
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. . if it inspires you to be yourself
or helps you express how your feeling, it's Reiki Music!
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Q11: What is 'Reiki Music'?
Recording
are available of so called 'Reiki Music'. Sometimes these will include
periodic ringing of bells and perhaps descriptions of the chakras,
supposedly to help a self-treatment work through each position. Whether
you need this, I question.
Q12: What is the Reiki 'Experience'?
We each experience whatever we need to during a Reiki treatment or attunement.
We are all different, with different needs. There are No Rules! We might receive
an attunement from a truly enlightened Master and feel nothing or we might get
a few minutes treatment from someone not even trained in Reiki and be 'taken to
heaven'. It's best not to try to analyse it. Just to enjoy whatever you feel.
You might find this on-line
Reiki treatment triggers something for you . . . or you might not.
Q13: What about Reiki in the Health Service?
Reiki is becoming accepted in all walks
of life, including business (as a means of helping staff relax) and in the conventional
medical profession - as part of the Art of Nursing, and as a technique to encourage
patients to manage and assist their own healing.
Keith is registered with The General Regulatory Council for Complementary Therapies (GRCCT)
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But nothing! With Reiki, THERE ARE NO RULES . . do what you know you have to
do, here and now.
Q14: But doesn't the conventional world require standards?
The conventional world is conditioned to using standards - that doesn't mean it
actually needs them - and that is said as a Fellow
if the Institute of Quality Assurance! However the Reiki community, like
other holistic therapies, owes it to itself to communicate with those in more
conventional medical arenas and to show that we are professional in our use of
this healing mode. Codes of practice may thus be required. However, these should
be used as a means for describing how Reiki is specifically used, and to explain
how it differs from other therapies. Standards are not about tying us down, but
about raising awareness of 'best practice' . .. and best practice in Reiki is
usually about following our intuition, not about following some prescribed set
of procedures . .. so THIS is what we get the standards to say!
Q15: What standards?
In the UK the
UK Reiki Federation is actively working to best represent the Reiki community
on this.
Q16: What about Reiki and relationships?
The only relationship that matters is that between our sensory mind/body (material)
self and our inner/higher self . . all other relationships are merely a reflection
of this one. Thus, as Reiki helps us to develop a better connection within ourselves,
so we find we're connecting more realistically with the world around us . . .
like-wise the world around us (and all relationships in it) will provide us with
plenty of opportunities to work on ourselves!
Q17: What if?
What if what?!?! The answer to ANY question is 'let the Reiki guide you'. Listen
to your inner/higher voice. Reiki IS your own divine wisdom. The practice of Reiki
helps you to tune into this, real, you.
Ask YOURSELF the question and give yourself some healing, meditate, pray or otherwise detach your mind from its logical ramblings. Then sleep on it. The chances are that your own innate wisdom will have given you some clue to the truth of the matter. But if it hasn't, please contact me
If you practice Reiki and feel you need guidance and support in its use and application, Keith is happy to work with you . . . whatever you level or lineage . . . to help you get the best from Reiki . . . and yourself: please feel free to contact me
