Reiki Healing Hands

Well, not really my first Reiki treatment but the first time that it really set me thinking about how Reiki benefits.

Many of us, and I think that would include many Reiki practitioners, sometimes do wonder how this universal energy helps in healing bodies. That treatment got me thinking about how Reiki energy works. We were taught to give Reiki to others (some teachers make it mandatory to give Reiki to oneself and to clock in hours in giving to others as well) but it is in receiving Reiki that one gets a good insight into the energy of Reiki.

This ‘first’ happened during a Reiki course. It was a pretty hectic course, helping here, giving a hand there, making sure everyone is comfortable that I was quite tired from all the running about. During one of the intervals, I lied down for a quick rest on one of the tables that was free. My fellow masters (I think they liked me) gathered round and laid hands on me. With the tenderness of six pairs of hands on me, I slipped gently off to dreamland.

Sort of snoozed off but I could feel the charge of their hands on me all the while. That was what I thought. In reality, they had long wandered off leaving me for dead (they didn’t like me that much after all!). But to me, their hands were there all the time.

I woke refreshed, very much so. And the wonderful thing is that during the rest of the day, I felt fully charged and the Reiki energy did not diminish.

A traditional Reiki treatment calls for the laying on of hands and most traditions teach twelve hand positions on the front and back of the body from head to toe. It is an effective way to focus on the whole body allowing Reiki energy to work as it deems fit.

As it deems fit. That sums it up. In my case, the energy refreshed me. With my body fully charged, it was functioning at its peak. I believe that sums up how Reiki energy works. Our body is a complex organism. If each part is well-oiled and is working in tip top condition, all maladies can be overcome. Reiki energy charges the body giving it the resilience and power to heal itself. There is no need for diagnosis, no necessity of the practitioner trying to be knowledgeable or smart.

Try a Reiki treatment. Given with love and sincerity, it is one of the most wonderful and natural gift.

Red Rutilated Quartz

Feeling a little low down lately? Feel your spiritual progress is a little stifled and going nowhere? Feeling like kicking yourself, perhaps?

Clear Quartz has always been among my favorite and just the other day I saw a brilliant piece of red rutilate ready to wear as a pendant. Just the sight of those striations makes for what they say, “an illuminator for the soul”.

This is what has been said about Rutilated Quartz. (actually there are more whacky information about rutilated quartz simply because there are so many shades and colors.)

Rutilation creates very powerful vibrational healing as it intensifies energy flow within the quartz and integrates it within the body.

Said to have a perfect balance of cosmic light and to be an illuminator for the soul, rutilated quartz breaks down the barriers to spiritual progress, letting go of the past, and promotes forgiveness at all levels.  It opens the aura, allowing healing in, and filters negative energy from a patient, supporting emotional release and confrontation with the darker aspects of the psyche.

It gives powerful protection against psychic attack.  In past life healing it draws off dis-ease, promotes insights into events in past lives affecting the present, and connects to soul lessons and the plan for the present life.

Rutilated quartz reaches the root of problems and facilitates transitions and a change of direction.  Emotionally, rutilated quartz soothes dark moods and acts an anti-depressant.  It relieves fears, phobias and anxiety, releasing constrictions and countering self-hatred.

Pyrite aka Fool's Gold

It was a long holiday break and it is funny how sometimes when the mind has nothing to work on, it starts to throw itself back into the past.

With this throwback, old things starts to surface. It is like we reach back behind us and see how we could re-work things. Just like taking out the rusty spring alarm clock from that old drawer and trying to make it work again. And sometimes…Presto! You get it working again! Life is like that.

“Things happen for a reason” they always say. Well, in my case it was back to playing with crystals again. And there on Facebook, I see friends talking about crystals. So back we go, dig in that old drawer and ..Pyrite and that old time favorite Rutilated Quartz…ah..memories of those playful crystals days and spirits of the forest!

Here are some interesting write about Pyrite:

Pyrite -Known as Fool’s Gold, Pyrite comes from the Greek for ‘firestone’ because it was believed that pyrite, a sparkling stone, held fire in its core.

An excellent energy shield, pyrite blocks out negative energy and pollutants at all levels, preventing energy leaks from the physical body and aura, protecting subtle and physical bodies and deflecting harm.  It creates a positive outlook.  Helpful for men who feel inferior, it strengthens confidence in masculinity but may be too powerful for ‘macho’ men, initiating aggression.

Pyrite is very fast-acting and is particularly helpful for getting to the root of karmic and psychosomatic disease.  Cubic pyrite expands and structures mental capabilities, balancing instinct with intuition, creativity and analysis.