Reiki Healing Hands
The river of life flows almost always in strange ways. Things that we used to do before suddenly become relevant again. Sometimes they take on new meanings. What do they call it? Oldies remake? Retro?
Recently, Reiki nudged me again. Its coming back brought back stories of great Tibetan Buddhist masters who say that it is the power of compassion that facilitates curing of the sick who came to them for healing. There is also the story of The Buddha who was ill and got relief when he asked one disciple to chant a paritta for him. Recently, I heard a Tibetan teacher whom I greatly respect speaks favorably of Reiki. It seemed that he has received and benefited from Reiki.
Healing was and still is a catch word for the ills that confronts us daily. Some credit this to the new media and info overload that make it seems that some catastrophe or other is happening every moment. I would disagree. Back in the old days, we had newspapers too but natural disasters do not occur as frequently as they do now. Our Mother Earth seems to be sneezing. Is she ill? Goodness – what if she starts coughing? Heaven forbids!
I like it when I meet people who are genuinely involved in energy work. They energize me. They are often weird people and they have beliefs which appear very arcane to the point of seeming insane. For example, there was this wonderful lady whom I interviewed. Petite she was but in that small body was loaded mega kilo tons of dynamite enthusiasm. Talk to her about lightworks and world healing, her minute arms will flail and if you are not careful, hit and imprint you with bolts of memory so strong it will stay forever in your memory cells.
Reiki. I had never heard of it when I was first introduced to it. Little did I know then that it eventually led me to learn and teach it. Call it one of those twists in an otherwise colorless life, it happened at the right time. Reiki appeared at the same time as an old interest in the mysterious and the unknown flickered.
This Reiki is a Japanese healing art. It calls for nothing more than the laying on of hands. Simply idiot-proof. It calls for no diagnosis, no herbs, no frowning focus of directing “energy”, no visualization. Completely idiot-proof. But if you google it, I promise you will be amazed at the number of pages that shows up ( at the last search, there were about 9,810,000 results). Impossible to read them all.
Sorry but Reiki is, to my mind, the utmost simplest healing art. Very contrary to what you will read from those pages or some books. Some practitioners have combined new age arts, healing arts as well as non-healing arts and ideas alike into Reiki. So do not be too surprised that Reiki has evolved with many new ‘masters” who carry “true’ lineages. There will also be many who are carrying “new transmissions from other dimensions”, there will be those who have channeled from avatars, angels, higher beings, spirits etc, there will be…these go on, limited only by the capacity of the mind.
Somehow, I like to believe that Reiki is for everyone. By that I mean that everyone can do Reiki, that is, everyone can heal. It is a simple art requiring no more than a simple initiation and much from-the-heart good intention. The stories just told are proof of this. Jesus was recorded as administering to the sick by touching them. That to me, is proof enough that miracles can happen through our hands and our hearts.
Reiki Healing Hands
For those encouraged to learn Reiki, I say, practice ignorance – ignore all that is said, claimed, publicized, hyped and what-not by Reiki people you may have heard or read about. Motives vary from individual to individual. Reiki cuts across all barriers. It represents one of the basic essences of human life. That is the cry for help, for healing, for soothing of the trouble soul and mind, of the abundance of compassion and love in each of us, our capacity to manifest and increase love and kindness and live fruitfully this human life.
Oh, I forgot. Reiki was (they say) re-discovered by a Japanese man called Usui (click to know something about him). With respect, to Him, I pay homage and respect.
