Reiki aims to increase well-being

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 13, Issue 608, 17 October 1995, Page 7

Reiki aims to increase well-being

Karen Hughes, a member of the Waimarino Association of Natural Therapists, explains reiki: There are many roads to health, and many therapies which help us to attain more optimal health levels. One of them is reiki. Some members of our community have already experienced reiki, and understand the gentle and unobtrusive way reiki increases well-being, and enables you to find your own strengths. Reiki, pronounced ray-key, meaning universal lifeforce energy, is an ancient Tibetan healing art rediscovered last century. It requires no particular belief system. Reiki is a gentle, yet powerful technique for restoring depleted energy & balancing the natural energy within the body to promote physical and emotional healing Reiki is a very effective, simple method of natural healing and each of us has the ability to learn and practise this healing technique. Reiki aims to help to accelerate the natural healing potential within our bodies, by helping to relieve pain and stress, acute or chronic illness, can be incorporated into any first-aid situation, and be effectively combined with other therapies, including orthodox treatments. Reiki treatments are not limited to humans, and it is equally effective on animals and plants. During this deeply relaxing treatment, most people experience a gentle warmth or tingling from the practitioner's hands. One session of reiki treatment is equivalent to three to four hours' sleep. There are three steps or 'attunements' in the reiki initiation. Reiki 1 includes the history of the practice, the basic hand positions and the attunements that open the ability to channel energy to heal yourself and others. Only a reiki master can perform the attunements that begin this evolutionary process. Reiki 2 includes additional attunements to increase the dynamic shift in personal growth, and the deeper understanding how natural energy can be utilised. The third attunement is to become a reiki master, whereby the teaching and sharing of Reiki is initiated. This week reiki grand master Terry Drayton is holding a two-day workshop on the practice. Phone 3858374 for information.