Fusae William - Reiki for Beginners: Enhance Your Life Using the Power of Universal Energy

Reiki is not something that is to be used only when somebody is already sick, ill, in pain or suffering from emotional or spiritual distress.

Reiki can be used at any time by anybody to help maintain that balance and well-being for themselves in all aspects of health, including emotional health, spiritual health and mental health.

Regular use of Reiki helps to keep the energy clear and flowing and to keep the mind, spirit, and body pure and free from ailments.

By keeping a clear and positive energy flow, Reiki puts people into harmony, helping their bodies to function properly and to give them a better clarity of their lives, and how to better live them.

Reiki can give people a new perspective on life and is very conducive to personal growth and improvement.

Because of all of this, for people suffering from serious illness Reiki can be a huge benefit. It may not be able to cure everything, but it can help you deal with and manage the symptoms, help eliminate and alleviate any side effects from medicine, help you heal and recover sooner than you would if you did not use Reiki, and help keep you positive and feeling good.

With major illness, often comes depression, or even anger, and Reiki will help you overcome both, opening up your energy to peace and healing.

Traditional Japanese Reiki tends to be more localized while Western Reiki often focuses more on the whole-body approach to healing.

During a Reiki healing the practitioner might use a fixed pattern of hand and palm positions or they might use the more intuitive method, allowing their instinct and intuition to guide their hands to the areas in which they are most in need of healing.

It is common for the Reiki practitioner to perform a scan of the entire body, to get a feel for the persons energy and individual needs. This scan helps the practitioner to better understand how the Reiki session should go.

A Reiki healing can include actually touching the body or just hovering the palms above the body, it depends on how the Reiki practitioner prefers to operate because what works for one, may not work for another.

Before the scan and the Reiki session, the practitioner will often meditate, so that they are calm and better able to focus and manipulate the universal life force energies that Reiki deals with.

The hands, once in position, usually are held steady at each position point for a period of a few minutes, before moving onto the next point.

Depending on the style and type of Reiki used, there are anywhere from between twelve and twenty hand positions that will cover the entire body, from the head to the feet, often centered on or around the chakras.

A whole-body Reiki treatment often lasts at least forty-five minutes and can go as long as ninety minutes.

Some of the more common hand positions for Reiki involve the head, the chest and abdomen, the back and the legs as well as other body parts. We will go into some of the more common hand positions below.

For readability, we will mention placing hands on certain body parts, but it does not mean that touch is involved, please remember that Reiki can be actual palm touching, or just over the body.

Head

By placing their hands on the back of the head, in a cupping motion, it will relax the person being treated as well as relieve the following: circulatory problems, eye disease, sneezing, anxiety, nausea, hyperventilation, asthma, colds, and headaches.

By placing their hands over the ears, it will promote the following: reducing or banishing confusion, improve balance and equilibrium, hearing loss, nasal and sinus diseases, inner and outer ear problems, and help reduce or get rid of tension in the face and jaw caused by back, neck, or spinal problems.

If the hands are placed next to the nose, with one hand on each side of the nose, with the palms over the eyes and fingertips covering the cheeks the following areas will benefit teeth, Pituitary gland, eyes, and sinuses.

This position is used to heal a feeling of general un-wellness, colds, eye problems, fatigue, allergies, sinusitis, addiction issues, and weakness.

This position is used often, as it has an overall healing property to it and greatly helps with chronic complaints.

By placing their hands over the temples, with the fingers turned slightly inward, towards the cheeks, it can help overcome the impulse to act on emotions alone, headaches, stress, learning problems, improves concentration and focus, and the common cold.

When the hands are placed at the neck it greatly aids with weight problems, thyroid conditions, blood pressure, diseases that affect the metabolism, illnesses that affect the lymph nodes and larynx, anorexia, anxiety, sore throat, loss of voice, tonsillitis, stuttering and other speech problems, posture problems, behavioral issues, and chronic tension in the shoulders, legs and pelvis.

Chest and Abdomen

With one hand above the belly button and one hand below the belly button, the following can be healed: depression, anxiety, vitality, self-esteem, nausea, digestion, heartburn, gastro-intestinal problems, and vitality can be restored.

Placing one hand on the lower ribs on the right side, and placing the other hand slightly below that hand, the following can be healed: high blood pressure, aggression, detoxification, gall bladder disorders, liver disease, digesting issues, and metabolic problems.

Back and Legs

By placing a hand on the sacral plate, the area just above the butt, and the other hand just slightly below that the following can be healed: sciatica, digestive disorders, genital disease and ailments, and overall weakness.

By cupping their hands on either side of a knee, the following can be healed: injuries, pain, and joint damage and associated with this position is the ability to learn and to take criticism.

When both hands are placed just below the shoulder blades, it will reduce headaches, especially tension headaches, as this position also relieves tension in the back, neck, and shoulders.

When one hand is placed just above the lower ribs, over the kidneys, it will help detoxify the body, help with allergies and kidney disease as well as help with relationship issues, shock, fear of opening up to people, trouble connecting emotionally with others and the fear of heights and falling.