Melissa Tipton - Llewellyns Complete Book of Reiki: Your Comprehensive Guide to a Holistic Hands-On Healing Technique for Balance and Wellness

About the Author

Melissa Tipton is a Structural Integrator, reiki master, and tarot reader who helps people live their most magical life through her healing practice, Life Alchemy Massage Therapy in Columbia, MO. Shes also the author of Living Reiki: Heal Yourself and Transform Your Life . Take online classes and learn more at getmomassage.com and yogiwitch.com.

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Llewellyns Complete Book of Reiki: Your Comprehensive Guide to a Holistic Hands-On Healing Technique for Balance and Wellness 2020 by Melissa Tipton.

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First e-book edition 2020

E-book ISBN: 9780738761879

Cover design by Kevin R. Brown

Interior illustrations by Mary Ann Zapalac, sigil art by the Llewellyn Art Department

Excerpt(s) from Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field by Barbara Ann Brennan, copyright 1987 by Barbara A. Brennan. Used by permission of Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

The Inner Heart of Reiki by Frans Stiene 2015 Ayni Books.
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Names: Tipton, Melissa, author.

Title: Llewellyns complete book of Reiki : your comprehensive guide to a

holistic hands-on healing technique for balance and wellness / Melissa

Tipton, Lauryn Heineman.

Description: First edition. | Woodbury, Minnesota : Llewellyn Publications,

2020. | Series: Llewellyns complete book series; Volume 15 | Includes

bibliographical references and index. | Summary: Providing an in-depth

look at the history, study, and practice of reiki, a Japanese system of

energy healing, this is a comprehensive guide for students and

practitioners of every level, covering hand positions, symbols and

mantras, attunements, conducting sessions, and professional practice

Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019055141 (print) | LCCN 2019055142 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738761831 (paperback) | ISBN 9780738761879 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Reiki (Healing system)

Classification: LCC RZ403.R45 T575 2020 (print) | LCC RZ403.R45 (ebook) |

DDC 615.8/52dc23

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Disclaimer

The material in this book is not intended as a substitute for trained medical or psychological advice. Readers are advised to consult their personal healthcare professionals regarding treatment. Both the author and the publisher recommend that you consult a medical practitioner before attempting the techniques outlined in this book.

Contents

List of

: Introduction to Vibrational Healing

: Energy Fields

: Energy Channels

: Energy Bodies

: Energy Healing Mechanisms

: Sensing Energy

: The Reiki Method

: Understanding Reiki Energy

: The History of Reiki

: Receiving Reiki Treatments

: Studying Reiki

: Reiki Attunements

: Hand Positions for Healing

: Symbols and Mantras

: The Five Precepts and Other Reiki Teachings

: Traditional Reiki Techniques

: Non-traditional Reiki Techniques

: Reiki as Daily Self-Practice

: Professional Reiki Practice

: Your Healing Practice

: Conducting Healing Sessions

: Special Uses for Reiki

: Teaching Reiki

: Reiki Complements

: Enhancing Your Reiki Practice

: Other Healing Modalities

: Students of Hayashi and Takata

: Other Branches of Reiki

Exercises

Chapter 1

Chapter 3

Chapter 5

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 21

Foreword

A s someone working nonstop to bring reiki into allopathic medicine, I am beyond grateful to Melissa Tipton for her book Llewellyns Complete Book of Reiki . As the title describes, this is truly a complete presentation of all things reiki, and I look forward to presenting this book to the surgeons and doctors who show an interest in understanding reiki and what it can do for their patients.

As a practitioner working alongside surgeons, I know for a fact that reiki is a crucial complement to serious surgeries of modern medicine, including heart surgery, mastectomy, organ transplant, and othersall of which test the human capacity to withstand harrowing surgeries that can save lives but also leave patients feeling shattered. Reiki is an antidote to the fracturing of the human spirit when such serious medical interventions are necessary.

Llewellyns Complete Book of Reiki is an eye-opener for every person with an interest in finding out how reiki can help them advance in their life, whether they are in the throes of illness, needing to find peace in a hectic world, seriously seeking their lifes purpose, or just curious about energy healing modalities. Tiptons book is also invaluable to us reiki practitioners working with clients in the fulfillment of our destinies, and, furthermore, I believe it should be required reading for the students of any reiki master-teacher who is taking on the responsibility of raising new practitioners. This important book fully describes and honors the incredible and limitless healing art given to us by Mikao Usui.

My favorite parts of the book are getting back to basics and delving into everything about Usuis reiki. Tiptons explanations of the seven types of energy, ending with reiki as the seventh type, is fascinating as well as informative. Since there seems to be a never-ending exploration of the history of reiki by scholars of Usuis life and practices, I appreciate the clear descriptions of what is known, what is fact, and what is fiction. It is also illuminating to understand how and why some of the myths about Usui came into being. I find this section to be of great personal comfort, as it offers the truth of what Usui left us as a healing practice.