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Why Reiki? |
October 2009
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Reiki is one of the most powerful ways I know to accelerate and support profound, deep healing. Reiki is energy healing, the channeling of the life force energy (known as chi, ki, prana, mana in various traditions), through the practitioner's hands into the physical body and energy fields of the recipient. It supports healing on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels.
Reiki supports our body when we are going through physical difficulties, helps us release stress and anxiety, and promotes better sleep and relaxation. It helps to alleviate emotional pain and suffering and to integrate our mind, body and spirit.
Reiki is used in hospitals and clinics around the country (see below for specific examples). The National Institute of Health is sponsoring major studies on the effectiveness of Reiki on conditions such as fibromyalgia, cancer, diabetes and AIDS.
Abby Arnold at Ananda is a Reiki Master (the highest level of training possible) in three different types of Reiki: Traditional Usui, Lightarian and Sechem-Seichim Reiki. I'll explain below what each of these specializations mean and what you might expect from a treatment. My primary teachers are Diane Shewmaker, internationally recognized master teacher and healer, creator of the Sekhem-Seichim (SSR) tradition and author of the book on SSR healing, All Love: A Guidebook for Healing with Sechem-Seichim-Reiki and SKHM.
If you have any questions or want to book a Reiki session or training, call Ananda at 245-6940 or send me an email .
Usui Reiki This is the original, traditional form of Reiki, created and developed in Japan at the turn of the last century. It is the foundation for every other type of Reiki available today. Usui Reiki supports physical healing and expands spiritual growth. It is particularly useful for the following conditions:
Lightarian Reiki Lightarian Reiki is the most powerful healing energy available in the Reiki system at this time. Through a Lightarian Session you will be attuned and connected with Ascended Masters, a group of beings who have lived through human lifetimes, achieved enlightenment and now work to help the rest of us on our path.
Lightarian Reiki will accelerate your spiritual growth. The purpose of a Lightarian session is to raise your vibrational level to support as us we transition through these spiritually challenging times.
To raise your vibrational level means to increase the amount of Divine Love you are capable of accessing, so lower level feelings have less room to exist. Lightarian Reiki can be very useful for people who have an intellectual understanding of their 'issues,' but still have trouble changing their patterns and ways of thinking. It is also a powerful aid to those actively pursuing their spiritual growth and development.
A session therefore helps with the following:
Sekhem-Seichim Reiki (SSR) SSR is an Egyptian based healing system that incorporates the healing energy of three separate energy systems: Sekhem, the Egyptian version of all encompassing life force energy, Seichim, living light energy and an ancient Egyptian system of healing wisdom, and Reiki.
SSR is a healing matrix that is a unique integration of these three related, yet distinct, multidimensional energies. Sekhem, Seichim and Reiki work together as a unified trinity of sacred healing energies to completely balance and harmonize a person's physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. This expands the individual's capacity to carry more light and love and anchors and grounds the essential life force within his or her energy system.
Benefits of an SSR Session can include:
Each of these Reiki systems helps to promote healing. Reiki cannot promise a "cure" in the traditional sense, nor should it replace trained medical opinion and services. Reiki is not magic: it is a gift of Divine Energy. As with most holistic forms of healing, it's effect can be powerful or subtle, often depending on how out of balance your system is. More than one treatment, or 'refresher' treatments over time, help to increase the benefits of Reiki.
Learning Reiki
Reiki is easy to learn and use for yourself and your family, to help with stress reduction and general good health. You don't have to want to practice Reiki professionally to benefit from learning Level 1. I give Reiki to my kids almost every night and use it on myself all the time, at times as varied as an aid to meditation to when I'm watching TV. It works so I use it.
Ananda regularly schedules Reiki classes. Call us at 434-245-6940 or email today if you are interested in getting on the list for the next class. We're also happy to set up private Reiki trainings for you, your friends or your clubs and organizations.
Clinical Studies on the Effectiveness of Reiki*
The United States Army unveiled a $4 million program to mend the psyches of returning veterans through Reiki and other bioenergies.[http://blog.wired.com:80/defense/2008/03/army-bioenergy.html.]
The Cleveland Clinic announced receipt of a $250,000 study to examine the effects of Reiki on men with prostate cancer. The hospital currently incorporates Reiki into their treatments on a number of illnesses, ranging from
Autonomic Nervous-System-Changes During Reiki Treatment: A Preliminary Study The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine Volume 10, Number 6. This study revealed a significant reduction in diastolic blood pressure and heart rate in the Reiki group that didn't appear in the placebo group or the control group, thus tending to indicate that Reiki created an important effect that was not caused by suggestion.
Reiki is already used in several hospitals for cancer patients: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, NH), Integrative Medicine Outpatient Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY), Integrative Therapies Program for Children with Cancer at New York Presbyterian Medical Hospital (New York, NY), Metropolitan South Health Center (" Direccion de Servicios Metropolitano Sur", Santiago, Chile) Miles, P. True, G. "Reiki: A Biofield Therapy-Theory, History, Practice and Research." Alternate Therapy Health Medicine, March/April 2003 9(2) 62-72.
Both hands-on and distant Reiki treatments resulted in statistically-significant decrease in the symptoms of psychological depression and self-perceived stress, and the treatments had long-term effect .
Shore, A.G., "Long-term effects of energetic healing on symptoms of psychological depression and selfperceived Wardell, D.W., Engebretson, J., "Biological correlates of Reiki touch healing", J. Advanced Nursing, 33(4): 439-445 (2001)
Engebretson, J., Wardell, D.W., "Experience of a Reiki session", Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine,
*information taken from The Reiki Center: Clinical Studies on the Effectiveness of Reiki. Click here for Information on The National Institute of Health Reiki Studies.
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