Reiki (pronounced Ray-Key) which means "Universal Life Energy"
The word Reiki is made up of two words "Rei" and "Ki.
"Rei" - describes the universal, enlightened and "God-Consciousness" of this universal life force.
"Ki" - means life force; that which is present in all living things, similar to the"Chi" of the Chinese.
Together the words combine to mean an intelligent, enlightened life force which has "God-Consciousness and therefore is spiritually guided.
This energy is one of unconditional love that acts in a healing manner for those who receive it. Reiki cannot do harm and you can never give too much Reiki.
Reiki has no religious affiliation.
Reiki (universal life energy) is a sacred and ancient Tibetan healing art that was redicovered in Japan during the 19th century. Commonly a method of stress reduction and relaxation. It is based on the Asian concept of life energy and is a hands-on healing method. A subtle energy flows from the hands of the practitioner into the client, and it is this energy that creates the relaxation and healing effect.
A session can vary between 20 and 60 minutes. Treatments can also be given by distance (remote session). Reiki can be used on people, animals, plants and situations. Reiki is a powerful catlyst for personal growth, accelerates healing and can act on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual planes. Reiki can be used in conjuction with any other healing modality including traditional medicine.
Reiki is a non-invasive form of treatment.
☆ Individual healing in-person or distance (remote) sessions.
☆ Reiki level I, II, III and Master/Teacher courses available.
The Reiki principles
"The secret method of inviting blessings, the spiritual medicine of many illnesses
☆ Just for today, I will not worry
☆ Just for today, I will not anger
☆ Just for today, I will show love and respect for every living thing
☆ Just for today, I will do my work honestly
☆ Just for today, I will live in gratitude for my many blessings
Every morning and evening sit in the gassho (prayer) position and repeat these words out loud in your heart. For the evolution of body, mind and spirit. Usui Spiritual Healing Method (Usui Reiki Ryoho) The founder, Mikao Usui.
Reiki History
According to tradition, Reiki has its origins in Tibet. The method was apparently lost through the years but was preserved in the sacred written Sanskrit sutras.
Reiki was rediscovered by Mikao Usui toward the end of the 19th century. Dr. Usui formulated the modern Reiki method known as "Usui Shiki Ryoho" (The Usui System of Natural Healing).
During the mid-1800's, Dr. Mikao Usui was the Dean of a small Christian University in Kyoto.
One day, during a discussion with some of his students, Usui was asked if he beleived literally in the Bible. When he replied that he did, his students reminded him of the instant healings of Christ. The students mentioned that in the Bible, Christ states, "You will do as I have done, and even greater things. If this is so", they stated, "Why aren't there many healers in the world today performing the same acts as Christ? In addition, he tells the apostles to heal the sick and raise the dead. If this is true", the students said, "please teach us the methods". Usui was stunned.
In traditional Japanese style, he was bound by his honour as Dean, to be able to answer their questions. On that day Usui resigned his position, and determined to find the answers to this great mystery.
After a very long search that took him to America, Japanese monasteries and possibly even Tibet, and after searching through American, Japanese, Chinese and Sanskrit texts, Dr. Usui thought he had finally found the intellectual answers to the healings of Christ. What he needed then was the empowerment.
He found the methods of empowerment after he did a 21 day fast on Mount Kurama in Japan.
He was amazed to discover that this new force could stop bleeding and releive pain as he continued to apply it. After some meditation, he decided to work in the Beggars' Quarters in Kyoto where he hoped to heal the beggars so they could receive new names at the temple, and thus be reintegrated to society.
While the results were remarkable and many received complete healings, Usui began to notice that many of the people he had helped were just returning to the Beggars' Quarters.
It finally dawned on him that he had failed to teach them responsibility, and most of all, gratitude. He then realized that the healing of the Spirit was every bit as important as the healing of the body. He saw that by having given Reiki away he had further impressed the beggar pattern in them. The importance of an exchange of energy became clear to him. People needed to give back for what they received or life would be devoid of value.
He left the Beggars Quarter and began to teach throughout Japan. Shortly before his death, around the turn of the century, Usui charged one of his most devout teachers, Dr. Chujiro Hayashi, a retired navel officer, with the responsibility of carrying on the traditions of Reiki. Dr. Hayashi founded the first Reiki clinic in Tokyo.
In 1935, Hawaya Takata, a young Japan-American woman from Hawaii appeared in Hayashi's clinic. she was ill over a variety of organic disorders, and also lacking energy due to depression over the death of her husband a few years earlier. Having been on the verge of surgery while visiting her parents who had returned to Japan, she heard the voice of her deceased husband urging her emphatically to avoid the operation. After conferring to the doctor her reservations about the upcoming surgery, he recommended that she try the Reiki clinic, and it was there that she began to receive treatments, and finally healed.
Takata was understanably impressed with Reiki and decided to learn it herself. Reiki had become a man's domain, and that meant hands-off to women. Takata was a typical determined "Gaijin" (alien) woman and did not give up easily. Her persistence ultimately paid off, and she was finally instructed in both First and Second Degree techniques. Later Takata returned to the U.S. and began her practice. In 1938, Dr. Hayashi and his daughter came to visit her. Soon after, Takata was initiated as a Master and the Hayashis returned to Japan.
This gutsy little lady pursued the teaching of Reiki post-war America during the McCarthy era, a very closed minded period of America's history.
In the 1970's Mrs.Takata began to train other Masters, and at her death in December of 1980, 21 had been trained. Today ther are over 300 Reiki Masters teaching around the world.
The above text was summarized from the book by HORAN, Paula - "Empowerment through Reiki", Lotus Light, Shangri-La»»
Reiki Courses and preparation
Reiki I - to treat yourself and others.
Reiki II - symbols are taught that increase the healing power and allow distance healing. A method called Mental Reiki is also taught.
Reiki III - introduction of the 1st Master symbol and a technique for harmonization.
Reiki Master/Teacher - Master and Teaching level.
Suggested preparation for course
The Reiki course will allow you to channel universal energy. To better prepare yourself, here are a few recommendations:
For approximately (3) days prior to the course:
☆ Do not eat any red meat;
☆ Don't drink coffee or beverages containing caffeine;
☆ Minimize chocolate and sugar;
☆ Try to cut back on smoking;
☆ Do not drink alcohol;
☆ Do not have any sexual relations;
☆ Take some time to be alone (if permitting) - take walks, minimize t.v and radio, listen to your inner self.
These preparations will help you to be more receptive to the energy that you will receive during the initiations, and will enhance your paricipation in the course.
During the course
Wear white or light colored clothing.
Do not plan any activities for the weekend or days you will be taking the course. Leave yourself time to feel the energy and appreciate your initiation...
The participation in a traditional Reiki seminar always means an enormous leap forward in your personal development. The life energy processes introduced by the initiations and intensive contact with the universal life energy will open new opportunities of experience for you and give you better access to the loving, living portions of your personality. Dormant talentscan be activated and abilities that you already live can be expanded. You alone can decide how profound this gentle process of evolution will be for you!
In the days before the seminar, take some time for yourself on a regular basis and make it clear to yourself what you expect from your life, to what extent you have put these expectations into practice, and what you would like to open yourself for in the future. Do you desire more love and fulfillment in your relationships, would you finally like to have a satisfying occupational perspective for yourself, or would you like to solve a health problem?
Whatever it may be, the energy of the initiations and Reiki sessions during the seminar can introduce a positive development in every respect important for you. This means that you will not be healed in a medical sense of the word when you participate. But it can accelerate the developmental and learning processes within you, thereby contributing to a happier and healthier life in a comprehensive sense. Expect everythinga and expect nothing! Make yourself free for everything that will happen. Don't subject yourself to any limitations for your growth, and do open the door of your consciousness for the wishes concealed deep within your heart.
The process that I have just described has nothing to do with your opening up for universal life energy through the traditional initiations. You will become a Reiki channel in any case if you are initiated by a Reiki Master. You must do nothing and need to do nothing more than simply be there for this purpose.
Don't plan any scheduled or strenuous activities during the seminar days. Permit yourself to be there for yourself. The initiations can trigger deep processes of becoming conscious, and it is good to have the time to also work through them. You can come intoan intensive contact with yourself - take advantage of this opportunity! For these reasons, you should follow the above recommendations for preparation during the seminar time. The preparation will increase your ability to perceive and thereby your possibilities of consciously experience the coming changes.
Text from the book "Reiki way of the heart" by Walter Lubeck, Lotus Light - Shangri-La
Reiki Sessions
All individual healing sessions are available in-person or by distance(remotely).
In-person session A typical Reiki session will start off with filling out the consent form, following with a brief conversation. This conversation is very important and allows a few different things to happen. The first one obviously is that it lets the client tell the practitioner why he or she is there, what is going on in his/her life, and what he or she is hoping to get out of the session(s). The second thing that happens during this conversation is that it gives the practitioner a chance to get a feel for the clients's energies prior to starting the session and allows even more insight into the client's current situation. The third thing that happens, and one of the most important, is that it gives the practitioner and client a chance to build a rapport. This allows the client to let go and open up more to the energies during the session. Most people these days have alot of issues with trust, and unless the practitioner is able to bring down some of those walls prior to the session, the client will unknowingly block most, if not all, of the energies the practitioner is attempting to channel into the client, thereby defeating the entire purpose of the session. The more the client is able to let go, the more benefit they will receive from the session(s).
The next step is to have the client (fully clothed) lay down on his/her back on the massage table. The practitioner then generally starts at the head and works down ending at the feet. The positions cover the seven main chakras and all of the major organs. Each position is held for no less than 3 minutes up to a maximum of 10 minutes. During this time the practitioner simply allows the energy to channel out of his/her hands into the client. There is no physical manipulation whatsoever during a traditional Reiki session. Everything is done on a purely energetic level. After the practitioner has finished with the front of the client, they generally will have the client turn over, and will continue with similar hand positions for the back, once again starting at the head and working down toward the feet.
Due to the nature of Reiki, it is quite difficult to say exactly what will be experienced during a session. This will depend on any number of things including, but not limited to, the practitioner, each individual client, the level to which that client is able to open up to the energies, and what areas the energy itself is addressing. Often people describe their experience by saying they felt as if they were floating during the session, or they were being enveloped by or wrapped in a warm, loving, nuturing light that flowed throughout their being. Often, if there is a physical problem, the client will feel that area of the body becoming quite hot as the energy as the energy targets that area. People usually become very "astral" or disassociated from their bodies, during a session and, for people who are able to let go, it is very common for them to sleep through the entire session. I am always quite pleased when this happens because it means that the person is opening up fully to the energy and it will be able to work on a very deep level. By finishing the treatment at the feet and opening the feet chakras, the practitioner is able to help the person come more fully back into his/her body before ending the session, so that they will not feel as light-headed or disoriented after the session, but also so that any information the client may have received during the session can be brought back with them and "grounded" into the present so they may have conscious access to it.
The results of a session are also quite dependant on the same influences named in the beginning of the above paragraph. The most immediate broad spectrum results are a drastic reduction in stress and an extreme sense of relaxation, similar to what people ususally feel after a massage but it seems to be more profound and longer lasting, and an overall feeling of being more balanced, calm and centered. These results are almost always attained through just one session. The more profound results that Reiki can yield (i.e., the "healing" of a specific dis-ease, release of habitual thought patterns or old emotional scars, etc.) are rarely obtained through a single session... but instead must be addressed in the same way that many of them were manifested, over time.
In a holistic view, disease is a message from the body, a physical or emotional manifestaion of imbalnce on a deeper level.
Distance (remote) session Healing sessions can be done at any distance because Reiki enegy is not limited by time and space. We are all linked energetically and can connect by intention. The healings are just as powerful at a distance as they are in person.
Prior to the distance session, the consent form will be filled out. We would communicate by phone, email or skype™ to schedule the most convenient time for you to receive your Reiki treatment.
You would simply sit or lie down in a comfortable place where you will not be disturbed. The treatment is done by proxy, visualization or a projection(beaming) of the Reiki energy or a combination of these methods. You may or may not feel anything and you may even fall asleep during the session.
If necessary, we will follow up to discuss any questions or concerns you may have or wait until next session to do so.
The Reiki Lineage of Elizabeth Krausz
The following is the lineage of Masters from Dr. Usui to Elizabeth Krausz
Mikao Usui
Dr. Hayashi
Mrs. Takata
Mrs. Ishikuro
Dr. Arthur Robertson
Roger Foisy
Chetan Aseem
Roland Berard
Rev. Elizabeth Krausz (Gururas Kaur)