About 13 years ago I was working with a lovely man in Moldova, Benedict Caraush. I was teaching him the Original Japanese Reiki methods and taking him through a distance Reiki Master Teacher course, and he was practising Reiju empowerments on his group of Reiki Master Teacher students.
One of his students had a special ability, a way of representing in graphic form the essence of an energy or an initiation.
This is what Benedict said at that time:
One of this people have the ability to channeling the information on the paper like a drawing – energopsychograma. Some time ago she made for me the energopsychograms for how works Reiki on 1st, 2nd and 3rd degrees when people are attuned Western style (Takata). Next week I hope that she will be able to do the same work for the Reiju for 1st, 2nd and 3rd degrees in order to compare. If you are interested to see it, just let me know and I can scan it when will have it ready and send to you.
Benedict kindly shared with me a whole series of images detailing different energies and in series of blogs I am going to share them with you.
What to do with energopsychograms
You will know by now that I believe that once you are ‘connected’ to Reiki then you can focus the energy in a whole number of different ways. You can use the Reiki symbols, like CKR and SHK, you can use channelled symbols or symbols from other traditions or sources (whether or not you have been ‘attuned’ to them) and you can use sounds, chanted either out loud or in your head.
All these things will frame the energy in a particular way, producing a particular ‘frequency’.
Energopsychograms will do this too, if you meditate on them.
Like carrying out a symbol meditation, meditating on an energopsychogram will elicit a particular energy within you, and doing so is a form of self-healing.
On our Second Degree courses we teach students to meditate, separately, on the energies of CKR and SHK because these symbols represent the energies of earth ki and heavenly ki in Usui’s original system, two fundamental energies, and in doing so you carry out a powerful self-treatment.
Energopsychogram meditations
To meditate on an energopsychogram, just sit calmly with the image in front of you. Stare at the image. let it wash over you, defocus your eyes.
Notice the quality of the energy that is being elicited within you. What is the nature of the energy? Where do you feel it? How does it feel. Bathe in the energy fo the image.
CKR energopsychogram
The image that you can find at the head of this page represents the energy of CKR, which is the energy of earth ki.
We know what Reiki tends to do for people, don’t we? People end up chilled, calm, serene, content, better able to cope, more positive.
Reiki brings balance, perspective, and if you add in a regular focus on the Reiki precepts, and the practise of mindfulness, then you have a really powerful system for positive change.
But it’s not all happy bunnies and smiles: Reiki can produce powerful effects and elicit powerful shifts in a person.
When someone comes for a Reiki treatment, they will usually have a wonderful experience. They will feel more relaxed than they have for a very long time, they will drift, or float, or sink, they will bliss out on those boiling hot hands, they might have rainbow light shows, or tingles, a lovely experience.
But it’s not like that for everyone.
Sometimes a person can just feel generally ‘unsettled’ during a treatment. They don’t relax, they don’t necessarily experience anything powerful, but they’re not calm and relaxed and peaceful, as most people are. So what is going on here?
Well, they are having a definite experience, the energy is doing something for them, and what it is doing is coming through as that sense of being unsettled.
The energy will provide the recipient with a variety of sensations or feelings, and they are just what that person needs to experience to best shift what they need to shift to move on, a side-effect, in a way, of the energetic work that is going on within them.
Often it’s a lovely experience, but not always.
Emotional shifts
Sometimes Reiki can produce powerful emotional effects in a short space of time, as people release what they need to release to move on with their lives.
It’s as if all this deeply-embedded stuff is bubbling to the surface to be released.
So I have had people literally wailing on the treatment table, and it’s not uncommon to see a silent tear or two pass from someone’s eye as they’re treated.
And although it’s not nice to see someone in distress, it seems that these emotions, although powerful at times, are experienced in a positive way by the client, where there is a sense of relief that they are just letting go, moving on from what they are experiencing on the treatment table.
So don’t worry if someone becomes emotional when you treat them. This is common. It shows that things are moving, shifting, and that’s what you and your client want.
By the end of the session, everything will have calmed down and your client will feel much better. The treatment will have come like a breath fo fresh air, like a cleansing breath that has flushed out accumulated gunk.
And while your client may sometimes feel a bit shell-shocked by what they experienced, they will have left stuff behind and moved on in some positive fashion.
Physical shifts
While the ’emotional release’ is probably more common than its physical counterpart, sometimes a client will experience more physical sensations, for example pain. It’s not uncommon for someone with arthritis, for example, to experience a short-term intensification of those joint pains, while they are receiving their treatment, though the pains then subside and often improve subsequently.
I have treated people with metal plates inserted into their bones, where the area has ached during a treatment, for example.
Aftershocks
A Reiki treatment is rather like dropping a pebble into a pond: while there is the initial splash, during the treatment – an intensification of things – the energy will also produce ripples that carry on, with peaks and troughs. So it’s not uncommon for a client to experience some emotional ups and downs in the days after a treatment, with physical effects like better sleep, or disturbed sleep, aches and pains, feeling full of energy, or feeling tired and wanting to change gear and slow down for a while.
These things are all side-effects of the energy working to bring things into balance for that person, giving them the opportunity to re-balance, to reinterpret, to reconsider, to achieve a new state of wellness.
Over to you
What powerful effects have you or witnessed when giving a Reiki treatment? What did your client experience and how did that help them to improve things subsequently?
What have you experienced for yourself when receiving a Reiki treatment that would consider to be a powerful experience, and how has that helped you?
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Explore different distant healing methods and discover the beauty of Reiki’s original Japanese form. Learn how to use creativity and visualisation to enhance your self-treatments and treatment of others, and ditch all the silly rules and regulations that stifle the practice of Western Reiki in many lineages.
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Sometimes I am asked by my students about things that happen to a client after they have had a Reiki treatment. The questions are usually framed in terms of:
“After the treatment, this happened… is that the Reiki?”
“I gave someone a treatment and the next week x happened… was that the Reiki?”
Sometimes my response is [shrugs shoulders]… maybe, or “who knows”… sometimes I will say “probably” or “could be”.
And that’s about as far as I can go because (1) I don’t have a crystal ball and (2) not everything that happens to a person after they have had a Reiki treatment, or been on a Reiki course, is a result of the Reiki that they received or were initiated into.
Reiki and the lottery
So someone goes on a Reiki course and the next week they win the lottery. Is Reiki responsible for this? Has the universe conspired in such a way as to bring that person their winning numbers because they decided to learn Reiki?
Someone has a Reiki treatment and the next week they get run over by a ‘bus. Is the Reiki responsible for this event?
The answer is no: not everything that happens to a person after Reiki is because of the Reiki.
Because things occur randomly: unusual things happen to people sometimes, things appear out of the blue.
And because we seek to fnd an explanation for the things that happen to us in our lives, we try and attach that happening to something, something different or new that we have done or experienced.
How do we know whether something was because of the Reiki?
You don’t.
Not in an individual case.
You can only look at a group of people and see what sort of things they tend to experience after receiving or learning Reiki, and you can find themes emerging, experiences or happenings that seem to turn up again and again and again.
And then when that happens to another student, you can say, “yes, that probably was the Reiki”, but you’ll never know absolutely definitely because the thing they are reporting may have just happened anyway.
So what does Reiki do for people then?
Whether you receive a course of treatments or if you are learning Reiki for yourself, you should find that Reiki helps you to feel more ‘laid back’ – calm, content and serene – and you should find that you feel better able to deal with stressful situations or stressful people, and that you feel more positive and better able to cope.
If energy levels are low then they can be boosted; if spirits are low then they can be lifted.
This ‘Reiki effect’ seems to be noticed in most people who learn Reiki and work on themselves regularly, or in people who receive a course of Reiki treatments.
One of the things that I have noticed, based on my experiences when teaching students through my Reiki Home Study Courses, is the “decluttering” effect that Reiki can have on many people.
Reiki seems to cause people to want, or to find, a simpler way through their life, and that can involve ditching things: ditching household clutter, ditching unwanted commitments and habits, clearing out cupboards and spare rooms, simplifying your life on lots of levels.
Over to you
So, what things have you experienced as a result of receiving Reiki treatments that you are fairly certain are because of the Reiki?
What changes occurred in your life after you learned Reiki that you’re fairly sure are because of the system that you learned?
How has Reiki changed things for the better for you?
Post a comment below to let us know.
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The more you read the more you’ll have those wonderful ‘aha’ moments. I know I am already benefiting personally from the knowledge I’ve gained, but so will all my family, friends and clients too. Thank you Taggart for creating this incredible, uniting, enlightening book.”
Heidi Gaffney-Evans
Liberate Your Reiki!
86 Articles About Reiki: One Inspiring Vision
In this Reiki book you will find 80+ articles about Reiki, written by Reiki Master Teacher Taggart King. You will discover how to set your Reiki free, free from the constraints, dogma, rules and regulations of Western-style Reiki courses. Get back to Reiki’s original Japanese method and embrace simplicity, flexibility, creativity and intuition.
This book is suitable for people at all Reiki levels: beginners, those who are developing their Reiki, and Reiki Masters/Master Teachers. You will find advice about self-treatment meditations, energy exercises to build your ability as a channel, you will discover how to work with your intuition and embrace the power of intent.
Explore different distant healing methods and discover the beauty of Reiki’s original Japanese form. Learn how to use creativity and visualisation to enhance your self-treatments and treatment of others, and ditch all the silly rules and regulations that stifle the practice of Western Reiki in many lineages.
Finally, read Taggart King’s “10 Rules of Reiki”, the essential principles for a powerful and fulfilling Reiki practice.
This professionally-printed Reiki manual has 370 A5 pages, a glossy soft cover and we will send it to anywhere in the world!
Read the contents list before you order, if you like, by clicking on this link: Table of contents
In my last article I was talking about how Reiki can help with Anxiety and while stress and anxiety are often lumped together as if they were the same things, there is quite a difference between these two experiences in terms of what’s going on.
Where anxiety is a fear of an imagined future, where you feel frightened about things that are yet to happen and may not actually happen, with stress you are reflecting on how you believe you’re going to be able to cope with different tasks or events. Stress is all about “I can’t do this”, “I’m not going to be able to do this”.
So stress is all about how competent you believe you are and becoming frightened about letting yourself down, or letting other people down. Stress is about losing face, not succeeding in a particular task or goal, it’s about fear of showing that you’re not good enough.
Using Reiki for Stress relief
So can Reiki help with stress and, if so, how does that happen?
Well, I think it comes down to the three powerful aspects of the Reiki that we introduce to students on our First Degree courses: mindfulness, the Reiki precepts and regular energy work.
I’m not going to go into a lot of detail about mindfulness because I have written about it before on this blog, but when you are mindful you are fully engaged in and engrossed with the task at hand, whether that doing the washing up or going for a walk. You become fully aware of the experience of you doing the task, living fully in the present moment, with no thoughts of the future or the past. You might notice the flow of energy through your nostrils, the feeling in the soles of your feet as you walk, the sounds of birdsong, the myriad of colours that are before you, the sensation of soap suds on your fingertips, the swishing of the water. You notice your thoughts pass by like clouds.
In doing so you start to come into contact with a still, calm centre that we all have within us if we give ourselves a chance to experience it, that place from which we can observe, non-judgmentally.
It is in this still place where we can let go of those feelings of stress, setting us free, and the more we practise mindfulness, the more often and more easily can we ease into that helpful state.
If you’d like to investigate mindfulness and meditation further, I can recommend this site: Headspace.
The Reiki precepts (or the Reiki principles, or ‘Gokai’) are a simple set of ‘rules to live by’ that were established and taught by Reiki’s founder, Mikao Usui. There were said to distil the essence of Tendai Buddhist teachings into a simple set of guiding principles that anyone can follow.
The Reiki precepts emphasise humility and compassion: compassion for ourselves as much as compassion for others.
So how can we be compassionate towards ourselves and how can that help with stress? Well, we can forgive ourselves, we can give ourselves a break and forgive ourselves for not being perfect. If we expect ourselves to be perfect then no matter how hard we work, no matter how much we achieve, no matter what we do or try to do, we will never be happy.
So we can give ourselves some self-love and understanding, we can nurture ourselves, and the best place from which to do this is from that still, calm centre that we gain a glimpse of when we are mindful.
Reiki energy and Stress
Tying these strands together – the mindfulness and the compassion and self-forgiveness – is the use of Reiki energy on ourselves.
By having a good, regular routine of working on ourselves using Reiki – by carrying out daily energy exercises and some form of self-treatment – we nudge our energy system more into a state of balance, bathing us in calm, helping us to fully experience that content, still core, and putting us in the best possible position to really benefit from this wonderful system.
Oh, and I just wanted to mention that although in this blog I am talking about learning Reiki as a way of managing your stress, receiving Reiki treatments on a regular basis is also a wonderful way of experiencing the powerful balancing effect of this simple hands-on therapy.
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I think a lot of people come to Reiki wondering if it can help ease their anxiety, and I think that there is a general sense that Reiki can help you to become more calm and chilled. So is Reiki good for anxiety? Will it help you to let go of those worries?
Well in my experience, yes, Reiki does really work to help reduce anxiety and there are three ways that it does this, I think.
Through mindfulness
Through the use of the Reiki precepts
Through meditating on and using the Reiki energy
What is Anxiety?
When we worry, we are thinking about the future and what might happen to us or the people we care about. We imagine a frightening or unhappy future and that makes us scared.
And since we have fairly prehistoric brains and responses, we respond to this future threat like it was some sort of sabre-toothed tiger in front of us: we go into ‘flight, fright or freeze’ mode, with elevated heart rate, high blood pressure and the like. Long term, this is not good for our bodies since our immune system is dampened down and blood is rerouted away from our digestive systems, so we end up run down, prone to infection and with digestive disturbances.
All because we are responding to an imaginary future.
How can Reiki help Anxiety?
There are two important aspects of Reiki training that work together to ease anxiety: mindfulness and the Reiki precepts. I’m not going to go into detail about these in this blog, since I have spoken about them elsewhere, but these two aspects of Reiki training very much work with each other to reduce anxiety.
The Reiki precepts start with the phrase “just for today” and that emphasises the idea of mindfulness, where you are fully immersed in the moment, fully engaged with what you are doing. “Just for today” exhorts us, just for this moment, to be content, to be compassionate and forgiving of ourselves, to be aware of the many blessings that we have in our lives.
If you are mindful then there are no thoughts about the past or the future: you are embracing the present moment, and when you do this it’s not easy to worry (because you can only do this when you send yourself off into an imagined negative future).
Although mindfulness isn’t emphasised or even mentioned on a lot of Reiki courses, it is an important part of the original system that Mikao Usui taught and is something that we explain and encourage as soon as you start your Reiki training with us.
Reiki energy and Anxiety
But beyond the practice of mindfulness, and the benefits that come when introducing the Reiki principles into your daily life, there is something else going on too. because when you are ‘connected’ to Reiki, when you are aware of and working with the energy through daily energy exercises and meditations, changes take place within you that very much echo the benefits of mindfulness and precepts-work.
Reiki, in itself – Reiki, the energy – helps people to feel more calm, content and serene, better able to cope with difficult situations and people. Working with Reiki helps you to come back into contact with that core part of you that is balanced and centred, a still foundation that can weather the storms that life often throws at us.
Do you already have Reiki?
If so, and if you feel that there is still a bit more work to be done in terms of leaving worry behind, there are a couple of techniques I created that I think will be of great help to you. You can read about them in other blog posts. Here are the links you need:
These exercises allow you to use the Reiki energy as a ‘carrier’ to disperse or dissipate any accumulated worry, and also help you to set a new course, so you respond differently in the future. These exercises are deceptively powerful and should be carried out for several weeks to gain the full benefit from them.
Time to learn Reiki?
Learn Reiki with Reiki Evolution
If you haven’t learned Reiki yet, and you are interested in experiencing the benefits of Reiki for yourself, why not enrol on one of “Reiki for beginners” courses (Reiki First Degree).
You’ll discover how mindfulness, the Reiki precepts and a regular routine of self-treatments with Reiki can make a tremendous difference to you.
So, in previous posts I have talked about simple energy exercises that you can carry out every day to clear and cleanse and balance your energy system. I have run through exercises that you can carry out on your own and with a volunteer to start merging with the energy, to help to open you up to your intuition.
We then moved on to practise a Japanese intuitive technique called “Reiji ho” where you allowed your hands to drift with the energy to the right places to treat, different for each person that you work on, based on their individual energy needs.
Here are the links that you need if you’d like to recap:
In this post I am going to talk about using Reiji ho with a recipient who is resting on a treatment table in frotn of you, and how you can use Reiji ho in practice when you treat people, when you carry out full treatments.
How to start your Reiji ho
Do this exercise for about 15 minutes or so for each person you practise on. It doesn’t take very long.
Practise on as many people as you can.
The recipient lies on a treatment couch and you stand beside them.
Make yourself comfortable and bring your hands into the prayer position. Close your eyes. Take a few long deep breaths. Imagine energy flooding down to you from above, into your crown, and the energy flows down the centre of your body to your Dantien. Feel/imagine the energy building in your Dantien.
A continuous flood of energy keeps pouring through your crown into your Dantien, where it builds.
As the energy floods through you, feel yourself disappearing into the energy and merging with it, imagine yourself becoming one with the energy. Just be there with the energy, allowing it to flow. No expectations. Just merge with the energy for a minute or so.
Now, in your mind, focus your attention on the recipient. Feel yourself merging with them, becoming one with them.
Merge with them for a little while.
Say silently to yourself “please let me be guided”… “please let my hands be guided” … “ show me where to treat”.
Student practices allowing energy to guide her hands
Hover your hands in neutral
Move your hands so that they are hovering over the recipient’s torso in a neutral, comfortable position
Your hands and arms are loose, there is no resistance; your hands will drift smoothly and easily.
Imagine the energy is flooding through you: into your crown, through your arms and out of your hands.
Feel yourself disappearing into the energy, merging with the energy, becoming one with the energy… and allow your hands to drift.
There is no resistance; your hands will drift and glide smoothly and easily.
Allow your hands to drift
As you do this you may notice a gentle or subtle pull on your hands. Allow them to drift until they come to rest. You may now have a feeling that your hands are in the ‘right’ place, and you may feel a lot of energy flowing through your hands.
Allow the energy to flow for a minute.
Now bring your hands back to your ‘start’ position (whatever position that was) and repeat the process. You are practising allowing your hands to drift with the energy; you are not practising treating someone at the moment.
Keep on moving your hands back into the start position, and allow them to drift to where they want to go.
Now move to another part of the body, so you are standing next to the hips, or the knees, and repeat the exercise, each time seeing where your hands want to drift, allowing them to come to rest if they want to, and repeating the process to see if they drift to the same area each time.
Some things to notice
Sometimes both hands will drift and come to a stop, and on other occasions only one hand will move.
Sometimes a hand will drift further away from the body, or move closer to the body. In the latter case do look to see where your hand is going!
Sometimes a hand will not come to rest, but will keep moving in an interesting ‘energy dance’. Just go with the flow and accept what happens as the right thing for the recipient on that occasion.
In practice, wherever your hands come to rest, you would rest your hands on the person to treat, obviously depending on the part of the body your hands are hovering over: some areas should be treated with the hands hovering above the body, not resting on the surface, for the sake of propriety.
When your hands come to rest you usually find that there is a lot of energy coming through. This makes sense because you have just put your hands in just the right combination of positions for that person on that occasion.
After a while you will notice that the flow of energy subsides, and you know that it is ok to move on to the next combination of hand positions. If you move your hands away too soon you will simply be guided back to those positions to treat some more!
In practice you will find that you end up with fewer hand positions than you used when following your ‘standard’ hand positions.
In practice I always treat someone’s shoulders for about 10 minutes when I start a treatment.
Then I move on to use Reiji ho on the head. Usually I end up with ‘non-symmetrical’ hand positions. Then after say 25 minutes I move on to the torso and let the energy guide me there, and I stay in each hand position until I feel that it is right to move on.
Over to you
Practise the method I have described on as many people as you can. What you are doing is practising and getting used to ‘giving up and not trying’, just merging with the energy and letting it happen.
That’s the key to success with Reiji ho.
Post a message below to let me know what you did, what happened, and how you felt about working in this way.
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So, in previous posts I have walked you through some simple energy exercises that you can carry out every day to clear and cleanse and balance your energy system. I have also described some exercises that you can carry out on your own, and with a volunteer, to start merging with the energy, and merging with the recipient, opening you up to your intuition.
Here are the links that you need if you’d like to recap:
In this post I am going to describe a Japanese approach to working intuitively, called “Reiji ho”, which means something like “indication of the spirit technique”.
It’s a way of allowing the energy to guide your hands so they drift – rather like being pulled by invisible magnets – to the right place to treat for each person you work on.
How to practise Reiji ho
You will need a willing volunteer for these exercises. Do this exercise for about 10-15 minutes or so for each person you practise on. It doesn’t take very long.
Practise on as many people as you can.
The recipient sits in a straight-backed chair and you stand behind them or to one side of them.
Make yourself comfortable and bring your hands into the prayer position. Close your eyes. Take a few long deep breaths.
Imagine energy flooding down to you from above, into your crown, and the energy flows down the centre of your body to your Dantien. Feel/imagine the energy building in your Dantien.
A continuous flood of energy keeps pouring through your crown into your Dantien, where it builds.
As the energy floods through you, feel yourself disappearing into the energy and merging with it, imagine yourself becoming one with the energy. Just be there with the energy, allowing it to flow. No expectations. Just merge with the energy for a minute or so.
Now, in your mind, focus your attention on the recipient. Feel yourself merging with them, becoming one with them. Merge with them for a little while.
Please let me be guided…
Say silently to yourself “please let me be guided”… “please let my hands be guided” … “ show me where to treat”.
Move your hands so that they are hovering near the recipient’s head in a neutral, comfortable position. Your hands and arms are loose, there is no resistance; your hands will drift smoothly and easily.
Imagine the energy is flooding through you: into your crown, through your arms and out of your hands. Feel yourself disappearing into the energy, merging with the energy, becoming one with the energy… and allow your hands to drift.
There is no resistance; your hands will drift and glide smoothly and easily.
Allow your hands to drift
As you do this you may notice a gentle or subtle pull on your hands.
Allow them to drift until they come to rest. You may now have a feeling that your hands are in the ‘right’ place, and you may feel a lot of energy flowing through your hands. Allow the energy to flow for a minute.
Now bring your hands back to your ‘start’ position (whatever position that was) and repeat the process. You are practising allowing your hands to drift with the energy; you are not practising treating someone at the moment.
Keep on moving your hands back into the start position, and allow them to drift to where they want to go.
Some things to notice
Sometimes both hands will drift and come to a stop, and on other occasions only one hand will move.
Sometimes a hand will drift further away from the body, or move closer to the body. In the latter case do look to see where your hand is going!
Sometimes a hand will not come to rest, but will keep moving in an interesting ‘energy dance’. Just go with the flow and accept what happens as the right thing for the recipient on that occasion.
In practice, wherever your hands come to rest, you would rest your hands on the person to treat, obviously depending on the part of the body your hands are hovering over: some areas should be treated with the hands hovering above the body, not resting on the surface, for the sake of propriety.
Over to you
Practise the Reiji ho method with as many people as you can get your hands on, and see what you notice.
What happens? Where do your hands drift?
Remember that the key to success with this intuitive technique is to give up and stop trying: you can’t force this.
Post a message below to let me know how you got on.
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If so, you are going to love this book…
Your Reiki Workout
“In this comprehensive, informative and fun book, Taggart provides a multitude of detailed, practical exercises and guidance on strengthening sensitivity and intuition. Additionally, and seldom found in other publications, Taggart explores more advanced techniques on how to work with Reiki, and intent, on a deeper level for the benefit of both you and clients. I highly recommend this book to those who have undergone Reiki training and wish to obtain practical answers to deeper questions that may not have been covered in their tuition courses, and to explore their experiences of Reiki at a higher level.”
A Gordon
Your Reiki Workout
Exercises and Meditations to Explore the Wonder of Reiki
This book started its life as a collection of ‘self-help guides’ that focused on: getting started with Reiki, becoming more sensitive to the energy, developing your intuitive side and exploring the use of intent.
What I have done is to take these guides and re-write and expand upon them, so that you have here a practical workbook that you can use over time to explore the potentials that Reiki has to offer.
I have also included all the work that I have done in developing “Reiki synthesis”: a way of using questions, language forms and a breathing technique to create bespoke symbols for yourself and others, and to deal with unhelpful emotions or beliefs. Reiki synthesis focuses specific energies on freeing you from what is holding you back in your life, releases negative emotions and beliefs and creates specific energies to move you forward in the most powerful and positive way.
This book will be of interest to anyone who is interested in exploring and experimenting with the energy and who wants to learn a unique and powerful system for self-transformation.
This professionally-printed Reiki book has 210 A5 pages, a glossy soft cover and we will send it to anywhere in the world!
Read the contents list before you order, if you like, by clicking on this link: Table of contents
In my last post – Develop your Reiki intuition (Part I) – I described some simple exercises that you could carry out to build your Reiki and start to get yourself in the best state of mind for working intuitively and developing your intuitive side.
Now we’re going to start practising intuitive working with someone else, not just on your own, so you’ll need to find some willing volunteers to practise on.
Do this exercise for about five minutes or so for each person you practise on. It doesn’t take very long.
Practise on as many people as you can.
Practise compassionate intuition
The recipient sits in a chair or lies on a treatment couch. It doesn’t matter which.
Sit near the recipient.
Make yourself comfortable and rest your hands in your lap. Close your eyes.
Take a few long deep breaths.
Imagine energy flooding down to you from above, into your crown, and the energy flows down the centre of your body to your Dantien. Feel/imagine the energy building in your Dantien.
A continuous flood of energy keeps pouring through your crown into your Dantien, where it builds.
As the energy floods through you, feel yourself disappearing into the energy and merging with it, imagine yourself becoming one with the energy. Just be there with the energy, allowing it to flow.
No expectations.
Just merge with the energy for a minute or so.
Now, in your mind, focus your attention on the recipient. Feel yourself merging with them, becoming one with them.
Merge with them for a while.
Take your time with this. There’s no rush.
Open your eyes and look at the person with a feeling of gentle compassion, no expectations.
Do you feel drawn to a particular area or areas of their body?
Is your attention being pulled towards an area?
Allow your eyes to drift across their body; do your eyes want to dwell on a particular area?
Do you feel a physical pull towards a particular area?
Over to you
So, practise this exercise on a variety of people if you can.
See how it becomes more comfortable just letting go and merging with the energy and the recipient.
Post a message below to let me know what happened and what you noticed, or how you felt.
Did you like this blog?
If so, you are going to love this book…
Your Reiki Workout
“In this comprehensive, informative and fun book, Taggart provides a multitude of detailed, practical exercises and guidance on strengthening sensitivity and intuition. Additionally, and seldom found in other publications, Taggart explores more advanced techniques on how to work with Reiki, and intent, on a deeper level for the benefit of both you and clients. I highly recommend this book to those who have undergone Reiki training and wish to obtain practical answers to deeper questions that may not have been covered in their tuition courses, and to explore their experiences of Reiki at a higher level.”
A Gordon
Your Reiki Workout
Exercises and Meditations to Explore the Wonder of Reiki
This book started its life as a collection of ‘self-help guides’ that focused on: getting started with Reiki, becoming more sensitive to the energy, developing your intuitive side and exploring the use of intent.
What I have done is to take these guides and re-write and expand upon them, so that you have here a practical workbook that you can use over time to explore the potentials that Reiki has to offer.
I have also included all the work that I have done in developing “Reiki synthesis”: a way of using questions, language forms and a breathing technique to create bespoke symbols for yourself and others, and to deal with unhelpful emotions or beliefs. Reiki synthesis focuses specific energies on freeing you from what is holding you back in your life, releases negative emotions and beliefs and creates specific energies to move you forward in the most powerful and positive way.
This book will be of interest to anyone who is interested in exploring and experimenting with the energy and who wants to learn a unique and powerful system for self-transformation.
This professionally-printed Reiki book has 210 A5 pages, a glossy soft cover and we will send it to anywhere in the world!
Read the contents list before you order, if you like, by clicking on this link: Table of contents
The Reiki attunements give everyone a baseline ability, so you all start off on the same footing.
However, how effective or how ‘clear’ a channel you are depends on what you do with the energy. It is important to get regular practice, and a good way of getting into a beneficial routine is to spend some time each day carrying out some energy exercises used in Japanese Reiki.
Mikao Usui taught a couple simple Reiki energy exercises to his students when they first started their training with him. The exercises cleanse and purify, start to balance your energy system, and develop the strength of your Reiki channel. They will help to develop your sensitivity to the energy too.
Practising these energy exercises daily will put you in a very good position, energetically-speaking, to practise intuitive working.
Cultivate the right state of mind for Reiki intuition
Here is a solo exercise for you. You can do this by yourself anytime.
Do this exercise for ten minutes each day.
Make yourself comfortable and rest your hands in your lap. Close your eyes. Take a few long deep breaths.
Imagine energy flooding down to you from above, into your crown, and the energy flows down the centre of your body to your Dantien. Feel/imagine the energy building in your Dantien.
A continuous flood of energy keeps pouring through your crown into your Dantien, where it builds.
As the energy floods through you, feel yourself disappearing into the energy and merging with it, imagine yourself becoming one with the energy.
Just be there with the energy, allowing it to flow. No expectations. Just merge with the energy. This is the state that you will be cultivating as you progress through this course.
Over to you
Practise this simple exercise for a week or so.
How does it make you feel? What do you notice?
Post a message below to let me know.
Did you like this blog?
If so, you are going to love this book…
Your Reiki Workout
“In this comprehensive, informative and fun book, Taggart provides a multitude of detailed, practical exercises and guidance on strengthening sensitivity and intuition. Additionally, and seldom found in other publications, Taggart explores more advanced techniques on how to work with Reiki, and intent, on a deeper level for the benefit of both you and clients. I highly recommend this book to those who have undergone Reiki training and wish to obtain practical answers to deeper questions that may not have been covered in their tuition courses, and to explore their experiences of Reiki at a higher level.”
A Gordon
Your Reiki Workout
Exercises and Meditations to Explore the Wonder of Reiki
This book started its life as a collection of ‘self-help guides’ that focused on: getting started with Reiki, becoming more sensitive to the energy, developing your intuitive side and exploring the use of intent.
What I have done is to take these guides and re-write and expand upon them, so that you have here a practical workbook that you can use over time to explore the potentials that Reiki has to offer.
I have also included all the work that I have done in developing “Reiki synthesis”: a way of using questions, language forms and a breathing technique to create bespoke symbols for yourself and others, and to deal with unhelpful emotions or beliefs. Reiki synthesis focuses specific energies on freeing you from what is holding you back in your life, releases negative emotions and beliefs and creates specific energies to move you forward in the most powerful and positive way.
This book will be of interest to anyone who is interested in exploring and experimenting with the energy and who wants to learn a unique and powerful system for self-transformation.
This professionally-printed Reiki book has 210 A5 pages, a glossy soft cover and we will send it to anywhere in the world!
Read the contents list before you order, if you like, by clicking on this link: Table of contents
You may not realise it yet, and you may not have too much evidence yet, but you are already intuitive, that is without doubt.
For example, you already know just the right combination of hand positions to use on each person you treat, you already know where the areas of need are, whether they are in front of you or 100 miles away, and you already know just the right amount of time to spend in each hand position.
But at the moment you may not be able to access that intuitive information, the intuition that is already there. Your conscious mind is sitting there like a great big lump, getting in the way and preventing you from accessing what is already there.
Get your mind out of the way
Learning to work intuitively is all about learning to get your conscious mind out of the way, and trusting what comes to you, trusting what you perceive. Working intuitively is all about getting your head out of the way, suspending your disbelief, and allowing it to happen.
To work intuitively you need to not try – it won’t work if you *try* – you need to simply be there with the energy, merge with the energy, and let it happen.
So this series of blog posts is all about helping you to get your mind out of the way, helping you to not try, helping you to merge with the energy, helping you to suspend your disbelief and let it happen.
We will be going through a series of exercises over the coming weeks that you need to practise on other people. This series will not work for you unless you have a group of people available to you to be willing guinea pigs for your intuitive exercises.
You will learn to cultivate the right state of mind to attract intuitive impressions.
You will learn to allow your hands to drift with the energy so that “invisible magnets” pull them to the right place to treat.
You will learn how to use visualisation in different ways to access intuitive knowledge.
A familiar state of mind
Now, the state of mind that you need to cultivate to allow for intuitive working is also the best state of mind to have when practising Reiki, when giving treatments, when carrying out distance healing, when working on yourself.
So these exercises will also help you to develop your ability as a channel and your effectiveness as a practitioner.
We have found that Reiki treatments based on intuitive hand positions do something really special for the recipient, more than if they received treatments based on standard hand positions. Intuitive treatments seem to allow the energy to penetrate more deeply, to produce effects that are more relevant or more profound.
This makes sense because you are directing the energy into just the right combination of positions for them on that occasion. So from one treatment to another with the same person, you will use different combinations of hand positions, as their energy needs change from one session to another.
Even *you* can become more intuitive!
We have been teaching these intuitive methods for many years now, on live courses and through various Reiki home study courses, and these approaches seem to work for everyone.
The key to working intuitively is to *not* try, and to merge with the energy and to allow it to happen. And the more you get yourself into a lovely empty merged state, the more definite your intuitive impressions will become.
So I wish you an exciting journey with these exercises. You will be following weekly projects, and we explain exactly what you have to do. Follow the instructions; get lots of practice (that’s the key to it really), and you will be amazed by what is possible!
I recommend that you keep notes on your experiences as you progress through the course, so you can look back and review your progress.
The Reiki intuition series starts next week, so I look forward to seeing you then.
Did you like this blog?
If so, you are going to love this book…
Your Reiki Workout
“In this comprehensive, informative and fun book, Taggart provides a multitude of detailed, practical exercises and guidance on strengthening sensitivity and intuition. Additionally, and seldom found in other publications, Taggart explores more advanced techniques on how to work with Reiki, and intent, on a deeper level for the benefit of both you and clients. I highly recommend this book to those who have undergone Reiki training and wish to obtain practical answers to deeper questions that may not have been covered in their tuition courses, and to explore their experiences of Reiki at a higher level.”
A Gordon
Your Reiki Workout
Exercises and Meditations to Explore the Wonder of Reiki
This book started its life as a collection of ‘self-help guides’ that focused on: getting started with Reiki, becoming more sensitive to the energy, developing your intuitive side and exploring the use of intent.
What I have done is to take these guides and re-write and expand upon them, so that you have here a practical workbook that you can use over time to explore the potentials that Reiki has to offer.
I have also included all the work that I have done in developing “Reiki synthesis”: a way of using questions, language forms and a breathing technique to create bespoke symbols for yourself and others, and to deal with unhelpful emotions or beliefs. Reiki synthesis focuses specific energies on freeing you from what is holding you back in your life, releases negative emotions and beliefs and creates specific energies to move you forward in the most powerful and positive way.
This book will be of interest to anyone who is interested in exploring and experimenting with the energy and who wants to learn a unique and powerful system for self-transformation.
This professionally-printed Reiki book has 210 A5 pages, a glossy soft cover and we will send it to anywhere in the world!
Read the contents list before you order, if you like, by clicking on this link: Table of contents
In this post I’d like to share a couple of simple Reiki energy exercises that you can use to clear and cleanse, and balance your energy system. These exercises come from Original Japanese Reiki, were taught by Mikao Usui, and can be used every day.
They would be a lovely way to start your day, in fact.
The exercises are referred to as kenyoku, which means “dry bathing” and joshin kokkyu ho, which means something like “soul cleansing breathing method”. You carry out the exercises in order, starting with a quick kenyoku and then moving on to a blissful experience when carrying out joshin kokkyu ho for several minutes.
Here’s what to do:
Relax
Sit in a comfortable chair. Relax and close your eyes, and place your hands palms down on your lap.
Focus your attention on your Dantien point: an energy centre two fingerbreadths (3-5 cm) below your tummy button and 1/3 of the way into your body.
Say to yourself “I’m starting my energy exercises now”.
Kenyoku
Kenyoku can be seen as a way of getting rid of negative energy.
Brush across your torso
Place the fingertips of your right hand near the top of the left shoulder, where the collarbone meets the bulge of the shoulder. The hand is lying flat on your chest. Draw your flat hand down and across the chest in a straight line, over the base of the sternum (where your breastbone stops and your abdomen starts, in the midline) and down to the right hip.
Exhale as you do this.
Do the same on the right side, using your left hand. Draw your left hand from the right shoulder, in a straight line across the sternum, to the left hip, and again exhale as you make the downward movement.
Do the same on the left side again (like you did at the start), so you will have carried out movements with your right hand, left hand, and right hand again.
Brush down your arms
Now put your right fingertips on the outer edge of the left shoulder, at the top of your slightly outstretched left arm, with your fingertips pointing sideways away from your body.
Move your right hand, flattened, along the outside of your arm, all the way to the fingertips and beyond, all the while keeping the left arm straight. Exhale as you do this.
Repeat this process on the right side, with the left hand placed on the right shoulder, and move it down the right arm to the fingertips and beyond. Exhale as you do this.
Repeat the process on the left side again, so you will have carried out movements with your right hand, left hand, and right hand again, like before.
Watch this video demonstration
This is a lot easier to watch than describe, so take a look at this YouTube demonstration that I found:
Once you have carried out kenyoku, move straight on to joshin kokkyu ho.
Joshin kokkyu ho
Joshin kokkyu ho means ‘Technique for Purification of the Spirit’ or ‘Soul Cleansing Breathing Method’. It is a meditation that focuses on the Dantien point.
Put your hands on your lap with your palms facing upwards and breathe naturally through your nose. Do not overbreathe: breathe naturally and gently.
Focus on your Dantien point and relax.
When you breathe in, visualise energy or light flooding into your crown chakra and passing into your Dantien and, as you pause before exhaling, feel that energy expand throughout your body, melting all your tensions.
When you breathe out, imagine that the energy floods out of your body in all directions as far as infinity.
Get into a nice gentle even rhythm of drawing the energy down, spreading it through your body, and flooding it out to the universe.
Do this for 10-15 minutes. You may feel energy/tingling in your hands and even in your feet, as the meditation progresses, but don’t worry if you don’t, because everyone is different.
Over to you
Carry out this sequence every day for a couple of weeks and notice what difference it makes to you in terms of:
The strength of the energy
Your sensitivity to the energy
Your general contentment or demeanour
Post a message below to let me know how you got on and what you experienced.
Have fun!
Find out more about daily energy exercises
If you’d like some guidance about what you can do to build your Reiki, and balance your energy system, I have a whole load of advice and suggestions for you in the Reiki Evolution First Degree course manual, where you can learn a series of enegry exercises called “Hatsurei ho” and discover a Self-treatment meditation that Mikao Usui taught.
These manuals isn’t just available to Reiki Evolution students: anyone can work with our Reiki manuals.
You can order a professionally-printed copy, or you can download your manual right now.
In my last Reiki article, Create your own bespoke Reiki symbols, I described a simple system that you can follow in order to create a Reiki symbol that provides you with an energy perfectly suited to just what you need in this moment.
And we know that using a symbol has the effect of focusing the Reiki energy like a laser beam, narrowing its focus and boosting its power.
So this would be a useful thing to be able to do for clients too, wouldn’t it, to give them a treatment that uses an energy ideally suited to just what they need in this moment?
Here is how to do that.
Asking some questions of your unconscious mind
Settle yourself at the head of the treatment table, say, and rest your hands on your client’s shoulders. I think it’s nice to start a treatment like this, getting the energy flowing, helping them to bliss out.
Imagine that you are merging with the energy and the recipient. Start to bliss out yourself!
With your attention focused on the recipient, say to yourself ask yourself:
If the energy that this person needs in this moment had a shape, what shape would it be?
If it had a colour, what colour would it be?
If that energy was to be held in a particular part of their body, where would it be held?
Allow the answers to come to you; go with the first thing that comes into your mind.
So now you have, say, an attractive blue 3D spiral that needs to reside in their solar plexus (I have chosen this at random).
Flood your client with this energy
So now you know that the energy your client needs in this moment is best represented for you as a 3D blue spiral that wants to focus itself in their solar plexus.
Now you can start to use this energy and you can do that in two ways (or both).
With your hands still resting on their shoulders…
Imagine that shape in that colour, up in the air above you, representing the source of the energy. Imagine energy of that colour flooding down to you from the symbol above you, flowing through your shoulders, arms and hands, flowing into the client.
Have in mind that the energy is flowing into their solar plexus. Focus your attention there and imagine that the energy is dwelling there.
You could, of you like, imagine that the coloured symbol is actually passing into that location in their body, as that coloured energy continues to flow down to you from that symbol above you.
Or later on during the treatment…
When you get to the torso, rest your hands on or near their solar plexus, or hover your hands over that area, and follow the instructions above: draw down that colour energy from that symbol above you, which flows through your arms and hands, while focusing your attention on and treating the solar plexus.
No good at visualising? No problem
If you’re not so good at visualizing at the moment, focus not so much on the shape of the symbol, but the feel of it, the texture or density: feel the shape rather than seeing it; if you can’t see the colour very well, simply intend or ‘know’ that the shape and the energy has that particular hue.
In doing so, you and embodying the essence of that energy.
As a variation, you might draw the energy to your Tanden as you inhale, breathing the energy out of your hands into its chosen location on the out-breath; experiment and find out what works best for you.
Over to you
What I would like you to do is to go through those three questions when you work on a client or friend or family member, and when you have the answer, channel the energy that comes from that symbol/shape for about 10 minutes into the area of the body where the energy wants to go.
Post a message below to let me know what symbol/colour/location you came up with and how the energy felt, or what your client commented on afterwards. How did it affect them?
Did you like this blog?
If so, you are going to love this book…
Your Reiki Workout
“In this comprehensive, informative and fun book, Taggart provides a multitude of detailed, practical exercises and guidance on strengthening sensitivity and intuition. Additionally, and seldom found in other publications, Taggart explores more advanced techniques on how to work with Reiki, and intent, on a deeper level for the benefit of both you and clients. I highly recommend this book to those who have undergone Reiki training and wish to obtain practical answers to deeper questions that may not have been covered in their tuition courses, and to explore their experiences of Reiki at a higher level.”
A Gordon
Your Reiki Workout
Exercises and Meditations to Explore the Wonder of Reiki
This book started its life as a collection of ‘self-help guides’ that focused on: getting started with Reiki, becoming more sensitive to the energy, developing your intuitive side and exploring the use of intent.
What I have done is to take these guides and re-write and expand upon them, so that you have here a practical workbook that you can use over time to explore the potentials that Reiki has to offer.
I have also included all the work that I have done in developing “Reiki synthesis”: a way of using questions, language forms and a breathing technique to create bespoke symbols for yourself and others, and to deal with unhelpful emotions or beliefs. Reiki synthesis focuses specific energies on freeing you from what is holding you back in your life, releases negative emotions and beliefs and creates specific energies to move you forward in the most powerful and positive way.
This book will be of interest to anyone who is interested in exploring and experimenting with the energy and who wants to learn a unique and powerful system for self-transformation.
This professionally-printed Reiki book has 210 A5 pages, a glossy soft cover and we will send it to anywhere in the world!
Read the contents list before you order, if you like, by clicking on this link: Table of contents
