Reiki is a method of healing oneself with the help of cosmic energy, which is called ‘Universal Life Force Energy’. The other way to understand Reiki is that “It is a high level, deep-rooted meditation, wherein we invoke cosmic energy in our body through the chakras to energize our physical, mental, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual bodies.”
This energy, when absorbed into the body, relieves us from all the negativity, and hence from all the diseases. The primitive man lived happily because he lived with the cosmic energy made up of five basic elements — Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether. However, today we are living in a world of pollution, tension, worry and pressures. Though every person is a born Reiki channel and is free to absorb this energy, most of us are unable to do so as we are not aware of it.
Sometimes the energy is insufficient as we spend most of our energy (80 per cent) within the brain because of our tensions and problems. Reiki helps us to take the energy and utilize it in our body as and when required. It has no side effects unlike the use of modern medicines. That does not mean we should totally discard or ignore modem medicine. To find out the level of thyroxin in thyroid, level of sugar in diabetes, one needs to consult the doctor. But, applying Reiki is of great help when we know the problem.
Modern medicine has its limitations, as the treatment is external. Hence, alternative approaches to health and healing are necessary especially in relation to chronic diseases. Modern medicine may give immediate relief, but normally it suppresses the actual disease. Reiki helps uprooting the problems. It is the simplest method of healing the body, mind and spirit.
Sometimes, Reiki appears to fail in a particular case but that is not due to Reiki. It is due to the person who is receiving the Reiki. Some people enjoy their illness, i.e. they take advantage of their illness. People, who do not want to get better or come out of their illness for some reason or the other, are difficult persons to be healed through Reiki. In that case, first the mental attitude of the person has to be changed by counselling and then Reiki should be given. Normally old people, children and sick people want other’s attention. So, as long as the diseased person gets attention, he does not want to get well.
We know a lady, who attended our seminar. She used to get severe headache in the evening and she used to become well by night. Everyday her husband used to come home by 5.30 p.m. in the evening, who otherwise never came home before 9 p.m. Now, the reason behind her headache was loneliness, and she wanted her husband’s company. After she attended our classes with the help of counselling and constant Reiki treatment, she became interested in Reiki. She was regularly attending our seminars and became our assistant. When she was involved in Reiki, it acted as an occupational therapy, changing the complexion of her life, in addition to ridding her of headache.
The person’s attitude, belief in himself/herself & faith in Reiki are important.. If a person does not have any faith and is forced into Reiki, the healing lakes a longer lime, say, till the mentality of the person is changed In such eases, distant healing is helpful so that slowly the person’s nature becomes acceptable. Reiki helps in cleansing process. This cleansing process may be at the physical or emotional level. At (lie physical level. Reiki removes the toxic substances from the body and at the mental and emotional levels, the negativities can be eliminated.
Reiki can cure any disease from simple type of indigestion, headache, fever, to complicated diseases such as heart problems, arthritis, diabetes, kidney problems, severe back problems etc. This is not something new, it was practised in the earlier days and was clearly mentioned in the Veclas. In the Vedas, importance was given to the dictum: ‘our health is in our hands’.
Doubts always arose about the existence of the cosmic energy, because one cannot see anything concrete about it. Though many people can feel the energy flowing and the warmth of the hands, others are skeptical about it as they cannot feel it. When we breathe in and out, we do not feel but we know that the air present in our atmosphere is taken in and oxygen present in that is utilized by our body. Without this oxygen, living organisms cannot live. Hence, it is called “Prana Vayu.”
Similarly, the cosmic energy present in the universe is essential for our body. Our body takes this energy through our chakras. We do not feel, because we are not conscious of it. Because this energy is essential for living, it is called “Prana Shakti.”