(Old) New Techniques

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Discussion

Headaches can be somewhat challenging to work on. Often doing straight Reiki on the headache can make the headache stronger.

Directions

A) Try the "Grounding your students" technique in the Class Energy Preparation section. This technique will by itself eliminate certain types of headache, including 'psychic headaches', caused by activating the third eye, and being in a high-energy environment.
B) If the headache is still present, or is only lessened, try doing Reiki on the client's head with your hands facing upward, away from the head. Some headaches are caused by an energy hairnet being too tight on the head of the client. Doing Reiki away from the head helps expand and enlarge this structure, and helps heal the aura.
C) Try asking to connect to energy that should not be present. Use a power symbol to connect to the energy, and pull it away from the client.

Discussion

This technique removes energy blocks and restores circulation to the extremities of the body. It makes an excellent class exercise because a relatively high percentage of students have problems with cold feet and hands, and because this technique in the course of one session produces noticeable results.

Discussion

Everyone has energies that are supposed to help guide him or her through life. Not all guides are equally effective however. This is an idea that started as a joke, about one of my guides lying down on the job, "you can be replaced". But this joke actually led to a useful concept. This is a technique that I was led to try, and have since taught to many others.

Discussion

This technique originated as a technique for working on a 'bad' person. Someone a client used to date, but who was into drugs, and had a history of violence and abuse. Many such people look to other people and other things as a substitute for what they really need, a stronger connection to their own soul.

Think of the soul as having layers. Level 1 is the everyday self. Above that is the Level 2 self, which attempts to guide level 1, but which itself needs guidance. Level 3 is directs that. Most people have no need to go above 3 levels, though occasionally 4 are needed. Each level as you move up the hierarchy typically feels less physical, less personal and more powerful.

Sometimes it is the level of the soul that needs healing; sometimes it is the connection between levels.

The energy frequencies experienced on the upper levels tend to be less physical than 'regular' Reiki. Some people with low levels of sense ability may have to tell the energy what level to work on, instead of being able to intuit the energy.

Directions

Prepare self and room, as if doing a distance healing session and say a prayer of intention asking for divine assistance in performing this healing session.

Draw a distance symbol, and say the name of the person you are sending healing to (can be yourself) 3 times.

Send Reiki to the person for a moment or two, as you normally would when doing distance Reiki. This is level 1. You can also feel around them for any cords of unhealthy attached between them and others.

Compress the virtual size of the person to the size of a baseball. Lower them slightly by holding their energy between your hands and pulling down slightly

Starting at the top of their energy ball, use your finger to comb their energy upward 4-6 inches, where you will reach Level 2. Level 2 may feel different from level 1 and different from the connection between 1&2. It may be a difference in the feel of the energy. It may feel like a different emotion (including you feeling the different emotion in yourself at this point)

Spend some time doing Reiki on Level 2, using whatever techniques and symbols seem appropriate.

Repeat the process by shrinking level 2 down to baseball size, and moving it slightly down, and combing the energy upward until you reach level 3. Assess whether any energy or healing is needed at this level, and if so spend some time here.

Go to level 4 only if level 3 needs work. Most people need work on Level 1&2, occasionally level 3. I have not yet encountered anyone needing healing beyond level, but if necessary you could keep going upward until you reach a level which feels healthy.

Now work on strengthening the connections between levels. Combine the combing action with additional Reiki that seems necessary to untangle, smooth and clear the connection between level 3 and level 2. The energy of level 2 will shift to a more healthy level and quality. The adding resources technique can also be useful.

Repeat by strengthening the connection between level 2 and Level 1 in the same way.

Scan level 1, and see how it compares to the way it felt when originally scanned. If the person's "problems" had to do with connection between levels, there will be a marked improvement.

Discussion

We all know what it is like to put our heart and soul into something, or someone. It becomes so important to us that we give of ourselves. Doing this too often can leave us without enough energy for new projects or people in our lives. Once a project is well underway, or a person is well underway in his or her own life, or this person or project is no longer part of our life; it becomes time to reclaim this energy. Because you are using Reiki, you do not need to know where this energy has gone; you can trust the Reiki to handle that for you. You may feel emotional or irritable in the first few days after you do this meditation. This is because the parts of your soul returning, and reintegrating into your energy. Plan to send yourself Reiki to help with this re-integration, and to send healing to the parts that are returning. Once this phase passes, you will find you have greater energy, and feel more powerfully yourself. You will have more energy to put into whatever new projects capture your imagination.

Discussion

This technique is a refinement of asking for additional resources technique. It is best used for things that will require an on-going commitment of time and energy.

This technique originally suggested itself when I was working with a student who lived in a haunted house. The student and her Reiki master had repeatedly cleared the house of ghosts, but new ghosts kept appearing. They even had a priest perform an exorcism, but this did not stop the ghosts, or the poltergeist activity from continuing to occur.

Using the distance symbol to connect to the house, and scanning the area we discovered a spot in the woods near the house where the ghosts seemed to be coming from. It didn’t seem appropriate for the Reiki people to be constantly policing and removing ghosts, and so this guardian concept suggested itself.

I reached up and thought of placing a spiritual 'classified ad' for the perfect being to monitor and control the ghosts coming though the point in the woods. I felt an energy come into my hands, and added it to the situation. The energy asked that it occasionally be remembered, and given a little Reiki. We asked, if as a first act, it clear the ghosts that we sensed in the house.

Following this one distance session, when they returned home the ghosts and the poltergeist activity was gone. Based on correspondence long after this occurred, the ghosts have never returned.

I have since used this technique for a child that lived in a very contentious household. And for someone who worked in the crime department of a city, to watch over the city.
Directions
During a distance session, use this technique if you feel that a person or situation needs to be watched over.

Reach one hand up above your head and ask either silently or out loud for the perfect resource to add to this person or situation.

When the energy in the hand increases, cup the hand downward and slowly pull the energy cupped in the hand down, and add it to where you are working on the person or situation. It will often feel like you are bringing the energy through layers of density. It can be thought of as bringing an unexpected resource, something that would normally not be likely or possible into the situation.

It often feels like a great gift, and the person or situation being healed quickly transforms. If it feels appropriate, repeat this process to add additional resources, until the healing feels complete.