Welcome to the ReikiMastery News!

March 2008

In This Edition:

Scanning as Reiki Sonar.

Some people did not get the link in their email for this newsletter so I ma resending it. So I am including in the resend a*last minute bonus* a few words on understanding negative energy, which will probably be the basis for a longer future article.

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Different ways of understanding negative energy

Many people try to divide energy into postive or negative, good or bad. But this does not match my experience of energy. I have long been looking for ways of thinking about energy that don't use these paradigms.

Energy can be either still or in motion. This is very similar to the idea of Yin and Yang. Energy that is too still or in too much motion can create problems by making the body too cold or constricted or too hot or expansive. Reiki evens out the energetic temperature body, allowing the body to come into balance.

In a book written in Japan in the 1700s, they refer to energy that is not healthy can be either congealed (like gelatin/jello) or constricted. Often times I think of it as snarls.. You can even comb someone's energy as if it was hair and lift and release the 'snarls'.

Colds often feel like energy snot around the head. Pain often feels like heat or prickles over the affected area.. Nausea often feels like a fluctuation in energy over the belly. Often energy blocks feel like room temperature frozen ice.

I think of the person's body the bad energy is attached to as what is causing the problem, sort of like the way a magnet affects iron filings.. once you pull the filings away from the magnet it dissolves, just like energy blocks pulled away from a person and put on the ground dissolve in a few minutes.

Begin to experiment with different ways of feeling energy, and thinking about it.. Experiment with how to change the state of the energy. I

Reiki Scanning as Sonar

It is difficult to explain Reiki scanning to people who don't have the ability. Many try to think of it as being like sight. that they will be able to see the aura in color like watching a movie.

Others try to think of it as being purely kinesthethic, like a sense of touch. They focus on sensation, heat, cold, vibration, pressure.

Many students have commented on how I know what is going on when my students on the other side of the room are feeling things. How I can feel other people doing healing work, when I am neither the doer or receiver.

Most notably, Jeff will be working on someone, and I will say.. "just a little over to the left". I know where a problem spot is, even if something is not in my line of vision. But Jeff's or someone being there is being there is part of it.

Then I came up with the idea of Sonar! It is like i can feel the Reiki Radar waves bouncing back, when someone is working on someone.

1. Take a moment right now to experiment with this idea. Strengthen the energy in your hands, by drawing power symbols on them or simply rubbing them together.

2. This exercise is easier to do on another person, animal or even a vibrant plant or tree. You can do yourself, but it is more confusing to figure out where the sensation is coming from. Sleeping people work great.

3.Face your palm away from this part of your body a moment and clothes your eyes. Slowly push the hand forward a few inches and pull back, and just get a sense of what empty air feels like, and what if feels like to sense your hand moving in space.

4. Now change the orientation of your hand to be towards the other person (or plant or animal or self. but i will say person to keep this simple) Edges of the person are especially useful, like say the shoulder, so you can tell the difference between air and body.

5. Slowly repeat the hand motion..When I do this technique, several things happen simultaneously.

Some of the energy seems to stay stuck to my palm, like i am carrying a beach ball of energy.When I pull my hand back, the beach ball comes back with it as well.

But it is the other sensations where the example of sonar/radar becomes useful.

Some of the energy seems to dissapear or go away as i push towards the person. In sona/radar depending on the density of the object, some of the waves keep going through the object and do not bounce back In Reiki, some of the energy is simply absorbed by the person and/or their aura.

Other energy seems to bounce back into the palm, giving a sonar like sense of the distance you are from the object. For the most part, this energy matches the shape of the person.

Until you reach an area of difficulty on the person. Then the feedback changes.. It is like you have hit a place of greater or lesser density in the person's energy field, More of the radar waves bounce back giving youa a sharper picture of what is going on, or more are absorbed, giving a sense that not enough is going on in a particular spot.

Now see what happens if you repeat the exercise with 2 hands. There is more information, and more energy bounce back. so it may be harder to make sense of what you are percieving.

Try having both hands alternate feeling the energy of the same spot.. First use one hand. as you did above, then try feeling the same spot with the other.. Try it with eyes open and closed. It is normal for your hands to percieve the same location a bit differently, just like each of your eyes sees a bit differently. Simply keep switching back and forth to get used to it.

Now try it with your 2 hands next to each other, and repeat the in and out motion, almost like a cat kneeding a sleeping place.

Once this is comfortable, slowly increase the distance between your two hands to try and get a 3 dimensional sense of what is occuring in the person.

Good Luck.. Send me your results for the next newsletter.