Reiki Week 11

I noticed a few days ago (a day I was cold) that my hands don't get warm when I do Reiki. It may be an adaptation because of the headaches noted early on, but anyway it's clearly not necessary. I can feel the energy flow, just none is converted to heat. Which, because it's a hang-up of mine, makes me wonder about the efficiency of the situation. I suppose, though, that the enhanced energy from the feedback that Reiki is working outweighs any loss to heat. : )

Reiki Day 45 - More Resiliance!

I don't know if it is the Reiki, a combination of more tools in my toolbox, an indication of finally gaining ground, or what, but . . .

I had to have emergency dental work followed by an intense week at work. The time in the chair with my head and jaw tilted triggered problems with the disk bulge in my neck. The intense week caused a downward spiral on overall health condition, increasing pain, etc. One week off work plus traction plus Reiki plus exercises plus relaxation meditation plus pain meds for a couple of days and I'm nearly as robust as I was the day before I went to the dentist.

I have put off the follow-up work for a while, though. My doctor gave me Valium for future dental appts, but I'm hoping to consolidate my gains before putting it to the test again.

Now if we can make progress on the nasal/sinus tissues . . . : )

Reiki Day 32 - Implications of Ki circulatory cycle

In pondering my cat's input from day 17, I've noticed a tugging sensation at my wrists. It seemed related to the flow from the energy point at the palms of my hands which directed my attention to the extended diagrams of Ki flow and major/minor chakras.

There's the major energy point/minor chakra in the palm of the hands/feet where, among other things, Reiki healing flows out. The inner wrist/ankle is an energy intake/balancing point, commonly used in acupressure. What if two practitioners join with the palms of each person's hands facing the inner wrist of the other and both start Reiki flowing?

It seems to me that this should join their Ki channels into a single channel with simultaneous energy input resulting in harmonic overtones that would enhance the signal strength (horribly mixing metaphors, but I can't think of a single one to cover). If this holds true, it should extend to any number of people in a circle, probably with the energy flowing in two concentric circles in opposite directions.

I don't see anything like this in the Reiki world. The only group work I find there is multiple people taking turns at the standard Reiki positions. Any given individual is either the healee or one of the healers. Yet everyone says "Reiki goes where it's needed" regardless of the positions. Healers over and over declare that they are strengthened by being in the healing channel. Reiki doesn't seem to be innately unidirectional.

I have heard of some circle work among psychics in fiction, and I believe there is something similar in Wicca. These do entail multiple individuals combining into a larger organism to accomplish something larger. What if that something larger was simply mutual healing within the circle?

I need to find someone to try this out with.

Reiki Day 25 - Hidden Messages in Water

At my Reiki teacher's recommendation, I checked out of the library "The Hidden Messages in Water" by Masaru Emoto. Dr Emoto has studied the crystals formed in water from all over the world and under all sorts of circumstances. He has particularly focused on the effects of resonances - chemical, emotion, energy, prayer, sound, anything he could think of and test.

Three key things: (my wording in all cases)
- the most perfect and complete crystals are formed by the combination of love and gratitude;
- frequency resonance and disruptions are ubiquitous (e.g. changes in atmosphere by a person entering the room);
- large scale resonance transcends distance (e.g. the initial invasion of the first Gulf War appearing in his research results before he read the headlines).

Dr Emoto's conclusion: "I only ask that you listen to and absorb what water has to say--to all of humankind, and to you."

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I wish I'd completed this little book a day or two ago so I could have pondered to the accompaniment of the torrential downpours we've had recently. : )

Some random thoughts and early reflections:
- Bringing a group of people into consensus is like a crystal forming. The first structure appears and then the whole body finds itself in formation. (Warning! The same must hold true for groupthink.)
- I have been debating with my father what drives human motivations. I'm going to have to think about resonance effects to see how that impacts the basic arguments.
- "Resonance" clearly resonated with me throughout the whole book - far out of proportion to how Dr Emoto used it. Yeah, the pictures were pretty, but the words and descriptions of vibration effects practically shouted at me from the page. : )
- "Love and gratitude" is probably what most people would key into, but that was my major insight the first use of Reiki after attunement and in combining Reiki with prayer. This book didn't add into any of that for me.


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Into the Present Moment - Track 15, "Make Me A Blessing":

Lord, make me a blessing to those that I meet
And make me a blessing as I walk down the street.
Oh make me a blessing this day e'en this hour.
Lord, make me a blessing; it lies in Your pow'r.

Lord, make me a blessing at work and at home
And make me a blessing wherever I roam.
Oh make me a blessing, that people may see
That I am a blessing for You are with me.

Reiki Day 20 - Settling into stability

As the 21-day cleansing period comes to a close, I feel that things have stabilized:

- I no longer feel like I'm slopping Reiki everywhere; it is reined in with intent. : )

- Though I have not yet fully adjusted my biofeedback tools, Reiki no longer triggers the overall dilation loop.

- Reiki is fully integrated in my prayer and meditation habits. I have even adjusted hand positions for using while meditating on the bus to keep from jostling my hands around.

- I successfully managed a 2am on-call without crippling my ability to work for the next two days so I believe my health baseline is starting to improve.

- I think my long time spirit guide has actually identified himself to me, but the implications are beyond belief and I am still adjusting. I sense that these changes in the relationship are necessary before I will be ready to work with symbols for Level II.

- I have made no progress whatsoever on the issue of healees. Time to go back to my teacher, I think, on this issue.

Reiki Day 17 - My Cat's Input

Lately, whatever adjustment has been in progress with Reiki has seemed to largely go into the non-verbal sub-conscious giving me little to write about. As long as it has been, 10 days, it still feels too early to discern what the impacts have been. But something has come up I thought worth noting.

I was coughing some and have been using Reiki to help me calm my coughs, but my cat was half on my lap and half wrapped around my forearm and he determinedly was not moving. I didn't want my coughing to dislodge him, so I tried just putting one hand on my chest and resting into Reiki. The other hand was across the cat's side.

To my surprise, it worked! I could feel the Reiki flowing and my cough was able to still. Even more surprising, the cat, who usually only tolerates Reiki and that only sometimes, relaxed more and started purring. It felt like he and I were cradled together in God's hands, tucked in a blanket of love and affection and healing.

So it is apparently possible, and preferred by my cat, to do parallel channels. Or perhaps the relationship was the recipient?

Reiki Day 7 - Healees?

The recommendation is to do self-healing daily and at least three whole-body sessions on others per week for this 21ish day transition period. I'm one week in now and am clearly having no trouble with opportunities for self-healing. I have yet to do any whole-body sessions on others, though. My husband let me help a headache (more to humor me than anything else), but I realize I have no idea how to indicate services available to people I interact with. This must be a common problem, but if that were true wouldn't it be a common element in the training? I did a quick browse through the "Training Reiki" chapter of "Essential Reiki", but don't see anything about this there.

And it is always possible that this is one of those common relationship knowledge things I never learned.