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"There are so many things in human living that we should regard, not as traumatic learning, but as incomplete learning - unfinished learning."
Milton H. Erickson, MD 

BEing Reiki 

Below are presented two hands on healing sessions. Consciously ask yourself which one will be the most profound one and why?

This Session :
The practitioner sees himself as a channel. He believes that the Reiki is somewhere outside of himself hanging in the sky above him. When he starts the healing he feels that the Reiki comes in from above him into his crown going through his body and out through his hands into his client. He also sees the client as external from himself. In summary, he sees the healing as three separate elements; himself, the client and the Reiki.

This Session :
The practitioner sees herself as one with Reiki, it is nothing separate, she is the Reiki and everything outside of her is also Reiki. She also sees her client from this view point, so she is the client and the client is also her and Reiki - no separation, but oneness.
In summary, when she places her hands on her client she doesn't see it as "doing Reiki" or "channeling Reiki" but just "Being Reiki".

 

 
MAKOTO NO KOKYU HO
The 'Breath of Sincerity'

Makoto No Kokyu Ho can be practiced seated on the floor in either a cross-legged posture or in the seiza posture, or seated on a bench, couch, or other wide surface.As with all the developmental practices, choose a time and place where you are unlikely to be disturbed.And wherever you are doing this exercise - indoors or out, make sure (if seated on the floor) the floor/ground is both comfortable and warm. Do not practice this on cold floors/ground, do not practice in the cold, generally.

We will cover a simplified process also. A process than you can adapt, once you get a true sense of how it feels and its effect on connecting you to your essence and so to Reiki.

Sit up straight (comfortably so - no need for rigid military-style posture - this will only impede the technique).

Rest your hands, palms down, on your thighs.

Close your eyes and 'hara-centre' yourself: focus your awareness on your seika tanden - an area deep inside your body mid way between your navel and the top of your pubic bone.

For a few moments, simply 'be' - silently and restfully 'watching the breath': loosely focussing on the natural rhythms of your breathing. There is no interference with the natural process - no seeking to consciously breathe - merely to be aware that you are breathing effortlessly...

After a few moments, gently open your eyes ever so slightly and focus loosely on a point about one metre or so in front of you. 
This can be either a point on the floor, or in the air - alternatively, prior to beginning the practice, you might like to position yourself so that you are facing a wall about a metre away from you. [Whether bring your gaze to rest on the wall, or in mid air, or on the floor, there should not be any specific image, object, etc used as a focal-point; e.g. if gazing at a wall, choose a blank area of the wall to focus on]
 
*Breathing the Light*
In your mind's-eye see and feel the Reiki energy flowing in towards you from the universe - flowing from every direction, as a stream of crystal clear golden light. And as you breathe in - naturally, effortlessly - the light floods into you, suffusing your entire body, filling your seika tanden. In the moment before your body - naturally, effortlessly - begins to exhale, be aware of the light: feel it growing stronger and brighter, in your seika tanden and radiating throughout your entire body, supporting the positive energetic integrity of your entire being.

As your body exhales, be aware that you are emanating the light from every single pore - from the entire surface of your being - and the light emanates out in all directions, bathing your immediate surroundings in a golden radiance.

Naturally, effortlessly, let your body repeat the process - the golden light following your breath. Feel and see it filling you as your body inhales, growing stronger and brighter, then emanating out beyond you as your body exhales - gently, easily...

Stay with this experience - this 'awareness of the light' for about eight or ten breaths; eyes still loosely focussed about a metre in front of you.

After a moment, keeping the tips of your thumbs, index and middle fingers in contact with each other, open your hands outward slightly, so that your little ('pinkie') and 'ring' fingers separate - Allow your body to maintain its own natural breathing rhythm. There is no interference with the natural process - no seeking to consciously breathe - merely to be aware that you are breathing effortlessly.

 

When you are ready, raise your hands from your legs and place your palms together in gassho - the 'prayer position' - fingertips at about the level of your throat. The outer edge of your palms should be at least a couple of inches apart.

Loosely maintaining this 'open gassho' gesture with your hands, smoothly lower your forearms so as to position your hands in front of your solar plexus.

Let your body 'breathe the light' again for three effortless repetitions:

As you breathe in - naturally, effortlessly - the light floods into you, suffusing your entire body, filling your seika tanden.

 

In the moment before your body - naturally, effortlessly - begins to exhale, be aware of the light: feel it growing stronger and brighter, in your seika tanden and radiating throughout your entire body, supporting the positive energetic integrity of your entire being.

As your body exhales, be aware that you are emanating the light from every single pore - from the entire surface of your being - and the light emanates out in all directions, bathing your immediate surroundings in a golden radiance.

And as your body naturally, effortlessly, begins to exhale for the third time, smoothly raise your hands up towards your forehead.

As you do so, allow your hands to gradually 'open' even more - only the tips of your thumbs and index fingers remaining in contact - so that by the time you reach your forehead, you are performing a gesture known as the 'sun mudra' or 'sun-ring mudra' (nichi-rin in): The backs of your hands are opened flat against your brow, you are forming a triangular space between your index fingers and thumbs, and the other fingers are very slightly splayed. The centre of the triangle frames your third eye.Coordinate the raising of your hands with your breathing so that your hands reach your forehead just as you complete the exhalation
 
Continue to let your body 'breathe the light', and as you inhale - aware of the influx of golden light - intone the seed-syllable "On". While doing so, part your hands, moving them out and down to your sides in an arcing motion, bringing your fingertips to rest touching the floor or bench, etc. beneath you- coordinate the lowering of your hands with your breathing so that your fingertips reach the surface of the bench, floor etc. just as you complete the inhalation. Let your hands remain in this position while you effortlessly exhale again, emanating the light, bathing your immediate surroundings in a golden radiance.

As your body inhales once more, smoothly move your hands to your abdomen - placing your right hand on your seika tanden, your left hand covering your right.

 Let yourself experience the sensation of Reiki in your seika tanden as you continue to 'breathe the light' (remember, even now your eyes are still ever so slightly open and focussed loosely on a point about one metre or so in front of you).

Stay with the sensation in your seika tanden for a few moments - let yourself experience it as fully as you are able. When you feel ready, return your hands to their initial position, palms down on your thighs. Repeat the whole process starting at: *Breathing the Light* again as many times as you feel inspired to so do.

 When you recognise that enough has been achieved for the current session, perform gassho rei - the 'gassho bow' - acknowledging the light of Reiki within you.



Wholeness
To see the whole directly means to see before thinking, without timefor analysis or discrimination. If we look at things with our thoughts, we see only a portion, and if we use intellect before we see understanding is superficial. More can be learned through the power of seeing the whole directly then through intellection.
The Unknown Craftsman - A Japanese Insight into Beauty by Soetsu Yanagi
 

How to experience the whole directly and just BE

This analogy gives a sense of what this is, see the leaf as your focus on your core essence at the Tanden flowing forth from your river to the recipients: Your client is like a river of energy and you are a leaf. Just let the leaf fall into the river of energy, which then takes the leaf here and there. The leaf sometimes lingers, sometimes swirls, and sometimes moves quickly. It doesn't judge whether one movement is better than another; it is simply one with the river of energy.

During byosan reikan ho, just place your hands in the river of energy and let them be guided by the energy. They linger here, they move there. No need to judge if an area feels hot, cold or tingly. Just experience the heat, cold, or tingling. By just experiencing the sensation, true intuition will become more and more apparent within the practitioner

As Mrs Takata used to say, "Reiki will guide you". Reiki is our true self in its purity, without the intellect taking over and analyzing things.





 Reikipathway looks at Science

Dr Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist who smashes through the mechanistic scientific paradigm in which science is now stuck. Most people hold an unquestioned reverence for science, not appreciating that the mainstream field of scientific endeavour has been dominated by the mechanistic view to the extent that the mechanistic view has all the characteristics, ironically, of a religion. However, the mechanistic view of the universe does not and cannot account for anything outside of the Newtonian physics level. Once the mechanistic science paradigm hit the quantum level, it floundered, and is still floundering.

In 1981 Rupert Sheldrake outraged the scientific establishment with his hypothesis of morphic resonance. A morphogenetic field is a hypothetical biological field that contains the information necessary to shape the exact form of a living thing. A presentation at the Biology of Transformation Conference in 2007

Click HERE for link to his Talks

 

The Tanden: Your Essence Centre -

for  immediate connection put your attention there. One fist width behind where you get that butterfly feeling and angled down to ward the base of your spine.

The Seika tanden (commonly referred to simply as the tanden) is an energy 'centre' or area - about the size of a grapefruit - located deep inside the 'hara', roughly mid way between the top of the pubic bone and the navel.

The term Seika simply refers to 'below the Navel'. The word Tanden is the Japanese equivalent of the Chinese: Tan Tien (also: dan tian) or 'field of the elixir'.

Seika Tanden is also known as the Kikai ('Ocean of Ki') Tanden, and as Seika no Itten (the 'One Point' below the Navel)
[In some western Energy Disciplines it is referred to as the 'Lunar Plexus'.]

Physically speaking it is the body's center of gravity.

It is said that Ki is moved by the mind "... where the attention goes, ki flows..."

To effortlessly focus the awareness* (thought-feeling) in seika tanden is to place one's energy there.

Also, by placing effortless emphasis and energy at this area in the lower abdomen, integration of body and mind is deepened and strengthened, and the Spirit is dynamically grounded in the Present Moment.

* [which is not the same as concentration - the latter intimating as it does of willfulness]

Traditional Japanese disciplines - martial, spiritual, therapeutic or artistic - tend to speak of a single tanden.

However, in Japan there are also several disciplines - either of Chinese origin or alternatively heavily influenced by Chinese Chi Gung philosophy - which speak of three tandens:

The Lower (Shimo) Tanden (also: Ge Tanden)
[essentially the same as the seika tanden]
- located deep inside the 'hara'

The Middle (Naka) Tanden (also: Chu Tanden)
- located inside the chest at about the heart level

The Upper (Kami) Tanden (also: Jo Tanden)
- located in the middle of the head between the eyes

 



 

You must be the change you wish to see in the world - Ghandi