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Radical Life

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Contents
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Introduction Being attuned to Reiki A word of warning Our intention Gurus or Masters Independence Candle magic Its all about you The message In the beginning Drifting back in time A personal story Try to imagine being dead An exercise for you to try An extraordinary thought Belief in God Two choices The path of ignorance The Laws of God? Trusting in God Out of touch religions Moving beyond religion Religions are at fault Back to the beginning again Our belief system How can you experience magnificence? The opposite has to exist The energetic universe begins The thought of creation The physical universe begins Our various bodys The planes of existence Be physical in a physical universe The history of Reiki The Western version Dr Usui leaves Japan Mount Kurama Dr Usui sees the light The first miracle Dr Chujiro Hayashi

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Mrs Hawayo Takata The Eastern version Dr Usuis Satori Usui not a Christian No Grandmaster title The five principles Interpreting the word Reiki The Reiki Attunement The Power Symbol The Mental/Emotional Symbol The Distance Symbol The Usui Master Symbol The Tibetan Master Symbol The Fire Serpent Symbol How to draw the Symbols Self Initiation and Attunement So, whats just happened? What you may experience Using the Symbols Activating the Symbols Power Symbol uses Mental/Emotional Symbol uses Distance Symbol uses Experiences after Initiation Healing others Giving a Reiki treatment The taboo of touch Understanding illness Why illness will never be eradicated You are what you absorb The real you is a three part being Dont just use logic How about intuition? Why just intellect? Use the whole of you Body Talk You are your own expert Dont be one-dimensional Using prayer Hardship and Pain? A few misunderstandings Bad Karma Good Karma Errors in Karmic Law Cause and effect

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Life works the way you want it to Belief Super conscious mind Becoming one Being alone Oneness Unconditional love Reiki hand positions 1 Reiki hand positions 2 Chakras

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Introduction.

ello there, come in, come in, dont be shy welcome, welcome. First of all, allow us to thank you for buying this book on Radical Reiki Radical Life. If youre feeling a little mixed in your emotions right now, dont worry, its quite all right, in fact its quite understandable.

On the one hand you may be feeling somewhat nervous and excited, hoping beyond hope that this book lives up to all your expectations. On the other you may be feeling a little fearful in case it doesnt. And there in the background may be lurking a little disappointment, because, after the excitement of building yourself up to the buying decision - the book has now actually arrived on your computer and its very arrival may have begun to burst those delicate bubbles of expectation and hope. We do understand these feelings as weve already said, but be assured, we will do our best to live up to the promise of our marketing. Our aim is to help you discover the wonders of Reiki for yourself, and also to give you the tiniest glimpse into our metaphysical world. We want to help you see, maybe for the first time, the glorious you that you truly are - Strong, powerful, beautiful, unstoppable and most importantly - divine. You are about to embark on a journey of discovery. A journey of self-discovery, to be more precise, which can lead you to a place of contentment, meaning, fulfilment, happiness and joy. Notice we have said a journey of discovery not a journey of learning. There is nothing in life that you have to learn. Let us repeat that for more emphasis. There is nothing in life you have to learn. You already know all that there is to know.

This book has been written to gently remind you of this knowledge and help bring it more fully into your waking consciousness. It is, therefore, a process of rediscovering that which you already know to be true. Its about remembering who you are and why you are here. You see, you are an incredibly powerful spiritual being; only you have chosen to forget all about it. You have chosen to experience temporary spiritual amnesia. We are going to act as the catalyst to help you restore your memory and return you to your senses. Through reading these pages it is our wish that you become more fully aware of the incredible power you hold within yourself.

Being attuned to Reiki

Up until now, the only way you could have been attuned to Reiki was if you had attended classes run by an existing Reiki Master. Now this was fine, as far as it went. Indeed, we taught Reiki in this way ourselves for many years. But the problem was this It precluded everyone who couldnt afford the fairly high fees. This is very unfortunate. For it is our belief that the world is crying out for the kind of help which people attuned to Reiki can give. And this help needs to be given right NOW. We cannot afford to wait a moment longer. The more people able to attune themselves to the energy of Reiki, the better off we all will be. How so? Well There is little doubting that our wonderful planet is presently facing some rather dire problems. And it is no great secret that these problems are beginning to threaten the very survival of humanity itself. It is also no great secret that it is humanity itself who are creating these problems. So If more people where to become attuned to Reiki it would begin to raise the consciousness, awareness and understanding of more and more individuals. And

As the only way to change the outer world is to first change the inner world of each individual person, it follows that the more internal worlds changed by Reiki the more quickly the outer world will change too. This is why we decided to share, within the pages of this book, an extremely powerful self-initiation process, which will correctly attune anyone to the wonderful energy of Reiki. And we make no apologies for doing so. We are acutely aware that the Reiki purists will throw up their arms in horror. They will claim that this should never have been done its not right its not proper etc. But thats okay, in time they will come to appreciate the necessity for it. The survival of our world needs everyone to have Reiki now, not at some distant time in the future. Reiki is a living, growing, ever expanding art it cannot be left in the hands of just the few. Welcome to the Reiki Revolution.

This book has been written, therefore, with the intention of changing your life and the direction of our world forever. We want you to read it and feel Wow, I can do this I have to do this. Our aim is to inspire you to discover Reiki for yourself and to encourage you to begin walking your own Reiki path. Notice we say your own Reiki path

because Reiki, as far as we are concerned, is all about freedom. Freedom to become who you want to become and to live your life the way you want to live it. The way that life is supposed to be lived. In other words Reiki will help guide you towards living the kind of life you may only have dreamed of living. And this book, we hope, will help guide you towards your own Reiki.

A Word of Warning
However before you go any further we feel compelled to issue you with the following warning Please do not expect a solemn, dusty old tome, which tells you exactly what to do and exactly how to do it. This book will never do that. You see that would just disempower you - and we have no wish to do that. We want to fill you with a true sense of your own magnificence and, most importantly, a grand understanding of your own absolute, inviolate, impeccable sovereignty. Oh yes, one other thing, before we move on. This book may challenge your present way of thinking, so we would just like you to consider this Your mind is like an umbrella in the rain - if its open it works, if its closed...

Our intention
Our goal then, is to provide a solid platform of understanding from which you can go on to build and develop your own dynamic belief system. And this is a very important point. We do not want to enforce our belief systems on anyone. What works well for us might not necessarily work as well for you. Truth, as you will discover, is not absolute. What is true for you today might not be true for you tomorrow. We like the idea of providing roots and wings. Roots to keep you grounded in reality- wings to help you fly through dreaming glorious dreams. You see, this is one of the major problems with life today. People dont have dreams anymore. Depression is at epidemic proportions because of this. People either dont have dreams or, if they do, dont believe they can come true. People have to have dreams it is imperative. And Reiki can help you both create and achieve them.

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Now just a quick word on

Gurus or Masters
We are most certainly not about becoming your Guru or your Master and taking away your power. You are your own master and we seek only to help empower you to the point where you understand this quite clearly yourself. We do not hold with all these different societies and associations that are constantly springing up to encircle and restrict not only the development of Reiki but the development of you as a person as well. It is not our intention to form any sort of elitist club of which membership is compulsory.

Independence
Independence, on the other hand, certainly is what we are about. We are of the opinion that powerful, knowledgeable, independent Reiki Masters are a must and a veritable boon to the world and, indeed, the planet itself. A true Guru, Master or leader is merely a signpost pointing the way. They will encourage you to look in the direction they are pointing, not to look at their finger. In other words listen to what they have to say, and if it sounds and feels right, and works for you, then assimilate what they are saying into your life. They are not looking for followers, they are not asking you to just sit at their feet revering them, thinking how wonderful they are.

These people know you can be, and want you to become, the same as they are. They seek only to empower you. Even Christianity and the Bible implies a similar thing when Jesus said something along the lines of All that I have done, you can do and more. We do not want you to become a follower of anyone or, indeed, anything. You are the power. Our aim is to encourage and empower you towards that realisation. Some people give away their power to a technique or a ritual. They think it is the technique, ceremony or ritual etc which will give them the power or ability to do whatever it is that they are wanting to do. This is a total misunderstanding and we want you to see through it right away. Take, for example, the process of

Candle magic
In candle magic you are told to buy candles of a certain colour for the various different ceremonies you wish to perform. Red for achieving one type of magic spell, green for another black for something else etc. You have to prepare an altar in a part of your house and treat the area with great reverence. The particular ceremony you wish to carry out for whatever it is you wish to achieve, has to be performed on a certain day or night at a certain time. You have to cleanse your body in a certain way and

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dress in a certain colour and sometimes at certain times, maybe, even have to be naked. The particular candle or candles, which you are going to use, have to be cleansed and purified in a certain way and are then written on with a needle or similar device. You write on them whatever it is you wish to achieve, usually three times, ie. more money, return of a lost love, more success etc. You then place these candles on your altar. At the appropriate time you have to go to your altar and taking your candle or candles, whatever is appropriate, you intone the particular incantation, place the candle in the correct position on the altar and light it. All of the above is carried out in secrecy and total reverence. If the ceremony has been performed correctly, you are told, you will be successful. Doesnt that sound great? It might even be worth having a go ourselves, eh! What do you think? Were only joking, dont go out buying any candles. Just be aware that these ceremonies can and very often do accomplish what they set out to accomplish. The important thing is to understand how and why they work. Its not the ceremony that makes the spell work its YOU.

Its all about you

Everything about the ritual is designed to focus you on what you want to accomplish.

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All the various tasks you have to perform work to affirm and reaffirm your singular intention. They engender within you a deep belief in the outcome. You intend that the spell will work and so it does. It is purely your intention. You are the magic. The ritual and ceremony themselves are really just the window dressing - they set the scene. They are not important. It is not important, either, which colour candles you have or whether you have any candles at all. It doesnt really matter what time of the day, day of the month, what you are or, conversely, are not wearing or even whether you are choosing to use an altar. All of these things are quite unimportant. All of these things can be taken out of the equation and the spell will still work. The only thing that cannot be taken out of the equation is YOU. YOU and your belief are the important thing, indeed the only thing, and anything that causes you to believe is helpful, in fact - it is crucial.

The Message
So, are you getting the message loud and clear? YOU are the power in your life. YOU just

YOU.

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There is no thing and no one more powerful than you. We seek to bring this realisation more fully into your waking consciousness and we have chosen the vehicle of Reiki to carry the message. Okay, now before we move on to the Reiki itself, which we will do soon enough - honest, we think it would be advantageous to have a little delve beneath the surface of some

More esoteric matters

So how about starting the ball rolling with a nice, easy to get your head round subject like Where do we come from and why have we come??? Could be good for a few sentences dont you think?

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Long, long ago in a time before time, their existed an extraordinarily powerful energy source which began speculating about who and what it was. It began to wonder about Sounds like the beginning of a science fiction novel doesnt it? But is it too far from the truth?

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In the beginning
If you were to try imagining back to what it must have been like in the beginning. Right back to the very, very beginning of time, yes even before television. What would you come up with? What do you think, what do you feel would have been taking place? Just for the next couple of minutes, close your eyes and give it a try.

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What, back so soon? Have you given it a go? Come on now, you can be honest with us. Did you, really? Or are you just happy to read on and let us give you some of our thoughts on the matter? Its quite okay. We realise that some of you will have given it a go, but probably most of you didnt. And thats fine. Its just the way it should be.

Drifting back in time

Okay, so lets go together. Lets get ourselves comfortable, and drift slowly back in time using our imaginations. Back, back, slowly back.

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Let all of recorded history, the personal history you remember and the cosmic history you dont, just rewind in your head. Where do you imagine we would be? What can you see? Are we still standing on a planet? If so, we havent gone back far enough yet. Weve got to go back before the existence of matter. Weve got to go way, way back to before the universe began. Now, what do you imagine there would be, back before the universe began? Are we still in our bodies? Got to go back further. Is there still a we? Got to go back even further. Now, is there just a you? Are you still in a body? If so, go back a tiny bit more. Is there just the purity of you there now? Just your consciousness, your energy? Are you still there? Is there anything else? Okay hold on to this thought, this feeling, for a moment. If you have really got into this last piece of dialogue, and we mean really got into it, you might have noticed something or felt something, quite profound. If you have, excellent, if not just bear with us a little bit longer whilst we tell you a story that might just help.

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A personal story
The story just happens to be about Chris one of the writers of this book. When I was growing up my family werent particularly religious in any noticeable way. We didnt go to church or Sunday school and I dont remember seeing any religious icons in the house. However, when I was about nine or ten I asked my mother what would happen to me when I died. Her reply shocked me to my core. She said to me, There wont be a you any more, when youre dead, youre dead. I thought she was just having a joke with me and so I waited for her to laugh, but she didnt. She was quite serious. This was her belief, and she had no trouble in passing it on to me. For me it was one of those moments, you know the type I mean, one of those real key moments in life that rocks your very foundations. For my mother it was nothing, she just whisked away and got on with her day. I was left devastated. The statement gnawed at me all through the rest of the day, and going to bed that night was, well a nightmare. I didnt dare go to sleep in case I died, and there would be nothing else. It was dreadful, and I didnt know what to do.

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Trying to imagine being dead

This went on for weeks and weeks. At night Id lie in bed for ages trying to keep myself awake. For some reason I only seemed to think I would die if I went to sleep. Every night I would lie there trying to imagine what it would like to be dead. Trying to imagine what it would be like if there was no more me. No more me! Nothing. Nothing at all but blackness - for all eternity. It must have begun to take its toll on me physically, but no one appeared to notice. I dont remember anyone taking me to one side and asking me if everything was all right, and I didnt dare discuss it with anyone else in the family. My mother was always right.

Everything changed
Then, one night, whilst I was going through the awful imaginings of total blackness and total nothingness for all eternity, a little light of understanding came on in my head. Perhaps it was a satori, a fleeting moment of enlightened thought, because nothing ever seemed so dark and black afterwards.

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I suddenly realised that in all the nights of horror that I had gone through, trying to imagine total nothingness - there was always a part of me observing it all. A part of me that could not be extinguished no matter how hard I tried. I suddenly knew, with absolute certainty that a part of me would not, indeed could not, ever die! It was a moment of total exhilaration. All the dark horrors were forced away. There now seemed to be a light shining within my head, and it was wonderful. I could never, ever die. I was immortal - the realisation was almost overwhelming. I wanted to shout it out loud, to tell everyone, but I couldnt. The sad fact was I didnt have anyone to share it with; I had no one who I could tell. In fact I have only ever shared this with just a tiny handful of people, and now Ive shared it with you.

Back to the script

So, back to that thought we were holding from several paragraphs back. The profound thought or feeling you may have had is the very same one I had all those years ago. There is a part of you that cannot be extinguished, a part of you that is always observing. You can travel right back in time in your imagination, as we have just done, or you can do it the

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way I did it as a child, by trying to imagine yourself dead. It doesnt really matter which way you try. What you will find is the same. You cannot disassociate yourself from existence. You cannot - not be!

An exercise for you to try

When youve got a spare minute then, perhaps tonight in bed, really do have a proper go at this exercise. Take yourself back to the beginning of the universe again and try to feel what it was like. We say feel rather than think, because trying to use your head to figure all this out, makes it very difficult indeed. Logic is not going to be of much help to you on this journey. Feelings are the name of the game here. Really reach out with your feelings. Ask yourself what would there be at the beginning of time and wait for your feelings - your intuition - that still small voice inside of you, to answer. Or ask yourself what it would be like to be dead for all eternity, and again wait for your feelings or intuition to answer. If nothing comes up for you, in terms of answers, dont worry. Its the knowing that some part of you is always there thats the important bit. The understanding that you cannot - not be. The knowing that no matter what happens you, as a consciousness, are immortal.

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An extraordinary thought
Really play with this thought, this idea that you have always been here. That there has never been a time - when you were not here. Indeed, dare to think the thought, dare to feel the feeling that Long, long ago in a time before time, their existed an extraordinarily powerful energy source which began speculating about who and what it was.

And that extraordinarily powerful energy source was, YOU.

Wow, how does that make you feel? It somehow feels right, doesnt it? You maybe cant put your finger on it at this moment, but somewhere deep, deep inside, it just feels right. Now we hope youve brought your umbrella with you because yes, thats correct. We are suggesting that

YOU are God!

Right oh then. Please take a break now and consider what has been said. Go and do the exercise we have just suggested, then come back and well continue. Go on now off you go. Youre not going to miss anything. We wont go any further until you come back we promise. Well just wait right here.

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Did you do it? Did you? Only you know the answer to that one. But well give you the benefit of the doubt, should we? And accept that you really, really did or really, really meant to, or really, really will or would have, if only you had had the time, the energy, the patience, the .. (You can fill in the blank with your very own really, real excuse). If you did do the exercise, great, if you didnt thats okay too. Just remember, though, that the more you put into this book the more you will get out of it. Anyway lets carry on regardless. We left you with the thought, the feeling, that the extraordinarily powerful energy source God could actually be you. Now some of you may have had a little trouble with that, and some may be having trouble in believing in the concept of there being a God, any God, at all. So lets delve a little more deeply into this subject right now. This is, of course, only for those people who cannot yet accept that THEY are God.

Belief in God
Belief in God has had some real bad press just recently, so its understandable if people seem a little reluctant to accept His reality. (Throughout this book, by the way, we are going to refer to God as being He, so please dont be offended by this. We do realise that God has no gender, or to be more precise is every

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gender, its just easier to make reference in the masculine form whilst writing. It gets very tedious having to write Him/Her, He/She etc all the time. We know you will understand because, after all, you are God). People, quite rightly, question the existence of a God who can let all the atrocities that occur in the world, take place. Why, they say, if there is a God would He let all these things happen? How could a being so immensely powerful, who is supposed to be so compassionate and loving, allow people to starve to death? Why would He allow all these wars to take place? Why would He permit anything bad to happen to anyone? Surely if there is a God, He must be powerful enough to fix all these things at a stroke, mustnt He? So, you reason, if there is a God and He is powerful enough to fix all these things, as He should be if He is a God, and He does not, it can only mean one of two things

Two choices
1. There is a God but He doesnt really care enough about us to help. Or 2. There is no God. Now if statement number 1 is true, we have a couple of ways in which we can proceed. We can try to figure out a way to get Him to like and love us or we can say Why should we take any

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notice of a God who doesnt love us and wont take care of us? And just ignore the whole subject altogether.

The path of ignorance

Many, many people have chosen this latter path. The path of ignore-ance. But how can this prevailing attitude be changed? How can anyone be encouraged to choose the possibility of God, over the comfort of ignorance? By raising the consciousness of people to another level. And how do we do this? Yes, you guessed it, through Reiki, of course. But before we get onto that subject, lets examine what happens to the people who want to figure out how to get God to love and care for them. People wanting to discover the way to this kind of reality usually follow the directions given in some kind of organised religion. It doesnt really matter which particular one is followed, and quite often their family has already chosen it for them anyway. All religions are attempting to lead their followers in a similar direction. And all are useful - until they are not, and thats when the trouble starts.

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The Laws of God?

Religions require strict adherence to the rules and regulations as set out by the founder of their particular religion. Most purporting to having received these rules directly from God or some other Supreme Being. The implication from all being you wont receive the love and care of God unless you abide by our rules, which they have now imperiously called The Laws of God. Now what people seem to forget when they are being guided by these religions is that these religions are often many hundreds of years old. The rules and regulations, sorry Laws of God, were made in times when the people werent quite as sophisticated as they are today. They were in abject fear and awe of their religious leaders. But that is no longer the case in some countries today. Some of these people are beginning to ask questions of their religion.

Do not question the wisdom of God

True Believers would say, we must not question the wisdom of God, because God works in mysterious ways. But for some people - people in hardship and pain - people suffering from the most horrendous atrocities - people watching their children die because

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of religious wars or for the want of a little food and some clean water. To these people, this answer doesnt come anywhere near to being enough. So the True Believers change tack a little. They then tell us that the suffering we are experiencing will make us better people. They say it is like making a better quality of steel. The more heat and the more hammering it takes, the stronger and purer, it will be. And this, they say, is what is actually happening and that we should bear with it. If this still does not pacify us, True Believers tell us that because of our massive suffering we must be special people and will get tremendous rewards in heaven.

People begin to doubt their religion

Now with all of this going on, is it not surprising that people begin to doubt their religion? Well, fortunately, they do but, unfortunately, they also begin to doubt in God. When things are at their darkest and you cry out to God for help. When you have taken so much - and you cant take anymore. You know that God has been watching. You know He has seen your suffering. Seen this hardship and pain that you have endured. You know that He knows this is more than any one person should ever be allowed to bear.

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Trusting in God
You desperately want to trust in God. You want to believe that He will only allow so much suffering to happen to you, and then mercifully, make it stop. You know that this is how it is supposed to work. But the pain and the suffering continue. God does not answer your prayers. You cry and beseech. You pray harder and implore. You make threats and then beg for forgiveness. You promise youll be good from now on. You try to make bargains you know youll never keep. You try everything you can, until finally, you get so angry and disillusioned that

You stop believing altogether

It is much easier to say you dont believe. You find out that there are thousands, indeed, millions of people who dont believe. In fact it is quite cool not to believe. You wonder at how you could have been so foolish to have been taken in by all this nonsense in the first place. A God that looks after us - how ridiculous. It somehow makes you feel better, now that youve seen through the hoax. Things might not actually be any better, but at least youve found out the truth.

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This is a scenario that takes place on a daily basis around the world, and has done so for many, many years. It will probably carry on for many, many more years too. The True Believers would have it that everything has just been a test of your faith. And the fact that you have lost this faith is proof that you are not worthy - are somehow inferior because you weakened. This is a favourite ploy. Making you feel unworthy and inferior makes them feel worthy and superior. At this late stage, however, it cuts no ice, and you continue to say you disbelieve. Except, against all the odds, a part of you, maybe a very small part of you, has still not given up completely. It wont be denied; it some how knows better.

Out of touch religions

This is the experience of too many people. Too many people have been let down. And the clichs and platitudes that trip easily from the tongues of these out of touch religious leaders do not help. People do not want to hear that they will get their rewards in heaven. They do not want to hear that life is supposed to be a school full of hardship and pain. A place where you come solely to learn how to bear suffering because it will somehow make you a better person. To the people of today these things no longer make any sense.

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And to these people who have had this kind of experience with their religion, we offer the following words of hope. All religions are entirely man made. They do not represent the word of God in any way shape or form. The rules and regulations that they adhere to are simply that rules and regulations they are not Laws of God they were just made up by man. If you are still involved with a religion and it works for you, then thats great. We have no problem with that. As we have already said, all religions are useful until they are not, and what we mean by that is this

Religions are okay when first starting out

Religions offer a well-trodden path that you can follow. They are perfect for when you are just starting out and you need to know what to do, when to do it and who to turn to for advice if it is needed. Theyre kind of like a paint-by-numbers picture. If you stay within the marked lines they allow you to create a passable painting, whilst not being too demanding. And you also get to practice some of the more elementary techniques in a very safe environment. The problem is, of course, you can only end up with the picture that they have carefully outlined for

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you. You cannot use your own free will to be wonderfully and spontaneously creative. Now if you are quite happy to be a paint-bynumbers artist this approach is absolutely fine. If you want to be a great artist in your own right, however, you might find it a bit limiting. And this, you will discover, holds true for all religions as well.

Moving beyond religion

Once you have reached this point, the point when you begin to realise that there must be something more. Wouldnt it be nice if the religion, and the religious leaders themselves, said to you Well done. You have come as far as we can take you. It is now time to walk your own path for we do not wish to limit your growth. The guidance you require for your next steps will come from within you. You must now learn to meditate and follow your own counsel. And dont worry, well always be here to help if you need us. Wouldnt that be nice? Wouldnt it be nice for a religion to be honest enough with you to say these things? To actively promote and support your individual emergence as a powerful spiritual being in your own right. But they dont, and they wont. Why? Because religion is very big business.

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The machinery behind these religions is vast and very expensive. The people earning their livings from these religions is vast. The power, prestige and social standing awarded to these people is vast. And theyre not about to give any of this up without a fight. Without you, they are out of business.

The religious myths continue

So the myths that have been set up by these religious bodies continue on unabated. Sure, they are modifying some of their dogma, but this is because they are having to. They are losing punters, their life-blood, in droves. It would be nice to think that religion is changing, growing and developing out of some kind of spiritual enlightenment, but unfortunately it is purely economic. It is not, therefore, in their interests for you to leave their religion. It never has been. They will threaten you with all kinds of punishments that will be meted out by a harsh and unforgiving God. For God, it seems, will only play ball with you, if you play ball with Him. He will only be a loving, caring and understanding God if you do as He says. He will not be best pleased if you try to do things your own way and He will punish you mightily.

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Lets look at that more closely

Now come on. First of all the religion tells you that you will only be looked after by God if you adhere to the doctrines as put forward by their religion. The only One True Religion, of course but then they all tell you that dont they? Then they say that this wonderful, loving, compassionate all powerful God of theirs, - The Only One True God of course, but then they all tell you that as well, dont they? - will punish you for all eternity if you dont comply. Does this really make any sense? Does this almighty being not appear to be acting suspiciously like The Devil? The absolute antithesis of everything God is supposed to represent. Well we dont know about you, but it sure does sound like ol Nick to us. You see, to us, God represents love, life, freedom and joy. Pure love - eternal life - absolute freedom unlimited joy. Anything else is a lie made up by man. So lets be clear. The long and the short of it is this The present understanding of Gods Will and Gods Laws etc. comes from one source Religion. These religions claim to have got their information

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directly from God Himself, but usually through human intermediaries In other words we are supposed to believe in what other people said happened to them, hundreds of years ago. We are supposed to believe that these few special individuals were the only ones capable of communicating with God. And accept without question that no one else was, is or ever will be capable of doing the same - ever again. Well, excuse us for saying so. But does that make any sense at all? Is that really acceptable to you?

Religions are at fault

Were sorry but to us it is quite clear. It is the religions that are at fault here, not God. The religions do not represent the word of God, they only say that they do, and they have hoodwinked too many people for quite long enough! Religion is one of the foremost institutions for removing, suppressing and controlling every single drop of you and your divine power. If you are at all religious, please understand that we are not having a go at your particular religion. No, we are having a go at all the organised religions, each and every one of them. There is probably not one single religion on the face of this planet, which seeks to empower you to the point of Godhead. They all seek to control you and keep you in fear and bondage.

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Most religions spring from the same root. In other words almost every religion that people are following today developed from, or has derived elements from, another religion that came before it. There are no truly unique religions and they are all man made as we have said earlier. Yes, we would have to agree that as everyone is a part of God then every religion would have to have been divinely inspired. But they have all been corrupted by mans desire to dominate and control. Even the ones, which began with noble intentions, have succumbed to the distortions of their later leaders. And another interesting fact is that most of them are derived originally from a worship of the sun, yes, even Christianity. What is required is clarity. An understanding of who and what God is, that comes from within each and every individual. You have not, do not and never will have the need for an intermediary to communicate with God, because

God is inside of you right now. Because, God is you and you are God.

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God does not create all the atrocities occurring in our world today, we do. We have chosen to experience these things and God/We have given ourselves the freedom to have these experiences. It cannot happen any other way. God will never over-rule us, because He cannot. Our will is His will. Now let this really sink in

Our will is Gods will because Gods will is our will. Back to the beginning again
Now lets just go back again to the beginning of time. To that place we are becoming more familiar with. If you have really tried the exercise we asked you to try, you will know that it is not possible to imagine that there has ever been a time when you were not. There has never been a time of complete nothingness. Okay, so stretch with this a little, and bring your brollies if you need to.

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If you can accept that there must have been a beginning. A somewhere, a sometime when it all began. You can do this cant you? Yes? Good. What, or who, do you think was there at that moment? Yes, we know this can conjure up images of chickens and eggs, but lay that aside for a minute. (Apologies for the awful pun). Is it easier to imagine that there was some kind of other energy there, along with you, rather than some kind of inanimate object? Is it easier to imagine that this energy had some kind of intelligence or consciousness rather than being inert? We know that this is not easy, but what were trying to do is get you to a place where you can allow the possibility. For most people who have given this subject some serious consideration, and many people have, their conclusions, albeit probably not conclusive, are usually along the lines of - it must have started somewhere. If you really cant accept that there was a beginning, and that there must have been some sort of energy there. What else is there that you can accept? Most scientists put forward the theory of the Big Bang as being the beginning of the universe. In fact this theory is becoming the generally accepted reality. Others dont agree at all. But the thing is, they all agree on one thing there must have been a beginning. As weve said, its very chicken and egg, but we think that it all boils down (not a pun!) to just the one question

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Our belief system

We have gone back to this point, and meditated on it many, many times. Our understanding, drawn from these experiences, is that it all started with the energy of consciousness. This consciousness had great intelligence, wisdom and compassion. This energy was all that there was, and it knew that it was all that there was. Because we are unable to imagine a time when we were not - and are also unable to imagine a time when we will not ever be we know that we were, and are, part of this consciousness. For you reading this book, that knowing may not yet be. But we hope to change that. Our own journey to this realisation also originally started out in hope. We hoped that what we were feeling and understanding was true. After a while this hope changed into a tentative belief that it was true. This belief eventually, after much trial and error, became a knowing. We now hope to engender within you this same kind of knowing.

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Back to the beginning, once more

So, back to this conscious energy source at the beginning of time once again. (We hope you will forgive us for all these happy returns but it was, after all, your birthday). As we have said, you existed as a part of this energy and everything was incredibly marvellous. You were all there was and you were magnificent. Now being all there was and being incredibly marvellous was all very well and good, but it was also just a bit too conceptual A tad too much on the theoretical side for your liking. It was bordering on the all talk no action way of life - you know, like trying to learn to ride a bike just by reading a book about it. Not very practical because it leaves you thinking you know how to do it until you get on the bike, then whoops, youre instantly upside down in a heap. You wanted to experience what it was like to be magnificent. You wanted to ride that bike, you wanted to feel that wind, feel what it was like to be upside down. You wanted to get down and boogie a little. So how do you do it? How do you get out there and start experiencing things? Now remember, you are all there is and, out there doesnt exist - yet. There is nothing at all that exists that is not a part of you. You are the everything of everything, the whole kit and caboodle.

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It might also be worth mentioning at this point, that you are also the everything of that which is not, as well.

How can you experience magnificence?

How can you experience magnificence when magnificence is all there is? How can you experience beauty, when beauty is all there is? How can you experience up when up is all there is or down when down is all there is? Its just not possible. And you knew this. You knew that to have the experiences that you desired it was going to be necessary to change everything. So that is what you did!

The opposite has to exist

You knew that to have the experience of anything, the opposite of what you are wanting to experience would have to exist too. But at this point there was only you, there was in effect, no not you. So you decided to do the only thing you could do to accomplish what you desired, you decided to divide yourself. Not too difficult a task for the only and most powerful force in existence. But wait

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Could dividing into just two parts provide all the experiences you wished to experience? Sure, it would now be possible for one part of you to look back at the other part, but what would that part see? Well, one part of magnificence would be able to see the other part of magnificence looking back, which would be good, wouldnt it? After all that is exactly what you wanted. Well, yes, but only partly. It would only be possible for one part of magnificence to see the other part of magnificence from the perspective of, err well magnificence. Do you understand this concept? We hope so, but if it hasnt quite clicked into place try considering it like this. Imagine yourself as being one half of an apple looking back at the other half of yourself. You can only see the other part from the perspective, and understanding that you already have - which is that gained from being an apple. Because an apple is all you are. You are not and never have been, say, an orange. And cannot, therefore, consider the apple from the understanding, the perspective, of an orange. Got it? No? Well try this. If you were completely brown and you lived in a brown world where everything was absolutely brown. Yes everything, and the same shade of brown too.

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Your clothes, furniture, house, dcor, car, the road, grass, trees, sky, sun, sea etc. etc. Have you got the picture? There is no other colour in your world except brown. Would you be able to understand, to perceive, what it would be like to live in our own multi-coloured world? Now please dont say, Yeah, that makes it as clear as mud, real brown mud. If youre still not quite sure, re-read the paragraphs above a few more times, and we know youll finally get it.

It was necessary to divide

Okay then, so it was necessary to divide and into more than two parts, but these parts had to be different parts, as well. Now the fundamental problem with this is, how do you get a consciousness, which is one thing to become a consciousness, which is something else? If you are, say, Mary Smith, how do you become Sarah Jones? Yes it would be possible to emulate an actress and pretend to become Sarah Jones. But are you then really Sarah Jones? Not really. You would just be Mary Smith pretending to be Sarah Jones but still using the general perspectives, the general understandings, of Mary Smith. Everything that you did would be influenced by that major part of you which was really Mary Smith.

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Memory Loss
But hold on a minute, what if you had amnesia? What if you absolutely, totally and utterly forgot who you were? Yes, now that would work wouldnt it? If people lose their memories they can become, not just act like, but actually become, a changed person. Their perspectives, their outlook, on life can become quite different. Ah-ha, this was a good plan, and it was a plan that would work. And so it was decided that a portion of this extraordinarily powerful energy would split itself into an infinite number of particles. Every particle containing within it the essence of the whole, rather like the pieces of a broken 1hologram, but carrying no conscious memory of this fact. This provided the potential for each individual particle to become totally different, and appear to be totally separate from every other particle as well. Now it would be possible to experience your magnificence in the very practical way you desired.

The energetic universe begins

In an explosion of incredible magnitude the ONE instantly became the many. The universe, the one1 It has been found that when a picture in holographic form of, say a vase, is shattered, every individual piece of the broken hologram carries within it a complete picture of the whole vase.

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verse, was born. Suddenly there was, for the first time, a here and a there. There was an up and a down, a now and a then, a near and a far everything your heart desired. Well, perhaps not quite your heart, for that little part of you was yet to come - but you know what we mean. All these centillions of little particles of consciousness - these little chips off the old block became us. They became all there is and all there isnt. All the matter and all the anti-matter.

WOW!
This, as you can see, aligns itself quite nicely with the widely accepted theory that the universe began with the Big Bang. And for us it answers all the questions on creation it is necessary to ask. But you are quite welcome to go on questioning, if what we have said does not sit right within you. You might still have your own theories of God and the universe, and we honour those beliefs. If you are still not sure, we would suggest you meditate on it, and remember it your own way. In other words re-member - put the pieces back together - in a way that fits your own internal pattern. Because, at the end of the day - for each individual - it really has got to come down to just one thing. Belief.

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Yes, thats right, just belief or more precisely, BEING LIEF. You see the word lief means: gladly, willingly, happily, readily. And it is no accident how this word evolved. It is asking you to BE lief. So gladly, willingly, happily, readily accept the possibility of being God. Just Be, just BE - lief.

The thought of creation

So, we, as individuals, originated from a thought, which God had had about who God was. Because God is always unfolding too. We evolved as a concept during the thought processes of God. God wondered. God imagined what it would be like to experience being God. And in doing so created us. We were created in Gods imagination. In Gods IMAGEination. And the notion of us being created in Gods image was born also, along with us. Now what did we, as little bright sparks of the creator, have to do in order to experience being God? Well, as always, the answer was in the question. We didnt have to DO anything. We wanted to experience BEING God. So we became human BEINGS not human doings. We became Beings of energy, Beings of light, Beings of thought, Beings of God.

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The physical universe begins

With the creation of this energetic universe there also came two choices of experience for us. We could experience a physical or a nonphysical reality. Choosing a physical reality meant slowing down the energy around us until it took on a denser form. A bit like taking steam and slowing it down until it becomes water and then slowing it down some more until it becomes ice. Many of us made the choice to experience physical realities. So we slowed the energy until it coalesced into the manifestation of the physical universe we inhabit today. We did this through the power of thought. Every particle in the universe responds to our thoughts, but more of this anon. As it was necessary for us to interact with this physical reality we also had to create the means for this to happen. We created for ourselves physical bodies. These physical bodies we created for our-selves also required the slowing down of our divine energy. You see, the energy of God, of which we are, oscillates, vibrates, at incredible speed. In order for us to have physical experience, this energy has to be stepped down slower and slower and slower until we achieve a physical density. Or to be

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Our various bodies

The slowing of our energy begins at the level of the divine and finishes, for us, at the level of the physical. In between these levels, like the layers of an onion, are the energy images of several other bodies. These bodies, or step-down energy images as they can be more accurately called, have been detected by clairvoyants and psychics throughout the ages and have been given many different names. To better understand these phenomena, think about having seen a wrongly exposed photograph. It can create a double and sometimes triple image, giving the impression of seeing a body within a body. Impression, actually, is a very good description of what is occurring. For at every point of the energy step-down procedure, an impression is left as it interacts with the surrounding energy field. This is because the universe is going through the very same step-down procedures, thereby creating many other separate realities where we can also have experiences.

The planes of existence

As already mentioned, the names given to these energy-body impressions and planes of existence can vary in number, type and name according to which

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Physical Astral Mental Intuitional Spiritual Monadic Divine These seven planes of existence, each have seven sub-divisions which each have seven subdivisions, which each have seven sub-divisions, which each have and so on, and so on until you reach the seventh sub division of the seventh sub-division. Quite a lot then, isnt there? And did you notice something about the number seven? It appeared quite a few times - huh? Its very popular with occultists and the like. Seven is known as the number of spirituality, sensitivity and mystery. For all practical purposes, and we are all about being practical, these various other bodies and planes of existence have very limited impact on life in the physical realm. They do exist, as do all the other realities, such as past lives, future lives, parallel lives etc; but just knowing and recognising that they are there is quite enough. They do not really impact our normal day-today lives in any concrete way so they are,

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consequently, and just for the moment, fairly unimportant. Many New Age people, of course, will totally disagree. They will say that developing these bodies along with the different abilities available within them is most important. They will say that to neglect these parts of yourself and not to try and explore these other realms is to limit your true potential. And we have no problem with this way of thinking, if it is what you truly believe. But we would just ask you to consider this

Be physical in this physical universe

We have chosen to be physical in a physical universe. The important words here are chosen and physical. We had the choice to be non-physical but we decided against it, we wanted to experience being God through physical means. Why therefore, having made this choice, should we then be trying to develop and experience these nonphysical parts of ourselves? To us it just seems to be an unnecessary waste of energy to be focusing on something we have chosen, in the first place, not to be. The same could be said of these people who spend their whole lives in continual meditation in some cave up a mountain in Tibet or somewhere. Why are they doing it?

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It would seem, to us, that these people - far from displaying profound spiritual understanding are missing the point completely. You have come to a physical universe to be physical, so BE physical. Dont worry about all these other bodies and other planes of existence for now. They are there, and they are already a part of you. It can be no other way. They will not disappear and your spirituality will not suffer, even if you dont give them any energy at all. Far better, we think, to concentrate instead, on understanding physical life from a physical perspective. It is, after all, the reason you came. You see, there are too many people going around trying to be something they are not, out of a profound misunderstanding of who they are and why they are here. They think that spiritual growth has to be about withdrawing from life and that only by dedicating oneself purely to meditation, chanting, ritual, and prayer will it be possible for spiritual understanding and enlightenment to manifest itself. Just know that none of this is necessary. What is the point of struggling and striving to be what you already are. You already are fully enlightened for you are God. You just dont remember this fact yet, thats all. Okay then. We hope that by now you are beginning to realise (to make real) just how powerful you really are - and that this power within you really is the divine power of God.

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Well, we think its about time we covered a little more about the subject of Reiki. All the areas we have just spoken about will become clear, in the fullness of time, particularly when your own vibratory level begins to be raised back up again through your Reiki attunements. So what better place to start our visit back to Reiki than with:

The History of Reiki

If you already know about or do not want to know about this, please feel free to skip on to the next section. We quite understand. In fact well even give you a little link to get you to the next bit faster. Just click here Okay then if youre coming with us - lets get going There are presently two different versions of how Reiki came to be re-discovered doing the rounds. There is the Western version and the Eastern version. We will look at the Western version first, and it goes something like this.

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In the mid 1800s, the Meiji period, Dr Mikao Usui was the dean of a small Christian university called Doshisha University in Kyoto Japan. During one of his classes several students wanted to know whether he believed in the Bible. Dr Usui replied that he did indeed believe. The students then asked if he believed in Jesus ability to heal the sick. Again Dr Usui replied that he did. The students pressed his beliefs further. They quoted Jesus statement You can do this too, and more, and asked when, if Dr Usui also accepted this as being true, they would be taught how to heal just like Jesus. Now Dr Usui was a Japanese of very traditional values. He was not able to pass these teachings on to his students and honour demanded that he resign. He did so, immediately.

Dr Usui leaves Japan

He decided that he would make it his lifes mission to seek out the ability to heal as Jesus had done and went off in search of this knowledge. He reasoned that as Jesus was a Christian he would find this knowledge in a Christian country and travelled to America. On his arrival in America Dr Usui studied at the University of Chicago. Despite spending seven years

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Further studies in Buddhism

It was here that Dr Usui learned Sanskrit and studied the Indian and Tibetan Sutras. But still he was unable to find what he sought and so decided to travel back to Japan to further his studies in Buddhism, as he knew Buddha had also healed the sick. Kyoto, at that time, had all the largest monasteries so naturally Dr Usui continued his search there. He visited every monastery in turn, asking the monks whether they were able to heal as Buddha had done. The response from each monastery was always the same. No. They were aware that Buddha had healed the physical body and that it was written in the Sutras. However it was their belief that healing the spirit was more important and because of this they did not know how to heal the body. Dr Usui was becoming more and more despondent but he did not give up his search. He continued on and came across a Zen monastery. It was here that he met with great support for his search.

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Even though the monks at this monastery were also concentrating on healing the spirit they believed that the knowledge for healing the body would be made available to them through their meditations. They invited Dr Usui to join them.

Nearing the end of his search

He spent three years there, searching the Sutras and meditating with the other monks, and eventually he discovered a formula for contacting a higher power able to bestow on the seeker abilities for healing the physical body. This formula was, in itself, very simple, but it was going to need interpreting and testing to see if it worked. Through meditation and discussion with the other monks, Dr Usui came to the realisation that enlightenment on how to use the formula would be given to him if he fasted and meditated for 21 days.

Mount Kurama
Near Kyoto was a very holy mountain called Mount Kurama, and it was to here that Dr Usui travelled. He climbed the mountain and found a beautiful spot, facing east, with water for drinking nearby. To prevent himself from losing track of time he gathered together 21 stones with the intention of throwing away one stone at the dawn of each new day.

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Dr Usui sees the light

For twenty days Dr Usui fasted, meditated, read the scriptures, chanted and prayed without anything out of the ordinary happening. Then on the morning of the twenty-first day whilst looking out into the darkness of the pre-dawn he noticed what seemed to be a small flicker of light away in the distance. As Dr Usui focussed on this light it began to travel towards him becoming brighter and brighter. He became very afraid and was in two minds as to whether to stay or run away. Calming himself he remembered that this was the very reason he was there. He stood up and determined that he would stay where he was and accept anything that happened, even if that meant his own death. The light continued to get closer becoming much brighter as it did so. Dr Usui was suddenly aware that the light was actually a consciousness and was seeking to communicate with him. It said that this was the enlightenment to healing others that he had been seeking. He was to understand however that the light would have to strike him in the third eye, and it was so powerful it might actually kill him.

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The light strikes

Dr Usui decided to allow the light to strike him. The force of the blow knocked him unconscious and it was whilst he was in this trance like state that he saw beautiful bubbles of coloured lights rising up before his eyes. Inside the bubbles were different symbols and as he studied them he became attuned to their energy. When Dr Usui regained full consciousness he knew that what had transpired had been all that he had been looking for. He felt tremendously energised and not at all weary. Quickly he got his few possessions together, he wanted to get back to the monastery to share his experiences with the abbot.

The first miracle

Setting off at a great pace he stumbled, stubbing his toe quite badly in the process. The pain lanced through his body and he instinctively bent down and cupped the damaged toe in his hands. Immediately the pain began to subside and a few minutes later both the pain and the bleeding had stopped completely.

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Dr Usui was thrilled. It was like a miracle. There was something very different about his hands now. They seemed to have emanated a tremendous heat whilst he was holding his toe. Quickly he got back to his feet and hurried off down the mountain in the direction of the monastery. At the foot of the mountain he came across a typical Japanese snack bar that had been set up to feed weary travellers. Dr Usui stopped and, with great enthusiasm, ordered a full breakfast. The proprietor warned Dr Usui to only have a light meal of rice gruel. He could see by Dr Usuis unkempt and unshaved condition that he had obviously been meditating and, therefore, fasting for some time. He did not want his first customer of the day getting indigestion. Dr Usui, however, felt so good he ignored the concerns of the proprietor and ate heartily, finishing the complete meal with no ill effects whatsoever. Another miracle.

Dr Usui heals his first patient

As Dr Usui was preparing to pay for the meal the proprietors granddaughter came to clear away the dishes. He noticed tears in her eyes and that the side of her face was very red and swollen. She appeared to be in great pain.

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On enquiring from the proprietor as to why this was, he learned that the young girl had been suffering severe toothache for many days. He also learned that the proprietor was unable to afford either the time or the money to take his granddaughter to the dentist seventeen miles away in Kyoto.

Overwhelmed with compassion

Dr Usui was overwhelmed with compassion and asked for permission to attempt to heal her. The girl gladly accepted this offer of help and allowed Dr Usui to gently cup her face in his hands. Within seconds the discomfort began to subside and minutes later the pain and the swelling had completely disappeared. A third miracle. With the profuse thanks of the proprietor and the girl ringing in his ears Dr Usui set off on the rest of his journey back to the monastery. On arrival he learned that the abbot had been laid up in bed with an acute attack of arthritis. Wasting no time he went to his old friend and whilst recounting his experiences on the mountain gently rested his hands on the abbots body. Again within moments the discomfort began to subside and minutes later had disappeared altogether. The abbot was astonished at this demonstration of healing and as the two friends talked into the night it was decided that the best thing to do next would be to go out into the city to heal the sick.

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Dr Usui chose to go out and take up residence in the Beggars Kingdom. He spent the next seven years working in this poor part of Kyoto, helping as many people as he could. Many remarkable healings took place and Dr Usui was content with his life until he came across a beggar that he had healed many years before. Dr Usui questioned this man as to why he had returned once more to the life of a beggar, and was extremely dismayed at the response. It turned out that the beggar had been, initially, very happy at having been healed. He had gone back into the main part of the city and had even found himself a good job. For a while he had prospered but the responsibility of looking after himself became too much for him. It was much easier living the life of a beggar. Unfortunately this was not an isolated case. Dr Usui discovered more and more people who had returned to begging after having been healed, and it greatly saddened him. Perhaps, he thought, the Buddhist monks were right. Perhaps it was more important to heal the spirit than the body.

Reiki should not be given for free

Dr Usui went into meditation to seek the answers on how he could have got it so wrong. He discovered that his biggest mistake was in healing the bodies of the beggars without teaching them the value of responsibility. He also realised that

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because he had been giving away the healing for free, none of the beggars had apportioned any value to this help. Dr Usui had unwittingly strengthened their belief in begging as being the only way of getting what they wanted. With this realisation he immediately closed his healing practice and left the Beggars Quarter. It was also during this period that Dr Usui developed his Five Principles of Reiki, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature.
The five principles of Reiki

and became aware that the symbols he had been shown on Mount Kurama were to be used for initiating others into this healing system that he now called Reiki. For his remaining years Dr Usui travelled the length and breadth of Japan spreading his Reiki healing. On his death in 1926 he had initiated 16 people as Reiki Masters and had charged one of his most dedicated students, Dr Chujiro Hayashi, with the responsibility of preserving and continuing the Reiki teachings.

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Dr Chujiro Hayashi
A retired naval officer, a commander in the Imperial Navy of Japan, Dr Hayashi was forty-seven when he was initiated as a Reiki Master. He had spent many years following Dr Usui on his travels around Japan and had become a very capable and dedicated healer in his own right. It came as no surprise, therefore, that Dr Usui, much impressed with this competent leader of men, rewarded him by passing to him the title of Reiki Grand Master prior to his death. Dr Hayashi went on to open the first Reiki clinic in Tokyo and it was here whilst using a combination of observation and clinical record keeping that he developed the twelve basic hand positions in use today. He also refined the attunement process by dividing it into three separate levels called degrees. It is not known how many people Dr Hayashi trained in Reiki but it is known that, being a renowned psychic, Dr Hayashi foresaw the coming of the Second World War and decided to pass on Reiki to two women. This he did in the knowledge that many of the men he had trained would be killed in the fighting and he wanted to ensure that Reiki survived. The two women he trained were his wife and Mrs Hawayo Takata.

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Mrs Hawayo Takata

Mrs Takata was born on 24 December 1900 in Hanamaulu, on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. Although being born in Hawaii, gave her American nationality, her parents, Mr and Mrs Otogoro Kawamura were Japanese immigrants. Her father worked at a sugar plantation on Kauai and it was the bookkeeper of this plantation, Mr Saichi Takata, that Hawayo eventually fell in love with and married. They had two children but, tragically, Saichi died in 1930 at the age of thirty-four leaving Hawayo to bring up the family completely on her own, as her parents had returned to Japan. Mrs Takata continued to work at the sugar plantation but with the loss of her husbands wage she found she had to work harder and longer to make ends meet. As a result her health began to suffer and in 1935, when on a visit to her parents in Japan, her condition deteriorated so rapidly she was admitted to hospital. She was in the operating theatre being prepared for surgical intervention when she was strongly impressed to question the doctor on alternatives to surgery. Her surgeon, knowing of Dr Hayashis work at the Reiki Clinic, mentioned that she might benefit from Reiki treatment and suggested she might try it. Mrs Takata immediately cancelled her operation and went to the Reiki Clinic for consultation. Mrs Takata was very encouraged when the clinics diagnosis of her illness, matched the one she

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had been given by the hospital, and decided to begin treatment with them. Over the next few months Mrs Takata attended the Reiki clinic on a daily basis. Not only did she experience the wonder of Reiki at first hand, making a complete recovery, she also saw Reiki in action with other people. The results spoke for themselves and Mrs Takata knew she had to learn the art herself.

Mrs Takatas two great hurdles

Unfortunately, Mrs Takata had two very large hurdles to overcome first if she was to be taught Reiki. Number one, she was a woman and number two, she was not Japanese. This was 1935, and the notion of any Japanese art being taught to foreigners was unthinkable. And to teach a woman was impossible. Mrs Takata, though, was not the kind of person to give up lightly. She knew that to be taken seriously she would have to show total commitment and dedication. This she did and even offered to sell her house in Hawaii to emphasise her devotion. But all of this may not have been enough however, had it not been for Dr Hayashis psychic abilities. As already mentioned, he knew that the Second World War was coming and that many of the men he had taught Reiki would be called on to fight and die. He also knew that a woman would have a greater chance of surviving this madness.

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Mrs Takata became the beneficiary of this insight.

Finally Accepted into Reiki

Mrs Takatas Reiki instruction began with her immediately receiving the First Degree initiation. She spent the next year working with Dr Hayashi and then received her Second Degree initiation. On completion of this training she returned to Hawaii and opened her own Reiki clinic. In 1938 Dr Hayashi travelled to Hawaii and ensured the continuance of Reiki by initiating Mrs Takata as a Reiki Master. Just prior to his death in 1941 he declared Mrs Takata Grand Master. At this time Mrs Takata was the only practicing Reiki Master in the West, and for quite a while that was the way it stayed. Eventually she saw the need for more Reiki Masters and, beginning in the 1970s, initiated 22 people before her death in 1980.

The Eastern Version

Dr Usui was born on August 15th 1865 in the village of Yago in the Yamagata district of Gifu prefecture. He was a very happy and industrious person who gave a great deal of his life to the study of metaphysics and spirituality. He read voraciously

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and became extremely knowledgeable in medicine, psychology and religious practices from around the world. He was also known for his abilities as a psychic and fortune-teller. Before re-discovering Reiki he had been running a small business but it had failed, leaving him deeply demoralised and heavily in debt. As many people do, when life seems to be letting them down, he sought help and guidance from Higher Sources. He wanted to know what the meaning of life was all about. And it was to Mount Kurama that he went to seek his answers, for it was well known in the area as a place of spiritual enlightenment.

Dr Usuis Satori
At that time it was not unusual for people to go on a twenty-one day meditation and fasting retreat on the mountain, and it was known that Dr Usui had a favourite place where he liked to meditate. It was a beautiful spot near a waterfall and it was whilst actually meditating under the waterfall that he had a moment of enlightenment or Satori as it is known in Japanese. This is when the full realisation of the meaning of life, and the healing system he called Reiki, became known to him. From this time on Dr Usui used the Reiki energy on himself and then on his friends and family. As it worked well he began using it on the general public and eventually opened up his first clinic in Tokyo.

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His fame as a healer began to spread, bringing people from far and wide. These people came not only for healing but also to learn the system for themselves. This led to the founding of the Reiki movement, which Dr Usui called Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkei (Usui Healing Method Society).

The Tokyo earthquake

In 1923 a powerful earthquake hit Tokyo causing massive damage to the city, and death and injuries to many thousands of inhabitants. Dr Usui used his Reiki healing to great effect during this time and such was the success of his Reiki that his first clinic soon became too small to cope. To rectify this problem a larger one was built in Nakano outside Tokyo. Dr Usuis fame began spreading even further now; indeed his name began to be known throughout Japan. With this fame came invitations to travel to distant cities, which Dr Usui undertook, and it was while on one of these visits to Fukuyama that he had a stroke and died on March 9th 1926.

Now as you can see, the two versions are quite different. And, wouldnt you just know it, the

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proponents of each one claims their version to be the original and genuine article. Which one would you like to choose? Either or neither may be the truth. Whilst youre deciding lets give you another issue to consider. Western Reiki has recently discovered, that Reiki still exists in Japan. It had not died out in the Second World War as was originally believed. Inevitably this has led to comparisons between the two styles. There are differences, of course, bringing about the almost obligatory; Ours is better than yours game being played by both sides. If this werent so sad it would be laughable. Reiki is supposed to enlighten, for Gods sake, and we really do mean - for Gods sake. This childish nonsense has no place in Reiki and should be firmly set aside. Reiki is the energy of the Divine. It cares not one jot as to how or where it is brought into the lives of those who have chosen to receive it. Reiki simply enters and works regardless. So, just know and understand this Reiki as taught and practised in the West WORKS. Reiki as taught and practised in the East WORKS.

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It cannot be any other way. To say any different is to deny the essence of Reiki itself. Reiki is the life force energy the life force energy is GOD, for in our universe there is only one energy. Anyone, therefore, saying that their method of receiving Reiki is better than another is implying that God shares their jaundiced view. How arrogant. How misguided. Okay, well put the soapbox away for now. But before we move on too much further lets just go over the main issues.

Dr Usui was not a Christian

Dr Usui was almost certainly not a Christian; he was far more likely to have been a Buddhist. His knowledge of other religions would probably have included Christianity but there is no record of him being Dean of Doshisha University in Kyoto. It is known that he did travel to western countries and China, but there is no record of him attending Chicago University as either a student or lecturer. He was not a doctor in the conventional western sense, his Japanese students or disciples referred to him as Usui-Sensei (sensei means teacher). [We have no problem in continuing to call him doctor though, by the way]. Reiki was not just an oral teaching Dr Usui and Dr Hayashi both produced manuals for their students.

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No Grand Master Title

There was no title of Grandmaster created; instead there was a president of the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkei. Dr Usui was, quite obviously, the first president. There have been six further Presidents: Mr Ushida, Mr Taketomi, Mr Watanabe, Mr Wanami, Mrs Koyama and finally Mr Kondo who is the present president at the time of writing. Reiki did not die out in Japan and only become available in the West through Mrs Takata, as some people believe. The existence of the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkei now known as Usui Kai confirms this. Dr Hayashi was not given the title of Grandmaster (for as we have said this title did not and does not exist) he was a respected disciple of Dr Usui who had been granted teacher status. Dr Hayashi did teach Mrs Takata and did pass on the complete teachings to her. He obviously did not pass on to her the title of Grandmaster. Dr Usui did not develop the five principles; he adapted them from the Meiji Emperor and which were:

The five principles of the Meiji Emperor

Dont get angry today. Dont worry today. Be grateful today. Work hard today. Be kind to others today.

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The Reiki that was taught by Dr Usui probably consisted of the following five items: 1. The ability to channel the Reiki energy and give Reiki treatments. 2. The attunement symbols and the ability to pass on Reiki to others. 3. 4. 5. The three degrees of Reiki. The five Reiki principles. The necessity to charge for a treatment

Dr Hayashi added the twelve hand positions of Reiki through his observations on healing taking place in his clinic. Mrs Takata introduced the high fee structure of $10,000 for taking the Reiki Master attunement Students of Mrs Takata introduced the required waiting times between the classes for the attunements.

A clearer picture?
We hope this is beginning to bring a somewhat clearer picture of Reiki history to those people who may already be involved in the art, and who might have received mixed messages from others. If you are new to Reiki, please ignore and forgive the political wrangling and just enjoy Reiki for what it is.

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Drawing some final conclusions

As you can now see, Traditional Reiki, if there could ever be such a thing, can probably only be the Reiki as taught by Dr Usui. He taught his students how to use the Reiki energy for healing, both themselves and others. The three degrees of Reiki (although in Japan they teach six). The ability to pass the energy on to others through the attunement processes. The five principles of Reiki, sometimes known as the Reiki Ideals. And possibly the notion that people have to pay for Reiki treatments. As far as we are aware at this time, thats it. That is the entirety of Reiki as originally taught by Dr Usui to over 2000 people. He almost certainly did not teach crystal grids, psychic surgery, the healing attunement, the Antahkarana, Tibetan Reiki, Karuna Reiki, Seichem, Tera-Mai, Raku Kei, Sekhem, Advanced Reiki or any of a host of other techniques and trainings now available. All of these are add-ons and have been introduced by other Reiki Masters who have followed on after. Most of these additions are quite valid in there own right and can be extremely useful. Some, like the splitting up of Reiki into many more levels is not. That, to us, would appear to be just going for the money! It also has to be taken into account that Dr Usui was a great student of metaphysics and spirituality, and, from what we can make out, very eclectic in

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nature. The probability, therefore, is very high that he might have gone on to expand Reiki by including these extras himself, had they proved to be useful. As far as we are concerned, bringing Reiki into your life is and always should be a wonderful experience. For us it is simply the act of experiencing God more directly. It has nothing to do with religion of any kind. God is not accessible purely through a religion. For us Reiki simply means this:

Personal Communion with God

This is, of course, our interpretation of the word. You see, in Japan, Reiki is a generic term for healing; which is why the Reiki founded by Dr Usui was called Usui Shiki Ryoho (Usui System of Natural Healing).

Interpreting the word Reiki

In Japanese the Kanji Ideogram Rei apparently can be interpreted as having several meanings, (and we say apparently because we cannot read Japanese ourselves and have to rely on others). Anyway, the meanings for Rei are - universal, holy, spiritual consciousness. The kanji for Ki can mean - energy, life force, vital force that animates all living things. So from this it can be seen that the word Reiki can be translated into the universal and holy, spiritually conscious, life force energy that energises and animates all living things.

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Are there many more apt descriptions of God? Even if you are someone who cant, at the moment, bring yourself to believe in such an entity, or prefer to use another name.

Right we are then, thats the potted history of Reiki. Dont take any of it too seriously. Just remember, Reiki was not invented by Dr Usui, it was already there. He merely discovered or, more accurately, re-discovered a method for pulling it more clearly into his life. Reiki does not, indeed cannot, belong to any one society, country or person. It belongs to everyone. To imagine differently would be like believing only members of a certain religion have the right to breathe the air. Reiki, just like air, is everywhere and can be drawn upon by anyone at any time. So, lets leave these thorny issues there for now and get down to

The Reiki Attunement

Okay then. First of all well introduce you to the symbols as used in Western Usui Reiki. Now please understand
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These symbols are only like switches; they do not hold the power of Reiki within them. These symbolic switches serve only to focus and concentrate your intention. Remember always remember -you are the only power in your universe.

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So, practice drawing the following symbols and get to the stage where you can easily do it from memory. The simplest way is to take just one symbol at a time and keep on copying it out until it fixes in your mind. Dont try to rush this process, theres no need to hurry. Trying to cram them all into your head at one sitting will probably end up with you being totally confused. As you draw each one say its Sacred Name over and over, so as this lodges in your memory too. When you feel confident in your ability to draw them on paper from memory, practice drawing them out in the air before you. There are several ways you can do this. Use you fire finger, which is your middle finger the palm of your hand your eyes - the tip of your nose the tip of your tongue or you can just see each Symbol fully formed in your minds eye. Whichever method you choose, and there are no rights or wrongs here, hold the intention that the Symbol is really being drawn out in front of you.

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The Power Symbol

Sacred Name Cho-Ku-Rei

Phonetic pronunciation Cho as in the first part of choke Ku as in the coo of a dove Rei as in ray from the sun

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The Mental/Emotional Symbol

Sacred Name Sei-He-Ki

Phonetic pronunciation Sei as in say He as in hay Ki as in key

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Distance Healing Symbol

Sacred Name - Hon-Sha-Ze-Sho-Nen

Phonetic pronunciation Hon as in the first part of Honda. Sha as in the first part of shark. Ze as in zay. Sho as in show. Nen sounds like it looks.

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The Usui Master Symbol

Sacred name - DAI KOO MYO.

Phonetic pronunciation DAI = die KOO = co MYO = me oh

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The Tibetan Master Symbol

Sacred Name - Dai Ko Mio

Pronounced exactly the same as the Usui Master Symbol

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The Fire Serpent Symbol

Sacred Name Raku

Pronounced Ray-Koo

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How to draw the Symbols Power Symbol

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Distance Symbol

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The Usui Reiki Master Symbol

The box containing the V on its side and the part box containing the Z, at the bottom of the symbol can be drawn in any manner you wish. Note that the box on the left is a full box and the box on the right is like a shed. So it becomes a box with a sideways V and a shed with a Z

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There we are then. Those are all the Symbols you need to know to make Reiki a powerful part of your reality. Yes, others may tell you different, but take it from us. You dont need any other Symbols and you dont need any other style or form of Reiki. Of course if you want to take other styles of Reiki thats fine. Just know you dont actually need to. When you have attuned yourself to Usui Reiki through the following Chikara-Reiki-Do self-initiation you will have all you will ever require. So, lets move on to and you have to be imagining a fantastic bugle fan fare here - the

Self Initiation & Attunement to Reiki

The ceremony youre about to follow for this initiation is very similar in theme to the one you would have experienced had you gone to a Reiki Master. It is just as powerful - in fact probably more so. The Reiki Master would have used intention and breath to attune you. Youre going to use intention and water. Water? Yes water. You see water is not just vital for life - it also has some very special properties, which are only now being understood by our scientists. And one of these special properties lies in the ability of water to Accept, store and transfer information.

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What kind of information? Any information in any form. Water can accept, store and transfer to other systems such as living systems the information contained within Photographs Thoughts Spoken Words Written Words Sounds Prayers Pictures Music Singing Chanting Yes, we know it sounds incredible, even a bit far fetched. But once youve seen the 2photographic evidence youll know it to be true. Water changes its molecular structure when any of the above is actively directed at it. There are only a few people doing research in this area at present. Most scientists, of course, debunk everything that has been discovered but whats new there. Theyve debunked almost everything at one time or another. Heck, they probably still cant admit that bumblebees can fly! Water can and does carry the energetic impulses the energetic information of anything consciously and intentionally directed towards it. Whole tracts of polluted water have been restored to a cleaner

Go to www.earthtransitions.com or read Messages from Water Vol. 1 & 2 by Dr Emoto

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condition just by the action of a few people praying for that outcome. Loving thoughts make the crystalline structure of water beautiful hateful thoughts make it ugly. Beautiful music creates beautiful structure - some of the modern stuff makes it hideous.

Water is us
Were over sixty five percent water by weight and our brains are almost eighty percent. Is it any wonder were so impressionable? Yes, the magic of water is immense and youre about to experience it for yourself. The following initiation ceremony uses water that has been consciously altered. Consciously altered, by you, to carry the power of the attunement process deep within your body. Every cell will then begin to resonate with this new information making you a very powerful Reiki Master. So, like we say - youre going to use intention and water and, oh yes, a bit of sound and color too. But first things first read through the whole of this section on what to do a couple of times before doing anything else gather together everything youll need the day before you have decided to carry out your initiation. Then follow the sequence as written. Okay? Off we go. First of all you will have to decide on where you are going to carry out the attunement process. It is

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quite important that you are not disturbed, so somewhere you can be by yourself is best. There is no great esoteric reasoning behind why this should be so, by the way. Nothing terrible will happen. Its just that interruption serves to break your concentration, focus and intention, thats all. So make all the necessary arrangements to keep yourself uninterrupted, ahead of time. Next decide on whether you want to make the ceremony more personal to you by having some of your favorite, soothing music playing in the background. If so get your player and music set up. Would you like to have incense and or candles burning? Make sure youve got them all to hand if you do. And dont forget the matches. Now decide if you want to sit or kneel during the initiation. It makes no difference to the attunement itself. Your only concern should be about comfort and what feels best to you. Okay then, thats the space prepared. Just make sure its comfortable and has a nice feel. And by that we mean whatever feels nice to you. A table or small clear space on the floor will also be needed. The next thing to do is gather together seven glass tumblers. Now we say tumblers here, but it doesnt matter if they are tall glasses or short ones. It doesnt even matter if they dont all match. What does matter is that they are all plain, uncolored and have no pictures, patterns or motifs on them.

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You will now need some colored card or paper in these seven colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and white. From each sheet of card cut out a square, which is slightly bigger than the base of your glasses. Kinda like coaster size would be good. Then cut a narrow label size strip from each sheet as well. Okay then. You should now have seven coaster size squares one of each color and seven labels one of each color. On the red square, using either a pen or pencil, draw out the Power Symbol. On the red label size piece of card, write out the sacred name Cho-Ku-Rei three times. Sellotape this label to one of your tumblers. Take the orange square and draw out the Mental/Emotional Symbol on it. Write out the Sacred Name Sei-He-Ki three times on the orange label, and stick it on a separate tumbler. Getting the idea? On the yellow square draw the Distance Symbol and write out the sacred name Hon-Sha-Ze-ShoNen on the yellow label. Yes, you got it stick the label on another tumbler. The green square should have the Tibetan Master Symbol drawn on it. The green label should have Dai-Ko-Mio written out three times, and then stuck to a tumbler.

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With the blue square draw the Usui Master Symbol and write out Dai-Ko-Myo three times on the blue label. Yup, stick the label to a tumbler. On the purple square the Fire Serpent Symbol with Raku written three times on the label stuck to a tumbler. On the last square, the white square, draw out all the symbols and write all six sacred names three times each onto the white label. Stick this label onto the last tumbler. So, what have we got now? Seven different colored squares each with the appropriate symbol drawn on it. Seven clear glass tumblers separately labeled with the appropriate Sacred Name. If thats what youve got sitting before you, were in business. Now on the evening of the day before you intend to carry out your Reiki Self-Attunement, pour some filtered or bottled mineral water into each of your tumblers. There doesnt have to be a lot of water in each tumbler, three or four mouthfuls is enough. Just make sure that the water comes above the level of the writing on the label. So if you dont like to drink much water although you really should be drinking at least two liters every day make sure you stick the labels as low down as you can get them on the glass. Place the red-labeled tumbler on the red square of card, the orange-labeled tumbler on the orange card, the yellow-labeled tumbler on the yellow square, etc until each tumbler is sitting on its matching colored square.

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Incidentally, all these tumblers with the colored squares under them are placed on your table, or on the floor of the space you cleared. Please forgive us if you think weve written out these instructions too simplistically. Were really not trying to insult your intelligence. Its just that, sometimes, written routines can be hard to follow, especially if you havent had the benefit of a practical demonstration first. Forgiven us? Excellent. Okay then. These tumblers of water are going to remain on the colored squares over night, so they need to be covered. A clean towel will do fine as its only to keep dust and insects out. In the morning, just prior to your selfattunement, arrange the tumblers still on their coasters - directly in front of where you will be sitting or kneeling. You will need to be able to easily reach each one without having to get up. Please arrange them in the following order If you are right handed place the red-labeled tumbler on the right hand side of your table or space. Next to it on its immediate left will come the orange labeled one. Next to that the yellow, then the green, the blue, purple and then lastly the white. If you are left handed place the red tumbler on the left side of your table or space, then the orange one on its immediate right followed by the yellow, green, blue, purple and white. The reason for this way of placing, as you have probably already guessed, is because youre going to drink the water in sequence.

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It just makes them a lot easier to pick up. So, lets begin the ceremony. If you have chosen to have some pleasant music playing in the background, put it on. Similarly light the candles and/or incense. Kneel or sit down in front of your tumblers of water and allow yourself to relax fully. Close your eyes, take a few really deep breaths and let all your cares just drift away. When you feel that you are ready, open your eyes Pick up the first tumbler the red labeled one and holding it up in front of your face with both hands, chant the Sacred Name, Cho-Ku-Rei out loud, directing your voice towards the tumbler. Hold the glass for a few moments, and then drink the water. Do so intending and knowing that both the Symbol and the Sacred Name are being completely absorbed into your body, mind and spirit. Put the tumbler to one side, pick up the second one the orange labeled one and repeat the process, chanting aloud, three times, the Sacred Name written on the glass. Continue the process until you have chanted into, and drunk the water of, all seven tumblers. Yes, with the seventh one you will have to chant the names of all six separate Sacred Names three times each. Now, gently close your eyes once again and just sit still for a few moments.

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When you are ready Draw out, in the air just above your left palm, the Usui Master Symbol using the fire finger of your right hand. Imagine that you are really drawing the Symbol onto your palm but without touching it. Intend that the Symbol will sink into your palm just like butter does into hot toast. As you are doing this quietly, loudly or silently chant the Sacred Name Dai-Koo-Myo three times. Now do exactly the same thing over the palm of your right hand using the fire finger of your left. Bring both hands flat together at the front of your chest, as if praying, and hold them like this for a few moments, then return them to any comfortable position. Raise your dominant hand (right hand if youre right handed, left if youre left handed) to a position over your crown. Using your fire finger point directly down at the top of your head and draw out the Raku symbol. Breathe in deeply and imagine the symbol being absorbed into you. As you are doing this say out loud or silently to yourself I open myself up to Divine Love and Wisdom. Pause for a few moments and feel the symbol infusing your body. Now draw out the Usui Master Symbol in the same place, breathe it in deeply and repeat... I open myself up to Divine Love and Wisdom. Pause as above.

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Continue with this process using the Tibetan Master Symbol, the Distance Symbol, the Mental/Emotional Symbol and then finish with the Power Symbol. Always breathe the Symbol deeply into yourself and whilst doing so say I open myself up to Divine Love and Wisdom. Always pause and feel the symbol infusing you. Okay, nearly finished. Using the same method as above draw the Raku Symbol in front of your third eye (a point roughly in the center of your forehead). Breathe it in, and yes, repeat the phrase I open myself up to Divine Love and Wisdom. Draw out the Usui Master Symbol in front of your throat. Breathe it in whilst saying the phrase. Next use the Tibetan Master Symbol in front of your heart center (a point on the midline of your body directly between your nipples). Breathe it in and say the phrase. Now draw out the Distance Symbol in front of your solar plexus (a point on the midline of your body approximately 2 to 3 inches below the end of your breast bone). Breathe it in say the phrase. Draw out the Mental/Emotional Symbol in front of your Dan Tien (approximately 2 to 3 inches below your tummy button. Breathe it in say the phrase. Last one. Draw out the Power Symbol in front of your genital area. Breathe it in say the phrase.

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Sit for a few moments, then when you feel ready draw out a large Power Symbol in front of you by large we mean the whole length of your body breathe it into yourself and say I seal this process with Divine Love and wisdom. Okay youre done. You are now a Reiki Master. Not only are you a Usui Reiki Master, a Tibetan Reiki Master but also a Chikara-Reiki-Do Master.

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CONGRATULATIONS
Well now, how do you feel? If this is just your first read through and you havent actually carried out the initiation ceremony yet - youve probably realized how important it is that you can draw out the symbols, and say their Sacred Names, completely from memory havent you? It just makes the job a whole lot easier. It flows better. It feels more powerful. If you have carried out the attunement Welcome Reiki Master you make the world a better place simply by being here.

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So, whats just happened

Well, by leaving the tumblers on the colored squares over night the water absorbed and stored the Reiki Symbols The Sacred Names The seven colors As you drank the water the energetic information absorbed by the water, further enhanced with your chanting, was transferred to you. Because the seven colors used are the same as those of the seven Major Chakras (the major energy centers of the body), each Sacred Symbol and Sacred Name was carried to, and absorbed into, the appropriate Chakra. What does that mean? It means that each energy center of your body is now attuned to, and responds to, your intention to use Reiki energy. Traditional Reiki Attunements only focus on the Crown, Third Eye and Palm Chakras. You have focused your intention on thereby attuning - all the Major Chakras, which means the whole of your body now resonates with the Reiki energy. (We have included a page giving more info for those interested - at the end of the book). Welcome then, to Chikara-Reiki-Do. The whole body Reiki.

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What you may experience

You may experience a variety of things during the attunement process. You may see beautiful colors, or smell comforting aromas. Feelings of great love may well up within you or you may be reduced to tears. You may even sense or even see, others in the room along with you your guides or spirit helpers. Any all or none of these things may happen, but all is okay. Just decide to allow whatever happens to happen, and be aware that for the majority of people nothing out of the ordinary happens at all. Most just feel very relaxed and peaceful. And thats just fine. Once you have completed the attunement, Reiki remains with you for life, even if that ability is not used for long periods of time. Even if you never - ever - consciously use it again.

Using the Symbols

Now, before we go any further, and as we have already said - the Symbols themselves do not have any power at all. It is vital that you understand this.

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No symbol has any power unless and until you give the power to it first. The Reiki Symbols themselves are just so many squiggles on paper until you empower them with your intention. Usui was well aware of this. In fact in the beginning there where no Symbols or Sacred Names at all. They were only introduced when it was discovered that some Reiki students were having trouble in recognizing, initiating, holding and differentiating between the various aspects of the Reiki energy. Imagine the difficulty in understanding the subtle differences between the Power energy, the Distance energy, the Mental/Emotional energy and the Master energy right now for instance. Not an easy task. Now think about these differences and imagine someone trying to describe these subtle variations just by talking to you Sounds a little bit like trying to describe a color to a person who cant see, doesnt it? Anyway ol Usui was wise to this dilemma. He associated a symbol with a state of being and fixed this into the minds of his students. It was his intention, and belief, that each symbol would represent a certain state of mind. It was the belief and intention of the students that each symbol would represent a certain state of mind. Belief and intention made it so.

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It was now much easier to manifest the different aspects of the Reiki energy. In fact they became like switches visualize one Symbol and the energy flowed, visualize another and there was a subtle change. Now realize that it is just your intention, which changes, not the Reiki energy. There is only one energy in the universe the energy of God the energy of Love and it is constant throughout the universe. Reiki is just a different aspect of this one energy. If you are having trouble with the concept of different aspects of the same energy, think of it like this Think of a light, any light and remember it. (No, this is not the preamble into some sort of card trick, so dont try to put it back in the pack). Okay then, have you got it in your minds eye? So, how do you see it? How do you see this visible light? Something bright? Something glowing? Something illuminating? Yes, these descriptions are all fine. What you probably wont visualize, however, is all the different aspects the different colors - of light. You wont see the red, the orange, the yellow etc. And you certainly wont be aware of anything else in the electromagnetic spectrum. You just see light which is all the colors. Does that make it any easier? All the aspects the colors - of light are there within it; we just dont see them individualized, thats all. Got it? Excellent.

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This analogy can also be used to further clarify the problems Usui faced in helping his students to connect with the various aspects of the Reiki energy. If we asked you to visualize and hold in your minds eye the wavelength 650nm, could you do it? Probably not. But if we asked you to visualize and hold in your minds eye the color red, youd find it somewhat easier wouldnt you? Well, as youve probably already guessed, 650nm is the wavelength of the color red. You can see how much easier it is to hold the picture the visual representation - the symbol - of something, in your mind. Its a whole lot easier than trying to hold on to something insubstantial isnt it? Now... Hold the visualization of the color red in your minds eye. Are you doing that? Okay. Now visualize the color blue. Has the light around you changed in any discernible way? No. Your focus changed but the light did not. You have just channeled two frequencies of light through your conscious mind and the light was not diminished. The light remained constant. It is the same with Reiki.

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Reiki is all around us just like light. The Sacred Symbols allow us to access and consciously channel the different frequencies of this energy. If you change your focus from, say, the Power Symbol to the Distance Symbol the frequency changes but the Reiki does not. The Reiki energy, just like light, is not diminished. It is simply your intention, which changes, not the Reiki. Right you are then; lets get back to the Symbols.

Activating the Symbols

This is very simple. All you have to do is either Visualize the Symbol. Draw it out in the air. Draw it out on paper. Say its Sacred Name three times. Simply intend to use Reiki.

Saying the Sacred Name of each Symbol three times helps to concentrate your intention.

Power Symbol uses

The power symbol can be thought of as the initiator and the sealer. In other words when you intend to use Reiki, in any situation, use the Power Symbol to start with. Do whatever it is you are going to do with the Reiki, for example empowering your

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goals, and then finish the session by using the power symbol once more. Okay then lets list a few uses Draw a couple out on some paper and put them in your shoes to help re-energize you. Stand your food on one to empower it. Draw one out over your food to bless it. Do the same with any drink. Draw one out over your list of goals to energize and empower them. Draw one out over each Chakra to cleanse and empower yourself. Visualize one in your palm when shaking someones hand to give them a blessing. Visualize one in each palm whilst holding a dead battery. It can re-energize it. Visualize one covering the doorway to the room of an important meeting. As you walk through - the Symbol will fill you with confidence and presence. Draw it out over your mail shots to bless and empower them. Draw it out onto the walls ceilings and floors of rooms to bless and empower them. Draw it out over the doors and windows of your house to help protect them from unwanted entry. Draw one out over the palms of your hands, then whilst holding a quartz crystal, visualize the Symbol melting into it. This empowered crystal can be used for protection. Place in cars, houses, pockets anywhere. Incidentally, just in case you were wondering. When we say draw out the Symbol we dont mean draw it out literally. If youre using it on your goals list for example then yes, of course, draw it out with a pen or pencil

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directly on the list. But dont go painting it out on the walls of your house - unless, of course, you really want to. Just draw it out in the air with your fire finger or palm etc. and then visualize it sinking in. Right, lets move on to - uses for the

Mental/Emotional Symbol uses

This Symbol is all about balance and harmony use it on any situation where this is required. In healing it helps address and balance the mental and emotional reasons behind the physical ailment. Use it when and if Feeling under stress of any kind. It helps you to relax and take a balanced view. You have one-sided complaints such as a painful left knee and shoulder. It will balance the energy out. Struggling to balance your feelings about money. When your heart says yes and your head says no. You are in conflict with someone and seem to be constantly arguing. Place the symbol between you to harmonize and balance the negative feelings. Your self-image needs improving or any time you feel out of balance. Just imagine the Symbol above your head and let it sink down into you. You have a headache brought on by mental or emotional stress. Draw the Symbol on both your palms and place them on the temples until the pain begins to ease. Needing to remember something. Visualize the Symbol above your head, allow it to sink

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down into you, then relax and let go. The answer will pop into your mind quite quickly. Reciting your affirmations. Visualize the Symbol above your head again, let it sink down and then run through your list. Needing to concentrate. Let the Symbol sink into your head (as written above) wait for a few minutes - then attend to the task. In fact you can use it whenever and wherever you need to bring balance and harmony. There are literally hundreds of uses for this Symbol. As there are for all the Reiki Symbols. You are only limited by your own imagination. And, then again, you can even use the Mental/Emotional Symbol to enhance your imagination!

Distance Symbol uses

The Distance Symbol is quite a remarkable one. It is generally used for sending healing to anyone or anything that you are not able to touch right now. This happens if the person is on the other side of the room or the other side of the world. Time is no barrier either. The use of this Symbol can send Reiki into the past or the future. So if you want to send healing to an event that occurred in the past, nows your chance. If you are not sure why you would want to do this consider An emotionally traumatic event that may have occurred many years ago but which still causes upset today.

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Perhaps the loss of a loved one who youve been unable to let go. Sending the Distance Symbol to the time when this happened, along with the Mental/Emotional Symbol, can be very healing For both of you. Sending Reiki to a future event also falls within the capabilities of the Distance Symbol. Whats this good for? Well, if you have an exam, an important meeting etc. Or even some sort of hospital operation lined up sending Reiki can help everything go much more smoothly. How do you do this? Write down on a piece of paper exactly when and where the event did, or is going to, take place. Draw out the Power Symbol over the paper. Follow this with Distance Symbol and, if you think it will help, the Mental/Emotional Symbol too. Seal the process with another Power Symbol and then hold the paper in your hands. Intend that the Reiki travels to this point in time, and it will be so. Now, if you directed the Reiki to a future time it will be there to help everything go smoothly when you arrive. If you sent it into the past you will begin to feel more relaxed about whatever trauma that was affecting you. Keep on repeating the process until you feel the hold it had on you has been released. Sending healing to another person follows a similar method

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Write out the name of the person on a piece of paper. Draw out the Power Symbol over it, followed by the Distance Symbol and then seal it with another Power Symbol. Not forgetting to say the Sacred Names of the Symbols three times each, as you draw them out. Yes, you can include a Mental/Emotional Symbol, within the Power Symbol sandwich as well, if you feel it will help. Hold the paper between your palms. Say the name of the person along with the address, if you know it, three times. Intend that the Reiki energy flows to the person and it will be so. Allow the energy to flow for as long as you feel comfortable. Ten minutes, twenty, thirty its entirely up to you. If you are intending to send Reiki to more than just one person, it is not necessary to send to just one person at a time. Simply write all their names down on the paper, then... Carry out the same process as above and the Reiki will flow to everyone on the list. If you dont know their addresses, dont worry God the bigger part of you - knows them all. By the way, you can also use a photograph of the person instead of writing their name. Draw out the Symbols on the back of the photo and hold this in your hands.

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Usui Master Symbol

This Symbol is generally used just for initiating others into Reiki. It is the first symbol used when beginning the initiation ceremony. As for its other uses, what can we say? Use it for anything and everything. Whatever you want to positively influence and empower use the Usui Master Symbol. There are no limitations as to its use.

Tibetan Master Symbol

As with the Usui Master Symbol this one is also used mainly in the initiation ceremonies. Only this time, obviously, it is used for attuning people to the Tibetan Reiki energies. It is generally accepted, nonetheless, that this Symbol is good for clearing blocked or negative energy. So any time you feel like a good clear out, use it. And we do mean for all kinds of clearing from constipation to unwanted ghostly apparitions.

Fire Serpent Symbol

This is essentially a symbol for centering energies, such as the aura or Chakras. And, once again, is used mainly during the Tibetan initiation ceremony. It can, of course, also be used during a healing treatment if you think it would be beneficial. For example if your client is feeling frazzled, uncoordinated

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or disorientated etc. Its kinda like the pull yourself together Symbol. Draw it out along the whole length of the persons spine - from the top of the head down to the tailbone. This will balance, cleanse and harmonize the Chakras.

* Experiences after Initiation

Esoterically speaking, Reiki attunements are akin to the first steps of your spiritual journey home to knowing you are God. These steps may begin with a cleansing of your physical body and a gentle clearing of the emotional and mental baggage we all seem to carry with us.

A Gentle Clearing
Its not unusual, therefore, for you to go through some kind of catharsis after the attunements. But this is not something you should be concerned about. Its just the release of trapped emotional energy patterns and is just part of the alignment process. So if you suddenly feel like crying or raging etc for no apparent reason its okay. If youre in a safe and appropriate environment just let go and if necessary let rip. It really is okay.

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You may also experience cold like symptoms, which, again, should not unduly concern you, as they are only signs of internal detoxification and healing. What is happening is this Because of your intention to allow more energy to enter into your reality, your aura and Chakras are clearing and adjusting to enable you to channel it more efficiently. After this initial adjustment period, you may begin to experience a refinement of your belief systems. You may even begin to feel somehow different. You may find you are becoming a more balanced person.

For those who want to heal others

Once you have carried out your attunement, you will have an enhanced ability to heal yourself, others, plants and animals. So activate the Reiki, place your hands on whoever or whatever you intend to heal, and the healing energy will flow automatically. If you intend to use Reiki in this way, it will be extremely beneficial if, for the first month or so, you give as many healing sessions as possible including a daily self-healing. This helps settle the energy within you and works to strengthen your Reiki muscles. One of the marvelous things about Reiki and healing is this

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You are working with the intelligence and consciousness of God. You dont have to know anything about healing at all. God knows exactly what to do and when to do it. All you have to do is know that

You are just a channel

Always remember this. You are acting purely as a channel for the Reiki energy to enter, in a more focused way, the life of the person you are offering healing. As far as the person receiving the Reiki is concerned you are not the source of the healing, God is. And for all practical purposes this is what is actually happening. Which explains why giving treatments does not drain you personally. It could be said, quite accurately, that during a healing session both of you are being healed. Because the Reiki energy also acts and works upon you as well as the person you are offering healing. And remember, the energy heals on all of the bodys levels, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.

Giving a Reiki treatment

A Reiki treatment can last for anything between a couple of minutes to an hour or more. Its entirely up to you.

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If you are going to use Reiki Healing as a profession, though, perhaps a half hour would be the minimum. During this time the energy will communicate to the higher self, the God within, of the person you are treating and then direct itself to all the areas that need healing. You can use the conventional hand positions as given by Dr Hayashi, when first starting out. (We have listed these at the end of the book).

Adopt your own approach

However, you will find as you develop, through practicing the giving of Reiki, youll begin to adopt your own approach. This is absolutely fine. As far as we are concerned, the timings and positions are only meant as a general guide for the beginner. Also know that it really, really doesnt matter where you put your hands for, as just mentioned, the energy goes to wherever it is needed. It will just encourage the person you are healing to trust you more if, for example, they have a painful shoulder and you put your hands on their shoulder and not on their foot. Just remember that during every healing session the energy will flow to all the parts of the physical body where it is needed.

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It also flows to the mental/emotional levels where the true source of the illness may be located. Now whilst youre doing healing dont become too attached to results. Just allow whatever happens to happen. After all, you are simply acting as the channel. As explained, Reiki contains God consciousness and you must trust that the recipient is receiving exactly what is needed. You cannot, therefore, make a mistake with Reiki You cannot give too much of it. You can never apply it wrongly. It can never do any harm. It is a healing energy, which only works for good. You are not responsible for the results. You need never worry about giving Reiki. It will always be helpful.

The taboo of touch

As Reiki works on a physical level it is quite appropriate for you to touch the person who is receiving the healing. We know that it is becoming accepted practice among healers not to touch, when healing, but we find that hard to justify. We believe people need to be touched. It can be this very act of giving human touch and kindness that can have the most profound affect on health. Too many people today, dont have enough human touch in their lives. We understand the people who are trying to protect the vulnerable from inappropriate touching and we applaud their efforts.

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But it need not, and should not, mean all touching should be avoided. In a healing environment, we believe, it is entirely appropriate to touch the body of the person requiring healing, and would actively encourage you to do so. It can only add to the usefulness of Reiki. Right - off the soapbox - back to the script.

What can Reiki treat?

What can be treated? Anything and everything - if youre in doubt, just say that youre not too sure if it will work for this but... Reiki cannot do any harm it can only do good. Two common sense points for you to bear in mind when giving a treatment are Try to feel Relaxed and calm in yourself. Of course, it wont adversely affect the quality of the Reiki energy flowing through you. Its just that, if youre feeling unduly stressed or agitated it wont help fill your client with confidence. And you may also transfer this agitation to them too. Use the most relaxing environment you can find. Try to keep distractions to a minimum. Switch off your landline telephone and your mobile, and if you are visiting them in their home ask them to do the same. Try to avoid interruptions from personal callers and, again if visiting their home, ask that they try to arrange for this as well. If your client wishes to talk with you during the session, dont worry; the energy flow will not be interrupted. And you will probably find that after a few minutes the need for conversation will subside. In fact

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it is not unusual for the person to fall soundly asleep during the treatment. Now, whilst the giving of Reiki healing can often be a wonderful and very spiritually enriching process it can also, at times, become a little boring, tedious and tiring. If you begin to feel this way dont worry, its very common (although not very often spoken about because people think its very un-spiritual). Just try to ensure you adopt a strong physical position so that your back doesnt give you jip and then think about your holidays or something. Quite often, if you are already fairly sensitive, you may begin to pick up - by psychic or intuitive means - information from the person you are treating. This occurs due to the interaction of your energy fields your auras - and can sometimes lead to a greater awareness of your clients condition. This is, of course, happening to everyone every day, but most people are not sensitive enough to pick up on it. Your awareness and sensitivity, however, will have grown because of your attunement and also by using the Reiki in your everyday life. Whether you choose to divulge this extra information to the person you are treating is entirely up to you. The only advice we would offer is the judicious use of your own common sense. If you feel it would be helpful in some way, then go with that feeling. As for passing this information on to any third party Always remember the privacy and confidentiality of your client comes first, even if it is a child.

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Understanding illness
Now before we leave this section on Reiki healing and, in fact, all healing in general, we think it is extremely important to understand the function of illness and disease more fully. You see diseases are not something that you actually catch. And illnesses are not something that just happen to you without your consent. To think that an illness or disease is something that can creep up on you and take you by surprise is to overlook the fact that you create your own reality. That you make what happens happen. Everything that occurs in your life occurs because you want it to. Everything. And, of course, this very much includes illness, disease and bodily harm too. As already spoken about earlier we, as God, decided to experience what it was to be God by creating life in physical form. We decided that it would be essential to interact with many other parts of ourselves to bring greater understanding from this experience. And we also decided that if these experiences were to have any impact at all it was imperative for us to forget all about the fact that we were God and that it was us who were creating them. To experience everything we wanted to experience, even being God in adversity, we decided to allow our bodies to become ill, diseased and damaged. Yes, we could have created for ourselves the bodies of super people, who were impervious to harm

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of any kind. But we decided that this would not have brought us all the experiences we sought. So, as with everything else we were creating for ourselves, we decided that for illness, disease and bodily harm to have any meaning at all we had to ensure that we created the illusion that it came from outside ourselves. We had to forget that it was we ourselves who were creating it. Now, are you following this? We decided to allow illness, disease and bodily harm (from now on were just going to write illness but it means illness, disease and bodily harm, okay), to manifest itself in our physical realm - so that we could have these broader experiences of life. It is not something that is inflicted upon us by chance, it is something that we have decided to experience, and we do have full control over it. Every illness then is brought to you, by you. You dont catch anything at all, for there is nothing to catch unless you have agreed to catch it. We know our doctors and scientists have discovered, and continue to discover, all these pathogens - germs, viruses and bacteria etc.- which are, they say, responsible for our illnesses. But they only exist because our scientists needed, and still need, to discover external reasons for our illnesses. If our doctors werent looking for reasons, these things wouldnt have to exist. Do you follow that? If we were quite happy that illness just came to us for our own experience and that it was perfectly okay - viruses etc. wouldnt have to exist. But because our memory loss was initially total and not just partial

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we have forgotten that we want these experiences and, consequently, resent and fear them coming to us. (We have always had among us, though, people whose memory loss was not total, and these people have always been there to help others remember who they are, whenever anyone wanted to). Because (another interesting word, be-cause) we fear and resent these illnesses we have allowed doctors and scientists to become a reality. And these doctors and scientists have to justify their existence by finding cures for our illnesses. To find cures they have had to discover why we get ill. And here is where it has become very interesting indeed. Many of these scientists and doctors chose to look outside of themselves to find the reasons for illness, and a very few chose to look within. Now the ones looking to the outside went looking with the notion that illness had to be something that came to us from other external sources. For them the idea was to find the external source and destroy it. Now without going into the complete history of allopathic medicine, we can just accept the fact that they did indeed begin to find external organisms responsible for our ill health. And did begin to devise ways of destroying them. What is interesting, however, is this. These organisms did not have to exist until our doctors and scientists went looking for them. You see, if they had not been able to find anything on the outside, they might have been forced to go looking on the inside, and then the game would have been up. We would have been forced to remember that it was actually us who were creating these illnesses.

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Was this just fortunate or was it the way that we decided it would be? Yes, of course it was the way we decided it would be. So now we have millions of scientists and doctors who, quite rightly, strictly adhere to their doctrine of seek and destroy medicine. And those of us who are slightly more enlightened should applaud this fact, because they are carrying out the wishes of the majority and maintaining the illusion for us all. But small cracks are beginning to develop in this facade. With the advent of quantum mechanics a few more of our scientists are beginning to look within. And some are discovering that our physical universe is built on the foundation of thought. Fortunately, though, most still maintain that this is ridiculous. Why do we say fortunate? Because that is exactly the way in which we all want it to be. There are very many millions of us who are not yet ready to wake up to this other reality. We, who are becoming more aware, owe them their ignorance for as long as they require it. It is just as wrong to force these people to accept this other reality as it is for them to force others to accept their version. You see, to maintain the illusion of us not creating our own illnesses through our thoughts, we had to invent the concept of germs to be responsible for all our ill health and diseases.

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Incidentally, most of our doctors and scientists still cling to this germ theory even though it was shown to be in error many years ago. We desired to experience illness and so we created and continue to create them. How else would we be able to experience illness? Yes, of course they appear real, and thats because they are supposed to. it? If they didnt, the illusion wouldnt work, would

Thats the game we are playing. Everything was/is created through our thoughts. The thoughts we had when we first created our reality and all the thoughts we have had since. There are no accidents; everything is following the pattern it was designed to follow. The pattern that was designed by us. All illness is created by us. Have you got that? There are no buts or howevers here; all illness is created by us. We decided that we would like to experience illness and so that is what happens. Nothing, absolutely nothing in the way of illness comes to us without our consent. You dont get ill without a reason. Your reason. The reasons can be quite simple as in you want to know what it feels like to be incapacitated or, maybe you want to prevent yourself from having to do something you would rather not do. Having a bad back can get you out of doing many things you have no intention of doing.

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And then we come on to somewhat more complex reasoning.

Why disease and illness will never be eradicated

If there werent any people wanting to experience being ill, how could others experience being carers? Now dont pass over this too lightly, for in other words it means if there can be no illness there can be no doctors. If there was to be no illness there could not be any health industry, and this industry is very, very large. So just give that some thought. If there are so many people on earth wanting to experience illness - there has to be an appropriate number of people wanting to make these people better, and vice versa. There are, therefore, many, many people whose way of life has become dependent on illness. Now we dont all carry conscious memories of why we are here. It has become an almost selfperpetuating vicious circle. Remember - For one thing to exist the opposite has to exist also. To experience wellness illness has to exist too. So the top and the bottom of it is this Whilst there are people wanting to experience what it is like to be ill there will always have to be illness and disease. No amount of drugs, surgery,

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chemotherapy, alternative medicine or even Reiki will ever change this. When one miracle drug is discovered to halt the progress of one disease, another, more drug resistant, disease will have to spring up to replace it. It can be no other way until we, as humanity, decide we have experienced all there is to experience from illness and disease and no longer require it.

There used to be a popular saying doing the rounds a while ago which was: You are what you eat. Everyone became familiar with it and some people continue to use it to this day. Over the years, however, it has evolved into the much more accurate, saying of: You are what you are capable of absorbing. And you are probably equally familiar with this new phrase yourself. But we think this newer saying has far more depth and meaning than just the food thing, and that it would benefit enormously from being looked at in a more complete way.

You are what you are capable of absorbing

Look at the saying again: You are what you are capable of absorbing. What does it say to you?

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Sure, yes, it applies very much indeed, as it should, to food and your physical body. And in this regard it simply means - it doesnt matter what you put into your mouth and swallow if your body is not able to break this food down properly and then, equally, not able to absorb the nutrients released, it wont be of any use to you at all. For instance some people dont produce enough hydrochloric acid in their stomachs so have difficulty in breaking down proteins.

The real you is a three part being

But it can also be taken as applying, very much, to those other two very important parts of yourself your mind and soul, too. For you are not just your physical body, you are also your mind and your soul or spirit as well. The phrase can be taken as meaning, therefore, that YOU, the real three part you - are what you are capable of absorbing. In other words YOU, the synergistic amalgamation of your body, mind and spirit, are what you are - consciously - because of what you have absorbed or taken in so far. And also, much more importantly, you are actually becoming what you are capable of absorbing or taking in right now. So, be very careful what you allow into yourself. Consider everything most cautiously. And by this we really do mean everything. From the food and drink you put in your mouth to the information you put in your head. Consider everything very carefully indeed. And do so from the combined perspective of your body, mind and spirit as

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well. Dont just ask yourself what you think about it, ask yourself what you feel about it too. When you are putting something in - be it food for your body or food for your mind and spirit - ask the different parts of yourself for feedback. They will give it.

Listen very carefully

But you may have to listen very carefully, in the beginning. Most of your parts will not resort to shouting. They may not be loud but they will be undeniably trying to communicate with you. So respect these parts of yourself and listen for their response. Does that piece of information sound right intellectually, does it feel right? Does it sit right within you, in your body, or does it make you feel uncomfortable? Does the information feel wholesome? Is it uniting all the parts of yourself? Are you feeling at one with it? Some people would say to you that if it feels right, just do it. And this little phrase has received a lot of popularity. They will tell you not to think about it. But we would say to you that this is not going to give you the whole picture. You also have a mind. You must ask yourself how you think about whatever it is as well. Think with your mind feel with your soul. Think with your head feel with your heart. Allow your mind to flow and your intuitive side to blossom.

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Dont just use logic

Some people, indeed most people, will just try using logic, and deny what it is they are feeling. But again this will only provide part of the solution Logic is very linear. They will spend hours and hours, sometimes days, weeks and even months racking their brains, agonising over a decision; tying themselves up in intellectual knots. Getting nowhere. But in their heads they will consider that they are doing the right thing to sort out their problems. But why? Why do people do this?

An over reliance on intellect

Well, our societies have encouraged an over reliance on intellect and external education. It has been the consensus belief that our brains are the most important tools we have. So we have developed an abundance of schools, colleges and universities of every description, designed solely for pumping facts and figures into these brains of ours. The expansion of our brains, intellects and minds has become of paramount importance. Our societies adore intellectual accomplishments. People with massive intellects are put up on pedestals and worshipped. It is actively encouraged. Intuition and feelings are kept firmly in the background and totally ignored.

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How about intuition?

How many people do you know who are admired because they have massive feelings? How many people do you know who are admired for their enormous intuition? Very few - if any at all - we would hazard the guess. It is quite sad, isnt it? Not least because most, if not all, of our highly revered inventors and scientists - the ones accredited with the massive intellects - have usually come upon their most important findings during moments when quietly doing something else. Some whilst asleep or even in the bath eureka!

Why just intellect?

But why do we say this is sad? Because it is not the moment of inspiration that is highly noted and prized, it is the size of the individuals intellect. It is all the brain work they have done before which is so highly regarded. The sudden flash of intuition, usually the major contributor to the accomplishment, is just put down as being a stroke of genius. And the saddest thing of all is that people dont even ask where that stroke of genius came from.

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Allowing genius in on the act

For us genius comes, as does the word itself, from another little word genie - the genie that resides, mostly unbidden, deep within us all. Its that magical, intuitive part of ourselves which is there for all of us to access. The part of ourselves that can solve all our problems and - grant us all our wishes. We think, and feel, that if more schools actively encouraged the development of the intuitive side of childrens make-up in equal measure alongside the intellectual and logical part - the world would be a much happier and contented place in which to live.

Use the whole of you

So, get into the habit of using your mind and your soul in equal partnership, and when you are comfortable with this try introducing your body into the equation too, because your body is always talking to you as well. How do you listen to your body? By becoming aware of its language of course. No, this is not the same as the body language being popularised by psychologists. Your body speaks to you, and you alone. It uses the whispering language of discomfort in the first instance, and then pain if you cant be encouraged to listen to the whispers. Why do you have that feeling of unease deep in the pit of your stomach? Why have you suddenly developed an aching back? Why is it you keep stubbing

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you toe or hurting your fingers? Is your throat sore because you are not speaking your truth? Are your eyes giving you trouble because you are refusing to see whats so clearly in front of your face?

Body talk
Your body talks to you all the time, just listen. Why are you having trouble with your wrists or ankles? Could it be because you are not recognising or dealing with an issue of guilt or pleasure? Are your knees hurting because that is where you are continually stuffing gobbets of unexpressed anger - or maybe because you just wont give in. You wont go down on bended knees? Any resistance or tension felt in a particular part of your body can also be interpreted as a resistance to something occurring in your life. For instance, if you really want to say no to a person or situation then your body, somewhere, will indicate this to you in the form of tension or resistance. To check this out, ask yourself blunt direct questions.

Use direct questions, and then listen

For example if you want to know if the man in your life is really the one for you ask yourself this question. Do you want to sleep with this man, every night, for the next forty years and clean the toilet after him?

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Then silently listen to the sensations that fill your body. It may be just a feeling of nothingness or emptiness inside you, or it may be that your jaw becomes a little tense, either way your body is saying something to you. The next thing to do is tell yourself very positively hes not the one for you and then silently listen again to what your body says. It may be an overwhelming feeling of fear that sweeps around your stomach. Fear of being alone. Fear of better the devil you know than the one you dont. It may be a sense of loss or grief, of losing part of yourself. Whatever it is listen, your body never lies, especially to you. All parts of your body have messages of significance to contribute to your overall understanding of any given issue, and it is a fascinating subject. One that has inspired numerous people to put pen to paper. Louise Hay is one of the better-known authors on this topic. Her book, You Can Heal Your Life, would make an excellent starting point from which to explore these matters in more detail.

Nothing is written in stone

As good as this particular book is however, along with all the others on the subject, dont forget this The meanings of any illnesses, diseases, or disorders etc. as expressed in any of the books, are purely the interpretations drawn by the authors. They may be solidly based from their own observations

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and the observations of other eminent experts, but they are only that Their observations, they may not be your own. Nothing is written in stone. If you do not feel and think that the particular interpretation written in a book is the one that applies to you; then it doesnt apply to you. The subtle language of your body is uniquely your own. And this applies equally to anything and everything else occurring in your life too. If you have a different opinion, a different slant, a different interpretation on anything that has, will or is occurring in it, then that is the one which is true for you.

You are your own expert

If the message you get from your feelings, from your mind, from your body - or from any particular experience - is at variance to what other experts have said that they mean Then your own interpretation is the valid one. For you see, the meaning of everything is the meaning that you give to it. Read that last sentence again. Dont let it slip by too lightly. The meaning that you give to anything that happens in your life is the only meaning that counts. You really are your own expert.

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Reading other peoples books and listening to other peoples experiences, on any subject, are just that Other peoples experiences - other peoples opinions. They are merely signposts on your path and should be used as such. They may be very helpful in guiding you along the general route you wish to take, but they certainly dont indicate the only direction available to you. And yes, that applies equally, if not more, to this book as well. We want you to clearly understand this, and well keep saying it over and over, in as many different ways that we can think of YOU are the most powerful energy in existence; you are God. You just have to remember that. Everything that occurs in your life is a message to you, from you, and you have designed it this way to gently wake yourself up to this understanding of who you really are. Every Master that you meet, is simply a Master of their own path to enlightenment and, therefore, a Master of themselves. They are not a Master of you. Everything that is happening to you is happening because you want it to. You make what happens happen absolutely no one and nothing else.

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A quick recap
There are three very distinct parts of you Body, Mind and Spirit. Incidentally, the word Spirit is interchangeable with the word Soul, either will do, they both mean the same thing. These parts of you work better in synergy, than they do in isolation. The amalgamation of these parts working together creates a whole which is much more powerful than the sum of its parts. In other words allowing your three parts to work together, in harmony, will make you much more than you thought possible. Its kinda like finding the answer to a simple adding up sum of 1+1+1 equals 10 instead of 3. The synergy of the three parts raises your vibration to a significantly higher value than normally expected.

Dont be one-dimensional
Dont allow one part of your make-up to dominate your life. Listening to what goes on in your Head allows your Mind to work; listening to what goes on in your Heart allows your Soul/Spirit to work; listening to what goes on in your Body allows, surprisingly enough, your Body to work. Listening to them all together allows you to work!

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 Dont allow society to bully you into becoming too intellectual. It makes for very one-sided, one-dimensional people. Dont allow the people of the New-Age movement to bully you into becoming too intuitive. It makes for very one-sided onedimensional people. Dont allow your Body to dominate; it makes for very one-sided, one-dimensional hypochondriacs! Become, instead, wholesome - the sum of the whole. A wholesome, three-dimensional person in a three-dimensional world. Dont become too caught up in this Master and Disciple/Student thing either. Recognise that Masters are just Masters of themselves and, maybe, of life. They are certainly not Masters of you.

You are your own Master

You are your own Master, for thou art God. If you do come across a Master who is on your wavelength listen to what they have to say. They may possibly have remembered more than you have, and it may be helpful. But dont abase yourself in their presence and hang on their every utterance - thats just giving away your power and, to be honest, is just plain embarrassing.

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Remember the fun

And always, always, remember this You have come into physical form to have fun. To enjoy yourself. There is nothing you have come to do. There is nothing you have come to learn. Life is not a school where you come to learn the lessons of life. You already know all there is to know for you ARE God you just have to remember it. But only when youre ready. Which is why, incidentally, when someone says something to you, or you read something in a book that you just instinctively know to be the truth it is! You have really just been caused to remember what you already know/knew, if you know what we mean.

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If you have a problem that you feel is beyond your ability to work out, pass it to God. Go into prayer with the intention of asking God for help. But do it in exactly the same way in which you

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would ask a super computer that knew everything for help. You wouldnt prostrate yourself and beg the computer to supply you with the answer (well only if you cant work the damn thing) you would simply input the data and wait for the response. And this is exactly how you should pray. Just ask for the help and know it shall be given. Dont beg, dont beseech, dont cry and get all worked up, just go into a quiet space and ask God for help in the same calm way as you would ask your computer to supply an answer. Now please dont go getting yourself all tied up with religious type thinking here. Dont go conjuring up any images of a vengeful God punishing you for thinking like this. Remember God is your friend. He does not want you on your knees in subservience. He does not want your worship or prostrations. He just wants to experience life through the realities of your choosing because God is you and you are God.

Hardship & pain?

Why is it that there are so many people playing out lives of hardship and pain? Why are so many people coming to Earth to experience so much struggle? Why indeed, its quite mysterious isnt it? And the answer lies in the fact that, somewhere along the line, people have become totally confused. They have become utterly perplexed with what it is they originally wished to experience and why it was they had chosen to experience it.

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Many, many people hold the belief that coming to the earth plane is like coming to a school type environment where you have been given loads of lessons to learn. They believe that you have to learn how to be, for example, good. They have become too caught up in the programmes they are creating. They hold the unshakeable belief that only by struggling can they overcome any bad traits that they have. They conveniently forget that they are the ones that have given themselves the experiential programme of badness in the first place.

Life is not about learning

Now try to understand this God has not and will not, indeed cannot, give you any lessons to learn - for there is nothing to learn. You really and truly are already God. You absolutely and categorically do not need to learn how to be who you already are. But you see, because you already are God, the God that you imagine that you are not - will not push you to become that who you already are. The God that you are has no problem with you allowing yourself to delude yourself for as long as you desire the illusion. Can you understand this? You are God and also not God for as long as you choose.

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This is one of those times where words become slightly inadequate. Well, actually they become totally inadequate. of But they are capable of generating the feeling

Somewhere along the line I know what youre trying to say, but I cant put it into words or explain it. And that has to suffice, because that is enough for now. Okay, so maybe that became a little too deep or maybe it wasnt deep enough. Sometimes things can be so simple that they can be overlooked by the intellect. Perhaps this is one of those times.

A few misunderstandings
Life, as we have just said, is NOT about learning anything. It is NOT a school. YOU decide on the experiences you will encounter. God does NOT command you to do anything. You are NOT given a list of things that you have to do by anyone else at all. You do NOT have to have a physical life if you do not want to have one. You do NOT have to do anything if you do not want to.

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 Life does NOT work on a points scoring system where all the good things you do are totted up against all the bad things you do there is NO such thing as good and bad or right and wrong. You do NOT have to work through any Karma.

Okay, we probably should talk about Karma for a moment.

Bad Karma
Karma. What does that word conjure up for you? If you say nothing, thats just fine. Go straight to the top of the class and stay there. (Just joking, we know its not a school). If it conjures up images of wheels of suffering and having to learn your lessons through constant struggle as you go around on this wheel of life. Then perhaps you are remembering the purpose of life in a somewhat misleading manner Cos the only purpose of life is the purpose you give to it. Still, many, many people have as a - law that has to be obeyed - the Law of Karma. There are quite a few interpretations of this law, so well just consider one version of it. Okay, so this law states that if you do someone a bad turn in one life, you have to come back in another life to have that bad thing done to you. So if you kill someone in one of your lives you will have to

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come back to the Earth plane and have someone else kill you. Some people actually say that the person who you killed has to come back as well to do the actual killing of you. This they call Karma. You have to work out your Karmic Debt, they say, and obviously this can take many, many lifetimes to do. Because every action that you take has the potential to create an effect on someone else.

Good karma
Now many of the people who abide by the Law of Karma only seem to do so from the aspect of bad Karma. They do not consider that by creating good Karma that they will have to continue on with this wheel of life. To others, good Karma has to be worked out too. They believe now take a big breath - that if you do someone a good turn in life then both you and this other person will have to come back again in another life so that the person to which you have done the good turn can give a good turn back to you. (Phew, that was one heck of a mouthful)! This then balances the Karmic Debt and you will become free to leave the wheel of life. Okay so far? Its kind of a law of cause and effect. A sort of, to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction kind of thing. So to sum up

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And this needs a big breath too If you do someone a bad turn, you either have to come back and have the same bad turn done to you by anyone else or you have to come back with the same person you did the bad turn to, and have them do the same bad turn back to you. And If you do someone a good turn the same thing happens. You have to come back in another life to have the good turn returned to you. You have to balance the books, so to speak. You have to pay off all the Karmic Debts you have accrued, whether good or bad.

The errors in Karmic Law

Now have you spotted any discrepancies in these last few paragraphs on Karmic Law? Especially when held up against the list of misunderstandings people hold about life that we looked at earlier. Yes, youre right The Law of Karma virtually contradicts all eight of them doesnt it? People who believe in Karma are going to have to believe That someone is keeping a record of everything that they do. And they are also going to have to believe that, that someone is defining whether the action was good or bad. (This someone could just be themselves, of course).

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 By definition they are going to have to believe that they are here to learn lessons. And by association the Earth will have to be a school. It would sound awfully likely that they would expect to be given a list of things they have to work through. And that they would not be able to refuse the task. It is also probable that they believe God would be angry with them if they didnt conform. Therefore they must believe that they are compelled to do something about it. Well, well, well. What do you say to that then? Pretty scary stuff, if you ask us. How do you think you would ever be likely to get off this wheel of life? How on earth would you be able to live your whole life through without ever affecting someone else for good or bad? Well nigh impossible, we would think. Youd have to spend all your time keeping painfully accurate records of exactly what you have done and who you have done it to. Decide whether it was good or bad. Franticly try to keep the books balanced before you die and hope beyond hope that you havent miscalculated. Sure looks like a very stressful way to live. Much better, we think, to say No thank you, thats not for me. You see the law of Cause and Effect or Karma only works that way, if that is the way you want it to work. Whenever you are tired of it you can say

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Enough - and that will be an end to it. Remember, nothing ever happens to you without your consent. You make what happens happen. You are, ultimately, the only power. So if you have bought into this belief about Karma being an endless struggle between right and wrong action - and you now want to be free of its effects change your mind. Yes, thats all you have to do. Just change your mind. Decide that you no longer want to be a part of this cosmic joke and leave it to one side. But wont God be angry? No you wont.

Cause & Effect

The law of Cause and Effect will still be there, by the way, it will not have disappeared. Its just that the hold it has over you will now have been diminished. It will now respond in the way you wanted it to respond when you first created it. You will still reap what you sow - you will still get back what you put out. In other words, if you float through life being wonderfully loving you will get increased helpings of love pouring back to you. If you stump about being hateful you will get hate, in larger measure, being flung back at you.

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Thats the way it works, thats the way you/we/God devised it to work. Why does it come back greater? Because when we came into physicality we wanted to have the experience of everything we created continuing to grow.

Karma should not be a millstone

We didnt devise the rule of cause and effect to become a millstone around our necks as in the way some people now conceive of Karma. We devised it to be a wonderful aid to help us in our wish to truly experience who we really are. We didnt, initially, decide to take physical form to struggle or to have hardship and pain. Why ever would we have wanted to do that? No, the law of cause and effect was devised purely to help us experience the joy of becoming more than who we already are. Its there to magnify this magnificence so it sends back to us exactly what we ask for increased many times. And it works perfectly. The problem is that we have got a little way laid in the what we want to experience side of life. We now seem to do most of our wants programming in a most negative kind of atmosphere. A great many of us now think that the only way to grow is by having every experience we create be about struggle, hardship, pain, doom and gloom. Some people even think that we are full of sin and other unholy things.

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Life works the way you want

And thats one of the greatest and most marvellous things about life You can have it work in any way you want it to. If you hold the belief that life is all about hardship and pain then your life will actually be all about hardship and pain. You see, when you leave your body after a life on earth - you know - when you die. You dont automatically become fully enlightened about what is going on. You wake up dead - as it were - with the same mindset, the same way of thinking - that you had when you were alive. If you are still convinced that life is all about hardship and pain you will probably go on to programme yourself another life of hardship and pain. You wont suddenly change all your belief systems because you are dead. Lets go into this a little more fully.

Belief
If whilst you are alive you hold the belief that life is all about hardship, pain, and learning lessons, then when you die you will still believe the same thing. Yes, you will meet all your dead relatives and loved ones in this afterlife as you may expect to do. And yes they may try to change your mind about the way things are

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But will you believe them? Just because you have entered a different realm of existence, does it follow that you will instantly change your way of thinking and believe everyone you meet? It is possible, but is it probable? There has probably been many times whilst alive on earth that other people tried to change the way you thought. Tried to change your mind on some issue, tried to persuade you that their way was better than yours. How did you react? Did you blindly accept their viewpoints or did you hold fast to your own? It wont be any different in the afterlife, you know. You will still think and feel very much the same way as you do now. Oh sure, you may be a little overawed in the beginning, but that will soon wear off. It wont take long until you are back to your normal self. If you were strong minded and opinionated in life you will be the same in death. If you were quick to make up your mind about things and it wasnt easy to change it in life it wont be easy to change it in death either. Free will and choice are still, very much, the order of the day. So if you decide, quite quickly, that you wish to return to the earth plane to have another life experience, and you are still convinced that it has to be a struggling life so that you can learn more. Then that is the type of life you will programme for. Now try to understand this

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When you die - there wont be a whole lot of difference between the you of now and the you of then. You will still have all the same thoughts and feelings you have now. You will still have all the same beliefs and prejudices etc. They dont just change as if by magic. How could they? If they did it would be taking away your power and free will to be you, and that will never happen. You are free to be as big a dipstick in the afterlife as you were in life - if that is what you choose. Death will not enlighten you. Enlightenment is all about remembering that you are God and that you have chosen to experience the beauty of this state in physical form. This memory is held in your super conscious mind, as Whoa there, just hold it right there. Wait just a minute - the super conscious mind - where does this fit in? We havent spoken about any super conscious mind, now have we? No we havent so we better do so now

The super conscious mind

The super conscious mind is also known as the higher self. It is the part of you that holds the complete picture of everything. All the feelings and memories of all the realities you have created and all the experiences you have had. It goes beyond the

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subconscious mind in this regard because it holds all the knowledge of the all of it. In the realities that you are presently experiencing it is the part of you, which is God. Now we realise that, again, many people will take issue with this statement, and again, that is fine.

Becoming one
You see, not many people are able to wholly accept themselves as being God yet and because of this they do not really understand what oneness really is. Sure they have heard of the term and it sounds really cool to talk about it as if one really understands it. But in truth their understanding is only partial and it is only natural that they might want to cling to the belief that their higher selves are totally separate entities. For when people really begin to look at the issue of oneness for the first time - they imagine the process in a way that results in them becoming totally absorbed into something else and disappearing completely. They imagine that they themselves will be overwhelmed and their identities utterly lost. And this is very scary; they might just as well be dead. How do you imagine the process of oneness taking place? Have you given it any thought yet? Everyone has heard of the term, how would you like it to be realised? If you havent given it much thought, try it now. Ask yourself this: When we have all come together and there is just one of us, will I have disappeared?

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Well, what did you come up with? Where you still there? If you were, where had all the other people gone? Had they absorbed you or had you absorbed them? Where you on your own? How did you feel about this? Most people fear the thought of being left on their own more than they do anything else. They dont like the silence. They cannot bear the loneliness. They cannot be alone.

Being alone
But please look at these words alone and loneliness more carefully Alone actually means all-one. Loneliness means all-one-ly-ness. So you see, you cannot ever be alone in the sense of being without others, because when you are truly alone you are actually with all others, you are all-one! Neat huh! You can never, ever be left on your own again. Isnt that a wonderful understanding? One of our greatest fears totally removed. You will never be, you cannot ever be, left on your own. You are still free to choose to imagine that you are separate, whilst you are here on the earth plane, of course. You are still free to choose to be by yourself, but now you know that it is a matter of choice, and it is a matter of temporary illusion.

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Oneness
But what about the fear of losing yourself when we all become one again? It doesnt happen. You become a part of the whole, yes, but you still retain your own identity. It is almost impossible to appreciate this concept by reading through these words. Needless to say, that to fully understand it you have to experience it for yourself. Of course, some people do get a flavor of this understanding during meditation or perhaps a Satori - a brief moment of enlightened thought - and then there are the ones who just pretend that they understand it.

The experience of oneness

But many of us can get a flavor of this understanding when we experience a time when we fully cooperate with others, not because we have to but because we want to. It comes at a time when we are working on a task with others and everyone just seems to gel together. There is no apparent leader; there is no friction between anyone. All ideas seem to spring forward from everyones mind at the same moment, and all are happy to carry them out. This does not happen very often, as you can imagine, but when it does, you never forget it

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And this is what it is like when oneness is accomplished. You are still there as an individual but you are also an indivisible part of the whole. Everything that happens is a spontaneous and joyful expression of this whole - which occurs with your complete blessing and agreement - as if it was just you who were making all of the decisions. Which, of course, is actually what is happening. It is not easy to appreciate this way of being without experiencing it first hand, as we have said. People are only able to see things from their present level of experience, which is via the perspectives existing within them right now. It is difficult to imagine being able to work in constant harmony with others without making reference to the way we think and feel today. This makes us see the eventual outcome of working closely with others, indeed any other, as eventually resulting in some kind of friction, or ill will developing between you. But it is also possible to get glimpses of this possibility through the process of

Unconditional love
And we are not talking here about the sickly sweet huggy-huggy, kissy-kissy, loving everyone no matter what they do to me way of being. As presently adopted by some of the more spiritual groups of people knocking about at the moment.

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We are talking about the genuine ability to love others without setting any pre-conditions necessary for the other to comply with before giving that love. Yes, we know that some of the behaviour of the lovey-dovey crowd is quite genuine, of course it is. But much of it is not. Many act like this simply because they see others doing it, and think that this must be the way you have to behave, in order to show their level of spiritual advancement. Yuk, its so sickeningly false it makes you want to cringe. And we have met many, many people who act in this way. On the outside they profess and pretend to be all love and light. They say that it really doesnt matter what other people say or do to them - they will just love them regardless. And on the inside they are suppressing and repressing such levels of anger, hatred and violence, it is truly frightening to behold.

Remember this
You see, what these people are tending to completely overlook when attempting this laudable aim of unconditional love is this Unconditional love is not just a one-way, outpouring expression. You cannot truly experience unconditional love for another, any other, if you cannot express unconditional love for yourself first. You have to remember, you have to be able, to love yourself

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unconditionally first - before you can do so with others. Now please do not think that this is being selfish as in the - being deficient in consideration for others - type meaning. Which is the presently accepted use of the term selfish. What it means is that you are being true to yourself. And fully understanding that it is impossible to give to another what you dont already have for yourself.

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Well, thats about it. Just three more pages to go. Many thanks for sticking with us right through to the end. We hope you have enjoyed the read, and if you have any questions, please dont hesitate to e-mail us at Judith&chris@chikara-reiki-do.com

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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Eyes Temples Back of head occipital region Throat Heart Solar Plexus Abdomen Pelvic region - groin Top of shoulders Shoulder blades beam energy from front Lower back - kidneys Tailbone

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Chakras
According to the principles of Chikara-Reiki-Do What the Chakra represents Non physical knowledge Chakra Relating No color 7 White What the Symbol does All Symbols Connects to higher realms, higher self, God Raku Brings balance down through all chakras Usui Master Helps you to speak your truth Tibetan Master Love clears all negativity Distance As you give so shall you receive Mental/Emotional Brings balance between all things Power The beginning of it all. Juicy, powerful, creative Relating Symbol

All seeing eye. Eye of understanding, deep knowing Communication. Verbal and otherwise Love transcends Receiving and gathering center Center of balance both mental and physical The umph center. The power house

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