Complete Description Of Reiki Healing

Angel Healing

Reiki is the art of healing an individual spiritually. It is a pious practice which an individual performs to heal the Universal Life Force surrounding him or her. This Universal Life Force or energy, according to the Reiki is termed as Qi or Ki which should be free flowing within or surrounding the individual practicing it, so as to be balanced and healthy. Reiki is a spiritual practice; it has nothing to do with religion. Hence, anyone can practice it despite their individual religion and use it to heal themselves as well as others in a proper way. This process is known as ‘Attunement’ in which the Reiki master or instructor preaches their students about the proper use of Reiki energy and how to heal themselves and others.

In Reiki, healing is done with energy. The instructor passes the Universal Life Force to their students through the medium of hands with the purpose of healing their illness or solving their tribulations in life in a person. Nowadays, people use physical materials, for example a crystal as catalysts to enhance the healing process. This is not the case with Reiki which relies simply on the Universal Life Force through various symbols, their names and hand gestures to kindle the energy used for healing. This roused energy is then transferred from the Reiki masters to their students and heal them. The Reiki instructor reinforces the student’s life force energy within their bodies healing them both mentally and physically.

It is very important to maintain a balance in all aspects of life- mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. All these elements or aspects are very essential for the good health of the individuals. Reiki is used to create this balance within an individual. This heals the individual, bring out their well being and make them healthy. The Universal Life force then flows freely and unhindered and if it does not, creates imbalances in life aspects and the individual suffers from illness or disease and an unhealthy state of mind.

Consistency in Life force energy is required to maintain a balanced and healthy well being, which can be achieved by using Reiki religiously. Western medicine unlike Reiki, aids in treating the symptoms rather than improving the overall health of the well being. Hence, Reiki not only heals physically, it treats the individual to overcome all illness and makes them healthy in totality.

Chakra Healing

Your in-depth guide to help make working with crystals & oils and the chakras easier.

Before you start working with crystals and oils in order to make your chakras easier, you need to go through an in depth guide so that you do not make any mistake in that. The crystals are generally colour coordinated with the energy centres in your body known as chakras. Because of the color coordination, working with the crystals become a lot easier.

The descriptions of chakra focus on the imbalances. It does not harm if you place an appropriate stone when you are meditating. This will help you in the overall balance of the aura. You will realise some crystals will relate to only one chakra. But some are exceptions like, the Tiger’s eye is a grounding stone related to the first chakra. But it has a golden hue and thus, it is also used for the third chakra. The same thing holds true for the essential oils. Rose and jasmine relate to love on the physical, spiritual and the emotional levels and thus connect the second, fourth and the seventh chakra.

In Sanskrit, “Chakra” means the wheel, and those who see them, consider them to be the spinning wheels of light. They are also known as aura, or the electromagnetic force field that is surrounding every living being. The energy of the aura holds in our thoughts and feelings and these chakras concentrate of the flow of the energies.

Stress is an excellent example when you can tell that illness manifests in the realm of feelings and thoughts. The mind may say that it is doing too much work and is under a lot of pressure. This intuits a feeling of burden on the person. Mind and emotions, both have to undergo a negative experience. If the mind and the emotions continue to create resistance, the blockage will assume that the physical area is most vulnerable.

The main motive of balancing the chakra is to dissolve the blockages so that the physical self and function well. Each chakra has its own color and there are stones of those colours which are placed there. The system used is developed by Katrina Raphael, the author of Crystal Trilogy.

First chakra (feet to base of spine)

The first chakra represents our relationship with the physical bodies and the materialistic world. It grounds us with the physical existence. When it remains balanced, the energy helps you to blend the physical and spiritual parts of your body. It helps you to eliminate the things that are not needed anymore. People enjoy the physical existence of life. If the chakra is unbalanced, people may tend to be afraid of life, feel like victims, and withdraw from the reality of physical existence. The physical symptoms include many difficulties with feet, legs or lower back. The stones associated with the first chakra are:

  • Black tourmaline : This is a protective stone when you feel threatened at the survival level.
  • Hematite : This stone helps you to set protective boundaries when you feel as if others are intruding into your private space.
  • Black and snowflake obsidian : This helps you to see what material things you no longer need for growth.
  • Smoky quartz : The lightest of the dark stones, helps to blend the energies of the first and seventh chakras.
  • Tiger’s eye : This helps you to feel secure about physical existence.

Second chakra (just above the pelvic bone)

This chakra is related to the energy flow as it is expressed in the blood flow. There are much energy of sexuality and creativity. It is deeply connected to the five senses. When the chakra is unblocked, people feel totally alive and active, spontaneous and energetic. When this is unbalanced, it results in diseases of reproductive organs, joint stiffness and many blood related disorders. The stones associated with the second chakra are:

  • Bloodstone : This can stimulate energy.
  • Carnelian : This is associated with creativity and decision-making.
  • Red garnet : This encourages patience.
  • Red jasper : This helps to connect us to the flowing energies of the earth.
  • Ruby : The stone of passion enhances sensory awareness.

Third chakra (navel and solar plexus area)

This is the chakra of material and physical power. This gives a lot of emphasis on the physical realm, especially when it comes to manifesting any one’s dreams or hope. It relates to the expression of anyone’s individuality in this physical world. When it is unblocked, people feel really self confident and have a clear sense of purpose. They can pursue the dreams which are impossible for the others. Imbalance causes the lack of self confidence, insecurity about money or any other physical things. They may also express it in terms of being aggressive or they may also try dominating others. The physical symptoms relate to the digestive system. The stones associated with the third chakra:

  • Aragonite : This has a calming and stabilizing effect, especially on emotions such as anger and stress.
  • Citrine : This is the stone most related to manifesting abundance and to the balanced use of will.
  • Golden calcite : This helps to integrate new energies and beliefs areas related to personal empowerment, such as relationships and business.
  • Malachite : This releases congestion in the solar plexus, and aids creativity.
  • Rhodochrosite : This assists in deep breathing, thus helping to relieve anxiety and tension.
  • Rutilated quartz : This helps to add enhanced creating energy to our dreams.
  • Pyrite : This helps us to come up with creative ideas which can help bring abundance in our lives.
  • Tiger’s eye : This helps to teach us good timing in terms of when to act on a dream.
  • Unakite Unakite : This helps us to understand the mental and emotional sources for it. It is also believed to help release conditions which have been inhibiting personal growth.

Fourth chakra (heart area)

As this chakra is related to the heart area, this relates to the love and emotional well being of a person. When it is unblocked, one can love unconditionally and attract to ourselves those people who will give us a lot of love. But when this gets blocked, we feel the lack of love in our love and also the lack of material security. Heart conditions are the most common physical symptoms. The stones associated with the fourth chakra :

  • Aventurine: This is the stone most related to physical health and heart balancing.
  • Emerald : This relates most directly to the spiritual aspects of love.
  • Green calcite : This eases old, limiting beliefs (especially those based on fear) from the mind so that new ideas can flourish.
  • Green tourmaline : This opens the creative elements of the heart, i.e., adding an emotional depth to one’s creations.
  • Lepidolite : This helps to calm the heart and relieves stress.
  • Malachite : This releases congestion in the solar plexus, and aids creativity.
  • Malachite-Chrysocolla : This blends malachite’s ability with chrysocolla’s gift of soothing and calming.
  • Pink Calcite : This helps to release old and hurtful emotional patterns so that the heart can be open to receive and give unconditional love.
  • Rhodochrosite : This helps to relieve anxiety.
  • Rhodonite : This helps us to be patient with others.
  • Rose quartz : This is the stone for helping to create unconditional self-love.

Fifth chakra (throat area)

This chakra governs the mental creativity and communication. When it is balanced, it is easier for us to communicate with others effectively, both in verbal and written form. This includes expression of anger and other emotion. When this chakra is blocked, it becomes difficult to communicate and people may consider them introvert. There are many more things apart from the physical blockages associated with this chakra. This can include excessive eating and drinking and a large range of respiratory diseases. Teeth and gum disorders may also fall in this category. The stones for the fifth chakra include :

  • Angelite : This helps us to communicate with angels and other nonphysical beings, as well as aiding in long-distance communication. It also helps to dissolve anger.
  • Aqua Aura : This teaches us self-expression through service to others.
  • Aquamarine : This helps us to express ourselves in a tranquil way.
  • Blue lace agate : This helps to ground our communications with a sense of what can be accomplished.
  • Blue Topaz : This helps us to communicate fearlessly that which we know to be true, and also stimulates creativity.
  • Celestite : This helps to calm the over-active mind and teaches us how to be receptive.
  • Chrysocolla : This helps one to have self-confidence in personal expression.
  • Larimar : This enables us to communicate with others that which we feel deeply in our hearts and souls.
  • Turquoise : This helps us to enrol others to help in the manifestation of our desires.

Sixth chakra (between eyebrows)

This is considered to be the psychic centre and this helps in various psychic abilities and creating the source of intuition. This chakra is related to the fears of cultures which you can believe only in your physical senses. If this chakra is blocked, it will create many changes like fear of imagination, of dreams and many irrational intuitions. The physical symptoms may be continuous headache, anxiety and insomnia. The stones associated with the sixth chakra :

  • Amethyst : This is known as the tranquilizer of nature and helps in sleep and peaceful dreams.
  • Azurite : This helps you to consciously look at different old programmed beliefs and then dissolve them.
  • Charoite : This helps to dissolve the fears, both known as well as unknown.
  • Hawk’s eye : This helps us to see our lives with an aerial vision.
  • Kyanite : this will remind you that everything that happens has a purpose behind it and we are in charge of those.
  • Lapis : This helps us to discover our hidden beliefs and bring them to the surface.
  • Sodalite : This helps in the balance when one is mentally or emotionally confused.
  • Moss agate : This helps to balance the left and right sides of the brain.
  • Sugilite : This helps to release the sense of resentment and guilt.

Seventh chakra (crown of the head)

This chakra is our direct connection to the spirit. When this chakra is completely balanced, we get to know our relationship with the universe. We get dissolved in the illusion that we are separate from other humans and the various other forms of life. We consider ourselves to be completely unique and we appreciate our places as parts of the whole. When the chakra is blocked, we compare ourselves to others or to something that we internally want to be. This creates a feeling of loneliness and death inside the people.

The stones that is associated with the seventh chakra :

  • Clear calcite : This brings spiritual understanding to the problems of the earth.
  • Clear quartz : There are many different forms of clear quartz.
  • Danburite : This stone helps us to view what happens in our lives from the perspective of our soul and provides us with a feeling of calmness and serenity even in the difficult stages of life.
  • Herkimer : This is one of the forms of clear quartz and it has the ability to dissolve chakra blockages.
  • Selenite
Chakra
Location
Function
Color
First Feet to base of spine Grounding Black, brown, red
Second Genital area Sexuality Red, orange
Third Abdominal area Personal power Yellow
Solar plexus Diaphragm Emotional release Coral, yellow green
Fourth Heart Love, healing Pink, green
Fifth Ear, nose, throat Communication Blue
Sixth Brow Inner wisdom Dark blue, purple
Seventh Crown of the head Oneness White

If you feel moved to put any other coloured stone in a chakra, you may surely do that. The above ones are just some guidelines.

Chakra balancing meditation

You can choose one or more stones for each of these chakras. If you wish to balance all the chakras, then you need to work on them separately. You must lie down and then place each stone in the appropriate location. You may also hold a clear quartz point and then rotate it over each stone, beginning with the first chakra.

Inhale deeply and as you inhale imagine that the breath is coming through the soles of the feet and it is filling your body till the top of your head. While you exhale, imagine that it is travelling the same way back. After you have practised this for some time, you may want to see the colour that is associated with each chakra as the breath is travelling through all the parts of the body.

In case you are working on a single chakra, then you may want to create an affirmation which is related of it. Take an example : a fourth chakra confirmation can be like” I give and receive love unconditionally” you can repeat the confirmation to yourself and then you will visualise yourself flooded with the colour rose. You will imagine yourself in loving situations.

You must not over do the chakra balancing as it is just about simple relaxation and meditation. When you will practice more, you will find that you are more attuned to the subtle energies. You will become aware of the imbalances and you can cure them on your own.

Sri Kamal, Reiki Grand Master

Crystal Healing

Your in-depth guide to help make working with crystals & oils and the chakras easier.

Before you start working with crystals and oils in order to make your chakras easier, you need to go through an in depth guide so that you do not make any mistake in that. The crystals are generally colour coordinated with the energy centres in your body known as chakras. Because of the color coordination, working with the crystals become a lot easier.

The descriptions of chakra focus on the imbalances. It does not harm if you place an appropriate stone when you are meditating. This will help you in the overall balance of the aura. You will realise some crystals will relate to only one chakra. But some are exceptions like, the Tiger’s eye is a grounding stone related to the first chakra. But it has a golden hue and thus, it is also used for the third chakra. The same thing holds true for the essential oils. Rose and jasmine relate to love on the physical, spiritual and the emotional levels and thus connect the second, fourth and the seventh chakra.

In Sanskrit, “Chakra” means the wheel, and those who see them, consider them to be the spinning wheels of light. They are also known as aura, or the electromagnetic force field that is surrounding every living being. The energy of the aura holds in our thoughts and feelings and these chakras concentrate of the flow of the energies.

Stress is an excellent example when you can tell that illness manifests in the realm of feelings and thoughts. The mind may say that it is doing too much work and is under a lot of pressure. This intuits a feeling of burden on the person. Mind and emotions, both have to undergo a negative experience. If the mind and the emotions continue to create resistance, the blockage will assume that the physical area is most vulnerable.

The main motive of balancing the chakra is to dissolve the blockages so that the physical self and function well. Each chakra has its own color and there are stones of those colours which are placed there. The system used is developed by Katrina Raphael, the author of Crystal Trilogy.

Pranic Healing

The best part about Cho Ku Rei is that it can be used anywhere for anything. Some of the ways that it can be used are :

Before you start working with crystals and oils in order to make your chakras easier, you need to go through an in depth guide so that you do not make any mistake in that. The crystals are generally colour coordinated with the energy centres in your body known as chakras. Because of the color coordination, working with the crystals become a lot easier.

The descriptions of chakra focus on the imbalances. It does not harm if you place an appropriate stone when you are meditating. This will help you in the overall balance of the aura. You will realise some crystals will relate to only one chakra. But some are exceptions like, the Tiger’s eye is a grounding stone related to the first chakra. But it has a golden hue and thus, it is also used for the third chakra. The same thing holds true for the essential oils. Rose and jasmine relate to love on the physical, spiritual and the emotional levels and thus connect the second, fourth and the seventh chakra.

In Sanskrit, “Chakra” means the wheel, and those who see them, consider them to be the spinning wheels of light. They are also known as aura, or the electromagnetic force field that is surrounding every living being. The energy of the aura holds in our thoughts and feelings and these chakras concentrate of the flow of the energies.

Stress is an excellent example when you can tell that illness manifests in the realm of feelings and thoughts. The mind may say that it is doing too much work and is under a lot of pressure. This intuits a feeling of burden on the person. Mind and emotions, both have to undergo a negative experience. If the mind and the emotions continue to create resistance, the blockage will assume that the physical area is most vulnerable.

The main motive of balancing the chakra is to dissolve the blockages so that the physical self and function well. Each chakra has its own color and there are stones of those colours which are placed there. The system used is developed by Katrina Raphael, the author of Crystal Trilogy.

Emotional Freedom Technique

Eliminate your stress and negative emotion with “Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)”. EFT is a powerful, drug-free, easy-to-learn and easy-to-use technique that can reduce stress or painful emotions associated with thoughts, past experiences, emotional challenges and also helps in increasing personal performance.

EFT is a form of psychological acupuncture that uses finger tapping on designated points on the face and body with saying out the specific problem followed by a general affirmation. EFT combines ancient Acupuncture with modern day psychology – and there is no need for needles !

EFT is indeed an amazing and effective self-help tool and it is possible to get extraordinary change with even the most basic knowledge, little or no understanding of the science behind it.

However, there are times when EFT doesn’t seem to work, you just get nowhere. It is human nature not to ‘go there’ if ‘there’ is deemed too uncomfortable either consciously or unconsciously. This is where the practitioner comes in, when you are stuck. The Practitioner creates a safe space for the client to open-up by building rapport and trust and help them to clear their negative emotions and the pain associated with it.

By Uma Mageswari, Reiki Grand Master