There is nothing wrong or "crooked" with the practice of Reiki, but I WILL say to all of you whom are interested in Reiki, that is a very low level practice and the energies involved don't penetrate or reach that high in terms of levels or realms.
So if you have come to this practice for "spiritual cultivation", what you will develop in this system will be quite limited.
cada sesion de reiki es un viaje(sin drogas),a veces llegas lejos a veces no tanto,y cada qe terminas el viaje es una sensacion de paz y autosuficiencia y plenitud que te dura el resto del dia o de la semana a veces,te aclara de tal forma qe te ayuda a tomar mejores desiciones,te ayuda a hacer mas llevadera tu vida,llevas una vida normal,solo que mas aclarado o despierto si quieres,es sensacional,te lo recomiendo,lo agradeseras toda tu vida...
I for one enjoyed this video/presentation and would like to learn more about Reiki and greater depth of the uses of crystals: "programming"/"storing memories"/expanding human capability etc. Bravo, more please :)
As a reiki master (I don't feel like a master as only a master can master his own reality and path) I have certainly noticed the different levels of enrgy through all three attunements. How well the reiki comes through depends upon how well you look after yourself in body and spirit. For those who are unsure if this is real the answer is simple, go and find a reiki practitioner or master and book yourself an hour's session. After you may feel lighter and slightly light headed, or recharged.
I was attuned to the second level Reiki last year and I felt very powerful for many months. Now I notice that I don't seem to have the same flow of energy that I once had. It's kind of like my Reiki healing has fizzled out like an old battery. I am not tired and I have no stress in my life. What could be causing this downturn?? I would welcome your opinion. Thanks.
Reiki never goes off like old battery. You are not loosing it... it would be with you and will be with you... its work always going on and so you will have all the benefits of this lovely energy flow.
one accustoms with the flow so it feels like normal... Be faithful to you and your reikiflow and you will get surely benefited as well as provide benefits to others also....
Hello, I had posed this question to a number of people and many have suggested doing more Reiki on myself and getting more Reiki treatments on myself and doing more meditation. When I would do Reiki on friends they would feel heat and tingling. Now when I do it, they feel nothing and I feel nothing. That means I am an old battery and need recharging. Thank you for your imput. Namaste.
@Delisle4 This means that you were not attuned with Reiki Natural system. Otherwise Reiki is for life time, when ever you start; it will work as before and provide patient base responses!
Hello again, since communicating with you 5 months ago, I have felt my Reiki energy come back. I also had a Reiki treatment from a Reiki master and that 'recharged' a great deal. Recently I have been feeling my hands tingling more than usual even if I am not in the process of providing a treatment. I know that as we get closer to 2012 many of us will have our DNA reprogrammed and so I am enjoying the upgrades as they come along. Namaste
@Delisle4 Giving daily self-treatment is a rule of thumb. Heat in the hands is not a sign. FInd on you tube some good references on how to find a good Reiki Master Teacher and you will also learn to re-attune yourself. Or aybe yo canaks someone to give you a reatment.. don't you have any friends practicing reiki
enjoyed the video and found it healing. There is the gross and the subtle levels in every manifestation. Cynacism is a real blockage. Luckliy, the Spiritual governs and controls the material everywhere so even this apparent 'blockage' is an illusion. But who wants to live in an illusion? May all Beings be safe, May all Beings be healthy, May all beings be peaceful, May all Beings be happy.....
it doesn't work its a good method used by charlatans in order to extort money from the ill-advised and the gullible, recent studies prove that reiki has zero benefit
Reiki is experience based Natural Healing System and it works with silent moces inside the oerson, gradually and leads him/her for better situation regarding the illness, sickness, ailment or psycho-someric reason.
And this has proved by so many people who have experisnced its capacity.
its the intention that counts. everyone is able to heal others. reiki just awakens it more so. actually, a ton more.. everything is energy. my Reiki Master once said. Energy is Energy is Energy. it means everything is made of energy, just on different levels...and in different ways. you know?
Very nice and, like so many others here, just love the music. Please be kind and list the artist's name and the name of the music album or CD, so we can attempt to find it!
I completed my level 1 in Reiki I didnt believe it at first but saw the dramtic changes in my horse getting Reiki done by my teacher before and after the session I seen dramatic results in her behavior she looked sooo happy and peaceful:)
Reiki attunement is just a regular healing session where the "student" attunes to the energies sent to him. The reiki symbols doesn't work, they're just crutches and make western people believe they have some secret way of opening up "secret energies". Reiki is too dogmatic and religious in it's approach. Also all attunements are the same, once you can feel qui you can help others feel qui.
Some reasons why people don't achieve in Reiki, 1. They dont fully understand the process of healing, or they misunderstand the true meaning. 2. They don't practice their own inner healing regularly. 3. They have not overcome their inner obstructions and barriers in healing. 4. Perhaps the Master did not give much support. Reiki is not a religion or a dogma, but it is spiritual in nature. What Reiki will bee for you, depends on the attitude and motivation you bring into your daily practice.
mikisenx, that's simply not true. My mother is a Reiki Master and the symbols and their formulas are very important in advanced healing. My mother sought Reiki because she was diagnosed at a young age of having Crohn's and Lupus, a combination that was supposed to kill her by thirty. She is now 48 and healthy, despite western medicine's assertion she would die. Doctors call her a miracle. She has also regrown a disc in her back, a feat called impossible. She did it with symbols.
the symbols are very sacred, no matter what anyone says. they are like Training Wheeles for some people. yet, other people use the symbols to power up Reiki. as well as other energy work. :) Reiki is very very effective. :) anyway... the 5 symbols should always be respected. everyone is different, and everyone experiances different things...
@mikisenx Well this is the bit you're going to laugh at.....all symbols hold an energy frequency. The reiki symbols are part of this frequency. Look into cymatics for a more scientific answer to this.
@Agui007 Reiki and science has nothing to do with each other. One is blind faith, the other is evidence based. And while you may say otherwise, it doesn't make it so.
No peer reviewed scientific material exists where any kind of healing or paranormal ability has proven to be more effective than what the placebo control group gets.
@mikisenx I suppose you could say...how do you measure subtle energy. One big question that concerns me is this...if you felt it didn't do the job...why do all three attunements and spend that money? Surely if you felt it didn't work you wouldn't have done it!
The universe has energy beyond physical and scientific instruments...that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
@Agui007 I was fooled and did all three. Fooled by my mind. It can imagine and concoct all matter of feelings. Getting warm hands is not "healing energy" any more than a lightbulb is.
Well of course you can play mind games with yourself to defend your beliefs that this is some invisible force that is hard to detect but can still influence our bodies. Come on. And yet you don't have to detect the energy to know that it has no effect other than pure placebo.
@Agui007 Are you even reading my previous comments? You are trapping your mind with all these things - when in fact nothing of it works and has no supporting evidence that it is better than placebo treatments.
How much I paid is of no concern to you. And every lineage teaches reiki in different ways - even the symbols look different.
@Agui007 Furthermore, you can't see all the pink and invisible elephants that fly around, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist. Same logical flaw.
@mikisenx How can you train and be a reiki master and not even think its real? If someone doesnt believe in something they dont train to become a master at it. Youre not making much sense and I have to wonder if youre just looking for attention.
@mikisenx sorry to say you are wrong..... acupuncture, reiki, energy healing, magnetic therapy, reconnection, tai chi, and manyother have been measured, can be measured and one of only one technique used is based on Kirlianphotography it works. Homeopathy is also working. Blind faith is actually the persistant belief that only science can gives us evidence. seeing for believing is an old-fashioned attitude... Blindness comes come unflexibility of thoughts
@HealingMudras Kirlian photography does not prove anything, look it up on "skepdic". A skeptic dictionary. Homeopathy is just water and has no clinical and peer reviewed scientific evidence behind it. Don't talk about science and proof when you have no grasp of the concepts, please.
ive been having reiki theraphy for 6 months and its done me the world of good. tommorrow im going for another session and to start my training, wish me luck and peace be with you
It is called Santoor, a very popular instrument in India made famous by Maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma and is used a lot in North-indian composition. My most favorite in all instruments.
so this answer the question with some logic of ____How Jesus Crist can heal people thru his hand ???????Right R/ using the reiki wich he could learned when he went to egypt and indian
It is said that Jesus was in India and near Kashmir he stayed. There he met a Shaiv Panthi (worshiper Lord Shiva) and learned this Vidya (knowledge and attunement) from him.
Darestuff has replied and it is correct. Let me add here that Jesus stayed in a Shivs Temple, which was on Shiva Hill. He met there one Shaiv Avadhoot (follower and achiever of the yoga-path of Lord Shiva)and got himself attuned with healing energy, which was used by him. THere are other references are also available. Tibetian tradition also has some kind of document regarding this.
Lots of evidence that the mind is a very powerful thing and we have the ability to heal ourselves and others. That's why many nurses are becoming certified to use reiki on their patients.
wow. what a tactless and seriously unkind review. i hope you find the spiritual healing that you are most obviously in need of. many blessings to you.
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Thanks for that unhelp ful video of a powerpoint...
uninspiring boring banile, are the words that come to mind. i am in to spiritual healing, this video did not help me what so ever by showing me how to heal my self or others... Keep up the shit work guys :D
That was the rudest comment on this page! But I guess your right the vid didn't tell you, but to use reiki energy you need a teacher who is already a reiki master. That's the only way you can use reiki.
i would need to watch this again to figure out what the hell i meant years ago, but basically degeneration pisses me off and when a video says its going to deliver and really doesnt, then i have every reason to be disheartened.
also healing is my for-tay :) doesnt mean i need to be a pacifist every step of the way :P
but it is what you would expect from some one with 666 in their name, am i right?
Hi reikimere, yes it is mostly the same. I have been fortunate to learn Reiki healing from Barin Mehta, and felt inspired to produce these videos. It is my hope that others likewise may find inspiration to learn Reiki healing and enjoy the benefits from that.
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There is nothing wrong or "crooked" with the practice of Reiki, but I WILL say to all of you whom are interested in Reiki, that is a very low level practice and the energies involved don't penetrate or reach that high in terms of levels or realms.
So if you have come to this practice for "spiritual cultivation", what you will develop in this system will be quite limited.
Metacool416 5 months ago
cada sesion de reiki es un viaje(sin drogas),a veces llegas lejos a veces no tanto,y cada qe terminas el viaje es una sensacion de paz y autosuficiencia y plenitud que te dura el resto del dia o de la semana a veces,te aclara de tal forma qe te ayuda a tomar mejores desiciones,te ayuda a hacer mas llevadera tu vida,llevas una vida normal,solo que mas aclarado o despierto si quieres,es sensacional,te lo recomiendo,lo agradeseras toda tu vida...
TheMmenn 6 months ago
I for one enjoyed this video/presentation and would like to learn more about Reiki and greater depth of the uses of crystals: "programming"/"storing memories"/expanding human capability etc. Bravo, more please :)
ShapanMan 6 months ago
Too long. The video is toooooo loooong. But thanks for the info though....
brightyoungj 8 months ago
Awesome Music! I love it!
dalizo2009 8 months ago
this was just lovely, i felt very peaceful just watching this.
PrincessMoonFeathers 11 months ago
Reiki is great. I use reiki and Light Axis Healing. They work well for me. Thanks.
MrMegaverse 11 months ago
i want to learn reiki healing completely... where can i get videos or sum dvds to learn them skillfully plz reply me soon...
habbod 1 year ago
As a reiki master (I don't feel like a master as only a master can master his own reality and path) I have certainly noticed the different levels of enrgy through all three attunements. How well the reiki comes through depends upon how well you look after yourself in body and spirit. For those who are unsure if this is real the answer is simple, go and find a reiki practitioner or master and book yourself an hour's session. After you may feel lighter and slightly light headed, or recharged.
Agui007 1 year ago
@Agui007 bravo !
HealingMudras 1 year ago
zzzzzz..........zzzzzzzzzzzzz
luiseduardo586 1 year ago
Hello,
I was attuned to the second level Reiki last year and I felt very powerful for many months. Now I notice that I don't seem to have the same flow of energy that I once had. It's kind of like my Reiki healing has fizzled out like an old battery. I am not tired and I have no stress in my life. What could be causing this downturn?? I would welcome your opinion. Thanks.
Delisle4 2 years ago
Hello Delisle4,
Reiki never goes off like old battery. You are not loosing it... it would be with you and will be with you... its work always going on and so you will have all the benefits of this lovely energy flow.
one accustoms with the flow so it feels like normal... Be faithful to you and your reikiflow and you will get surely benefited as well as provide benefits to others also....
healwell51 2 years ago
@healwell51
Hello, I had posed this question to a number of people and many have suggested doing more Reiki on myself and getting more Reiki treatments on myself and doing more meditation. When I would do Reiki on friends they would feel heat and tingling. Now when I do it, they feel nothing and I feel nothing. That means I am an old battery and need recharging. Thank you for your imput. Namaste.
Delisle4 2 years ago
@Delisle4 This means that you were not attuned with Reiki Natural system. Otherwise Reiki is for life time, when ever you start; it will work as before and provide patient base responses!
healwell51 1 year ago
@healwell51
Hello again, since communicating with you 5 months ago, I have felt my Reiki energy come back. I also had a Reiki treatment from a Reiki master and that 'recharged' a great deal. Recently I have been feeling my hands tingling more than usual even if I am not in the process of providing a treatment. I know that as we get closer to 2012 many of us will have our DNA reprogrammed and so I am enjoying the upgrades as they come along. Namaste
Delisle4 1 year ago
@Delisle4 Giving daily self-treatment is a rule of thumb. Heat in the hands is not a sign. FInd on you tube some good references on how to find a good Reiki Master Teacher and you will also learn to re-attune yourself. Or aybe yo canaks someone to give you a reatment.. don't you have any friends practicing reiki
HealingMudras 1 year ago
@healwell51
jaypimpin03 1 year ago
@healwell51
jaypimpin03 1 year ago
that was very helpful to understand what reiki is, thank you
meralodem 2 years ago
thank you for posting! :)
love
gogh2006 2 years ago
Namaste...
gaby700324 2 years ago
enjoyed the video and found it healing. There is the gross and the subtle levels in every manifestation. Cynacism is a real blockage. Luckliy, the Spiritual governs and controls the material everywhere so even this apparent 'blockage' is an illusion. But who wants to live in an illusion? May all Beings be safe, May all Beings be healthy, May all beings be peaceful, May all Beings be happy.....
followingthetraces 2 years ago
it doesn't work its a good method used by charlatans in order to extort money from the ill-advised and the gullible, recent studies prove that reiki has zero benefit
RebelMC22 2 years ago
Reiki is experience based Natural Healing System and it works with silent moces inside the oerson, gradually and leads him/her for better situation regarding the illness, sickness, ailment or psycho-someric reason.
And this has proved by so many people who have experisnced its capacity.
healwell51 2 years ago
@RebelMC22 Please details of what study you speak of so I can check it out...thanks.
yodasodaskoda 11 months ago
I enjoyed watching this video. Wonderful music, and a unique presentation of Reiki in combination with complementary tools. Thank you for posting.
Tigerpaws9097826 2 years ago
WATEVA!!!!!!!!Odd concept
zshah78 2 years ago
good one
horse64 3 years ago
i don't do reiki but i use some other method to heal ppl with my chi.i don't what i do but it helps healing.any idea what i did?
anirudhkrishnamani 3 years ago
its the intention that counts. everyone is able to heal others. reiki just awakens it more so. actually, a ton more.. everything is energy. my Reiki Master once said. Energy is Energy is Energy. it means everything is made of energy, just on different levels...and in different ways. you know?
BlueGloryOfThe3Vows 2 years ago
Very nice and, like so many others here, just love the music. Please be kind and list the artist's name and the name of the music album or CD, so we can attempt to find it!
Thanks and blessings!
Krittikas 3 years ago
I completed my level 1 in Reiki I didnt believe it at first but saw the dramtic changes in my horse getting Reiki done by my teacher before and after the session I seen dramatic results in her behavior she looked sooo happy and peaceful:)
huyvong 4 years ago
Reiki attunement is just a regular healing session where the "student" attunes to the energies sent to him. The reiki symbols doesn't work, they're just crutches and make western people believe they have some secret way of opening up "secret energies". Reiki is too dogmatic and religious in it's approach. Also all attunements are the same, once you can feel qui you can help others feel qui.
mikisenx 4 years ago
Some reasons why people don't achieve in Reiki, 1. They dont fully understand the process of healing, or they misunderstand the true meaning. 2. They don't practice their own inner healing regularly. 3. They have not overcome their inner obstructions and barriers in healing. 4. Perhaps the Master did not give much support. Reiki is not a religion or a dogma, but it is spiritual in nature. What Reiki will bee for you, depends on the attitude and motivation you bring into your daily practice.
mpeacebird 4 years ago
mikisenx, that's simply not true. My mother is a Reiki Master and the symbols and their formulas are very important in advanced healing. My mother sought Reiki because she was diagnosed at a young age of having Crohn's and Lupus, a combination that was supposed to kill her by thirty. She is now 48 and healthy, despite western medicine's assertion she would die. Doctors call her a miracle. She has also regrown a disc in her back, a feat called impossible. She did it with symbols.
ajbonine69 4 years ago
the symbols are very sacred, no matter what anyone says. they are like Training Wheeles for some people. yet, other people use the symbols to power up Reiki. as well as other energy work. :) Reiki is very very effective. :) anyway... the 5 symbols should always be respected. everyone is different, and everyone experiances different things...
BlueGloryOfThe3Vows 2 years ago
@mikisenx Well this is the bit you're going to laugh at.....all symbols hold an energy frequency. The reiki symbols are part of this frequency. Look into cymatics for a more scientific answer to this.
Agui007 1 year ago
@Agui007 Reiki and science has nothing to do with each other. One is blind faith, the other is evidence based. And while you may say otherwise, it doesn't make it so.
No peer reviewed scientific material exists where any kind of healing or paranormal ability has proven to be more effective than what the placebo control group gets.
mikisenx 1 year ago
@mikisenx How can you say reiki is blind faith? Have you had reiki?
Agui007 1 year ago
@Agui007 I was a reiki master, so yes I have "had reiki", you could say. There's simply no evidence to be found.
mikisenx 1 year ago
@mikisenx I suppose you could say...how do you measure subtle energy. One big question that concerns me is this...if you felt it didn't do the job...why do all three attunements and spend that money? Surely if you felt it didn't work you wouldn't have done it!
The universe has energy beyond physical and scientific instruments...that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Agui007 1 year ago
@Agui007 I was fooled and did all three. Fooled by my mind. It can imagine and concoct all matter of feelings. Getting warm hands is not "healing energy" any more than a lightbulb is.
Well of course you can play mind games with yourself to defend your beliefs that this is some invisible force that is hard to detect but can still influence our bodies. Come on. And yet you don't have to detect the energy to know that it has no effect other than pure placebo.
mikisenx 1 year ago
@mikisenx How much did you pay for your reiki attuements. You are obviously aware that you were meant to do the 30 days self healing as well?
Agui007 1 year ago
@Agui007 Are you even reading my previous comments? You are trapping your mind with all these things - when in fact nothing of it works and has no supporting evidence that it is better than placebo treatments.
How much I paid is of no concern to you. And every lineage teaches reiki in different ways - even the symbols look different.
mikisenx 1 year ago
@Agui007 Furthermore, you can't see all the pink and invisible elephants that fly around, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist. Same logical flaw.
mikisenx 1 year ago
@mikisenx How can you train and be a reiki master and not even think its real? If someone doesnt believe in something they dont train to become a master at it. Youre not making much sense and I have to wonder if youre just looking for attention.
ragincaucasian319 1 year ago
@ragincaucasian319 I practised it and believed in it BEFORE.
mikisenx 1 year ago
@mikisenx sorry to say you are wrong..... acupuncture, reiki, energy healing, magnetic therapy, reconnection, tai chi, and manyother have been measured, can be measured and one of only one technique used is based on Kirlianphotography it works. Homeopathy is also working. Blind faith is actually the persistant belief that only science can gives us evidence. seeing for believing is an old-fashioned attitude... Blindness comes come unflexibility of thoughts
HealingMudras 1 year ago
@HealingMudras Kirlian photography does not prove anything, look it up on "skepdic". A skeptic dictionary. Homeopathy is just water and has no clinical and peer reviewed scientific evidence behind it. Don't talk about science and proof when you have no grasp of the concepts, please.
mikisenx 1 year ago
Thank you.
onemiamigringo 4 years ago
ive been having reiki theraphy for 6 months and its done me the world of good. tommorrow im going for another session and to start my training, wish me luck and peace be with you
Adamthebarsteward 4 years ago
Many Reiki blessings to you.
mpeacebird 4 years ago
What/who is the music??!!I love it.
oltinear 4 years ago
It is called Santoor, a very popular instrument in India made famous by Maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma and is used a lot in North-indian composition. My most favorite in all instruments.
dnag02 4 years ago
Why the churchs don't tell the real true about how he learned reiki
elcriollito 4 years ago
so this answer the question with some logic of ____How Jesus Crist can heal people thru his hand ???????Right R/ using the reiki wich he could learned when he went to egypt and indian
elcriollito 4 years ago
It is said that Jesus was in India and near Kashmir he stayed. There he met a Shaiv Panthi (worshiper Lord Shiva) and learned this Vidya (knowledge and attunement) from him.
Darestuff 4 years ago
Darestuff has replied and it is correct. Let me add here that Jesus stayed in a Shivs Temple, which was on Shiva Hill. He met there one Shaiv Avadhoot (follower and achiever of the yoga-path of Lord Shiva)and got himself attuned with healing energy, which was used by him. THere are other references are also available. Tibetian tradition also has some kind of document regarding this.
healwell51 4 years ago
Lots of evidence that the mind is a very powerful thing and we have the ability to heal ourselves and others. That's why many nurses are becoming certified to use reiki on their patients.
reikidaveohio 4 years ago
this is a great video! thanks for taking your time to do this and to upload this here. God bless
javelove 4 years ago
I'm exploring many kinds of energy healing. Your video is helpful. Thank you for sharing.
odeamuste 4 years ago
Thanks! You can visit mpeacebird's videos also! Surely you will like ...
healwell51 4 years ago
Yes me too.........love this music..must find the name.......anytime now......
About that brute.....i meant dude 666..something....Im struggling not to curse you.....people can be so egocentric.....
OMA1981 4 years ago
Amazing. Someone please tell me where to get that music. What's the title of this music?
Regards
Arvin
arvinxxx345 4 years ago
I also love the music. If you do find out where to get it please let me know. Thanks Machele
barefoot59 4 years ago
wow. what a tactless and seriously unkind review. i hope you find the spiritual healing that you are most obviously in need of. many blessings to you.
peacefulabiding7 4 years ago
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Thanks for that unhelp ful video of a powerpoint...
uninspiring boring banile, are the words that come to mind. i am in to spiritual healing, this video did not help me what so ever by showing me how to heal my self or others... Keep up the shit work guys :D
666TWeeK666 4 years ago
wow. what a tactless and unkind review. i hope you find the spiritual healing that you most obviously are in need of. many blessings to you.
peacefulabiding7 4 years ago
That was the rudest comment on this page! But I guess your right the vid didn't tell you, but to use reiki energy you need a teacher who is already a reiki master. That's the only way you can use reiki.
Spellslinger2 4 years ago
i would need to watch this again to figure out what the hell i meant years ago, but basically degeneration pisses me off and when a video says its going to deliver and really doesnt, then i have every reason to be disheartened.
also healing is my for-tay :) doesnt mean i need to be a pacifist every step of the way :P
but it is what you would expect from some one with 666 in their name, am i right?
Peace
666TWeeK666 2 years ago
this looks just like the reiki video by mpeacebird
reikimere 4 years ago
Hi reikimere, yes it is mostly the same. I have been fortunate to learn Reiki healing from Barin Mehta, and felt inspired to produce these videos. It is my hope that others likewise may find inspiration to learn Reiki healing and enjoy the benefits from that.
Regards mpeacebird
mpeacebird 4 years ago