Reiki has become an accepted method of providing healing for the spirit, mind and body. It’s origins go back over 100 years, but it is just in the last 50 years or so that this form of energy healing has been brought back into our awareness. It is perfect timing since it is only in the last 50 years or so that we would have been open to begin to embrace this form of healing modality on a global scale.
Using Reiki, you become a channel for healing energy to flow into areas of a person’s field where healing is needed. This can be applied to yourself, others, pets, animals of any kind, plants, trees, and more. Basically, anything that may potentially be damaged or not whole, could make use of Reiki healing energy to help resolve, balance and provide a healing environment for that issue.
A Quick History of Reiki
The earliest version of Reiki was that of Mataji Kawakami, who Created Reiki Ryoho in 1914. This was quickly followed by Mikao Usui who fashioned Usui Reiki in the early 1920’s. Both forms of Reiki were powerful, but the Usui Reiki version became more popular when it was delivered to the Hawaiian island in the late 1930’s and then moved to the US during the 1980’s.
I did a little digging and found a high quality Reiki training book on Amazon, based upon the original teachings of Mikao Usui, called
The Original Reiki Handbook of Dr. Mikao Usui . I highly recommend you get a copy and use it to provide greater insight into Reiki overall.
For anybody interested in becoming involved with performing healing of any kind, I would highly recommend that you obtain Reiki training since this will provide you with a wonderful base from which you can grow. Overall it would be best to embrace it fully and become a reiki master so that all the aspects of this wonderful healing source become open to you. Of course, this is not a requirement, but simply a suggestion because that path worked well for me.
For myself, I enjoy using online services for learning. It allows me to make the best use of my own time and schedule things much more easily. If this works for you as well, I would suggest you take advantage of an online Reiki course. If asked for a recommendation, I could most highly recommend my own teacher and Reiki Master Teacher, Melissa Crowhurst, who offers online reiki courses as well as many other online healing courses.
Melissa is a true teacher and she provides a great method for learning Reiki at your own pace. She does provide a total overview of Reiki, but focuses mainly on what you need to learn and experience to become an effective Reiki practitioner of your own. Overall, I thought she was awesome, so I don’t think you can go wrong by attending her classes.
If you don’t desire to learn online or simply prefer a more physical connection when being taught, you may find that there are Reiki Masters in your general area that provide classes several times a year. As a quick reference, if you have a favorite shop where you buy crystals, essential oils, etc, you can very likely find information for a Reiki Master Teacher there or even discover that classes are performed there regularly.
Even after having learned Reiki, I still did not feel the level of energy that I had initially hoped. I did feel some things, and was told this would grow over time, but I did not want to leave this to chance, so I did some additional studying about Mikao Usui to get extra insight as to what he had originally taught and I looked for things that could help me create a better focus with Reiki.
For me, it helped to learn a few simple meditation and breathing exercises to better establish my state of being and capacity to open myself for the Reiki power to flow and be most useful. Here are a few of the steps I now refer to when opening myself for Reiki.
Accessing the True Power of Reiki
- Gassho – Sit with your spine straight, head level, with your hands placed together in front of your chest as in prayer. Close your eyes and focus only on the point where your two middle fingers meet. Let everything else go. Do this for 10 to 20 minutes to clear your mind.
- Reiji-Ho – Before performing any Reiki treatment, assume the same position as with Gassho and ask or say you allow Reiki power to flow through you. Then extend your intention to allow and provide what is best for your patient (or self). Follow up with placing your folded hands in front of your third eye and ask the Reiki power to guide your hands to those parts of the physical or metaphysical body that need the healing.
- Tanden – To clear your energy flow and better prepare yourself to provide healing, it helps to clear yourself of any unhelpful energy and energize yourself with Reiki Power. To do this, inhale deeply while visualizing yourself inhaling Reiki power into your being, and then hold your breath to allow the Reiki to be fully absorbed by your being and your Tanden (the center of your being), then as your exhale through your mouth, imagine the Reiki exhaling through every part of your body, thereby clearing you and energizing you at the same time. Do this several times.
- Joshin Kokyuu-Ho – While performing the Reiki session, or even just when meditating, pay attention to your breathing, and as you breathe in, imagine you are also breathing in the Reiki through your nose and crown chakra.
- Yuki – Now extend your breathing practice to imagine that as you inhale and exhale Reiki, you inhale and exhale through your hands as well, where energy is flowing into and out of you. As you move your hands across your patient, you will sense a tingling when an area requires healing. Keep your hands over the area until the tingling stops.
OK, I know I am talking about standard Reiki, but this article is supposed to be about Deep Healing Reiki. I do believe basic Reiki is the beginning of understanding energy healing, but there is a much deeper level of healing you can achieve with practice, patience, intention, and following your intuition. I suggest you use reiki as a beginning, but allow your higher self, guides, angels or whoever walks with you, to guide you towards greater levels of healing ability.
You can refer to this process as deep healing Reiki, meaning that it uses our current comprehension of Reiki as a beginning, but then extends into new or other aspects of healing that provide higher levels of results, while also allowing you to extend healing in your own personal way. Then allow your concept of what healing is to expand beyond what you think it is today, and your own unique pathway for healing will be well underway.
As you practice healing, and allow yourself to continuously open more to spirit and their guidance, you may find that your Reiki gifts of healing become stronger, create results more quickly, and treat a broader array of circumstances. Much of this happens all on its own after opening your heart for a deeper level of service, and simply allowing it to happen.
You can provide your own name for any form of deep healing Reiki since it would be a genuinely unique healing modality of your very own, so you can do that if it helps you identify this as something different to your clients or friends and family. It will all depend on how you want to express or explain your style of healing, but to keep things simple, you can always just refer to it as Reiki, or deep healing Reiki, extended Reiki, extreme Reiki, or some variation of that.
For myself, I used Reiki as a beginning, but then incorporated many of the other things I have learned over time, and created a 20 to 30 minute session that not only delivers all the results that a standard Reiki session would have provided, but includes releasing blocks, cutting cords and connections, and establishing new affirmations. The session concludes by being bathed in a deep healing light at the center of my heart chakra that goes beyond any request for specific healing and just provides whatever is best at that time. I simply refer to the whole process as a Deep Healing Light which was the basis for this website and my healing services.
You can do a similar thing of your own. You could do exactly what I do, or something totally different, or any variation in between, but it really doesn’t matter as long as it is your heart’s intention to heal. That is really the only thing that matters and that’s why the specific method or rituals can vary or even be set aside, because the only thing that truly matters is your intention.
Namaste
