WEBVTT 1 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:20.879 Hello, and welcome to Psychic Teachers. I'm your host, Samantha 2 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:24.199 fay Dev is on vacation, but she'll be back with 3 00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:28.600 us soon. Today we're going to dive into reiki. A 4 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:30.760 lot of you have emailed throughout the years and asked 5 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:33.880 me to do a show just on reiki, what it is, 6 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:35.679 how we can use it, and how it can help 7 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:39.679 expand and enhance our life. I had no idea what 8 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:42.119 reiki was back in two thousand and five. I had 9 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:45.280 never even heard of it. And then one Saturday afternoon, 10 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:48.719 I was visiting a metaphysical show looking for crystals when 11 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:51.119 a woman came up to me and said, my guides 12 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:52.960 have a message. Can I pass it on to you? 13 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:56.880 And I said, of course, please share. I remember she 14 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:00.640 smiled and said, you're a healer. To keep saying the 15 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:03.679 word reiki, well, I thought she was trying to sell 16 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:06.879 me some magical crystal or some healing water, but she 17 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:10.680 just laughed and said, no, I'm here selling jewelry. Sometimes 18 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:13.239 I get messages and pass them on. I think you're 19 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:16.680 supposed to look into reiki check it out. When I 20 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:20.120 returned home, I did just that, and I learned that 21 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:23.760 reiki is a Japanese word, which means universal light, and 22 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:26.599 that it's a form of hands on healing. It's a 23 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:30.280 twenty five hundred year old healing technique that was rediscovered, 24 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:32.760 like doctor Issuey. The next day, my family and I 25 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:35.480 went to Barnes and Noble after church, and I remember 26 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:38.480 I found a magazine on reiki and picked out a 27 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:41.519 few books so I could learn some more. I read 28 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:44.920 that a reiki attumant connects you with universal life force 29 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:49.879 energy and activates your ability to heal. When you use reiki, 30 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:53.560 you're not using your own energy, You're simply allowing the 31 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:57.640 universal life force to flow through you. I discovered that 32 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:02.439 reiki quote heals the cause and eliminates the effects. This 33 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:05.519 intrigued me, even though it seemed like a tall order. 34 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:08.639 How could put in your hands on someone do all that? 35 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:12.800 So then I began searching for a teacher. There was 36 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:15.520 an instructor teaching a class the following month, but she 37 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:19.719 was almost three hours away. Later that week, I wandered 38 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:22.680 into our local metaphysical store looking for Blue lay Sagat. 39 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:26.759 The owner recognized me because I'd started coming in fairly frequently, 40 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:29.840 because well, you know, I just started diving into crystals 41 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:32.879 as well, and was becoming kind of addicted to shopping 42 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:35.560 for these stones. We chatted as she rang up my 43 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:37.639 order and I asked her if she knew anyone who 44 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:41.319 taught reiki, and she said, yeah, me, I have a 45 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:44.639 class starting next weekend. I was shocked. I said, you do. 46 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:48.520 I've been googling and searching and couldn't find any local classes. 47 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:52.879 Annie just smiled and said, yeah, I'm not so great 48 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:57.039 with advertising. I prefer my students to find me. I 49 00:02:57.080 --> 00:02:59.759 signed up for the reiki class and was so excited 50 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:02.439 and nervous for the weekend to hurry up and get here. 51 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:05.840 There were six of us in that class. All of 52 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:08.360 us were brand new beginners, which put me at ease 53 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:13.159 right away. Annie taught us that reiki last forever. Once 54 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:16.879 a tuned, you're always attuned. She said. It's healing energy. 55 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:22.240 Can be used on plants, animals, children, yourself, crystals, memories, 56 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:26.240 even past events. I loved that she called reiki a 57 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:29.759 first aid kit in your hands. She would always say 58 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:35.080 hands on, reiki on, hands off, Reiki off. I loved 59 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:38.439 the idea that once we were attuned, we had this 60 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:42.759 extra connection to the other side, to the universal flow. 61 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:47.800 Of healing energy. I was super intrigued. I remember she 62 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:50.280 began the class by telling us what reiki was not. 63 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:53.319 She said, it is not a belief system, it is 64 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:57.439 not a religion, it's not hypnosis, and it's not psychic healing. 65 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:01.439 She said reiki is heart center and called it meditation 66 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:06.360 and action. So as I just mentioned, reiki last forever. 67 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:09.759 Once a tuned, the energy is with you and within 68 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:13.680 you forever. But like anything, you have to use it 69 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:16.959 in order for it to work. Reiki is like radio waves. 70 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:19.759 It's always there, but you have to turn it on, 71 00:04:19.959 --> 00:04:24.079 tune into it, and tap into it. Reiki always works. 72 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:26.800 An example I like to give my reiki students is 73 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:30.480 to picture a road littered with potholes. If you gave 74 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:34.240 that old road reiki, the energy would pour over the 75 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:39.879 road and just fill in the potholes. It's intentional energy. 76 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:42.560 It always knows where to go and what to do. 77 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:46.879 And in this way, reiki kind of reminds me of mediumship. 78 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:50.480 I'm at my best when I remove myself from the 79 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:53.959 reading and just act like a delivery driver, allowing the 80 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:57.399 messages to flow through me. It's the same with reiki. 81 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:00.480 Someone might come in for a reiki treatment looking to 82 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:03.480 heal shoulder pain, only to walk out feeling as though 83 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:07.920 they released a painful childhood memory. Reiki always works, and 84 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:11.160 it works in ways that we don't always control. And 85 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:13.720 I think that's the beautiful thing about it. When you 86 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:15.920 are a tune to reiki and you start to pass 87 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:19.000 it on, you don't really know how or who or 88 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:22.279 in what ways it's going to help. You're simply the conduit. 89 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:25.600 I like to call reiki the Roto, ruter, or Dreno 90 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:29.480 of healing modalities because it works to cleanse and remove 91 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:34.160 energy blocks. Reiki is a fantastic tool for any energy 92 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:37.759 worker or healer because it protects the healer from taking 93 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:40.839 on the client's stuff. So, if you work in the 94 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:46.040 medical field, a chiropractor, acupuncturist, if you are a massage therapist, 95 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:50.079 any type of healing modality, learning and becoming a tuned 96 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:53.560 to reiki is a great additional add on to your 97 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:57.720 practice because it protects you from taking on the client's energy. 98 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:01.920 It helps reduce stress, it brings more balance into your life, 99 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:05.959 and it helps to cleanse the chakra system. So in 100 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.680 that class, after learning what reiki was and was not, 101 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:12.959 our teacher Annie Miller told us the legend of doctor Usui, 102 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:18.000 who's credited with rediscovering reiki. Many reki practitioners have said, 103 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:20.279 this story I'm about to tell you is just that 104 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:23.399 a legend, a myth, a story. But I think we 105 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:26.199 can always learn from stories, so I'm going to share 106 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:30.000 it with you, just as I learned it. Doctor Usui 107 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:33.600 was working at a Christian school in Kyoto, Japan. He 108 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:36.879 enjoyed teaching the children, but one thing bothered him. He 109 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:41.920 couldn't understand how Jesus performed the healings in the Bible stories. 110 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:45.120 He was a really smart man, and he wanted to 111 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:49.399 understand exactly what he was teaching these children. So he 112 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:53.959 set off to discover an answer to this age old mystery. First, 113 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:56.839 he taught himself Sanskrit. You know, like you do, you 114 00:06:56.959 --> 00:06:58.920 just take a leave of absence from your job and 115 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:02.000 you learn an ancient languge which clearly he was a 116 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:05.600 pretty smart guer. So he learned Sanskrit, and he begins 117 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:09.120 to learn the Sanskrit sutras or holy writings to find 118 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:12.560 a precise formula for healing. But he didn't know how 119 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:16.600 to activate these healing formulas to make them work. Doctor 120 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:20.839 Issue was growing frustrated. Eventually, he took twenty one stones 121 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:25.319 and traveled up Mount Karama by himself to meditate alone. 122 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:29.920 He sat on top of that mountain for twenty one days, fasting, meditating, 123 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:33.399 and praying. Each morning he'd wake up, say a prayer, 124 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:36.240 read a sutra, and toss the stone off the mountain 125 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:39.720 to help him mark the passing days. On the last morning, 126 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:42.959 after nothing had happened for those three weeks of fasting 127 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:46.680 and meditating and praying, doctor Issue called out, my Father, 128 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:49.319 my God, I pray you will show me the light. 129 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:53.759 Suddenly he saw a beam of light. As he stood 130 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:55.560 up to stare at this light, he saw it was 131 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:59.199 coming closer to him. His first instinct was to run 132 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:01.680 from it, but then he thought of all he'd done 133 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:04.839 to prepare for this very moment, so he stood gravely 134 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:08.560 and faced the light. Suddenly, this beam of light hid 135 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:12.199 him in his forehead, knocking him down. He saw millions 136 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:16.120 of bubbles in every color. Each bubble explained a sutrac 137 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:20.399 to him. Doctor USOUI understood healing energy now and how 138 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:24.759 it worked. He was overjoyed and began clamoring quickly down 139 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:28.040 the mountain. He was surprised that, even though he'd been 140 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:31.519 atop this mountain for twenty one days, he wasn't weak 141 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:34.720 or tired. As he hurried down the mountain, he stubbed 142 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:37.279 his toe on a rock and cut it open. He 143 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:40.279 placed his hands on his throbbing toe and was surprised 144 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:42.679 to see the bleeding stopped and the pain went away. 145 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:46.519 As he finished his descent down the mountain, he met 146 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:48.840 a young woman with the toothache and placed his hands 147 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:53.039 on her jaw. Instantly the toothache disappeared. She was so 148 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:55.559 grateful that she invited him inside her family's home to 149 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:59.000 eat a meal. Doctor Usui was ravished and thrilled to 150 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:01.440 discover he could eat a hearty meal after such a 151 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:05.759 long fast without any ill effects. Soon word went around 152 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:08.480 the small village and doctor Usui was called upon to 153 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:12.799 heal the bishop's arthritis. He was so filled with gratitude 154 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:16.360 and joy over his newfound healing abilities that he rushed 155 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:19.360 to the area of town where the beggars lived. Most 156 00:09:19.399 --> 00:09:21.440 of these people were forced to beg because of a 157 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:25.320 physical ailment. As doctor Usui worked to heal all of 158 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:27.919 their ills, he felt such delight knowing they could now 159 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.480 work and wouldn't have to beg again. He spent seven 160 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:35.840 years traveling around healing people. However, when he returned to 161 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:38.639 this beggar area a while later, he was shocked to 162 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:42.000 see the same beggars living there. When he asked, why 163 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:46.399 are you still here? I healed you, most of them said, well, 164 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:50.039 it was just easier to stay here. This taught doctor 165 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:53.679 Usui that one must want to be healed and feel 166 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:56.759 that same sense of gratitude in order for the healing 167 00:09:56.840 --> 00:10:01.360 to truly work. Doctor Usui he began teaching others how 168 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:05.200 to do reiki. In his lifetime, he had tuned eighteen masters. 169 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:08.399 Two of his closest students were doctor Hayashi, who had 170 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:12.519 tuned sixteen masters, and missus Takata, who's credited with bringing 171 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:15.960 reiki to the West. She had tuned twenty two masters. 172 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:20.080 Doctor Yusui also taught us about the Reiki principles, which says, 173 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:23.879 just for today, I will give thanks for my many blessings, 174 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:27.799 just for today. I will not worry. Just for today, 175 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:31.080 I will not be angry. Just for today, I will 176 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:34.480 do my work honestly. Just for today, I will be 177 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:38.559 kind to my neighbor and every living thing I love 178 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:41.679 those statements for all the obvious reasons, but also because 179 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:45.440 each one starts with just for today, which reminds us 180 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:48.519 to be gentle with ourselves. And this is really how 181 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:51.879 reiki works. It's such a gentle form of energy healing. 182 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:55.279 If you feel off one day or disconnected from this 183 00:10:55.440 --> 00:10:59.120 universal life, worse energy, no worries, you can always come 184 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:03.480 back to center just for today. When you were attuned 185 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:06.759 in a Reiki one class, you are fully certified and 186 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:10.559 able to do reiki on yourself, others, animals, and plants 187 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:14.360 for the rest of your life. After my first reiki Atuman, 188 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:17.000 Annie advised us to go home and do reiki on 189 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:20.840 ourselves every day for twenty one days. We were taught 190 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:25.440 the specific hand positions, as longtime listeners know. It was 191 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:28.799 this practice of meditating each night with reiki for twenty 192 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:33.519 one days that truly opened my intuition. By the second week, 193 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:36.080 I was starting to see my dear friend George, who 194 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:39.720 passed away from colon cancer when he was just twenty seven. 195 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:41.799 He started telling me things that I was able to 196 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:46.399 validate after the meditation. It also greatly enhanced my dreams, 197 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:51.440 and I began having many precognitive dream experiences. Learning reiki 198 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:55.159 truly changed my life. In that first Reiki one class, 199 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:58.840 one of my classmates was pregnant, and I remember thinking, Wow, 200 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:00.720 I wish I had known about reiki when I was 201 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:04.360 pregnant with my two girls. Six months later, I was 202 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:07.000 pregnant with Chloe, and one of the first things I 203 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:10.639 thought about was getting my second Reiki attainment. It was 204 00:12:10.679 --> 00:12:12.919 so happy that I'd be able to pass on reiki 205 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:15.960 in utero to my little Chloe. In Reiki two, you 206 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:20.360 learn how to perform distant healing. Reiki two intensifies Reiki 207 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:24.039 one and is where you learn about the main reiki symbols. 208 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:26.759 At the time I learned Reiki two, I was also 209 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:31.320 taking into development classes and attending reiki shares. For any 210 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:34.039 listeners who are looking to learn reiki, I think it's 211 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:37.440 really important that you experience a session or two or 212 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:40.720 three for yourself first. You can always check out your 213 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:45.240 local Unity church. Many offer weekly reiki shares or healing sessions. 214 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:47.960 You can also go to reiki dot org and search 215 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:52.240 for a practitioner. A reiki circle is a wonderful experience 216 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:55.799 because it involves reiki practitioners sharing this healing energy with 217 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:59.440 one another. When I would participate in a reiki circle, 218 00:12:59.759 --> 00:13:02.000 one of us would lie down on a massage table 219 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:05.240 while everyone else would gather around. We would each take 220 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:08.879 a different reiki hand position and begin sending healing energy 221 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:11.720 or just allowing the reiki energy to flow through us 222 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:14.919 to the person on the table. It's a really good 223 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:18.480 experience because you learn from one another, and you're able 224 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:22.559 to both give and receive reiki. One of the things 225 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:25.519 that shocked me when I started learning reiki was how 226 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:28.480 my hands would heat up. Throughout my life, I've had 227 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:31.039 cold hands. I was always cold. I had to keep 228 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:33.399 an extra sweater in the car at all times because 229 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.519 I'd get cold in the store or in a restaurant. 230 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:40.240 But after receiving reiki, this stopped. Suddenly my hands would 231 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:43.840 heat up, often of their own accord. I soon learned 232 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:46.440 through experience that my hands would heat up when I 233 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:50.200 was around someone who needed healing energy. The first time 234 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:53.320 this occurred, I was at a neighborhood barbecue. I had 235 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:56.720 just started doing reiki about two or three months before this, 236 00:13:57.320 --> 00:14:00.159 and We're all just standing around this backyard, eating and talking, 237 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:03.559 when all of a sudden, my hands heat up. I 238 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:06.919 looked around and my attention focused on one of my neighbors. 239 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:09.759 I walked over to talk to him, and he said, 240 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:12.320 I'm so sorry I'm being quiet, but I have the 241 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:15.559 worst headache. I don't know what came over me, because 242 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:18.480 this whole reiki and intuitive thing was very new to me, 243 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:21.960 and I was super shy and quiet about it. But 244 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:25.360 then out of my mouth tumbled, I'm a Reikie practitioner. 245 00:14:25.559 --> 00:14:27.559 Can I put my hands on your shoulder and send 246 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:30.840 you healing energy? This was a really level headed guy 247 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:35.159 who was interested in sports and science. Luckily, his wife 248 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:37.279 was standing next to him and she said, oh, that 249 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:39.960 would be wonderful, and she encouraged him to give it 250 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:43.000 a try. So I stood on one of the deck 251 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:45.440 stairs because he was a lot taller than I was, 252 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:48.799 and I placed my heated up hands on his shoulders. 253 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:52.279 It was really awkward. I didn't know what to do 254 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:56.159 or say. I wasn't confident that anything would happen. I 255 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:59.279 remember thinking, what if I'm just standing here in front 256 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:01.559 of all my neighbors with my hands awkwardly on his 257 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:05.639 shoulders and nothing happens. I visualized light flowing through me, 258 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:09.039 out of my hands and into his shoulders. After about 259 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:12.600 five minutes, he said, wait, what, what the heck? I 260 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:15.480 feel something. I feel this heating sensation in my neck. 261 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:19.360 I nodded as though I expected this, and I said, yes, 262 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:23.039 that's the reiki energy. But inside I was like, holy cow, 263 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:26.120 it's working. I kept my hands on his shoulders for 264 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:30.120 about fifteen more minutes, and then gently removed them. He 265 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:32.519 and his wife found me about thirty minutes later, and 266 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:34.919 he said, I don't know what the heck that was, 267 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:38.960 but my headache is gone, like completely gone. Thank you. 268 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:43.159 This encouraged me to share reiki with others, and soon 269 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:47.200 my confidence grew. I found that almost every reiki practitioner 270 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:51.440 I met experienced this heating up of the hands. Sometimes 271 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:53.440 my hands will heat up, but the client will say 272 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:58.519 she feels a cooling sensation. This too, I learned, as normal, again, 273 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:01.559 we just show up for the reiki and let it 274 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:05.480 do its thing. After this, I started using reiki to 275 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:09.159 clear my crystals to help my plants grow. I would 276 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:12.120 I still do this. I draw the reiki symbols into 277 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:14.480 the bath water when I take my weekly salt bath. 278 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:17.960 I would draw the symbols over all of the food 279 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.200 I prepare for my family. And so that the food 280 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:22.799 they eat is charged with reiki. I'll get into more 281 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:25.320 specifics of what you can do with reiki, but I 282 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:28.240 just remember this time with so much joy because it 283 00:16:28.279 --> 00:16:30.879 was such a discovery for me, and I hope for 284 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:34.720 anyone hoping to learn more about reiki you experience that 285 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:37.879 same sense of awe and wonder at what reiki can 286 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:40.320 do for us when we open ourselves up to this 287 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:45.200 universal life force energy. Before we discuss what happens in 288 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:51.399 reiki two, let's take a brief break. Hey guys. In April, 289 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:54.799 I'm teaching the Be your Own Psychic class that will 290 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:58.600 start Wednesdays in April on April eighth, from seven to 291 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:02.480 eight thirty pm Easter. In this jam packed interactive course, 292 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:05.160 you'll learn how to work with your chakras to awaken 293 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:08.839 and strengthen your intuition. You're partnered up with someone new 294 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:12.000 from class each week to practice all of the exercises 295 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:14.799 in the course. Some of the topics covered include working 296 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:18.079 with guys and angels, how to start doing readings, finding 297 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:22.279 your community, working with your clayers, and using psychic tools. 298 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:26.359 The four week class includes lots of handouts, three guided 299 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:31.160 MP three meditations, and class recordings. Just go to Samantha 300 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:35.200 Fay dot com and click the upcoming events tab. Hope 301 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:40.559 to see you there. Okay, let's get back to the 302 00:17:40.599 --> 00:17:44.640 show and dive into the specifics of learning reiki. Reiki 303 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:48.079 works through the use of sacred symbols. There are many symbols, 304 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:50.839 but for today we're going to focus on the main three. 305 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:55.880 The empowerment symbol, the emotionally healing symbol, and the distant 306 00:17:55.920 --> 00:18:01.160 healing symbol. Reiki symbols act as keys, doors to healing, 307 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:06.240 greater awareness, and universal energy. Each symbol is a Sanskrit 308 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:11.559 derived Japanese form. Reiki is typically taught in three sometimes 309 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:15.319 four sessions, and Reiki one your attuned to the symbols 310 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:18.279 and learn how to use reiki on yourself and others. 311 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:21.480 In Reiki two, you learn the symbols and how to 312 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:25.640 send reiki through distant healing. The final level of reiki, 313 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:28.039 which is often taught in two parts and is not 314 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:31.519 a requirement for being a reiki practitioner, is to become 315 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:35.519 a reiki master. Here you learn additional reiki symbols and 316 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:38.680 are taught how to pass on the atumins and teach reiki. 317 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:42.240 There are other levels, such as Holy Fire reiki and 318 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:45.880 Karuna reiki. It's believed that when you're attuned to reiki, 319 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:49.200 you're connected to the lineage of the reiki masters who've 320 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:53.599 attuned your teachers. The attumin is like a sacred contract 321 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:58.240 between you, the teachers, and the universal life force. If 322 00:18:58.279 --> 00:19:01.960 you're looking to learn reiki and you're trying to find 323 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:05.759 a reiki master teacher, make sure you ask them about 324 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:09.319 their lineage. They should be able to easily trace it 325 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:13.680 back to doctor Usui. For example, I received my Reiki 326 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:17.720 master's degree from Glorias Spackman. She was attuned by William 327 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:21.519 Rand who was attuned by Bethel Page and several others, 328 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:25.119 and Bethel was attuned by Missus Dakata, who was trained 329 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:28.720 by doctor Usui. For my Reiki one and two degrees, 330 00:19:28.759 --> 00:19:31.279 I was taught by Annie Miller, who was attuned by 331 00:19:31.359 --> 00:19:34.880 Libby Barnett, who received her degree from Beth Gray, who 332 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:37.759 was attuned by Missus Dakata, which again brings us back 333 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:41.000 to doctor Usui. So make sure when you're looking for 334 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:46.160 a teacher that you know they have the right attunement lineage, 335 00:19:46.599 --> 00:19:49.480 so that you're not just learning from someone who may 336 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:51.200 have just picked it up from a book. You want 337 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:54.920 to make sure it's an actual reiki master teacher. When 338 00:19:54.920 --> 00:19:57.440 I was learning reiki back in two thousand and five, 339 00:19:57.759 --> 00:20:01.039 I was taught that you never share the reiki symbols. 340 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:04.319 In fact, my teacher just showed us the symbols. She 341 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:06.839 showed us the pictures and we were able to draw 342 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:09.480 them in our notes, but that was it. She said 343 00:20:09.480 --> 00:20:12.279 they should never be shared with people who weren't attuned 344 00:20:12.279 --> 00:20:16.880 to reiki. In the last decade, this has changed significantly. 345 00:20:17.640 --> 00:20:20.880 At first, this kind of disturbed me because I liked 346 00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:25.200 the idea of keeping things sacred. I remember Annie teaching 347 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:28.079 us that if you were in a class to take reiki, 348 00:20:28.519 --> 00:20:30.640 it meant it was part of your fate, It was 349 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:33.119 part of your soul play and your destiny. That all 350 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:37.000 reiki students find the right reiki teacher for them, and 351 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:40.240 that you become part of this almost like this secret family. 352 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:43.400 And so I liked the idea of keeping these symbols 353 00:20:43.519 --> 00:20:47.319 just among reiki people. But now I see the honesty 354 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:51.319 and purity and sharing reiki with everyone. So with that 355 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:56.519 being said, let's discuss the symbols. Choklu ray is the 356 00:20:56.559 --> 00:21:01.960 empowerment symbol. It significantly increases you energy. Annie taught us 357 00:21:01.960 --> 00:21:04.799 that if we all, say, for example, walk around with 358 00:21:04.920 --> 00:21:07.599 a fifty watt light bulb over your head, using the 359 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:11.680 chokuray enhances its light to a five hundred watt light bulb. 360 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:17.519 Choku ray means by divine decree and I have the key. 361 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:21.240 You use the chokua to increase the power of reiki energy. 362 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:24.920 It helps draw more energy to you and helps focus it. 363 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:28.480 You also want to draw the symbol once and say 364 00:21:28.519 --> 00:21:34.880 the words chokua three times, Chokura, chokuray, chokuray. You can 365 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:38.720 use the chokurray to clear negative energy for spiritual protection, 366 00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:42.279 to help bless your food and water, to encourage healthy 367 00:21:42.319 --> 00:21:45.880 plant growth, to clear energy in a hospital or sickroom, 368 00:21:46.440 --> 00:21:50.759 to enhance manifesting. You start and end reiki sessions with 369 00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:54.519 the choku ray because it empowers the sessions and at 370 00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:58.319 the end helps to seal it. The choku ray symbol 371 00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:02.359 reminds us that we are all divine creatures living together 372 00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:06.440 in a sacred space. It works to set your intentions. 373 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:11.079 It's an invitation to the light force energy. You can 374 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:14.039 use the empowerment symbol to seal your aura of energy 375 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:17.319 leaks and to charge a room before doing any healing 376 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:21.039 or meditative work. You can also draw it, say it 377 00:22:21.079 --> 00:22:24.680 three times, and then walk through it to surround your 378 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:28.400 aura in a protective shield. So this is something I 379 00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:31.319 do each morning. I will draw the Choku ray starting 380 00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:34.200 above my head and bringing that symbol all the way 381 00:22:34.279 --> 00:22:37.759 down to the floor and then doing the spirals in 382 00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:40.319 front of my torso, and then I walk through it 383 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:44.160 and say it three times. You can draw it around 384 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:47.480 your car to protect yourself while driving. One thing I 385 00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:49.359 love to do is draw it over each of my 386 00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:52.680 chakras and tap it in three times as I repeat 387 00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:57.920 the word chokuay to awaken, cleanse, and balance my energy centers. 388 00:22:58.359 --> 00:23:00.880 You can draw the Choku ray over your hands, tapping 389 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:04.599 it in three times in each palm. Before working on clients, 390 00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:07.480 draw the choke U ray with your finger and tap 391 00:23:07.559 --> 00:23:10.039 it into the four walls of your bedroom to ensure 392 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:13.240 good night's sleep or to cleanse any room in your 393 00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:16.519 house of negative energy. You can draw the chokeuray on 394 00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:19.480 your glass of water and say this water makes me 395 00:23:19.559 --> 00:23:23.480 healthy and whole. The second symbol is called the say Haki. 396 00:23:24.240 --> 00:23:27.839 It's the mental and emotional symbol. It means keys to 397 00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:31.240 the universe. I was always taught that you say this 398 00:23:31.319 --> 00:23:36.000 phrase as a question, say haki, say haki, say haki, 399 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:39.960 because this symbol is asking we know that you know, 400 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:43.960 so won't you tell us? It's an invitation to open up, 401 00:23:44.039 --> 00:23:47.759