What Is Reiki? Part I

The action to put your hands on yours or otherimposition or healing through physical contact. It is not a
people's or animal's body to heal is in our nature. Whenhealing session, but it is the procedure created by a
we feel pain the first thing we do is to bring our handshealer. At the first level the beginner receives the first
where we have pain. When we have fever we putcombined attenuements, at the second level another
our hands on our forehead to reduce suffer. Theone and a final one at the third level. Each attenuement
touch brings heat, serenity and healing. Animals doincreases the capability to channel Ki. The
almost the same when they leak a wounded part ofattenuements are the essence of Reiki. Reiki does not
their body. In the animal world a mother leaks her kidshave sense without them. There should always be a
when they are sick and human beings touch theirhealer and a receiver. The transmission of
babies with their hands.attenuements follows a nice ritual process, but
The human or animal body irradiates heat and energy,sometimes it can be performed faster without any
which is vital force. This concept is well known andceremony.
mentioned in all the human cultures, and this energyDuring one of the attenuements of the three levels of
has different names according to each of theseReiki the master stands behind the student and draw
cultures. For example in India it is called Prana andthe Reiki symbols. Then he moves in front of the
because of this name we today talk about pranastudent and again behind repeating the process. Those
healing. Chinese call it Chi and for this reason today wereceiving attenuements can realize different feelings.
know about Chi Kung, an ancient healing discipline.Someone can see colours or images, someone else
In Reiki the healers have to open the energeticcan see past existences. Some are covered by light
channels and to remove the blocks throughor feel a sensation of peace or of love or wonder.
harmonisations. The healers receive the energy to healEveryone feels something but the levels can be
them and connect to the source of the universaldifferent from individual to individual. When someone
energy, also called universal Ki. Reiki is not a religion;becomes a healer, the first time he or she feels the
neither is connected to a religion. It is the source of life.energy flowing through his or her hands. In this moment,
It is an entity and as a concept is even older thanafter receiving it the entity becomes Reiki. There is not
religious philosophy. Every living thing has Ki inside. Whoanything new but the new situation opens and puts in
or what receives a harmonisation or attenuement is inorder what was already present in him or her. It is like
direct contact with its illuminated source. There is moreproviding light energy in a house.
than one level of this. With the first level the living entitySome masters say that those receiving Reiki in this life
becomes a channel that drives the energy. When theare people who already received it in their previous
first one is received, in the future the entity has to putlives. Reiki is a memory according to them. In reality we
its hands on its or other entities body to connect to theall have received Reiki as it is part of our genetic
universal Ki. The energy will flow automatically.patrimony.
The attenuement that put into direct contact to theReiki is composed of three degrees. During the
source of Ki, increases the vital energy also of thoseattenuement of the first degree the scope is to heal
receiving it. They realize an energy that heals themthe physical diseases. The beginner in fact feels a
and they would be able to heal other people, and thisphysical improvement in the first months after the first
energy will not extinguish. When receiving theattenuement. In fact at the first level the healing
attenuement the entity is getting a gift which willsessions are self-healing. The beginner can also heal
change its life in positive.another person through a direct physical healing. At this
The harmonization or initiation is a process that makesaim the healer has to put his or her hands over the
Reiki different from any other method of handbody of the person to heal.