REIKI
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REIKI HAND POSITIONS IF YOU’RE FAMILIAR WITH REIKI HEALING, THEN YOU’RE PROBABLY GOING TO WANT TO EXPERIENCE IT FOR YOURSELF. You can do this by treating yourself, once you know the energy centers--called chakras--and the hand positions to use to focus the reiki energy. It’s not hard to do a successful reiki self-treatment, but all of the hand positions must be used, and used consistently, if it is going to have any real eect. This can take up to an hour a day. It’s no use just using one hand positio to balance one area--using a head position to get rid of an earache, for example. Reiki has to be done in its entirety to really benet you. Of course, should you have a chronic condition, please seek the advice of your doctor. Reiki self-treatment is meant to work with your physician’s advice, not to replace it.
Reiki work by letting the life force of the
The cells resonate with that energy, and draw on it. Reiki works on its own accord, you don’t need to concentrate or do anything special for it to be advantageous. It is simple, and eective, and that is what makes it so valuable.
universe flow through Your hands and into your body.
There are some basic hand placements used when giving yourself a Reiki energy treatment. It is important that these are followed and not hurried. You want to be relaxed, with a quiet mind and an open heart to do a reiki self-treatment. Don’t rush it, don’t do it when you’re over-stimulated by excess food or drink or any mind-altering substance, and make sure you use the bathroom before you start--you don’t want to be interrupted!
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The rst position is to put your hands together, over your eyes. Rest you palms on your cheeks, and touch your ngers lightly to your forehead. Don’t apply pressure, just rest lightly. This reiki treatment will assist with the sinus area, tension, common colds, and bringing the third eye chakra into balance.
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The second position is to place your palms over your temples, wrists touching in front of your face around or just below your nose. This reiki treatment helps with stress and tiredness, stress headaches, mental activity, and concentration.
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The third position in the self-treatment is to place a cupped hand over each ear. This obviously helps with all kinds of ear problems like colds, balance issues, and hearing. This also assists with general well-being--there are many sensitive points in the ears.
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For this position, cup your hands together behind your head. Don’t interlace your ngers, just cup your hands next to the other, as if you were going to lean back and rest your head. This treatment helps with colds, tension, worry, and issues with the neck and upper spine
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The fth position in your reiki self-treatment works on the throat area. Put your wrists together and surround your thought--but don’t apply pressure. You want this to be relaxing, not choking! This position helps to treat the throat, and the ability to communicate. It can also help to bring the throat chakra into balance.
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The next position is to place one hand over the breastbone, and one hand just above it over the collarbone. Your upper hand should go around your throat, with your ngers on one side of your neck, and your thumb on the other side. This treatment aects the lungs and respiratory system, it can help with allergies, and it can also help you to accept things as they come into your life.
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Next, you’re going to work on your upper chest. This is the area right over your heart. Put your hands on your chest, ngers touching. This treatment helps you to work on your heart, in every sense of the word. It can also work on the heart chakra, and the ability to be open and compassionate, to be able to give and receive love.
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Next, you’re going to treat the area around your solar plexus. Here, you want to place your hands under your pectoral muscles, and on your ribs. This treatment helps the respiratory system, the lungs, and the immune system. Respiratory and circulatory issues can be helped with this reiki selftreatment positions.
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For this reiki self-treatment, you want to put your hands over your stomach, right around where your belly-button is. Allow your ngers to touch. This treatment will benet the organs of the upper abdomen, such as the liver, pancreas, and spleen. It can also help worry, anxiety, and digestive problems caused by stress or the hurriedness of everyday life. It will balance the solar plexus chakra.
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In this position, place your hands just below your navel, one hand placed above the other hand. This helps with all digestive organs, as well as the elimination system and the kidneys. It can also help balance the emotions.
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For the last position, place your hands on your pubic bone, ngers touching, so that they angle down towards your groin. This treatment aects the reproductive organs, and the elimination system such as the kidneys and the bowel. It can help with tiredness, weight issues, and physical and emotional strain. It will balance the base and the sacral chakras
As you can see, reiki self-treatment really isn’t complicated. There is no special equipment needed, no special clothing to wear. What is most important is that you are comfortable, relaxed, and that you have given this the time needed to perform it properly and unhurried. Reiki is a wonderful tool when it comes to mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional health, and something that can greatly benet all areas of your life.
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