| Discover-Reiki 7 Part Reiki Master CoursePart 1 - | | | | began to relax. She soon fell into a deep sleep and |
| Treating Depression With ReikiReiki Masters believe | | | | began to snore. As the round of treatment was |
| that thought is energy vibrating at a very high | | | | over, we let her sleep.Day 2: Ms.L was waiting for |
| frequency while the human body is energy vibrating | | | | me. She looked relaxed and calm. On enquiry, she |
| at a lower frequency. Vibrations produce actions and | | | | replied, "I slept deeply and dreamlessly for the first |
| actions produce reactions at grosser and grosser | | | | time. I feel well". She then went willingly and lay down |
| levels of frequency in a ripple effect!While positive | | | | on her bed. After chatting with her for some time on |
| thoughts are universally acknowledged to manifest as | | | | a variety of topics (she did not reply), I started the |
| health, negative thoughts are held to produce disease | | | | treatment. While doing Reiki, I continued to chat and |
| or lack of ease. Mental disease is manifested as | | | | Ms.L replied in monosyllables to the questions being |
| depression, depressive psychosis, mania or even | | | | addressed to her. At the end of the hour she |
| schizophrenia.Reiki deals with depression as negative | | | | remarked, "That felt nice".Day 3: Mrs. L was ready |
| energy. Negative energy manifests at the aura level | | | | for me. She was lying down and eager to start the |
| as imbalance in the Chakras or energy centres and is | | | | treatment. She began to talk about the weather all |
| visible to the Reiki practitioner as grey or black spots | | | | the time keeping an eye on me. When I agreed that |
| in the aura. Imbalance of the energy centres causes | | | | it was hot, she began telling me how the heat was |
| reactions at a physical level, for the energy centre | | | | affecting her and how she could not eat as much as |
| governs the health or disease of the organs and | | | | she used to. I made sympathetic noises to |
| endocrine glands located within its purview.The | | | | encourage her. She seemed to feel reassured and |
| Chakra System and DepressionThe Chakras that are | | | | gradually opened up--almost as if she were talking to |
| usually blocked in a person who is depressed are the | | | | herself and occasionally asking me a question. Then, |
| lower--the root chakra, the naval chakra, and to | | | | her tone changed and she became more emotional |
| some extent the solar plexus chakra, which is part of | | | | and personal. She poured out her feelings. She |
| the middle group.The Root Chakra anchors the | | | | insisted that she was very depressed because God |
| person to the earth. It represents the physical will | | | | had taken away her husband and her children had all |
| and is associated with the spinal column, bones, | | | | flown away to distant lands and nobody cared for |
| teeth, nails, anus, rectum, colon, prostrate gland, | | | | her. She said she had hated God from the day he |
| blood and the building of cells. The Suprarenal glands, | | | | had taken her husband and she had not gone to |
| which produce adrenalin and influence body | | | | church or prayed for a long time. Since she had been |
| temperature, are governed by condition of the root | | | | very religious, she felt guilty that she had forsaken |
| chakra. The person whose root chakra is out of | | | | God but, she hated him and she did not want to pray |
| balance cannot accept life or enjoy physical | | | | to him. She then began weeping and ranting at God |
| existence. The creative energy of such a person is | | | | and exclaiming that she should not be doing it! This |
| low and self-expression is not considered necessary. | | | | emotional outburst lasted for almost an hour, during |
| The person will have a tendency to overindulge in | | | | which I continued the treatment, unfazed. Finally, |
| sensual pleasures such as overeating, alcohol, sex etc. | | | | exhausted by emotions and relaxed by the Reiki, |
| He or she becomes selfish, self-centred. Physically the | | | | Ms.L fell asleep.Day 4: Ms.L was waiting for me--a little |
| person becomes overweight and suffers from | | | | shamefaced and diffident. She greeted her with a |
| constipation. When challenged the person becomes | | | | defiant "I was carried away a little yesterday. I am |
| irritable, aggressive, upset, violent and displays a | | | | sorry". I assured her that it was ok and that she |
| complete lack of trust. If the Chakra is completely | | | | must not hold back her emotions and that I do not |
| blocked the person will lack physical and emotional | | | | mind her talking to me about anything. She then, |
| stamina and will be filled with feelings of | | | | asked me a little suspiciously 'Do you think your |
| uncertainty.The Naval Chakra is the creative and | | | | treatment is making me unbalanced?". Well that was |
| reproductive centre of the being. It is associated with | | | | a tricky question at this stage and I was not very |
| the pelvic girdle, kidneys, bladder and all liquids such as | | | | sure whether I should admit to the fact or assure |
| blood, lymph, gastric juices and the regulation of the | | | | her that it was not so. I intuitively felt that it would |
| female menstrual cycle. The glands associated with | | | | be better to explain to Ms.L and so I told her that |
| this chakra are the Prostrate, gonads, ovaries and | | | | Reiki dives deep into the psyche and stirs up |
| testicles. If this energy centre is active and free of | | | | emotional blocks for release. I explained that what |
| blocks the person exhibits freedom in self-expression | | | | she was experiencing was the release of emotional |
| and life appears interesting. Interpersonal relationships | | | | blocks and it was nothing to be alarmed about. It |
| are regarded as beautiful. A disharmonious chakra | | | | would help her come out of her lethargy and feel |
| induces the person turn off sensual messages and | | | | more enthusiastic about life. She was silent for some |
| display low self-esteem, emotional paralysis and | | | | time and then said that she was glad that I had been |
| sexual coldness. Life does not seem worth living and | | | | honest with her. She only requested that whatever |
| suicidal tendencies manifest themselves.The Solar | | | | she said to me should be kept confidential. I agreed |
| Plexus Chakra is the power centre of the being. A | | | | and she said she was looking forward to the |
| harmonious Chakra gives the person a feeling that he | | | | treatment. As we went through the various hand |
| has the power of shaping things. It is associated with | | | | positions, she started asking me about Reiki and |
| the lower back, abdomen, digestive system, | | | | what it was all about. I explained to her about energy |
| stomach, liver, spleen, gallbladder and the automatic | | | | centres and how imbalances in energy caused illness. |
| nervous system. The organ that is governed by this | | | | She expressed eagerness to learn it herself. I told |
| Chakra is the Pancreas. The body absorbs solar | | | | that it could be easily arranged. She then began to |
| energy through this chakra. This nurtures the ethereal | | | | talk to me about her husband and the wonderful man |
| body and energizes and maintains the physical body. | | | | that he had been and how cancer had eaten into his |
| Emotional energy is also governed by this Chakra. | | | | insides unsuspected. She described the shock they |
| Personality traits and social identities are determined | | | | had experienced when the disease was diagnosed at |
| by it. Since it is located between the lower and higher | | | | a terminal stage. She described the trauma of waiting |
| chakras it has the additional function of purifies the | | | | for death to part them. She re-lived the pain she had |
| basic instincts and directing the creative energy to | | | | felt when he went to the hospital for the last time |
| higher values of life. It is also connected to the astral | | | | and she could not be with him during his last minutes, |
| body and helps us integrate our feelings, wishes and | | | | as she was laid up in bed at home with a fracture. |
| experiences harmoniously. A block solar plexus chakra | | | | She felt she had let him down and was guilty of |
| deprives the individual of the zest for life. The person | | | | continuing to live when he had died such an agonizing |
| feels gloomy, unbalanced and moody. Negative | | | | death. She then sobbed quietly till she fell asleep |
| vibrations impact the individual through this chakra. | | | | exhausted by her emotions.Day 5: Ms.L was looking |
| The person is restless and attempts to manipulate | | | | very anxious when I entered her room. She |
| everything in accordance with his or her own wishes. | | | | immediately piped up "Do you think God is cruel?" I |
| There is a persistent feeling of inadequacy, which | | | | cautiously replied "No". She then asked, "Do you think |
| drives them to ceaseless activity. The person gets | | | | I should begin to pray to him? Do you think he will |
| easily threatened and tends to feel dejected and | | | | hear my prayers now? I have abused him so much!" I |
| discouraged. The person insists that obstacles are | | | | was impressed. I said, "Yes, you should. God is very |
| preventing them from realizing the true goals of life.It | | | | forgiving and he is always happy to welcome his |
| is clear that the symptoms of a person in the grip of | | | | children, however abusive they have been!" She was |
| acute depression are as much physical as emotional | | | | content with my reply and got ready for the |
| and psychological. A block will exist in the root chakra, | | | | treatment. While I worked the hand positions she |
| the naval chakra and the Solar plexus Chakra. The | | | | continued telling me how much she loved God and |
| creative energies of the person will be at an all time | | | | how she had missed her conversations with him. She |
| low and the person will avoid situations where he or | | | | then told me she is convinced that her husband was |
| she has give expression to his or her feelings. He is | | | | waiting for her in heaven and she would join him |
| self indulgent, selfish, self-centred and suffers from a | | | | when God felt that it was time. Meanwhile she had a |
| large number of ailments related to the stomach and | | | | lot to do. She had written to her son and asked him |
| has a tendency to put on weight. He or she will lack | | | | to come back home to keep her company and was |
| physical stamina and will be moody, irritable, | | | | in hourly expectation of hearing from him. She then |
| aggressive and defensive. He will have no interest in | | | | began thanking me for the wonderful treatment that |
| life and will refuse to socialize. In extreme cases he | | | | I was giving her and she was convinced that God |
| will attempt suicide.If you are serious about learning | | | | had sent me to her when she was most |
| Reiki, check out Study:Ms.L, an obese woman (she | | | | depressed.Days 6-21: Followed with the patient very |
| weighed 180 Kgs), had not stepped out of her front | | | | enthusiastic and cooperative. She gradually left off |
| door for the last ten years. She was convinced that | | | | her walker and her posture improved and she stuck |
| she could not walk without support and that she | | | | to mealtimes with determination. She even consented |
| would fall down if she tried. She spent entire days in | | | | to step out of her house and take short walks in the |
| the house, refusing to talk with visitors. She had a | | | | corridor with her sister. A month later she attended a |
| compulsive need to eat and would cook and | | | | course in Reiki and even visited a textile showroom |
| consume huge quantities of Chicken, eggs and meats | | | | to select some dress material for her. She invited me |
| at odd times of the day. She had tried anti | | | | over for a party she held to celebrate her Son's |
| depressant drugs and other methods of treatment | | | | return home. (The boy had left his job to take up |
| that included Homeopathy, acupressure, acupuncture | | | | one closer home to be with his mother). She was |
| and anything that was recommended to her by her | | | | bubbling with energy and extremely enthusiastic |
| sister and brother in law. She was convinced that she | | | | about life. |
| was born unlucky and she would never be normal | | | | A quick scan of her chakras revealed that the |
| again. She would begin a treatment with lukewarm | | | | energy levels were normal and the grey spots in her |
| enthusiasm, but would soon slip into lethargy and | | | | aura at the root and naval chakra had disappeared. |
| refuse to go on with the treatment. When Ms.L was | | | | The Solar plexus Chakra was also open.Combining |
| referred for Reiki, she had convinced herself that she | | | | Reiki With Other Therapies.Many Reiki practitioners |
| had not long to live and had told her sister not to be | | | | combine crystal therapy with Reiki to stimulate the |
| surprised if she found her dead one-day. Her sister-- | | | | chakras. Limonite, Lapis Lazuli, Pietersite, and |
| alarmed--rushed to the Reiki clinic for help.Day 1: Since | | | | Turquoise are used to stimulate the sacral Chakra |
| the patient would not come to the clinic, I decided to | | | | Wardite, Mesolite, Jasper, and Jet, help the base |
| visit her home. It was clear from Ms.L's posture that | | | | chakra open up. The Solar Plexus Chakra is stimulated |
| she was in the grip of acute depression. She was | | | | by chrysanthemum stone, gypsum, jasper, obsidian |
| seated on a sofa with her feet up on a footstool. | | | | and rutilated quartz.. Wadeite is used to stimulate all |
| Her body limp, her head bowed and her shoulders | | | | the chakras. I personally, combine Reiki treatment |
| drooping. Her arms lay lifelessly at her sides. She | | | | with Bach Flower treatment and crystal therapy as I |
| seemed lost to the world and did not even look up | | | | find that it accelerates the healing and gives the |
| when we entered the room. She merely lifted her | | | | patient a psychological satisfaction.As is evident from |
| eyes to look at us without enthusiasm when she | | | | the above case study, that Reiki brings about |
| was talked to. An aura scan revealed that her root | | | | immediate and dramatic improvement in condition of |
| chakra and the naval chakra were completely blocked | | | | persons suffering from depression. It is also evident |
| and her solar plexus chakra was partially blocked.With | | | | from countless testimonials that persons who have |
| a lot of persuasion from her sister and myself, she | | | | come out of their depression by using Reiki have not |
| got up and went to lie down on her bed. I noted that | | | | had a recurrence of the same. Many hospitals round |
| she used the walker even though she was perfectly | | | | the world are recommending Reiki as a parallel |
| able to walk without it. She seemed to cling to it as a | | | | system of treatment for persons suffering from |
| means of support. I kept up a general chatter as I | | | | depression. The efficacy and impact of Reiki is best |
| started the treatment. She continued looking at the | | | | understood when it is personally experienced.If you |
| ceiling blankly. After some time, she started to pay a | | | | are serious about learning Reiki, check out |
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| once more into indifference. Slowly and visibly she | | | | |