News from The Reiki for Living Center

August 2010 www.reikiforliving.com Vol. 1 No. 5

Greetings!

Welcome to the August issue of The Reiki for Living News! My intention for this monthly newsletter is to support Reiki practitioners and to provide useful information for anyone who may wish to know more about Reiki. I welcome your feedback.

Reiki blessings,
Marianne

Usui Birthday Celebration
Sunday, August 15, 2:00 PM
Registration begins at 1:30 PM

Experience the peace and beauty of the only Grand Shinto Shrine in North America
Witness an ancient Shinto ceremony
Join in sending distant Reiki to the Gulf
Enjoy birthday cake on the Shrine grounds beside the Pilchuck River

Carpooling info, directions, and other logistical info will be sent early next week to those who have signed up.

Please RSVP

Yes, I plan to attend.

Visit the Shrine website

Reiki is...???

Most practitioners struggle with explaining Reiki. We may make statements such as: Reiki is a relaxation technique; it balances the body's energy field; it helps the body remember how to heal itself; it removes stagnant energy. All of which are true, but none of the which is "The Truth."

As Reiki becomes more well known and more accepted by mainstream medical practitioners, we have stepped up our attempts to explain it, quantify it, analyze it, and study it to prove "scientifically" that it works. Although these exercises can be valuable, It seems to me that our attempts to define Reiki and quantify it limit it and make it small.

In truth, Reiki is profoundly simple and a profound mystery. we cannot know exactly how it works or all that transpires during a treatment. We know simply that it works. We know that the client feels better as a result and that healing happens. We know we can't predict what that healing will be and that the experience is unique to each person who receives Reiki. One must experience it, not to understand it, but to gain the benefits it offers.

My personal definition of Reiki is this:
Reiki is Divine Love directed by the Higher Power (whatever you understand that to be) through the intention of the practitioner for the purpose of healing. (The "intention" is the act of allowing Reiki to flow, of intending to be an instrument of healing grace.)

Clients often tell me they have the experience of unconditional love during a treatment. As a practitioner, I experience it as a mystery beyond understanding, as a spiritual act that I approach with deep gratitude for the privilege of doing this work, and which, afterward, leaves me with a deep sense of peace and well-being.

Perhaps we are coming to a time in history when we can accept the gift and embrace the mystery without the need to dissect it. A time when we do not see science and spirit as mutually exclusive, a time when we are not embarrassed to say that giving and receiving Reiki is a spiritual interaction between client and practitioner.

For hands-on or distant Reiki sessions contact me by email or phone: 206.523.4456.

Good News