A Sample REIKI Healing Session
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 (02:03:54)

Posted by Cougar

A Sample REIKI Healing Session

This chapter will provide an excellent framework for you to follow in your healing sessions. We will systematically look at a sample session and cover exactly what is happening in each step of the process.



1. WASH YOUR HANDS IN COLD WATER.

Always wash your hands in cold water before you begin a session. Your hands are the only part of you that will be touching the client. Aside from good hygiene, washing them in cold water also helps to eliminate any negative energy that may be sticking to them. Cold water has an excellent cleansing effect when it comes to energy.

2. TAKE A MOMENT AND SAY A PRAYER OF INTENTION.

Another thing many Reiki practitioners like to do before beginning a session is say a meditative prayer. This serves several purposes. First, it relaxes you which will allow you to better communicate with your angels and intuition. Second, it raises your vibration. These two, combined with relaxation, will help the energy to flow much more freely and powerfully through you. Third, it lets all of your angels, all levels of your being including your low and high selves, and the consciousness of the energy itself know what you are intending to do so that they can assist. It also allows time for your client and their angels to prepare and become more receptive to the healing.

Your prayer can be as simple or as complex as you want to make it. During an attunement or an especially active healing session, many ask for the assistance of all angels, archangels, angelic choirs, ascended masters, Reiki angels, personal angels, angels from the Great White Brotherhood, and all beings of positive integration, and love and light vibration. They further ask their low (or subconscious) self to open up and assist them and to join with them in asking their higher (or superconscious) self to assist in every way. They also ask for the assistance of the angels, low, and high selves of the other's present. As you might expect, this makes for an incredible amount of manifest healing. Don't forget to thank everyone when you're finished.

There are many intents which you may incorporate within your prayer. It is usually a good idea to offer the energy to the person's higher self for use in effecting their highest and best good, or positive integration. This is just another way to make the intent that the energy express itself in the way most beneficial for the person being healed.

(If you are a second or third degree practitioner, trace the symbols out in your desired method before proceeding to step three.)

* Feel free to use note cards or a reference sheet. (sheree)

3. BEGIN TO TREAT WITH THE RECOMMENDED HAND POSITIONS AS OUTLINED BY YOUR INSTRUCTOR.

4. ALLOW YOUR INTUITION TO GUIDE YOU.

Intuitively allow yourself to move your hands to any other areas you feel need Reiki. Please remember that this can and often does occur throughout the healing session. If you are working on a recommended position and feel that you should place your hands elsewhere, do it! It is best, however, to return to the standard positions after you have done so.



CLEANSING THE LOWER LEGS

Another thing some healers like to do is cleanse the person's lower body of energy after a session. Energy seems to have a way of building up from the knees down during a session, and it is often best to get rid of it before ending the session. This is done by lightly placing your hands around one of the person's legs, and pulling the energy down and out of them. Actually touch them for this exercise. Pull the energy down from just above their knee and continue pulling until your hands have gone off the bottom of their feet. Then, rapidly shake your hands, much as if they were wet and you were shaking water off of them. Next, do the other leg. Some healers do both legs at the same time, and many have an intuitive sense of when this energy is building up and perform this cleansing throughout the healing session. In some cases, people I have worked on have felt their angels performing this procedure and asked me about it. I strongly recommend using this method, especially after long and intense sessions.

The energy builds up in the lower areas of the body because of the energy centers at the back of the knees and the soles of the feet. The centers at the knees are often said to relate to resistance to change. In order to keep the healing environment and the client's energy field as clean as possible during the healing, many practitioners choose to place a clear quartz crystal at each foot’s energy center to collect the energy expelled there. If you choose to adopt this method, remember to cleanse the crystals after every client you use them on.



BALANCING THE ENERGY CENTERS

The following is an easy method to use in balancing the energy centers. Place one hand over one center and your other hand over a different one. Don't cross your hands or arms over the top of each other during this exercise. Shortly after your hands are in place, you will most likely begin to notice that there is a stronger "pull" in one hand than in the other one. You will also notice that this will balance out if you leave your hands in place. It is not uncommon for the pull to reverse and become greater in the other, formerly "quiet" energy center, before the two are balanced. Energy centers form an interdependent system. This means that you can't effect one without effecting the others as well. Use this method to treat each center until there is an equal pull regardless of where your hands are placed.

When treating two centers at a time you will occasionally find that emotional issues arise in the person you are working on. This is especially true when working on what is commonly referred to as the second chakra (the sexual chakra) in combination with the heart, solar plexus, or root chakra. To better understand what is happening and what to do, refer to the chapter on emotional healing.



5. ENDING THE HEALING SESSION.

Keep in mind that when you are working on someone their energy field is being extensively manipulated. After a session be sure to smooth it out. There are several methods to use in doing so. I find that it works best to simply smooth it out like the sheets on a bed. This is done by moving your hands all around their body from the top of their head down to their feet with your hands about five inches off of their skin. Make sure you are thorough. Some people like to use swirls to smooth out an aura after a session. This process is often called "sealing", and is most commonly done in small counterclockwise motions. I do not recommend this procedure because often it brings the energy centers back out of alignment. This occurs because during the process, the practitioner's hands move directly over each center and can change the rotational pattern of centers which are vortices.

* I use dedicated wandS soley for smoothing and grounding. (sheree)

6. "CUTTING THE CORD"

Anytime that you work on someone, you create a "cord" or "fiber" of energy which connects you to them. If you leave it in place after a session, the person will continue to draw energy from you. By this I don't necessarily mean Reiki. More often than not, the energy they draw will be your personal energy. When you were working on them, you had established a harmonic resonance between them and the Reiki energy. That resonance, however, slowly dissipates as they return to their normal chores, though it can last for hours after the session depending upon their specific energetic makeup. Because that resonance is gone, however, they are no longer in tune with the Reiki energy. The cord that connects you is a harmonic of your personal energy and theirs. Because of this, they are more likely to draw your personal energy "through" it if you don't take the time to "cut the cord". Massage therapists, and others who deal regularly with touching the public, often report drains of personal energy which I and many others feel are attributable to this effect.

It is always best to break this cord at the conclusion of a healing. The simplest way is to wash your hands in cold water. Not only will it cleanse your hands of any personal energy you may have picked up from them, but it will effectively break the link that has been created between you.

It is also a good idea to visualize the cord between you and your client strongly in your mind and cut it either by visualizing a knife cutting through it or by doing so with your hand. See your end of the cord dissolve back into you, and the client's end go back into them. Make sure no trace of the cord remains. If it does, simply do the visualization again until the cord is completely gone. Other ways to ground the energy and break the cord include: placing your hands on wood (especially live trees), placing your hands on the earth, and pressing your hands together in a prayer type fashion for thirty seconds to one minute.

* I find that a simple request in faith to Divine Heart, to Light all cords is enough to do the trick. It is my belief that you cannot really cut cords. We are all connected, weather we like it or not



BEFORE THE CLIENT LEAVES

Make sure that you do your best to respect the client after the session. Some clients will want to talk, others will want to be left alone for a few minutes. Give them the time and/or space that they need. It's often nice to have a warm cup of caffeine free tea waiting for them. Remember that they have just been through a powerful healing experience.

Be certain to tell your client what to expect before you send them on their way. Inform them that healing will take place long after they leave your office. Also be sure to tell them that their feces may smell quite a bit more than usual so that they will not be alarmed if this is the case. If you followed the recommended hand positions, you spent quite a while in the area of their intestines and colon. This will tend to clean those areas out and in the process will eliminate things which have been there for some time. Those things tend to smell. Also make certain that you tell them to drink plenty of water. Their body will want all the water it can get as it purifies and heals itself.



AFTER THE CLIENT LEAVES

When the client is gone, take a few moments for yourself. Allow time for your consciousness to process the experience and become centered. Also, make sure that you drink plenty of water as your body will want it, too. As a healer, it is important that you take time for yourself. I know that it can be difficult to turn down sessions when people really need them, but if you don't remain centered, rested, and charged, you won't be able to help anyone. Always take care of yourself, the healer, before you take care of your clients.

THIS INFO IS PROVIDED AS ANOTHER VIEWPOINT. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. IT IS NOT INTENDED TO BE MEDICAL ADVISE OF ANY KIND!


Written by Jeff Martin