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By
JESSICA PERALTA
SqueezeOC.com
Take
a
look
at
your
hands.
You use them for all sorts of
things, don't you?
Writing
and
typing.
Maneuvering
the
steering
wheel of your car. Stuffing your
face.
Ever
think
of
them
as
a
vessel for channeling the
universal chi, or life force
energy?
"It's
just
like
an
acupuncture
treatment
without the needles. Reiki helps
in stress-related diseases,
emotional issues and chronic
conditions. Reiki helps lift the
spirit if you have depression
and can help alleviate back
pain.
Lofty
as
that
may
sound,
there
are people in this county who
use their hands for more than
eating Cracker Jacks. They
practice an Eastern hand-based
healing technique known as Reiki
(ray-kee). The technique has the
potential to benefit everything
in your life, practitioners say,
from health to spirituality.
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FEEL THE
ENERGY
The life force is the chi, the
energy throughout the universe.
Reiki practitioners get energy
from here and the energy comes
out of their hands in the form
of heat, directed to the
recipient. The recipient's
channels are then opened up,
energized and clean.
Reiki
helps
in
stress-related
diseases,
emotional
issues and chronic conditions
like cancer and diabetes. Reiki
helps lift the spirit if you
have depression and can help
alleviate back pain.
Barbara
Lynn,
60,
of
Laguna
Beach,
recently experienced her first
reiki session.
"I
really
didn't
know
what
to
expect," she said. "It's not
anything I had educated myself
on before. I just really enjoyed
it. It felt really peaceful."
She
was
told
that
after
two
to three days, she would feel
some emotional or energy
release, which she said she had.
"I've
been
dealing
with
my
mom's
health issues," Lynn said. "It
just let me really face it
honestly for the first time. It
took me out of denial."
"It
can
be
physical
problems
that
you overcome, it can be
emotional blockages. It all
depends on what you are working
at. "It's just a method to
balance your whole system."
Dr. Mikao Usui, born Aug. 15,
1865, in Japan, founded the Usui
System of Natural Healing, one of
the most common forms of
reiki. Usui was teaching at
a university in Japan when a
student asked him how Jesus was
able to touch and heal people.
Usui started researching wherever
he could, including at monasteries
and in India. He meditated and
even fasted for 21
days on a mountain in Japan to
find an answer. While Usui
structured reiki into a healing
form, this is an ancient healing
that existed long ago. |
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