I think one of the most amazing parts of learning reiki was understanding healing through time and distance. In the Usui Holy Fire Reiki Level II Training, you receive placements for the reiki symbols, which align you to a collective energy that enables power, emotional healing and healing through time and distance. Admittedly, it took me some time to feel comfortable using time and distance healing in sessions regularly, but I remember the first time I practiced a distance session, I was in dis-belief of the results, and although I couldn't explain how it worked, I believed in it's power.
I was paired with another person from my practitioner training to practice distance reiki a few weeks after our placements and training had concluded. We chatted briefly on the phone, ended the call and I set up a crystal chakra set as my sending tool. I started by meditating on the time and distance symbol and keeping the receiver in mind as my intention. I used my hand placements over the chakra stones, just as I would have if she were in the room and sent reiki. During the session I payed attention to some of the thoughts, sensations or ideas that came to my head no matter how random and called her after the session. We talked about the connection that was felt both in physical presence and energetically during the time I was sending to her and she described actual movements that I had done during the session. This was so bizarre to me, but I was a believer of the work that could be done, just in distance healing sessions alone, even if I didn't understand how it worked.
Since my Usui Holy Fire Reiki Master Level III Training, I feel a stronger connection and understanding of the time and distance symbol and am integrating the healing work that can be done with reiki and oracle as a tool for better understanding our connections to past lives through the energetic body, or chakra system. Over time, my understanding of the reiki symbols and their ability to heal is based on a collective consciousness across a million reiki trained persons across the world. Thanks to Sensei Takata and her westernization of reiki energy, many people have learned this practice and are meditating on these symbols at any given time. This collective intention empowers relaxation and cell regeneration to those who are open to receiving reiki and allow it to work through you, in a subperceptual way. We are starting to understand how Mind Body medicine actually works through an emerging field called psychoneuroimmunology. The science shows that patients experiencing pain or anxiety have improved outcomes when reiki is available as an integrated practice and support to other kinds of medicine.
Many intuitive practices are difficult for research to explain, because experiences are subjective. Not everything is for everyone, but for those who feel a calling to self-healing, intuitive arts or eclectic understandings should explore and see what you learn, if only about a better understanding of yourself it's valuable time spent.
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