Creating Prosperity with Reiki
By Laurelle Shanti Gaia

"Prosperity and abundance are my Divine birthright." How long has it been since you have made that statement? Has it been a month, a year, a decade…or never? Maybe intellectually you know that you live in an abundant universe, but do you FEEL it to be true? Have you noticed the power of the collective creative consciousness recently? How many reports of troubled economic times have you heard since September 11th? How are such reports affecting you? Are you fearful that you may lose your job, or that your clients will stop coming, or

that you will need to work harder and will no longer have time for spiritual practice, exercise or your family? If you have worried or felt fear, let me remind you of something a great man once said; "Just for today…do not worry and be filled with gratitude."

There is a reason Usui Sensei used those words in the Reiki principles, which are a foundation for all Reiki practitioners and teachers to blossom from. He recognized the power of our thoughts and our words. We often forget powerful statements like "thoughts are things" or "where the thoughts go, the energy flows". However, they are so very true. Whenever we create anything in our life, we must first have the thought of it. So it is very important to be aware of what we are thinking at all times. If we allow our thoughts to be those of fear and worry, we are empowering the very things we are concerned about to manifest in our life.

As Reiki practitioners we can accept the responsibility of using what we have learned to help the United States and the world to heal any sense of lack that is pervading the collective consciousness so that we all become the prosperous beings and nations that we truly are.

The basics of thought discipline are one factor in prosperity consciousness, but this becomes even more important once we are attuned to Reiki. Reiki has the ability to help us empower our thoughts, unite the mind with the heart, and transmute our words into pure light, and they become even stronger than the mere thoughts themselves.

I invite you to explore just exactly what prosperity and abundance mean to you. They take so many forms. The first thought that usually comes to people is money, or material things; but we know that loving relationships, spiritual practices, and doing work that we enjoy are also among the elements of prosperity and abundance.

Take a few moments and jot down keywords that describe what prosperity and abundance mean to you. When you have your list, take a moment and "tune in" to each word, one at a time. I suggest that you use the Reiki distant symbol to connect to the consciousness each word holds, and the mental/emotional symbol to help you discern how your thoughts and feelings respond.

For example, take that "M" word … money. How do you FEEL when you tune into the energy of money? What do you THINK about money? Do you feel and think … "YES…bring it on, I deserve to have all the money I need to live in a way that is comfortable for me, and that allows me to share with others." Try saying that. How do you feel, and where in your body do you feel the response to that thought? Is there any uneasiness? If so, where does it come from? Do you hear echoes of "money is the root of all evil" … "spiritual people should work for free" …"only special people have money", etc.

Try the same process with all the words on your list. Here are some phrases you might use. "I love my work", "I have a happy and loving marriage", "My children love and respect me", and "I am worthy of the time needed to nurture myself".

Those things that represent prosperity and abundance are available to all of us, not just special people. We each have within us all the answers, skills, and talents needed to create unlimited prosperity on all levels of our being.

We are each blessed with the creative power of the Divine heart-mind connection, and we can learn to work with Reiki to tap into the unlimited abundance that is our birthright. When we develop prosperity consciousness, everything we need to fulfill our highest purpose comes to us with ease.

We can attract anything we want into our life and truly realize our heart's desire.

Money, love, peace, and joy are all simply energy. We usually think of them only as we know them in the manifest plane i.e. what most people believe is reality. However, all things reside in all planes of existence and in all realms of consciousness. Thus, reality is actually multi-dimensional. What we often believe to be reality is simply a projection of how we are currently working with our hearts, minds and energy. We have power and ability to change anything we have created.

There are universal spiritual laws that govern abundance. Within the essence of these laws is the wisdom that that there is an ebb and flow to all aspects of our life. We can also learn that it is as important to receive as it is to give, and to recognize that we are limitless beings. The importance of holding pure intention that we are attracting those things that serve the highest good is also part of the wisdom. We can only experience prosperity if we have the things in our life that are meaningful to us personally, those things that hold the essence of the quality we want in our life rather than a quantity of something.

Humanity is awakening to a soul knowing of the power of the collective creative consciousness, or mastery of the heart-mind connection. We are learning to create a flow, a stream of resources into our lives, all of which support our Divine purpose.

When we feel constrained, or that what we need is not flowing to us with ease, this is a good time to take inventory. What things or elements of our life are we holding in the present that no longer serve us? When we can identify these things, we can then recognize each of them as energy. The energy that they hold is taking up space in our lives; space that could be used to hold new and exciting things that support us in the present moment.

In letting go of the old, we make room for the new. When we have outgrown aspects of our life, it is time to send these things out into the Universe so that they can serve someone else. This may mean that you sell what you don't need, or perhaps you make donations, or release a relationship or a job. Let these things go, and when the releasing process is complete for the moment, pause to experience how you feel. You have just created space in your life to receive the blessings the Universe has for you.

Be sure that in letting go, you are releasing into areas that you feel in harmony with. For example if you feel you have a lack of money in your life, it can be disempowering to become miserly and spend money on only what you feel you "need". It is empowering to share money, even if it is just a little, by spending it on something that enhances your quality of life. By doing this you are putting energy out that empowers others who are working to help humanity awaken to a more peaceful, joyous, prosperous existence. When you do this you make room for money that improves your life to flow in to you as well.

Now you can use Reiki to assist in magnetizing infinite blessings into your life, in the perfect form at the perfect time.

Create a list of the things that you feel will enhance the quality of your life, and support the highest good of all. If you aren't sure what your list should contain, you can use Reiki to help you. Simply use the same process I defined above. Invoke the distant and mental and emotional symbols to make the heart mind connection with each of the things on your list. Pay very close attention to how you feel when you think of them. What is the energetic essence each holds and how do you sense that they will add to the quality of your life?

Once you have your list, you may wish to enter into a 21-day process of magnetizing these things into your life with Reiki. Each day use the distant, mental/emotional and power symbols by drawing them, or visualizing them, or invoking their names. Once you have called the energy in, hold your list in your hands and send the Reiki energy into it. Now, take a moment to verbally acknowledge all the things in your life that you are thankful for. Let the Reiki flow until it slows, stops or feels complete. Of course it is also important to close the session with a prayer.

In closing I would like to remind you of this thought. Just for today, do not worry and be filled with gratitude for all the blessings that are currently in your life, and that are flowing to you every moment.

HOW TO TEST CHAKRAS:

To test which direction the energy is flowing, hold a pendulum two or three inches above the Chakra being tested. It is quicker to get the pendulum to swing if you start the momentum of the pendulum by swinging it forward and back. For an open Chakra the pendulum should swing clockwise (clockwise to the person doing the testing). If there is no swing of the pendulum except forward and back, this Chakra is closed. If the pendulum swings counter clockwise, the Chakra has reversed the energy flow. This reversal will cause the Chakra negative effects on the person’s health. The size of the pendulum’s swing indicates the amount of energy flowing into that Chakra. It is important that all Chakras have approximately the same size swing.

HOW TO BALANCE CHAKRAS:

Balancing the Chakras is not part of the traditional Reiki treatment but can be very helpful. If there is little to give a full treatment this can be very beneficial. During the course of full Reiki treatment, you will find that balancing the Chakras may not be necessary, for the Reiki energy will balance them automatically. Chakras testing can be done at the end of the treatment and if necessary place your hand over the Chakras that needs more balancing.

You can balance the energy of the Chakras by placing your hands on each of them successively beginning with the Third Eye and working your way down to the Root Chakra or vice versa. Or another way is to place on hand on the Third Eye and the other on the Root Chakra. Then move your hands to the Throat Chakra and the Sacral Chakra, the Heart Chakra and the Solar Plexus Chakra successively. Leave your hands in position until you can feel the same amount or kind of energy flowing through them. We do not touch the Crown Chakra since the highest state of consciousness requires neither harmonization nor additional energy.

Balancing the Chakras will help to harmonize the body and dissolve and blockages. This is a special type of Reiki treatment and can be very beneficial.

THE HUMAN AURA:

The seven Chakras are obvious in various colours and their energy together forms Human Aura. The Aura is like an egg shell which extends up to eight meters in radius in a healthy individual. This Aura can be sensed and even seen by us and other clairvoyants. Common people can also sea this Aura with the help of Kirlian Camera developed by two Russian brothers.

People, who claim that there is no evidence for subtle energies in the body, no chakras and no reason to believe any method other than the Western-style medical practice of drugs and invasive surgery can heal, are unaware of evidence to the contrary.

In 1979, for example, both authors witnessed a startling experiment which revealed the presence of “invisible” energies associated with hands-on healing. The experiment took place at The Arthur Findley College for Psychic Studies at Stansted, England.

Trevor Stockhill, an English electronics technician and researcher had modified a video camera to record portions of the infrared ultra-violet electromagnetic spectrum. These bandwidths are normally unseen by the human eye. (Certain people, however, do have ocular sensitivity to these vibrations which flank the visible light spectrum – giving them insight, literally, into a world that appears very different and invisible to the rest of us).

Stockhill’s sophisticated equipment then filmed then filmed the Brazilian healer Alberto Aguas doing a healing treatment on a woman. Several selections of classical music accompanied the procedure, including Albinoni’s “Adagio in G Minor”, and “Spectrum Suite” by Stephen Halpern.

The filming was done in total darkness. Not one lumen of light illuminated the room during the healing.

A. Patient lying prone, with lights on prior to healing.

B. Same perspective as “A” showing ocularly invisible energies around the patient as
in pitch-blackness by Trevor Stockhill’s specially modified video camera.

At one end of treatment by Aguas the videotape a virgin tape which was still sealed in its plastic wrapper until inserted into the recorder at the start of the healing session was rewound and played back.

A standard video camera would have produced a blank image there being nothing visible to record. However, something quite unforeseen mesmerized everyone.

The TV monitor revealed an extra-ordinary scene of rainbow colours coruscating around and through the client’s down upon the workman. This curtain of light varied in intensity and brightness. It shimmered. It pulsated. It seemed alive. It was beautiful and awesome to watch. At one point, streams of energy (composed of small balls of white light) appeared at the left edge of the TV screen and moved over the woman’s body, then dipped into her abdomen. Colours changed in conjunction with certain tones and rhythms of the background music.

Aguas said at the session’ conclusion that this healing had focused on a uterine ailment that the client was suffering. The videotape clearly showed streams of energy flowing into that area, though the many observers in the room had seen nothing in the black-dark room. In reviewing the videotape himself, Aguas noted that colour shifts coincided with his channelling energy to different parts of the client’s body.

This correlation between sound, colour and healing – the last being influenced and modifiable by the first two – has long been posited by pioneers in the medical community.

Edwin D. Babbit, M.D., avowed more than a century ago that “Long repeated colour therapy treatment plus proper diet produces wonders”.

Dr. Oscar Brunler, a Scandinavian award-winning physicist and physician, investigated the impact of colour (energy waves) on health. Before his death in 1952, he remarked; “Colours are far more powerful than medicine”.

The influence of wavelengths of light on spontaneous tumour development has been quantitatively demonstrated in the laboratory by Dr. John N. Ott and others.

Perhaps Dr. N.S. Hanoka of India said it all when he professed; “Colour therapy is universally applicable to all the ills to which the human flesh is heir”.

But it was the Stansted experiment that uniquely recorded the rainbow of unseen energy present during – but not before or after – a healing treatment.

USUI REIKI

The term Reiki was in use prior to Dr. Usui using it and therefore is not exclusive to the healing system he rediscovered. There are many kinds of Reiki including Seichem Reiki and Tibetan Reiki, Karuna Reiki, Kundalini Reiki etc. However, Usui Reiki is by far the most popular form of Reiki and most other forms are merely off-shoots of Usui Reiki Ryoho modified and mixed with other healing modalities for monetary gains.

KARUNA REIKI

Developed by William Lee Rand in 1989 Karuna Reiki. It is a combination of the Usui method, Tibetan shamanism called Raku Kai and the Karuna healing energy. The reason it is called Karuna Reiki is that Karuna healing energy is a Reiki like energy in that it is life force energy that is guided by the higher power. The word Karuna means "compassionate action" which is a feeling people often get who experience the energy of this system.

There are four symbols of Karuna Reiki. It is said that; the first symbol prepares the client for deep healing and is useful with past life issues. The second symbol heals deeply and can be used to breakup the negative patterns we unconsciously use to insulate ourselves from the truth, thus shattering delusion and denial. The third symbol fills the person with love and restores balance. The fourth symbol completes the treatment by bringing the client back into the body and grounding.

KUNDALINI REIKI

Kundalini Reiki is a Reiki offshoot developed by Ole Gabrielsen. It is said to use a combination of the practitioner’s Kundalini energy with Reiki energy in healing treatments. Kundalini energy is spiritual energy that comes up from the earth through a person’s chakra system (from the root up through all of the chakras, and out the Crown Chakra). Reiki energy flows from above the crown chakra down through the body and out of the hands of the practitioner to a recipient.

Kundalini Reiki does not initiate a full Kundalini awakening, which can be dangerous and cause painful emotional and spiritual symptoms. Kundalini Reiki is said to help heal the symptoms of an accidental Kundalini Awakening.

Kundalini Reiki is different from traditional Usui Reiki Ryoho practice on many accounts. For example, there are no symbols and hence no hands positions. Kundalini treatments take an average of 5 – 7 minutes as compare to 20 – 30 minutes in Usui Reiki. Moreover, attunements are given as treatments, via intention only.

REIKI ENERGY HEALING

Energy healing is a technique helping chronic and acute pain, inflammation, muscle tension, spinal imbalance and blocked energy. It facilitates healing on the emotional level as well, with spontaneous releases of blocked energy, moving emotions up to the surface. And I've witnessed people who have had deep spiritual experiences of connecting with their essence.

I'm truly amazed at the results my clients are having. I've seen it consistently relieve chronic and acute pain quickly and with lasting results.

The major principles behind this technique involve resonance and entrainment. Using intention, attention, breathing and the body's innate intelligence, the practitioner is able to raise the vibration in their hands. When two things vibrate at different frequencies, the law of resonance requires that either the lower frequency comes up, the upper frequency goes down, or they meet in the middle. The practitioner simply learns to hold a strong, loving vibration so that the client's energy entrains up to match that higher vibration. Then healing happens.

This high vibration affects matter on a subatomic level and works its way up through the cells, nerves, muscles and tissues. Eventually it affects something that is highly observable - the bones. But before the bones move, there are no doubt millions of smaller healings taking place. All you have to do is sit back and enjoy the experience.

ABOUT ENERGY HEALING

I have been learning & practicing energy over the past 6 years. It first started with helping family members and slowly as people started feeling the difference and their pains vanishing I got to work with people outside my family circle. To make it clear from the start, I do not run a healing centre or a clinic or anything like that. I work only on referral basis, i.e. if one of my patients or friends recommends someone to me I work on them. The intention is to help people overcome their conditions quickly. This does not mean that they stop taking medical assistance. Energy healing is an alternate therapy which tries to accelerate the healing process. Its relaxing, its natural and it works.

HOW LONG DO THE SESSIONS LONG?

I do not overburden myself with appointments. This gives me the flexibility to have clients who I can concentrate on and have longer sessions (if required).

The healing process can be very fast (in less than 15 min) or it can go up for a longer period of time (up to 90 min), depending on the client and their ability to heal. I prefer to work like this so that they do not get restricted to 30 min sessions that last for weeks. Again this is my preference, however if the client wishes to limit themselves I am flexible with that.

WHAT DOES THE CLIENT NEED TO DO?

Nothing but relax. All we need is a place where you can sit like a chair or a place where you can sleep like a bed depending on what the problems are. If the client has problems sitting for a long time they can sleep and that works too. Depends on what they are comfortable with.

WHAT CONDITIONS CAN ENERGY HEALING CURE?

The great thing about energy work is that you never know what are the limits of its success. I have successfully treated clients with lower back problems, knee pains, ankle pains, frozen shoulder, elbow pains, Neck pains, gout, etc. I do not give my clients false hope that I will cure your problems. I do not want to mislead the client. They normally come to me when normal medication is not helping them, the last thing I want to give them is false hope. What we do is try and trying has given me a 100% success rate. This way myself & the client are not holding ourselves to expectations, as expectations slows the healing process. What we do is offer the energy and let it do its wonders.

DISTANCE HEALING

Distance Healing is no different from the normal healing process. It just needs a higher level of concentration on the part of the the practitioner. The client just needs to sit, relax and enjoy the session as they world normally do in person.

THE GREAT THING ABOUT ENERGY HEALING

The great thing about energy work is that you never know what are the limits of its success. I have successfully treated clients with lower back problems, knee pains, ankle pains, frozen shoulder, elbow pains, Neck pains, gout, etc. I do not give my clients false hope that I will cure your problems. I do not want to mislead the client. They normally come to me when normal medication is not helping them, the last thing I want to give them is false hope. What we do is try and trying has given me a 100% success rate. This way myself & the client are not holding ourselves to expectations, as expectations slows the healing process. What we do is offer the energy and let it do its wonders.