Wanderings' Wanderings

Buddha's Hand

There has been some discussion lately on the use of hand positions during a Reiki treatments. Some claim that only the hand positions as taught by Mrs. Takata should be used during a treatment, while others are throwing the hand positions completely out the window. The arguments are actually more maddening than the subject, but more to the point, the question still isn’t answered.

All of us who have practiced Reiki for many years have come to a sort of understanding between ourselves and the Reiki energy. We know the energy instinctively goes to the area in need of healing, and does so without our prompting and without our insistence, but still we tarry on like good little practitioners doing what we’ve been taught with little or no questioning, and sometimes little or no understanding why it is we do what we do.

The truth is that while many practitioners choose to walk a path of healing and empowering others, a few remain who only go through the motions because it pays the bills. For them the honeymoon ended long ago and they have forgotten the real benefits Reiki can bring to personal healing. But there is a very small group of people who have remained because they have chosen to control and dominate the industry by continuing to feed into the propaganda initiated by Dr. Hayashi and Mrs. Takata.

The very real truth of this discussion is there are no real set hand positions for any treatment. The hand positions we teach today are illustrations or guides to help prepare a student enter their own Reiki practice. Any Reiki teacher worth their salt should tell their students that the energy is the guiding force, not our own egos. If the energy guides the hands to a position not in keeping with tradition, then so long as that hand position still respects the clients’ privacy, go for it! During one session my hands moved towards my client’s side. I could hear my client’s breathing become more and more relaxed the longer I kept my hands on their side. After the treatment my client asked how I knew they had broken their ribs. I didn’t, but the energy did.

We teachers usually claim the energy goes where needed, but then some of those same instructors will teach that the hand positions are sacrosanct.

The hand positions are little more than a tool for us to use as a guide during the sessions. Actually, the hand positions are a tool which the energy itself uses, not us. We must allow the energy to guide our hands. It is the client’s need(s) which guides us to help them heal as they need it, not as we wish it for them.

Does it truly matter whether we use the hand positions taught by Mrs. Takata, Dr. Hayashi, or Dr. Usui? No. What matters is the result: balance.

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Words Cannot Express

So many voice, but only one mind to control them.
So many facets of one being, but only one being; all.

This is how it has been since the beginning of time, and this is how it shall always be, and yet beneath the frailty of our being exists a beauty seen only in rare glimpses when we bear ourselves open to the fullness of the Great Divine in all things, and all of being-ness.

We ARE the purified expressions of a created-ness long ago made manifest through the Divine universal energy which exists in, through, and around all things.

And still we bumble about wondering who we are and where we are going little realizing we are still a part of the very thing which created us.

We are energy.  We ARE energy.  We are ENERGY~

Blessings+