Post by dancingwind on Nov 19, 2005 11:53:38 GMT
Developing Sensitivity in Your Hands
The next stage, after grounding yourself is to learn how to feel energy so that you know what you are doing when working in the aura and chakras. Here are two exercises which are useful and can be done regularly as well as prior to healing work.
Rubbing Hands
Rub your hands briskly together. Hold them about an inch apart, until you feel an energy between them. Gradually separate the hands, still feeling the energy. Bounce your hands slowly in and out. You should feel an elastic or magnetic energy between them. Turn your palms towards you slowly, and allow them and the energy to be drawn towards your body, where it is needed.
Moving The Arms
Stand relaxed with your feet hip distance apart and your arms by your sides. Breathe with your belly. Turn your palms to the front. Breathing in, raise them, palms uppermost above your head. Keep your shoulders relaxed and down. When the hands are above the head, the palms face eachother. Hold the position and your breath for a moment. Slowly exhale, bringing the arms down as you brought them up, but with palms turning out. Repeat. You should start to feel energy in your arms and hands. It might feel as if the air is actually lifting your arms up rather than your muscles. Try doing different movements with your arms, keeping them slow, as if you are moving through water. Breathe in as they go up and out as they go down. Ground by kneeling and putting your hands and/or head against the floor.
Scanning
Scanning is using the sensitivity in your hands/senses and your intuition to feel what is going on in an energy field, such as the aura. Practice, experience and trust help these sensations and intuitions become clearer. They may be almost imperceptable at first. Here is a list of some things you may sense.
Coldness
There is an energy blockage or a hole in the aura. There could be a negative thought form there, or a physical problem in the area.
Cold Winds Leaving
A negative thought form is leaving the aura.
Ache or Pain
Generally there is a physical problem in the area creating build-up of energy which the Reiki is helping to release. Scan to see if there is a hole in the aura as well, and deal with this first.
Dip in Energy
Sometimes you can feel the edge of the aura and suddenly the edge dips closer to the physical body. This shows a lack of energy in this area and that there is soemthing causing an imbalance there. Give Reiki to the area.
Hole in The Aura
Whilst tracing the edge of the aura it suddenly seems to disappear. If you find a lot of holes or very large ones, the person is very depleted and requires a lot of healing as well as lifestyle changes. They may have an addiction, eating disorder or psychiatric problem.
Cord
You may sense a cord in the aura. One way of sensing this is if the aura thickens into a rope-like shape. Cords are like leashes of energy, attaching the person to someone. Energy drains out from them and negative energy can flow in.
Tingling in Hands
If a place is especially tingly in your hands, healing is needed there, and there could be an inflammation or pain at the site.
Heat in Hands
Healing energy is needed at this site. Some healers always experience heat or tingling so you need to see whether it is more than usual.
Energy Being Sucked as if Magnetically
If you sense that energy is being pulled, as if magnetically, from your hands, or there is an irresistable pull to an area of the body, then healing is needed there.
Hands Being Pushed Away
This is a definate pushing away. There is an energy blockage in the area, which is resisting being worked on. Try working on the area later, or ask the recipient to tune into it and consciously ask the blockage to leave.
Energy Flowing From Hands
This shows the Reiki is flowing nicely, and indicates that the recipient is open and receptive to it.
Sweatiness
You may start to perspire which shows that a lot of Reiki is coming through you and also that it is releasing your own blockages.
Feeling Ecstatic or Going Into Trance
Giving as well as receiving Reiki can be very pleasurable and spiritually uplifting. It can feel like a deep meditation or relaxed trance. Enjoy it, but remain aware and grounded.
Feeling Ill
Occasionally you may find that you feel ill while working on someone. It is possible that you have picked up on an imbalance in them, or perhaps the Reiki flowing through you has shifted your energies so that you are temporarily out of balance. Generally it is fine to continue if you feel sufficiently grounded and OK. The feeling will probably pass very quickly, showing that something unpleasant has shifted thanks to the Reiki. If you feel you need to stop the session early, work on the recipient's feet to ground them and finish off.
Seeing Something Shadowy
Usually this is seen with the peripheral vision. It is an energy form releasing from the recipient. Imagine white and gold light surrounding it coming down from above and silently ask your Guide, Angel or a higher being to release it to the light. Silently reassure the energy form that it is ok to go into the light. If there is a lot of resistance, ask your higher being to help it into the earth.
Seeing light or colours
Golden and white light around is a light being such as an angel helping the healing. Other bright, vivid colours are other light beings perhaps devas, they may be helping or simply curious. If you feel you're being helped, silently thank them. Otherwise just silently greet them and carry on. If the colours are dirty or dark see the above paragraph.
