THINGS TO REMEMBER BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER HEALING

Always remember to ground yourself before you start. Visualise yourself as a tree and that your feet are firmly on the ground (even if they are not) and that they are rooted well into the earth’s core and imagine the roots going from your body right into the earth.

If you are healing other’s. Always do the grounding and also call in your helper’s and guides before you heal. ‘I ask for all the help and guidance I need during this healing session’

Before you heal anyone always tell them they might feel something, they might not, but the healing will still be taking place and working. Also advise them they may feel like laughing, they may feel like crying, but that’s fine too. Some people have an awful lot of stuff to get rid of and let go of and this is a way out, but very gentle, they would probably even never know what was happening to them. Also tell them to be open to the healing and to allow it to take place. It’s very difficult to heal people who are not open, the easiest way is through their feet.

Also visualise the energy coming through your head and see it flowing through every part of their body (intention is ALWAYS as good as when you are healing) I do this twice. Once flowing through their bones and structure, again flowing through ever other part, from head to toe and back up then again

After I’ve done the above, I visualise my head opening up to channel the energy. Then begin

Normally with reiki, you are either someone who feels cold spots/areas on a person’s body. Or alternatively tingly sensations. I can just hover over someone’s body and find the areas which need healing, all this comes with time. You will always feel more holding your hands a couple of inches from the person, rather than on them.

Trust your intuition and let it guide you.

What you may find while healing others is that you feel their pains, in the same area on your body. This only usually lasts for a couple of minutes at the most. But what it is trying to do is just get your attention to the areas which need healing.

The head is the most important area to be healed. I always begin cupping my hands around the ears, but not touching them.

After you have finished a reiki treatment in person always remove negative energy by sweeping over the body. Swirl from top to bottom and back. If you want to make the person more awake, then swirl vigorously, if they want to remain calm and sleepy then swirl gently. Then smooth the aura (around the person’s body) by going round the outline of their body from head to toe in one go and finish off with a protection blanket or by placing ribbons over the person or whatever you feel you like to use, as long as the intention is there. Finally thank your guides

With reiki, you don’t have to actually touch people to channel the energy, you can hover above their body, which ever feels more comfortable for you both really. You can also pick up a lot more from the person by holding your hands away from their body slightly. I do find that I hate my head being touched during reiki. Therefore I always hold my hands away from a persons head. Unless I use the position where I cup my hands under their head (like receiving communion at church) The other position is holding one hand on top of their forehead and the other underneath their head. The rest of the body I usually place my hands on because it’s easier and more comfortable for me not lifting my arms.

Some people also when they have finished the healing cut an imaginary umbilical cord. Kind of sweep your hand from your chest downwards.

Always visualise yourself in a protection bubble. This will also protect you from being more open and coming into contact with other’s who will try and drain your energy, without intentionally meaning to. I learnt that the hard way. All my customers used to drain me all the time. I was so open. I had to put an imaginary clear screen between myself and my customers, which stopped this from happening. The bubble will protect you. A bubble, pyramid whatever you feel comfortable with. You can always charge it up when need be. Just do the same and visualise your head opening up, all the energy clearing, cleansing, balancing and healing your charkas then closing them all down and putting the bubble around you. I heal my charkas by simple pulling them out (visualise this and the appropriate colour) empty them, fill them and to close them visualise them going from a ball to being a dot and put them back.

Just try different things and see which works for you. Some of this may sound a little far fetched but believe me it works.

When healing yourself you can place your hands where you like, same applies to healing others. No where is the wrong place?

To clear and balance charkas simply place your hand slightly cupped over your base chakra, right at the bottom of your back but on your front (as this is easier). A couple of minutes to five minutes is usually fine. I do two at the same time, one hand on each. If you wanted to do this for other people you could do this either with them stood up or sat down. Place one hand around the front of the body and one hand around the back. (charkas can be open/closed at both the front and the back)

If you are feeling like a cold is coming on tap your immune system up. Do this by simply tapping (like the waltz dance 1..23, 1.23) on the bone below your throat either side. Do this for one minute and it will tap your immune system back up again.

The best book if you want to buy one, don’t buy any other apart from essential reiki by Diane Stein. I tried to get hold of it on amazon, but ended up using BOL.com, it comes from America. But it is the best book that answers all your reiki questions and opens your eye’s to everything reiki can be used for. Sure a lot of people don’t even realise half the stuff reiki can be used for. You can heal anything which is living with reiki, humans, plants, animals, anything. The book gives you all the positions. Answers all questions from reiki one right through to teaching reiki

Do make sure you drink lots of water too. You will probably find that when you are healing too. It makes you thirsty, so do drink more. You sleep more to while your hara line expands and gets use to the attunement. Could have symptoms of a cold or running nose, but that’s about it.

You can put reiki into anything to give to others, teddy bears for children, coins etc. All you have to do is hold it in your hand a couple of minutes and the energy will go in there. It needs charging up again because whatever it is you place the healing into, will be taken and used by whoever you give it to. You can also put things charged up with reiki under your pillow and this has the same effect. Crystals work excellent to with reiki. You can use Reiki for absolutely ANYTHING, as long as the intention is there and it's always for the highest good of who ever or whatever you're healing.

I will attune you with the Usui traditional Reiki Symbols, none traditional and some symbols of my own which I have found to enhance the healing also. You are not forced to feel anything, some attunements I did, some I still don’t, which can just be the same with the healing too. Remember when you do healing, whether distant or hands on, you receive the healing as well as giving. If there's anything you're unsure about, ask your guides to help. If you have not met your healing or personal guides, ask them to introduce themselves. When the time is right, they will.

Now you have the gift, use it!