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The building and workings of one’s own health is the very nature of Reiki… or so that has always been my perception of it.

There is the belief in many spiritual communities that we are beings of light. Energy exists in a much higher form, and gradually it goes through a process that allows it to exist at a lower vibration that eventually results in everything we are aware of in our physical reality. Our physical bodies, our personalities (there is a difference between the personality and the mind), and even the events that happen to us.

Let’s use some of the images at the Alex Grey as an example. If I recall correctly, Alex experimented with LSD in his younger days and had a vision where he perceived everything as interwoven interconnected multi-dimensional beings of light. If you visit his website, in the left column click PAINTINGS and then in the right column click PROGRESS OF THE SOUL and explore the images (and THEOLOGUE is a good reference for my example).

The Theologue image illustrates a person as a being of light that is woven with a web of light to everything around it, or perhaps as the universe weaving beams of light that create the landscape and that create the person.

The person has some colored spheres of light within their torso. Those energy centers are usually called Chakras. Usually seven of the largest (and most noticeable to beginners) within the torso are illustrated by artists, and taught by others.

The spiritual concept is that everything is connected by what at this time we can best call light. During the mid 1900′s it was magnetic energy, during the 1800′s it was etheric energy, and prior to that it was known basically as prana to those who had access to the few books available about the subject in that time. In our time, the energy is being called Light or simply Energy. Just for the record, the association to the energy to light began with Annie Beasant who was the first to associate colors to chakras in her writing for the Theosophical Society during the late 18th, early 19th century.

This concept also parallels the Chinese system of Acupuncture, but acupuncture is a bit too complex and technical for this example so I will mention it, but not discuss it beyond this mention.

Light, as it turns out, is a very good word to use to describe spiritual energy because it has thousands of variations that most of us can see. The colors used in cartoons for children are usually brilliant in hue, and accompanied by other colors that accent and complement them, making the cartoon more visually appealing. The colors used for adults are more complex help add to the emotional experience of the movie. For example, in the movie The Matrix, when Neo was in normal reality (known as the matrix) the entire screen was overlaid with a light green tint, reminiscent of the first color of computer screen fonts, while when he was not plugged into the matrix the screen had a normal tone. The Harry Potter movies have had darker colors when the characters were in the company of evil, and the movie Avatar had a truly sensational color of blue overlaid all exterior scenes. For those who can see with their eyes, colors are believed to influence our emotions, and thus how we feel.

Bright and brilliant colors are considered healthy, while darker, murkier, swampier colors are considered to be unhealthy.

Now, when a person radiates brilliant colors of light, everything else in its environment begins to radiate the same brilliance. When a person is depressed, feeling unhealthy, and even experiencing a disease or illness of sorts, it is believed by some that they have darker colors present in their body of light.

Reiki may sometimes be associated to a pure white light, or a high spiritual energy that when accessed, begins to purge darker, murkier, negative colors from whatever the Reiki is illuminating.

Just as when a person is depressed and radiating dark colors their environment begins to radiate the same, when a person accesses Reiki and allows it to flow through them, the Reiki light helps transform the dark colors inside them into something more brilliant and healthy.

Healing originates within the heart center, the heart chakra. Without compassion, without caring for one’s self and others, healing won’t happen because the heart energy center will remain less functional than otherwise.

Spiritual energy may be controlled and directed around less functioning energy centers such as the heart by the personality, and when that happens those energies will possess a feeling/sensation of being much more intense than otherwise, but by by-passing the heart center also by-passes a significant center of power and balance necessary to access those energies to their fullest potential. Like a bicycle wheel that has a broken spoke, it might work, but it will be more likely to break the more frequently it’s used, the more likely other spoke will be to break.

Let’s suppose that a person attuned to Reiki can meditate and access Reiki energies to use those energies to manifest business goals. The concept would then be that the higher Reiki light would flow through the person desiring to manifest the goals.

Now, if the heart center is not completely balanced, like a bicycle wheel with a broken spoke, the energies won’t flow as readily as they would otherwise. Other spokes, channels of light, that do work will have a tendency to become overworked, and then breakage may occur. It is a common belief that when the channels of light break, when their is an imbalance of light within the body of light, disease and illness manifests within the physical body.

But doesn’t Reiki heal?

Yes, but that healing starts with the heart.

Starting with the heart is starting with one’s self.

Opening the heart to compassion not only involves caring about others, but one’s self.

When the Reiki practitioner focuses on healing their self first, then everything else will gradually fall into place in the healthiest possible way. There may be some mishaps (call them learning experiences) along the way, but ultimately they will lead the practitioner to a well-balanced, healthy and successful life.

I was a mess in dire need of healing when I began Reiki. As a practicing Reiki Master of 9 years, I went homeless, and I emerged as a completely new person, successful in many ways, through that experience.

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