February 27, 2012 in Timeline
Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368 A.D.). Resetting broken bones becomes an essential part of medicine and is given its own category in the medical system called Bone Correction. Tui Na An Mo included a wide array of techniques to reset bones and accelerate the mending process.
February 13, 2012 in Timeline
Greece. The story of the Trojan War, written in the 9th Century B.C., describes the use of massage, exercise, and proper nutrition as a means to promote relaxation and healing.
Greek gymnasiums become important centers where philosophers and athletes exercise and engage in philosophical discussions. The gymnasium was a place where the sick were healed, the young were educated, and the soldiers were trained. Aesculapius becomes worshiped as the Greek god of medicine. The winged staff with serpents remains the symbol of medicine.
Arab / Persian. Razi (860-932 A.D.) authored several books inspired by the work of Galen and Hippocrates. An encyclopedia of Greek, Roman, and Arabic medical practices prescribing proper diet, exercise, and massage as a means to treat disease and maintain health is his most important body of work.
Song dynasty (960-1280 AD.). The book Talks on Medicine (Yi Shuo) by Dr. Gao Zhang, describes feet as a tool of massage used to help broken bones mend, increase Qi and improve the circulation of blood. Dr. An-Shi Pang teaches the use of massage to ease the pains of childbirth. Volume IV of The Total Record of Economics (Jing Ji Zong Lun) teaches that”(For some sicknesses) you can use An, (for others) use Mo, sometimes use both, all called An Mo. When An (press), do not Mo (rub), (when) Mo (rub), do not An (press). Press with hands, when rubbing, use herbs sometimes. These are An and Mo. Fit (them) to the right purpose.”
February 1, 2012 in Q & A, Reiki Articles, Reiki Manual
I’ve recently received my Reiki Master attunement and have begun to exchange distance attunements with others. Sometimes I exchange Reiki Master attunements with other Reiki Masters, while other times I exchange distance treatments with Reiki Practitioners. I am also active in several Reiki online forums, Facebook and in Google+, and I read that distance Reiki attunements are at best not effective, and at worst, dangerous. Are distance Reiki attunements dangerous, effective, or both?
There are many different perspectives from which this can be explored. Those different perspectives result in the variety of responses you may find elsewhere on the web, and among Reiki practitioners you know. One perspective simplifies attunements to a basic final result, and that is by stripping away the ceremony and special flavorings and fluff that make Reiki Attunements Reiki Attunements, then at the most basic level Reiki attunements can be perceived as something that helps all parties involved gain a new awareness.
New Awareness implies many things, but mainly it implies the process of becoming more consciously aware of energies that may or may not be or have been present in the observer’s life. The observer includes all persons involved in the attunement be they the provider, the recipient, any who may be present in a group during the attunements, and any and all participating by distance.
I have heard and read many testimonies that distance Reiki attunements "don’t work" or "caused problems", but that doesn’t mean that "all" distance attunements are bad or require additional precautions to be taken prior to participating in them.
Although I do not entirely agree with the position of other practitioners who are against distance Reiki attunements, I feel that their perspective has merit. Experiencing attunements in person gives both parties, the attuner and the attunnee a stable point of reference with respect to the energies being perceived (if any). In my opinion, it is far easier to gain a confident conscious understanding towards specifically identifying a frequency when the attunement is experienced in person compared to a distant attunement (especially when a live Video chat is not occurring).
Reiki Attunements help to awaken consciousness. Each person participating in the attunement process becomes slightly more consciously aware of greater realities during and after the process. Like attunements that occur in-person, distance attunements expand the awareness of the individuals participating–and because less tools to focus the conscious mind are present in the recipient, their awareness expands and senses a lot of additional energies are sensed.
Many of us in our life are prone to remember bad experiences from our past more easily than the good experiences, and that trait is oftentimes parallels what a person becomes aware of during distance attunements. I have received several e-mails where people have complained about the negative energies they "received" from the distance attuning Reiki Master who then went on to claim that Reiki Master was negative and should be avoided. It’s unlikely a distance attuning Reiki Master sets out with the intent to harm another person they are attuning, but it is very likely the person they are attuning begins to awaken to, to become more aware of, energies that are present in their life and even the energies in the lives of those around them.
Those new energies sensed can be good or bad, but as our tendency is to remember the bad experiences in our life easier than the good, it’s not uncommon for the attunee to focus their attention onto the negative energies more than the good.
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