Reiki I: Exploring the Basics
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Many books exist with helpful information about learning the relaxing, healing art of practicing Reiki. What makes Reiki I: Exploring the Basics stand out is that it pulls together from many different sources a vast amount of information about Reiki that is helpful for anyone, whether they are thinking of learning about Reiki or have practiced it for a long time.
The book includes information about how Reiki works, the origin and history of Reiki, the aura, the chakras and how they can affect a person’s health. It includes pictures and information about Reiki hand positions for healing yourself and hand positions for healing others. It addresses how those hand positions can help a person’s physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. It explains what foods, activities and thinking habits a person needs to practice in the days leading up to receiving the Reiki I attunement from a Reiki Master of your choice.
There are so many details about Reiki to learn and remember. This book will give you what you need to know in an easy-to-read writing style. It is a valuable reference book for anyone studying or practicing Reiki. However, it is not a substitute for a Reiki I attunement. To get that attunement, you must attend a Reiki I workshop and receive an attunement given by a Reiki Master.
Margaret Cheasebro
Margaret Cheasebro is a Reiki Master. She has a bachelor’s degree in humanities with an English emphasis, a master's degree in psychology, counseling and guidance, and a Ph.D. in metaphysics. She has provided Reiki treatments at an alternative health clinic and at a local college, and she has taught Reiki I, Reiki II and Reiki Master workshops.A retired elementary school counselor, she is a national award winning author, who writes articles on a variety of subjects, among them people, places and cultures of the Four Corners area where the states of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Utah meet. She also has written several books. The following are her most recent ones.The Healing Tree, a young adult fantasy softcover novel, was a finalist in the 2015 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. When three children meet on their way to summer camp in northwest New Mexico, they don’t think they know each other. But they discover that through time they have been chased by an evil woman who wants their blood so she can stay young and their powerful connection to nature so she can control the world. To their horror, the children find the evil woman is waiting for them at camp. With help from a cottonwood, they time travel to an ancient Pueblo village, where a traveling medicine man assists them. Mysterious Baba, the camp’s caretaker, also helps them as they and star warriors try to thwart the evil woman’s plans to rule the world. Can the young people believe in themselves and their skills enough to stop the evil woman before she ruins the world? Purchase at amazon.com.Her non-fiction softcover book, Healing with Trees: Finding a Path to Wholeness, was a finalist in the 2017 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. It explores the benefits of being around trees. The book includes exercises for such things as grounding and dealing with difficult emotions, and it has a section on tools for dealing with everyday challenges. Purchase at amazon.com.Her children’s fiction picture book, If I Were a Tree, What Would I Be?, tells about two children who love trees. They can hear them with their hearts. They become friends with a cottonwood. The tree teaches them how to deal with bullies and how to stay focused in school. They help the cottonwood in several ways. Purchase at https://www.balboapress.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/803706-if-i-were-a-tree-what-would-i-be or at https://www.ifiwereatreewhatwouldibe.comShe writes blogs related to trees and other aspects of nature at her two websites, https://www.margaretcheasebro.com and https://www.ifiwereatreewhatwouldibe.com.
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Reiki I - Margaret Cheasebro
REIKI I
EXPLORING THE BASICS
OTHER BOOKS BY MARGARET CHEASEBRO
Reiki II: Expanding Your Skills
Reiki III: Mastering the Healing Art
The Healing Tree
Healing with Trees: Finding a Path to Wholeness
If I Were a Tree, What Would I Be?
DISCLAIMER
This book is based on many years of experience giving Reiki treatments to myself and others and on a great deal of research I’ve done about Reiki and related subjects.
I have done my best to provide all the information you will need to understand what Reiki is and how to practice it once you have received Reiki I training from a Reiki Master in person.
Although it’s very likely that if you learn this information and receive a Reiki I attunement, you can practice Reiki successfully, I’m not responsible if it doesn’t work for you. However, I can’t imagine it not working if you learn the information, follow all the directions and receive a Reiki I attunement from a Reiki Master in person.
I do not have a medical background. What I have written about regarding how Reiki works with the physical body is based on my understanding of what knowledgeable people have written in many books, magazine articles and in other formats as well as from my own experiences as a Reiki Master. If there are any mistakes, they are a result of my misunderstandings.
Reiki is not meant to be a replacement for medical care but, rather, a supplement to it. I suggest that if you have any medical concerns, you discuss them with your doctor before you try Reiki.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 – My Introduction to Reiki
Illustration of Reiki symbol and its meaning
Chapter 2 – How Reiki Works
Reiki Removes Energy Blockages
Earth Has Electromagnetic Field
Illustration of electrostatic field
Reiki Enhances Medical Treatments
Reiki Energy Affects the Autonomic Nervous System
Reiki Does Not Deplete Our Energy
Reiki Will Flow Even If You Feel Sick
How Reiki Passes from Teacher to Student
How to Tell What a Reiki Attunement Is
Reiki and Angels
How to Prepare for the Reiki I Attunement
What You Can Expect after the Reiki I Attunement
Perfection Is Not Required to Receive Attunements
Chapter 3 – Origins and History of Reiki
Mikao Usui
Japanese Information about Usui
Usui Practices Reiki
The Original Reiki Ideals
Dr. Usui’s Treatment Methods
Dr. Chujiro Hayashi
Hawayo Takata
Takata Plays Leading Role in Bringing Reiki to the West
Takata’s Foundation Treatment
Chapter 4 – Layers of the Aura
Etheric Body
Astral or Emotional Body
Mental Body
Causal Body
Barbara Brennan’s Layers of the Aura
Illustration of Brennan’s Layers of the Aura
Reiki Helps the Aura to Heal
How Energy Flows through Our Body
Hara Line
Illustration of Individuation Point
Conception and Governing Vessels
Illustration of Energy Traveling through Conception and Governing Vessels
Chapter 5 – The Chakras
Root Chakra
Sacral Chakra
Solar Plexus Chakra
Illustration of Belt Flow Exercise
Heart Chakra
Throat Chakra
Brow Chakra
Crown Chakra
Self I-Dentity Ho’oponopono
Chapter 6 – Reiki Hand Positions for Self-Healing
How to Hold Your Hands
The Importance of Being Grounded
What to Do When Reiki Doesn’t Seem to Be Enough
The Reiki Self-Healing Positions
Position 1 –Hands over Eyes
Illustration for Position 1
Position 2 – Hands Cupped at Sides of Brow and up onto Crown
Illustration for Position 2
Position 3 – Hands over Cheeks, Thumbs Just under Ears
Illustration for Position 3
Position 4 – Hands Cup Back of Head
Illustration for Position 4
Illustration for Alternate Position 4
Position 5 – Hands by Throat
Illustration for Position 5
Illustration for Alternate Position 5
Position 6 – Over the Heart
Illustration for Position 6
Illustration for Alternate Position 6
Illustration for Another Alternate Position 6
Position 7 – At Solar Plexus
Illustration for Position 7
Position 8 – Over the Abdomen
Illustration for Position 8
Position 9 – Over the Pubic Bone
Illustration for Position 9
Illustration for Alternate Position 9
Position 10 – Thighs
Illustration for Position 10
Position 11 – Front of the Knees
Illustration for Position 11
Illustration for Alternate Position 11
Illustration for another Alternate Position 11
Position 12 – Back of the Neck
Illustration for Position 12
Position 13 – Over Back of the Heart
Illustration for Position 13
Position 14 – Middle Back (solar plexus)
Illustration for Position 14
Position 15 – Lower Back
Illustration for Position 15
Position 16 – Back of Spine
Illustration for Position 16
Position 17 – Backs of the Knees and Ankles
Illustration for Position 17
Illustration for Alternate Position 17
Illustration for another Alternate Position 17
Position 18 – Bottoms of Feet
Illustration for Position 18
Chapter 7 – Reiki Hand Positions for Healing Others
Switched Energy and Its Effects
Making the Reiki Session Comfortable for the Client
A Cautionary Note
Byosen Scan
Reiki Hand Positions for Healing Others
Position 1 – Hands over Eyes
Illustration for Position 1
Position 2 – Cup Hands at Sides of Brow
Illustration for Position 2
Position 3 – Hands over Cheeks, Thumbs under Ears
Illustration for Position 3
Position 4 – Hands Cup Back of Head
Illustration for Position 4
Position 5 – Hands by Throat
Illustration for Position 5
Position 6 – Over the Heart
Illustration for Position 6
Illustration for Alternate Position 6
Position 7 – At the Solar Plexus Below the Breasts
Illustration for Position 7
Position 8 – Over the Abdomen
Illustration for Position 8
Illustration for Alternate Position 8
Position 9 – Over the Pubic Bone
Illustration for Position 9
Position 10 – Thighs
Illustration for Position 10
Position 11 – The Knees and Ankles
Illustration for Position 11
Illustration for Alternate Position 11
Illustration for another Alternate Pattern 11
Illustration for Crossed Pattern Position 11
Have the Person Turn Over
Position 12 – Back of the Neck
Illustration for Position 12
Position 13 – Back of the Heart
Illustration for Position 13
Position 14 – Middle Back
Illustration for Position 14
Position 15 – Lower Back
Illustration for Position 15
Position 16 – Back of Spine
Illustration for Position 16
Position 17 – Backs of the Knees and Ankles
Illustration for Position 17
Illustration for Alternate Position 17
Illustration for Alternate Position 17
Illustration for Alternate Cross Pattern Position 17
Position 18 – Bottoms of Feet
Illustration for Position 18
Repeat the Byosen Scan
Ending the Session
Chapter 8 – Deciding When or If You’re Ready for the Next Step
Notes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
REIKI I
EXPLORING THE BASICS
By Margaret Cheasebro, PhD
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Reiki 1: Exploring the Basics
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CHAPTER 1
MY INTRODUCTION TO REIKI
I had a vague notion that Reiki was some kind of relaxing technique, but that’s all I knew until I experienced it. My world changed when I stepped through the front door of a single wide mobile home in northwest New Mexico and found myself in a living room that was the work space for a Reiki practitioner.
When my massage therapist suggested I go to this woman, I didn’t realize she was not only a Reiki Master but also a medicine woman, who had discovered her healing abilities as a child. Short in stature with long hair, a smiling face and tattoos on her arm, she welcomed me into her Reiki room. It contained a massage table, feathers, rattles, tuning forks, ear cones, live plants, a water fall, and an assortment of other tools. Without preamble, she told me to lie on the table. I heard rattles, felt feathers and soon fell into a restful state deeper than sleep.
When the session ended, I felt so refreshed that I wanted to experience more. After several treatments, she suggested that I could give Reiki to myself if I received the Reiki I attunement in a special one-on-one ceremony.
Because I loved the way Reiki made me feel, I agreed to move forward even though I wasn’t sure what an attunement was. She told me to read Essential Reiki: A Complete Guide to an Ancient Healing Art by Diane Stein. I bought the book, and read it as well as Reiki, the Healing Touch: First and Second Degree Manual by William Lee Rand. Armed with a better understand of what I was getting into, I called her to schedule the attunement.
The ceremony took less than half an hour. I sat on a piano stool with my eyes closed and followed her directions as she moved around me, drawing symbols in my hands and doing something above my head and down my back. When the ceremony ended, I began to cry. Something had opened and expanded in me.
This is not new to you,
she said. You have been a Reiki healer before. Your guides are so happy you have chosen this pathway again.
For about a week after the attunement, my body buzzed with so much energy I felt like
I’d stuck my finger in a light socket. I discovered that touching trees helped ease the overcharged energy. Trees willingly took some of it from me.
I gave myself Reiki every day for a month and a half before I scheduled a Reiki II attunement, which took me deeper into the healing method. I began to practice on friends, and their responses increased my confidence. They told me that they found relief from pain or discovered better ways to handle personal relationships and challenging events. Many of them told me that my hands felt hot when I touched them.
I wanted to learn more so I could teach Reiki and practice it on an even deeper level. Six months later, I received the Reiki Master attunement from the medicine woman. Her method didn’t include much teaching, so I read everything I could about Reiki.
For a year and a half I gave free Reiki sessions at a local community college to introduce Reiki to others and to give myself practice. Then I began working with other professionals at a local alternative healing clinic.
A year after receiving my Reiki Master attunement, I taught Reiki to three other people