New Age Health Care - Way of Life Literature

“Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction
and relaxation that also promotes healing. ... Reiki is
a simple, natural and safe method of spiritual
healing and self-improvement that everyone can
use. It has been effective in helping virtually every
known illness and malady and always creates a
beneficial effect.”
That sounds harmless enough, doesn’t it?
Reiki has three levels or degrees of initiation, the third
level being the master level. The degrees are called
“attunements” whereby the student is brought into
harmony with the reiki energy and taught how to channel
it. The initiations are thought to create channels for the
flow of Reiki. Paula Horan says, “Through this channel
Reiki then flows in through the top of the student’s head,
down through the body and out through the
hands” (Abundance through Reiki, p. 18).
Reiki masters initiate people into the various levels.
Reiki is transferred or initiated by the laying on of hands.
The Reiki manual is subtitled “The healing touch.” The
Reiki practitioner places his hands on the same spot of
the body for three minutes at a time, and the energy is
supposed to be mystically drawn out by the recipient.
Horan says, “... if I lay my hands on you to do a
treatment, your body will naturally draw the appropriate
amounts of energy it needs, and to the proper places” (p.
20).
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