From: "Steven Buck, CMT" Newsgroups: alt.healing.reiki Subject: Sensing Ki Organization: http://www.metareiki.org Reply-To: metareiki@hotmail.comNOSPAM Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 98 NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.116.151.230 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr25.news.prodigy.com 1062436851 ST000 67.116.151.230 (Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:20:51 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:20:51 EDT X-UserInfo1: O@YCR^_EFRWSP_@YMZJ\_Q\@TJ_ZTB\MV@BJ]Q]KEYUNDQUCCNSUAACY@L[ZX__HGFD]JBJNSFXTOOGA_VWY^_HG@FW_HUTHOH]TBPGCO\P^PLP^@[GLHUK@WLECKFVL^TYG[@RMWQXIWM[SDDYWNLG_G[_BWUCHFY_Y@AS@Q[B\APPF@DCZM_PG_VSCPQZM Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 17:20:51 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff2.ethz.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.imp.ch!news.imp.ch!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr25.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!9eb22389!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.healing.reiki:8575 This is for the newcommers: Being able to sense your own Ki is one of the first steps you can take to discover your own abilitites. Begin by finding a location where you can be relaxed, calm, comfortable, and free of distractions. The temperature of the room should be moderate, not too cold, not too hot. It's best for this brief exercise if there is no strong draft in the room, so it might be best to make sure windows and doors are closed. The exercise only takes a moment. You may wish to light a candle or dim the lights in the room to help reduce distractions. Sit into a chair with your back upright and in a good, comfortable position. Having your spine upright will help align the energy-flow so that it flows through with more power, making it easier for you to sense. Simply relax, and be aware of your body. Allow your hands to rest comfortably onto your lap in whatever position is most comfortable. Relax your body, relax your mind. Breath naturally. Slowly raise your hands so they are at a comfortable and natural distance in front of you, as if you are holding a small globe a foot or so in front of your heart. The distance can vary depending on the length of your arms, and natural bend of your elbows. Position your hands so they are in "prayer" position, fingers pointing upright and palms together. Allow your elbows to bend so that this prayer position is at a comfortable distance in front of your torso. Be relaxed, breathe normal. Keeping one hand in place, fingers pointing upright and palm facing the other hand, position the other hand so that it's fingers point directly at the center of the palm positioned upright. Your fingers should be about 6 to 8 inches from the palm. Notice how that feels. Notice the temperature of your hands. Notice any hot or cold spots around your hands. Do you feel the air inbetween your hands? Is it hot or cold? Can you feel a breeze? Right now, just notice everything physical you can about your hands in that position. Now, keeping the upright hand in place, noticing any pressure or heat on the palm, slowly raise the pointing hand to just a few inches above the fingertips. Move slowly while you do this, and simply observe what you feel. Did you feel heat moving upwards? Was it cold? Was it a breeze? Perhaps it felt like broken glass was being thrust through your upright palm. Perhaps it was static electricity. Not sure if you felt anything? Slowly lower your hand so it travels all the way down the palm, to the wrist. Did you feel anything? Do it again. Raise your one hand upwards just above the fingertips. The most difficult part of this exercise is figuring out HOW you sense your own Ki. Everybody is different. Not everyone will sense it in the same way. Change hands. Point the other fingers at the other hand. Repeat the process - repeat the questioning! It's okay if you don't feel anything right away - it can take some people weeks before they begin to realize what it is they are sensing... after all, it might not be a "feeling" but rather a sound or even smell! It all depends on you. Once you are comfortable with this exercise, involve a friend. Sit or stand in front of each other, and take turns pointing at each others palm. Use both hands, move slowly, and simply observe. Most of us are accustomed to seeing only what we want to see. It's simply more comfortable to live that way, and certainly much easier. However, there is only so much of this awareness a person can suppress. Suppressing this level of awareness can lead to harmful side effects in your life... and unfortunately I'm speaking from personal experience. However, with your patience, this new awareness can lead to an immensely more beautiful and enriched life, allowing you to live more comfortable and even helps others enrich their lives. Images at: www.metareiki.org/chi ###### From: Theo Newsgroups: alt.healing.reiki Subject: Re: Sensing Ki Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 23:05:52 +0200 Organization: [Posted via] Inter.net Germany GmbH Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: byjoke@ch.inter.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.eusc.inter.net 1062450335 15311 212.59.174.69 (1 Sep 2003 21:05:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@eusc.inter.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, it In-Reply-To: Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff2.ethz.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!takemy.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!feed.news.nacamar.de!eusc.inter.net!news.eusc.inter.net!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.healing.reiki:8573 HI Steve you rise a point about something I wanted to ask here in the forum since few weeks Lately I noticed that: ending my Hatsurei -ho routine I join both hands on my chest like for praying as you described , than I lift both hands joined vertically until the two thumbs reach the center of the forhead ebove my eybrows , and every time i feel a strong electric sensation like a bite not on the palm but on both backs of teh two hands , opposite the center of the palm corresponding to the tendon of the middle finger on the top of the hand it is just as an electric chock as we feel sometimes in the elbow when we reach a sensitive nerve or give a bump ,it is not as unpleasant as but far to strong to be *an impression".. Just wanted to report it in case someone else feels the same and could supply some feed back about Thanks Theo Steven Buck, CMT wrote: > This is for the newcommers: > > Being able to sense your own Ki is one of the first steps you can take > to discover your own abilitites. Snip > Images at: www.metareiki.org/chi > ###### From: "Steven Buck, CMT" Newsgroups: alt.healing.reiki Subject: Re: Sensing Ki Organization: http://www.metareiki.org Reply-To: metareiki@hotmail.comNOSPAM Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 126 NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.116.151.230 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr27.news.prodigy.com 1062516136 ST000 67.116.151.230 (Tue, 02 Sep 2003 11:22:16 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 11:22:16 EDT X-UserInfo1: SCSYASBE]JV_R_PYN[O@_WH@YR_B@EXLLBWLOOAFWIWTEPIB_NVUAH_[BL[\IRKIANGGJBFNJF_DOLSCENSY^U@FRFUEXR@KFXYDBPWBCDQJA@X_DCBHXR[C@\EOKCJLED_SZ@RMWYXYWE_P@\\GOIW^@SYFFSWHFIXMADO@^[ADPRPETLBJ]RDGENSKQQZN Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 15:22:16 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff2.ethz.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr27.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!9eb22389!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.healing.reiki:8608 Hi Theo. http://www.metareiki.org/hot-hands/ Your question has been given to me several times in the past and I'm finally creating a formal response. The above link and below text is the first draft. Although it is not HSH specific, the concept is the same. ===== It's not unusual to experience physical sensations during a Reiki Treatment or meditation. What you feel will be unique, and the way you sense this new activity will most likely be in the safest way for you to consciously understand it. Do not expect everyone to perceive these sensations in exaclty the same way as you; their manifestations are determined by a variety of circumstances, largely based on personal experience. What is comfortable for you may not be comfortable for someone else, and to complicate things you may sense a tingly electrical sensation while someone else has the feeling water is flowing through his hands. The most common sensation a Reiki Channel or patient experiences is Hot Hands. The hands of the Reiki Channel become noticably hotter when placed on the patient, and even long after the session is complete. Exactly why no one knows, and the best thing we can do at this time is to simply offer theories. One such theory is that our being is made up of a vibrational energy field of intersecting lines (or waves) of force. Each intersection point is commonly called a Chakra in the West, and a Tsubo in the East. Acupuncture concerns itself with the finer (smaller) intersectng points and is very specific (afterall, it's only a needle that stimulates the point). The Western approach is more generalized in that it focuses on larger areas of the intersecting points (the chakras). Regardless of which system is used, each intersecting area represents an energy center. There are multitudes within our physical body, and external to it as well. Throughout the course of our existential evolution (physical and spiritual), these centers accumulate "garbage". That garbage is usually some sort of personal issue that was left unresolved or simply not dealt with in a healthy way. Perhaps in our current incarnation we had a powerful argument with a loved one resulting in pain, serious loss and emotional trauma... this could create some "garbage" that accumilates in some of those centers. Perhaps in a previous incarnation we were physically tortured at the hands of the Catholic Church or for disobeying an Emperor. This too could result in "garbage" being stored within these centers. However you want to look at it, these energy centers accumulate "stuff" that is not healthy in our present day lives. The process of Reiki gradually cleans out all of those energy centers, not only to the channel but the patient as well. Even to a lesser degree those in the immediate area. Chances are if you are channeling Reiki in a hospital, people who are in the neighboring rooms (above, below, and to the side of you) are receiving a Reiki treatment as well. As the centers are cleaned out by the Reiki process, we tend to become more aware of them. Based on the feedback I have been given it usually manifests as extreme heat combined with a vibration. It's common for it to begin in the hands and head. In time, it expands to other random and isolated areas of the body, eventually expanding beyond the body. The first part of this process is becoming aware these various centers exist; the next is the awareness that there is a transmission or movement of energy; the next that there is a lot you simply don't understand and it's not just fanciful imagination; the next is that it keeps happening and seems to be growing... all because it is. The key word is "growing," because that's what's happening. As the centers are cleaned out, they can function with increased efficiency and expand in vibrational rate. The various symptoms are simply a means for the conscious mind to understand this additional awareness of reality. ===== On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 23:05:52 +0200, Theo wrote: > > >HI Steve > you rise a point about something I wanted to ask here in the forum >since few weeks > > Lately I noticed that: ending my Hatsurei -ho routine I join both > hands on my chest like for praying as you described , than I lift >both hands joined vertically until the two thumbs reach the center >of the forhead ebove my eybrows , and every time i feel a strong >electric sensation like a bite not on the palm but on both backs of >teh two hands , opposite the center of the palm corresponding to the >tendon of the middle finger on the top of the hand it is just as an >electric chock as we feel sometimes in the elbow when we reach a >sensitive nerve or give a bump ,it is not as unpleasant as but far to >strong to be *an impression".. > Just wanted to report it in case someone else feels the same and >could supply some feed back about > Thanks > Theo > >Steven Buck, CMT wrote: > > > This is for the newcommers: > > > > Being able to sense your own Ki is one of the first steps you can take > > to discover your own abilitites. > > Snip > > > Images at: www.metareiki.org/chi > > Steven Buck, CMT San Francisco, CA http://www.metareiki.org ###### From: Theo Newsgroups: alt.healing.reiki Subject: Re: Sensing Ki Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 21:52:12 +0200 Organization: [Posted via] Inter.net Germany GmbH Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: byjoke@ch.inter.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.eusc.inter.net 1062532311 13566 212.59.174.34 (2 Sep 2003 19:51:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@eusc.inter.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, it In-Reply-To: Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff2.ethz.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!feed.news.nacamar.de!eusc.inter.net!news.eusc.inter.net!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.healing.reiki:8614 Hi Steve Thanks for your answer I will keep this answer aside as deserves some reflection more than a simple reading .. I went in your site well the first smallest circle above the back of your hand in the picture is exactly the spot where I feel *the electric bite* and it is only after hatsurei -Ho the longer the exercises routine has been, the stronger the sensation .. If I put my hands palm joined in front of my forehead without doing Reiki , any time during teh day I feel no sensation at all .. thanks again for your feed back Theo Steven Buck, CMT wrote: > Hi Theo. > > http://www.metareiki.org/hot-hands/ > > Your question has been given to me several times in the past and I'm > finally creating a formal response. The above link and below text is > the first draft. Although it is not HSH specific, the concept is the > same. >//www.metareiki.org ###### From: "Steven Buck, CMT" Newsgroups: alt.healing.reiki Subject: Re: Sensing Ki Organization: http://www.metareiki.org Reply-To: metareiki@hotmail.comNOSPAM Message-ID: <4gt9lvgdte314icds87ccisbbaeeon0v75@4ax.com> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 61 NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.116.151.230 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr27.news.prodigy.com 1062533541 ST000 67.116.151.230 (Tue, 02 Sep 2003 16:12:21 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 16:12:21 EDT X-UserInfo1: FKPO@MC@@S@QBRLYHZOHOFXBWR\HPCTL@XT^OBPLAH[\BQUBLNTC@AWZWDXZXQ[K\FFSKCVM@F_N_DOBWVWG__LG@VVOIPLIGX\\BU_B@\P\PFX\B[APHTWAHDCKJF^NHD[YJAZMCY_CWG[SX\Y]^KC\HSZRWSWKGAY_PC[BQ[BXAS\F\\@DMTLFZFUE@\VL Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 20:12:21 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff2.ethz.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.imp.ch!news.imp.ch!zen.net.uk!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr27.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!9eb22389!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.healing.reiki:8626 Hi Theo. That area on the palm is one of the principal areas where the energy is transmitted. It is a "Chakra," and contains many acupunture points ("tsubo's"). That area of your palm is being used more than it has been in the past due to your Reiki meditations and healings, so the activity there is more noticeable. When you place your hands next to your forehead, images you have seen of others doing the same act in other religious contexts puts your immediate conscious mind in a state more receptive to higher spiritual energies. When you put your hands next to your forehead, your local conscious mind also makes a subtle connection with your spiritual ancestors (your past lives). Having lived so many lives in the temples you have lived and practiced in, the spiritual transmissions (and understandings and awakenings) you experienced then are given the opportunity to flow through to your current (and local) conscious mind. I hope this feedback is somewhat helpful or useful to you... of course, I could be completely wrong about all of this. I've seen you in that Turban and it makes me wonder.... On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 21:52:12 +0200, Theo wrote: >Hi Steve >Thanks for your answer I will keep this answer aside as deserves some > reflection more than a simple reading .. I went in your site > well the first smallest circle above the back of your hand in the >picture is exactly the spot where I feel *the electric bite* > and it is only after hatsurei -Ho the longer the exercises routine >has been, the stronger the sensation .. If I put my hands palm joined >in front of my forehead without doing Reiki , any time during teh day I >feel no sensation at all .. > thanks again for your feed back > Theo > >Steven Buck, CMT wrote: > >> Hi Theo. >> >> http://www.metareiki.org/hot-hands/ >> >> Your question has been given to me several times in the past and I'm >> finally creating a formal response. The above link and below text is >> the first draft. Although it is not HSH specific, the concept is the >> same. >>//www.metareiki.org > Steven Buck, CMT San Francisco, CA http://www.metareiki.org ###### From: Theo Newsgroups: alt.healing.reiki Subject: Re: Sensing Ki Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 22:27:27 +0200 Organization: [Posted via] Inter.net Germany GmbH Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <4gt9lvgdte314icds87ccisbbaeeon0v75@4ax.com> Reply-To: byjoke@ch.inter.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.eusc.inter.net 1062534425 14113 212.59.174.187 (2 Sep 2003 20:27:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@eusc.inter.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, it In-Reply-To: <4gt9lvgdte314icds87ccisbbaeeon0v75@4ax.com> Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff2.ethz.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!eusc.inter.net!news.eusc.inter.net!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.healing.reiki:8613 HI Steve Steven Buck, CMT wrote: > That area on the palm is one of the principal areas where the energy > is transmitted. It is a "Chakra," and contains many acupunture points > ("tsubo's"). I know > That area of your palm is being used more than it has been in the past > due to your Reiki meditations and healings, so the activity there is > more noticeable. > When you place your hands next to your forehead, images you have seen > of others doing the same act in other religious contexts puts your > immediate conscious mind in a state more receptive to higher spiritual > energies. most probably 99 % true > I hope this feedback is somewhat helpful or useful to you... of > course, I could be completely wrong about all of this. I've seen you > in that Turban and it makes me wonder.... Yes the feed back is absolutely interesting and makes sense .. The turban was just a bath towel and the diamonds a fake diamond 1930 metal buckle beltbut impressive ..... the picture was too bad to ###### From: peterz@magma.ca (Peterz) Newsgroups: alt.healing.reiki Subject: Re: Sensing Ki Date: 9 Sep 2003 09:29:35 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4ef40597.0309090829.37fa2b5c@posting.google.com> References: <4gt9lvgdte314icds87ccisbbaeeon0v75@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.217.79.194 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1063124977 25637 127.0.0.1 (9 Sep 2003 16:29:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Sep 2003 16:29:37 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff2.ethz.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.imp.ch!news.imp.ch!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-08!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.healing.reiki:8724 Hi guys. I find that the sense of heat is really in the recipient. I don't feel heat unless it is "radiated" or "reflected" from the recipient. I perceive it when receiving Reiki (though I find that this depends on the practitioner to some extent, though I do not know why.) I am not sure that our body knows how to signal our brain in a unique way for everything that goes on. Intuitively, I think that there are a few possilbe signals like heat, cold (absence of heat), pain, and pressure below pain threshold. But that there is no unique signal for "incoming energy" other than "heat" (which is in fact incoming energy...) So we perceive the Reiki in the same way as incoming heat, though my hands never feel warm to me internally or superficially. Cheers, Peter All this nothing takes a lot of practice. And what do you have at the end? Bupkes. ###### From: "Shaun Rimmer" Newsgroups: alt.healing.reiki Subject: Re: Sensing Ki Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:11:03 +0100 Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <4gt9lvgdte314icds87ccisbbaeeon0v75@4ax.com> <4ef40597.0309090829.37fa2b5c@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: host81-152-105-76.range81-152.btcentralplus.com (81.152.105.76) X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1063267704 22266957 81.152.105.76 (16 [170198]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Path: redlance.franklin.ch!pfaff2.ethz.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.imp.ch!news.imp.ch!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!host81-152-105-76.range81-152.btcentralplus.COM!not-for-mail Xref: redlance.franklin.ch alt.healing.reiki:8783 Peterz wrote in message news:4ef40597.0309090829.37fa2b5c@posting.google.com... > Hi guys. > > I find that the sense of heat is really in the recipient. I don't feel > heat unless it is "radiated" or "reflected" from the recipient. I > perceive it when receiving Reiki (though I find that this depends on > the practitioner to some extent, though I do not know why.) > > I am not sure that our body knows how to signal our brain in a unique > way for everything that goes on. Intuitively, I think that there are a > few possilbe signals like heat, cold (absence of heat), pain, and > pressure below pain threshold. But that there is no unique signal for > "incoming energy" other than "heat" (which is in fact incoming > energy...) So we perceive the Reiki in the same way as incoming heat, > though my hands never feel warm to me internally or superficially. > > > Cheers, > > Peter Something that's been on my mind - I suffer the occasional migraine type thingies. While sat with my head on Kath's shoulder recently while having a bit of one of said 'thingies', she sent me a little reiki, without saying a word. I asked afterwards if she had, because I seemed to 'know'. She said yes, she had, and that I'd raised my head just after she'd finished. The same week, I had a sort of dream (I was asleep, but slightly wakeful in bed) that I was laid next to Kath, and she'd sent me reiki (no physical contact). I mentioned this, and she again said she had, that she'd asked for it for me. Take what conclusion(s) you will from this. Cheers! Shaun aRe