At the heart of the Sacred Transformations® energy healing program and services, Five Element Reiki™ is unique in that it emphasizes and honors the true origins of Reiki, which are derived from Taoist shamanic and Buddhist traditions based on true meaning of Reiki. symbols Both traditions recognize the importance of balancing the five elements in our being and in nature. When the elements are in balance, it is believed that we experience good health and harmony. The meaning of the Reiki symbols further supports this belief and is used to promote the balance of the five elements.
Shamans traditionally perceive the five elements as five living spirits. You see that these five spirits reside in our primary organs. They affect our health, our emotions, our ability to have successful relationships and financial strength, as well as the state of our living environment. As more healing methods seek to remove the spirit to fit the Western medical model, Five Element Reiki™ practitioners uphold and honor the ancient ways by connecting these five spirits with shamanic techniques and the healing energy of Reiki speaks to and heals them. .
Why is it important to teach the five elements and how does this apply to Reiki?
The Five Element Theory was developed over 5,000 years ago through in-depth observations of how our energy patterns move in relation to our health, emotions, seasons, and our environment. When energetic imbalances occur, it can create discord in our environment, leading to illness, mood disorders, and even unhappiness on an individual level. Together, our imbalances create environmental conditions like floods, earthquakes, fires, wars, and famines.
Reiki is a form of energy healing that works very well with the teachings of the five elements, as its gentle and peaceful energy can help to rebalance the elemental energies. The second Reiki symbol in particular helps to balance the five elements. This helps sentient beings to restore their vitality and bring balance back to their lives.
By recognizing how elemental spirits are stored in and moving through our bodies, along with infusing energies to promote elemental balance, Five Element Reiki™ creates a powerful modality that is truly a mind-body-spirit healing approach. .
What is the difference between Five Elements Reiki™ and traditional Reiki?
Although Traditional Reiki™ and Five Element Reiki use the same symbols, there are several areas in which Five Element Reiki differs from Traditional Reiki. That includes:
1. The basis for Five Element Reiki™ healing is based on the origins and meaning of the symbols, not Reiki history.
Many teachers traditionally emphasize teaching a history of Reiki in relation to the original three main teachers in their approach. Traditional Reiki practitioners look to history as a source for understanding Reiki as a healing technique. The difficulty here is that the origins of Reiki taught by Mikao Usui, the "Founder of Reiki", was taught very differently from the third main teacher, Madame Takata, who brought Reiki to the West from Japan. Madame Takata admitted to changing the way she practiced Reiki from the way Dr. Hayashi, Mikao Usui's protégé and student for nine months, did.
Dr. Hayashi also changed the way he practiced Mikao Usui's Reiki. While Mikao Usui's teachings were based on spirituality, Dr. Hayashi adapted his Reiki teachings to make them more medically focused, first incorporating Amna's acupressure techniques to treat a variety of ailments. Finally, Dr. Hayashi's teachings for a freer approach.
Since I started learning Reiki in the 1990s, I have seen the history of Reiki continue to change over time. This mainly has to do with language and cultural barriers, as well as some teachers' personal beliefs and interpretations, rather than facts.
For example, some Reiki masters initially claimed that Mikao Usui was a Christian and that Reiki came from Christianity. Some say that he tried unsuccessfully to find this healing energy in Christian literature and only later continued to search for it in ancient Buddhist texts. Some claim that the symbols were preserved by highly-skilled Tibetan Buddhist monks and that they were only accessible to the elite.
In fact, Mikao Usui was a lay Buddhist monk from Tendai, and two of the three symbols were available to all practicing Buddhists and Taoists. Having a discussion about Christianity rather than its healing properties seems to be an attempt by Reiki Masters to come to some form of acceptance of Eastern cultural teachings and energies to incorporate into their own Western cultural education.
At the other end of the spectrum, some Reiki groups claim that they are the "right" or "best" Reiki group based on their ability to trace a lineage of masters who have passed down Reiki attunements. Others claim that his practice is the only correct one because it is based on the use of Japanese terminology and practices.
As Reiki claims to be universal life force energy, it should remain universal and not come to the fore in conversations about different religious belief systems, who gave what attunements to whom, or cultural practices that do not conform to our Western upbringing.
While many Reiki practitioners to this day remain divided on the historical information related to the "Three Guides to Reiki", Five Element Reiki™ moves away from this topic and focuses on the relevance, origin and meaning of the Reiki Reiki symbols. Although Five Element Reiki™ practitioners work with the same symbols, this information is not mere intellectual discourse, but uses the deeper meaning of the symbols to guide you in your healing work. In short, the elements are indeed universal and the focus is on balancing them.
2. Five Element Reiki™ practitioners recognize that elemental energy manifests specific conditions and moves in set patterns.
Understanding these symbols formulates our belief and understanding that we are made of elements and that the elements correspond to specific movements of energy, emotions, health, and our environment. This is one of the biggest differences from traditional Reiki, as traditional Reiki practitioners are often taught that energy simply flows where it is needed.
Five Element Reiki™ practitioners have training and knowledge about Energy Speech before beginning to work with a client. This allows for more than the application of theory and skills. The training enhances the physician's ability to assess the client's condition in a professional and detailed manner. It also allows them to formulate an effective treatment plan that the doctor and client will understand. With this knowledge, the doctor can administer treatments with confidence instead of doubting whether the cure was effective or not.
Five Element Reiki™ can be viewed in a similar way to acupuncture treatments in that they use the same theory as the basis for energy healing work.
3. Five Elements Reiki practitioners work from a shamanic perspective, honoring universal life energy as living spiritual beings.
Traditional Reiki practitioners refer to the ability to heal as a conduit for channeling "universal life force energy." This term is vague and some tend to interpret it to mean that practitioners touch an inanimate object to aid in healing.
As Five Element Reiki™ practitioners work from a shamanic perspective, we recognize that we are connecting with living higher spiritual beings who assist us in our healing practices. In shamanism, these Reiki Helping Spirits are said to come from the higher worlds. This principle can be identified in the first Reiki symbol, which has a Taoist origin and is called Wu Time. Wu defines himself as a shaman. Five Element Reiki™ practitioners believe that this symbol is an energetic pattern that connects us here on Earth with higher beings at the point of the Big Dipper. The Big Dipper is considered by the Taoist belief system as the gateway to heaven.
This is important for several reasons: Many Reiki healers do not understand that once their own spiritual energy is activated, they have the ability to more easily connect with higher beings. This spiritual energy is often called Kundalini energy in Eastern traditions. It normally remains coiled until the Reiki Master activates the energy. From there, this energy goes up the spine and gradually opens the different chakras while purifying the different energy bodies of our being.
Due to this lack of understanding, many Reiki practitioners have been led to believe that they need many "levels" of attunement, or more and more symbols to work with, rather than removing their own obstacles to connecting with higher beings. The more a practitioner focuses on clearing his energy fields and karmic obstacles, the stronger his psychic abilities and healing energy become.
Because students are led to believe that they need more symbols to do a better job, they are rarely taught how to effectively move energy into their clients' bodies. Many mistakenly believe that they will somehow magically become a Reiki Master simply by receiving a "master" symbol. Ironically, many do not understand that the Master Symbol was infused into them during their first Reiki attunement.
Realizing that Reiki works with the living spirit, Five Element Reiki™ practitioners develop a bond with these healing spirits rather than continue to seek multiple Reiki attunements and multiple symbols. They look for ways to honor these spirits that help them heal their clients. They also strive to honor the interconnectedness of all sentient beings who live virtuous lives. We see healing work as a partnership between the spirit and the practitioner. This means that the practitioner is an active participant in the healing work and not just a mere vehicle for an unseen source to do something should something go wrong.
4. Five Element Reiki™ practitioners believe that the post-attunement purification process is an ongoing process of karmic purification that ultimately leads to enlightenment.
Traditional Reiki practitioners have been taught that after "attuning to the Reiki energy" they will undergo a 21-day purification process. There is no evidence that the purification process lasts 21 days. Five Element Reiki™ practitioners believe that the attunement is an initiation to begin the removal of karma that ultimately leads to enlightenment. This process is a gradual, spiraling journey that works in unison with the student's willingness to understand deeper wisdom and develop greater compassion, the two essential factors necessary to achieve enlightenment. Therefore, the purification process is seen as a never-ending journey towards enlightenment.
The key to understanding this process is that it affects not only the physical body, but also the emotional and spiritual body. This principle resides in the second Reiki symbol, known in Buddhist traditions as "hrih" (shree), as it is believed to promote a gradual unfolding of the chakra petals.
5. Five Element Reiki™ practitioners recognize the importance of living and working clean in environments conducive to healing.
Traditional Reiki practitioners believe that because they are just a channel of energy, anyone can be treated anywhere by anyone, regardless of their own health and emotional well-being. Five Element Reiki™ practitioners understand that we do not have a single human body, but are made up of multiple energy bodies that affect our health and well-being, as well as those with whom we are connected, especially when we are others. humans treat.
This is very important to the healing process of others. Although Reiki can be channeled, the energy field of the other affects both the practitioner and the client. If the Reiki healer is regularly taking recreational drugs or narcotics for pain, or is suffering from a serious illness such as cancer, then the practitioner will be in a low frequency energy state. This will affect the Client's Energy Field causing it to be degraded by the Practitioner due to the low frequency state. For this reason, Five Element Reiki™ practitioners recognize the importance of ongoing spiritual practice. Practitioners strive for a clean lifestyle that consists of not only good nutrition but also living with integrity, virtue, and peace.
6. Five Element Reiki™ healing sessions are goal oriented
Although traditional Reiki is not classified as a massage, many traditional practitioners advertise it in a way that suggests it is a massage treatment. Some practitioners even explicitly advertise their services as "Reiki massage."
Traditional Reiki practitioners treat it in a variety of ways that have not been clearly defined by the Reiki community. Because many traditional doctors only charge for services by the hour, many fail to properly assess the needs of their clients, in turn operating under the belief that energy simply goes where it is needed.
Five Element Reiki™ assumes that most health problems have emotional and spiritual causes that are reflected in elemental imbalances. For this reason, we assess clients to identify elemental imbalances and formulate an energy healing treatment plan based on that assessment. Each week, we monitor our clients' progress toward their goals and guide them on how to overcome obstacles to regain health and balance in their lives.
How is Five Element Reiki™ different from acupuncture?
It differs from acupuncture in that the practitioner does not need to work with needles. This allows practitioners to work on areas where needling would be painful, such as: B. on the soles of the feet or the palms of the hands. Experienced Five Element Reiki™ practitioners can also identify disharmony in the multiple energy fields of their clients' bodies, as well as deep within their physical organs. This is accomplished through the practitioner's ability to sense the state of their client's various energy fields.
Acupuncturists are becoming more popular and are increasingly looking for ways to better integrate into Western medical practice. Reviews are increasingly focusing on symptom control, as evidenced by the growing practice of "community acupuncture centers," or physician's offices, using multiple treatment rooms to perform treatments for multiple clients at the same time. Unfortunately, work on the spiritual plane is minimized in this type of work environment. Also, many acupuncturists today view the five elementals more philosophically than spirit. This can result in treatments focused more on symptom control than on deep spiritual healing as originally intended.
Five Element Reiki™ practitioners spend a lot of time working with clients. Treatment sessions typically last 2 hours and the physician is fully present with the client throughout the session. As mentioned above, these sessions involve the evaluation of the client's medical history, physical and emotional problems. Practitioners move energy in the right way while making contact with one or more of the five elementals to understand the deeper causes of a client's state of being.