Reiki - from emotional healing to selling your house!

As a seasoned reiki practitioner, this gentle form of healing never fails to amaze me in how it can deal with a multitude of problems from emotional problems to common physical ailments. Reiki since its arrival from Japan has become a popular therapy in the Western world, with more NHS trusts starting to include reiki as an alternative form of therapy alongside acupuncture and reflexology.

Reiki as a form of healing energy has always existed since the beginning of time but was discovered by a Japanese monk named Mikao Usui in the 1800s who went on a 21 day retreat to Mount Karuna, Japan. During Usui's visit to the mountains, the magical symbols were revealed to him that we now know as the reiki master symbol, power symbol, distance symbol and mental/emotional symbol. Usui is said to have cut his knee whilst climbing one of the mountains and used the healing energy on the wound which miraculously healed. As to whether the cut really did heal, does it really matter? No, not really but its a good story, not that different to a biblical tale!

When I heard this story I was somewhat skeptical until I was attuned to the energy myself. I wanted proof this therapy really did work! Attunements to reiki energy involve being attuned by a reiki master who will imprint the symbols on to your nervous system allowing the energy to flow through you. Once attuned I immediately felt different,all of a sudden, I had this tingling sensation flowing through my fingertips as if everything I touched had a surge of energy running through it. It was a strange sensation and I really felt like I had received a mental and emotional spring clean! That was several years ago and since then, I have used reiki on many different occasions from healing my pet dog, helping members of my family, friends and clients with their arthiritis and emotional problems to perhaps the most bizzarre of all,  moving house! I used my distance symbol to help the sale of my then property in Birmingham and the purchase of my new home in Yorkshire. At the time my property just was not shifting I had received several viewings but no buyers until I eventually I did get a buyer, they were originally putting in very silly offers that were no were near the asking price. I also had troublesome neighbours and the whole area had deteriorated with the arrival of problem families, drug dealing and a rise in crime. Not a great area to have to sell a property in! I used my reiki symbols night after night and fortold my property would sell and we would move into our new house on 8 July. My prophecy ended up being out by a day as we moved into our new home on 7 July and got the asking price we wanted which was incidently bought by the same family who had earlier gone in way below the asking price! Move over Phil and Kirsty!

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