Let us discuss some misconceptions in Reiki and in energy healing in general...
Misconception: When you are doing Reiki you must place your hands on the person’s body and can not break the energy connection so if you are going to move positions of your hand(s) you need to keep one hand on the body at all times.
Busted: Science has proven that everything and everyone is energy. We are all connected with this energy, we are all one, so how are you breaking contact with something you are a part of? Why would you have to place your hands on the body to make that connection, we are connected. When I learned Reiki I was taught that you had to place the hands on the body and never break that connection. When I closed my eyes and just concentrated on providing the person with Reiki energy, my hands immediately came off the body and I could feel the energy and what was going on. I urge of you to use your intuition and see what feels right for you. Not what someone has told you, or something you have read that tells you how to do it. To this day, when I am doing a session, my hands are above the body and if the energy is really stuck, that is about the only time my hands are right on the body and once the energy starts moving my hands raise above again. I know many healers who place their hands right on the body and many who do not. Whichever way you are more comfortable with is the way you should do it. Remember, you can not break a connection with something you are already a part of. When you do what feels right to you, it builds a stronger connection with your body and your intuition so listen to your body and do what feels right to, and for, you.
Misconception: When you are working on someone you get drained because they take so much of your energy.
Busted: First of all, you are merely a facilitator of the energy. You do not give your energy directly. You are providing that person the energy that comes in from the Divine. Divine = God, Life, Universe, or any number of terms for that collective higher power you choose. I see it as two tubes of energy, one for you and one for the other person. Secondly, you always bring people into your life, whether it be in healing, or in your daily life, that reflect a variety of things in you. So as this person is healing, you too are healing that common thread you both share. If you feel drained it is because of your own energy healing you are receiving or have received. The body repairs itself as you sleep and the body may just be calling out for sleep because it needs to repair. Listen to your body and recognize what it is telling you. The best thing you can do for you is to own 100% of your creation (your life). When you do that, you will heal so much faster than ever before. Recognize everyone you come in contact with as a version of you. You all hold a common thread or they would not have come in to your life. If they drive you crazy or you see something in them you do not like, heal yourself because it is within you not them.
Misconception: You take on the person’s pain.
Busted: We are all one, we are connected through energy and love. As difficult as this may be to hear or take in sometimes, You create everyone and everything in your life. You brought this person to you, and this person brought you to them, so you may now both clear a common limitation in your bodies. If you have a pain in your body while doing a session on someone or after a session with someone, and it is similar to what they were telling you about - it is yours not theirs. They may no longer have the pain because they let it go. You may be hanging on to yours because either you are not taking responsibility for it being yours so your body can not let it go or your body doesn't know you want to let it go. In many cases, we are holding something in our system that we have held for so long that the body thinks it is keeping you safe by holding onto it. It looks for direction from you to let it go. Many things are held in the cellular memories and we don't even know what they are. So all you have to do is own it and direct the body as to what to do with it. So you can say or think something like "release and let go" or a more lengthy one could be "We are all that is and I now infuse all cellular memories and all that I am with unconditional love and appreciation as I move forward and become my true peace, my true calm, my true love, my true self. Thank you it is done." When you are saying "we" in that statement, you are referring to each piece of you.
Misconception: All the energy that has been cleared from a person you are, or were, working on is now hanging around the room as a negative energy.
Busted: Everything is unconditional love and perfect within All That Is and within us. We judge what we are and have created in our experiences as other than perfect. When we do this, we create a separation within our energy fields and the human body reacts to this separation through a variety of ways ranging from blocks and limitations in our life to sickness. So as you are assisting someone healing those energetic blocks they are releasing what they, and in many cases, we, have judged as "negative" or other than perfect. The minute it leaves the human body, it turns back into unconditional love and can not hang around the room as something it is not - fear and limitation. It started as love and perfect, we judged it and made it something else within ourselves so how, when we release our judgment of it can it be anything other than what it really is - love and perfect? As I am working with someone and I see things leaving their body, the second it leaves the body it is such beautiful energy that it is hard to understand how we could ever have judged it as anything other than love and perfect in the first place.
Misconception: I have to ask the person’s being that I want to do a "Distant" treatment on, and be sure I get a yes in order to do a treatment.
Busted: First, you should always be asking the person's Higher Self and not their "being". The Higher Self will never ever say no. Their "being" may say no because that is governed by their human body which has fears and limitations. The Higher Self will always take the energy that is being sent for the person and if the human body can not accept it at that time, it goes into what I refer to as the "reserve body" and when the physical body is ready or willing to take it in, the higher self sends it. When I see the "reserve body" it is usually all around the physical body. In some cases I have seen it stand just behind the body and to the right or left of the physical body. Usually when the reserve body is behind and to the side it means the physical form has shut down communication with the "spiritual body." In truth, you do not need to ask for permission at all. The mere fact that you had the thought to send healing to that person tells you that you are to send it. If they did not require something, you would not have thought about them to begin with. You will also be healing a common thread between the two of you. You do not need to know what this thread is, the bodies are willing and ready to heal or you would not have thought to send healing to that person. The more you follow your intuitive thoughts, the stronger they will become until you eventually just "become it". Think of it this way - the more you do - the more you get, the more you follow it - the more you become it.
Misconception: After I get a Reiki Treatment (or any energy treatment for that matter) I feel great for a few days and then I take everything I let go of back on and fall back into the "old me."
Busted: You can not go back to the "old you" and you most certainly can not take anything back that you released in your energy healing. The reason being - it no longer exists. When you let something go, you have healed the piece within yourself that had judged and created separation within you. The separation is no longer there - it healed to allow you to release whatever you were holding onto. When you do any type of energy healing you are always raising your vibration. When the session is done you are feeling your new vibration - the clearer more peaceful you. In many cases, your new vibration takes a day or two to totally integrate into the physical form. So it is not that you are back to the "old you" it is that you became your new vibration. Once you become it, it does not feel the same because you are it. That is very exciting that you became this higher vibration! Rejoice in it and thank your body. Stop and take some time to really feel what you are feeling. When I talk to people about this, what they realize they feel is not at all like the "old self", but it is a lighter feel, a more at peace feel or something like that and because it is a feeling that they do not remember or that they have not felt in such a long time, they classified it as the "old self."
Misconception: The seven main chakras have their individual colors and hold individual energies.
Busted: In 2006 we had a rather large energy shift that began assisting us in returning home to our wholeness This shift and the new energy began assisting us in putting an end to the separation between us individually and as a whole. In order to end separation, we have to first end it within our selves and the individualization of the chakras. Originally, all chakras worked together as one unified field. They all shared in each component and in each and every experience we had. Through the centuries, the human race began to buy into the individual chakras and their colors. Because of free will, everyone began separating their chakras by doing individual "exercises" to open each one up and get them spinning in particular directions. Truth is, today (January 20, 2011) only about 6% of the worlds population have individual chakras. The energy shifts, and all we are doing as a whole are continually merging them together as one. So next time you are doing any work with chakras, remember they work together and have merged colors and meanings so that the entire body runs and works together as a whole.
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