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Psychotherapeutic Reiki, The Reiki Times Vol. 16 Spring Issue 2012

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Psychotherapeutic Reiki

By Richard Curtin, Psy.D.

At the heart of this approach is the position that psychological

symptoms and conditions are organized and maintained by ki (subtle

energy) in the human energy field and are stored and carried in the

physical body.

Traditional psychotherapeutic approaches do not address subtle

energy and they tend to downplay or ignore the role the body plays in

symptom formation. Traditional approaches do not seek to treat the

energy blocks that underlie the effects of negative conditioning, stress

and trauma nor do they do enough to promote awareness of a symptom’s interconnected

parts: energetic, mental, emotional, behavioral and physical.

Psychotherapeutic Reiki is an approach with interventions that bring systematic attention to

the relationship between the body and the mind, that utilize Reiki energy treatments to work

directly on blockages in the human energy field in order to modify conditioning and release

held trauma energy.

The treatment of psychological problems and conditions in the practice of Psychotherapeutic

Reiki is organized around four treatment tasks; Practicing Presence, Exploring the Body-

mind, Releasing and Clearing Energy Blocks and Installing Corrective Experience.

Practicing Presence

The first task, Practicing Presence, focuses on the relationship clients have towards their

symptoms. Although it is understandable to want to minimize, deny or distance ourselves

from our symptoms out of judgment, fear or pain, in many cases this only serves to intensify

them and obscure their meaning. Practicing Presence involves the use of techniques for

helping clients to open to their symptoms in a non-judgmental and accepting manner while

receiving Reiki. A basic technique for Practicing Presence is the Noticing, Allowing, Opening

and Relaxing exercise. (NAOR)


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While giving the client Reiki have them focus on the presenting problem or primary

symptom. Instruct them to bring their attention to the present and notice any bodily

sensations, images, thoughts or emotions that arise. Instruct them to experience these

symptoms as fully as they can while allowing these symptoms to be just as they are. As the

client opens to their symptoms have them pay attention to any resistance that arises and try

to let it go. Encourage them to breathe slowly, deeply, evenly, and relax around their

symptoms.

This exercise helps clients to open to their symptoms, explore them more fully, decrease the

fear they have around them and increase their insight and sense of control over them.

Paradoxically, turning towards our symptoms and embracing them can help to diminish and

transform them.

Exploring the Body-Mind

Exploring the body-mind takes being present a step

further by investigating the client’s symptom picture more

fully. While the client is receiving Reiki we explore the

origin and meaning of his symptoms and define the

nature of his interconnected parts: physical, emotional,

mental, relational, and spiritual. A basic technique for exploring the body-mind is the

Exploration and Release Technique.

Mind and emotion exist in every cell of the body which means that the unreleased and

unresolved effects of traumatic experience may be lodged anywhere in the body. Reiki can

be used to investigate areas of unreleased trauma, bring out their meaning and assist in their

release. When you find an area of tension, pain or held energy, give Reiki to it while

instructing the client to breathe deeply, slowly and evenly. Have the client hold an attitude of

relaxed attention and acceptance while they allow their intuition to bring to mind any

thoughts, images, memories or feelings being held in this part of the body.

Releasing and Clearing Energy Blocks

This task involves the use of techniques for letting go of held trauma energy, painful

memories, thought and emotions and for releasing the energy charge underlying them. A

basic technique for this task is the Mental-Emotional Release Technique


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This technique is adapted from Weston (1998). To begin, the therapist has the client lie on

his/her back on the massage table. The therapist then has the client pick a color and imagine

this color under the therapist’s hands, which are placed on the client’s heart chakra and solar

plexus. (The heart chakra is the emotional center and the solar plexus is an energy center

relating to the mind and mental activity.) The therapist gives the instruction to the client to

bring to mind a troubling memory, thought, or feeling that causes intense emotion. As

memory and feeling come up, the client is instructed to send these reactions into the

therapist’s hands. As the client does this, the therapist will feel heat coming into his/her

hands. As the client sends the mental and emotional reactions into the therapist’s hands, the

client will sense that the color under the therapist’s hands is beginning to fade to white and

this is an indicator that release is occurring. At times as a release is progressing, the client

may have another memory or feeling come up and when this occurs, the therapist should

encourage the client to send this new reaction into his/her hands. Usually after 10 to 20

minutes, the client has released as much of the charge as they are going to at this session.

After discharging strong emotion, many people feel an energetic void where their troubling

thoughts or feelings had been stored in the body and it is important for the therapist to give

Reiki to fill this void. It may take repeated sessions to resolve a serious traumatic memory,

but often progress is noted after only one session.

Installing Corrective Experience

The fourth task, Installing Corrective Experience, involves the use of techniques for starting

to think, feel and act differently and with positive intention. Techniques in this category seek

to input new information into the client’s body-mind and energy field.

After clients have released blockages, this new information is

installed in the form of affirmations, positive images, successful

outcomes, corrective thoughts and beliefs and positive feelings that

promote states of healing, happiness, contentment and well-being.

We replace painful thoughts, judgments and beliefs with positive, loving and compassionate

messages. A basic technique for installing corrective experience is the Sei He Ki technique.

Dr. Usui, the founder of Reiki, taught particular hand positions to be used when installing

information in a client’s field. This technique requires the use of the three Reiki level two

symbols. After placing these symbols in his hands, the therapist places his dominant hand

on the back of the client’s head and his non-dominant hand on the client’s forehead. The

therapist keeps his hands there for two or three minutes while both he and the client silently


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repeat the new information they wish to install. Then, the therapist removes his non-

dominant hand from the client’s forehead and gives Reiki to the back of the client’s head.

(The Spirit of Reiki, 2001)

About the Author Richard Curtin, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist and Reiki Master Teacher. He has been

practicing psychotherapy since 1975 and has received training in family systems therapy,

addictions, attachment theory, and cognitive behavior therapy. He began his Reiki training in

1994 and has been using Reiki in his psychotherapy practice since 1995. He teaches Reiki

classes in the Usui method, Levels I, II, and III, and Karuna Reiki™ in Cambridge and also

teaches Reiki in the Continuing Education Program at the Massachusetts School of

Professional Psychology in Boston. He is a member of the American Psychological

Association, the Massachusetts Psychological Association, and the International Association

of Reiki Professionals. He sees individual clients and runs training and supervision groups for psychotherapists

and body workers who are interested in using Psychotherapeutic Reiki.

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The Wondrous Journey into the Depth of Our Being, The Reiki Times Vol. 16 Spring Issue 2012

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The Wondrous Journey into the Depth of Our Being

By Ilie Cioara

Each human being on planet Earth is – consciously or unconsciously – searching for

happiness with unlimited persistence and greed. Happiness appears as a mirage; we try

countless ways in order to find it in the

external world, with perseverance and

determination; nevertheless, each time,

the desired happiness finally results in

disappointing delusion.

Other, more subjective individuals turn to their inner world; in this case as well, their thirst for

happiness is satisfied by sheer deceitful imagination. In each of our attempts to search for it,

we start from what we know or imagine. Such happiness is always motivated by an object we

anticipate or desire.

True happiness ensues indirectly. It always appears in a state of non-search. Practically, we

do not know what happiness is, but, when the mind is completely silent, in a state of total

passiveness, our whole being experiences harmony. In this state, as complete beings,

integrated into Life, we are overwhelmed with an immense Joy and Happiness without

cause.

Only when It appears as a real experience can we truly know Happiness and Its constant

freshness, without turning It into a memory. Ever renewing itself, It is a natural gift offered to

the individual who is free from his time-space structure. Only in this way do we discover the

true Happiness that the wandering mind of the conditioned man has been searching for

throughout the millennia.

****

The moment we encounter true Happiness, we are in fact outside time and space. The “ego”

– with its intrinsic duality – has completely disappeared.


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If the “ego” does not exist anymore, who can evaluate this happy fulfillment?

In that moment, the Sacred within us, also existent in the whole universe, becomes one

“Whole” and a Unique movement, in a permanent renewal.

Do we truly experience this union, or do we merely understand it intellectually? You alone

can answer this question.

Each human being – from the moment of birth until the moment of the so-called death –

persistently searches for this mysterious Happiness. Unfortunately, most people make the

mistake of searching for it with the thinking mind.

Because Happiness has no motivations, It is not part of the limited world. Its nature is infinite;

therefore the knowing mind cannot encounter It, or understand It, or imagine It.

Happiness comes to us by Itself, and It envelops our whole being when the mind becomes

humble and silent, as it has understood its inability to encounter the Unknown.

Lucid Attention – with Its flashes – dissipates all the darkness, as well as the baggage of the

dysfunctional mind.

In the empty space of peace or no-mind, our being is extended into Infinity; in that moment,

the Divinity within us reveals we are one with the Source of the Sacred. In conclusion, let us

add that in the environment of “Pure Consciousness”, Happiness is present as a natural

fulfillment and It is unlike anything that can be found in this perishable world.

****

The Love dimension is known by different names: Truth, Reality, God, Immensity, the Infinite,

Intelligence etc.

The very meaning of the words which define it express the fact that this dimension has no

bounds.

In this dimension, no faiths, ideals, desires or any such similar ideas can exist, as they are

encountered in the limited dimension. For this reason, in this wondrous climate there is no

struggle, contradictions, confusion, pain, hate etc.


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Boundlessness cannot be comprehended by imagination or by

thought; there is nothing we can say about it. We can only

describe and explain that which our mind can encompass. In the

face of Limitlessness, the mind is poor, completely unable to

understand it. In fact, the moment

Immensity affirms itself within us, as a living state of the integral human being, the “ego”

dimension and its limited way of expression does not exist anymore.

There is not much we can say about the experience of living in the dimension of Love.

Nevertheless, we will try to express certain feelings and states of being encountered in this

state.

In complete union with Love, we are perfect peace, we live total freedom; the very notion of

“self” is missing, although we are endowed with a clarity and sensitivity of the mind such as

we have never encountered in the limited realm of thinking.

By melting with silence, we become that silence, equilibrium and harmony, free from duality:

our being is extended into Infinity. Practically, by experiencing “psychological nothingness”,

the “ego” disappears and, in its place, Immensity envelops us wholly and we become one

with It. Integrated into the Great Cosmic Energy, we continue to exist as a state of

superconsciousness.

Encountering the Boundless

It is impossible to embrace and comprehend the

Infinite Universe

With the limited “ego”;

All is experienced in total silence,

Free from time – the being and the mind are newly born.

Thus, I am Immensity, in perpetual movement,

In Unity with the Whole – a creative structure –

I see, feel and act in perfect union with the Sacred,

I use language to describe Wisdom.

One with the Boundless, I am Happiness,

A divine gift, with no support in the thought process;


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Happiness has no motives – a supreme satisfaction,

To which, consciously or unconsciously, each human being aspires.

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The Freshness of Life

Everything in the Universe is in constant movement,

What is now – in a flash – is consumed and dies,

The old moment is replaced with the new, appearing rhythmically,

A constant succession – inviting us to know ourselves.

Yesterday and the thousands of yesterdays

Created our lives of fiction: lies, fear, madness;

All that was – is dead – worthless in the present,

The moment – a precious mystery – integrates us into reality.

****

Intuition is that capacity of the Divinity of our being to warn or to direct us in a perfect way

through lightning-like impulses. It is a surprise and an instant mystery. It has no connection

with the conditioned mind. On the contrary, it reveals itself to us only in the absence of

thinking. We can never, in any way, anticipate its appearance. It cannot be cultivated and we

cannot invoke it with the help of a certain formula.

Our only duty is to create a favorable climate in

which Intuition can reveal itself, by itself. The only

obstacle, obstructing its mysterious presence, is

the “ego” and its whole memory baggage – a

fictitious entity. When we see it as it is – with the

help of lucid Attention – the “ego” disappears

spontaneously.

“Psychological emptiness” ensues naturally; our whole being, in perfect harmony and inner

simplicity, transcends from the finite world into Boundlessness. In a state of “Pure

Consciousness”, intuitive responses are mirrored onto the luminous screen of

consciousness.


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We can explain this state in the right words only when we are requested to do so, in order to

provide a better understanding of life phenomena.

These intuitive impulses can reveal to us: either momentary dangers, threatening our lives,

or hidden, concealed truths, or small realizations regarding our everyday existence.

Happy indeed is the man who, detached from the “self”, abandons himself to the will of

Divinity, offering himself as an instrument through which the Divine affirms Its Sacred

guidance.

Excerpts from The Silence of the Mind, Published by OBooks

About the Author Ilie Cioara was an enlightened mystic who lived in Eastern Europe. His writings in 16 books describe the experience of meditation and enlightenment, as well as the practice of Self-knowing using all-encompassing Attention. Like Ramana Maharshi, Krishnamurti, Eckhart Tolle, his is a simple message of discovering our inner divine nature through the silence of the mind. The Silence of the Mind, The Wondrous Journey into the Depth of Our Being, and Life is Eternal Newness and I Am Boundlessness, is a tetralogy by Ilie Cioara published by Obooks.

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Healing Energy Evolution, The Reiki Times Vol. 16 Spring Issue 2012

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Healing Energy Evolution

By Sadao Hayano, Reiki and Medical Qigong Therapist

Abstract

13.7 Billion years after the Big Bang, Charles Darwin, in 1858, presented his Theory of

Evolution. Homo Sapiens had been walking upright and speaking language 195,000 years

ago. Homo Sapiens Sapiens (modern humans) had then appeared 100,000 years ago and

were physically identical to us except that their brain cells were not yet evolved to the present

human level. This article examines the functions of neurons and explains their relationship

with energy healing practices such as Reiki, Qigong, Huna, etc. Subjects we will discuss in

this article include the Mirror Neuron, the New Born Neuron, the Neurotransmitter, the Third

Eye and the Blood-Brain Barrier, etc.

These topics are relatively recent scientific discoveries, having taken place only within the

last 40 years, largely due to the capability of modern imaging technologies such as Magnetic

Resonance Imaging (MRI). Our minds are formed of brain cell networks. Our common

modern health issues such as cardiac arrest are, in developed countries, are related largely

to the mind rather than to other factors. The energy practitioner will see strong scientific

validity on our energy healing algorithm and will discover additional scientific foundation for

Alternative Medicine.

1. Charles Darwin’s Theory

Charles Darwin’s Discovery

The Healing Energy of Reiki, Qigong, etc. is being studied in this article. Evolution at the

human brain level will be shown to be a deeper mechanism of those same evolutionary

principles revealed in Charles Darwin’s work; see “The Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin,

1858. In this book, he describes and proves the so called ‘Theory of Evolution by Natural

Selection’.

Here we are approaching this theory in two steps to simplify discussion -- ‘The theory of

evolution’ and ‘The theory of natural selection’. For the purposes of this article, we will follow


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the course outlined in a well-accepted book “Introducing Evolution” by D Evans & H Selina,

Totem Book, 2010.

The Theory of Evolution

Theory of Evolution simply states the fact that ‘species can change’.

After the Big Bang took place 13.7 billion years ago, the first organic molecules only

appeared on Earth 9.7 billion years later and it is at this point that we witness the beginning

of the evolution. From fossil and scientific research, biologists have concluded that the first

cells appeared 3.5 billion years ago. Every species on Earth is descended from this single

common ancestor. Eventually the great diversity of different living creatures we know today

descended from those cells by assuming new forms in an evolutionary process.

The modern human (Homo Sapiens Sapiens) was descended from a species of ape and

appeared in Africa 100,000 years ago. All living beings carry a record of their descent in their

genes and we are able to trace that record. Though fossils indicate that these earliest

modern humans were physically identical to us, their brain cells took considerably longer to

evolve and develop to reach the complexity and sophistication of the modern human.

The Theory of Natural Selection

The second step is the theory of natural selection. Darwin further confirmed here ‘Natural

selection in species happens whenever the following two conditions are in place.’ The two

conditions are: 1. There exists a population of things that make copies of themselves.

However this replication process is not 100 % perfect. 2. Copying errors provide an

opportunity for some offspring to survive more effectively than others and these survivors are

then the ones which are able to make copies of themselves.

Example: The ancestor of the woodpecker was a bird with a very small beak. One day, she

had an offspring with a slightly longer beak. That individual was able to make very small

indentations in bark with this beak and therefore to reach the extra insect or two. After

generations, the longer beak becomes the norm of the whole population as those with

shorter beaks are less able to compete and reproduce.

Scientists generally agree that most evolutionary adaptations are gradual, just as Darwin

theorized, but some believe that they can appear within a single generation.


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The HOX Gene (from Chip Walter’s book)

According to Darwin, all evolutionary changes occurred gradually, but the fossil record does

not always support this view. Chip Walter included anomalous examples of evolution in his

book, “Thumbs, Toes, and Tears” (Walker & Company, 2006). Specifically, HOX genes are

one such natural selection example. W. McGinnis and others reported it originally in the

paper, "A conserved DNA sequence in homoeotic genes of the Drosophila Antennapedia and

bithorax complexes", McGinnis W; Levine M, Hafen E, Kuroiwa A, Gehring W, Nature 308

(5958): 428–33 (1984).

HOX Genes act as master ‘switches’, which flip other strings of genes on and off. Since

McGinnis’ discovery and those of others, scientists have found HOX genes in every existing

animal, including humans. If certain adaptations improve a creature’s chances of survival,

they would tend to spread through the rest of the gene pool. Since HOX genes control

masses of other genes, the results can be dramatic when HOX genes mutate. Changes

appear almost instantly. Had our ancestor apes been forced to do their walking on their

knuckles, they would not have survived the threat of predators. Walking upright was the best

way to survive. Homo Habilis, the first of our genus, walked upright 2 million years ago.

But upright walking accomplished even more than that. It also changed the way we looked

and how we saw the world from a higher physical position and it also affected our behavior in

deeply fundamental ways. In other words, this erect posture not only shaped a new kind of

body, it also shaped a new kind of mind. Homo Sapience had evolved through natural

selection and with it the development of language 195,000 years ago, for instance.

2. Energizing Brain

Memory Process

Let’s examine the brain memory process of the present day human. The primary function of

the hippocampus, located in the center of our brain, is memory management – memory

formation and recall. Here is a brief description of the hippocampus function.

The raw information received in the cerebrum from the various body senses such as seeing,

hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, feeling, etc. is transmitted to the hippocampus for

evaluation. The hippocampus judges the content and quality of the raw information and

pastes its earmarks on the raw information. Then depending on the earmarks from the

evaluation, the hippocampus sends the results selectively to the various memory storage


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parts in the brain such as Cerebral

Cortex, Cingulate Gyrus, Septal,

Amygdala and Pituitary Gland, see

Fig 1.

When a demand arises by any wish

in our mind in later time, the

hippocampus copies from this

memory storage the needed

information and adds its necessary

directive commands to it. Then, it is

transmitted to other areas of the

brain such as the cerebellum, for

example, where the necessary action can be taken to comply with the commands. This

completes one memory management cycle of hippocampus function.

Brainwave readings indicate that memory management in the hippocampus is carried out

most effectively in the brain in the Ө wave state, 4 to 8Hz, as shown in Table 1.

Brain Wave α β γ δ Ө Frequency (Hz)

8 to 13 13 to 30 30 to 100 0.5 to 4 4 to 8

Mind Relaxed Normal Concentrated

Sleep Meditation

Table 1. Brain Wave

Researchers indicate that the Ө brainwave state has the effect of inducing plasticity

(flexibility) in brain functions. The changing and increasing synapse connections are a part of

the plasticity of the brain function and the better synapse connections are largely the result of

the performance of newly born neurons. New neurons are known to be born only in the

Hippocampus, while in other areas of the brain, no more new neurons are manufactured

after our birth from a mother. Please note that the brainwave is an electrical voltage variation

caused by brain activity. We will discuss the new neurons later.

Mirror Neuron

The existence of Mirror Neurons in the premotor cortex (F5 region) in monkeys, and

subsequently in humans, was discovered in 1996 by Giacomo Rizzolatti and others; see

“Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions” by Rizzolatti G., Fadiga L., Gallese V.,


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Fogassi L. Cogn. Brain Res., 3 (1996), 131-141.

When researchers were recording signals transmitted from neurons in F5 of the monkeys in

their Lab and a monkey was watching a researcher’s hand picking up an object, the sensors

connected to the monkey’s brain indicated that neurons in F5 were firing. They did not fire

however, when the monkey was simply seeing the object sitting there. In other words, the

monkey’s neurons in F5 were activated only when the monkey saw the researcher’s motions

with the object. And of course, the neurons in F5 were activated at times when the monkey

herself picked up an object. This means that the same neurons in F5, the mirror neurons,

fired when either the monkey sees the act performed or performs it. Hence we can conclude

that that the monkey’s brain – her mind – is seeing the researcher’s act as if it were her own

act. This indicates that the mirror neuron is used as a learning tool by copying and imitating

others. In this instance, the discovery of these mirror neurons was done by Rizzolatti. The

mirror neuron was a communication method between humans when spoken language did

not yet exist. The mirror neuron has been with the human since 1.3 million years ago in the

time of Homo Erectus.

When we see emotional movies, we experience the same emotions in ourselves. The total

estimated number of neurons in the human brain is 10¹¹, making up about 10% of total brain

cells. All neurons are exchanging information with each other all the time and this is the basic

cause of our mind being created in the brain. Our behaviors follow exactly the directives of

our own mind at each moment. The emotion is a creation of our mind.

This emotion mirroring could be utilized as an energy healing technique. Any energy healing

practitioner goes through extensive training with energy detection and feeling exercises, if

not also a rigorous scientific version of the process. The practitioner has intuitively learned to

distinguish brainwave differences between α, β, γ, δ and Ө by touching the patient on the

head or by feeling the Qi energy. Applying the mirror neuron theory then becomes a powerful

healing tool.

The New Neuron

We have mentioned already that new neurons are born in the hippocampus continually. This

fact was discovered by Peter S. Eriksson and others in 1998; see “Neurogenesis in the Adult

Human Hippocampus” by P. Eriksson, E. Perfilieva, T. Bjork-Eriksson, A. Alborn, C.

Nordborg, D. Peterson and F. Gage, www. Medicine.nature.com (1998 issue). The estimated

number of these new-born neurons is a few thousand per day depending on the age of the

person. Brain researchers have further found that these fresh new neurons effectively


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increase memorizing power, reduce our stress levels, increase the brain function plasticity,

improve and exchange brain network connections, eliminate bad past memories, etc.

In 2005, Fred Gage and other scientists experimented on mice and proved that those which

went in the running wheel every night generated a larger number of new neurons in the

hippocampus; see “Exercise Enhances Learning and Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Aged

Mice” by Henriette van Praag, Tiffany Shubert, Chunmei Zhao, and Fred H. Gage, The

Journal of Neuroscience, September 21, 2005, 25(38):8680-8685.

We already knew intuitively of the importance of daily walking ourselves. The above paper is

a comprehensive scientific proof of this and provides the practitioner with yet more detailed

information.

Neurotransmitters

‘Neurotransmitters’ are chemicals in the brain which

travel from neuron to neuron through the synapse

junctions, and thus form the mind in the brain, see

Fig. 2. Brain researchers have found more than one

hundred different neurotransmitters. We will

consider a few of these in this article, Dopamine,

Serotonin, GABA, β-endorphin, etc. Please note that

each neuron cell has its own specific

neurotransmitter.

Here are brief descriptions of each chemical:

Dopamine produces the effect of ‘Feeling happy’

(Excitatory). Serotonin is for ‘Waking up’

(Excitatory). GABA is to ‘Suppress emotional

excitement’ (Inhibitory). And β-endorphin is to ‘Reduce physical pain’ (Excitatory).

Name of Neurotransmitter

Dopamine Serotonin GABA β-endorphin

Property Feeling Happy Excitatory

Waking up Excitatory

Suppress Emotional Excitement Inhibitory

Reduce Physical Pain Excitatory

Table 2. Neurotransmitters


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A neurotransmitter can either excite or inhibit the receiving cell as noted above. The

neurotransmitter molecules are manufactured in the neuron cell body (called the Soma), and

moves down to the synapses through the axon cable. When the brain has the correct

number of neurotransmitters, our behavior or actions are balanced mentally and physically.

When the number is skewed and out of balance, our mind becomes sick and our behavior

gets erratic. This causes neurological disorders.

Grooming among monkeys takes place daily. Grooming with their fellows has a bonding

function as well as nit picking. Grooming is a form of communication in the absence of

speech. Researchers reported that it creates a flow of a neurotransmitter, β-endorphin, in the

brain; see “Beta-endorphin concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid of monkeys are influenced

by grooming relationships” by E.B. Keverne, N.D. Martensz, B. Tuite,

Psychoneuroendocrinology vol 14, 1989.

One more example of β-endorphin production in the brain was reported by David Julius’

research team at UCSF in 1997. Capsaicin, the hot chili pepper ingredient, touching on

kidney receptors causes a short burning sensation activating β-endorphins in the brain. In

turn, these β-endorphins function to reduce physical pain in the human. When the capsaicin

receptor alone (only the receptor itself without the capsaicin attachment) in the human kidney

was intentionally heated to the 110 degree Fahrenheit temperature range, it then produced

β-endorphins in the brain; see "The capsaicin receptor: a heat-activated ion channel in the

pain pathway" by Caterina MJ, Schumacher MA, Tominaga M, Rosen TA, Levine JD, Julius

D, October 1997, Nature 389 (6653): 816–24.

Thus, the β-endorphin is manufactured in the brain, either by capsaicin touching on the

receptors or by the 110 degree temperature to which the receptors of the kidney were

subjected. Please note that the β-endorphins in the brain eliminate pain felt in the body.

When the healer touches the patient’s kidney area from outside the body, it similarly

increases the kidney temperature slightly -- enough to induce β-endorphin production in the

brain.

The Third Eye

The external environment experienced in daily life affects human functions naturally. When

the sun comes down, the brain senses it and responds with drowsiness and a tendency

towards sleep. While on the other hand, daylight wakes us up.


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The suprachiasmatic nucleus in the

hypothalamus plays a part in this sleep wake

cycle. Light levels are sensed by our retina,

and this information is relayed to the

suprachiasmatic nucleus, which then sends

a signal to the pineal gland, see Fig. 3. This

triggers the release of melatonin, a hormone,

from the pineal gland; thus starting the sleep

cycle. When melatonin levels fall due to

increased light intensity, the pineal gland

releases serotonin, a hormone; thus starting

the waking part of the cycle.

When energy healing practitioners with empty mind place their palms on the area of the so

called third eye, located in front of the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the patient, light and

energy from the environment are blocked. The patient then becomes totally relaxed and

ready for the healing treatment. The practitioner can easily recognize this state of connection

with the patient. Learning this third eye energy maneuver skill is a critical step for the

proficient practitioner.

Blood-Brain Barrier

‘Blood-Brain Barrier’ separates circulating blood in capillaries from the neuron, see Fig.4. The

glial cells support the neuron structurally and are located in between the capillaries and the

neuron. The capillaries consist of seals around its membrane wall and the blood flowing

inside. This membrane wall and seal

restricts the diffusion of microscopic

materials in the blood into the glial.

The glial cells have ‘the transporters’

which select and transport necessary

materials from capillaries to neurons.

However, the neuron naturally

receives needed materials for the

support of healthy neurons (such as

oxygen, glucose and amino acids)

from the blood in the capillaries. The

blood in capillaries contains a variety

of materials, including bacteria which


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are harmful to the neuron. The harmful materials are blocked at Blood-Brain Barrier in the

normal healthy brain.

Every mental state has a corresponding brain state. Our mind is influenced by the conditions

of our environment and by our human relationships with others. We will discuss some of the

disorders the brain can suffer from -- headache, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder

(PTSD). The dividing line between normal states and disordered states of the human mind

can sometimes be difficult to define due to differences in personalities, cultures, religions,

etc.

Brain researchers, Alon Friedman and his team, found in 1996 that when rats were put into a

brain state of a post-traumatic stress disorder, the safeguards of the blood-brain barrier went

down. Chemicals (Pyridostigmine) from the blood in the capillaries invaded to the neurons

much more easily when the function of the barrier was compromised. This created an

imbalanced state in the brains of the rats, causing erratic behavior and disorders, see

“Pyridostigmine brain penetration under stress enhances neuronal excitability and induces

early immediate transcriptional response” by Friedman, A., Kaufer-Nachum, D., Shemer, J.,

Hendler, I., Soreq, H. and Tur-Kaspa, I., Nature Medicine 2:1382-1385 (1996).

The above is another strong reason for the energy practitioner to make the patient relaxed,

so that the guard of Blood-Brain Barrier remains intact and functioning as originally designed

by evolution.

3. Mind and Heart Connection

Cardiac Arrest Recurrence

We now turn our attention to the ‘Type A Personality’ studied by Meyer Friedman and Ray

Rosenman in 1974. Type A People are defined as those who experience chronic anger, are

impatient and at risk from heart attacks. In Western countries, ‘diet and cholesterol’ have

been traditionally regarded as the major risk factors in cardiac mortality. Researchers started

to investigate other elements such as social and living conditions, stability of the country,

neighborhood cultural conditions and degrees of stress and disorder at home. These

negative conditions create nervous and hormonal imbalances in the human. The effects of

both ‘Cardiac Counseling’ and ‘Type A Behavior Counseling’ were evaluated in a controlled

experimental setting with 1013 heart attack survivors for a period of 4.5 years. The results

were that Type A Behavior Counseling reduces cardiac mortality much more effectively than

does Cardiac Counseling, as reported by M. Friedman and others in 1986; see “Alteration of


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type A behavior and its effect on cardiac recurrences in post myocardial infarction patients:

Summary results of the recurrent coronary prevention project” by Meyer Friedman, Carl E.

Thoresen, James J. Gill, Diane Ulmer, Lynda H. Powell, Virginia A. Price, Byron Brown,

Leonti Thompson, David D. Rabin, William S. Breall, Edward Bourg, Richard Levy, Theodore

Dixon, American Heart Journal, v112 n4, pp653-665.

The above result can easily be interpreted as demonstrating a strong mind/heart connection

so to speak. The classical and traditional common sense assumption has required

modification as facts are revealed. Diet and cholesterol may not be the largest factors in

heart health in modern society as the mind factor could well be primary. This shift of

perspective needs to be realized and recognized by energy practitioners.

The findings of Friedman and others are summarized in Table 3 which shows the cumulative

4.5 year cardiac arrest recurrence rate determined in the above paper.

Kind of Counseling Received Cardiac

Counseling Received Cardiac Counseling & Type A Counseling

Received No Counseling

Population 270 people 592 people 151 people Cumulative 4.5 years Cardiac Arrest Recurrence Rate

21.2 % 12.9% 28.2%

Table 3. Cardiac Arrest (The original data was from Friedman’s)

Science of Mother’s Healing

When we talk about the basic rules in natural science, such as Newton’s Law, Quantum

Physics Law, Einstein’s Relativity Law, etc., the rule in question must be confirmed to be 100

% true in the domain of its application. The proof of the rule depends heavily on

Mathematics. But in case beyond the natural sciences, the rule may not be corroborated with

100% certainty for various social reasons mentioned above. My rule is not necessarily an

acceptable truth to other individuals. One sure method of demonstrating proof in this case is

through the controlled experimental setting such as that used in the above Type A research.

The control group in Table 3 is ‘Received No Counseling’ while the experimental group is

‘Received Cardiac Counseling’ and ‘Received Cardiac Counseling & Type A counseling’.

We cannot see, hear nor touch Qi energy. However, we know how to feel Qi in between our

own two palms. The energy practitioner teaches new students the method for feeling Qi. The


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teacher makes the students extend this ‘sensing’ skill to all parts of the body and the

environment beyond the body. Thus, to start with, Qi was defined on the bases of this

individual sensing and feeling. Qi energy exists in our mind and excites it. A healer projects

Qi energy by a strong healing intension as with Qigong or, in contrast, the healer projects Qi

through her empty mind with no intention at all as sometimes with Reiki. Once again, Qi

energy always fills the human body and the Universal environment.

The mother hugs and touches the child’s head, knee, hand when the child falls. The mother

talks, listens, behaves and is thoroughly trusted by the child who has no roadblock to

accepting the mother and, in fact, the child will be cured. The mother has all the respect and

talent needed to do Qi energy healing, and to initiate and to participate in micro evolution

through the law of natural selection. The mother’s mind controls Qi; the Qi heals the child

body and that Qi is the total expression of the mother’s mind and healing energy; see

“Universal Life Force Energy” by Sadao Hayano, The Reiki Times, vol 15 Spring issue.

About the Author Dr Sadao Hayano is an IARP Registered Reiki Master and Medical Qigong Therapist for over the past 10 years in San Francisco Bay Area and is VP in Natural Health Organic Farm, a grower and processor of Ashitaba (Japanese organic whole herb) www.ashitabagreen.com. He earned his Doctorate from Purdue University in Mechanical Engineering after being educated in Kyoto, Japan. In his leisure time he teaches Tai Chi Chuan and Yoga. He has published articles on topics of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics related with Energy Healings such as Qigong and Reiki. He participates and speaks in The World Congress on Qigong with the original science and healing articles. He and his wife, Linda, live in Saratoga, CA. USA. [email protected] This article appeared in the Spring 2012 issue of The Reiki Times, the magazine of the IARP © 2012. International Association of Reiki Professionals LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Reiki Entering the Medical Field, The Reiki Times Vol. 16 Spring Issue 2012

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Reiki Entering the Medical Field

By Sufani Garza

Reiki is an ancient form of healing that has

been done all over the world under many

various names, however, the term Reiki is

Japanese meaning ‘consciously aware life

force energy.’ Reiki is on the rise and what was

once a foreign name to most people, is now

recognized when spoken, although many still

have never had a session of Reiki themselves.

Reiki is a practice of a certified practitioner

laying her hands on a fully clothed client, using a reduced set of hand positions covering the

length of the body organs, nerves, bones and tissue. During that time they are focusing their

intent to give healing energy to the client for the client’s higher purpose.

Reiki has been an elusive healing art for some time with the medical profession being less

than supportive as a result of having no scientific data to show why a person heals from

Reiki. Relations have since developed which has led to scientific data to explain that Reiki is

not a placebo effect, although the mind enters into everything (the will to be well is a factor in

whether a person’s immune system will resist incoming interference). But doctors, physicists

and scientists have found that the effects of Reiki are measurable with the same equipment

used in hospitals. Biologically, electromagnetic frequencies optimal for stimulating tissue

repair is done with an extremely low frequency of energy called the ELF. Bone growth

requires 7 Hz, ligament repair 10 Hz, capillary formation 15 Hz. Dr. John Zimmerman

measured the magnetic field of Reiki practitioners and found that their magnetic field ranged

from 0.3 - 30Hz, the same range associated with healthy tissue and organs.

The FDA approved pulsing Electromagnetic Field Therapy to stimulate bone growth in bone

fractures and breaks at a frequency of 7Hz- the same as, and sometimes lower than, the

electrical pulse coming from a Reiki practitioner. Working with Electrocardiograms,

Electrocephalograms and working with the biomagnetic field has been in use in the medical

profession since the 1920s, so working with energy fields is measurable, and nothing new.

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Researcher Robert C. Beck used and EEG to measure

the brain waves of Reiki practitioners in the act of

healing and found that their brain waves averaged 7.8 -

8.0 Hz. Reiki practitioners call to the universal energy

and ground and center themselves to the earth before

they begin and draw on that energy. Robert found it

interesting that when in the healing practice their energy

level synchronized with the earth’s electromagnetic spectrum. It is also interesting that a

heart in the act of compassion has an electromagnetic field 100 times larger than the brain

and extends fifteen feet from the body. Reiki practitioners enter the healing profession

because they want to help others, and that in itself is a compassionate act.

The benefits of Reiki are not just a placebo effect, meaning all in the mind of the receiver. A

recent study was done on mice in a lab that had been injected with cancer with a fatality rate

expected in 14-27 days from the time of injection. Some of the mice were given thirty minute

Reiki sessions for thirty days. The mice that were given Reiki developed a blackened area,

the cancer ulcerated, imploded and closed. The mice with no Reiki treatment had a 100%

death rate. The mice that survived were then re-injected with cancer and their body retained

the immune response to fight the cancer and they lived out their normal life span. Reiki not

only stimulates the healing of bones, tissue, organs and nerves through scientifically

measurable electrical charges emitted from the human Reiki practitioner, but the body mind

remembers the immune response and fights off the same disease.

Hospitals are increasingly looking into offering Reiki to patients in the hospitals due to these

measurable tests and Reiki will, in the future, become a medical treatment offered and

legitimized by the medical profession on a wider scale. Resources: The Effect of the “Laying On of Hands” in Transplanted Breast Cancer Mice, Krinsley D. Bengston, Journal of

Science Exploration, 2000; 14;353-364 Science of the Human Energy Field, James L. Oschman, Vision Publications EEG Amplitude, Brain Mapping and Synchrony in and between a Bioenergy Practitioner and Client During

Healing, Subtle Energies Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3, The International Society fro the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine.

Science of the Heart: Exploring the Role of the Heart in Human Performance, Heart Math Research Center, The Institute of HeartMath Energy Medicine; The Scientific Basis by James L. Oschman About the Author: Sufani Garza is a Reiki Master Teacher, Seichim Master, Ama Deus Shaman,

Registered Healer, a channel, intuitive, and owns Place of Bliss Academy offering healing courses online at www.PlaceofBlissAcademy.com .


Dear Reiki, The Reiki Times Vol. 16 Spring Issue 2012

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Dear Reiki

Advice Column for the International Reiki Community

Editor’s Note: We are happy to debut the Dear Reiki

column with this issue. Readers are invited to submit

questions for answer and discussion to [email protected].

We will select the most widely asked questions for future

issues.

IARP member and regular TRT contributor, Sufani Garza, will be answering your

questions each issue. We will also have specialty guest panelists to add additional

valuable contributions as well. Thank you, Sufi!

Dear Reiki:

Sometimes I feel as if I am taking on a lot of my clients’ negative energy and emotions into

myself. Where I work currently is not a very grounded work environment, so I feel as if I'm

struggling to protect myself from being mentally and energetically drained. I was wondering if

maybe you had some advice you could toss my way to help me out to ground before

sessions and protect myself.

A: To stay grounded you have to bring it out from within and call on Mother Nature to aid

you. Environments around us are to teach us about what we need to work on. But true

grounding comes from the thought patterns we allow to exist in our minds. If you have

noticed a toxic environment you are no longer learning from in a positive way, then your body

is telling you to take action to remove yourself from that. Focus on what you want, not what

you don't want and you will find energy will begin to return to you. Spend five minutes every

morning in a peaceful sitting position just breathing and programming your internal waters by

saying "Love & gratitude" over and over and positive thank you statements until you fall into

silence in the mind. Five minutes every day while breathing consciously will ground you.

You do not need protection because no one's energy enters without your permission.

Visualize your peace bubble around you and remember that only the energy you allow in

comes in. Most energy drains come from within. We either are doing too much, not dealing

with things and the energy to run emotionally is exhausting, or we are polluting our own


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energy with negative thoughts, words or have disowned our power to create our reality.

Figure out which one you are? Love & Light!

Dear Reiki: If I receive psychic or intuitive information on a client whilst giving them a

treatment, should I pass it on? What if I am working in a Spa or more business atmosphere

or I don't know the person well to know their beliefs and if they would be open to it? What do

I do?

A: Well the first thing I would say is that it all starts with how you set up your session with the

client. For instance, if a client comes to you and you have had no initial discussion of what

you do, or had not agreed upon what will happen during the session then it could be quite

shocking to a person who has no idea that during Reiki, intuitive/psychic information comes.

This also can cause a religious conflict for someone who did not know this and is not willing

to hear it, yet who otherwise had a good session. My recommendation is that at the

beginning of each session, determine the appropriateness as well as find out what the client

would like to know. Keep your choice of words as neutral as possible for what you do. Private

practice allows all the freedom in the world yet in a business environment you must be more

conscientious of the person who was booked for you with no previous knowledge of you or

what you do and has a limited understanding of Reiki. In essence, find out what they are

there to do and get out of the session. That will tell you what you need to know and how to

proceed.

I always start by telling them what I will be doing and then tell them that during the sessions I

often get intuitive information that comes to me regarding their emotional or physical state. I

may feel heat in areas of physical problems or tingling in my bones when I sense emotional

issues that have settled in a certain part of their body. Then I simply ask, "If that occurs

would you like me to tell you?" Receive your "yes" commitment before moving into that

realm. This is most important when doing Reiki in a professional business environment

where previous conversation and interest was not developed personally and discussed with

someone like-minded.

I once did a session as an independent contractor at a fitness studio on a woman who saw

me many times for massage and heard about Reiki and the energy work and seemed very

open to it. Upon her session I received totem animals with messages, symbology and areas

of her body that were blocked and why they were having trouble. At the end of the session I

began to tell her what I received intuitively and saw her eyes freeze and then glaze over with

discomfort as I was discussing with her the totem animal and symbology. I sensed right away


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that she did not want to hear this because it conflicted with her religious views of intuiting

information this way. I immediately stopped and ended the session politely for her. It was

very disappointing for me because we were on the verge of releasing her from her suffering

with this information. From that point onward I realized that whether in private practice or

while employed in a health facility, always explain your process and ask what they would like

receive after the session. The session could be followed by intuitive information and sharing

experiences or as simple as asking them how they feel and seeing them out. Always let the

client be in charge of their session, giving them only what they seek from you and no more.

One will only receive what they are willing to take anyway.

Dear Reiki: I have started to develop psychic senses, what do I do?

A: What is so amazing about this is that all human beings have the same senses. Yet upon

development of seeing the world in oneness and removing the veil that is so firmly placed in

between the physical realm and the spirit realm, we begin to see we are limitless in healing,

communicating, and so much more. What is important to do is to pay attention to the

messages you are receiving. As you do your work and receive messages begin to notice if

there are patterns to them so that you may better understand how the universe is speaking to

you directly through your own personal guidance system. These are the tools you will use to

become more intuitive and begin to sense things, to the simplest shifts in energy in people.

Many people in the beginning become worried about this development wondering if its

normal or they commonly say they are seeing or hearing things that are "weird." I always tell

them that there is no such thing as weird or abnormal. Yes, social programming may

say otherwise but healing work is about releasing all programming and focusing on being in

the moment and listening. Entering intuition is a dimension of silence where communication

is possible telepathically and information is given to you through light, which is information.

How you translate that information can come in many different ways and each healer is

different in how they receive their guidance. Focus on acceptance of yourself, be grateful for

the gift of guidance and be open to it as it comes. To train yourself with the information, if you

have a client with whom it is appropriate to share this type of information (they have either

asked or have given their encouragement for sharing), tell the client what you received and

simply ask, "Does that make sense?" or "Does that mean anything to you?" The more

confirmations you receive the more your confidence will build. My advice during this process

is never tell a client what it means, ask them if it makes sense to them and most of the time

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Do you have a burning Reiki question that you’d like clarification with or to explore further?

Send an email to [email protected] with the subject line ‘Dear Reiki question’. We will choose

several questions each issue to explore.

CREDENTIALS:

Sufani Garza is a Registered Healer (RH) through International Natural Healers Association (INHA) and a member of the International Association of Reiki Professionals (IARP). She has over 12 years of experience in the healing industry, is a Reiki Master Teacher (RMT), a Seichim Master Teacher (SMT), a Master Shaman Teacher of Deep Release Point TherapyTM , a Shaman of Ama Deus-from the Guarani Tribe of Central Brazil, a Meditation Teacher, a State Certified Massage Therapist

(SCMT) and Certified Holistic Educator (CHE), a graduate from National Holistic Institute, and is the owner of Place of Bliss Academy, an Internationally Accredited Holistic Institute for Higher Learning, offering ecourses. Sufani teaches locally at spas, fitness & yoga studios, privately, and has taught hundreds of student’s over the years. Sufani is a regular contributor to The Reiki Times Magazine, She has also been published in several issues of The Sedona Journal of Emergence and was also featured in the July 2011 issue of Massage Magazine interviewed for her experience on the effects of meditation on her massage practice. She has written eighteen books, and is married and lives in San Jose, California with her husband and three children. Visit her at www.PlaceofBlissAcademy.com, contact at [email protected].

This column appeared in the Spring 2012 issue of The Reiki Times, the magazine of the IARP © 2012. International Association of Reiki Professionals LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Sending the Highest of Reiki Blessings

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