Celtic Reiki

Ok I shall try and be as lucid as possible - but have currently got the flu and until about 8am this morning was having fever-induced weirdo dreams... I kid you not! At one point I dreamt I went to the doctors and my whole year from school were in the waiting room and then the nurse took me for a consultation in the toilet where she proceeded to go for a pee *hmmmmmm* oh and I also shouted at Death that I *was* gonna eat something so bugger off will ya... I always seem to get fevers when I'm ill and boy do I have some amusing stories to tell related to what I have done throughout them...

But anyway - on the the post which I hope will make sense.

Chas, you asked, what Celtic Reiki is - here's my answer:

Reiki is a form of energy healing whereby the reiki practitioner channels the universal energy through their body (and chakras) and out through their hands to the person who has requested healing. The chakras are energy points within our bodies which can become clogged up when we are ill or stressed and when they are moving freely the energy moves freely through our bodies helping us to have a more balanced system. The 7 main chakras run up the spine from base (our tail bone) which is red, the sacral chakra (around our womb area) which is orange, our solar plexus (the tummy) which is yellow, the heart (you guessed it - the heart area) which is green, ou throat chakra (yup the throat area) which is turquoise, the third eye (between our two eyebrows and very slightly raised towards our brow area) which is purple and our crown chakra (above our crown) which is white. There are of course different interpretations of the exact colours of these chakras but these are the ones I subscribe to.

So Reiki is a form of energy healing and the practitioner can heal either hands on or via distance - it is all a case of manifestation. If the person requesting the reiki is sat/laid before the practitioner, the practitioner simply lays their hands over various parts of the recipient or over them but not touching. This all happens fully clothed and depending on the practitioner and form of reiki given can last anything between a few minutes to an hour. The practitioner can also send the intention that the healing be sent to someone a great distance away by asking for it to reach the recipient. As this is universal energy it is everywhere and can easily, imho, do that.

There are many different forms of Reiki available now - around 250 I think - and the one I choose to use is Celtic Reiki as this utilises the energies of the trees and I have always felt a great affinity to the trees of our world. When I first came across Reiki I was quite dubious about it and wasn't very open to the chance that it may work. But through the years I became more attuned to the idea and began to first receive reiki from friends and then eventually became a practitioner myself. But it has still taken me a long time to be open enough to share this part of my life with people outside my close friends (and even sometimes I have kept it away from them too) because I have spent so much of my life trying to be what everyone expects me to be and my own fears made me think this wouldn'tbe accepted - which I now realise was a gross underestimation and misdeed to people - because I wasn't willing to trust them enough to share this information with and make their own choices about it.

So, I hope that this has made some kind of sense - if not let me know and I'll try again lol. And take what you will from it - it may be your cup of tea or it may not.