Category Archives: Reiki

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Runes, feeling and the 5 Reiki principles

Every morning I do the 5 Reiki principles , since I did the course in Reiki. I have not yet found a simpler and quicker way to imbue the day with meaning. In our practice of magic we look for the most efficient and effective methods to apply in our lives.

The bottom line is that with my studies I found that feeling the runes is an important part of this rune practise. When starting with FA saying “I will not worry, I live with enthusiasm” , I focus on the surging feeling of enthusiasm. In the beginning this was not as obvious but with the discipline of a daily practice the ability of feeling the feeling increases.

Emotions are closely connected with our astral being and it’s so much more important for us to imbue our physical lives with positive emotions. I used to think of emotions as reactions to life. Life happens and then an emotion follows. However for those who understand our true nature as being energetic, emotions are first generated as cause that drives how we approach life.

In summary, the practice, of the 5 Reiki principles with the runes, is effective. Feeling the emotions, connected with virtue, is powerful in the development of our being.

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Body awareness.

My journey through the zodiac is talking me through Virgo at the moment. We start with a question relating to body awareness.

How often in your daily life are you listening to cues from your body? How much do you trust its intelligence when making choices?

Both Reiki self-healing and Yoga offers me the opportunity to listen to cues from the body. Reiki-self-healing requires time of focusing on various parts of the body for several minutes, consequently one become aware of how the body feels and reacts.

Yoga is also a process of discovering body awareness. Especially during relaxing postures like the child pose or the corpse pose. I have for example discovered a thick bite during one of my yoga sessions. While you stretch and work your body through the various postures the body awareness is increased and then a pose like the corpse pose allow you to tune into the whole body.

TRE (Trauma /Tension Release Exercises) is the one practice that taught me how truly intelligent the body is. You cannot make your body tremor, you have to allow the body to tremor. You cannot make your body tremor at a specific way you learn to trust your body to tremor on the way it is needed. The more you allow the body to follow its own way, the quicker and effective the healing process. One of the biggest challenges to overcome is to learn to trust the body to find the tension and release it.

Given the practice of Reiki, Yoga and TRE I learned much about body awareness and trust in the body inherent intelligence. I do not know if there are better techniques for body awareness but they are certainly effective. I have also learned that when one improve your sleep and diet then your body intelligence deepens and teach you how to maintain an inner harmony and balance in the body.

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Cho Ku Rei and Sei Hei Ki in armanen runes

I was wondering what would be the equivalent of the Cho Ku Rei  and Sei Hei Ki symbols in terms of the Armanen runes…if there is any equivalent.  Cho Ku Rei, activates and amplifies the effectiveness and efficiency of Reiki energy within a specific context. The power symbol contains three principles…the source, the flow and the action of Reiki. Cho Ku Rei is a more general symbol then Sei Hei Ke which  seems to be specific in balancing mind and emotion. The world of feeling and thought …the rational and the irrational.  Apparently the left of the symbol represent structure and the right flow.  So if Cho Ku Rei amplifies and unifies energy then Sei Hei Ki represents the duality of applying Reiki energy in order to find balance and harmony in energies.

In terms of the Armanen Runes I think the following apply:

CHO KU REI = UR-THORN-BAR-HAGAL: To heal, to project, to descend and universal

SEI HEI KI = UR-OS-RIT-EH: To heal, to accept, to flow and cosmic union

HUN SHA ZE SHO NEN = LAF-FA-NOD-GIBOR: Cosmic law, creative energy, to help karma and life

 

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Cho Ku Rei and 5 Reiki Principles

I introduced myself to the Reiki online group on Facebook today and got a welcoming reception…especially from other South African reikig practices. I asked a question to understand the difference between a clockwise versus anti-clockwise Cho Ku Rei. I got various answers which showed that there is not a single answer to the question. The key difference seem to be that the clock-wise version gathers energy to amplify the work while the anti-clockwise dissipates the energy. Others pointed out that it is not traditional Reiki and that it is a new age addition to the original teachings.

At the present moment the reasoning that seems most appealing to me is not to focus too much on the direction but rather focus on the intent I place in using the symbol. Within that approach it is best to just use the symbol as is, starting the top line moving from left to right.  Intent trumps the style of the symbol.

I had been doing Reiki self-healing consistently yesterday and today and continued to focus on the 5 principles as they are packaged along with the other virues that are key to my practice. As a mystic and Stoic philosopher I changed the 5 principles into a prayer to the God of my heart and the God of my understanding.  By focusing on it as a prayer I am stengthening my relationship with the principles but also connect it deeper with my soul experience.

“God of my heart and God of my understanding,
today I will live patience and let go of all anger,
today I will live equanimity and let go of all worry,
today I will live gratitude and count all my blessings,
today I will live honour and do all my tasks conscienciously,
today I will live compassion and be kind to all living creatures,

today I will live courage and face all my without fear,
today I will live temperance and will tame my passions with reason,
today I will live justice and protect the weak and the vulnerable,
today I will live wisdom and act from divine creative inspiration,

today I will live order and bring structure to chaos,
today I will live silence and make time to listen to the master within,
today I will live humility and be me – no more and no less,

thus will I live with enthusiasm a beautiful life fully,
SO MOTE IT BE!”

Copywright – 2018, Zeal4Living.

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Cho Ku Rei

 

I love the Cho Ku Rei symbol in Reiki for its symplicity and yet powerful imagery. I can easily relate to the symbol without too much effort. As I meditated on this symbol this morning I thought that it is high time that I develop a book of symbols for myself and that the Cho Ku Rei will definitely feature prominently in such a book.

The spiral on the penetrating down line reminds me of the rose upon the cross which gives new insight of the power symbol used to amplify Reiki energy or Vital life Force for healing and other reiki operations.

The symbol carry within itself the idea of gathering, penetrating and focusing energy. When drawing the Cho Ku Rei i feel that line 1 gathers the energy, line 2 draws the energy in and line 3 focus the energy. Thus it is a symbol of gathering, drawing it in and focusing it towards a specific and clear intent.

Cho – to cut , Ku – to penetrate, Rei – to apply universally