 Choose to heal and be healed Reiki reawakens our innate capacity to heal and to be healed. This ancient healing art of “laying on hands” re-establishes our ability to choose health for our families, our future generations and ourselves in a simple, gentle manner. Laying on hands is an instinctual human nature response to discomfort. When it hurts, we rub it. Reiki is that simple. Reiki for pregnancy, birth and parenting Integrating the healing art of Reiki into life, specifically during pregnancy and birth creates the foundation for a life connected to center, balance, health and trust. By creating a foundation of well being, we enable our children and ourselves the opportunity to live from center. Reiki helps us access center by healing and opening the body’s internal energy channels, clearing out emotional, mental and physical stagnation. This reduces prenatal ailments, birth complications, newborn health issues and postpartum depression. Reiki flushes the body of fears, tension and physical imbalances while supporting relaxation, stability and comfort. The body changes on a moment-to-moment basis during childbearing. Reiki helps maintain balance and a connection to center throughout the cycles of life. Reiki is a vehicle of divine energy that transcends words, touch and thoughts. It has the capacity to bridge communication and healing between mother and baby within the timeless space of the womb. This supports bonding, the miracle of pregnancy and helps ease the transitions of birth. How is Reiki Experienced? Reiki has evolved into a universal healing system that is passed directly from teacher to student through a process of “attunements.” This is a one on one process involving clearing and opening the body’s channels so the practitioner becomes more connected to the divine source of universal life force. Each attunement increases the practitioner’s ability to channel and receive healing energy. Attunements simply activate that which is within us, our innate ability to heal others and ourselves. A person can experience Reiki through a healing session with an attuned practitioner and/or by being directly attuned and doing healings on self and others. Typically, a Reiki practitioner undergoes three degrees of attunements. Reiki I First degree attunement heals the body in the person who receives it. This attunement helps the practitioner physically heal herself and offers techniques for direct healings with another person. Reiki II Second degree attunement amplifies the amount of healing energy available to the practitioner. This attunement focuses on emotional, mental and karmic healing in the person who receives it. Second degree Reiki introduces three Reiki symbols and provides tools and techniques for doing healings with someone who is not physically present. Reiki III Third degree attunement is the Master/Teaching level. This degree further increases the potency and availability of healing energy and is reserved for the serious practitioner. Reiki III includes two more Reiki symbols as well as the method of passing attunements. Birthing from Center incorporates Reiki attunements as a tool to empower and support families in maintaining health and well-being. “Being a universal force from the Great Divine Spirit, it [Reiki] belongs to all who seek and desire to learn the art of healing,” explains Reiki Master, Hawayo Takata.* *Essential Reiki: A Complete Guide to an Ancient Healing Art by Diane Stein Copyright © 2003-2006 Birthing from Center. All rights reserved. |