Who was Mikao Usui Sensei?
August 16, 2009 by Oneness World Healing
Filed under Reiki
Mikao Usui Sensei was born August 15, 1865 in Kyoto, Japan. He grew up in an actively practicing Tendai Buddhist family, and entered a Tendai Buddhist monastry near Mt. Kurama as a child.
Usui Sensei, a Young Master of Martial Art
The young Mikao studied kiko (chi gong) to an advanced level.
When he was 12, Usui started his martial arts training in Yagyu Ryu, samurai swordsmanship, in which he later obtained the highest level of mastery, and was highly respected in the martial arts community in his ’20s and beyond.
He married Sadako, with whom he had a son in 1907, and a daughter.
Usui’s Professional Career Development
In a country where conformism prevails, Usui Sensei was considered an unusual man. One could say ‘eccentric’. Consequently, he held a wide range of somewhat unusual professions that matched his background: public servant, office worker, industrialist, reporter, politician’s secretary, missionary, and supervisor of convicts.
Usui was private secretary to Shimpei Goto, who was Secretary of the Railroad, Postmaster General, and Secretary of the Interior and State. ‘It seems that his duties were unclear, as it was considered that his role a politician’s secretary could be taken as a fancy title for ‘bodyguard’! Regardless, it was during his time in diplomatic service that he may have had the opportunity to travel to other countries. Usui travelled to China, America and Europe several times to learn and study Western ways, and this practice was encouraged in the Meiji era.
For a while Usui became a Tendai Buddhist Monk or ‘Zaike’ in Japanese: a priest possessing a home, not living in the temple.
Usui, A Man of Knowledge
Usui had a wide range of interests, and unceasingly broadened his knowledge. He seems to have studied voraciously. His memorial states that he was a talented hard working student, he liked to read and his knowledge of medicine, psychology, fortune telling and theology of religions around the world, including the Kyoten (Buddhist Bible) was vast.
He studied in a large University library in Kyoto, where sacred texts from all over the world were held. He was a qualified physician, and studied traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. His studies also encompassed numerology, astrology, psychic and clairvoyant development.
Usui as Seeker of Truth & Spirituality
In the 1890s, Dr. Usui became a Shingon Buddhist in 1922, he also undertook Zen Buddhist training for about three years. Many different spiritualist/healing groups were in existence at the time, and one of these – attended by Usui – was ‘Rei Jyutsu Kai’. Today this organisation consists of the most spiritual monks and nuns in Japan, psychics and clairvoyants.
Usui Sensei associated with many people of the highest spiritual values. Some were famous people in Japan, for example Morihei Ueshiba (founder of Aikido), Onasiburo Deguchi (founder of Omoto religion) and Toshihiro Eguchi (who founded his own religion).
Anshin Rytsu Mei – The Purpose of Life
“According to Hiroshi Doi, a member of Usui’s Reiki Association in Japan, Mikao Usui wondered what the ultimate purpose of life was, and set out to try to find out. After some time he finally experienced an enlightenment: the ultimate life purpose was ‘Anshin Rytsu Mei’ – the state of your mind being totally in peace, knowing what to do with your life, being bothered by nothing.
To achieve this goal Usui researched even harder for three years. Finally, he turned to a Zen master for advice on how to attain this life purpose. The master replied "If you want to know; die!" Usui-sensei lost hope at this and thought, "My life is over". He then went to Mt. Kurama and decided to fast until he died.
Usui was looking for a way of knowing one’s life’s purpose and to be content, and despite all his exhaustive research, he could not find a way to achieve this state. The monk’s advice prompted him to go to Mount Kurama and to carry out a 21-day meditation and fast called ‘The Lotus Repentance’, which comes from Tendai Buddhism. He carried out the meditation and, according to his memorial stone, he experienced an enlightenment or ‘satori’ that led to the development of Reiki. He did this meditation five times during his lifetime. “
Usui System Of Natural Healing in Context of Japanese History
In 1868 (when Usui was 3) there was restoration of rule by Emperor, the Meiji Restoration. Mutsuhito reigned until 1912 and selected a new reign title – Meiji, which means Enlightened Rule – to mark a new beginning in Japanese history.
Japan underwent a phase of rapid industrialisation, competing with the West on an equal footing in a relatively short period of 30-40 years. This rapid change created a climate of ‘wanting to keep hold of traditional culture’. The Japanese people wanted to maintain ancient traditions, while embracing the new, and this is what Usui did when he founded Reiki. Reiki was one of the many new spiritual systems and healing techniques being developed.
Te-Ate, Johrei & Mahikari
“Interestingly, one definition of the word ‘Reiki’ is ‘a system that has come into being through a moment of enlightenment’. Originally, Usui referred to his system as ‘Te-ate’ (pronounced ‘tee-ah-tay’), which means ‘hand healing’ or ‘hand application’. According to the Japanese author Michio Kushi, Te-ate is a traditional Japanese form of healing that has been practised for centuries.
He mentions that George Ohsawa, the founder of modern macrobiotics, taught this palm healing throughout Japan, the US and Europe. Kushi referred to Reiki as one of the modern forms of this art to emerge in Japan, and also mentions Johrei (Purification of Spirit) and Mahikari (True Light) as more recent developments. “
Reiki as Energy Therapy
“Reiki is a technique or method that is based firmly on the esoteric principles that were represented in Japan in the early part of last century. Usui brought together, in a unique way, the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine, energy transfer techniques like Chi Kung (in its Japanese form of kiko), Tendai Buddhism in terms of energy exercises, empowerments and spiritual teachings, and Shintoism in terms of techniques used to control the energies. “
The Origin of the Reiki Symbols
“The symbols that came to be used later in Reiki’s history also have their roots in Tendai Buddhism and Shintoism. This was done in a way that allows anyone to be connected permanently to a source of healing energy, and being able to channel it without having to undergo many years of practice, and they can learn to pass this ability on to other people very simply. “
Reiki for Personal Growth
“Although Reiki is generally promoted within the West as a healing system, it’s original purpose was for the personal and spiritual growth that would be experienced through the system: to know one’s true purpose in life and be content, to heal oneself and find one’s spiritual path, and ultimately achieve satori.
Mount Kurama, where Usui experienced his sartori, is a holy mountain. It is near Kyoto, the former capital of Japan, a place described as being ‘the spiritual heart of Japan’ – a place with a thousand temples representing a whole range of deities. Mount Kurama is also important from a martial arts perspective, being the place where mountain spirits are said to have given the secrets of fighting to the Samurai. “
Passing on the Reiki Lineage
“Usui trained 17 people to Shinpiden, or master level. There were 5 Buddhist nuns, 3 Naval Officers, and nine other men, including Eguchi who was said to have been Usui’s main friend and student. Eguchi later formed his own religion called Tenohira-Ryouchi-Kenyuka.
The Naval Officers were Jusaburo Gyuda/Ushida, Ichi Taketomi and Chujiro Hayashi, and they went on to form the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai. “
Source:
It felt like touching upon a golden vain, when I found Ruth’s Reikijoy website. In an email to me she explained that the source of her information about Usui as presented in this article here is from a Reiki Master called Chris Marsh, from the North East of England, who spent long periods in Japan over the last 30 years, and is the only Western Master of Samurai. This article sheds light on different aspects of Usui’s life and background that were previously in the dark. It borrows extensively from Ruth’s original text at Reikijoy: http://www.reikijoy.net/usui.htm – You may visit this site, however Ruth has now moved on from Reiki to other modalities.
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The Science Behind Healing Intention
March 9, 2009 by Oneness World Healing
Filed under Alt.Therapy, Distance Healing, Healing Wisdom, Prayer
This article by a guest author about ‘the science behind the intention to heal’ is timely. It is following our so delightful ‘We Are One World Healing’ group healing yesterday.
(I guess it was so delightful because I did a double session of 2 hrs, outside in the sun, linking to all in our group, with/without daylight savings, totally spontaneously. )
The article offers a nice explanation on why our distant healing sessions work. It is also a response to my poll results from the home page. While it is not specifically about Reiki, it embraces Reiki and is interesting to Reiki students.
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Here is the article “The Science Behind Healing Intention”
“Have you ever been to a health care practitioner you were really comfortable with? Perhaps you experienced faster healing by working with this person. Or maybe your church congregation prayed for you and you found yourself recovering from an illness faster than usual. Maybe you helped another person heal by your positive attitude or consciousness. If you experienced any of the above situations you have first hand experience with a mysterious phenomenon known as healing intention.
Just what is healing intention?
Intention can be thought of as having and acting with a purpose. In the case of healing, it is having the purpose to heal. The purpose to heal can be directed at one’s self or to another as in a practitioner-patient relationship. Healing intention also works over great distances.
Early research on healing intention was done with simple living systems such as plants. In one early study conducted by Bernard Grad (1) two different kinds of saline solutions were given to plants. One sample consisted of normal unaffected water while the other consisted of water exposed to healing intentions given by a healer. The plants given the healing water showed more sprouting were taller than those given the untreated water.
Healing & Science
Another series of studies by Grad showed that skin wounds in mice healed faster in mice treated by healers who simply laid their hands on them. (2) This effect of faster wound healing by the laying on of hands has also been found in human subjects.(3) More recently a study conducted by Randolph C. Byrd, a cardiologist at San Francisco General Hospital showed that healing prayer affected the recovery of cardiac surgery patients. (4) The prayed for patients experienced less complications and less morbidity than those who were not prayed for.
A clue as to how healing intention works may be found in the way intention affects machines. A number of experiments have been done with machines that generate a string of random numbers. These machines called random event generators or REGs spew out millions of random numbers that should all statistically cancel out. Experiments show that these numbers deviate from randomness with human intention. Human subjects can actually influence the machine’s output by just thinking about it. The effect is small but statistically sound. This effect also occurs over great distances.
Intention Reduces Randomness
The important point is that somehow intention decreases randomness in the universe. There is some kind of mysterious link between someone’s intentions and physical reality. At present we know this connection exists but we don’t know exactly what it is or how it works.
Disease can be thought of as the body moving toward a state of greater randomness. Think of an infection or something more serious like cancer. The body’s cells become more disorganized, more random with disease. It may be that intention works by decreasing the randomness produced by the disease.
Distant Healing
Intention is also a non-local phenomenon. A non-local phenomenon does not happen according to the laws of physics. In other words it does not obey the laws of space and time. For example, if you drop a ball you can measure a number of properties related to the event of dropping the ball. You can measure the speed of the ball, the acceleration and so on. In non-local events you cannot measure these properties because they appear to transcend physical attributes such as mass, speed and acceleration. Non-local events are instantaneous and can extend to any distance in space. If intention is non-local then it elicits its effects instantaneously and over any distance.
Intention can be used by anyone to heal or to help others to heal. We have seen that prayer is a form of intention but there are also other ways to use intention. First of all you must make a decision deep inside you to heal or to help someone else heal. Then you must hold the intention for a period of time. That means that you can concentrate on healing or just know in a deep way that you are healing. If you are using intention to help others you should focus on their health and well-being.
Some techniques go as far as having a group of people such as family members use guided imagery to help a loved one through surgery. Instead of nervously waiting in the visitor’s lounge the family members work together by performing an imagery exercise. The exercise begins by imagining the patient entering the operating room and then continues by forming an image of a successful operation and recovery. In my opinion this is time well spent and gives family members a sense of control over the procedure.
Conclusion
Intention is a great addition to any healing program and should be considered by anyone wishing to heal or in helping others to heal. It is simple to do, works over any distance and is supported by a number of studies. Although the actual mechanism is not known it may work by somehow reducing the disorganization caused by disease.
References
1. Grad, B. Some biological effects of the “laying on of hands”: A review of experiments with animals and plants. JAM Soc Psychical Res 1965;59:95-127.
2. Grad, B. Cadoret, R. J., Paul, G. I. The influence of unorthodox method of treatment on wound healing in mice. Int J Parapsy 1961; 3:5-24.
3. Wirth, D. Unorthodox healing: The effect of noncontact therapeutic touch on the healing rate of full thickness dermal wounds. Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Parapsych Assoc Convention, San Diego, 1989.
4. Byrd, R. Positive therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer in a coronary care unit population. Southern Med J 1988; 81:826-29.
By: Bruce Forciea
Dr. Bruce Forciea is an author, educator and chiropractor. His new book “Unlocking the Healing Code” presents a new paradigm for healing. His site contains more information, free newsletter, free guided imagery download and New Age music downloads.
Top 10 Articles in 2008
January 8, 2009 by Oneness World Healing
Filed under Aromatherapy, CrystalHealing, Reiki
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Top Articles
Read Our 10 Most Popular Articles for 2008:
1. Detox Diet Foods: Do’s and Don’ts
2. Crystal Healing
3. Mother Teresa:Goddess of Kindness, Saint of the Gutter
4. Aromatherapy for Chakra Healing
5. How a Feng Shui ‘attracting love’- technique brings love; a crystals approach, part 1
6. Tiger Eye
7.Crystals for Abundance
8. Feng Shui Bagua: to realize Love, Abundance, Career-goals, and More
9. Claim Your Energy Back & Detach Others’ Aka-cords
10. Alkaline Foods that will Help You Restore Alkalinity to Your Body
Top 5 Articles on Reiki Healing
1. Distant Healing Benefits & How it Works – part 1
2. Distant Healing Benefits & How it Works – part 2
3. 10 Reiki Myths Debunked
4. Reiki for Athletes
5. Reiki for MS
Your Choice for 2009
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Distant Healing Holiday Gift Idea . To Give or To Get!
December 17, 2008 by Astrid Lee Reiki Master
Filed under Distance Healing
In the winter season in North America, it’s the time to be ‘Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas’. It’s a season to be generous, joyous and … spiritual.
That said, not everyone lives this ‘happy happy’ reality, and the practicality of Winter makes people not as spiritually focused as would delight.
Winter is a time that people are extra busy and stressed: finishing projects at work, holiday meals to prep, extra activities to organize or to attend, XMAS shopping to do, and more.
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As well, Winter offers an emotional challenge to those who become gloomy without their usual sunlight-fix. To other, Winter means a bit more physical hurt: some break bones, rheumatic pains re-appear, a cough or flu keeps bugging…. Some people actually look up to the holidays fearing the resurfacing of sibling rivalry and family issues.
In sum, Winter can be both a joy and a challenge. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was something out there that could strengthen your connection to the universal divinity, and help you with all your challenges ?
Your Healing Gift
So, I thought to step up to the plate. I’ve created a holiday gift idea that would entail a solution for all.
To write on top of your list to Santa:
a HOLIDAY Distant Reiki Package
of FOUR 60-minutes-sessions
for only C$221 (US$185)
Here is my gift to you: this low rate translates to 50% off your first session + 10% off your three follow-on sessions.
The Gift of Reiki
What is so wonderful about Reiki in the holidays is that it instantly relaxes you. It also brings you in contact with the Divine, and can help you to become more spiritually inclined. Perfect! There are other benefits as I set out in these two articles: Distant Healing Benefits & Works part 1, and Distant Healing Benefits & Works – part 2 .
I’ve made this healing package very flexible: Reiki sessions can be dedicated to general wellness; specific pains; to a big event; to pain, or a big issue being faced. Or, they can be dedicated to your new year resolutions.
You can buy this healing package online as a gift. A personalized, digital gift certificate will be emailed to you, which you can print on the fanciest paper to give to yourself, your friend, colleague, or family member. Or better: you can give the link to this blog article to Santa.
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Finally a gift that means more spirituality, and … less ‘stuff’.
Love this Holiday Gift Idea?? Your first step is to complete an online application for the person who will receive the Reiki treatment. Upon acceptance, you can make payment for your Reiki gift. Then, your gift certificate will be emailed to you, usually within a day.
This package is for only first-time clients, with accepted applications. Non-transferrable. This offer lasts till Feb 2009.
Distant Healing Benefits & Works — part 2
December 29, 2007 by Astrid Lee Reiki Master
Filed under Reiki
Continuation of A Lee’s article, part 1:
The benefits of distant Reiki and in-person Reiki treatment are essentially identical. Distant treatment has the advantage of being sent to remote locations and to situations where Reiki practitioners could not or should not be physically present, such as a court hearing. Distant Reiki works as well as in-person healing treatment, and you can receive it in the comfort of your own home, or wherever you choose.
Preparation for Receiving Distant Reiki
Ideally, you have given your Reiki Master has a recent photo, your name plus your physical location.
It’s nice if you can meditate while receiving Distant Reiki. You may lay on bed or sit quietly. You will probably be aware of the energy through your body, and thoughts for your healing might come to mind. However, awareness and meditation is not a prerequisite for Reiki to succeed.
If you can not meditate at the agreed time, just go about your life while the Reiki healing is being sent to you. The distant healing treatment will arrive no matter what you are doing, and you will receive its benefits.
Distant Reiki Works
You only need to give permission and be open to receiving the distance healing for the healing to work. You don’t even need to believe in Reiki for it to work.
What it feels like to receive distant healing treatment
You may feel heat, tingling, coldness and/or have visual experiences during your distant healing session. All are normal. If you felt nothing, or if you fell asleep, it does not mean the treatment was unsuccessful. Rather, if nothing is felt that may mean that the healing energy was working on some issues other than physical, namely the emotional, mental or spiritual bodies as directed by your soul.
Distant Reiki Client Testimonial
If you are skeptical about Distant Reiki, consider the following. It is from one of many letters I recently received over the years. It’s written by a client who received a 4-week distant Reiki package, given in the evening.
“… I wanted to … let you know how happy and impressed I am with the work you’ve been doing with me. I have discovered and experienced many interesting responses to your treatments.
The first treatment I received was to help with my migraines which have been defeating me for several years now. During our first remote treatment, I experienced the most unique response, while attempting to relax and receive your energy, I felt a cooling and tingling sensation from head to toe, and was actually able to slip into a restful sleep.
Over the next several treatments, I again experienced physical reactions that I can only connect to your treatments. I found I had ‘jello legs’ because I was feeling so relaxed at times and a new found clarity within my emotions.
“I truly enjoy your openness to discuss your (clairaudient) messages with me and to help me explore my personal struggles. I have begun to feel an inner peacefulness that is quite rare due to my extremely challenging life, both personal and work-related.
I have not experienced another migraine since beginning work with you and I really can’t thank you enough for helping relieve the pain. I look forward to continuing your treatments and thank you again for all your help. I highly recommend you and am happy to express my satisfaction to any of your clients.”
This is just one of many testimonials of distance healing recipients relating to the issues this person had. Your issues are no doubt unique to you.
You can find more TESTIMONIALS on my Reiki Credentials page.
Interested in Distant Healing?
Use my Distant Healing application on my website, www.TherapeuticReiki.com Newcomers to Reiki may wish to start with a single treatment, and then get the distant Reiki week package.
If you have some questions first, contact Reiki Master A. Lee directly at Info@TherapeuticReiki.com .
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Distant Healing Benefits & Works — part 1
December 29, 2007 by Astrid Lee Reiki Master
Filed under Distance Healing, Reiki
When healing energy or Reiki is send to another time or location, it is called Distant Reiki. The remote healing can be sent to you, someone you love, relationships, situations and events. It can be sent to any place in the world and to any time – there are no time nor space restrictions. Geographic or time distance between the Reiki practitioner’s healing session and the Reiki recipient has no effect on the quality of the healing.
All Reiki practitioners tell you Reiki supports recipients on all levels: the physical, the mental, the emotional and the spiritual. However, they don’t always help you in interpreting this broad notion. I want to therefore give you some specific examples of how distant Reiki healing could benefit you.
Distant Reiki can benefit you under many, many circumstances.
- First of all, you don’t have to be ill or severely injured to benefit. Anyone can benefit from Reiki. A Reiki session balances you, offering deep relaxation and harmony. As such, distant Reiki can be very comforting to receive during special situations, e.g. during vacations, dates, marriage proposals, or other situations that are special for you.
- Reiki enhances memory & creativity. It calms the emotions & anxiety. Further, it brings harmony & clarity. These aspects makes distant Reiki an ideal stress support during taxing situations such as test exams, important business meetings, job interviews or auditions, public speaking engagements, court appearances, sport performances, and even the purchase of a new home.
- Reiki eliminates bodily toxins. But it does not only clear on a physical level; Reiki has been said to help reduce the possibility of violent outcomes, such as in sports, and to spread a wave of peace amidst chaos.
- On the physical plane, Reiki can ease pain. It supports traditional medicine, counteracting medical side-effects and bleeding. Reiki is known to speed up the healing recovery process when ill or hospitalized. Reiki can also reduce the trauma of surgery. It restores depleted energy. Distant Reiki or in-person treatment is therefore suitable before/after surgery, medical procedures or child delivery. Reiki comforts and brings peace to the terminally ill.
Continued in Part 2 of this distant healing benefits article.
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Healing Myth: If I Get Reiki Once, I’m Healed Forever.
November 7, 2007 by Astrid Lee Reiki Master
Filed under Distance Healing, Reiki
Let me discuss one of the healing myth that some new clients come in with and why it is a myth.
We all want quick-fixes — I do. However, healing is not a quick fix. It is a process of change. Compare getting Reiki to sailing the Titanic and shifting one degree in direction. This subtle change means total change. It results in avoiding hitting an underwater rock bed and landing in the desired destination. The slight shift results in a fresh perspective and a very different outcome! To the people on the Titanic, the shift is so subtle that they are likely not to notice it as they are so busy partying.
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Receiving Reiki brings about subtle changes within a person. These changes have a domino-effect of change on that person’s physical, mental, emotional and spiritual level. That’s why Reiki is so powerful, I believe. Our busy lifestyle makes noticing subtleties difficult as they seem insignificant. Therefore, my Reiki clients are asked to specifically observe themselves in the week after their Reiki treatment.
When Reiki recipients witness subtle changes within themselves and write these down in their healing journal, not only are they starting to see shifts, they are also able to celebrate them and build upon them. This process of recording builds insights of how change is a process: a progression of changes in thoughts, behavior, event and then outcomes, rather than a single switch in their life: on/off.
Typically people seeking Reiki treatment are recommended to take 3-4 sessions to bring about the desired shift on significant health issue. Sometimes a single, short Reiki session can bring about complete healing of a specific health issue in a Reiki recipient. I would argue that this Reiki recipient has already made substantial mental and emotional changes prior to the treatment. In this case, the Reiki treatment helps the Reiki recipient take away the final energy blockage that hindered healing.
Healing is holistic process on a path. When healed from a particular health issue, Reiki recipients often take a break from treatment. However, a few months later they may return for treatment. Sometimes the reason is reactive, as a new issue has surfaced that needs healing. Or the reason is pro-active. Once recipients have observed health and well-being benefits of Reiki within themselves, many commence a health & wellness maintenance program by taking a monthly session. Whether they work on their health preventatively or reactively, their healing is a process facilitated by Reiki.
By Astrid Lee, Reiki Master Teacher, TherapeuticReiki.com – © copyright 2007-2009:
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Claim Your Energy Back: Detach Others’ Aka Cords
October 23, 2007 by Astrid Lee Reiki Master
Filed under Channelling, Distance Healing, Healing Chakras & Auras, Reiki
I first stumbled upon the term ‘aka cord’ when giving a Reiki treatment for a very experienced and knowledgeable healer. At one point during the treatment, I felt the urge to symbolically ‘cut-off’ an attachment to a specific person for her. Symbolically, I held the attachment in my hand as a cord. With my imaginary sword I cut it off, and freed her from the connection. She sighed and an energic shift occurred within her. It was amazing to see the physical changes. Once I pulled the cords, we could move on with our Reiki treatment. Afterwards, she explained to me that what I intuitively had done was cutting off an ‘aka cord’.
You may wonder, as I did then, “What is an aka cord ?”
The insights of aka cords come from the sacred Huna teachings from Hawaii. In these teachings, ‘aka’ is described as a sticky, elastic connecting substance, which conducts vital force and thought forms over its threads and cords. (Yes, thoughts are also connected. Each thought is linked by an aka thread to the thought threads that came before it. This explains our association of ideas.)
Aka threads and cords connect you to everyone & everything. Every time you contact a person or object, you are sending out aka threads. Each contact with the same person/thing adds a thread till these become braided together into an aka cord. When you have a strong aka cord connection with someone, you communicate telepathically, as well as in person or by phone.
The aka threads of attraction are stronger between people, as we are usually more attached to people rather than things. However, I can also see aka threads between me and my favorite slippers, and the connection to my aunt via the little statue she once gave me that now features in my home.
People are usually unconscious of aka cord formations. The cords are a normal connection between family, friends and lovers to exchange empathy, love and information. With most other people, these threads/cords are flimsy and fade quickly.
Why manage Aka cords
The aka cords can become negative attachments which drain your energy. Even aka cords amongst loving family members. For example, you can imagine the ‘drain’ from a mother who wants a son to go to graduate school doing accounting, while he knows inside himself that he must pursue a music career.
For professionals (eg Reiki practitioners) who do healing energy work for others, knowing how to manage aka cords is important. Clients may want to continue to draw energy from you after the session is over. This can be draining for the professional energy working. In addition, it can be ‘addictive’ for clients.
Anybody in my Reiki healing energy classes knows that I insist that after every session they first close the aura of the client and ‘lock in’ the Reiki healing energy in their client. Subsequently, they are to sweep their own aura and cut off all connections to the person they just worked on. Taking it one step further, when the client has left, I want them to wash their hands under cold water to further purify their own body. This way, clients don’t continue to draw energy through the aka cord.
Beyond this, when I after a client treatment find myself thinking about this client more than once, I do the ritual of cutting our aka cord again. It is not fair to myself nor other clients to have a continuous drain leading to someone else.
And last but not least, about once a month or so, I conduct an overall aka cutting ritual.
How to manage Aka cords, overall
In the Huna teachings, you first ask to be shown the beneficial cords. You send love, gratitude and blessings down these cords. Then, you ask to be shown ones that do no longer serve you. You cut these.
You can manage your own aka threads once you’ve first become aware of them. If you work with angels, you could ask your guardian angel to do it for you.
Sometimes, I cut all aka cords, knowing that the important ones (e.g. with my loved ones and family) will reestablish themselves. This simple ritual is particularly useful when I feel tired or drained and I can’t seem to figure out why I feel drained. The ritual results in an immediate shift whereby I feel much lighter.
Conclusion
Whether you choose to detach aka cords one by one as they materialize, or if you prefer to conduct a more rigorous aka cord cutting ritual from time to time, it is important to maintain only those that serve you.
By Astrid Lee, Reiki Master & Distant Healing
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