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Reiki Symbols
"Instead of seeking
many other medicines to cure their illness, I wish people
would always honor their own body's healing ability and
take good care of themselves."
Meiji Emperor
A symbol is a communication
element intended to simply represent or stand for a complex
of person, object, group, or idea. It often are graphics or
little drawings, which are in fact a comprimed or simplified
reproduction of an idea, meant to trigger your consciousness
or unconsciousness towards that special meaning. So symbols
help us focus and help calling forth a special type of energy.
Do symbols have power? Yes
and no.
When symbols are often seen by many people, all these persons
at a conscious or subconscious level put their energy in it,
connect with it's meaning, and the more often this happens
the more powerful a symbol becomes. Thus symbols like the
pentagram and the Aum symbol have become really powerful;
they have become charged.
On the other hand symbols
are just that: a symbolic representation of something. They
represent a certain energy, but are not that energy in itself.
Reiki symbols are not the Reiki itself, but they help us address
a certain aspect of the Reiki energy. Therewith they greatly
help us consciously connect to the energy, which highly promotes
single mindedness and intent. And if your intent is very clear
it gives the universe a clear message of what you want to
do or help coming about.
The Reiki energy and the Reiki
symbols nurture each other: During an attunement they are
given to you, what means placed in your energetic bodies,
as a divine sign which says: "you are now empowered by
your Inner Flame, to tap into this energy and use it."
They are the words of divinity which accompany the divine
gift: Reiki. Thus the symbols help one to open up for the
gift of Reiki. (So here the symbols 'support' the Reiki.)
At the same time the master first opens up to channel the
energy through his/her own body and next places the symbols
in the aura and chakras of the student. This means that before
receiving any symbol by the student it is first charged with
the full Reiki stream channeled by the master. (So here the
Reiki 'supports' the symbols.) This process explains why a
symbol works better/stronger when you are first attuned to
it, be it one of the original Usui symbols or any other 'new'
Reiki symbol. This explains also why it is very hard to claim
that a newly found or channeled Reiki symbol should be 'higher
vibrational' than the original ones; they are still charged
by that same energy: Reiki, life-force, Source.
Usui gave four symbols for
his Reiki Ryoho: one for the physical level, the emotional
level, the mental and the spiritual level. Herewith this simple
system is complete. With the growing interest in metaphysics,
occult knowledge and the channeling of other realms during
the last decades, a number of symbols (and additional practices)
has been added by Reiki masters. Many of these new symbols
are well worth working with, representing a positive energy
which can be very subtle. Therefore some of the new symbols
are believed to be higher vibrational than the good old Usui
symbols, but what you really do is focusing your attention
to a very subtle part of the energy spectrum. Still what you
channel with these symbols is Reiki, and the base for every
new Reiki branch is still Usui Reiki Ryoho. If Reiki speaks
to you as a simple, yet powerful and effective system you
don't need much to learn for, I would advise you Usui's Reiki.
If you enjoy consciously working with various energies, wish
to experiment with subtle energies and connect Reiki with
other modalities (crystals, chakras, etc.), I advise you to
take courses in one of the newer Reiki branches. But you may
need to check, because for several new Reiki systems Usui
Reiki is a pre-requisite.
(Continued In Reiki Symbols Part 1...)
| Authors Details: Anja Heij - Unknown
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