Monday, July 20, 2009

Renew Your Chakras, Live A Better Life!

With the Reiki discipline of self-healing, learning to stop and breathe for a moment, may it be in a moment of meditation or simple relaxation, is very important to keep the energy flowing. In this very tense, yang world, we are often unable to get that break in order for us to meditate and allow our bodies to heal itself.

However, meditating is not that easy. Our modern life consists of noise. Whether it’s in the form of traffic in the street or the sheer number of visual distractions that they put up like advertisements in the streets, our society wallows in distraction. Due to these distractions, we must learn to take time to focus on the spiritual aspect of our lives.

The diminishing life force energy in Man.
Every person in the world has this life force. Living the modern life is very stressful. These stresses lead to our energy levels going down. With our energy levels going down, we will see a weakness in our body and general disillusionment with life. This is why we are often bored and in the quest for distractions.

However, the solution to that really is to reach deep within your self. This may happen through meditation or through energy-touch. Reiki believes that you can help channel the flow of your energy and redirect it to begin healing. Any other massage therapist can give you temporary satiation but a Reiki Master will do wonders for shifting the energy in your chakras promoting healing at many levels.

More than just alternative medicine, Reiki offers an alternative lifestyle.
Thus, we need to take some time off from our modern lives and start living a different life. Reiki is a philosophy that dates its principles in spiritual wisdom. Now, Reiki happens differently in different people. Other people may practice Reiki in different ways with some meditating more often than others. However, the effects of energy healing will ultimately be the same.

With constant Reiki exercises, you can improve the flow of energy in your chakras or your life’s energy force. You will find yourself seeing the world in a different light from before. The new you will be more open to opportunities that will lead to your self-realization. After all, once you’re free from your stressful burdens, you have renewed energy for new endeavours.

Achieve the impossible through your Will!
Now that you’ve got your inner energy all charged up, you spiritually exude an inner light. With your new focus, you will be able to gather the spiritual energies into one blinding concentration of light. This is a beacon for the universe to follow. Being a positive energy, the universe will be sending positive things in the direction of your light.

With your new curiosities and open-mindedness about everything that surrounds you, you can start rebuilding your life and doing what it is that you want to do. We were all put in this Earth to fulfil a special purpose. Let your inner light guide you to it.

Something Like Magic

Reiki, which is a form of therapy originating from Japan, promotes the benefits of having a healthy life through tapping the flow of life energies. More than that, Reiki practices and encourages followers to live meaningful and fulfilling lives.

One thing is always connected to the other, for example when you entertain happy thoughts, you would most probably be entertaining happy feelings too. And then it would show in your facial expressions. If someone who is feeling sore comes your way, you can then affect them with your happy disposition and the cycle goes on to other individuals you and the person comes in contact with. There are more examples of how things in this world are connected to one another and it’s impossible to discuss all of them, but the point remains.

Eastern healing philosophies which have been passed on from one generation to the other and have been transmitted across different parts of the planet, build their foundations on this idea. Reiki, which is a form of therapy originating from Japan, promotes the benefits of having a healthy life through tapping the flow of life energies. More than that, they encourage followers to live a meaningful and a fulfilling life. This might sound idealistic and attract skepticism from many especially in our generation where people pretty much live their lives in the workplace. But doesn’t it make sense that when you are content and happy in your life, there are fewer troubles to attend to or problematize about? In Reiki, life force is important as each living thing has it. Unlocking what the life force does will bring wonders. It is a form of energy that is spiritual in nature. It can be affected by anything outside or within the body itself. When a person feels stress, the flow of this energy is blocked and when this happens, the proper functioning is affected, hence the appearance of different sorts of illnesses. Most people would result to prescribed medicine, but what this does is to cure just one aspect of the ailment. For example, taking medication to cure muscle pain doesn’t relieve you from the stress or root cause of it.

Moreover, there are Reiki Masters who can provide healing through treatments or often called a Reiki Massage. Now, a massage can come from a licensed massage therapist but the difference is that the palm healing provided by a Reiki Master takes its effectiveness from allowing life energies to flow in healed pathways, raise its amount and reduce negative energies by promoting the flow of energy. It is a good way to relax and feel energized. If you hold a healthy flow of energy then everything in your system whether it be physical or spiritual is healthy as well. However just like any form of alternative medicine, Reiki does not stop people from taking their prescribed medicines. This is just one way to feel better, to promote healing in a different manner. After all, that is what’s most important; the pursuit of good health.

Breathing the Stress Out!

Have your ever experienced a time when you’re going through various aches in your body and at the same time, feeling a certain imbalance in your life? And you know that the aches you feel are more than just physical. If so, then maybe you should try to dig deeper in your senses and experience the healing powers of Reiki.

What is Reiki? It is a way of explaining how the proper flow of an individual’s energy levels affects one’s body. Reiki is basically from Japanese origin as a technique for stress reduction and relaxation that can also promote healing. It treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and wellbeing. The reiki technique is to bring wholeness in you and get rid of all stress whether they may be on the outside or in. The Reiki technique believes that if one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel the stress and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

The purpose of this technique is to let your body unwind and release all tension. Let the aches and stress find release, it can be as simple as the practice of meditation where basic and proper breathing keeps the mind and body relaxed. There are various types of meditation, the most common being formal sitting is concentrated in keeping the body immobile and the attention controlled. Examples of these would be Zazen and Vipassana meditation; these elaborate on how a posture can affect our breathing and how our breathing can affect our body’s way to relieve stress. Other meditation techniques involves how a person treats the situations that happens to him/her, there are expressive practices where we are let to have anything happen and be happy with it.

A popular form of getting rid of stress is also through massage. This can be expanded with healing starting from the physical state of a person and getting through all the way to the mind and the soul. The goal of a massage is to slowly eliminate tension in muscles after the body has felt better; the mind will also start feeling better. It has been said that pain is only in the mind and if ache is taken off from the body then the mind would also stop thinking of pain.

Massage involves acting on and manipulating the body with pressure, this could be done with the hands, feet, elbows, fingers and forearms of a person. Though massage can be in the comforts of home it is always better to consult a massage therapist. This is someone who is already professionally aware of where to put pressure on the body. Either you set an appointment or request for home therapy.

There are simple and easy ways to feel better. Whether we choose to start from our physical pain moving inward or create an inner balance in ourselves and move outward. Various methods will help us get through every back-breaking day with ease and comfort.