Services Offered :

A. Reiki Healing Sessions*: In case you have any physical problem/disease or any life situation (relationships, financial, promotions, marriage) that you want to recover from, you can contact us for reiki healing sessions

B. ‘Learn Reiki’ One Day Seminars* are conducted every Saturday/Sunday, but you will need to book yourself at least two days in advance (i.e. by 10 a.m. on Fridays) for the seminar coming up next. These seminars will enable you to heal yourself and others. Attending seminars entitle you to attend repeat seminars of the same level free from us anytime in your life.

Reiki has four levels of seminars:

1. First level enables you to heal yourself and others through touch.
2. Second level enables you to heal yourself and others through touch and distant (absent) healing i.e. you can heal others and life circumstances from distance.
3. Third-A level enables you to heal yourself and others through touch and distant (absent) healing with eightfold power as compared to 2^nd level.
4. Third-B level entitles you to conduct independent seminars to initiate people into all levels of Reiki.

C. Reference service:  If you want us to help needy people in your area or around be referred to you, you may send particulars to us.

*(Reiki services are not given free)

If you want to know the basics about Reiki read on…

Excerpts from ‘Transform Your life with Reiki’

Imagine that you are a fish. You were born in the ocean, with water all around you. Never for a moment have you been without it.

One day, all of a sudden, you are ripped out of your environment. There is not a drop of water around you. What is your immediate reaction? What do you suddenly yearn for? Water, naturally! It is your nature to be in water always. You cannot live without it.

Now come back to reality. You are a human being, not a fish. You are not yearning for water, but you are very much yearning for something else--happiness. You have sought it all your life. Why? Not because you have unreasonable expectations, but because deep down it is in your intrinsic nature to be happy. You are happiness personified! There was a time when you were surrounded by bliss and happiness on every side, like a fish is surrounded by water. One day, all of a sudden, you were ripped out of your environment. There was no sign of happiness anywhere, only darkness and struggle. Happiness became a thing of the past, and before long you forgot your true nature altogether. You still have faint memories of your true nature, but your life has become a compromise: the occasional miserly bath in fleeting pleasure, instead of the ocean of happiness that used to be your home.

But there is a difference. In the case of the fish, she really was ripped out of the water; in your case, it has only been a bad dream. You are still in the ocean of happiness. To reclaim your natural habitat you need only to wake up.

And to wake up, you have only to start believing and expecting precisely what you want to see--the ocean of happiness!

Reiki is just the right vehicle for this journey, as it facilitates our route to the forgotten oneness of which we are already a part. It will transform your personality, your relationships, your emotional life, your professional life, your creativity and your sense of being unconditionally secure, cheerful and happy. Reiki ensures abundance in all aspects of your life: abundance of happiness, abundance of love for yourself and everyone else, abundance of wealth, abundance of success, abundance of creativity and abundance of gratitude.

In India we advise tourists, ‘Do not make the mistake of leaving India before seeing the Taj Mahal.’ And I feel like saying to everyone who happens to be a tourist on this planet, ‘If you have come to Earth and been granted this beautiful life with so many possibilities, do not make the mistake of leaving without experiencing the bliss of Reiki.’

All that is pleasant and beautiful flows naturally from Reiki. Life is not the same once you introduce yourself to this new way of living--everything starts to change for the better. The time line of your life divides clearly into pre-Reiki and post-Reiki. Desires either get fulfilled or drop away, and the mist over your purpose in life starts to clear. You begin making decisions that you have put off for years. A directionless life turns into a meaningful one, and you soon wonder how you were so fortunate as to have found the world of Reiki.

But unfortunately, the vast majority of people still opt to grapple with all kinds of problems using anything and everything but Reiki. Our concern should not be whether or not Reiki works, or how and why it works, but that so many people live on a planet blessed with the knowledge of Reiki yet go through their entire lives without hearing its name--or, if they do hear of Reiki, they disbelieve it and discard it before even trying it. They do not deem it important enough to be given a place in their lives.

Most energy healing systems take years of study and practice to be used effectively. Imagine a system so simple that an ordinary person who has never believed in the possibility of healing people just by the laying-on of hands becomes a healer on the same day of his or her attunement! Reiki is a holistic energy healing system with a difference-it promises less and provides more.

My own entry into Reiki came out of from sheer curiosity. I did not have very high expectations; I could not have imagined that my destiny was to become a Reiki master teacher myself. Over the last few years, I and Aruna, my wife, have watched Reiki transform not only our own lives but also those of our students and patients in profound and incredible ways.

I am only a beginner--and I would love always to feel like one (Reiki is like a mother to me, and sons never grow old to a mother)--but Reiki has already transformed my life. One change is that I have learnt to be happy irrespective of external situations. I can decide to be happy at any time, under any circumstances, and nothing can stop me. My health has improved considerably. I am much more confident in myself. The very nature of my goals in life has changed. Instead of thinking, ‘I will achieve this for myself,’ I set goals in terms of giving to others. I have come to trust myself. A sense that I am constantly being taken care of by the higher forces of the universe permeates every cell of my body. I almost never feel insecure, financially or otherwise. Like new-found wings, freedom has started growing on me. I recently gave up my safe, secure and comfortable job of twenty-one years’ standing (I still had seventeen years to go) to pursue things closer to my heart and fulfil the purpose I was born for--to learn, share and grow in Love and Truth.

Just the other day I heard someone say, ‘I have heard many Reiki masters and channels talk about Reiki, but I am eager to hear the views of an outsider--someone who is not deeply “into it” but has just seen or felt it working in his own life’. ##OK?## I told him it is actually difficult to find such people, as those who see Reiki working cannot keep themselves ‘outside’ Reiki much longer. They become insiders very soon. Paula Horan, the internationally renowned Reiki master who brought Reiki to India, was once a breast-cancer patient herself.

There is a plethora of books on Reiki in the market. Some are truly informative, and discuss the subject with deep sincerity. These books have been found quite useful by those who already practise Reiki or know they want to give it a try. But what about those who do not want to try Reiki simply because they are not convinced that the energy emitted by someone’s hands can heal?

There is an undercurrent of complacency in most of these books regarding the reader’s preparedness to accept the very concept of Reiki. This complacency is not difficult to understand; many Reiki masters believe that we cannot prepare anyone to accept something like Reiki before their destined time or against their wish. And to a large extent, I agree. But I also believe that countless people would not object to the idea of Reiki if they could only see the logic in it. And someone has to build a bridge between their world of ‘logic’ and the truth from which Reiki stems, so they can cross over to the other side and feel Reiki’s bliss.

Most books on Reiki also promote it as a ‘healing therapy’, which I believe belittles its scope. Calling Reiki a healing therapy may be a good way of letting people enter its world through the back door, but this is unjust to the spirit of Reiki. Reiki is a way of life and should be promoted as such--and that is the message and the spirit of this book.

The Secret Human Anatomy

In order to understand how Reiki brings us back to our true nature, we need to understand that the body we see in the mirror and identify ourselves with is merely the tip of the iceberg. Each of our bodies is surrounded by an ever-changing, egg-shaped dynamic energy system commonly known as the aura, and it is at this level--the invisible anatomy of the human energy field--that Reiki acts and carries out the process of healing.

For thousands of years we have seen pictures of great saints and holy men like Jesus Christ, Guru Nanak, Lord Budhha and Shirdi Sai Baba with haloes around their heads. Some images also show light rays emerging from their hands. As a child, I thought the depiction of a halo was just the artist’s way of showing respect; haloes have become so integral to pictures of saints and godmen that we take them for granted. Haloes were considered imaginary by most people, and especially by the scientific community, till around thirty years ago, when a Russian scientist named Seymon Kirlian invented Kirlian photography -- a process by which we can photograph the bioplasmic energy commonly known as the aura. The halo is simply the part of aura around the head.

Kirlian photography uses a high-frequency electrical current (from a generator that produces 75,000 to 200,000 oscillations per second) instead of light to expose a film. A Kirlian picture of a living body shows a corona around it. The advent of Kirlian photography not only generated new interest but also triggered serious scientific investigation into the world of auras. Ancient Eastern scriptures that had been gathering dust were taken off the shelves and given serious study. Scientific research with the assistance of clairvoyants has revealed a correlation between the observations of these gifted people and Kirlian photography, and thus validated most of the descriptions of auras given in our scriptures.

Reiki holds, and scientific research so far suggests, that all diseases first originate in the auric or energy body and get projected on to the physical plane in due time. The energy body comes into being before the physical body, and dissipates after the physical body’s death. If you cut a leaf, the bioplasmic field will continue to hold the shape and form of the complete leaf; it will take some time before assuming the truncated from. Similarly, patients whose limbs are amputated continue to feel the presence of their limbs long after the operation.

A healthy and clean aura therefore means a healthy body. Auras can also be diagnosed with the help of pendulums or with sensitized hands. In order to sensitize your hands, rub them briskly against each other, hold them about 20 inches apart and slowly move them towards each other. Try to feel the energy building up between them. (Closing your eyes might help you focus on the sensations.) In a few days’ time, you will develop a reasonable sensitivity in your hands. Ted Andrews, author of How to See Auras with the Naked Eye, prescribes an interesting exercise: stand behind someone at a distance just farther than that of your outstretched arms. Sway your body back and forth. Ask your partner to keep his body relaxed and loose. Ask a volunteer to observe the movements of your partner. You and the volunteer will find that your partner’s body also starts moving to and fro, following your own body. These movements originate in the push and pull you are giving to your partner’s energy field.

The Seven Koshas

The auric field is composed of seven layers, each one interpenetrating and extending out from the previous one.

The first layer intersperses the physical body and extends out of it by one-and-a-half to two inches. The first layer deals with the functioning of the physical body, including such physical sensations as pain, heat and cold. Our need on this level is to enjoy a healthy, vibrant body and the physical sensations associated with health. The colour of the aura on this level ranges from fine, thin light aqua blue for quiet and sensitive people to thick, coarse, deep bluish-gray for strong, robust people. The health of the first layer determines our potential for enjoying physical life.

The second layer represents our emotions with respect to ourselves. We need to love and accept ourselves as we are. Images for this layer range from vibrant, brightly coloured clouds (positive feelings) to dark, murky shades (negative feelings). These clouds of energy flow along the energy lines of the first layer. If you stop the flow of these feelings, you stop the flow of the clouds, and they become dark and sluggish. A stagnant second layer can impede the flow of the first and third layers.

The third layer represents logic and clarity, with which we think and desire to learn new things. The energy lines here are fine and thin, lemon yellow in colour and pulsate at a very high rate. A dull layer shows dullness of mind and disinclination to think. Negative thoughts correlate with slower pulsations of the field in this region and dark, distorted energy lines. An alert and agile mind keeps this layer healthy.

The fourth layer represents our feelings for the people we relate to. At this level, we need to love and be loved. This level is the bridge between our physical world (experienced through our first three layers) and the spiritual world (experienced through the next three). The energy here is thick and fluid, and it vibrates faster than the second layer. An unhealthy fourth layer is dark and heavy, with the consistency of mucus. The energy of the fourth layer flows between people as they interact; streams of of bioplasmic energy move out from your layer towards the other person’s field. These streams can be soft and rosy between lovers; dark, sticky and gray-green when one is jealous; high-peaked orange-red for one burning with passion; or dark-red and pointed when one is angry. We are born with cords connecting us with our parents, representing our relationships with our parents and determining the kinds of relationships we form with the men and women in our lives. Each new relationship develops more cords.

The fifth layer represents the divine will, and is associated with the power of words in the creative process. It is by accessing this layer that what we wish or say to ourselves comes true in the physical world. The need at this level is to be who we are, and to express that person to others. Those with an underdeveloped fifth layer have trouble keeping their lives in order; they cannot figure out their purpose in life. Those with a developed fifth layer are punctual, good planners and good executors of their plans. They have a sense of meaning and purpose in their lives, and have space and time for everything they need. The fifth level has grooves or slots for the bluish energy lines of the first layer. This kosha is the mould for the first kosha, as it creates the necessary negative space and contains all the shapes and forms that exist in the first kosha. This kosha extends one-and-a-half to two feet from the body.

The sixth layer represents divine love and ecstasy. Here are the feelings we experience when we fall in love with someone, get lost in the beauty of a landscape and so forth. Extending two to two-and-three-quarters feet from the body, the sixth kosha is a gold-silver halo of light. Our need at this level is for spiritual nourishment through experiences that make us feel lost in something -- we might feel connected to the stars, the trees, the ocean or everything out there in the universe -- thus giving us the experience of oneness. This is the level we experience in deep meditation. This level comprises streams of light of various colours, radiating in all directions at a high frequency. The beams may be straight or sagging, depending upon the health of this level.

The seventh layer represents the divine mind, and is made up of beautiful, high-frequency, bright golden energy lines. Extending three to three-and-a-half feet from the body, these golden lines form the matrix for all the physical components of our bodies. With a well developed seventh kosha, we start seeing and feeling the hidden divine perfection. A hidden purpose appears in every seemingly imperfect event or item around you, resulting in serenity of mind. At this level you hold your core beliefs, which may or may not be in harmony with the universal laws. All of our creative ideas flow from this level and give a sense of purpose to them. When the seventh kosha is underdeveloped, we might feel that everything is disconnected, random, chaotic and without purpose. When our beliefs are in disharmony with the divine laws, we are bound to experience diseases and upsets. This kosha holds the entire energy field together and protects it from harm.

The Seven Chakras

The aura is created and nourished by the energy brought in through chakras (chakra means ‘wheel’ or ‘vortex’ in Sanskrit), centres of nervous and cerebral energy that form the interface between the aura and the physical body. Though there are thousands of chakras throughout the human body, there are seven main energy vortices in the vicinity of their endocrine counterparts along the spine: mooladhara (the root chakra), svadhisthana (sexual chakra), manipura (solar-plexus chakra), anahata (heart chakra), vishudha (throat chakra), ajna (third-eye chakra) and, sahasrara (crown chakra). Their colour varies from violet at the crown chakra to red at the root chakra, just as in a rainbow. Each chakra has a different number of vortices (shown as petals of a flower in the ancient texts), and from mooladhara to sahasrara their numbers are 4, 6, 10, 12, 16, 96 and 972 respectively. Chakras are closely linked to the endocrine, nervous and circulatory systems, but they do not belong to the physical body and cannot be seen with the naked eye.

Maxwell’s corkscrew rule of electromagnetism ##OK?## shows that if a right-handed corkscrew is imagined to be rotated so that the tip of the screw points in the direction of the current, the direction of the thumb’s rotation shows the direction of magnetic lines of force. The movement of our chakras follows the same rule. If you hold your four fingers around any of the chakras with your fingertips pointing clockwise (as an observer would see) then the thumb indicates an inward movement of the current. However, if you curl your fingers in such a way that their tips point anti-clockwise, the thumb will indicate the movement of current outwards. Thus, a chakra that rotates anti-clockwise is a ‘closed’ chakra--not conducive to the intake of energy.

Normally the chakras spin very fast, sucking the universal energy into our body. However, as we grow older we develop negative patterns of thinking and living that slow down of some or all of the chakras and sometimes even impede their direction, causing an energy imbalance that results in various diseases. You can feel the influence of the chakras with the help of a pendulum, as it will start rotating on its own under the influence of any of the chakras when brought near that chakra’s field.

Chakras are, again, the contact points where the manomaya kosha (mental body) integrates with and controls the pranamaya kosha (energy body). I lift my arm because the pranic energy from the pranamaya kosha follows a desire or thought from manomaya kosha. The thought is like a radio wave; the chakras are like antennae. From the chakras, thought waves are passed on to the nadis--our body’s electrical circuitry. For the waves to flow in the circuitry of nadis, they need the pranic energy from the pranamaya kosha, much as a radio is supplied by batteries or electricity. Finally, the processed thought waves get transformed into perceptible movement in my arm, just as radio waves get transformed into sound waves at the speaker.

In everyone other than yogis, chakras and nadis work involuntarily, with no conscious intervention from the person. Yogis can, if they so desire, consciously use these chakras like step-up transformers to increase the pranic flow in the nadis.

Each chakra emits energy according its own characteristics. For example, the heart chakra helps us to express feelings of love, while the throat chakra helps us to be creative and express ourselves effectively. When these chakras are not spinning at their optimal speed, their respective characteristics can be adversely affected. Similarly, a block or impediment to the root chakra, which relates to survival and procreation, can result in a tendency towards fear. Similarly the svadhisthana, manipura, ajna and sahasrara chakras relate to health, well-being and pleasure; spiritual and physical energy; intuition, paranormal or psychic powers; and self-realization, respectively. Trying to suppress or deny particular emotions freely often results in blocks in the corresponding chakras--so do not hide your emotions from yourself, even if you decide for some reason to hide them from others. Reiki, pranic healing and chakra meditation are some of the ways to keep your chakras in youthful condition.

The seven energy vortices are located along the spine as shown. The first is at the coccyx, the second at the level of our sexual organs, the third at the solar plexus, the fourth at the heart, the fifth at the throat, the sixth at the third eye and the seventh just above our head.

Within each energy vortex are seven more vortices, each designed to transfer energy to the corresponding kosha. The seventh and first chakras are at the ends of the main vertical power current, which flows up and down between them and along the spine. The rest of the chakras are bipolar, funnel-shaped vortices with tips at the vertical power current. From these tips, each chakra extends about an inch, widening to a diameter of about six inches.

The seventh chakra (violet or white) is associated with the pineal gland on the physical plane. Through this chakra we perceive spiritual guides and receive their guidance.

The sixth chakra (indigo) relates to the pituitary gland. This chakra gives us psychic perception and the ability to see the latent oneness.

The fifth chakra (light blue) corresponds to the thyroid and parathyroid glands, and is associated with communication, statement and creativity. When we find it difficult to express ourselves clearly or honestly, or to express our emotions at all, the throat chakra might need to be healed.

The fourth chakra (green) is associated with the heart and the thymus gland and is the most important chakra for healing purposes. Through this chakra, we give and receive love, creating and strengthening cords to those with whom we are emotionally involved--family members, lovers, friends and so forth. A blocked heart chakra leads to apprehensions that others do not support us. The fourth chakra channels energy to the heart, circulation system, thymus gland, vagus nerve and upper back.

The third chakra (yellow) is at the solar plexus, a man’s power or control center. Corresponding to the pancreas and liver, it is associated with digestion. It reflects a person’s will, personal power, authority, self-control and self-esteem. Issues related to alcoholism stem from a diseased solar-plexus chakra.

The second chakra (orange), or hara, corresponds to the spleen in men and the uterus in women. First impressions and nostalgic memories are stored here. Sexual attraction and creativity both stem from this chakra, and it is through this chakra that we receive and perceive others’ emotions and sexual feelings. A diseased hara can cause fertililty issues and relationshiop problems. In women, this is also called the lower heart chakra.

The root chakra (red), at the bottom of the spine, is associated with the adrenal glands. As the body’s survival center, it relates to issues of scarcity and abundance. A healthy root chakra supports a strong faith in life and will to live, and tunes us into the universe’s abundance of food, money, shelter and health. This is also the repository of familial (immediate and extended), educational, racial, social

The important thing to note here is that constant use of Reiki over time helps heal the malfunctioning chakras. Once they are healed and balanced, not only our health but our very life is healed and balanced, too. Hence, Reiki is more than just a therapeutic tool--it is a way of life.

Modern Medicine Is Missing the Point

Modern allopathic medicine considers disease to be the result of the external environment, chance unfortunate happenings, chemical imbalances or harmful eating habits. The focus is on the physical body only--the external sheath and its interaction with the physical world around it. The goal is to bring about chemical changes that provide relief, yet this relief is usually only temporary and even then is not without side effects.

The problem with this approach to health is that the micro-organisms that cause disease soon get acclimatized to the chemical scenario that follows the use of medicines and they adapt accordingly, resulting in a need for progressively more or stronger medication. This constantly shifting chemical scene starts affecting healthy organs as well as diseased ones--often with dangerous consequences. Often people die not because of their original disease but because of the havoc wreaked by unhindered use of medicines. The solution is not to discontinue the use of medicines but to discontinue our obsession with and unnecessary dependence on them. Many of us have lost trust in the healing powers of Nature and our own bodies; we consider medicines a panacea. Instead of interpreting a headache as a message from the body and trying to understand it, many of us reach for a tablet without a second thought.

Antibiotics have proved a boon in the fight against many serious infections and diseases, so they deserve our respect and acceptance; but where is the justification for prescribing them for a cold or the flu virus? Thanks to billion-dollar propaganda from pharmaceutical companies, almost every nation on Earth spends billions of dollars and other scarce resources every year--not on health but on mere temporary relief from already-present diseases. This is akin to watering the leaves instead of the roots. Our short-cuts are cutting us short. Nature, however, has not built any short-cuts to health; it wants us to constantly learn and grow. Short-cuts deprive us of the invaluable opportunity to learn and grow from experience, especially illness.

Once health is understood as a manifestation of our inner state, a lion's share of the investment that organizations spend on getting temporary relief for their employees shall instead be spent on strengthening their subtler selves: training in positive thinking, yoga, proper diet, effective breathing, meditation techniques and so forth. The individual will then take full responsibility for his health, a shift in attitude that will contain the unnecessary drain on our precious resources.

There is only one healing agency in this universe, and that is the healing energy of the universe. Therapies provide a catalytic environment, but healing always comes from the same source--and this is what Reiki is. More and more medical doctors are realizing this, and moving towards holistic solutions.

We are being ushered into a new era, and it is exciting indeed!

Reiki : a new mystery

What Is Reiki?
Reiki is a Japanese word made up of two roots Rei and Ki. Rei  means Universal or spiritual. Ki is the Japanese equivalent of prana in Sanskrit  which means life energy force.  In fact ki has equivalent words in almost all the ancient civilisations. Polynesian Hunas knew it as Mana and in Hebrew it was called Ruach. For Chinese it was Chi and Russian researchers called it Bioplasmic energy. It is the Ka of Egyptians and Baraka of Sufis. Greeks termed it as Pneuma and Native American Iroquois recognised it by the term Orenda. Rei combined with Ki in Japanese, however means universal life energy force or spiritual life energy force. Reiki, more commonly, is understood as a simple hands-on healing system of incomparable ease and efficacy. It can be used both for healing self as well as others. It was re-discovered by Dr Mikao Usui in Japan in the late 19^th century.

Reiki is the primal energy. Philosophers, thinkers and mystics since time immemorial have been teaching us that universe is not made up of things but of energy.  Modern Physicists have now validated this belief of the great minds of all times-- especially the ancient eastern mystics--that the myriad of forms the universe appears to be made up of are nothing but energy impulses impregnated with information and pulsating at different frequencies. Reiki, in fact, is the fundamental energy this universe is made up of. Reiki, therefore,  is everywhere and exists as everything. It is all pervasive, unknowable but yet can be experienced directly by anybody. 

Reiki is a journey. It is a journey that lets us retrace our steps through the blocks of forgetfulness that we created unintentionally to keep ourselves from painful experiences--and goes on dissolving them in the process. So in short it is a journey to rediscover our core essence through a re-integration of our being—dissolving of walls to let parts reunite once again to the wholeness and oneness they once belonged to.

Reiki energy is spiritual in nature and tends to correct any imbalances in the speed and direction of the spinning chakras. This correction results in correction in any energy imbalance caused in absorption and re-circulation of the cosmic energy within the human system leading to an all round physical, mental, emotional, psychological and spiritual health. It calms the mind and strengthens the user’s life force. It connects us back to our very core essence. This re-establishment of connection with our core essence makes us realise that we indeed are unlimited; we have the power to manifest whatever we want for ourselves simply by intending so.

In fact, all human problems and diseases are the result of the illusion of separateness and rediscovering and connecting ourselves back to the one whole oneness is one obvious solution. The birth of Newtonian physics came in the wake of the ‘Cartesian’ concept (named after Rene’ Descartes) that divided the world into spirit and matter and was influenced by it.  Newtonian physics was therefore divisive in perception and gave us a mechanistic model of the world that dominated the scientific thought till the beginning of the 20^th century.

If on one hand the Cartesian divisive world-view and Newtonian physics resulted in the development of classical physics and advancement in technology, it also broke down our wholesome attitude towards life to a fragmentary one, though only subconsciously. Inner fragmentation between mind’s will and body’s instincts mirrored itself externally in the rise of a man who saw fellow humans and earth solely with the eyes of an exploiter. This was the beginning of severing of man’s links with his very roots—the mother Earth.

The feeling of separateness makes us feel lonely and insecure and as a result we garner further illusions that world is less than perfect and we need to do something to transform it in order for it to take care of us better. Or else the search for security leads us to the greed for hoarding power and money. Greed breeds further more insecurity and fear--fear of either failure in our attempts or to achieve, or to maintain what we succeed in achieving i.e. money, power or social status or whatever we find is important to us. The means we employ in achieving all these often run contrary to our value system and guilt ensues. It is interesting to note here that for some their value system makes them feel guilty if they enjoy anything—money, luxuries, sex or whatever, forgetting that God or Truth is Himself a personification of joy, peace and bliss.  Overwhelmed with insecurity, greed, fear and guilt, life becomes too heavy to carry on with.

Reiki attunements re-establish one’s lost connection with the oneness that surrounds one in the multiplicity of forms. Attunements are mystic initiations or empowerments passed on by the Reiki Teacher to the initiate. Often those joining a Reiki seminar feel this re-establishment of the connection with the oneness which mirrors itself in their attitude towards other participants as the seminar progresses; they smile more at each other, they feel more love and more connected to each other. The feeling gets reinforced with each healing that they give to themselves or to others and finally becomes a part of their life. The same may happen to a patient who is receiving frequent Reiki healing sessions. 

Reiki is not given but drawn—and drawn in proportion of one’s subconscious intention, since it respects recipient’s freedom not only to believe or disbelieve something but also to choose the extent to which he or she would like to believe or disbelieve it. It is this very freedom that originally allowed us to decide to dissociate ourselves with the latent oneness and again it is the same freedom that allows us or to re-establish our lost connection with it, if we want to.

Reiki can only be used to heal i.e. for only noble and positive ends as it is nothing but unlimited and unconditional pure love-energy of the Latent Oneness for all that comprises it. This love energy is the greatest vibration available to mankind. One of the most interesting and curious things about Reiki is that there can be no mistakes in the use of Reiki as it has its own intelligence and needs the provider of the Reiki energy merely as its channel. As one uses Reiki regularly or more often, another curious thing is noticed in due course of time; it starts suggesting things to the channel through his or her intuition. Though it is impossible to use Reiki for causing anybody harm, it may often release suppressed negative emotions in terms of anger, depression etc. much against one’s expectations but it is only a part of the healing and is meant only for one’s growth. Reiki is not one’s own energy. It simply flows through channel’s body and hence the practitioner does not feel depleted or weak after a healing session.

The flow of Reiki is the result of intention of the channel to move Ki or prana in the body that is expressed by him simply through the placing of his hands on his or her body for the purpose of healing. Reiki energy enters from the crown chakra from a northern direction in the case of northern hemisphere and from the southern direction the southern hemisphere. It moves through the forehead and throat chakra down to heart chakra before flowing out in a counter clockwise helical path through the channel’s palms.

With regular use of Reiki, old emotional, mental and psychological blocks, that keep us from being in touch with our divinity, start dissolving and this also removes the possibility of new blocks coming into being. This dissolution of blocks also makes way for a progressively clearer, easy and active channel for more copious stream of Reiki energy to flow freely through the channel’s body. With regular use of Reiki, creativity finds new wings and divinity expresses itself in new harmonious ways. Lost balance within the body is re-established and body, mind and spirit, may be for the first time, begin to work in complete harmony. Joy replaces fear as our motivating force. One begins to remain calm, cheerful, and happy and stress-free irrespective of external happenings. With this kind of a mental and emotional state the body resistance goes up and not only it becomes virtually impossible for one to fall ill it makes one highly energetic, enthusiastic and joyful too.

The process of dissolution of blocks within also mirrors itself as dissolution of limitations without. People report ironing out of the negative patterns in their lives. For example, some people can easily identify a definite pattern of happenings in their lives. They may find that just before they are going to reap the benefits of their efforts something untoward happens and someone else snatches away what is their due. Similarly some may experience a negative pattern in their relationships; they fear loving people because soon after making a decision in tat direction, they come to know of the folly of their decision. All these patterns which we take as ill luck seem to begin dissolving with the dissolution of these blocks. It takes little time and courage for one to get in terms with these fundamental changes.

Reiki is too simple and too easy for one to believe it. One of the most difficult thing that I have encountered in my post-Reiki life is to make someone believe the truth that a thing as simple as Reiki could bring about such profound changes in one’s life. In fact so long as people do not try it they continue to have doubts, doubts and more doubts. Our rational mind and ego tend to come in the way of accepting the experiences of Reiki channels on the face value. We tend to think that we are more intelligent and more rational and those who report the miracles of reiki are too simplistic, gullible and lack scientific rational attitude towards life. We forget that if we believe only in what is adduced by today’s science, there can hardly be any progress in it. A shirt should be cut according to the body, not the body according to the shirt; our science should honestly incorporate all our observations, including those that look too irrational and then search for the underlying reasons. Not accepting an observation simply because it cannot be explained or understood by contemporary science is intellectual dishonesty and is against the spirit of true scientific inquiry.

Reiki may not be visible to the naked eye but is as real and verifiable as any other invisible energy is and hence does not your blind faith in it. Our strong bias and conditioning in favour of what is material or tangible makes us assume that Reiki is merely wishful thinking, self hypnosis, auto suggestion, a kind of hypnotherapy, faith healing, a placebo effect or merely a belief. Some think that we are all imagining it to be so and making it all up.  Reiki, for sure, is none of these. Reiki’s healing effects have been scientifically verified on plants and animals also and hence the question of it being explained in terms of wishful thinking, self-hypnosis, auto-suggestion, placebo effect and other such things does not arise. In fact Reiki does not need one’s belief or faith in it to be effective; it works irrespective of one’s faith in it. Reiki does not demand your blind faith in it but just the right attitude that is required towards anything you know little about. You may tell yourself, “It may work or it may not work. I do not know. Let me see what happens. However I am open to either of the possibility.” When you challenge Reiki by telling yourself, “It is unscientific. There is no reason for me to believe in it. I am sure it will not work. Let it prove otherwise to me”, you are not showing your loyalty to a scientific attitude, you are only revealing your bias against something before giving it a chance to prove itself to you. Such an attitude towards any exploration can hardly be called scientific. With a truly scientific temperament we do not tend to jump to conclusions and keep ourselves from being guided by our prejudices and biases. When you are open to the idea of getting healed through Reiki, you let Reiki prove itself it to you beyond any doubt and let your faith and trust in it flower on its own. Being open to an idea, needless to say, is obviously different from having a faith in something.

A beam of Reiki energy coming out of one’s palms is as real as electricity or magnetism and can even be photographed.  The difference in Kirlian photographs of a Reiki channel’s hands before and during a healing session leaves no scope for any doubts about its being real. Reproduced here is a photograph of  a Reiki Master’s hands before and after he started sending Reiki  (in this particular case distant Reiki was sent). A similar photograph has also been given in William Lee Rand’s book Moreover, both sender and receiver of Reiki feel its flow in terms of varied but unmistakable sensations associated with it. Though most of us feel the flow of Reiki in the first instance, a few may take more sessions to sensitise themselves to these sensations. In fact the effects of Reiki come irrespective of whether one is able to feel it or not.

There must be energy exchange for Reiki. Another difficult thing that I have encountered in my post-Reiki life is to make people believe that losing our hold on anything, for instance money, will only ensure its easy flow into our life. I have seen people struggling for months and sometimes even years to decide whether it would be right for them to spend money on learning something that is supposed to be spiritual in essence. And whether someone who is asking a fee could be a genuine teacher. For we have unconsciously nurtured a belief that a true teacher is one who is free from greed. Here the assumption is that if someone asks for money, especially for intangible things or services, he is definitely greedy because spiritual things are supposed to come free. They are supposed to come free because there are no takers for them and it is the taker who is doing a favour to the giver by agreeing to receive them from him or her. This is nothing but our arrogance, which we project on to the teacher as his greed.

There is no other energy healing that can match the safety, simplicity and ease of Reiki. There are many kinds of energy healing therapies prevalent since time immemorial. However, what sets Reiki apart from the rest is the fact that no other system of energy healing is as simple, effortless and easy as Reiki, both in acquiring as well as in practicing. Whereas other disciplines may take years of learning and practice, Reiki power can be acquired for ever through an attunement over a weekend. As mentioned earlier, Reiki uses attunements for empowering the initiate so that he or she could start healing himself and others within a day’s time (In fact the attunement process takes just ten to fifteen minutes only).

Reiki acts and heals at the very roots of the problem—the energy body. Reiki only steps up one’s inner healing potential and development. It does not heal the body or mind directly but only through the energy body. This is one reason Reiki works best when accompanied by healing at other levels too such as using a cleansing and energising diet, doing appropriate physical exercises, letting your bottled up feelings go, seeking to understand the hidden messages that the disease is trying to convey and to follow up this message with the needful change, mentally repeating powerful healing affirmations, visualising that you are getting cured and developing a positive attitude of gratitude and respect towards your body,

Reiki is neither provided, nor received through the conscious mind. Its effectiveness or efficiency does not depend on the conscious will or faith of the patient. It can neither be pushed out by the practitioner or pulled in by the patient’s body through conscious will. Still we can create conditions both as a practitioner and a patient to make it heal us more effectively. For example, a relaxing and peaceful environment, loose and comfortable clothes, a sense of complete trust and surrender to Reiki do facilitate a more effective flow of Reiki and hence may result in an effective healing process.

Reiki is growing popular at an exponential rate because of the high degree of success in healing that it promises and the ease and safety with which it can be learnt and practiced. It requires as a pre requisite absolutely no qualifications at all since it does not depend on the qualifications that can be learnt through a conscious mind. Though all over the world, people of all walks of life are learning and practicing it, its applications and uses are limited only by our own imagination and creativity. This is one reason it is being learnt by doctors, engineers, healing practitioners, masseurs, physical therapists, psychologists, students, house wives, executives, corporate leaders and people who are interested in personal growth and self realisation and by people who are simply curious.

What may keep people from giving their lives the gift of Reiki?

The history of the world has seen that people are slow in accepting those truths that are beyond the human senses. What we cannot perceive through our senses we tend to disbelieve too. At an unconscious level we are heavily biased against intangibles. We continue to remain conditioned to believe in only those things that can be perceived through our senses. To do otherwise, is to accept our being uneducated or illogical. Our ego cannot afford to accept itself as uneducated and illogical. Logic means moving step by step from what we know to what we don’t know; each step naturally following from the preceding one. However, we often overlook the fact that logic can never be any better than the starting point—and the starting point that we take as an accepted fact or assumption is itself often not on a firm footing. However, history has proved time and again that every time we dare to transcend our prejudices and biases against the intangibles we make the humanity reach a new milestone in our evolution as a species. For example, the real revolution in the field of medicine came with the findings of Louis Pasteur as per which infection, putrefaction and disease were caused by some organisms which were too small to be visible with our naked eyes. Though people were slow to accept such a revolutionary concept when it surfaced but the paradigm shift Pasteur’s findings eventually brought about with them sparked off a chain of discoveries and inventions that were to totally transform the world of medicine.

Today, when science is fast catching up with timeless truths discovered by our rishis and sages we are on the verge of coming to know and believe (like the medical scientists of the Pasteur’s times who took time to come to terms with his findings) that diseases, accidents, misfortune, emotional pain, failures and misery in our lives are all the result of certain chain reactions which are triggered off by our own invisible impure thoughts and perceptions. And we can protect and fortify our destinies by pasteurising our thoughts, attitudes and behaviour through an inner integration of our being. Reiki, as mentioned earlier, is a journey towards this inner integration. However, we are still not free from our bias against the intangibles and need to transcend it before we can reach the next milestone in our evolution as a species.

At the root of this bias is our tendency to feel the need to first see something before believing it. We also tend to believe anything more readily if acknowledged and accepted by an authority or a person we hold in high esteem and faith. Only a few among us dare to hold beliefs which are contrary to the ones held by the majority of people at any particular time. We tend accept something more readily if it is already accepted by a large mass of people. For example, today we readily believe something if told that it is scientifically proven because we take science to be an authority we have faith in and a vast majority of people among us tend to hold beliefs that are supported by scientific findings.

For an aborigine to disbelieve what can be accomplished through a cell phone or a remote control device for a Television set is only too natural. He may even hesitate to consider such a possibility, not because he is less intelligent or backward than we are, but because he is yet to experience the working of such an instrument. Twenty years ago you too would have behaved like him with the same skepticism if you were to be asked to consider such a proposition.

In the late 1960s there were no takers for the patent of quartz watches because manufacturers were trying to look at what lay ahead of them in the future through the rear view mirror. For them it was difficult to believe that watches could work and in fact work better without the usual springs, gears and bearings. Obviously they were blinded by the success of their own perception of how watches should look like or how they should work. Their successful past was blocking their vision to the successful future. Japanese could however consider and dispel the clouds of doubt in their mind and decided to jump over to the sunny side of the trench, leaving the Swiss manufacturers within their own prison of arrogance and certainty that kept them even from considering the proposition that was eventually going to be a history very soon. Japan, the country that had almost no name in the field of watches in the world market till 1968, emerged as the new world leader, in manufacturing quartz watches and continues to be so even today. And Switzerland, the country that had been dominating the world market in watches for almost a hundred years till 1968, had to throw out 50,000 of their 65,000 workers from the watch industry.  In ten years time, Switzerland had come down to hold less than 10% of world market share in watches.

Modern medicine stands today at similar cross roads. Though an increasing number of people are realising this and opting for holistic solutions like Reiki, a vast majority of humanity is still stuck like the Swiss in their own arrogance and rigid views and is finding it difficult to believe that healing could work and in fact sometimes work better without the usual blood tests, scans and medicines. Obviously such people are blinded by the success of their own perception of how treatments should look like or how cures and therapies should work. Their successful past is clearly blocking their vision to the successful future.

Things that appear too obvious to us on the surface are not so when understood at a deeper level. Ironically the same science which tells us that we must base our search for truth only on the facts adduced by the senses also tells us that the senses themselves (and hence the observations, instruments and conclusions based on them) are imperfect, limited and unreliable. The spoon in a glass of water only appears to be bent because of refraction of light. It actually is not so. The telescopes, microscopes and other equipments can at best be mere extensions or aids to our senses which continue to remain what they are—imperfect, limited and prone to illusions. We look at a flower and tell ourselves that it is a red rose. Science tells us that the red colour that we see is neither in the rose nor in the light reflected by the rose. The red colour (or any other colour for that matter) actually exists only in our brain; colour is the result of the way our brain processes or interprets light of a particular wave length. Similarly what appears to be a solid thing to us is in fact mostly empty space. The earth we walk on appears to be flat, stationary, and densely solid and the sun appears to be revolving around it. But we all know today that none of these is true; the earth is neither densely solid nor stationary and flat. A major chunk of the atoms that earth is made up of is nothing but an empty space. The subatomic particles that move about in this empty space are proportionately as distant from each other as are the stars and planets from each other. So we can say that earth that is made up of such atoms is as empty a space, as is the intergalactic space. Apart from this, it is not stationary; it is both spinning about its tilted axis as well as revolving in its orbit around the sun at incredible speeds. However, but for the persevering efforts of a few courageous men like Galileo, Copernicus and Kepler, we would have still been carrying the same erroneous but more commonly held and more respectable beliefs and perceptions of that time. And had we been carrying on with these erroneous perceptions we would not have succeeded in managing manned landings on the moon. Satellites without which life seems to be almost impossible today too would have remained beyond human imagination.

“What is real is hidden from us, but what is false is revealed as true.” Yoga Vasishtha

Even what appear to us as universally accepted hard scientific facts undergo change because science is based on facts adduced by senses or extensions thereof and we already have seen that senses may delude us into believing what is not and disbelieving something what is. John Dalton declared in 1808 that atom is indivisible. However today we know that atoms could further be divided into electrons, protons and neutrons. Albert Einstein, in his Autobiographical Notes wrote  “Newton, forgive me. You found the only way that, in your day, was at all possible for a man of highest powers of intellect and creativity. The concepts that you created still dominate the way we think in Physics, although we now know that they must be replaced by others further removed from the sphere of immediate experience if we want to try for a more profound understanding of the way things are interrelated.”

Since there are people who can disbelieve Reiki, it only proves that any disbelief tells more about the person carrying it than what it is for. We disbelieve not what does not exist but what our current beliefs, perceptions and conditioning find too challenging or threatening to accept or even explore. We accept not what is truth, howsoever useful it may eventually turn out to be, but what is least challenging to our existing beliefs, howsoever limiting and stifling for our spirit it may be. Also, we use not what we have, but what we know, believe and remember that we have. Learning to use something regularly,  however , comes by habit or constant repetitions.

Like any other truth Reiki does not need anybody to fight the case for it. Like sun it can survive the clouds of prejudices, bias, doubts and anything else that at best may only temporarily hide it from us. By its very nature, truth alone survives and the rest fails to stand the test of time. I have encountered (and sometimes even mentally or intuitively read what could not be openly shared by the listeners) lot of such clouds of doubts while teaching Reiki and while lecturing about it at a number of places in the last four years of my post-reiki life. I very strongly believe that the more doubts our understanding dispels before adopting something the stronger a foundation it gets to rest on. It is not with the idea of advocating a case for Reiki but for the reason of dispelling the doubts and dissolving the initial hesitation or inertia of a sincere seeker that may keep him from beginning his journey of rediscovering one’s own divinity that I decided to include this chapter in the book. I can, however, ensure such a seeker that he won’t need anybody to dispel his doubts once he begins his journey, for the journey itself will take care of his doubts as it has done so for me and for every other fellow seeker like me. My job is not to push or pull somebody against his will towards Reiki or anything else but to show him that beyond the clouds of doubts he may be having today in his mind awaits and shines a sun ready to transform his life for ever to the extent that he will scarcely believe that he could be so fortunate. Just take the first step and the rest will simply be history.  A very narrow trench lies between your clouds of doubts and the sun. What is left to be seen is whether you care to jump over to the sunny side or distrust your divinity and the fact that such a blissful state exists and stay back with your clouds?

Let me begin sharing and considering some of the possible doubts that might be keeping you from giving yourself the gift of Reiki.

Questions people ask about Reiki:

1.  Hard to believe.

People often find the claims and miracle cure stories hard to believe especially if what brings about the cure is not tangible or is difficult to be explained in terms of their understanding of science which usually is more influenced by concepts of Newtonian Physics. (The birth of Newtonian physics had come in the wake of the ‘Cartesian’ concept (named after Rene’ Descartes) that divided the world into spirit and matter and was influenced by it.  Newtonian physics was therefore divisive in perception and gave us a mechanistic model of the world that dominated the scientific thought till the beginning of the 20^th century. Today most of the modern Physicists hold the view that the universe is not made up of matter but an energy field or consciousness that is experiencing itself. Various forms of matter are only denser forms of the same energy field pulsating at much lower frequencies as compared to what we accept as energy e.g. light, heat or magnetism.)

Right from our childhood we are conditioned to believe that nothing is too good or too easy in this world. We often say it is too good to believe or too simple to believe. As a result we tend to ignore anything that we find too easy or too good. Reiki, in fact is both. Hence the doubt and disbelief. However my personal experience is that Reiki may be too easy to carry out but is too effective only  if practiced. It is indeed not too effective without your commitment to follow its five principles,  and unless you give it your time more often and more regularly.

2. A money making gimmick or fraud.

We often take the world to be full of charlatans and frauds. However the fact is that the world is also full of honest, sincere, dedicated and committed people too. We often suspect people who offer services the effects of which are intangible or not physically measurable or  not immediately demonstrable even if such services are being offered free of charge. We suspect the ‘free’ label is only to lure, and money part will nevertheless be introduced very shrewdly at a later stage when it would be difficult or embarrassing or both to say ‘no’ to it. Charlatans normally have a common characteristic—they lure people with false promises.

A true Reiki teacher or channel, however,  never tries to convince you against your wishes. He only clarifies in case you have a doubt. He never makes promises, true or false. He never claims to have healed anybody and admits it openly that it is not he but Reiki that heals. He being merely a channel of Reiki and not a healer himself cannot guarantee any cure on its behalf except that whatever Reiki does is always in the best interest of everybody. He never chases you like an insurance agent. He may only make the information available to you about his availability as a teacher or a channel. He does not keep you in dark about the fee or energy exchange even at the cost of being misunderstood. He will not bring down the rates as a business gimmick to compete with other practitioners. A true Reiki practitioner or teacher has no competitors. He sees other practitioners as part of the same mission, sincerely respects them and may even recommend them if he himself is busy or if the one wanting Reiki lives nearby their area. A true Reiki master works with but never for money. His money may come through but not from you. He does not need to depend on anybody for money or to stoop low or to cheat somebody to get it because he is always assured of the fact that it will reach him anyhow. He is not only convinced but knows that abundance not scarcity is his very nature. He does not need to see money to believe that it has arrived in his bank account. He knows it works the other way round; he will see money in his bank account when he believes that it will. 

Charlatans exist in every field and Reiki too may not be any exception. They exist because they are needed. They have a purpose. Universe is perfect. All imperfections that we get to come across are a part of universe’s perfection. Some of us want to cheat ourselves, though only unconsciously, so the universe arranges charlatans and other necessary circumstances to facilitate what we want. After discovering the fraud, either we may look within and realise our mistake and learn the necessary lesson from it or choose to blame others or our luck and invite similar other frauds one after the other till we learn the necessary lesson eventually.  You will not encounter frauds if your intentions are pure. So check your purity of reason for going in for Reiki and check if the one you decide to learn Reiki or be treated behves like a true Reiki practitioner as mentioned above. If not you need to seek someone else who does abide by the attitude outlined as above.

Excepting one case I am yet hear about a Reiki practitioner who happened to be a fraud. It is rare but nevertheless the possibility cannot be ruled out. If you ever think you have reason to doubt, doubt the person not Reiki. However before doubting either Reiki or its practitioner do get conversant with the essentials of Reiki and the conditions under which it does not work and reasons why sometimes you may not feel it though it may actually be working. You should also be conversant with the fact that Reiki is not a substitute for professional medical advice especially in emergencies and in the case of serious terminal diseases. Reiki should be used only as a supplementary therapy in such cases.

Many people have a tendency to play safe. They would rather not lose what they have come to acquire (money) than exchange it for something howsoever valuable for their lives especially if it is not tangible. They do not realise money has no intrinsic value. Its value is only when it is used for acquiring what they need or want and that value is not determined by the prevailing exchange rate or their bank balance but by the value of what they exchange it for (what they buy with it). For example you purchase a vaccuum clear with Rs 5000 and do not get time to use it, you have turned Rs 5000 into a annual recurring loss of  Rs 500 (the worth of the space it is occupying at your home without giving anything in return for its price or for  the space it is occupying). On the other hand if you spend Rs 1000 in learning a healing art like yoga or Reiki and practice it for half an hour every day you would be turning the value of that Rs 1000 into many multiples of it—the value of obviating the trouble, pain and expenditure you would be incurring on a disease that might crop up for want of better care of your body.

Usually people feel satisfied with the exchange if they can see and touch what they have bought with it. “When I am giving you something that you can see and touch why should I accept something which I cannot touch and see in exchange", , so goes their hidden logic in their subconscious mind. They doubt anything and everything that is labeled spiritual especially if one needs to spend for it. They have a feeling that if they go out to learn yoga they are doing both Yoga and Yoga teacher a favour by agreeing to accept or approve them thereby. They never realise Yoga or Yoga teacher does not need their approval and could do without it and if they are learning something it is not to help anybody else but themselves.

3. Contradictory to their religion

Some people assume it to be a kind of religion following which, they think,  may be a reflection of their insincerity towards their own religion. I have come across cases where heads of religious sects have directed the followers not to use Reiki though without assigning any reasons. A person (let us call him Sumit) belonging to a particular religious sect inquired from me whether his problem of piles could be helped with Reiki. He further mentioned that he was reluctant because he was already following a particular religious sect. On my assuring him that Reiki is only an energy medicine and has got nothing to do with one's religious leanings. If at all it can only enhance what he is to gain from his own religious leanings without changing his beliefs. Having heard this from me Sumit informed me of his decision that he was going to learn it the coming weekend. A few months later I happened to meet him in a public meeting. Sumit thanked me for offering to advise him but said that though he did learnt reiki that week-end but was not pursuing it as the religious sect he belonged advised him against it. He further added that whether he stays alive or not but he cannot go against the sect. I did tell him that he was free to make any decision as this pertained to his life and affected no body else and I would not like to comment on it.  I am sure neither did he ask for the reason for such an advise nor the person who advised him felt the need to introspect for providing such an advice without caring to know what exactly he was advising against and why. I think a person who has such a deep commitment toward his sect as is exhibited by Sumit's remark ought to be given advice by his sect with a more responsible attitude.  Sumit and many other sincere religious minded people like him are daily being misguided against Reiki by sect leaders who have no knowledge about Reiki and who have nothing better but misperceptions, myths, biases, prejudices and preconceived notions (in some cases fear and insecurity also) to base their pieces of advise on.

In another case a lady who learnt reiki from us told that they (she with her husband) happened to visit a  religious guru who asked them to discontinue Reiki. They did so and now their guruji's prescription is giving some relief. I have come across many other cases also where people give up Reiki, start something else and claim that it is not Reiki but other mantras that they learnt later that pour out energy out through their hands. No wonder they go on getting some advantage because of the Reiki attunement and decide to give the credit for that to what they want to just as a fan may go on rotating even after it is switched off and we may hypothetically speaking, start giving the credit to something else than electricity. Such people treat life like they treat their television set. They usually end up watching nothing on the TV. With a remote in their hands they go on changing the channels apprehending that they may lose something better that may be happening elsewhere. They lack trust in their decisions and go on changing them. They lack patience to stick to something and play a long innings with it. They sow a seed and go on removing the soil every five minutes to check whether the seed is sprouting. Sometimes they go on seeking advice till they come across the person who gives them the advice they always wanted to hear. In the case of one of my college friends it used to be the advice to bunk the class as he won't understand anything in the class otherwise also and in their case it is the advice to discontinue Reiki, try something else-only to seek someone else a little later who could advice them against that as well and in favour of something else.

Reiki is simply a healing therapy involving spiritual energy, It is neither a religion, nor is against anything, be it religion, ‘ism’, sect or anything else. It is only for all that is in harmony with Nature and the Latent oneness and it can do so without having to be against anything. One does not need to change one's religious beliefs or life style to use Reiki. In fact, it may only enhance one's conviction in one's own religion. 

4.  A therapy having no scientific basis and a much inferior alternative to modern medicine. Let science prove it before I think of using it. It works. Whether you are going to get benefited by it does not depend on whether its scientific basis have been discovered or not. Even today we don’t know many things about light or electricity but we use them because they work. Reiki’s scientific basis have to be found out and shall be found out one day. But the eveidence that Reiki works is so commonplace today that scientific proof of its efficacy is immaterial. However, still scientific experiments are being conducted to verify its efficacy especially in the western world.

In an experiment conducted by Dr Janet Quinn significant enhancement in the immune function (CD4 to CD 8 ratio) was noticed in the recipients of Reiki healing. At Sonoma State University, in an experiment conducted by Wendy Weztel, blood samples taken before and after first degree attunements revealed an enhancement in haemoglobin and oxygen carrying capacity (haematocrit levels) and a lowering of undesirable factors in the blood such as cholestrol levels. Through another experiment it was proved that blood pressure of participants in a Reiki-I seminar tended towards normalisation i.e. those suffering from high blood pressure experienced a lowering in the blood pressure and vice versa. In California,  Dr Doniel Win of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, has discovered an acceleration in the healing process after the wounds on human bodies were subjected to 5 minutes of Reiki treatment. Similar experiments done with mice and plants have revealed improved healing of wounds and improved growth and enhanced production of Chlorophyll respectively.

Reiki, indeed is not an alternative to modern medicine and should not be promoted as such.(see A money making gimmick or fraud and Limitations of reiki).   It is a tool to harmonise physical and energy bodies.It acts at the causal level of diseases and hence must be used only to supplement professional medical help especially in the emergencies and serious illnesses. While modern medicine is disease oriented Reiki is health oriented and focuses on restoring and maintaining health instead of fighting diseases. It does not think of removing darkness. It just switches on the light and does not even consider darkness. So, its approach is definitely more positive and hence superior to that of modern medicine.

An open and scientific mind is humble; it does not challenge but accepts that it knows not everything – everything not even of whatever little it knows the best. Like the ceaseless flow of a river, it is not attached to any particular kind of terrain or truth. At any point of time, it is ready to check again and discard the most established scientific facts or to explore again and accept the most frowned upon superstitions of yesterday.  When, while flowing, water gets attached to the beauty of a particular flower on the banks, it loses its humility. Without the humility it loses the courage to move on. Without the courage to flow it just stagnates and rots.

5.  Healthy and happy enough to need any therapy. No one is healthy enough on this planet. Every one needs healing. Health and healing are ongoing processes. A perfectly healthy person does not need to take birth. The very fact  that someone has been born on this earth proves that he has certain definite lessons to learn. If you think that you are perfectly fine then probably you need to look within and ask whether you are living the life of your dream. Will you be happy at your death-bed that you lived the kind of life you are living now. Can you say with all humility and honesty that you won’t regret that you could have done more for others. You could have loved them more. You could have spent more time with them. You could have made a little more difference to those who were apparently less privilidged than you.

When I got my first spectacles made I realised what all I was missing. The world had suddenly become more vivid and clear. The same is the case with some of us who think that they are healthy enough to need any healing. Health is not the measurement of your biceps or an absence of any serious ailment. Health is your ability to feel the oneness underneath the apparent multiplicity of forms. It is your ability to identify and believe your dreams and live them too. See the definition of Health in the introduction. Be sure that if your alive your job is still not over—you have to love to learn and learn to love still more. Reiki will sure help you do this.

6. Busy enough to have time for it. I have better things to do. It is not enough to be busy. What is more important is to ask what is it that you are busy with. Whatever we do, we do to seek happiness or to avoid sorrow. We never do anything for anything different. Do you ever take a knife and lacerate your skin? No one does it unless he is abnormally ill. The mystery is that we all are seeking happiness and spending every moment of ours seeking it but most of us are still unhappy. Look at the four quadrants below and you will come to know why it is so. The reason is that we often tend to short circuit our route to happiness. For example when we smoke we tend  to focus merely on the  instant pleasure that we are deriving from it and not on the distant sorrow that we are inviting.

The perfect recipe of happiness is to spend maximum time of your each day (or life) in Quadrant I, more in II, least possible in III and avoid spending anytime in IV.  When you spend maximun time in QI you are ensuring that you are expanding the spectrum of those activities that are ultimately going to become enjoyable for you though they may appear to be a bit of ‘pain’ now. You cannot change the adverse effects of certain activities (the ones you feel drawn towards) on your life since you cannot change the laws of Nature but you can sure change your liking of a particular beneficial activity (that you feel repelled by)  by doing it more often so that your brain becomes more familiar with it and gradually starts liking it.  By doing so you are slowly shifting activities that you do not like to do but are beneficial for you (Q1) into those that provide both instant as well as distant  pleasure and are expanding  thereby your most desirable quadrant(QII).

Similarly whenever you spend time in Q3 start focusing on the distant  ill effects of it instead on the present pleasant sensations. Picturise how it is going to harm you and how it is dissolving your dreams and life goals mercilessly.

So now when you say you are busy do not forget to inquire which quadrant the activities you are busy with fall in. Ask yourself how much time of your day you spend in each of the quadrant of activities. Ensure that you spend most of your time in QI and QII, least in QIII and none in QIV. Know more about Reiki through this book and decide whether you are still too busy to have any time for it.

(II) Instant Pleasure / Distant Pleasure (Quadrant to be expanded) Reiki Showing that we love and care Meditating Soothing music Learning about self/Improving our knowledge	Exercising Learning Responding negative behaviour with  positive one (Forgiving)
Eating fried, junk food Taking revenge Smoking, alcohol Taking decisions based on short term gains	(IV) Instant Pain / Distant Pain (Quadrant to be eliminated) Misusing our power to hurt others Letting loose our anger Worrying about things that cannot be helped Guilt without learning the lessons for future Planning revenge

(Note: What may give one instant pleasure or instant pain may differ from person to person and therefore some of the activities which may fall in Q1 for some may fall in QII for others and vice versa. The IV Quadrant which  provides instant pain as well as distant pain is not contradictory to the basic premise that whatever we do we do for pleasure or happiness as often our responses are nothing but action replay of what we have unconsciously learnt from those who wrongly presume that by trying  these painful things they will get distant pleasure.in the hope of getting a distant pleasure. These responses stem from ego and not from our heart.)

7. Black magic, one should better stay away from (See What is Reiki)

10. Can’t have patience with it. Too slow, both in doing as well as in results.

This is a common problem with most of us today. We seem to have lost the capacity to relax or to have patience. We want instant results. And this is one the reasons of widespread discontent and frustration all round.  As you bring Reiki from Q1 to QII you won’t regret that it is slow; you would want it to be even slower since you would have started enjoying and loving it. Like other good things in life that appear to be a pain to you now , you need to shift Reiki too to QII from QI. Once you do that you will wonder how could you be so fortunate that you took such a decision. Apart from that you will develop the ability to relax and be patient with everything. And once you do that you will start loving yourself more for that.  The results of Reiki healing are not always delayed . It depends among other factors also on the openness on the part of the healee to receive Reiki and to take responsibility for his ailment and give up all those habits or responses that got him the disease in the first place. Acute cases get healed very quickly whereas chronic ones do take longer treatments. However, in the case of chronic cases one often gets immediate relief in the very first few sessions but may need longer treatment spread over a number of sessions for full healing to take place.  Once you understand that healing is not only the responsibility of the healer but also that of the healee too, then the healing process gets accelerated. Reiki takes the time it should take for any heaaling to take place. Often healing takes a route much different from the healee’s expectations and this makes the healee think that probably the healing is not taking place at all. Reiki’s wisdom can not be challenged. It is far more wiser than we are. It knows what to heal first and what to take up later in the best interests of the healee. For example Reiki may decide to work and repair a particular organ first before attempting to take up the one that the  healee is more concerned about or has mainly come to get the healing for. It may start healing  even those diseases that have not even been diagnosed. It takes up a complete job like a sincere friend. It is not much concerned about pleasing us or for seeking approval from us. It does whatever is in the best interests of the healee. A man who wanted to give up smoking did not find much benefit. However he started developing interest in Tennis. In a few days he started playing very well. He developed an ambition to play even better which he was not able to for want of better stamina. The ambition grew so much that he decided to quit smoking finally. So trust the route Reiki is taking for bringing about the complete healing within you. I for one would prefer to have a sincere friend like Reiki than the one who is more concerned to please me instead of acting in the best interests of mine.

11. It is too boring. I am not the kind who can remain still doing nothing. I am too active a person to feel comfortable with it.  Try listening to your favourite music—the kind that is soothing—while you take or give your self Reiki treatment. Try doing it while watching Television or while talking to a friend. Also tell yourself that you deserve to relax and Reiki is a natural way to provide this relaxation. (Also read the previous point).

12. It could be a mere coincidence. Yes even if they are actually mere favourable coincidences and not the direct effect of Reiki, they still are brought out by Reiki (See the example of the person who wanted to give up smoking). People often encounter such favourable coincidences more often when they come in contact with Reiki. Reiki may bring about the best combination of coincidences to set your life right. However, if you apprehend this because you doubt the efficacy of Reiki please refer to 1 and 4 above.

13. It was something else that worked not Reiki! (Please refer to 3, 4, 12 and the chapter on Reiki Miracle stories)

14. I may tend to ignore something serious that may be needing professional medical help instead (Please see 2 above and the chapter on Limitations of Reiki)

15. May get enslaved of a sect. (See 3 above)

16. Hate guru worship

Reiki does not believe in Guru worship contrary to the tenets of many religious sects. Guru is one who has mastered his senses whereas the term Reiki Master is not used in that sense. It simply implies someone who has acquired the qualification to hold Reiki seminars and to conduct Reiki attunements. To be a Reiki Master does not entitle one to be worshipped. He is more like a friend who holds you on the same footing that he holds himself on and respects the fact that you are as divine as he is. Though this is what his attitude is I have personally found that to feel deep gratitude (which off course is different from worshipping or keeping him at a higher pedestal than you) for your Reiki Teacher does help in one’s progress in Reiki and spiritual unfoldment. However this is the feeling that came naturally to me and you are free to feel differently or as per the intuitive guidance that you may receive. But what one should definitely guard oneself against is to criticise him or to talk about him in derogatory terms. For that matter avoid criticising any bona fide Reiki Master not because he holds a special status but only because he represents the most sacred Reiki energy. 

17. Friends, relatives and colleagues may ridicule me. My family may not permit me to learn or receive it. 

I myself have relatives who I know may be ridiculing me at my back. I find it too natural on their part to do so and with all the humility at my command and with all the love and respect for them I cannot help but ignore what they feel about me or Reiki in this regard. In life, you always have two alternatives to choose from. You may deliberately decide to slow down your learning process and spiritual evolution so as to become one with the majority of people who decide to move at a languid pace with the masses for the fear of being ridiculed or you may as well decide to care the least for others who ridicule you and respect your own evolutionary needs and  move at your own pace without any hesitation. Every body is at a stage where he is supposed to be and can respond only from that as his unique frame of reference. Like you, me and all others, our relatives and friends too are moving towards the same goal just as all rivers are moving towards the same ocean; paths may be different and paths may be longer or shorter but the path for every river is just the perfect one for it.

18. It will interfere with the working out of my Karmas.

Nature’s purpose of introducing and maintaining Karmic principle in the universe  is not to seek revenge from anybody in a bid to maintain universal justice. Its sole aim is to provide learning in a bid to move souls through the spiritual evolution. The purpose of any disease or discomfort is to make us learn a particular lesson. Among our patients I have often seen miraculous recoveries from diseases, sometimes even from the ones that were supposed to be genetic, for those who on being counseled made a determined effort to identify and learn that lesson and sincerely integrated it in their lives. Nature does not seek to punish you; it only seeks to educate you. When you voluntarily offer to learn truly and completely what it wants to teach you, you obviate the necessity for that disease or discomfort to remain. It will serve no purpose there after and therefor leave you and seek the next student. Reiki healing is holistic and integrated. It seeks to teach you as well while healing your energy and physical body. It heals at the psychological or emotional level too where the lesson may need to be imparted. For example while healing an arthritic knee it is attempting to heal the patient at the psychological level too by releasing his fears that he needs to overcome. However, the patient needs to own his shortcomings and work on them internally in order to learn the necessary lessons voluntarily in order to accelerate the healing process. Reiki may facilitate but lessons are to be learnt voluntarily and with an open mind by the patient himself. Reiki cannot learn the lessons on his behalf just as a teacher can facilitate the learning process for the student but the teacher cannot learn them as well on his behalf. The lessons, obviously, are to be imbibed by the student on his own. You do not work out your Karma by merely going through hardships only; you work them out—and work them out better—by voluntarily offering to learn the intended lessons. So, in this respect, Reiki does not interfere but only facilitate the working out of Karmas.

19. I fear losing my personality.

No it will only fine tune your personality to bring out the best in you—and the best in you is the real you.

20. Such powers come from only demons or Satan and I would not like to party with them to play against God.  May be, there are serious side effects not known yet.

Such powers were exhibited by Jesus Christ and Buddha too. And sure they were not demons or representatives of Satan. Let me ask you a question. How are you going to identify the real Christ if Satan were to come along with him in his guise? Satan can copy everything that Jesus or Holy people can. The only thing it cannot do is that it cannot fill your heart with love and beauty, charge your mind with peace and contentment and regain the purity and bliss for your soul. The quality of a seed is known by the kind of tree it becomes and the quality of a tree is known by the quality of fruits it bears. If you ever find yourself in doubt about the truth or spirituality of anything, see its effects on you. A good way of checking about the originality of a rose is to check the response of the honeybees. Honeybees never hover around over an artificial rose how so ever exquisitely imitated. Similarly ask yourself if you feel a pull for it within your heart?  Be sure you address your question to your heart and to your mind or ego; they may have very artificial or cosmetic reasons for feeling the pull towards anything. Many of us cannot even distinguish between the two. A good clue is to focus on your heart chakra while you address this question to your emotional self. You sure will feel the pull within your heart if as its effects you find your heart getting filled with love and beauty; your mind experiencing peace and contentment and your soul regaining its purity and bliss—the effects which only God or His representative alone can bring about in you! These effects indeed may be seen within you as a result of practicing Reiki for some time and indeed can be taken as its serious side effects but are of course not unknown; they are timeless and already known. An art