Crystal Reiki Healing E-Book

Philip Permutt

• Herausgeber: CICO Books
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Seitenzahl: 206

Beschreibung

Discover how to use crystals in conjunction with Reiki healing for a powerful, holistic therapy that will improve your health and quality of life. Leading crystal expert Philip Permutt shows how Reiki healing and crystal therapy can be combined for effective self-healing and improved wellbeing. At the simplest level, you can charge a crystal with Reiki energy and then carry it with you or give it to someone in need of support, but this groundbreaking book goes well beyond that. As well as learning how to select and prepare crystals, you will discover the intricate and effective Crystal Reiki grids that will dissolve blocked and stagnant energy, remove negative energy, such as stress, from the body and boost the body's natural self-healing for a range of common health conditions. In this comprehensive guide, Philip identifies 101 crystals that work exceptionally well when combined with Reiki energy. Arranged in colour groups, healing and metaphysical properties, chakra associations and Reiki symbol connections are given for each one. There are also in-depth profiles of quartz crystal, amethyst and ruby – three of the most common and effective crystals used by Reiki Masters.

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Crystal Reiki Healing

Crystal Reiki Healing

THE POWERHOUSE THERAPY FOR MIND, BODY, AND SPIRIT

PHILIP PERMUTT

Published in 2020 by CICO Books

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Text © Philip Permutt 2020

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SAFETY NOTE

Please note that while the descriptions of the properties of some crystals refer to healing benefits, they are not intended to replace diagnosis of illness or ailments, or healing or medicine. Always consult your doctor or other health professionals in the case of illness.

Contents

Introduction

CHAPTER 1

Combining Crystals and Reiki

CHAPTER 2

Preparation for Crystal Reiki Healing

CHAPTER 3

Crystal Reiki Treatments

CHAPTER 4

Enhance Your World with Crystal Reiki

CHAPTER 5

The Crystal Finder

Grids

Glossary

Index

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Once upon a time, in a blue space filled with glittering crystals, the violet energy ray of Reiki found a home… My first crystal shop was painted a medium-light shade of cyan—Pantone 305. It was in that blue space filled with glittering crystals that crystals and Reiki came together for me. I was already teaching crystal healing in the early 1990s when I came across a “new” healing modality called Reiki.

Reiki is a natural healing energy that flows through everyone, although its power can be amplified by becoming attuned to Reiki (see page 14) and learning techniques, such as those given in this book. Crystal healing is amazing, sensational, and can help almost any condition there is. Crystals have an innate energy of their own. They bring everything to balance and speed the body’s natural healing ability. You don’t have to do anything to get a crystal to work other than place it in your vicinity. However, if you do add your intent, your natural healing thoughts, and your energy, your crystals will work better because they’ll pick up your intention and magnify it manyfold. And if Reiki is the energy that is flowing through you, then your crystals will collect the Reiki, multiply its effect, and focus its objective.

Given my background as a scientist, I have a tendency to make notes and record results, which allows me to formalize healing processes, exactly as I have been doing with crystal healing for many years. Crystal Reiki came into being as a result of my enthusiasm and love for both healing energies, and I originally worked on it with my first wife, before going our separate ways. It is a natural progression, combining ancient techniques from these two healing systems into one easily accessible healing modality. The evidence shows us that crystal healing stretches back to the dawn of mankind and although Reiki as brought to us by Usui Sensei (see page 16) is a 20th-century technique, its methods are firmly rooted in antiquity.

Crystal Reiki is a synthesis of universal life force energy, which is what Reiki means and is, and the healing power of the Stone People (another name for crystals). Practicing this healing system at the simplest level can mean holding a crystal and charging it up with Reiki to carry with you during the day or even to give to someone else to help them through a troubling time. Taking the practice further can involve applying intricate and powerful Crystal Reiki Healing grids on the body to treat yourself and others, and even sending healing energy to those far away. Crystal Reiki offers a path to self-development, too: as you practice it and, if you choose, progress through the levels of Reiki attunement, you will gain inner power, a deeper knowledge of yourself, and much more.

Today there are many varieties of Reiki. Throughout this book, all references are to the traditional Usui Reiki system and Tibetan Usui Reiki. Where any of my personal practice differs, I’ll try to point this out. However, you can add crystals to whichever system of Reiki you practice, and they will have the same effect of enhancing the healing effects.

Although I may not have been the first person to put crystals and Reiki together, and I will not be the last, the Crystal Reiki Healing system that I present here gives you a set of standard, straightforward techniques that you can follow and practice.

The healing properties of crystals enhance and focus Reiki. Reiki amplifies the effect of healing crystals. They form a beautiful circle. In applying Crystal Reiki in our daily lives, we are limited only by our imagination.

I hope that the Stone People will make your Reiki journey sparkle as they do mine.

chapter 1

combining crystals AND Reiki

Crystals are the stepping-stones of the soul. Reiki is the violet energy ray that carries our spirit. When they are combined, Crystal Reiki is like hitting the healing overdrive switch! In this chapter, learn more about the background and power of crystals and Reiki, and how the two healing systems can be brought together.

what are crystals?

Crystals are natural living, growing entities. They grow by absorbing molecules from their chaotic environment and layering these molecules in perfectly ordered regular patterns. They bring their surroundings into balance, and they continue to do this energetically in whichever situation they are placed. (Whenever I use the term crystal throughout this book, unless it is to a specific type of crystal such as a quartz crystal or an amethyst crystal, I’m referring to the whole mineral kingdom—crystals, rocks, stones, a pebble on the beach…)

Our auras—the energy fields that surround our bodies—are very sensitive. We often ignore them because that is what we have usually been trained to do by the society we live in. From when we are young, we are told that you can’t feel this, see that, or hear whatever. But we do sense energy—we feel it, we see it, and we hear answers to our questions, if we touch, look, and listen with our hearts. We also smell and taste on many levels too. Have you ever tried smelling or listening to a crystal? Or touching a quartz crystal to the tip of your tongue? Try the following exercise and be amazed at how much your senses pick up!

TUNING INTO A CRYSTAL

You will need a hand-sized, natural quartz crystal point for this exercise. Cleanse it before you start (see page 49).

1. Look at the crystal and really explore it with your eyes for a few minutes. Notice its shape and how the light reflects, refracts, and mingles with the crystalline structure. Be aware of the colors within and on the crystal’s surface. Register its details in your mind so you could recognize it in a crowd: every crystal is an individual and looks different. Can you see anything around the outside of the crystal? Maybe a subtle haze? If you can, this is the crystal’s energy field; the crystal’s aura, if you like.

2. Now close your eyes and do the same thing with your fingers. Explore the crystal. Look at it with your fingertips. Be aware of how it feels; the flat bits and sharp edges, rough areas and smooth sections. Be aware of its point, the crystal’s termination. How does it feel, both physically and emotionally? Again, every crystal feels different. Take a few minutes doing this and allow yourself to be aware of any sensations or emotions you might be feeling in your body.

3. Place your crystal on a table, hold your hands a couple of inches (5 cm) either side of the crystal, and notice the energy you sense. Be patient—this may take a few minutes.

4. Hold the crystal to your ear, as if you were holding a seashell. Listen. What do you hear? Most people can hear a sound like that which you hear when you hold a seashell to your ear. In fact, this is the sound of the crystal vibrating. It isn’t quite the same as the sound of a seashell because of the process that creates the sound. With a seashell, the air rushes into and then out from the spiral inside the shell. This creates an indirect noise that sounds like being by the seashore. With your crystal, you are hearing the actual physical vibration from within the crystal. Different varieties of crystal will vibrate at different speeds, creating and sending higher and lower frequencies to your ear.

5. Smell the crystal. Hold it close to your nose and take a deep breath in. What does it smell like? It might surprise you to know that different types of crystals have subtle, diverse aromas.

6. As long as it is safe to, try tasting the crystal by touching it to the tip of your tongue. Quartz often tastes like fresh mountain air, or slightly lemony. Other crystals create different tastes—for example, amethyst often tastes metallic. These flavors are quite subtle, but once you notice them, they become easier to detect on different crystals.

HOW DO CRYSTALS WORK?

Through interacting with your energy system, your aura, and your chakras (energy hot spots in the body—see page 18), crystals bring balance to the cells in your body, your emotions, your mind, your thoughts, and your senses. They help to relieve stress and bring you back to a place of stability and happiness. Although they act instantly, and many people sense this, it is the longer-term subtle changes that build together to bring life-changing healing effects.

Crystals have electric potential and electric charges. They can store and focus energy, transform it from one type of energy to another, transmute negative energies, and stimulate positive forces. Crystals are found throughout technology: they power your 21st-century lifestyle. Without them you would have no dishwasher, washing machine, tumble dryer, microwave oven, programmable kitchen oven, refrigerator, freezer, music system, DVD player, cell (mobile) phone, or computer. In fact, the laptop that I’m writing this book on wouldn’t exist and I’d be writing this manuscript on parchment, using ink made from minerals such as graphite or lapis lazuli, or stone tablets—both of which would still involve the help of our crystal friends! Sometimes people ask me if I believe crystals work… when I receive this question through my website, by email, or through social media, I always smile at the thought that without our crystal allies they couldn’t have even sent the question!

Crystals work by bringing the energies in the world around them into balance. When you are part of that world—that is if you are working with crystals, holding them, wearing them, or even just have them around your home or workplace—they will help to bring your energies into balance, effecting healing. Different varieties of crystals affect different parts of the physical and spiritual bodies, including functions, thoughts, and emotions or feelings. Crystals can help speed healing in many—or all—circumstances. Healing is about change; change from an unhealthy state to a stable healthy position. It is about improving your physical and mental health, your emotional well-being, and your spiritual advancement. Crystals love doing all these things and more.

Phrases such as “we are beings of light,” “we come from the light,” or “we go back to the light” are common in many religions and spiritual traditions worldwide, and quantum physics has shown this to be the case—we are, in fact, made of photon light and when we die, we do literally go back to the light. Given that quartz crystal focuses light and recent research has shown that light affects how we feel, it is not unreasonable to postulate that as we focus light through a quartz crystal to the area in need of healing that we feel better and healing takes place.

what is Reiki?

Reiki is an amazingly simple but powerful form of spiritual healing practice in which the practitioner channels Reiki (universal life force energy), which is in and around every living being. Using healing and meditation techniques, Reiki healers learn how to focus this energy so that it flows into the recipient. It is said that Reiki has an intelligence of its own and knows where it is required and therein lies its power.

Reiki is for everyone, because everyone has Reiki—it is a completely natural energy. Think of when a child falls and scrapes their knee: their parent places a hand on the knee for a few seconds, and the pain disappears—this is natural Reiki healing energy.

THE THREE LEVELS OF REIKI ATTUNEMENT

Because Reiki is within everyone, everyone can learn how to harness its healing power. However, there is a simple, but deep, experiential process called Reiki attunement, which is performed by a Reiki Master (see below) and connects the student to Reiki. Although there are many styles of attunement in the West, it is customary for the student to be seated, perhaps with symbols beneath them that can be drawn or created with crystals. The Reiki Master channels Reiki and symbols (see page 22) in a precise way to activate or enhance the flow of Reiki through the student, depending on the level the student is being attuned to (see right). The Reiki Master will also teach the student how to channel the energy.

THREE LEVELS

Reiki is usually taught in three levels.

• Level 1 is called Shoden, meaning beginner teachings: this involves four attunements over a two-day workshop and is about the basics of self-treatment and treating others, and bringing Reiki into everyday life.

• Level 2 is called Okuden, meaning hidden or inner teachings: this involves two attunements over a two-day workshop, and you learn about more complex treatments, as well as how to use the Reiki symbols (see page 22).

• Level 3 is called Shinipden, the Reiki Master Teacher level, meaning mystery teachings: this involves one attunement, and, as well as building on the previous levels, it shows how to teach Reiki to others and explores the self-development that Reiki can offer.

The benefit of attunement is that it improves the energy flow. I tell my students to imagine that they are a tube of bamboo. Level 1 attunement knocks out the bits in the middle of the tube, allowing energy to flow through. Level 2 attunement acts like sandpaper, smoothing the inside of the stick for ever better flow. Level 3 attunement smooths the inner channel of the bamboo to a mirror-polished finish—energy can now speed through you.

Once you are attuned to Reiki you always have it literally in the palms of your hands. You can’t wear it out and you can’t lose it, no matter how little you may use it or even if you forget what you’ve learned. After attunement, the universal healing energy is always flowing within you. If you touch someone with the intent to heal, or direct your healing Reiki energy, or even just think healing thoughts, you have the potential to facilitate a transformation.

Although anyone can follow the system of Crystal Reiki Healing and you can use the techniques in this book without attunement, visiting a Reiki Master to become attuned to Reiki, at any level, will allow you to discover the full benefits of the Crystal Reiki Healing system. You should not work professionally treating others with Crystal Reiki without completing either Level 1 or a Crystal Reiki course.

REIKI HISTORY AND ORIGINS

The origins of Reiki can be seen to stem from several sources, including Buddhism, Taoism, Chinese and Japanese Shamanism, and several similar Japanese traditions, such as Shinto and Johrei (although the latter might have descended from Reiki). However, the practice of Reiki as we know it was founded in Japan by Mikao Usui (1865–1926), who was also known as Doctor Usui or Usui Sensei (Sensei is an honorary title similar to Master). He discovered Reiki in March 1922 during a mystical experience while on a spiritual retreat on Mount Kurama. The word Reiki is formed from the Japanese words rei meaning “universal” and ki meaning “life force energy.”

During his lifetime, Usui Sensei taught about 2,000 Reiki students his way of healing in Japan, including about 16 Reiki Masters who continued his legacy after his death in 1926. The Reiki Master Hawayo Hiromi Takata, who was based in Hawaii, helped introduce Reiki to the West in the 1930s. Because of anti-Japanese feeling in the United States at the time, much of Usui Sensei’s story was Americanized, leaving a path of confusion for many. However, we now know that he was a real person who did amazing healing things and who was officially honored by the Japanese government for his services.

REIKI IDEALS

The secret art of inviting happiness The miraculous medicine of all diseases Just for today, do not be angry Do not worry and be filled with gratitude Devote yourself to your work and be kind to people Every morning and every evening join your hands in prayer, Pray these words to your heart, and chant these words with your mouth Usui Reiki Treatment for the improvement of body and mind.

The Founder, Usui Mikao (Sensei)

THE BENEFITS OF REIKI

Reiki can help to alleviate many physical problems. In some cases, symptoms completely disappear. Reiki has an amazing ability to both relax and energize you at the same time. It brings stillness to your mind and washes away your worries. But it is when you add Reiki to your individual spiritual journey, your unique path through life, that the true secret is discovered. Usui Sensei described this as “the secret art of happiness,” and this is perhaps the greatest benefit of Reiki.

combining crystals and Reiki through the chakras

Crystals are extremely transformative and are especially receptive to Reiki. They love it. Crystals hold Reiki and enhance it, magnifying its effects and generously passing them on. You could say the crystal/Reiki partnership is a match made in heaven—truly blessed. Crystals can focus, store, transmit, and transmute Reiki for beneficial healing and energizing results, and, as a generalization, both crystal energy and Reiki work best when focused through the chakras.

The human energy system is comprised of lines of energy running through the body known as meridians or nadis. These carry ki (also known as chi or prana) through the human (and animal) form and create energy hot spots in the body called chakras. “Chakra” is a Sanskrit word meaning “wheel.” Many people believe this is because of the common depiction of chakras as circles on the body, but it is more likely associated with the motion of wheels carrying energy like a water wheel which amplifies its power as it goes. Water is often used symbolically to represent energy. There are many yogic systems that depict the chakras in any number from three to twenty-one, but the most common system used in the West has seven major chakras (see opposite) and many minor chakras, including in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.

Because these areas have more energy than other parts, chakras are the easiest place for your body to exchange energy with the outside world and it is where we have the main interchange of energy with our aura, the energy field that surrounds us. Energy flows from the outside world into our aura and we are continually sensing energies in our surroundings. This energy flows through our chakras into our body where energetic information is processed, producing feelings and emotional responses within us.

Most energy-healing modalities focus energy through the chakras and Crystal Reiki Healing is no different in this respect. The big difference is the boost to healing that crystals and Reiki offer each other.

LOCATING THE CHAKRAS

Crown chakra—on the top of the head

Brow chakra (also known as the third-eye chakra)—in the center of the forehead, above the eyebrows

Throat chakra—in the center of the throat

Heart chakra—in the center of the chest

Solar plexus chakra—behind the soft cartilage at the bottom of the breast bone

Sacral chakra—just below the belly button. Try placing your thumb on your belly button with your palm on your tummy—your sacral chakra will be under the palm of your hand

Base chakra—at the coccyx at the base of the spine

TRADITIONAL CHAKRA CRYSTALS

Although you can work with any crystal at any chakra point as required, it is traditional to connect crystals to chakras by color. As depicted in the illustration (see page 19), you can see the colors of the chakras follow the colors of the rainbow, from the base up to the crown: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. An easy starting point is to work with red jasper or garnet, carnelian or orange calcite, citrine or yellow jasper, malachite or aventurine, blue lace agate or blue chalcedony, lapis lazuli or sodalite, and amethyst or lepidolite.

THE CRYSTAL CHAKRA SET

QUARTZ MASTER CRYSTAL

You will also need a quartz master crystal, which is a large natural crystal with a termination (point). It should be large enough to hold in your hand, with the bottom touching the minor chakra in your palm and the termination protruding out of your hand. A comfortable size for most people is 3–6 inches (7–15 cm). Too small and it is too fiddly; too large and it is too heavy to work with.

CRYSTAL REIKI GUIDES

Generally, spirit guides can come in many guises. They might be relatives or close friends who have passed, wise experts from a previous age, spiritual leaders, or simply spirits from another time. Some people also suggest they might come from other planets or dimensions. Wherever they hail from, they bring knowledge and guidance to help you on your path. Everyone has guides around them.

Crystal guides have a special interest in crystal healing and the mineral kingdom, Reiki guides in Reiki healing. When you start to work with crystals or Reiki, you enhance the connection with these guides. Your Crystal Reiki guide will be interested in helping you combine these two modalities for healing and increasing your spiritual awareness. When you first discover a new guide, they often appear as a blue light hovering nearby until you acknowledge them.

Reiki symbols

Definition of “symbol”1:

1. a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g. the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation.

2. a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.

Cho Ku Rei

Sei He Ki

We use symbols in our daily lives—for example, +, ×, and %. Each is instantly recognized and understood. However, they are all representations of complicated mathematical processes. We don’t need to explain or even understand the calculation to find the answer—we simply follow the process. We are attuned to these symbols in school. Without a basic knowledge of mathematics, these symbols are useless squiggles on paper or screen.

In the same way, there are sacred Reiki symbols: Cho Ku Rei, Sei He Ki, Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen, Dai Ko Myo, and Raku. Cho Ku Rei, Sei He Ki, Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen and the main version of Dai Ko Myo all come from Usui Reiki. Raku and the second version of Dai Ko Myo are “Tibetan” symbols. I have put Tibetan in quotation marks because it is almost certain that these do not originate in Tibet at all but have been linked with the country; they probably originate from Chinese shamanism.

All the symbols convey function and process, but also something abstract, hard to define, and almost impossible to explain. They represent the essence of ki, universal life force energy. Whenever any symbol is used and reused, drawn and redrawn, it accumulates power. Once you are attuned at Reiki Level 2 and above, every time you draw a symbol it takes on not only your energy but a little of the force from every time it has ever been drawn by any person practicing Reiki in the world. Cho Ku Rei and the Tibetan symbols have a natural power that can be accessed even if you have not been attuned.

Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen

Dai Ko Myo