Self Cleansing Techniques

Practice Feeling Ki             Reiki Showering             Light Breathing             Breathing through your Hands

Sending a Message to your Higher Self                   Hado Breathing Technique

Practice Feeling Ki

Place hands in Gassho position

Visualize reiki energy entering your crown chakra

Fell reiki emanate throughout your whole being as it fills your body.

Rub your hands together until your palms feel warm.

Relax your wrists and shake your hands out.

Relax your elbows and shake your arms.

Return to Gassho and open your hands about 2 inches apart.

Visualize chi emanating from your palms and relax

Once you begin to feel the ki, begin to explore with it.  Separate your hands and then bring them close feeling the different sensations.  Create a circle of reiki with your hands and place the circle in your heart.

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Reiki Shower

Stand or sit.  Keep your spine straight.

Gassho.

Reach your hands high above your head, straightening your arms.

Move your hands apart and visualize reiki showering down on you.

(Level 3 chants 4^th symbol.  Level 2 chants 1^st symbol)

Feel reiki vibrate through your body as your receive this reiki shower.

At the same time, move your hands down the front of your body, palms facing you.

As reiki emanates from the hands and showers the body from above, a thorough cleansing occurs.  Visualize negative or stagnant energy releasing through your feet.

When finished Gassho again and give thanks. 

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Light Breathing Joshin Kokyu- ho as taught in Sho-den Level I

Stand or sit.  Keep your spine straight.

Gassho.

Reach your hands high above your head, straightening your arms.

Move your hands apart and visualize reiki showering down on you.

Slowly bring your hands down to your lap, palms up and relaxed.

Focus on your tantien and listen to your breathing.

On the inhale, visualize reiki energy entering your crown chakra and flowing to your tantien.

See the energy reach each organ and fill the body.

On the exhale, visualize reiki emanate from your skin, enter your aura and spread throughout the Universe. 

When finished, Gassho and give thanks.

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Breathing through the hands

Stand or sit.  Keep your spine straight.

Gassho.

Reach your hands high above your head, straightening your arms.

Move your hands apart and visualize reiki entering your crown chakra.

Return your hands to Gassho.

Visualize reiki travel from your crown chakra to your palms.

Activate your palms with reiki energy.

On the inhale, visualize reiki moving from your palms to your tantien.

On the exhale, visualize reiki moving from your tantien to your palms and release the energy in a burst.   When finished, shake wrists well.

Gassho and give thanks.

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Sending a Message to your Higher Self  Nentatsu-ho Sho-den Level I

This technique is used to send a thought to your Higher Self or another person altogether. 

Often used during attunements.  The affirmation, “You are perfectly attuned to Reiki” is often transmitted.

use to transmit principles

use when breaking bad habits

use to reinforce positive affirmations.

Stand or sit.  Keep your spine straight.

Gassho.

Reach your hands high above your head, straightening your arms.

Move your hands apart and visualize reiki entering your crown chakra.

Place one hand on the hairline and the other on the back of the head

State your affirmation.

Send the message, clearly with positive intent and confidence.

Move the hand from the hairline to join the hand at the back of the head and visualize reiki energy stimulating your thought.  Let it glow.

When finished, Gassho and give thanks.

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Hado Breathing Technique

Sit with feet flat on the floor. Spine straight.

Inhale very deeply

Exhale from the mouth and let out the sound 'Haa'

Feel 'Haa' vibrate from your tantien

Repeat

Practice exercise until you can sustain the sound 'Haa' for thirty seconds.