REIKI
SCANNING
Scanning is a standard part of
Western Reiki. People 'scan' at the start of a treatment to 'get the lie
of the land', detecting areas of need, so that they have an idea of
where they will need to spend more time during the treatment. People
scan at the end of a treatment to see what effect Reiki has had on the
energy being drawn by areas of the body that were prominent at the
start. Some people scan to find the best places to put their hands,
rather than following standard hand positions. Some people use a
combination of standard hand positions, and hand positions discovered
through scanning, different for each person treated.
To practice scanning, hover your
hand or hands over the person's body. Perhaps it would be better to
start using one hand only. Now move your hand(s) slowly over the body -
not deathly slow: you can be quite brisk. Focus your attention on the
sensations that you are experiencing in your palm and fingers and notice
if there are any changes or intensification in what you are feeling.
If you feel an area where there is
more energy flowing - you may feel more fizzing or tingling, more heat,
pulsing, magnetic effects, heaviness etc. - then move your hand back to
that area from different angles. Do you get the same feeling again and
again? How large is the area that is drawing more energy? Is it the size
of a 50p coin, or is it a broad band?
Try comparing symmetrical areas of
the body: the shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles. Hover your hands for a
little while over one knee and notice how that feels, and then do the
same on the other side. What differences are there? Is one knee drawing
more energy than the other is? Does this tie in with any problems that
the client is experiencing: a current problem, or a past injury?
With repetition, your hands will
become progressively more sensitive to the flow of energy, and this is
useful information. Through scanning you can find out where you are
going to spend more time during the treatment, and you can check to see
what effect your treatment has had on the amount of energy being drawn
by those areas of the body. Scanning can suggest to you hand positions
that are not part of the 'standard' sequence that you are taught to
start off with. Whereas you may start treating people by resting your
hands in each position for a certain number of minutes according to the
clock, you can let your hands tell you when it is right to move on, as
the flow of energy subsides in each treatment position.
Practice scanning whenever you treat
someone, and your sensitivity will develop.
When scanning, you should not get
yourself into the frame of mind where you are thinking continually 'what
is wrong here?', 'what have you got wrong here?'. Reiki can rush in to
deal with perfectly normal and ordinary physiological processes: if you
have had a big lunch then Reiki will rush into the stomach area to
support digestion; they haven't got a stomach ulcer, Reiki is just
supporting a normal function. If you feel lots of energy rushing into
the client's head, you are probably picking up on a busy mind or a
tendency to headaches maybe. You can quite often pick up which side is
ovulating through the sensations you are getting your hands; no problem,
just a normal process that Reiki is supporting. People who exercise are
continually damaging their muscles and joints and the body simply
repairs that damage as a matter of routine, and Reiki will rush in to
support this natural process.
Reiki will also deal with things
that seem to have been dealt with a long time ago. So although a person
may have twisted their ankle months ago and everything is now fine,
there seems to be some trace of the problem at some level that still
needs to be dealt with, and Reiki will deal with it.
Reiki can deal with things have not
happened yet. Many people believe that problems begin on the mental and
emotional planes, and that it is only if these imbalances are not dealt
with that they will condense into a physical symptom. On this basis, you
may be resolving things that were 'on the boil' and might have
materialised at some stage in the future.
Reiki works on all levels, so it is
not just the physical body part under your hands that is being dealt
with: it deals with mental and emotional correspondences of the various
organs, it deals with spiritual aspects of a person, it deals with
chakras and meridians too. Sometimes it is simple: a person has a kidney
stone, so there's a lot going on in the kidney area, but it isn't always
that straightforward. Quite often you will be able to tell which knee is
giving the person a problem, or you will pick up things happening on an
emotional level in the solar plexus, for example, but don't worry about
it. Simply trust that it is going to the right place, even if you don't
know what is being dealt with.
Someone can come for a Reiki
treatment and not tell you what the problem is, and that will not have
any effect on the quality of the treatment you give because you simply
follow the flow of energy.
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