Do all styles of Reiki follow the same hand positions?

Colin wrote: If there were no other specific areas he would treat the chest and abdomen (hara) area.

thanks Colin

when i do reiji ho before the session, i m mostly drawn to the abdomen and sometimes to the thorax region... in abdomen, there are different points at which reiji makes me drawn... the liver area (right side), the pancreas area, stomach area (left side), the colon area (lower right side), etc.

following this lead, i often start reiki treatment from solar plexus and gradually expand the area of application upwards and downwards...

treating the head is the last and finishing part of the session for me... however, sometimes when i m treating the back of the abdomen (kidney areas or middle back) i feel the need to place one hand there, and the other hand on front side of neck/throad or alternatively on forehead....

as this is all intuitive, i generally dont 'push' myself to adopt the standard hand positions.... please suggest me if there is harm in the way i proceed ?

take care

salman

Lambs-Wool wrote:

Colin wrote: If there were no other specific areas he would treat the chest and abdomen (hara) area.

thanks Colin

when i do reiji ho before the session, i m mostly drawn to the abdomen and sometimes to the thorax region... in abdomen, there are different points at which reiji makes me drawn... the liver area (right side), the pancreas area, stomach area (left side), the colon area (lower right side), etc.

following this lead, i often start reiki treatment from solar plexus and gradually expand the area of application upwards and downwards...

treating the head is the last and finishing part of the session for me... however, sometimes when i m treating the back of the abdomen (kidney areas or middle back) i feel the need to place one hand there, and the other hand on front side of neck/throad or alternatively on forehead....

as this is all intuitive, i generally dont 'push' myself to adopt the standard hand positions.... please suggest me if there is harm in the way i proceed ?

take care

salman

Hi Salman,

I can't see and "harm" in the way you work!

Reiji is all about intuitive working so that is great!

Takata sometimes taught to start on the body, using her foundation treatment - and them sometimes taught to start at the head over the eyes. So I don't think anything is written in stone (apart from Usui's memorial! )

Hey Colin, i would have expected that you will share some experience of your own too

Colin wrote:
Takata sometimes taught to start on the body, using her foundation treatment - and them sometimes taught to start at the head over the eyes.

thats a good piece of info for me thanks

So I don't think anything is written in stone (apart from Usui's memorial! )

yeah

Lambs-Wool wrote:Hey Colin, i would have expected that you will share some experience of your own too

If I am doing a formal Reiki session (i.e. someone is paying for a 1 hour Reiki session) and if they have not come for a treatment of a specific area, I tend to spend 20-30 minutes on the head, followed by a fairly standard set of hands positions on the torso and then the feet, unless my intuition guides me to other positions - which it often does!

Of course I also will stay a while in areas where I detect a bysoen.

If a person does mention a problem with a specific area of the body, then I will still do the head and make sure I include the specified area in my positions after the head.

I don't always ask a client to turn over and mainly work on their front - unless we have plenty of time or they have mentioned their back as a problem area - or unless I want to finish the session with a full Ketsueki Kokan (Kekko) Blood Circulation technique, which is a great way to finish and re-energize the client! Even if I don't turn the client over I tend to finish with an abbreviated version of kekko (i.e. some strokes down the arms and legs) to help them "wake up".

Is that more what you had in mind about sharing my experience, Salman?

As I mentioned before, I don't think there is a fixed way to do a Reiki treatment, so it is difficult to say which way is the best way - each session can be different!

Colin wrote:
Is that more what you had in mind about sharing my experience, Salman?

no, it is 'exactly' what i had in mind my expectations around you can never be 'too much' Colin

i learned definitely in this narrative. something specifically :

Colin wrote:
I want to finish the session with a full Ketsueki Kokan (Kekko) Blood Circulation technique, which is a great way to finish and re-energize the client! Even if I don't turn the client over I tend to finish with an abbreviated version of kekko (i.e. some strokes down the arms and legs) to help them "wake up".

my 'abbreviated version' of ket sue ki ko'kan is that i place one hand at the base of skull or slightly on the upper edges of back of neck, and place the other on the lower back, on the verge of pelvic girdle, and imagine a flow of ki moving from skull to bottom of vertebral column, and then soothing along legs, ankles and feet to ground... for 'upward sweep' i intend ki to move upwards to meet at jade gate likwise... often this calms and makes him feeling happy


take care



salman

PS : nice quote "where ego's, i go"

Lambs-Wool wrote:

my 'abbreviated version' of ket sue ki ko'kan is that i place one hand at the base of skull or slightly on the upper edges of back of neck, and place the other on the lower back, on the verge of pelvic girdle, and imagine a flow of ki moving from skull to bottom of vertebral column, and then soothing along legs, ankles and feet to ground... for 'upward sweep' i intend ki to move upwards to meet at jade gate likwise... often this calms and makes him feeling happy

Yes, one of my "usual" hands positions is to place one hand just below the neck and the other at the base of the spine (if the client is face down) or just below the throat and on the seika tanden if the client is face up.

chi_solas wrote:
Hmmm only 5 hand positions?
If that's no less than 3
minutes per hand position
then a Reiki session would
last for 15 minutes

moore wrote:
Each handposition can be from a minute and longer.
Then there's always intuitive ways of placing hands

I find it takes at least 3 minutes
for me to feel the energy working
and if I intutively feel the need
to stay longer in a paticular area
I do that.

Colin wrote:

Lambs-Wool wrote:Hey Colin, i would have expected that you will share some experience of your own too

If I am doing a formal Reiki session (i.e. someone is paying for a 1 hour Reiki session) and if they have not come for a treatment of a specific area, I tend to spend 20-30 minutes on the head, followed by a fairly standard set of hands positions on the torso and then the feet, unless my intuition guides me to other positions - which it often does!

Of course I also will stay a while in areas where I detect a bysoen.

If a person does mention a problem with a specific area of the body, then I will still do the head and make sure I include the specified area in my positions after the head.

I don't always ask a client to turn over and mainly work on their front - unless we have plenty of time or they have mentioned their back as a problem area - or unless I want to finish the session with a full Ketsueki Kokan (Kekko) Blood Circulation technique, which is a great way to finish and re-energize the client! Even if I don't turn the client over I tend to finish with an abbreviated version of kekko (i.e. some strokes down the arms and legs) to help them "wake up".

Is that more what you had in mind about sharing my experience, Salman?

As I mentioned before, I don't think there is a fixed way to do a Reiki treatment, so it is difficult to say which way is the best way - each session can be different!

Colin I have found from personal experience
that asking a client to turn over disrupts
the relaxed mode of the session.

I have had clients who can not lie on their
back so they lie face down on the massage table
and I facilitate the full session doing all hand
positions on the back area. I do have a head
cradle for their comfort if they want to use it.

chi_solas wrote:
Colin I have found from personal experience
that asking a client to turn over disrupts
the relaxed mode of the session.

I have had clients who can not lie on their
back so they lie face down on the massage table
and I facilitate the full session doing all hand
positions on the back area. I do have a head
cradle for their comfort if they want to use it.

Yes, that is also why I don't usually ask my clients to turn over - it usually takes almost 1 hour for me to work on their front, so if I am going to finish with a full Kekko, it is right at the end of the session that they turn over and it is therefore part of the return from "relaxed mode"!

If a client can't, or does not wish to, lie on their back then I would also do the full session with them lying on their front.

We all find a comfort zone to
bring the session to an end.
I generally end with the
occipitual position and then
put my hands on the clients
upper arms for a few seconds
and in a soft voice cue them
to take a few seconds to slowly
open their eyes,feeling refreshed
and better than before. I offer
them a glass of water.

i start from head and work downwards. spending more time in areas i feel need more concentration. move slowly, not strictly following hand positions but as per what i feel.

patients do not want to move if they are lying down.then i imagine their back and work to send reiki towards their back. in case of a sitting patient it is easier.

oh yes, ears release a lot of held energies especially when you are working on the head area. once the cooler was on and lots of energies were escaping from the ears of this patient who suffered constant headaches. there was sparking in the cooler wires and smoke. so i had to turn it off.

nose is another place for release of held energies which are visible to others.once while giving treatment to a person his wife sitting opposite saw black soot coming out of his nostrils.

towards the end i spend time on the feet,the patients feel lots of movement of energies there in the form of tingling,bubbles, currents and sometimes pain release also. subsequently i sweep the aura, close aura and do a chakra balance, apply rahu. thereafter, i ask them to open their eyes slowly. most are thirsty after the session and accept water/ask for it.

renu