Reiki First Degree Manual

Welcome to the world of Reiki. Reiki is a spiritual practice for channeling, receiving and transmitting the Universal Life Force - based on its first degree on the lay on of the hands - to balancing and recharging the individual energy flows. The act of resting our hands on the body to convey emotion, comfort, participation, or alleviate pain, is part of our instinct; genetically encoded in our DNA. In the case of ache, the first thing that almost everyone does is to lay their hands on the spot. Our touch conveys warmth, serenity, friendship, and affection; it conveys concern and love. Our touch listens and perceives; it determines and heals. The First Degree deals with the material dimension of being, and the transmission is by physical contact, always starting from the assumption that matter, and consequently the physical body too, is a composite of energy, vibrations, waves, magnetic fields, and consciousness that intersect simultaneously, giving the sense of solidity. It teaches the technique's basic practice structure and the standard positions, designed to treat all physical and energy systems of the body. It transmits the four needed activations to open the Reiki channel of awareness, to consciously draw in the Universal Life Force and receive it in greater abundance and pass it on. It prepares to maintain focus, attention, and freedom throughout the process and understand what the underlying causes of any unbalance are. The following is the handbook that I give to my Reiki students after their first level seminar, which lasts sixteen hours (4x4) and is inclusive of four activations. That's the teaching.