Living Reiki: Heal Yourself and Transform Your Life

294 Pages·2016·2.67 MB·English

by  Melissa Tipton

About the Author
Melissa Tipton is a tarot reader, Reiki Master, licensed massage therapist, and
witch. She has been practicing yoga for over a decade and discovered that it
complements witchcraft very well.
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Contents
Introduction
1: Reiki and Self-Transformation
2: Illumination
3: Beginning Your Reiki Journey
4: The Reiki Practices
5: Submersion
6: Polarization
7: Merging
8: Reiki Precepts and the First Three Symbols
9: Inspiration
10: Becoming a Reiki Master
11: Refinement
12: Integration
Conclusion
Bibliography
Introduction
Welcome to the path of the healer. You are embarking on a journey that will take
you deep into the mysteries of Reiki and self-transformation, blending the two in
a potent elixir of healing, an elixir that, if taken with an open heart by the soul of
the seeker, will unite you with your True Self. Amidst the busyness of our lives,
it’s easy to forget that we live in a universe that is positively humming with
magic. We’re too busy paying the bills that we forget to pay attention to our
soul. We’re so wrapped up in the anxieties and worries of life that we no longer
remember what it feels like to be wrapped up in the Divine. And yet, we don’t
have to quit our jobs, walk out on our families, or trek up a mountain to find
something more, something deeper. We can find it right where we are, and
indeed, we must find it where we are. As Doreen Valiente wrote in her poem
“The Charge of the Goddess,” “if that which you seek, you find not within
yourself, you will never find it without. For behold, I have been with you from
the beginning, and I am that which is attained at the end of desire.”
We are what we seek, and in the very stuff of our lives—the beautiful mess of
it all—we find liberation and awakening. When we allow ourselves to spiral
inward, it is here, deep in our core, that we understand why we came into this
life, what we as a unique being are here to do, and a fire is sparked. A fire that
will not allow us to be waylaid, a lantern amidst the distractions. With this light
to guide the way, our lives are radically transformed, and we embrace our
birthright as natural healers.
Your Healing Apprenticeship
Inside each and every one of us lies a vast store of untapped wisdom, seeds of
potential waiting for the right conditions to germinate. It is time. The time is
now. Our world is badly in need of healing, and we each must start with the only
person we can ever truly change: our self. The more each of us shifts into our
power, reclaiming our original wisdom and weaving a web of healing, the
greater our communal strength becomes, the stronger the web, the deeper the
healing, the bigger the ripples of change.
The form of Reiki I practice, Life Alchemy Reiki, is a path that emphasizes
self-transformation. This is the foundation of the entire practice, for if you have
forgotten your wholeness, how can you ever hope to remind others of theirs?
This is not a path of “fixing” yourself or “fixing” other people, as that approach
starts with a faulty assumption of brokenness. Instead, we seek to reinstill our
trust in the unshakeable reality that we are already Whole. We are already
enough. We have simply forgotten. So, let us remember. Let’s embark on this
journey together, learning the ways of the Reiki healer, blending them with the
magic and power of self-transformation.
Who Is This Book For?
This path is open to all who feel called to learn the ways of the healer, whether
you are just beginning or have walked the healing path for years and yearn to go
deeper. In my practice as a massage therapist, Reiki Master, and tarot reader, I
am privileged to front-row seats to my clients’ amazing spiritual, mental, and
physical shifts, and it truly is a magical thing to behold. The number one block
to these shifts, hands down, is the false belief that we’re not worthy, and I’ve
seen time and time again that once this belief is released, spontaneous self-
healing can occur. Dis-ease can be thought of as existing out of alignment with
who we truly are—in other words, out of alignment with the truth that we are
already whole, that we are already one with a state of health. When we are
separated from this truth, we get stuck in seeing ourselves as broken, and we
believe that the only way to earn our return to wholeness is by eating a certain
way, exercising enough, getting another certification, landing the right job,
finding the perfect partner—and the list goes on. And on. We’re stuck in a loop
of not enoughness, and in order to heal this dis-ease, in order to return to a state
of ease, we must remember our True Self.
The tools and techniques presented in this course are designed to help you
shed, layer by layer, the filters and obstructions created by the ego, which are
obscuring your True Self from view. The more you release these obstructions,
the more you are able to see how wonderfully unique, how incredibly magical
you already are, and from this new vantage point you’ll have increased clarity
on what you came into this life to do. Each and every one of us channels Divine
energy uniquely—no two people will channel this energy in the same way, so
you cannot be replaced in the unfolding of the cosmos. No one else can weave
your magic for you. The world needs the gifts that you, and you alone, possess.
If you are being called to walk the path of healing, let this book be a
companion on your quest. In its pages, you will learn about the practice of Reiki,
moving through three levels of training, each level punctuated by an attunement
or initiation. Many of us receive our Reiki attunements in the context of
weekend workshops or brief online courses. In modern life, we have so few
initiatory experiences, so few rites of passage, yet without these mindful ways of
marking and celebrating our life transitions, it’s often difficult to fully integrate
the changes we seek. We might have a luminously transcendent experience on
Saturday, and then feel hit by the tsunami wave of “normal” life come Monday,
quickly getting sucked under by our routines and feeling progressively more
disconnected from the wisdom we unearthed during the workshop. The Life
Alchemy path is one of weaving the magic of transformation into the very stuff
of life. You don’t have to wait until you can get away for a retreat to do this
work; it happens right here, right now. The practices build upon each other, each
level culminating in a Reiki attunement, of which you will receive three in total
(Levels One, Two, and Three) over the course of your studies. If you have
already been attuned in another lineage, you can use the practices at your own
pace to deepen your understanding and practice of Reiki. Beginners and more
advanced practitioners alike may elect to use the text while taking my online or
in-person Life Alchemy course, receiving your Life Alchemy attunements
(available distantly or in-person) as you reach the appropriate junctures in the
lessons, or you can use it in tandem with any Reiki course of your choosing as a
means of deepening the experience. The practices are designed to help you
internalize the principles of both Reiki and self-transformation in new ways
using meditation, ritual, and other techniques to move beyond an intellectual
understanding to an embodied wisdom.
This course of study asks for fearless self-inquiry; we are calling on the
powers of Reiki and self-transformation in order to know ourselves more deeply,
and it is this process that ignites our inner healer more than any course, book, or
attunement ever will. Without intimate knowledge of our True Self, we’re like a
rudderless ship without a map, but through the magic of Reiki and self-
transformation, we can pick up the subtle currents that are ready to guide us back
home. This journey will take us far from the shores of the familiar, and we’ll be
asked to shed our preconceived ideas and leave the posturing of the ego behind.
For, if it is radical transformation we seek, we must be radical in our approach.
We must be willing to push our own limits, stretch the bounds of our minds, and
expand our view of what is possible. If the call is alive within you, and you can
feel, in your very bones, that it is time, the time is now, then let us begin. Let us
pass through the veil of the known and unravel the hidden mysteries and the
secret ways of the healer within.
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