My Chakra Test Results

Apparently, I would have uprooted easily.

Root:	under-active	(-63%)
Sacral:	open	(19%)
Navel:	under-active	(-19%)
Heart:	open	(38%)
Throat:	open	(25%)
Third Eye:	open	(31%)
Crown:	open	(63%)

In case you're wondering, I did the root chakra-opening exercise immediately after reading my results. (The navel one, too). No one's going to topple this tree!

Thanks, Kaddu, for the link!

First Experience with Reiki and Self Healing

I'd like to relate that Rahbin introduced me to Reiki a few months ago. I went to the dentist for a teeth cleaning and had a spot on my gum that seemed a little swollen and felt that it was about to give me a problem. So....I thought why not try a little Reiki on myself I so I held my hand on my jaw for a little while and later on I realized that the swelling and feeling of discomfort had gone and everything was great. So thanks Rahbin. It really worked for me!!

Results from Chakra test
I took the Chakra test thanks to the link Kaddu provided. I was not surprised that my upper chakras are more open than the lowers, but I was surprised at how much room there is for an increase in each of them. Is it really possible to have your heart be negative open? Seems so. Hmmmmmmm. It reflects the reality of today, but not tomorrow. Guess I better start doing more daily meditations and Reiki self-treatments. And prayer.


Root Sacral Navel Heart Throat Third Eye Crown




Root: under-active (0%)
Sacral: open (19%)
Navel: open (38%)
Heart: under-active (-19%)
Throat: open (56%)
Third Eye: open (63%)
Crown: open (63%)
Percentages go from -100% to +100%

Further information
What this means
Open your under-active chakras

Reaching for "The Cup of Life"

A very warm “Hello” to all the readers of this blog from India! I am Kaddu – an Usui Reiki Level III Healer… and this is my very first post here. So, as you can see, I’m fumbling a little bit, as to what to write about! But, I’m sure I’ll soon get into the “flow” and will start contributing on a regular basis here!

In the meanwhile, you can feel free to check out my personal blog “miss_teerious”, which is more like a record of all the lessons I have learnt in the last 2 years – about relationships, about life, about people and their fears, and why they don’t heal! I have also penned-down some sudden insights I received, as well as some miraculous Reiki healings I experienced!

For those of you who wish to know more about Reiki & what exactly it is, you may go through my other blog “Healers’ Lounge”. I started this blog sometime last year, but then I guess I just lost the inner urge to continue it! Nevertheless, it does contain a few short posts on Reiki, which should be able to give you a fairly decent introduction to it!

But today, I want to share a few lines of this remarkably inspirational song here, which fill me with passion & courage every time I listen to them!

… when you feel the heat, the world is at your feet
No one can hold you down, if you really want it
Just steal your destiny, right from the hands of fate
Reach for the cup of life, 'Cause your name is on it
Do you really want it...

(Yes, I have been listening to Ricky Martin’s old album “Vuelve”… even though I don’t understand a single word of Spanish!) This particular song was the official song of World Cup 1998… and for good reason too!
“The Cup of Life” already has your name written on it. And it’s only up to you to reach out for it! There is simply no space for any doubts or fear! No one can stop you from achieving what you truly want… not even fate!

The only question is – “Do YOU really want it?”

Then go and get it!

Temporarily Third Eye Blind

I can’t remember when I first consciously started working with energy healing. I must have been a young child because I remember getting “the third eye” when I was about seven years old from a cousin of the same age, upon her return from the Philippines. “The third eye.” That’s exactly as she called it. My sister and I lined up to get this thing, though it is funny to recall that neither of us questioned what we were lining up for.

She gave it to us, all right. I barely remember the brief ritual that took place in her Cerritos house, with the bright red carpet. The place creeped me out sometimes; I thought the fires of hell were accessible through circular pockets in the textured loops. But whatever she did, which she learned from a channeler in the P.I., seemed to work. We all began to see auras…but not the exciting, colorful kind that I read about in books or hear others sometimes speak of. They were just bright, golden-white fields around people. I remember her saying that the bigger the aura, the “better” the person was. Remember, we were only seven or eight years old.

Anyway, shortly afterwards is when I think we began to lay hands on each other. I don’t have any vivid memories of it…only snippets in my mind’s eye. But I do remember laying hands on myself and feeling that the “Santo Nino” was blessing me through my hands.

By the time I think I was ten, I grew weary of the auras. It annoyed me that a lot of the “bad kids” had such HUGE auras. That doesn’t make any sense! I would think to myself. I distinctly remember wishing the eye away, one morning while on the playground. I remember feeling that it had been a long time that my sister and cousin and I had even spoken of it or the auras we could see…or laid hands on each other, or anything of the sort. What was the point, anyway? And it was such a bother….

So, now I am an acupuncturist…a massage therapist for over eleven years…and Master Rahbin actually gifted me with my Reiki attunements. I have manipulating energy through my hands and through needles and through thin air – and sometimes time and space…though not as often – and what I wouldn’t give to get that “third eye” back, to see through it as clearly as I had as a child.

And now I ask my Angels to gift it back to me…that I may better serve and facilitate the healing of others through that lens, clearer than my present eyes. Assuming that "getting it back" would make any remarkable difference...which, on second thought, could just be a story.

By the way, this wasn't the entry I had in mind to key-in, but it rolled off the keyboard so I went with it. And to the Master herself: Thank you for opening this space.

In Search of the Healing Energy

That's the title of a book by Mary Coddington (1978).

I am always in search of the interrelatedness, the connections between ideas across time, across disciplines, across cultures. I am always in search.

As a person who believes in the eternity of spirit and the fallacies of time as a purely linear construct, I was certain that Reiki was neither new nor a gift only available due to some chance occurrence of Usui's search. If it existed now, if it existed when Usui realigned with it, it existed before and will exist long into the future. Energy is eternal. Healing, the very nature of our universe. What other cultures harnessed this force for better health?

Exactly which string of queries lead me to Coddington's book, I can't recall. I'm just grateful I stumbled upon it. If there were ever a list of books that every healer should own, just as a reference, not as absolute truth, this has to be on such a list.

Coddington offers researched insights on the energy that is at the heart of energy healing. she has put forth a great effort in demonstrating the commonality in energy healing across cultures and time. I found it enlightening. That's not to say that the book is perfect, or that her conclusions should be taken without question or discussion, but they are so delicious to chew on.

In Search of the Healing Energy is what made the connections between energy healing systems real for me. Here are a few examples from work with their corresponding page numbers:
Chi (Chinese)
Ki (Japanese)
Orenda (Native American)
Mana (Kahuna, Polynesians, dating to 10,000BC--page 30)
Prana (Sanskrit)
Pneuma (Pythagoras of Pythagorean Theorem fame--page 45)
Vis medicatrix naturae (Hippocrates--as in MD's Hippocratic Oath--page 48)
Elan Vitale (Bergson)
archaeus (Paracelsus--page 55)
vital force (Hahnemann, founder of homeopathy)

If you are looking for a comprehensive, cross-cultural look into the energy that heals, I highly recommend this book. If anyone can recommend other books that show the interconnectedness of all our strategies, our modalities, of supporting the unobstructed and balanced flow of chi through our bodies, please share with us.

Masterrabin

Why write about it?

Energy healing has changed my life.

In November 2006 I received my first Reiki attunement. I made the decision while hanging out at a local shop specializing in books and supplies related to metaphysics and the occult. Over the prior six months, I'd purchased several books and crystals.

I was either perusing the books or glancing over the crystals in the owner's display case when she casually announced to anyone in earshot that she felt ill. "Can I get you something?", I volunteered. It would have been my pleasure to do such a small thing for her. I found her intuitive gifts intriguing and loved that she had begun to tease and harangue me like I was one of the regulars. Now that I lingered longer and longer over the books, I suppose my bi-weekly visits qualified me as a regular. Teasing was the way she showed love. You know the type.

To my query, she just shook her head. All the while, with closed eyes, she moved her hands to various positions on her stomach. I was fascinated. She was fascinating. I inquired. With authority and a little condescension, she said "I'm a Reiki Master." Nothing like a little condescension to get my attention.

"What's that? What does it mean that you're a Reiki Master?" Whatever she said didn't satisfy my curiosity. Being a google gal, I came home and scoured the internet. One month later I located someone that seemed to fit the bill and went to his apartment to receive my Reiki I attunement. Four months later in March 2007 I received Reiki II with Catherine Morris.

It changed my world. The night before the Reiki II attunement I suddenly had the urge to stop taking the anti-depressant medication I'd taken for eight years running.

I'd had a clinical depression, but when it ended, I found the meds helped with my late-diagnosis ADD symptoms. I was more focused, things got done quicker without the distractions I'd learn to live with before the meds. In one fell swoop, no more meds. In addition to my nightly SSRI, I also swallowed, not one, but two allergy medications. I took generic benadryl to keep away the sinus headaches and help me sleep along with claritin for the non-headache allergy symptoms. Talk about becoming a believer.

That wasn't all that changed. In May 2007, when I received my Reiki Master attunement, my transformation took off. Although I dropped the anti-depressants cold turkey, other bad habits subsided slowly until they were no longer there. I had a couple mild addictions, nothing that's illegal in California mind you, but not the healthiest of habits either. And I frequently enjoyed good tequila. The end of each bad habit required a period of mourning, sometimes even a little ritual of two days or 24-hours or some such time period where I just indulged it to the hilt, knowing it was the last hoorah. And then it would be. Goodbye. Between the meditations with crystals, Reiki and intuitive healing techniques I've picked up along the way, I am healthier than I've ever been. And about thirty pounds lighter.

Every now and again I get a taste for something stronger than my red wine. When I do, I enjoy it. And then it's over. It has become second-nature to do what is best for my physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. I attribute this to the impact of energy healing on my life. For me energy healing creates a sense of balance. You learn to tune it to it, to take the balanced state for granted. As soon as you’re out-of-balance, you notice. Something feels different. And then I dust off the techniques and go back to regular self-treatments, using Reiki on situations, using it at work. My intuition directs me on how to move furniture around, carry different crystals, change my environment. And then….aaaaaahhh…sweet balance.

Funny thing. I haven't been back to that shop since I decided to take Reiki. Mission accomplished.