
Reike is an ancient form of natural healing where masters manipulate energy and frequencies in the body into energy points called chakras. Watch as psychologist Jeffrey Gardere, PhD, describes the healing benefits of Reike and how it's performed.
Reike is an ancient form of natural healing where masters manipulate energy and frequencies in the body into energy points called chakras. Watch as psychologist Jeffrey Gardere, PhD, describes the healing benefits of Reike and how it's performed.
The energetic anatomy has five basic components:
1. The chakras, the body’s power centers or transformers that take in and distribute prana.
2. The meridians, the body’s energy channels that transfer prana to and from the chakras and nearby organs and parts of the body.
3. The inner aura, an inner shell of prana that begins inside the body and extends about 5 inches out from the body in a healthy adult.
4. The outer aura, an outer shell of prana that also begins inside the body and extends up to several feet beyond the inner aura in a healthy adult. The outer aura holds in the body’s energy.
5. The health aura, an aggregation of 2-foot-long rays or beams that radiate from the body’s pores. In a healthy person, these health rays are straight and well defined, but in a sick person they are crooked or droopy.
These auras are concentric, much like the layers of an onion, with the three auras nesting inside one another.
There are three principal sources of prana: the air, from which we get air prana; the earth, from which we get ground prana; and the sun, from which we get solar prana. All living things have the innate ability to absorb and utilize prana to sustain life. We do this unconsciously. For instance, we get solar prana through exposure to sunlight. We get air prana through the act of respiration. And we absorb ground prana through our feet as we walk around every day. (We also get prana from the food we eat, but consuming food is merely an indirect way of obtaining prana that ultimately comes from the air, earth, and sun.)
Other, more powerful, conscious methods of acquiring prana can be employed to obtain both a greater quantity and a higher quality of this life force. These more powerful prana-generation techniques are the key to effective self-healing.
While all prana is energy, there are slight variations in the quality of the prana, depending on the source. For instance, solar prana is more refined than ground prana, which means that solar prana vibrates at a higher frequency than earth prana and is composed of smaller, finer particles. While all prana can be used for physical healing, its level of refinement dictates its suitability for certain purposes. For instance, higher-frequency prana is used for spiritual development and healing delicate areas, while lower-frequency prana is used for increasing physical power and healing not-so-delicate areas.
Prana is remarkably powerful and resilient, yet it is also very delicate. Prana can be used to relieve serious health problems. It can even be projected over great distances without losing its strength or effectiveness. But your prana can also be diminished or weakened by many factors, including your beliefs, emotions, attitudes, inhibitions, and traumatic memories, the food you eat, the people you associate with, where you work and live, how you work and live, what you say, what you think, and how you react to the general level of stress in your life.
In general, your state of health is tied to your supply of prana. When your prana is clean and plentiful, you are in good physical and mental health. When your prana is low or dirty, you typically experience some type of health problem.
Illnesses manifest in the energy body before they manifest in the physical body. The energy body is the template, or mold, for the physical body; it surrounds and interpenetrates the physical body. Thus, health problems occur first as irregularities or disturbances in the energy body before they become symptoms or full-blown health problems in the physical body. By treating problems at the energetic level, you heal the physical body. Additionally, through regular energy-generation exercises and proactive steps to keep the energy body clean, you help prevent physical ailments from occurring and greatly diminish their effects if they do physically manifest.