Mr. Knight is a Reiki master/teacher, intuitive reader and author of "Confessions of a Dreamer" (One Man's Journey).

Mr. Knight may be contacted at gknight@harusami.com

 

 

This month we are going to touch on protection and healing. You may ask what do protection and healing have to do with each other. Well actually they are very similar. First let's have a look at healing. We are all given healing powers. Ah, I hear some of you scoffing; "I am not a healer, phooey." Yet you are. Every time you get a paper cut or a nosebleed or a blemish you witness the miracles of healing. Yes, you are a healer. Every time anything happens to you your body heals itself. Think of how many times you have heard a doctor on a television program say, "It is all up to him now," referring to a badly injured person. In other words they have done all they can and it is up to the person, whatever god or superior being you may believe in, and the universe itself. How many times has your mom kissed a skinned knee and sent love into it, and you felt better instantly. She may not have known she was a healer but she knew she loved you and subconsciously sent you impulses to take away the pain. How often do we want to hold the hand of a loved one when we are ill or injured? It is a fact that newborns fair much better when held by another human being. Naturally your overall health, attitude and conditioning play a very large role in your overall health, but that is not the part we are going to look at. It is a scientific fact that there are electrical impulses running through your body. We are going to look at the electrical impulses and ways to energize them.

We saw in the second part of this series how you could take your hand and put it around the computer screen and feel the electrical impulses given off by it. Now we are going to look at how to get our own hands to give off these same feelings. First let's all take a deep breath, count in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, now let your breath out 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Let some of today's stresses roll out with your breath. Now imagine you are at the top of a huge ravine and it is wonderful below! Lush greenery and huge waterfalls fill the scene. Go ahead, go there, it is safe. Look around at the greenery, and then make your way over to the falls. You may take a swim around the pool if you like the waters are refreshingly cool, yet warm. Or, you may choose to just sit by the beach and throw pebbles, one for each of your worries and let the ripples dissipate them.

Okay all nice and relaxed now? Let's head on over to the waterfalls and stand in its roaring beauty, as we do imagine that this is a special waterfalls and the waters that run from it can run right through you, cleansing and boosting, clearing out all of the stuck branches. You may imagine your body as a small streambed that is choked with leaves and debris. Small sticks have made damns in many places. Now imagine this waterfalls as a spring flood and it washes away all of the sticks and leaves and things that are choking you. Allow all of this debris to flow out through your toes like two forks in the river. You may even begin to smile as some of the blockages you didn't realize were choking you disappear. Next above your head in this special waterfalls you will see something bright it is a yellow or whitish light. Now that you have cleared a path you can allow the light to come in through the top of your head and allow it to flow through your body and out of your toes. Let this light go out in all directions. You will notice that the rain now seems to fall just about 3 inches outside of your body. It seems to be running down around you. This is actually the second layer of your aura. The first layer is exactly at your skin. It is between these two layers that most healing takes place. A "hands on healing" does not always mean hands that the hands of the healer actually touch the person. I have found in my practice that by keeping the hands about two to three inches from the actual body surface that much higher energy levels are achieved.

Just as before allow these energies to flow out of your toes. If you can still sense some blockages after this exercise, do not be alarmed. You may need to repeat this procedure over the course of a few days, or a week if necessary. Actually I do it constantly now, although I do find the need to go back to the waterfalls from time to time, especially if I am not feeling well, or when suffering from seasonal depression.

This my friends is how we protect ourselves and become better healers all in one fell swoop. So now I have answered your question, what the heck do healing and protection have to do with each other? Now what can we do with all this newfound energy? Well the first thing we can do is place our hands close together about five to six inches apart which would be a three inch aura for your right hand and the same for the left. Bring them closer together and then back apart until you find the spot where they tingle. I call this the sweet spot. Congratulations you have just learned how to sense an aura, albeit your own but nonetheless you have done it.So give yourselves a big round of applause and smiles all around for everyone.

You can use this to relieve your own or another's pain. It is also one of the early Reiki steps and the outer shell offers protection. You will most likely become a bit more sensitive to people who intrude on that space. One little fun thing I do with my students, once I have as I say, " Lit their candle", is I will place my hand nonchalantly over their head, and see if they look up. If they look up that means they have good energy flow and they will notice that my hand is blocking that energy flow. Once you have the energy flowing you will wonder how you ever lived without it, and you will become annoyed if someone tries to block you from it. Another thing I will do is tap on the air about three inches away from the actual shoulder, when they are not looking. The first reaction is usually like a wiggling of the shoulder as if one were shaking off a fly, then they become annoyed and look to see me smiling and wondering what the heck it is that I am doing. I smile and say "just testing."

This is a very important thing to have, it becomes a second skin. It can be used in times of danger because you will sense danger coming towards you. People who naturally have this ability probably gave rise to the expression "He has eyes in the back of his head." It can also heighten your sexual experience, since your partner will feel your tingling body and you will have heightened sensitivity to their skin and aura. Hey and guess what gang It's free. How many things can you say that about? Not only is it an early warning system, a way to keep your energies at high levels, and a method of healing, but it can also be a powerful aphrodisiac.

Okay now for the healing part. Let's say your son or daughter or grandchild or even the neighbors kid cry's because of a skinned knee. Just quietly go over to the person and place your hand on their knee or wherever hurts and imagine extra light traveling through your head to aid the injured person. Soon they will be up and playing again. Of course if the injury is serious it is always best to get competent medical advice. Healers do not replace the medical profession nor do we as a group profess to be miracle workers, although there has been anecdotal evidence, supporting it. In fact in many Eastern cultures hands on healing is a medical discipline, and is taught in universities, there are entire departments devoted to its practice. They would not even think of not using it to aid in the patient's recovery. What we do is aid in the healing process, speed the recovery and generally try and get the person's energies flowing in the right direction. Which is always through the top of the head and out through your toes.

Many people have what is called a "Green thumb" these people have naturally learned how to use these energies to help their plants and flowers grow, you can do the same. You can bring sickly plants back to life by a combination of sending them light and energy and using creative visualization to imagine them healthy again. We will be covering that more fully in a future column.

Another added benefit of this process is that you are sending healing energies to Mother Earth. As the light goes out of your toes it grounds to the earth. Each time you do this you send positive energy to ground. I hope that many many people read this article and become protected healers in there own right, and Earth helpers. In this way there will be many more people sending the earth healing energies, and she could use all the help she can get.

At this point for those of you who wish to proceed further I suggest several avenues of study. You could see if you can find an Indian healer, as I was fortunate enough to meet very early in life. You can take up the study of Reiki as I have reached the level of Reiki Master Teacher. You may choose to study Chi Gung as I have. I highly recommend a wonderful book "Hands of Light" by Barbara Ann Brennen, it is available by special order from your local bookstore. There are also practitioners of Barbara's that teach this fine art. If you are lucky enough to find one willing to accept you as a trainee, you will be handsomely rewarded, maybe not monetarily, but most certainly, in your heart.

Or you may choose to be like me, and take up the study of all of these things. Not all at once of course each one has its intricacies and it takes time for them to settle in. Or you may choose to just keep the energies or juices flowing and be content with the benefits that you already have. Remember that Rome was not built in a day and neither will you, it may take a bit of practice. The way I found was the easiest to a. remember to do it, and also to aid in visualization was to do it in the shower in the morning.

One last thought, keep in mind the more you give the more you get. Each time you heal another, as long as you draw on the universal energies and not your own (the biggest mistake most beginning healers make). You will enhance your own energies, remember what you give must pass through you.

Good Luck to all of you newly hatched fireflies go forth and have fun enjoy life with a heightened sense of awareness, take away the little girl's tears, enjoy your sex life with renewed passion and above all keep healing mother earth. See you all next month.

Arivaderci.