Essential Reiki: A Complete Guide To An Ancient Healing Art

319 Pages·2016·3.93 MB·English

by  Diane Stein

Other books by Diane Stein

A Woman’s I Ching

Healing with Flower and Gemstone Essences

Healing with Gemstones and Crystals

Psychic Healing with Spirit Guides and Angels

The Natural Remedy Book for Women

All Women Are Healers: A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Healing

The Goddess Celebrates: An Anthology of Women’s Rituals

Casting the Circle: A Women’s Book of Rituals

Natural Healing for Dogs and Cats

The Women’s Spirituality Book

The Women’s Book of Healing

Stroking the Python: Women’s Psychic Lives

Text copyright © 1995 by Diane Stein

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stein, Diane, 1948–
Essential Reiki: a complete guide to an ancient healing art/Diane Stein.
p. cm.
1. Reiki (Healing System) I. Title.

RZ403-R45S74 1995
615.8’52—dc20 95-2643

eISBN: 978-0-307-78363-9

Illustrations by Ian Everard
Calligraphy by Carl Rohrs

v3.1

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many people have helped me make this book possible. First of all I thank
Elaine Goldman Gill and John Gill, co-owners of The Crossing Press for their
encouragement and willingness to publish what may be a controversial book.
Teaching Elaine Reiki I, II, and II at the Mystical Dragon Bookstore in
Carlsbad, California (Lammas, 1993), was one of the highpoints of this
lifetime. I thank Richard Donovan for legal advice, Diana Acuna for alternate
teaching techniques and symbol information, and Sasha Daucus for help
locating rare books and for her constant encouragement. Jane Brown and
Linda Page read and critiqued the manuscript, and Jane Brown and Carol
Hunner provided important material on the Ki Exercises. Patty Callahan of
Brigit Books, St. Petersburg, Florida and Joy Weaver of Treasures Bookstore,
Tampa, Florida were also instrumental in book searches.
Laurel Steinhice and Suzanne Wagner were among the women who shared
channeling sessions on Reiki with me over several years. Detong Cho Yin
patiently explained Buddhism to me when I knew nothing about it and
offered other information that proved vital to this book. I also thank the
several people who gave me my own Reiki training, knowing that I would
share everything I learned and would eventually write about it. They gave me
training in traditional teaching to supplement my nontraditional methods, and
others offered insight and even attunements at first meetings. Though they
are unnamed I thank them all deeply.
I also wish to thank my many teaching Reiki III’s, the students who are
continuing to carry Reiki to as many people as wish to learn it at affordable
prices. A few of the many include Jill Elizabeth Taylor, Anastasia Marie
Zepp, Jane Brown, Sasha Daucus, Diana Acuna, Tom Oakley, Carolyn
Taylor, Lisa Severn, and Liz Tarr. I thank them for their friendship and their
work.
DISCLAIMER

Healing and medicine are two very different disciplines and the law requires
the following disclaimer: The information in this book is not medicine but
healing, and does not constitute medical advice. In case of serious illness
consult your practitioner of choice.
For Elaine Goldman Gill
CONTENTS

Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Illustrations
Foreword: Important
Introduction

Reiki I: The First Degree
Chapter I – The Reiki Story
Chapter II – What Is Reiki?
Chapter III – The Reiki Healing Session
Self-Healing
Healing Others
Group Healing
Reiki II: The Second Degree
Chapter IV – The Reiki Symbols
Chapter V – Distance Healing and More
Chapter VI – Opening the Kundalini
Reiki III: The Third Degree
Chapter VII – Third Degree Symbols
Chapter VIII – Passing Attunements
Chapter IX – Teaching Reiki
Chapter X – Reiki and the Path to Enlightenment
Afterword: The Future of Reiki in Our Time of Planetary Crisis
Appendix: Worksheets for Teaching Reiki
Bibliography