Loving Intention and the Rei!
Reiki is an intentional healing art form.
A Reiki practitioner triggers the flow of positive life force energy with loving intention. Loving intention assumes that the Rei (spiritual knowledge) is going to guide the Ki to wherever it is needed most for the good health of individual(s), situations or atmosphere into which it is being channeled.
- Intention can be thought of as having and acting with a purpose. In the case of healing, it is having the purpose to heal. It is not necessary or even possible to direct the Reiki with your intention beyond ‘healing’ because the Rei takes care of the specifics.
Healing intention also works over great distances by using a Reiki symbol learned in the Reiki II Workshop.
Early research on healing intention was done with simple living systems such as house-plants. In one early study, two different kinds of saline solutions were given to plants. One sample consisted of normal unaffected water while the other consisted of water exposed to healing intentions given by a healer. The plants given the healing water showed more sprouting and were taller than those given the untreated water. When I worked on a bio-dynamic farm in Hawaii, we sang to an allotted row of vegetables, giving each plant loving intentions. With each new crop, this particular row always produced greener, healthier and tastier veggies.
The important point is that somehow intention decreases randomness in the universe.
There is some kind of mysterious link between someone’s intentions and physical reality. At present we know this connection exists but we don’t know exactly what it is or how it works.
Disease can be thought of as the body moving toward a state of greater randomness. Think of an infection or something more serious like cancer. The body’s cells become more disorganized, more random with disease. It may be that intention works by decreasing the randomness produced by the disease.