﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><ttl>60</ttl><title>Reiki Montana</title><link>http://blog.reikimontana.com</link><language>en</language><copyright /><itunes:subtitle> </itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Michael</itunes:author><itunes:summary /><description /><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Michael</itunes:name><itunes:email>michael@reikimontana.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:category text="Arts" /><item><title>So, what is Reiki ?</title><link>http://blog.reikimontana.com/2008/05/02/so-what-is-reiki-.aspx</link><dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face="arial, arial, helvetica, verdana"&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;"Reiki" &lt;/STRONG&gt;is a Japanese healing art. &lt;STRONG&gt;"Rei"&lt;/STRONG&gt; (pronounced "Ray") means&amp;nbsp; "universal knowledge" or may be considered to be the infinite&amp;nbsp; energy of the Universe or that of a supreme intelligence.&amp;nbsp; &lt;STRONG&gt;"Ki"&lt;/STRONG&gt; (pronounced "kee") is the "life force" found in all living things.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;Reiki is not a religion. While Reiki has its roots in Japan and Asia, it is a "healing art" and not a religion in itself. Reiki acknowledges the "universal energy" in our universe. It makes no attempt to categorize it&amp;nbsp; in any religious context. A Practitioner of Reiki has been trained&amp;nbsp; to focus and channel this energy in a way that is nurturing and healing.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Practitioners channel energy in a particular pattern&amp;nbsp; to help heal and harmonize. While similar to other healing&amp;nbsp; therapies based on the human energy field, Reiki specifically&amp;nbsp; seeks to restore harmony and balance to the body whose&amp;nbsp;vital energy ("Ki") has become unbalanced. This energy is directed at energy centers in the body known as "chakras".&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;Reiki energy has a number of healing effects. It brings about&amp;nbsp; a state of deep relaxation, promotes energy flow within the body, helps to detoxify and provide vitality in the form of the healing universal&amp;nbsp; life energy, and helps to increases the vibrational frequency of the body, thereby stimulating and improving metabolism. &lt;/FONT&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;The laying on of hands is used in Reiki therapy as in other forms&amp;nbsp; of spiritual healing. With Reiki there is a difference though. In other&amp;nbsp; forms of spiritual healing, a person with a strong energy field&amp;nbsp; places their hands above a particular part of the body in order to&amp;nbsp; release energy into it. With Reiki, however, the healer places the&amp;nbsp; hands gently on or in special positions just above the body, and&amp;nbsp; the recipient draws Reiki energy through the healer as needed. The Reiki healer is therefore a "guide" or "channel" for the healing Reiki energies.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;</description><comments>http://blog.reikimontana.com/2008/05/02/so-what-is-reiki-.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">24e4fd73-800d-4c70-ba2f-8e37d99093b0</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 07:04:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Reiki Master Teacher</title><link>http://blog.reikimontana.com/2008/04/29/reiki-master-teacher.aspx</link><dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator><description>Greetings all,&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;I recently completed my Reiki Master Teacher level in Chikara-Reiki-Do, an integrated form of Reiki that combines traditional Usui and Tibetan forms of Reiki. I am also presently still in training for a traditional Usui Reiki Master level certification. With these attainments I plan to offer classes in Reiki as well as continue offering Reiki healing sessions. More news as this develops. Should anyone be interested in distance healing or should a student of Reiki wish to request a distance attunement to Reiki level I or II, please contact me.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Namaste.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Michael</description><category>news</category><comments>http://blog.reikimontana.com/2008/04/29/reiki-master-teacher.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">583b572f-3c70-4be7-8a07-90592858b179</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 06:57:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Welcome!</title><link>http://blog.reikimontana.com/2008/01/14/welcome.aspx</link><dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator><description>Welcome to &lt;STRONG&gt;"Reiki Montana".&lt;/STRONG&gt; I am a Reiki practitioner living in eastern Montana, and my site is devoted to information regarding the healing art known as Reiki, as well as providing information on&amp;nbsp;healing and medicinal&amp;nbsp;herbs, natural health, relaxation and meditation. I invite you to explore Reiki by visiting my site at &lt;A href="http://www.reikimontana.com/"&gt;www.reikimontana.com&lt;/A&gt;, and please feel free to submit a comment or question that I or&amp;nbsp;another may be able to answer about this healing art.</description><comments>http://blog.reikimontana.com/2008/01/14/welcome.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">a386c879-1370-4bce-abbc-c1902da95e30</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:18:49 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>