When your body holds onto unhealthy weight, it often reflects stale or excess energy that you no longer need to carry with you. Using a few simple reiki healing techniques, you can clear the two chakras or energy centers that relate to overeating and emotional baggage, offering yourself a firmer foundation for long-term healthy weight loss.
Theory
A reiki practitioner accesses a universal healing energy that she directs through her hands and into a client's energy field to promote healing, according to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Many practitioners work by treating the chakras to clear any blocks and dilate them so they can work more efficiently. The chakras are seven whirling energy centers that sit at the crown of the head, throat, heart, solar plexus, sacrum or lower belly and tailbone. When you are healthy, they draw energy abundantly from your surroundings, according to ChakraEnergy.com. Where there is illness or injury, a chakra may be blocked or partially closed.
Causes
Each chakra is responsible for a particular set of bodily functions. It also carries an emotional signature. The sacral chakra--also called the spleen chakra--resides just below the belly button on the lower abdomen. This area governs feelings, social relationships and intimacy, according to ChakraEnergy.com. An imbalance in this chakra might lead to disordered eating. The solar plexus chakra, which sits at the base of the sternum, is related to issues of willpower. Using reiki to treat the sacral and solar plexus chakras can help your weight loss efforts.
Treatment
If you are a reiki practitioner, spend some extra time during self-treatment on the sacral and solar plexus chakras. If you are a client, tell your practitioner about your weight loss goals, and ask her to spend more time on the abdominal area. For best results, combine a focus on the sacrum and solar plexus with a whole-body reiki treatment. Since emotional and physical imbalances can be rooted in subtle imbalances anywhere in the mind/body, it's best to treat the entire system every time you receive reiki.
Affirmation Method
One of the most common sayings in the alternative healing community is "energy follows thought." Combine reiki with your positive intentions to help you lose weight, advises William Lee Rand, founder of the International Center for Reiki Training and author of "Reiki: The Healing Touch." Write your name and "healthy weight loss" or "food" on a piece of paper. If you're a practitioner, use reiki to infuse the paper--and your intentions--with energy regularly, but especially before meals. If you're a client, ask your practitioner to boost your written affirmation with energy the next time you go for a treatment.
Maintenance
To work on the sacral chakra, place your hands in your lap, palms up, with your right hand on top. Rest the tips of your thumbs together. Take in a deep breath, and with the exhalation, chant the syllable "vam"--it rhymes with "bomb," according to the website Eclectic Energies. To work on the solar plexus chakra, place your hands before your stomach, fingertips pressing together and pointing away from you. Cross your thumbs. Chant "ram."
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