SECTION EIGHT - Distant Treatments These methods are useful for sending distant Reiki treatments. Over time, you will discover that you need to use the distant symbol less, and that the structured methods are also less needed. This is as it should be. As you develop increasing familiarity with the energy you will naturally find that the symbols, like all tools, can be put aside when no longer needed. However, it should be cautioned not to be hasty in initiating this. Take your time and let the connection to the energy strengthen and grow. These are some possible methods for sending distant reiki. There are a multitude of them, as many as there are practitioners. Use one of these or invent your own. Regardless of what technique you use to send distant healing, it is important to be mindful of what you are doing and stay in the moment. Do not attach yourself to the outcome but simply send and let reiki do what it will. A. The Photo Technique The simplest technique for sending Reiki to someone at a distance is to use a photo of them. This technique was taught to Takata by Hayashi. Draw the three symbols with your finger on the picture and say the names of each symbol three times as you draw them. Intend that the person be filled with Reiki. Then place the photo between your hands, and then send the Reiki. You can also do a self treatment using the photo under your hands as you treat yourself intending that the person receive the treatment. B. The Proxy Methods Knee Method - Pillow Method - Teddy Bear Method Proxy methods are using one thing to represent another. People use these methods to help gain an energetic rapport with the person. Many people have difficulty believing that reiki can transcend time and space and the proxy gives their minds something to grasp to get past the limitations of the mind. Anything can be used as a proxy. Technically the photo technique above is a proxy method that uses the photo to represent the person. The basis of the proxy method is that we intend that the object represents the person. If you are using a pillow, you would intend that the top part represent the crown, the middle the waist, and the bottom the feet. A teddy bear is easy, the head represents the head, etc. In the knee method, use the right knee and thigh to represent the back, and the left knee and thigh to represent the front of the person treated. The knee corresponds to the head, the base of the thigh would be the feet. Which ever method you use, begin by drawing the three symbols on the object used to represent the person. Then treat the proxy intending that you are treating the person. Some masters use the wording and say, "By the 'Law of Correspondence', my right knee represents the head positions". It would seem to me that the vocalizations "by the law of correspondence" are drawn from Wiccan practices, or from Western Hermetic Magick. In Reiki, no formalized ritual is necessary, nor the adherence to Wiccan or other Magickal practices. Intent is the Key to utilizing the intelligent energy of Reiki. Simply intend it to heal the person and send it, Reiki will do the rest. C. Finger Method The Finger method is another method of using a representation of the person to send distant reiki. It is useful if you only have one hand free or in a place where you want to send distant reiki but do not want to attract attention to yourself. Basically, this procedure uses one of the fingers of one hand to represent a person or situation that you want to send distant healing to. Wrap your fingers of one hand around the finger that you are using as your representation. Intend that you are sending distant reiki to that person or situation. You can state it out loud as well if you like. As you do Reiki on your finger, you are doing Reiki on the person. D. Visualization Technique Another method is to imagine that you are there with the person receiving the healing, and do the healing as if you were there. The trick is being able to keep the visual image in your mind while you do the healing. It requires strong visual skills and intent. E. Beaming Technique There are two different beaming techniques. They are beaming distantly and in person beaming to someone in your location (i.e., you can see them). To do distant beaming, draw all three symbols in the air. State the name of the person you wish to heal, and any other details about them that you need to feel connected. Intend that the person will receive Reiki as you send. Hold one or both hands at chest height, palms facing outward from you. ( If you use only one hand, place the other comfortably in your lap.) Then simply send the Reiki. You will feel it pour through your hands. As you send they will be receiving reiki healing. In-person beaming is distant reiki but done when you are with the person. It is something you can do when you want to send reiki to someone in the line of sight. This is useful for people with touch issues, or for people who it would be inappropriate to touch like burn victims or those with infectious diseases. To do beaming, extend the palms toward the person and use the symbol/word for distant healing. The difference between this and distant healing is you can see the person. (It can be noted that all Johrei Channels use beaming to send Johrei.) You can also beam from the body, projecting out from every cell. You can also beam from the eyes, or anywhere else you care to. F. Doing Reiki on a List of Recipients In this method, you are doing Reiki on an entire list of people, with the intent that each are receiving a complete Reiki treatment. This is a useful technique when you have a bunch of people that want distant reiki, but you do not have time to do distant healing for each. Create a list of those that want distant healing from you. On the list you can include such things as their names, ages, locations, and what needs to be treated. Make sure you have their permission. Once you have the list, you empower the paper with the intent that it be filled with a Reiki treatment for each. then you would Then you simply reiki the list. Place your hands on the paper, and either just send reiki, or visualize the people receiving a treatment. Generally, doing the distant healing about 15 to 20 minutes is a good amount of time. SECTION NINE - Scanning Scanning is a technique that is useful to know. It is now clear that Usui taught a scanning technique. Scanning is placing your hands into the energy field of another to try to feel for differences in their energy field. You are basically feeling for anything different. Have the person to be scanned lay down, and start at the crown. Move the hands about 2 and 6 inches above the body. Move your hands from crown to feet and back up. It may take a few passes. Feel if it seems hot, cold, spinning, fast, slow, chaotic, etc. This is a technique that requires a great deal of practice to become proficient at. Additionally, remember not to ever diagnose anything. This is useful in finding places that may need extra attention during a healing session. (However it must be added here that since Reiki does the healing and acts for the persons highest good, that we may not be able to influence the healing in this manner with reiki in any case.) SECTION TEN - Group Distance Healing Group Healing is a number of Reiki (or other healers) working together to heal another person. This can be done in person or via distance. There are many methods for doing this. In the first method, reiki practitioners sit in a circle. Each person faces the back of the person in front of them. Have everyone draw the symbols and connect to the reiki energy. The name, age and other information about the person to be treated is stated and then everyone sends reiki to the person in front of them, the last person sends the energy of all the practitioners to the person being treated. In the second method, the practitioners sit in a circle facing the each other. Have everyone draw the symbols and connect to the reiki energy. The name, age and other information about the person to be treated is stated and then everyone sends reiki to the the person who is visualized/imagined to be in the center of the circle.