Reiki III: Master the Healing Art

By Margaret Cheasebro

Many books exist with helpful information about learning the relaxing, healing art of practicing Reiki. What makes Reiki III: Mastering the Healing Art stand out is that it pulls together from many different sources a vast amount of information about Reiki that is helpful for anyone, whether they are thinking of learning about Reiki or have practiced it for a long time.

The book includes information about how to choose a Reiki teacher, illustrations of the Reiki Master symbols, how to draw them, and uses for them. It discusses the Hui Yin, also known as the perineum, which lies in the general area where our legs meet the trunk of our body. Reiki Masters need to know how to keep the Hui Yin muscles contracted when they pass attunements to students. One chapter discusses how Reiki affects our consciousness levels, and it offers methods of muscle testing others to help determine what clients need. The book includes some Reiki success stories, innovative ways to use Reiki, and what to charge for attunements. There are detailed instructions for how to give a Reiki I, Reiki II and Reiki III attunement. Each one is slightly different. Suggestions for how to conduct Reiki workshops are included as well as examples of how to print Reiki certificates on a computer to give to students after they receive an attunement.

There are so many details about Reiki to learn and remember. This book will give you what you need to know in an easy-to-read writing style. It is a valuable reference book for anyone studying or practicing Reiki. However, it will not make you a Reiki Master. You must attend a Reiki Master workshop and get a Reiki Master attunement from a Reiki Master before you can teach Reiki and pass attunements.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Margaret Cheasebro
• Release date: Apr 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005041564

Margaret Cheasebro

Margaret Cheasebro is a Reiki Master. She has a bachelor’s degree in humanities with an English emphasis, a master's degree in psychology, counseling and guidance, and a Ph.D. in metaphysics. She has provided Reiki treatments at an alternative health clinic and at a local college, and she has taught Reiki I, Reiki II and Reiki Master workshops.A retired elementary school counselor, she is a national award winning author, who writes articles on a variety of subjects, among them people, places and cultures of the Four Corners area where the states of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Utah meet. She also has written several books. The following are her most recent ones.The Healing Tree, a young adult fantasy softcover novel, was a finalist in the 2015 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. When three children meet on their way to summer camp in northwest New Mexico, they don’t think they know each other. But they discover that through time they have been chased by an evil woman who wants their blood so she can stay young and their powerful connection to nature so she can control the world. To their horror, the children find the evil woman is waiting for them at camp. With help from a cottonwood, they time travel to an ancient Pueblo village, where a traveling medicine man assists them. Mysterious Baba, the camp’s caretaker, also helps them as they and star warriors try to thwart the evil woman’s plans to rule the world. Can the young people believe in themselves and their skills enough to stop the evil woman before she ruins the world? Purchase at amazon.com.Her non-fiction softcover book, Healing with Trees: Finding a Path to Wholeness, was a finalist in the 2017 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. It explores the benefits of being around trees. The book includes exercises for such things as grounding and dealing with difficult emotions, and it has a section on tools for dealing with everyday challenges. Purchase at amazon.com.Her children’s fiction picture book, If I Were a Tree, What Would I Be?, tells about two children who love trees. They can hear them with their hearts. They become friends with a cottonwood. The tree teaches them how to deal with bullies and how to stay focused in school. They help the cottonwood in several ways. Purchase at https://www.balboapress.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/803706-if-i-were-a-tree-what-would-i-be or at https://www.ifiwereatreewhatwouldibe.comShe writes blogs related to trees and other aspects of nature at her two websites, https://www.margaretcheasebro.com and https://www.ifiwereatreewhatwouldibe.com.

Book preview

Welcome to Reiki III: Mastering the Healing Art. Making a decision to get the Reiki Master attunement is one of the biggest steps you will ever take in your life. Ten times more Reiki energy will flow through your body than it did after you received the Reiki I attunement.

Once you master the material and adjust to the attunement, you will be able to teach Reiki to others and pass attunements to them. This is a joyful opportunity and a sacred responsibility. It will bring satisfaction and fulfillment to your life in a way you may never have experienced.

Traditionally, the Reiki Master attunement was given only to people who chose to dedicate their lives to teaching Reiki. Today, the need for Reiki energy is so strong in our world that the Reiki Master attunement is not as exclusive as it once was. However, it is recommended only for those who are serious healers or who plan to teach Reiki.

If you choose to receive the Reiki Master attunement, you will function at an even higher energy frequency level, and you will notice changes in the way you perceive familiar places and situations. The changes may be subtle, but they represent profound shifts in the way you relate to the world. Circumstances that used to bother you may seem trivial. Issues that once brought turmoil may seem insignificant. Your interests and friendships may change. You may discover you have gifts you never realized you had. When you give Reiki treatments, you will be much more aware of divine help assisting you.

This exploration of Reiki III is not meant as a substitute for physically attending a workshop and receiving an attunement from a Reiki Master. It is meant to acquaint you with information you’ll need to know so that you will be more comfortable and less stressed when you do take a Reiki Master workshop. Everything you need to know is right here, so if you forget something, you’ll know where to go to find it.

If you are a Reiki Master and need ideas for how to put together classes that you will teach, you will find help in this book as well as in its two companion books, Reiki I: Exploring the Basics and Reiki II: Expanding Your Skills. If you teach what’s in these three books, your curriculum will already be mapped out for you. I have used the materials in Reiki I, Reiki II and Reiki Master workshops often enough to know that they are effective teaching tools.

Learning about Reiki is a constant exploration. As you study and practice Reiki, you will encounter new information, and you will understand on a deeper level that there are other positive aspects about this spiritually guided universal life energy. Though you can master the material in this book, you often will be learning new things that help to improve your practice and your understanding of this dynamic and important healing method.

Once you receive the Reiki III attunement, you will have a stronger power symbol to use called Usui Dai-Ko-Myo. You also will have three additional symbols that are important in passing attunements and in your healing work.

You came into this world with a purpose, a perfect plan for your life. Reiki will help you better understand and follow that plan. I wish you great joy and fulfillment as you learn more about this sacred healing art.

CHAPTER 1

CHOOSING A REIKI TEACHER

Because you are reading this book, you have demonstrated that you are serious about wanting to delve deeper into the healing and life changing gift of Reiki. Congratulations on taking this important preparatory step.

Before you decide what Reiki Master workshop to attend, ask different Reiki instructors what you can do after they train you. Will you receive all the training you need to initiate others into all the Reiki degrees, including the Reiki Master level? Some teachers arrange the workshops in different sections, so it’s an important question to ask. You may think you will get all the training you need until you discover at the end that something has been left out and you’ll need another Reiki degree or an additional workshop.

Will your teacher spend time in class teaching you how to perform the attunements? You will find complete instructions for giving all the attunements in appendixes at the end of this book, but it’s helpful to practice the attunements under the watchful eye of an experienced teacher. It is also helpful to practice giving someone a Reiki session in which you have a chance to use one or more of the new symbols you learn in the Reiki Master workshop. The instructor can give you pointers about hand positions and answer on-the-spot questions. For example, if you have trouble getting an energy blockage to dissolve or figuring out which symbol to use, the Reiki Master can give you suggestions.

Ask teachers how much time they spend in class practicing the new symbols in a Reiki treatment setting and how much time they spend helping students learn how to give attunements. It’s also important to know how much support you can expect from them after the workshop is over. Can you call them up and ask them questions? Will they be supportive when you need advice? Decide if the teacher is a good match for you. Will you feel comfortable learning from this teacher, or could there be a potential personality clash?

Many Reiki teachers will have learned other techniques that help to enhance the Reiki experience. This could be an asset for you by providing you with tools to enrich your Reiki practice. Find out what the curriculum includes and if it will suit your needs. Then make your decision and move forward. If you’ve struggled with what your purpose is as it relates to practicing and teaching Reiki, you may find helpful insights from the right teacher for you.

The Japanese name for the master class is Shinpiden, a word that means mystery teaching. It refers to the mystery of God’s love, wisdom, power, guidance and grace. The more you learn and experience, the more your own healing deepens and your awareness expands. You will never fully understand the mystery no matter how fully you heal or how much you develop, but you will experience great satisfaction and joy as you explore its depths. The more you learn about and practice Reiki, the easier it will be for you to let more refined and compassionate levels of Reiki energy flow through you. 1

Usui Dai-Ko-Myo, a stronger power symbol that you will receive during the Reiki III attunement, helps you connect to that part of yourself which is already enlightened. By using that symbol, you are connecting with the deepest, most important aspect of your nature, your God-Consciousness, which knows that you contain within you a part of God. When you receive an attunement, as Reiki energy lodges in the causal, or spiritual, body of your aura and flows into your crown chakra, it brings the remembrance that Reiki energy is already within you. The attunement reawakens that knowing. When we are born into this world, we forget our divine connection. Our limited awareness makes us forget that we’ve always known about this sacred healing art. Attunements awaken us to the memory that we are already one with it. 2

This life changing healing energy has the power to help you improve the world in a positive, dynamic way. As a Reiki Master, you will have the ability to teach and pass on this boundless, loving energy to others so they too can help to heal the Earth and offer that healing to everyone and everything in it. Every time you give a Reiki treatment, that healing energy will travel in a radius many miles around you, making itself available to anyone who chooses to receive it. Becoming a Reiki Master is a sacred trust, and your decision to learn more about Reiki will open a new world of understanding to you and others. That makes choosing the right Reiki teacher for you especially important.

CHAPTER 2

REIKI MASTER SYMBOLS AND THE HUI YIN

When you receive the Reiki Master attunement, you will receive the use of four symbols. They include Usui Dai-Ko-Myo and three other symbols used in the attunement process. Some teachers divide the Reiki Master teachings into two workshops. They teach the Usui Dai-Ko-Myo symbol in one workshop. During a second workshop they teach the remaining three symbols so that you can pass attunements to others.

There is nothing wrong with dividing the workshop into two parts, but I find it more helpful to teach all four symbols in