Reiki – What Is It?

Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a Japanese natural healing art that empowers the body’s innate healing ability, uplifts the spirit, reduces stress, and restores mental clarity.

The word Reiki is a combination of two Japanese words – Rei, which means “that which comes from heaven to give life to all” and Ki, which means “the flow of life force energy.”

The practice of Reiki is a non-invasive healing technique administered by a Reiki Healer “laying on of hands” and allowing Universal life force energy to flow through the healer to the recipient of the healing.

A Reiki treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you. Reiki treats the whole person – body, emotions, mind, and spirit. It creates many beneficial results. In addition to sending healing energy into the body and acting as a catalyst to raise the recipient’s own energy to self-heal, Reiki causes stress to flow away giving one feelings of relaxation, peace, security, and well-being. It can release energy blockages and restore balance and harmony to ones entire being. Everyone sees results in some form but many have reported miraculous results.

Reiki is a simple, natural, and safe method of spiritual healing that everyone can use. It has been effective in helping virtually every known illness and always creates a beneficial effect. It works in conjunction with all other medical and therapeutic techniques to relieve side effects and promote recovery.

Reiki has been successfully integrating with Western Medicine as more and more doctors, nurses, and other health care workers are discovering its healing abilities. As health care institutions are being challenged to provide high quality and cost effective services, Reiki is able to help maximize patient care and minimize recovery time.

Unlike other healing methods, Reiki does not require complicated techniques, special skills, years of college study and extensive training, or expensive equipment.

Reiki Training

Reiki is an amazingly simple healing technique to learn. The ability to use Reiki is not taught in the usual sense, but is transferred, like light, to a student during a Reiki class. This healing ability is passed on during an “attunement” given by a Reiki Master which allows the student to tap into an unlimited supply of healing “life force energy.”

Its use is not dependent on ones intellectual capacity or spiritual development and, therefore, is available to everyone. It has been successfully taught to people of all ages and backgrounds. For example, in 2007 I attuned in Reiki 1 and Reiki 2 the youngest student I have ever had, a 13 year old spiritually evolved young lady whose mother was also a student.

Questions to Ask a Reiki Master

1. How long have you been working with Reiki?
2. What training have you had and what is your “lineage?”
3. How do you personally use Reiki healings?
4. Will your Reiki training initiate me, or progress me within, the Traditional Usui lineage of Reiki?
5. What do you cover in your classes? How much is instructional and how much is “hands on” practice?
6. What qualifications are required to take Reiki training?
7. What are your fees?
8. Do you offer a Reiki support group to your students?
9. Do you have a positive and respectful attitude toward other Reiki practitioners and Masters?

Reiki Bio

Reiki Master David “Phoenix” Nutter received Reiki I in 1993 and Reiki II in 1994 from Reiki Master Effie Shaffer in Morgantown, WV. He received his Reiki III and Reiki Master training from Fran “Moriah” Lawson of Morgantown, WV in 1995. In 1996, he received additional training from Rob Marshall, owner of Orion’s Gate and Reiki Master in Albuquerque, NM. In 2002, he received additional Reiki III and Reiki Master training from Reiki Master Lydia C. Smith in Weston, WV.

David is an 8^th generation Reiki Master in his Reiki lineage which goes back directly to Dr. Mikao Usui, the founder of the Reiki Healing System.

In addition to being a Reiki Master, David is also a Feng Shui Master, Certified T’ai Chi Instructor, and has Black Belts in two systems of Karate.

David is the published author of two books on Feng Shui and has written many published articles on Reiki, Feng Shui, and T’ai Chi. He is a frequent speaker to groups across the country and has been featured in newspapers, radio talk shows, and television.

For information on Reiki Class dates, or to schedule a healing, call Reiki Master David “Phoenix” Nutter at 304-366-2578 or email reiki@sacredmountainfengshuiinc.com