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We learned how to channel in our Reiki two class. I haven't done much with it. Anyone else practice their channeling?

I'd be hesitant to do any channeling. There's too much danger of attracting malevolent spirits.

Otoharo!

You mean you actually were taught this in a reiki class? My! My! People seem to be dumping everything into reiki.

finality

oyyyyy!

There are safer things to learn in Reiki class like say..how to pop wheelies on your motorcycle.

dolphin,

/*\ Namaste :-}}

- what, precisely, do you refer to when you say 'channeling'?

Reiki All Around,

All Blessings,

Firekeeper

Basically just using your own intuition. We all channel whether we realize it or not. I was doing some long distance reiki on a friend and got alot of messages from her without asking her. I asked her about them and she was amazed over it. I got a message that her low back was hurting and something with her heart. She told me that she has been having back spasms and she's been going to a dr. for a heart fluttering problem.

dolphin01 said on

>Basically just using your own intuition. We all channel whether we realize it or not. I was doing some long distance reiki on a friend and got alot of messages from her without asking her. I asked her about them and she was amazed over it. I got a message that her low back was hurting and something with her heart. She told me that she has been having back spasms and she's been going to a dr. for a heart fluttering problem.

Yes my intuition sometimes "kicks in" during reiki and other energy work. Some examples from distance work on my father a few years ago: I saw his liver getting darker; it was later found that his stent was obstructed so bile was backing up and a liver infection resulted. Later I saw that his kidneys and liver really needed energy; it turned out that some of his pancreatic cancer cells had migrated to just outside those organs. On the other hand, sometime later his CT scans showed "tiny spots" of metastasis on his liver, and I hadn't noticed them while working on Dad. Later still I saw some sort of blockage in his left kidney; sometime after that, his doctors found the same thing. For distance work, intuitive flashes are most likely to come to me when I visualize working on the recipient as if he/she is right there in front of me.

But the term "channeling" often refers to having some sort of disembodied entity enter your body. That usage of the term seems to have been understood by some of the previous responses to your inquiry. (Good question for clarification, Firekeeper; you beat me to it.) I'm squeamish about such things due to autonomy issues. (That's just my immediate psychological reaction.)

Dolphin01 -- since you brought up the topic, could you say more about what you were taught in your reiki class about using your intuition?

Bruce

Bruce,

/*\ Namaste :-}}

- ahhh, occasionally I am 'coyote-on-the-spot'

bagl

- yes, I too confine the term channelling to the temporary integration of another entity with one's own Conscious\Subconscious for various purposes

- the integration not necessarily being sought with intention at every occasion nor the purposes being necessarily solely one's own at all times

>:-}}

- a spooky, though not necessarily scary or uninteresting experience

- Keys are the strength of one's Intention and the focus of one's Mindfulness (irregardless of whether the integration is sought or "spontaneous", so to speak)

Reiki All Around,

All Blessings,

Firekeeper

Speaking of which...
My reiki teach taught us how to channel, I think. Angels and the like, the like of which that could work through us.
I didn't fully understand it.