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Namaste All,

I was wondering whether being attuned to Reiki increases an individuals creativity and if this is the case...Why?

Has anyone any thoughts on this?

Love and Light
Helen.

Helen,

Namaste.

Creativity is an active condition - in my estimation.

Perhaps Reiki, to whatever extent it opens us to a wider Realm, presents us with more stimuli upon which we might impart creative actions.

Why? I haven't a clue. :-}}

Reiki all around,

All Blessings,

Firekeeper

Rainbow,
I think that Reiki does help us to be more creative. I think it is because we normally have all the negative stuff we deal with, anger, disapointment, guilt, and so on. Reiki brings it up to deal with and clear. As we clear it out, all the creativity that has been there all along can now show up.

It is like going to a movie theater and as the movie starts, the curtain is still across the screen. You can see the movie, and you may even think it is ok for a little while. But when the curtain is pulled back, you can see much clearer the colors and the people and the story. We are kind of like that when we don't clear out the negative energy, it is like that curtain. When Reiki, or anything positive helps us to see better, the colors are much more clear, and I believe we become more creative and more intuitive!!

Love, and truth, Priestess

Helen,
Reiki helps open and clear chakras. If your second chakra is open and clear you have a good chance at being creative, passionate..and other things. Open chakras equal openings in life.
Just some thoughts,
joanna

Namaste All,

Thank you for your replies, which have been very helpful.

I agree that being attuned definately seems to help with creativity.

However, I have another question (sorry!)...Are more creative people naturally drawn to Reiki and all things spiritual anyway, rather than more logical and scientific people, who tend to analyse everything. I'm making no judgements here and mean no offence to anyone, I'm just interested in what everyone thinks.

Love and Light
Helen.

Helen,

Namaste.

To me, creativity is a bit like Spirit - we put all sorts of 'masks' on it - for whatever reasons or purposes.

Yet, at the core, creativity is a unified 'force', active and 'alive' and tapping into it often a suggests one way in which we try to balance our energies.

Hope this helps.

Reiki all around,

All BLessings,

Firekeeper

Hello Helen,

namaste,

my two cents worth,

I have to agree with firekeeper.
Science is just as creative and inspiring as art. Certainly both are necessary. I know many people who come from all walks of life who use their creativity to balance their more analytical occupations.
Some of them are reiki practitioners some of them are not.

For what it's worth.

hugs
Rebecca

Reiki blessings, Helen,

May I ask, what you consider as 'more creative people'? There are many logical people who are attuned to reiki, and they, in turn attract other logical people to them and their healing, while 'less logical' people - and according to my other half I belong here!:0))))))lol - atract the more intuitive people towards their healing.
It is all a matter of balance.
Different people move in and out of our lives as and when we need them, or we in turn have something to offer them. Rather than one is more 'spiritual' than another it is more a case or right time space.
Someone who has no previous spiritual intent may be drawn towards a spiritual path due to some trauma or event, or meeting that changes their life and sets them on the spiritual path.
If, say, an artist is introduced to a spiritual environment, and chooses to walk that path, then I feel, that anything and everything in their life will begin to move upwards. If they were a good artist before, they will become an excellent artist as they progress on their new path, whether it be reiki or any other similar concept.
May the laughter of love and joy always surround you. jonjo

Why do you see creativity as an opposite to logical and scientific? I am a programmer which is viewed of as logical and scientific and I certainly do analyze things, but the fact of the matter is if you don't have creativity you will never be a good programmer. While good logic skills are essential, you can't figure out how to make new things without being creative. In fact, I have discovered that the majority of really good programmers are also musicians.

This is really true of any scientific field too. Without creativity, a mathmatician would not think of a new way to prove a thoerom, nor would a doctor discover a new way to cure a disease. All of the technology that we enjoy today is a result of creativity.

Now there are certainly people who use logic and science as a means to disparage things that they don't understand and are afraid of, but that's not being logical, that's just being fearful.

Namsate,

-Mike

rainbow said on 6/29/2000 2:11 AM

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>Namaste All,
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>Thank you for your replies, which have been very helpful.
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>I agree that being attuned definately seems to help with creativity.
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>However, I have another question (sorry!)...Are more creative people naturally drawn to Reiki and all things spiritual anyway, rather than more logical and scientific people, who tend to analyse everything. I'm making no judgements here and mean no offence to anyone, I'm just interested in what everyone thinks.
>
>Love and Light
>Helen.
>

Hello Firekeeper,

Namaste,

Yes, I see what you mean...creativity comes in all shapes, sizes and different forms.

Love and Light
Helen.

Thanks Rebecca,

Namaste,

It's just that most of the people that I have met who practise Reiki, are not of the scientific nature.

Yes, in it's own right, science is creative, but in my own experience I have found that Some (not all), logically minded people try to analyse Spiritual things, instead of just believing in them. I guess what I mean is that it is very hard to prove 'spiritual' things scientifically and some people will not believe until they have outward proof. In my own limited experience,non logical people tend to find it easier to just go with the flow, spiritually.

Again, this is in no way a judgement or criticism, but merely an observation :)

Love and Light
Helen.

Helen,
Are you asking if healers have more fun? The answer ofcourse is ,yeah baby! Just look at all of the fun and exciting people on this chat line. We rock! I mean what can be more fun than sitting in your scented bath of salts listoning to chakra clearing music while tracing 40 different symbols in the suds and drinking detox tea. Then later having snipe soup for a late night snack....
P.S.
As for scientists I have one word for you .Einstien.
;9 (It's just the sprite in me)

Hello Jonjo,

Namaste,

Yes, that's a fair comment, Jonjo and not something that I had thought of.

I think perhaps my question came out not quite as I intended :)

I am ashamed to say that I hadn't thought of science as being creative until I read the replys and realised how wrong I was.

I have just found that more logical people tend to analyse spirit looking for external proof, before they will believe in it. In a sense and again I'm probably wrong :), but I don't believe that you can 'prove' spirit, in a scientific way. But, I do agree that it would follow that if more logical people are drawn to Reiki, then other logical people will follow and vice versa.

I also agree with you, that people are drawn to spirit at particular moments and sometimes after particular events in their lives.

Love and Light to you
Helen.

Hello Mike,

Namaste.

Thank you, I am ashamed to say that I had indeed never seen science as being creative, rather an analytical process. Your examples have made me realise that I was completely wrong and that in different forms, there is creativity in everyone...scientists and programmers included :).

I have just found, in my limited experience, that the more logical amongst us ( not all of them ), tend to look for proof of things before they will believe in them. Personally, I don't believe that you can 'prove' spiritual things in a scientific way. Whereas, the non-logical among us tend to just accept and go with the flow.

I hadn't really thought of it as being fear before, interesting thought though.

Anyway, I meant to cast no judgements, only observations.

Love and Light
Helen.

Hello Joanna,

Namaste.

Sounds wonderful...not too sure about the snipe soup though :)))

Fair point about Einstein :)

Love and Light
Helen.

Namaste,

Mike.

I sincerely apologise for causing offense to you, truly it was unintended.
My husband is an incrediblly logical, thinking, man who is also inceredibly creative, and on a logical plane he is also incredibly intuative. On the spiritual side of life, he has a very hard time, because it is so indefinable and logic will not and for him, does not succeed in breaking it down into into its component parts.
The fact that he is (if he wished to develope it) an incredibly gifted natural healer gives him the 'collywabbles'. After 33 years of marriage and the past eight with my healing experiences, he is only now beginning to consider that there may be another aspect to the universe, and he finds it very confusing, because he feels it undermines the solidarity of all he learnt during his seven year apprentiship as a tool maker in the aero-industry.

May the laughter of love and joy always surround you. jonjo

Joanna,

Namaste.

I take it you soak in 'rock' salt water. :-}}}}}}}}

Far out. :-}

Reiki all around.

All Blessings,

Firekeeper

Helen,

I know you were not casting judgments, I just wanted to throw in another point of view I don't think many people see. This is something I have strong opinions about because I am personally both logical and spiritual and for me there is no contradiction between the two. I also tend to analyse things and I even have a logical reasoning of why I believe in reincarnation.

I really think that people who are afraid of things they can't understand, especially dealing with life and death, take logic and use it as a convenient shield to disparage whatever they don't believe in. This has been done throuout
history (People used to think that the earth was flat and
how many "logical" people thought Columbus was a crackpot.

So all I'm trying to say is that I think people confuse
those who try to use logic to discredit what they don't understand as "logical" people when if fact they are not logical at all, but fearful.

As for the needing proof, well I can see that many people use Reiki to heal. I may not understand how or why it works but the logical side of me can't ignore the fact that there is something going one here. A truely logical person doesn't ignore something just because it can't yet be explained :).

Namaste,

-Mike

Jonjo,

You have not offended me and I'm sorry if you got that impression. I was just offering another point of view. I just gave a more detailed explanation in my last post. As for your husband, well, sometimes people just need time to adjust to new things. Your husband is probably just uncomfortable with something that was not acceptable with the society he grew up in. Fortunatly society is changing and many of these "new agey" things are becoming more acceptable in the mainstream.

Namaste,

-Mike

Many thanks, Mike,

I am really glad of your opinion, as you have made me look at this in a completely different light.

I can really see what you are saying about logic and fear, I had just never considered that fear could be the reason behind some people's 'logic', but it makes sense.

This is what I love so much about message boards...you can start off thinking one thing and sometimes end up thinking something completely different, after hearing all the different perspectives.

Namaste

Helen.