Self-Healing Reiki: Freeing the Symbols, Attunements, and Techniques [Paperback]

Barbara Emerson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 18, 2001

Reiki is a Japanese hands-on method of bodywork that channels energy through seven chakras (energy centers) to attune the body to its optimal energy level. In Self-Healing Reiki, Barbara Emerson helps readers bypass the expensive—and some say elitist—process of working with a master by teaching themselves through a simple but complete set of exercises. Emerson divides the book into three areas of focus. In the first part, she introduces Reiki philosophy and techniques, showing hand positions for the unobstructed flow of energy and methods for performing a healing session on oneself and others. In the second part, she explores the spirituality in energy and healing, detailing her own system of “bare-bones Reiki” that allows the user to resist religious dogma and ideals. In the third part, she explains techniques for living as a master and transmitting the teachings, stressing the physical, emotional, and mental balance needed to perform attunements on others.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Great insight into this ancient technique. Gentle, powerful…. From a therapist and instructor who for 20 years has been teaching Reiki and other measures to gain energy and relaxation. Lush interiors of Mother Nature's beauty help illustrate this video in which the author elaborates on Reiki powers...then demonstrates the hands-on procedures. The demonstration is clear, complete, and very instructive."
—The Book Reader, Summer 1999

About the Author

Barbara Emerson has been a Reiki master since 1995. She has dedicated the past several years of her life to finding a means of providing Reiki attunements to people who don’t have access or enough money to attend a course. Emerson made a life-changing commitment to Reiki when she experienced the healing techniques of Reiki personally. She has devised her own system of passing attunements because of her conviction that everyone should benefit from the healing power of Reiki. Emerson lives in Arizona, where she maintains a Reiki practice.

Product Details

• Paperback: 145 pages
• Publisher: Frog Books (April 18, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583940359
• ISBN-13: 978-1583940358
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 0.3 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #746,683 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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42 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Reiki manuals available, May 24, 2001

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Jeanne Garner "msreadsalot" (Lexington, OK USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Self-Healing Reiki: Freeing the Symbols, Attunements, and Techniques (Paperback)

I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did. Reading the publishers' notes, I thought it would be one of those books that pooh-poohed the whole Reiki teaching process, from symbols to the attunements.

Not so! What this book does do, however, is to suggest that by reading it, the attunements are passed on to the reader. Given the fact that it's always been possible (and scientifically proven to be possible) to "send" healings, attunements, and even shaktipat over great distances, this claim should not seem all that outlandish. However, as a Reiki Master myself, I might be the wrong person to judge whether or not this took place with me. (It would be interesting to read a report from someone who's not been initiated beforehand.) I, personally, didn't feel all that much from the book. Then again, I've been attuned for a number of years, and didn't really need another one.

Nevertheless, this book is one of the very best manuals I have ever seen. It tells the student almost everything needed to be a good practitioner and teacher.

Emerson has a good way with words. It's almost as though she's in the room with the reader, speaking as one good friend to another in the kind of language good friends use. No obscure techno-metaphys babble here: everything is understandable, yet eloquently written.

I recommend this book, but with a caveat. If the reader is not yet attuned, and still feels nothing after reading the book, please do see a qualified Reiki teacher. (Many do teach for free, or for very reasonable fees.) But as a manual, you just can't beat it!

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A truly generous gift of healing, August 25, 2002

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kyara - See all my reviews

This review is from: Self-Healing Reiki: Freeing the Symbols, Attunements, and Techniques (Paperback)

Having read a couple of books on Reiki, I was a little frustrated about the clandestine approach to passing on what is supposedly �guniversal healing�h. And given one is led to believe that Reiki attunements can only be successfully passed on person to person, I was a bit dubious about the claims of Barbara Emerson to be able to offer these via her book and/or videos. But with an open heart and mind I did the first attunement from the instructions in her book - and I was very impressed with the results. I do healing similar to Reiki, and found after the attunement that my hands were much more sensitive to the energy of another person and could give healing with stronger energy than before. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in starting Reiki or other forms of healing using the hands. Barbara Emerson, thank you for your generosity of healing spirit.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Misunderstanding, September 9, 2001

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This review is from: Self-Healing Reiki: Freeing the Symbols, Attunements, and Techniques (Paperback)

After reveiwing other comments from a Reiki Master about this book, It was obvious that she either misunderstood the message in the book or was trying to down grade the book for her own benifit. There is no mention in the book about the book passing the attunements to buyers of the book. The attunements are given through a video tape process. I have read the book and taken the video attunements associated with this book and they are powerful. I would hope other Reiki masters do not feel threatened and down grade this book. Reiki Masters charge lots of money to teach others the healing art of reiki. It seems that Barbara Emerson has now made Reiki available to all people rich and poor alike. The biggest reason for the book appears to be so Reiki can be shared by all at a reasonable price. If you fall pray to sour grapes from other Reiki Masters your cost to become a reiki master will be very high and you will get no help with sharing your new knowledge with others. Just remember, what you sow you shall reap. Sincerly Rick (Reiki Master)