PURPOSE OF EACH POSITION

             Besides opening, cleansing and aligning the chakras, the positions where you place your hands are associated with various physical areas and bring about balancing of the physical as well as the emotional. There are also specific areas related to achieving Higher Consciousness and Spiritual Growth. Once you become familiar with the following information, you will find it most helpful when giving Reiki treatments.

CROWN CHAKRA

Physical Areas Covered:  Left and right hemispheres of the brain, corpus callosum, pituitary and pineal glands, endorphin production, ears, motor auditory cortex, auditory nerve, eustachian tubes.

Balances:  Blood vessels in the brain, right and left hemispheres of the brain. Controls hyperactivity and stuttering. Helps with headaches and seizures.

Emotional: Worry, hysteria, stress. Promotes serenity, assists in relieving depression. Works in controlling fear.

Mental:  Relieves depression, promotes calmness, clarity of thought and retention of information. Improves memory and the ability to think things through.

Higher Consciousness and Spiritual Growth:  Increases capacity of receiving higher energy and expands awareness and consciousness.

THIRD EYE CHAKRA

Physical Areas Covered:  Eyes, optic nerve, iris, pupil, retina, sinuses, mucus membranes, nose, mouth, teeth, jaws, pineal and pituitary glands, temples.

Balances:  Pituitary and pineal glands, vision problems, sinuses, nasal passages, mucus membranes, teeth and jaws. Tones and rejuvenates the skin and relieves tension in the face and the micro-muscles surrounding the eyes. Begins the relaxation process throughout the body.

Emotional:  Shuts out external stimuli or overload from the outside world to relieve anxiety, reduce stress and promote relaxation.

Mental:  Clears confusion. Takes one from a non-focused and distressing state to concentration and problem solving.

Higher Consciousness and Spiritual Growth:  Turns one to Inner Self for deeper intuition, insight and mastery.

THROAT CHAKRA

Physical Areas Covered:  Tonsils, thyroid, larynx, trachea, parathyroid, lymphatic system, throat, carotid arteries, esophagus.

Balances:  Blood pressure - either high or low. Brings oxygen supply to the brain and is good position to use in event of stroke.

Emotional:  Relieves anger, hostility, resentment and frustration, and promotes inner security.

Mental:  Brings inner calmness, sense of well-being, creativity, self-confidence. Increases ability to send and receive mental images.

Higher Consciousness and Spiritual Growth:  Helps you to resist throwing negativity to others through the power of speech. Works in the connective area between the head and trunk.

UNIFIED TRINITY CHAKRA

Physical Areas Covered:  Sternum, lungs, deltoid muscles, upper spinal column.

Balances:  Heart and Throat Chakras and all physical, emotional and mental areas involved with those areas.

Emotional:  Stress reduction and relaxation. Helps in releasing past fears, resentments and worn-out-thinking. Helps discernment between your Truths and the Truths of others.

Mental:  Brings strength, calmness, serenity, balance, stability and courage.

Higher Consciousness and Spiritual Growth:  Allows you to open your Heart Chakra to receive higher truths, your Throat Chakra to speak those higher truths, your Third Eye Chakra to foresee the higher vibrational world and teach others, your Crown Chakra to raise the vibration of the Whole through enlightenment and to embrace all that is good.

HEART CHAKRA

Physical Areas Covered:  Heart, lungs, subclavian artery, thymus, pectoral muscles, right and left bronchus.

Balances:  Immune system. Helps activate the lymph system and relieves cough.

Emotional:  Increases the capacity to love. Balances and reduces anger, resentment, jealousy and hostility. Promotes acceptance rather than resignation. Increases trust and releases stress.

Mental:  Promotes calmness and serenity.

Higher Consciousness and Spiritual Growth:  Increases unconditional love and joy,

bringing peace, bliss, devotion and the Christ Consciousness.

SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA

Physical Areas Covered:  Liver, stomach, spleen, gall bladder, diaphragm, duodenum, large intestine, small intestine, pancreas, ascending and descending colon, solar plexus.

Balances:  Infections of bladder, cramps, food disorders, flatulence, indigestion, pancreatic disorders, hypo and hyperglycemia. Regulates adrenal glands.

Emotional:  Reduces stress and obsessive/compulsive behavior and brings greater relaxation. Helps relieve the need to control and manipulate. Promotes strength and self-confidence.

Mental:  Reduces depression and mental confusion. Increases confidence. Releases frustration and fear and increases freedom of choice.

Higher Consciousness and Spiritual Growth:  Communion with nature. Promotes the ability to accept without a need to control. Accesses inner power and strength.

LOWER ABDOMEN CHAKRA

Physical Areas Covered:  Large and small intestines, bladder, ovaries, uterus, prostate, urethra, lymph.

Balances:  Skin disorders, cleansing and release of toxins in the system, constipation or diarrhea, migraine headaches, PMS, hormonal imbalances, hot flashes, cramps.

Emotional:  Frees emotional responses for sexual health and balance. Releases accumulated anxiety and fears. Opens channels for greater creativity and balance in the energy systems. Promotes behavioral flexibility and environmental adaptability.

Mental:  Release from holding patterns and rigid thinking. Removal of cultural, ethical and religious biases. Provides opening to higher creative patterns and energies.

Higher Consciousness and Spiritual Growth:  Expansion of consciousness by opening the flow of energy between Heaven and Earth. Tapping into the nature of the Universal Creative force. Brings right relationship with other levels of reality.

ROOT CHAKRA:

Physical Areas Covered:  Coccyx and spinal nerves, lower back, sciatic nerves, gluteus medius and maximus.

Balances:  Sciatic problems and numbness.

Mental:  Works in support of issues both internally and externally.

Emotional:  Assists in grounding.

Higher Consciousness and Spiritual Growth:  See. Reproductive Organs (above.)

BACK OF THE HEAD:

Physical Areas Covered:  Mid-brain, upper spinal cord, cerebellum, thalamus, occipital lobe, speech and visual centers, base of brain.

Balances:  Eyes, occipital region, balance and coordination. Aids in waking up and going to sleep. Helps in weight control.

Emotional:  Eases fear, shock, worry, irritation, stress and unexplained fears.

Mental:  Relieves depression. Brings clarity of thought and promotes a sense of well-being.

Higher Consciousness and Spiritual Growth:  Reaches the Third Eye to expand vision and bring a sense of wholeness.

 ADDITIONAL POSITIONS:

 FEET - Stimulates acupressure points in the feet.

 HANDS - Stimulates acupressure points in the hands.

 EARS - Stimulates acupressure points in the ears and for body warming. Excellent for relieving pressure in the ears during air travel.  Receptivity of information, both inner and outer.

 ANKLES - For flexibility and release of tension and stress. Assists in reaching higher goals.

 KNEES - For flexibility and release of tension and stress, forgiveness and emotional release.

 WRISTS - For flexibility and release of tension and stress. Creative expression and movement.

 ELBOWS - For flexibility and release of tension and stress. Interaction with the environment.

 SHOULDERS - For flexibility and release of tension and stress, movement, motivation, determination and creative direction.