The Chi Book: Reiki from the roots

Chi is life energy.Literally.Its the energy which makes the difference between a person animal or plant being alive and being dead.Chi is not something apart from what we are.Chi cant be owned given or taken away.It isnt information it cant be taught. It has its own intelligence.Left to its own devices it is in the nature of chi to flow. The flow of chi is quintessentially natural. Its possible however to partially block or interfere with the flow.Then skills are involved in creating proper conditions so it may move unimpeded exactly as it is.The brains of many if not most people on the planet are now constantly bathed in some form of electromagnetic frequency - quite a fresh occurrence in human history. People carry devices around like life-support machines as if to keep their brainwaves constantly attuned to those frequencies - frequencies of dissociation and scatteredness of constant checking and constant reacting rather than creating. Of addictive pseudo-action on the mental plane alone.This maintains fear and anxiety as a constant state. Fear and anxiety held in the system maintained permanently create a sense of helplessness that leaves you open to exploitation and uses up precious resources in your nervous system leaving you depleted.If you live in accordance with the natural flow of the chi theres no holding on to fear. Fears just a response to situations which appears when necessary then goes away again. If the chi is not fully flowing and a situation perceived to be life-threatening happens - you cant react. Thats when trauma sets in.So in the present day context with disconnection and trauma rife and institutionalised with people making money from keeping your energy scattered the function of Reiki or healing-with-the-chi gains a new twist. All the ancient traditions of energy healing - different ways of amplifying and transmitting the chi - are needed as never before. Reiki is one of them and a simple one to grasp.