| iki, breathing techniques and methods are one of | | | | includes picturing that you are filling your rib cage |
| the devices used to help with a change of energy | | | | with air. This constitutes a complete full breath. |
| flow and healing. Learning the breathing techniques | | | | When you are breathing completely, you should |
| in Reiki is one of the first steps in knowing how | | | | be filling first your lungs, then your diaphragm, and |
| to use the energy change process for healing. | | | | then allowing the breath to expand into your ribs. |
| Reiki utilizes what they call deep breathing | | | | This will slow you down in order to allow you to |
| techniques. These techniques allow you to | | | | call the universal energies with the help of deep |
| become more conscious of the chakras that are | | | | breathing. |
| being accessed to promote healing. It also allows | | | | One aspect of the breathing technique in Reiki is |
| you to more easily tap into the universal energies. | | | | imagining these breaths in relation to light. When |
| The first type of breathing to utilize when | | | | inhaling, you should imagine a light filling your |
| practicing Reiki breathing is the short breath. This | | | | different chakras through the breath. With your |
| is how most people regularly breathe. It consists | | | | mind and thoughts, you can move the light into |
| of breathing through the nose and feeling the | | | | any desirable area.This will help you start |
| upper part of the lungs before exhaling. You will | | | | circulation of the various energies that have |
| want to recognize the inhaling as universal energy | | | | previously been blocked. Many people use these |
| and exhaling as a release of negative energies. | | | | breathing techniques not only in Reiki, but also |
| The second step in breathing is filling your lower | | | | during various types of meditation. When |
| body in the location of the stomach and | | | | concentrating on the breath, one is able to |
| diaphragm. When inhaling, you should notice your | | | | become in a more relaxed state. There will also |
| belly expanding. When you exhale, your stomach | | | | be a change in one's level of consciousness. In |
| should shrink. This filling of your body in this way | | | | doing this, they will permit the universal energies |
| is considered to be a full breath that is often used | | | | to begin flowing through them, while using the |
| in meditation. The third breathing technique | | | | Reiki technique. |