Everything in our universe can be said to be made of 5 elements, earth, water, fire, air, and ether, going from dense to subtle. It isn’t just physical matter that is affected by these elements, our thoughts too can be more ‘earthy’ or ‘airy’.
The 5 elements are a concept rather than a ‘thing’, so ‘earth’ – soil is also made of the 5 elements, the water we drink is also made of the 5 elements and not water alone, and so on. When these manifest in physical existence, they are never isolated. An imbalance in the elements in our body can cause specific problems, and we can address them better by adding a few steps to our usual distant healing process.
If you’ve learned level 2 or above, you are probably already familiar with some forms of distant healing. Here are a few more ideas that can help your client integrate the healing energies more powerfully into their systems.
Distant Healing for the Earth Element
When there is a lack or excess of the earth element in the system, it can result in never feeling safe, either physically or emotionally, insecurity, and fear of survival. People can be spaced out and dysfunctional if the earth element is too weak. The very common anemia and any kind of malnourishment are also a lack of earth element in the body. Excess weight that feels solid and never fluctuates no matter what is an excess of the earth element.
If you’re sending distant healing to someone with these issues, along with your usual method of distant healing, also Reiki their refrigerator and pantry – because food is how we introduce the earth element into our system. If you’re doing this to yourself, always heal your food before you eat. If you’re familiar with programming Reiki flow, then you can also program the energy to flow to the client during mealtimes.
Distant Healing for the Water Element
The water element is everything that ‘flows’ in the body. Blood gets affected if the water element is out of balance, the digestive acids, salivary glands, and tear ducts can get affected and one can have water retention, dehydration, depression and mood swings. When the water element is too dominant in the body, weight can fluctuate and weight gain can show up as soft and wobbly fat.
If you are healing someone with water element issues, I recommend healing their water cooler. If they live in the vicinity, one of the most powerful things to do is to do proxy full body healing on a water bottle – healing all the chakras and then having them drink that water all day. This is especially useful if you have a depressed family member who is too tired to help themselves, or someone who is hospitalised.
Distant Healing for the Fire Element
Fire shows up as ambition, energy, passion, anger, fear, digestive power and vitality. An imbalance in the fire element will leave a person too hungry or not hungry at all, too angry or never angry, too tired or hyperactive, and often with acne or skin allergies/ problems. Too much fire in the body also causes dehydration since it dries the water up. Mentally, too much fire shows up as anxiety, a strong fire can show up as a talkative person, though fire people tend to also be good listeners, and a weak fire will show up as feeling listless and dull.
To heal the fire element, give Reiki to a candle or a lamp, requesting it to send healing to the client when it burns. Light the candle/ lamp after you are done healing it. This sends extremely calming energy to the person and can easily double the speed of your healing.
Distant Healing for the Air Element
Air is responsible for rapid movement in the body – nerve signals and thoughts are ruled by air. Too much air can cause energy fluctuations, feeling very energetic and then crashing out. Sleep can be affected, either too much, too less or fluctuating between the two. Airy people can be very intellectual, very talkative, are usually poor listeners and tend to crash out and want their alone time after intense socialising.
You can send some extra healing for the movement of the air in their windpipe to such clients. When doing it for yourself, simply imagine drawing all the symbols inside your airways and observe how it can straightaway bliss you out! You could also send healing to the air conditioners to send out Reiki-charged air into the rooms, and Reiki the windows.
Distant Healing for the Ether Element
The ether element is responsible for space in our bodies and minds. Any kind of gaps in the spine, cracks in the bone, or holes in the heart, are all ether element out of balance. Mentally, people want to be alone too much, are afraid of deep emotional connections, or are too attached or suffocating in relationships. Too much ether obviously reduces the other elements in the system, and people can be spaced out and lost. In extreme cases, they are not very present and will forget what they are saying mid-sentence, might tend to have poor body awareness, bumping into things while walking, etc.
Travel, use of the internet, video games, watching television, eating junk food, and exposure to radiation, all of these push the air and ether element into excess in our systems. It is very rare these days to come across anyone with too less of air or ether. To heal the ether element, heal the earth element as well, and send healing specifically to the space in their houses and the spaces between the cells in their bodies, and the spaces between their thoughts.
Article by Ashwita Goel, Reiki Master
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Having learned Meditation as a child, Ashwita incorporated Reiki into her life during her early teens. After a decade of witnessing the magic Reiki, she felt compelled to take up Reiki professionally, and ended her corporate career in 2007, taking up Reiki full-time. She eventually incorporated EFT, hypnotherapy and past life therapy into her work. Apart from her healing work, she teaches Reiki and meditation, and her book ‘Healing Through Reiki’ is available on Amazon. She holds regular full moon and new moon meditations at @AshwitaGoel. Her website is www.reiki-bangalore.com and her blog www.ashwita.com
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