I just shook my head, but I’ve seen some mighty strange things in my time with regard to Reiki healing and I thought, ‘Why not?’ Next thing I knew we were all in the parking lot standing around the van. I got inside, turned the key and there was a series of clicks, and then nothing. The battery was appar-ently dead as the proverbial doornail. A dozen different techniques flit through my mind as I sat there. The musicians stood outside the drivers door waiting, and grinning. I had to do something, but what? Should I use a Reiki tech-nique, a Qi Gong techtech-nique, acutapping, huna, a meditation method—an ad-ditional dozen things sprung to mind—finally I closed my eyes and tensed my body to stimulate my energy. Touching my tongue to my palate I imag-ined my prana, my Ki spreading out into the heavens.
This was the true Reiki, the energy of the spiritual. I was immersed in my imagery. I imagined the energies coming back to me as I stimulated the law of attraction by arousing the masculine principle of gender. There was a crash that only I felt and heard and I knew in my heart that whatever the problem was had been healed. I mentally threw my right hand, fingers ex-tended, towards the engine and shouted mentally, ‘WORK.’
At that moment I opened my eyes and turned the key in the ignition.
There was a vroooom as the engine turned over and leapt into life. I stepped Mind Box 29 - Theatre of Healing
1. Meditate and imagine you are in a theatre. On the stage is the person you will act as though you are healing. The person is lying on an
operating room table.
2. You are in the third row center. You project yourself on to the stage and stand in front of the operating room table.
3. You stretch out your hands and arms and for 30 seconds you spray healing energy all over the body of the person you are healing.
down on the gas pedal and the motor roared. Leaving it in neutral I got out of the van, smiled at the four and turned to walk back to the hotel leaving them staring after me; their mouths agape eyes wide with wonder.
When I presented seminars together with Uri Geller we would ask the participants to bring in any old watches that hadn’t worked for years.
During a seminar in St. Lous there were almost a hundred watches in a big pile on a table. None of them worked. Uri stood on one side, I on the other and we thrust our right hands out toward the pile of watches and shouted in uni-son, loud as we could, “WORK.” Forty of them started ticking and the people who owned them came to the front to claim their watches. We did this at every seminar we presented together.
During the National Guild of Hypnotists annual convention in New Hampshire I was lecturing on Quick and Easy Healing techniques and asked for everyone with a problem to come up to the stage. Thirty five people out of the hundred there were in some sort of pain. I had to do something different or I’d be there all day. And so I borrowed a scarf from a woman and holding the end of it in my right hand I grabbed it with my left and drew my hand over it ten times to energize it. I told the group I was sending my healing energy into the scarf. One by one the people came up to me and told me where their pain was. I drew the energized scarf over the painful area once or twice and soon all 30 reported the pain was gone. I must say I was as surprised as any-one there. That any-one was video taped and you can see a portion of it on YouTube if you put my name, Burt Goldman in the YouTube search engine.
It seemed as though just about anything I did would work. I told that to a class and decided to demonstrate a new Reiki method. I would make it up on the spot. On of the students, Al Hacker, had been limping for many years due to a gunshot wound during one war or another and had a painful toe since the incident. I really didn’t know what method would help and so I thought of a modified Center Stage. I sat down, meditated, imagined I was in an operat-ing room theatre, and imagined Al Hacker layoperat-ing on an operatoperat-ing room table.
Then I visualized myself holding my hands over his foot with energy pouring out of my palms. When I was through I told him to walk a bit, he did, and reported no pain for the first time in years. I called that one the Theatre of Reiki and have used it many times since.
Then I thought I would try something else and in Hawaii, during the Reiki portion of the seminar people were asking about self healing. Some-times, when healing oneself, many other factors come into play. I’ve always felt it was something like the magnetic field of the individual, when they work on themselves, is neutralized. Kind of like putting the positive with the
positive ends of a magnet together; you would not get any kind of cohesion. I thought about using a catalyst. Something like the scarf I used at the NGH convention. Put the healing energy into something else and allow the subject to draw the energy from that.
I decided to do something different during a healing seminar in Ha-waii. A woman had a problem with a lump on her head. She was fearful it was going to be a major problem. At the time I was demonstrating the fact that as long as the healer had confidence it didn’t really matter what they did, so long as they did something, and their intent was to help. Intent, is vital.
I went to the front of the room and drew a figure on the board. Just a scribbled figure that took about ten seconds to do, with an extra circular scribble where the head would be. It was sort of a stick figure with many extra lines. It was ultimately to be known as a ‘Dwadle’. I asked the woman to stare at the Dwadle for 30 seconds which she did. Feeling for the lump she very excitedly reported that it was gone. After that I used the Dwadle extensively for a mul-titude of problems. At one time I put a headache Dwadle on the internet for a while and many people reported looking at it and having a headache disap-pear.
So then, what does all that mean? How will any of that be of help to you? Let me tell you what I believe. I believe that everyone can heal. All it takes is a sincere desire to help someone—but not to the point of strong emo-tions. That means that the hardest people to heal are those closest to you.
Here is the technique for healing.
Point One for the apprentice healer is to have a sincere desire to heal another, but not to the point where it is of extreme urgency. The more in-volved you get emotionally, the higher your brain waves, the higher the brain wave the less likely you are to think logically, the more you are open to stress, and the less likely you will be to heal. In other words, the most important ingredient is your attitude.
It’s the reason that a surgeon will not operate on their immediate family. They care so much, they fear they may make a mistake. And I suppose everyone has heard that old homily, attorneys who represent themselves have fools for clients. For the same reason. They care too much.
The same goes for the Reiki healer. You cannot, ‘care too much’; it’s best if you didn’t care at all and just did your thing. Then you would have a sure thing, so long as you had the honest intent to heal.
Point Two would be to use some means of taking an action whose design is that of sending healing energy to the person in distress.
Point Three would be to keep the actual healing action to 30 sec-onds, or less.
Points one and three are easy, its point two that people continually miss, the taking of an action whose design is to send healing energy. What kind of action, people will ask. My answer, it doesn’t matter. A healer will heal no matter what method they use. I recommend using the Theatre of Heal-ing as the action for Point Two.
Here is another method. Next time you have a headache get a hand-kerchief or a small cloth or towel, dampen it, then slap it on your right hand, and slap it on your left hand, and slap it on your right hand, back and forth for 30 seconds. And then put the cloth on the part of your head where you feel the ache. Take it away and put the cloth in the sink.
Do the same thing with any problem you have, or any friends have.
You can also use the same method for a pet.
You have used your first Reiki Power Catalyst.
A Power Catalyst is any object you use, after giving it healing energy, that transfers that energy into an affliction.
The Power Catalyst Technique is a healing technique that depends, as do all other healing methods, on the intention of the healer.
It is important to have an uncaring attitude. You know that you care to the extent that your intention is to heal but emotions get in the way of the healer. A healer should have a neutral mind set. This point is the most difficult
Mind Box 30 - Reiki Power Catalyst 1. Dampen a small towel, cloth, or handkerchief.
2. Slap it back and forth from your right hand to your left for thirty