FAQs

FAQ: Working With “Helpers”-Angels, Guides, Masters, Relatives, Animals, Etc.
Do I need to work with them?
And what if I’d like to try?
How do I ask?
Is this religious or make me into some sort of cult person?
This is the devils help and is against my religion.
How do I know they’re there?
Who are they?
Can they ever harm you?
Does this mean then that I am always being watched?

Here are some FAQs regarding the training in bio-energy therapy
How does bio-energy differ from reiki?
What Can I Expect From a Session?
Will I “Detox” from these sessions?
How many sessions will I need?
Will it work and is it safe for my baby or child?
Can Bio-energy Therapy help my pet or animal?
Do I have to come to a clinic?
Where can I learn to do this?
Is it safe to use Bio-energy alongside my medication or other complementary therapies?

Here are some FAQs regarding training in Reiki
What Can I Expect From a Session?
Will I "Detox" from these sessions?
How many sessions will I need?
Will it work and be safe for my baby or child?
Can Reiki help my pet or animal?
Do I have to come to a clinic?
Where can I learn to do this?
Is it safe to use Reiki alongside my medication or other complementary therapies?
How does Reiki differ from Bio-Energy therapy?

Q. Do I need to work with them?
A. No! It is a matter of free will and if you don’t want to and/or don’t ask it doesn’t happen. Working with helpers is not necessary and not a formal part of working with energy and certainly not a requirement of this course.

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Q. And what if I’d like to try?
A. Quite simply ask for their help. The law of free will means that no angel or guide will interfere with your life unless you invite them in. The only time they would intervene without invitation is in a life or death situation.

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Q. How do I ask?
A. Simply centre yourself and ask if your angels, guides or helpers would like to come forward and help you. You can ask at anytime. You can ask for help for the day, through the night, for simple things such as a parking space and for bigger things such as finding your soul mate and help with being on your right path. If you wish to ask before a session, ask for your angels and guides to be present as well as those of the person you may treat. Some people ask out loud but most simply make their request in their mind. If you are new to this have faith and hold as much trust as you can that they are there and those they will hear and help.

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Q. Is this religious or make me into some sort of cult person?
A. No. Helpers appear in almost all religions and have been clairvoyantly seen all over the world since the beginning of time. This makes them irreligious. By default it is an irreligious choice you’re making. Helpers of all sorts are not there to be worshiped. They are merely energy forms that you can ask to help you or not. You will never be brain washed by them or asked to do things that otherwise you would not choose to do.

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Q. This is the devils help and is against my religion.
A. We at UHI will never condone anything that does not sit with your moral and religious beliefs. We at UHI, however, do not hold this belief.

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Q. How do I know they’re there?
A. Some people may never know they’re there whilst others may connect in and see their helpers. It is perfectly OK to ask for proof. What is then important is that you do not then dismiss what follows. What can appear as fluke, co-incidence, lucky breaks can also be seen as their help. As your relationship grows you will learn to trust in your helpers should you decide that you wish to have a relationship with them.

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Q. Who are they?
A. Helpers are at all different levels of vibration. We are all born with a guardian angel and all have access to guides. Your personal vibration and your belief structure will attract helpers from these levels. Not surprisingly then you find that people who are really into angels and speak to them frequently will be surrounded by them. Similarly those who speak to their deceased relatives and still love them dearly will have them around, supporting them. Others will have spirit guides, some animals and a few even have fairies or other life forms. Because you believe in one kind of helper doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to believe in the others. What is important is that you are always comfortable and feel supported and loved by your helpers.

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Q. Can they ever harm you?
A. If you ask for help with yourself and for others and your intention is good then no. Energy exists at many levels- even our thoughts contain powerful energy. What always matters is the underlying intention that drives any thought or any action. This is important in all areas of your life and not just for when you are working with helpers. For example a person can ask to know God better but if this is being driven by a desire to be better than another person and more powerful than another person then the intention is not good. Being aware of what drives you at any moment is very helpful and, we believe, crucial if you are to be a great energy worker. However you can even ask for help with this!

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Q. Does this mean then that I am always being watched?
A. Yes but this is not as horrid as you might think. Helpers are there to guide and watch over you and not there to judge and criticise.

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Here are some frequently asked questions regarding the training in bio-energy therapy

Q. How does bio-energy differ from reiki?
A. The concepts of healing energy were first recorded as far as we know in India and China. Every traditional culture has had its healers, shamans, sages, etc, all with the ability to work with energy to aid healing in numerous ways.

In its broadest sense “bio-energy” simply refers to the biological or life-giving energy system of the body. In Japan, from where reiki was brought to the West, “reiki” simply means healing energy. In essence bio-energy, reiki and other healing systems that utilise “energy” are types of energy medicine that do have a lot in common. Each healing modality within the field of energy medicine does the same thing: they all work by removing blockages from the energy system that allow the body to restore itself back to health. It is therefore the traditions and how the treatments are administered that truly can be said to differentiate bio-energy from reiki as we know them in the West today.

Whereas bio-energy may have first been recorded in the East, practical traditions have continued to persist both there and further a field into Eastern Europe to the present day. This suggests that in Europe the Healing Arts were no different from other parts of traditional culture that was practiced, taught and passed down within an oral tradition until we adopted the written framework for practicing, teaching and passing on traditions and information.
It appears to have been a very recent advent, within the last half of the twentieth century that a Western system of bio-energy training appeared that was fixed, standardised and taught as complete system in Europe and North America.

Reiki, the system that we know, is said to have been “rediscovered” in 1922, Japan, by Dr Usui, a Buddhist priest after he underwent a period of spiritual enlightenment.
Reiki, as taught initially by Dr Usui in the oral tradition, was part of a spiritual way of life. It was taught in the Eastern method of Master to pupil by means of an “attunement”. It is this that allows a pupil to become a channel for reiki energy. Reiki also utilises several healing symbols.
Although reiki was brought to the West in the 1930’s it didn’t mushroom in popularity until the early 1990’s after reiki, the healing system, had been put into written format and the teaching format opened up which is similar to what is happening now with bio-energy.
Although the attunement process and the use of symbols are not unique to reiki it is a distinct marker between it and bio-energy.

In bio-energy the practitioner is working with cosmic and earth energy and is using techniques which are mainly active. What an onlooker would see is a practitioner doing a lot of work around a client. Some people describe it as the practitioner doing Tai Chi or dancing around a client. Reiki practitioners connect into reiki, pull it into their system then emit it through the hands in a very passive way. What an onlooker would see is a very quiet traditional type of healing session, far less the viewing spectacle of the two.

Bio-energy can be given to a client standing, sitting or lying. Reiki is usually given lying or sitting. Bio-energy is mostly hands off and reiki can be either hands on or hands off.

Both traditions teach remote healing.

Some people prefer to practice one or the other and some clients prefer to receive one or the other. Others trained in both, use both. This is merely a matter of personal taste. Both provide good ways of working with energy which will benefit the energetic health of a client.

No comparative work has been done to show which one is “better” than the other. Indeed experts such as Jim Oschman believe that it is the quality of the practitioner and not the tradition that they come from that makes one person likely to achieve greater therapeutic effect than another.
It is because of this that so much focus of the coursework will be on you and your personal development.

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A. Sessions usually last about one hour. During this time you will be asked for your medical history and what you would like help with. The practitioner will ask you to stand, sit or lie down, fully clothed, on a treatment couch. Some practitioners play soothing music. Most people take this opportunity to relax and drifty off but you can speak if you wish.

For the majority of the session the practitioner will be working in the bio-field; this means mainly hands off. At times the practitioner will touch specific areas of the body. Sessions are flexible so do say if this may be a problem for you.

Some people can “feel” their energies being worked and some don’t. It makes no difference to the potential outcome if you can feel anything or not.

Clients often report sensations of heat, cold, numbness or tingling in the body. This is simply a person being sensitive to energy flow and nothing to be concerned about. Others can feel their body wanting to move. Again this is normal for those who experience it and it is simply the body trying to help the practitioner move trapped energy.
Others can see colours in their minds eyes and this is normal for those who are sensitive to seeing energy itself in their inner world.
Others simply think of what they’re planning to cook for dinner.

This means that there is no single thing to expect. We are all individuals and our experiences with bio-energy are unique to us.

At the end of the session you will be asked what you experienced and some feedback will be given to you on what the practitioner found when working with you.

Some people find the whole experience relaxing and others invigorating. Occasionally people may have a stronger reaction to the treatment and feel tired. Returning to the outside world and taking a few deep breaths usually sorts this.

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A. Most people do not experience detox and indeed feel better after a session.

However all forms of complementary medicine offer a potential to detox and this may mean a temporary exacerbation of symptoms. Bio-energy Therapy works on a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level and therefore detoxing can take place on any of these levels. We believe that this is simply blockages coming up to the surface to be released. It is important to know that if something appears to go awry after a session it may be part of the treatment effect.

Physical level detoxing can mean that your symptoms may get temporarily worse although this is not the norm in clinical practice. People sometimes report increased visits to the washroom, increased thirst and a change in dreaming patterns.

Some people do find that they feel emotional; this can be teary or angry. The advice from us if this happens to you is get it out of your system! Music and exercise are perfect for this. If you deliberately make a space for these feeling to come out you will get over them more quickly.
Make a quiet space for yourself, listening to love songs and giving yourself permission to cry your eyes out is very effective. It doesn’t matter what you cry about; what is important is that you get any emotional blockage out of your system. You do get to the end of it. Similarly if you feel angry remove yourself from others and do some vigorous exercise. A run to the point of exhaustion, scrubbing the tub or putting on heavy rock music, and really digging it, works. Again you will get to the end of it.

Mental Detox is rarer and can manifest to two ways; either the mind becomes completely blank as if it’s gone on vacation or it seems to want to work doubly fast. If this happens again this will be temporary. Taking an hour to yourself, looking at something beautiful and observing your breathing works wonders.

Spiritual Detox is rarest off all. Very occasionally a person may have a spiritual awakening or a crisis of current faith. This is simply the letting go of old blockages that were either stopping you from having a more spiritual life or it’s simply your time to examine what does your faith really mean to you.

If you do experience any of these please know that once the blockage has cleared your system will be clearer and lighter. Once again though the above is not common but can occur.

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Q. How many sessions will I need?

A. Initially we always recommend that you have as series of four sessions.

After that you and your practitioner may agree that more would be beneficial. For some four sessions is enough whilst others like to keep regular appointments and get “topped up”.
As Bio-energy Therapy can be used to help balance any area of your life some people can come for help with, say, a sore shoulder and feel confident enough to later want to tackle emotional upset. If this may be a possibility for you then you can discuss this with your practitioner. You should never feel railroaded into making appointments.

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Q. Will it work and is it safe for my baby or child?

A. Most practitioners are happy to treat babies and children.
We all have energy fields and generally the younger we are the fewer blockages we have.
Working with children is slightly different from working with adults. Children and babies normally require shorter appointments. They reach the “I’ve had enough” level that many adults never experience.
Children are usually more sensitive to energy work and often report feeling sensations more so than adults.
We do require a parent or guardian to be present.

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Q. Can Bio-energy Therapy help my pet or animal?

A. Again all living creatures have energy fields and can therefore benefit from sessions. Not all practitioners like working with animals whilst others specialise in this area. Ask your local practitioner or contact the UHI to find out who may be able to help.

Most animals adore energy work. Working with them is often fun as they often present the part of their body that they wish to be worked on at any moment- usually it’s their bottom! Not surprising that it would be their root chakra having to put up with us as owners…

Sessions are usually shorter as animals simply get up and walk away when they’ve had enough or fall asleep.

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Q. Do I have to come to a clinic?

A. Some practitioners offer a home visit service whilst others solely work from their clinic. Ask your local practitioner or call the UHI who will be able to answer your queries.

Bio-energy can be done anywhere as it doesn’t require any special equipment. Many experienced practitioners will tell you stories of giving sessions in fields, on the beach, in a toilet, in an airport and, with doctors and nursing consent, in hospitals.

Some practitioners specialise in remote sessions. This means that you can be at home and they elsewhere. A specialist practitioner can tune in and work on your energy from a different location- even different country!

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A. With us at UHI or with a number of training organisations based mainly in the States or Europe.

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Q. Is it safe to use Bio-energy alongside my medication or other complementary therapies?

A. Yes. Bio-energy is working on your bio-field which in turn works on the body. Medication is developed to work on specific receptor sites in the body. We are therefore working on a different level that your medication does. Your practitioner will never instruct you stop taking your medication. Sometimes as your health improves you may need to review your medication with your physician and we strongly advise that you do this.
It is common, however, for people to seek out therapies such as Bio-energy Therapy, to help combat the side-effects of drugs.

Bio-energy Therapy can be combined with other therapies successfully. It is a specific way of working with the body’s energy field and therefore doesn’t interfere with the mechanisms of how other therapies work. Most people do not choose to try several therapies at once. However others like to utilise different therapies to target different aspects of their health and general well-being.

We believe that a body always knows what may help it and we wish to honour this.

One of the aims of UHI is to build bridges between orthodox and complementary medicine and open up dialogue between different complementary disciplines for the benefit of the client and the health of the nation at large.

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Here are some frequently asked questions regarding the training in Reiki

Q. What Can I Expect From a Session?

During the session, the practitioner will be transferring the energy through hands into your body. Some practitioners prefer to do hands on session some hands off (i.e. touch or no touch). If you are comfortable with practitioner touching you, it most likely will be hands on.

Some people can "feel" their energies being worked and some don't. It makes no difference to the potential outcome if you can feel anything or not.

Clients often report sensations of heat, cold, numbness or tingling in the body. This is simply a person being sensitive to energy flow and nothing to be concerned about. Others can feel jolts, again this is normal for those who experience it and it is simply the body trying to help the practitioner move trapped energy. Others can see colours in their minds eyes and this is normal for those who are sensitive to seeing energy itself in their inner world. Others simply think of what they're planning to cook for dinner.

This means that there is no single thing to expect. We are all individuals and our experiences with Reiki are unique to us.

At the end of the session you will be asked what you experienced and some feedback will be given to you on what the practitioner found when working with you.

Some people find the whole experience relaxing and others invigorating. Occasionally people may have a stronger reaction to the treatment and feel tired. Returning to the outside world and taking a few deep breaths usually sorts this.

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A. Most people do not experience detox and indeed feel better after a session.

However, all forms of complementary medicine offer a potential to detox and this may mean a temporary exacerbation of symptoms. Reiki Therapy works on a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level and therefore detoxing can take place on any of these levels. We believe that this is simply blockages coming up to the surface to be released. It is important to know that if something appears to go awry after a session it may be part of the treatment effect.

Physical level detoxing can mean that your symptoms may get temporarily worse although this is not the norm in clinical practice. People sometimes report increased visits to the washroom, increased thirst and a change in dreaming patterns.

Some people do find that they feel emotional; this can be teary or angry. The advice from us if this happens to you is get it out of your system!

Music and exercise are perfect for this. If you deliberately make a space for these feeling to come out you will get over them more quickly. Make a quiet space for yourself, listening to love songs and giving yourself permission to cry is very effective. It doesn't matter what you cry about; what is important is that you get any emotional blockage out of your system. You do get to the end of it. Similarly if you feel angry remove yourself from others and do some vigorous exercise. A run to the point of exhaustion, scrubbing the tub or putting on heavy rock music, and really digging it, works. Again you will get to the end of it.

Mental Detox is rarer and can manifest to two ways; either the mind becomes completely blank as if it's gone on vacation or it seems to want to work doubly fast. If this happens again this will be temporary. Taking an hour to yourself, looking at something beautiful and observing your breathing works wonders.

Spiritual Detox is rarest off all. Very occasionally a person may have a spiritual awakening or a crisis of current faith. This is simply the letting go of old blockages that were either stopping you from having a more spiritual life or it's simply your time to examine what does your faith really mean to you.

If you do experience any of these please know that once the blockage has cleared your system will be clearer and lighter. Once again though the above is not common but can occur.

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A. There is no set number of session that a client should take, however we do recommend that you have a few sessions, especially if you are under a lot of stress or dealing with a physical complaints.

After an initial session, you and your practitioner can agree what comes next. For some people one session is enough whilst others like to keep regular appointments and get "topped up". As Reiki can be used to help balance any area of your life some people can come for help with, say, a sore shoulder and feel confident enough to later want to tackle emotional upset. If this may be a possibility for you then you can discuss this with your practitioner. You should never feel railroaded into making appointments.

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Q. Will it work and be safe for my baby or child?

A. Most practitioners are happy to treat babies and children. We all have energy fields and generally the younger we are the fewer blockages we have.

Working with children is slightly different from working with adults. Children and babies normally require shorter appointments. They reach the "I've had enough" level that many adults never experience. Children are usually more sensitive to energy work and often report feeling sensations more so than adults. We do require a parent or guardian to be present.

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Q. Can Reiki help my pet or animal?

A. Again all living creatures have energy fields and can therefore benefit from sessions. Not all practitioners like working with animals whilst others specialise in this area. Ask your local practitioner or contact the UHI to find out who may be able to help.

Most animals adore energy work. Working with them is often fun as they often present the part of their body that they wish to be worked on at any moment- usually it's their bottom! Not surprising that it would be their root chakra having to put up with us as owners...

Sessions are usually shorter as animals simply get up and walk away when they've had enough or fall asleep.

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Q. Do I have to come to a clinic?

A. Some practitioners offer a home visit service whilst others solely work from their clinic. Ask your local practitioner or call UHI who will be able to answer any queries.

Reiki can be done anywhere as it doesn't require any special equipment. Many experienced practitioners will tell you stories of giving sessions in fields, on the beach, in a toilet, in an airport and, with doctors and nursing consent, in hospitals.

Some practitioners specialise in remote sessions. This means that you can be at home and they elsewhere. A specialist practitioner can tune in and work on your energy from a different location- even different country!

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Q. Where can I learn to do this?

A. With us at UHI, or with a number of training organisations across Canada and throughout the world.

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A. Yes. Reiki is working on your bio-field which in turn works on the body. Medication is developed to work on specific receptor sites in the body. We are therefore working on a different level than your medication. Your practitioner will never instruct you stop taking your medication. Sometimes, as your health improves, you may need to review your medication with your physician. It is common, however, for people to seek out therapies such as Bio-energy Therapy and Reiki, to help combat the side-effects of drugs.

Reiki can be combined with other therapies successfully. It is a specific way of working with the body's energy field and therefore doesn't interfere with the mechanisms of how other therapies work. Most people do not choose to try several therapies at once. However, others like to utilise different therapies to target different aspects of their health and general well-being.

We believe that a body always knows what may help it and we wish to honour this.

One of the aims of UHI is to build bridges between orthodox and complementary medicine and open up dialogue between different complementary disciplines for the benefit of the client and the health of the nation at large.

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Q. How does Reiki differ from Bio-Energy therapy?

A. The concepts of healing energy were first recorded in India and China. Every traditional culture has had its healers, shamans, sages, etc, all with the ability to work with energy to aid healing in numerous ways.

In its broadest sense "bio-energy" simply refers to the biological or life-giving energy system of the body. In Japan, from where Reiki was brought to the West, "Reiki" simply means "healing energy". In essence bio-energy, reiki and other healing systems that utilise "energy" are types of energy medicine that have a lot in common. Each healing modality within the field of energy medicine does the same thing: they all work by removing blockages from the energy system that allow the body to restore itself back to health. It is therefore the traditions and how the treatments are administered that truly can be said to differentiate Bio-energy Therapy from Reiki as we know them in the West today.

Whereas Bio-energy Therapy may have first been recorded in the East, practical traditions have continued to persist both there and further a field into Eastern Europe to the present day. This suggests that healing Arts in Europe were no different from other traditional cultures that practiced, taught and passed down learning within an oral tradition until writing was adopted as the learning means of choice. Fixed Western written systems of Bio-energy Therapy training are a recent phenomenon.

Reiki, the system that we know, is said to have been "rediscovered" in 1922, Japan, by Dr Usui, a Buddhist priest after he underwent a period of spiritual enlightenment. Reiki, as taught initially by Dr Usui in the oral tradition, was part of a spiritual way of life. Taught in the Eastern tradition of Master to pupil the ability to access Reiki energy is given by the Master to the pupil via an "attunement". Although Reiki was brought to the West in the 1930's it didn't mushroom in popularity until the early 1990's after it was put into written format and way it was taught changed. Reiki also utilises sacred symbols. Although the attunement process and the use of symbols are not unique to Reiki, it is a distinct marker between it and Bio-energy Therapy.

In Bio-energy Therapy, the practitioner works with cosmic and earth energy. It is an active therapy. By that, we mean is that an onlooker would see a practitioner busy moving around a person somewhat like Tai Chi. Reiki is a far more passive therapy and what an onlooker would see is a very quiet traditional type of healing session.

A client can stand, sit or lie down for Bio-energy therapy. For a Reiki session, clients sit or lie down. During a Bio-energy Therapy session, the practitioner mostly works without touching. Reiki can be done either touching or not touching the client.

Both traditions teach remote healing.

Some practitioners prefer to practice one or the other and some clients prefer to receive one or the other. Others trained in both, use both. This is merely a matter of personal taste. Both provide good ways of working with energy, which will benefit the energetic health of the client.

No comparative work has been done to show which one is "better" than the other. Indeed experts such as Jim Oschman believe that it is the quality of the practitioner and not the tradition that they come from that makes one person likely to achieve greater therapeutic effect than another. It is because of this that so much focus of the coursework will be on you and your personal development.

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