"As a Reiki-trained selfpractitioner who has recently moved to the countryside after 50 years in the city, I was very interested to read Plant Spirit Reiki. I was hoping the book would help me to get in contact with my local environment and learn ways to get deeper into nature. I was not disappointed. In fact, Plant Spirit Reiki is fizzing with ideas to bring Reiki and plants/nature together. I think Plant Spirit Reiki is a very well-written book and would recommend it to anyone interested in bringing in spiritual ideas and practices to their love of the natural world and Reiki."

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FAY JOHNSTONE combines 20 years of reiki practice with herbal and shamanic training to assist us with our personal transformation through the healing power of nature. The author of Plants That Speak, Souls That Sing, Fay offers treatments and training on reiki and plant spirit connection across the UK. She lives near Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Enrich your Reiki practice by connecting with the healing spirit of plants and the natural world

• Explores a new way of channeling Reiki energy for both personal healing and professional practice by intuitively connecting with plants and the natural world

• Provides simple exercises, meditations, and Reiki practices to help the reader intuitively work in partnership with plants as part of their Reiki practice

• Emphasizes healing exchange with plants and the self-practice of Reiki in partnership with the spirit of plants to heal our essential nature

• Explains how to raise the vibration of your community and the world by connecting with green spaces, nature beings, and habitats under threat

In this practical workbook, Fay Johnstone demonstrates how energy healers and Reiki practitioners can partner with plant spirit allies and the forces of nature for powerful healing for themselves, others, and our planet. She explains how to include plants and nature in your Reiki practice, both the spiritual/etheric components of plants and the physical plants themselves. She offers many practical exercises, techniques, and meditations as well as case studies and personal experiences to show how best to harness the power of plants on all levels, along with other energy flows, to support the healing process in much the same way that crystals are used as energetic healing aids. She explains how plants connect with the Reiki principles and explores plant spirit allies, chakra work, and healing with the elements of nature. She details how to enhance self-healing and Reiki treatments for others through “bringing the outside in,” creating a healing space, use of plant preparations, and other sacred forms of plant medicine.

Fay also explores how to support the healing of plants and nature itself through your Reiki/healing practice. She provides guidance on how to raise the vibration of your home and community, how to impact nature positively with regard to climate change, and how to send distance healing to the Earth, nature beings, and endangered habitats across the world. She inspires you to reach out to the vital force that flows through the natural world and open your intuition to discover guidance and support from nature. By deepening our conscious cooperation and partnership with nature and the plant kingdom, in a sacred healing way, we come to recognize that in healing ourselves, we are also healing our Earth.

Zusammenfassung
Enrich your Reiki practice by connecting with the healing spirit of plants and the natural world

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**From Chapter 4

Reiki for Nature: A Healing Exchange
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Plants and all the many micro-organisms in the soil create the environment in which we live, breathe, and hope to thrive. They are our source of life--not only the air that we breathe but the clothes that we wear and the food that we eat. We know that climate change is a real risk to our planet as a whole, and the continuous use of natural resources and pollution of our environment is not an idle threat to our existence. The earth, our home, urgently needs our care if we are to continue enjoying clean air, fresh water, and nourishing food. As well as being the habitat for many indigenous flora and fauna, green spaces are our life force and the energy that they radiate helps to increase the vibration of the surrounding area. This is why it’s imperative that we focus our individual efforts on lowering our impact on the environment as a whole and do what we can to care for local green spaces as stewards of the land. If we send Reiki and healing to our gardens and local green spaces, we can raise the vibration of our local area to benefit all the inhabitants--trees, birds, bees, wildlife, and humans alike.

Reiki and the Spirits of Nature Where You Live

There are many nature beings on earth, each one with a specific role, overseeing and care-taking a place or element of nature. Just as we have spirit guides and guardian angels, Mother Earth has elementals and nature spirits helping her. Nature spirits include: fairies, elves, gnomes, pixies, sprites, and mermaids. Each one is associated with a specific element: earth, fire, water, or air, or place in the landscape. There will be a nature spirit of your garden, local park, river, or woodland for example. They work with the spiritual and energetic side of nature. You will find nature spirits present in every place in nature, but we are often unaware that they are there. The nature spirits keep well-hidden and for good reason, they may even have been traumatized by the damage that humans have inflicted on certain areas of land. One of the first steps that we can take when we begin the plant path is to make our intentions clear to the nature spirits. We want to tell them that we would like to connect with them and show them our good intentions.

Being Yamabushi - Connecting to the Magic of Nature

While I was writing this book I came across the term Yamabushi and the Japanese spiritual practice of Shugendo, which echoes my feelings about the power of connecting with the vital force of the natural world. Yamabushi is translated from Japanese as “one who lays down in the mountains.” The Yamabushi are ascetics who roam the mountains seeking spiritual fulfilment. They follow a spiritual practice called Shugendo, which is a blend of Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, and Shinto and is one of the major influences on Japanese new religions. The system of Reiki shares its evolution with these Japanese new religions and is likely to have been influenced by Shugendo practices too.

It’s possible that Mikao Usui, the founder of Reiki, was a Yamabushi because he did indeed go into the mountains to seek spiritual fulfilment, as mentioned on his memorial stone. Being in nature, being at one with nature, and connecting to the magic of the mountain at Mount Kurama was how he came to experience the gift of Reiki.

Not surprisingly Mount Kurama, the birthplace of the system of Reiki, also has links to the Yamabushi. Sojogatani is a valley by Mount Kurama where many Yamabushi have practiced. Mount Kurama is believed to be home to many mythical tengu (supernatural beings or gods who are guardians of the mountain). If you visit Mount Kurama you will see many depictions of tengu as statues and souvenirs, characterized by a large nose and red face. They represent the ancient power of the mountains.

The open honoring of the tengu highlights for me the importance of us each finding our own way to be Yamabushi, to connect with the magic of nature and the spirits of the places that carry ancient power and wisdom. By honoring the beauty and magnificence of nature we are able to see that power within ourselves. This is the essence of Reiki.

Reiki Exercise: Connecting to the Spirits of Nature

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