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Plant Spirit Reiki

Energy Healing with the Elements of Nature

Published by Findhorn Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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About The Book

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.

Excerpt

From Chapter 4

Reiki for Nature: A Healing Exchange

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

Next time you are heading out for a walk, try the following exercise to introduce yourself to the spirits of nature where you live and make known your intention to get to know them.

Out in nature, ground yourself fully by imagining roots holding you deep down anchoring you to the earth. You may also like to use the Reiki Power symbol to help you ground. Open up to the support and nurture that is available to you from the Earth.

Tune into Reiki by connecting to the energy in the way you have been taught, asking that it flow through you to guide you for your highest good to connect with the spirits of the land. If you are level 2 trained or above then activate the symbols. In particular I would suggest using the distance symbol to help bridge the human world with the world of the unseen nature beings. Take a walk out in nature and speak out to the spirits of the land, speak from the heart with words like "Hello, I'm here, I’d like to connect with you, show me how dear nature spirits".

Allow your intuition and Reiki to guide you to where the nature spirits are and allow a childlike joy to enter you--this is the resonance of the nature spirits. Allow this joy to permeate your being and take your walk filled with childlike wonder at the beauty and magic of the world.

About The Author

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.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Findhorn Press (September 22, 2020)
  • Length: 224 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781644111208

Raves and Reviews

Plant Spirit Reiki is a hands-on guide that couples the elegance and simplicity of reiki with the majesty and healing potential of the green world. Fay demonstrates how reiki can work for both personal and planetary healing when you learn to engage with plant spirits and the consciousness of the natural world. In building this relationship your practice will be forever changed for the better as you attune to the green heart of Mother Nature. Plant Spirit Reiki is a delight to read and will inspire you to expand the scope of reiki in your life.”

– NICHOLAS PEARSON, author of Foundations of Reiki Ryoho

In Plant Spirit Reiki, Fay Johnstone explores the use of plants during reiki healing treatments. She introduces us to the process of seeing, feeling, and dreaming with the plant’s beings according to our own needs and particular relationship with them. Fay introduces us to these diversities of plants, seeds, landscapes, and connection with very simple and clear techniques that allow us to live our own experiences in the healing process of the mind, body, and spirit. It is a unique and remarkable book in which we can discover our path to understanding the relationship between people and plants in the healing process of ourselves and the planet.”

– Rocio Alar cón, Ph.D., ethnopharmacologist, healer, and founder of IAMOE Center, Amazonia, Ecua

“What a lovely co-creative partnership Fay has forged between the energy practice of reiki and the vibrational essence of plants! This is a fresh perspective on how to work with plants that are placed within a context of the time-tested knowledge and wisdom of reiki. Fay illuminates how reiki helps us take up our rightful place as a part of nature. We discover how to step into the flow of light and love that moves through us and the natural world. You are shown how to bring plants into your reiki practice through various exercises that are found throughout this book. This unique view of working with energy is a must for anyone wanting to incorporate energy, heart, plants, intuition, and love on a personal, professional, and planetary level.”

– Pam Montgomery, author of Plant Spirit Healing and Partner Earth

“Fay brings a natural fusion between her great loves of reiki and plants. She has created a weaving between them with such sweetness and a purity of spirit that brings a truth apparent through her writings

– Maureen Robertson, MSc M.NIMH ITEC (Arom), cofounder of the Herbal Path Portugal and the Scottish Sc

“This is the book that every reiki practitioner’s bookshelf has surely been waiting for! Fay Johnstone presents us with an innovative and richly resourced manual for anyone looking to explore the synthesis of reiki and nature. Her ethos is deeply respectful of both Usui’s source reiki teachings and the abiding spirit of plants. Devouring this book, I really appreciated the zestful, sturdy, and knowledgeable voice of a teacher who could lead me expertly into a creative practice. This is reminiscent for me of the cheerleading virtuoso of Julia Cameron in her book The Artist’s Way. Plant Spirit Reiki has the potential to inspire a revolutionary and much-awaited conscious revival of the healing pathways between human and plant systems. Prepare to find your place in nature again!”

– Carol Day, founder of the Centre for Creative Vision and author of Wheel and Drum

Plant Spirit Reiki is a joy to read. Fay writes with a very clear and confident voice, grounded in her extensive personal reiki practice and deep relationships with plants. Her ability to hear the often subtle communications from the plants and translate them into powerful, yet easy-to-follow, exercises is inspiring. You know you are in safe and experienced hands as Fay guides you on an incredible journey that promises to deepen both your reiki practice and connection to plants.”

– Rachel Corby, author of Rewilding and the Art of Plant Whispering

"Connecting with plants is a lifelong journey and the author's wise guidance will place that relationship on firm footing."

– Adam Gordon, Kindred Spirit Magazine

"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."

– Karon Lyne, Indie Shaman Magazine

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