Takata Reiki Hand Positions

  1. Position One is with the hands cupped gently over the patients eyes. This position covers the brow chakra (third eye). This is the chakra of visualization, auric sight, sensing chakras, adn clairvoyance. The associated colors are indigo and bluish purple. The brain, eyes, ears, nose, pineal, and pituitary glands are nourished by this energy center. This area can be focused on to help problems with sinus, stress, hormonal balance, compulsive behavior, and addictions. Assists in learning, intellectual development, and reasoning skills. This chakra is associated with the celestial body.
  2. Position Two is with the hands over the cheeks and the healer's little finger resting lightly against the patient's ears. This position reaches both the crown and third eye chakras. The crown chakra is located in the top of your head. It is associated with the colors Purple, White, and Gold. It corresponds to the pineal gland, which may have something to do with growth. It is a receptor for spiritual energies. It is responsible for pure intuition, surpassing clarivoyance. The pain receptors are also located in this area. This chakra is associated with the divine or katheric body.
  3. Position Three is with the hands gently cupping the back of the head. Like position one, it is associated with the third eye chakra. From this angle, working with reiki can aid in putting one to sleep.
  4. Position Four is with the hands resting lightly on the collar bone, slightly below the throat. This position is associated with the throat chakra. Blue is the color of this chakra, and it is the chakra of communication, individuality, and creativity. The thyroid, trachea, esophagus, neck vertebrae, throat, mouth, teeth, gums, and jaws are affected by this chakra, which also helps regulate the body's blood pressure and temperature. It is said to be where your spirit communicates with your mind as your "Inner Voice". This chakra is associated with the etheric template.
  5. Position Five is with the hands in the center of the chest, at heart height. It is associated with the heart chakra. Green is the color connected with this chakra, and it is connected with loving, compassion, unconditional love and acceptance, rather than romance or sexual passion. It is the chakra of "Oneness." Heart, lungs, ribs, breasts, circulatory and respiratory systems, the thymus gland, and the immune system's T-cells are connected to this chakra. It is associated with the astral body.
  6. Position Six is with the hands on or just above the stomach. It is associated with the solar plexus chakra. This chakra is associated with the color yellow. It is the power center, the distribution point for psychic energies. Through it we feel connected to the physical and energetic world. It is the chakra of emotions, empathy, the liver, gall bladder, stomach, pancreas, spleen, adrenal glands, toxicity, hypoglycemia, and problems with regularion of insulin and adrenaline. This chakra is associated with the mental body.
  7. Position Seven is with the hands just below the waist. It is associated with the sacral chakra, orange/yellow, sexual and creative energy, the lower vertebrae, pelvis, sexual organs, appendix, bladdar, the metabolism, blood-filtering, courage, self-love, and the emotional body.
  8. Position Eight is with both hands across the lower abdomen, above the pubic bone. It is associated with the root chakra, red/orange, the will to survive, grounding, realizing dreams, self mastery, legs, physical strength, and the etheric body.