SM writes: "Many years ago before I knew what Reiki is about I bought a CD of "new age" relaxation music. I bought it on the strength of the sample one could listen to in the store, but the CD was marketed as being good for background music during Reiki massage. It was clearly created with the intention of being used during Reiki, given the packaging and liner notes. Do you recommend that I get rid of it?"Yes, I would discard the CD.
For those who have never heard of it, Reiki music is a soft and relaxing kind of instrumental music that is frequently used in Reiki sessions to mask ambient noise and assist a person to enter into a meditative or trance state.
"Music is one of the fastest and most effective ways to access the subconscious mind," says this practitioner. "This is the main reason why reiki practitioners use different types of healing/relaxing musical pieces during a reiki session. The music is not only relaxing, but it also facilitates the healing process by clearing away mental and emotional fog in the person who is receiving the ki."
Another practitioner explains:"Music is its type of energy healing. In a Reiki session, you can play suitable tracks to shift vibration. Successful implementation can amplify the beautiful effects of the healing session."
This is nothing to scoff at because the effect music has on us is well documented, such as in this article appearing in the Oxford Journal.
"One of the most dramatic effects of music's power is the induction of trance states, which have been described by ethnomusicologists in nearly every culture," the article states.
It can have a powerful emotion effect upon us. For some, it can even have too powerful an effect, such as in the case of Leo Tolstoy who was said to be deeply ambivalent about music. " . . .(I)t had, he felt, a power to induce in him ‘fictitious’ states of mind, emotions and images that were not his own, and not under his control," the Journal reports.
Considering the fact that Reiki masters often produce this music - and these are practitioners who work in consort with "spirit guides" (demonic entities) - you have a quite dangerous combination of potentially mind-altering music created by people who deliberately invoke demons.
No, I would not keep this CD and would destroy it.
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