MAGICAL HEALING TECHNIQUES are recorded as far back as written history. From ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Babylonia, China, Australia, Europe, and the Americas, healing was practiced both as a science and as a magical connection with the "gods." A quick check of the Internet brings up 178,000 under "spiritual healer," and 835,000 under "energy healing."

Healing may be the most sought after metaphysical service. Why? Medical science assures us that we are healthier than ever and that modern medicine is a wonder to behold. Then, why do so many people, all over the world, seek out alternative medicine and energy healers with such gusto? Why do so many people feel that modern medicine alone is not enough? Even after being treated by a physician for an ailment and given medications, so often we still feel tired, older than our age, and stressed, and sick. Plus, medications are rife with side-effects that sometimes seem to make the cure worse than the illness. Just listening to television ads for medications is enough to scare some of us, the list of possible side effects can be long and daunting.

Please don't get the impression that I am against modern medicine. I am not. I have a great respect for what our doctors and medical researchers have accomplished. I just believe that it isn't enough. My personal struggle with health for most of my life showed me that modern medicine so often doesn't have all of the answers. True, my life has been saved more than once by medicine, but I didn't experience feeling healthy and whole. Why isn't medicine enough? What more do we want than the absence of disease? It isn't enough because, as many of our health gurus such as Gary Null (www.garynull.com), Dr. Nicholas Perricone (www.perriconeMD.com), and Dr. Andrew Weil (www.drweil.com) attest, true health is more than just a sound body.

Real health is more than the absence of physical illness or disfunction; it is a synthesis of radiant vitality, clear mind, and a joyous experience of LIFE! How many of us can claim to wake up every morning with the enthusiasm and energy that we once had as children on Christmas Eve, or our birthdays, or when we knew we were going to have a GREAT day? How many of us maintain that infinite curiosity about the wonders of life? Do we have clear thinking, creativity, enthusiasm?

I remember a time, not so long ago when my husband and I went to a museum of science in Balboa Park, San Diego. This is a wonderful playground for science and exploration into the wonders of the universe. Exhibits encourage visitors to push buttons, slide levers, punch and pull things, climb, see, hear, taste, and touch to experience the wonders of science perform before our very eyes. We were having a lot of fun, giggling, playing, and experiencing. At one point, I looked around and realized that we were the tallest people in the room! Everyone else was probably under the age of 13! It didn't stop us, we continued to explore and play. I have often commented that so many of the fun things in life seem limited to children. Why can't I go to Space Camp? Is it okay in society's eyes that I am an, ahem, older woman and still like Star Trek and Harry Potter? Just because I have a Masters Degree, does it mean I stop wanting to learn?

It is unfortunately true that very few of us in modern society have the ongoing feeling of wonder and excitement about living that is so common in children, and that spiritually enlightened sages and gurus say we could, and should, enjoy for our whole lives. There is a wonderfully insightful line from what I consider to be a very underrated movie, Joe Versus the Volcano, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Tom Hanks, in a stressful, dreary job is talking to his boss about not feeling good. His boss answers in a gruff, impatient voice, "Nobody feels good. I never feel good. It's a fact of life. Get used to it." What a sad but often too true commentary on modern life.

Does it have to be this way? As adults are we all doomed to lose such a life affirming part of us? Can we truly be healthy without life energy, vitality, and zest? I think not, and so do a lot of others who have reclaimed that part of themselves and are rediscovering who really wonderful life can be and how they can help others feel the same joy.

How can we reawaken our vital self? There is a promise of discovering or regaining that zest for living, that connection with our greater, or higher self. That promise comes from healers, in the form of gurus, spiritual teachers, spiritual practices, yoga, martial arts, energy practitioners and more. Of course, mostly each claims to have "THE way." And, it may be true. THE way may be contained in each of these practices as a unified force channeled through yoga, Tai Chi, Healing Touch, Reiki, Re Hu Tek™ and so on.

I have been in the "business" of healing and spirituality all my life, so I have seen healing and self-help fads come and go. Does anyone remember when Silva Mind Control (now called Silva Life system) was all the rage? Or EST by Werner H. Erhard? What about Touch for Health? All have gone from the top 10 hit list to more obscurity. This doesn't mean that those practices are useless. It is more of an example of our restlessness in seeking the magic bullet.

In our search for the ultimate healing magic, we may drift from one method to another looking for the ONE that works to make our lives beyond just bearable. Many times we are disappointed. What happened? There were so many promises.

Sometimes impatience gets in the way and we don't give a practice enough time or "practice" for it to fully work. Sometimes our beliefs get in the way (but that's another topic for another article). Sometimes the healer is more confident than their skill, and a host of other challenges keep us from finding the golden fleece. Will we ever find it? Perhaps - but probably not in any one place. I firmly believe there is no single technique that answers all of our needs. We must choose a formula to help us achieve the goal we seek for vibrant living.

After half a lifetime of searching, I have chosen a formula that works for me. As one of the main ingredients in my formula, I use as a base for my vital life, a system my husband had naturally, and we developed further together - Re Hu Tek™ (RHT). I use this not because he is my husband, but because when I was first exposed to it, I was absolutely amazed - and I am not easily amazed. I am a Reiki Master, Tai Chi Master, and practitioner of Chi Gung. I am a graduate of Siddhi Yoga, and have practiced Hatha yoga since I was five. I am also a certified NLP trainer. I learned meditation from masters and have studied more techniques in mind and body control than I care to admit. None of these practices integrated my life like RHT. I use a formula of pranayama (the yoga of breath), Siddhi, Kriya, Mantra, Hatha yoga, healthy eating, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) integrated and enhanced by RHT.

What is Re Hu Tek™ (RHT)?

RHT, from ancient Egypt, accesses both Cosmic and Earth energies in a unique way that blends them together in our physical and non-physical body to create an incredible transformative force. This, combined with vocal sound, is unlike anything I have ever experienced before. I can only describe its effect on me as atomic. Others have said it is like Reiki and Chi Gong on steroids. My other practices have become empowered and alive. I can accomplish much more with medi-tation, and with my physical and spiritual disciplines than ever before. At sixty-one, I almost al-ways feel like a young woman. I think like a young woman. I act like a young woman.

How does it work?
Re Hu Tek™ consists of two distinct, yet compatible, energies:

1. Cosmic energy coming into the crown chakra.
2. Earth energy coming up from the Earth to enter the body through the feet and root chakras.

The origins of these energies are, from ancient tradition, thought to be the center of our Galaxy (Ra the Central Sun) and the core of the Earth (the Heart of Gaia).

The Cosmic energy works on the mental/upper astral realms (dimensions, bodies). The Earth energy works on the denser astral/etheric/physical nature.

Re Hu Tek integrates the Cosmic and Earth energy to create a powerful combination that works on all levels of our body, mind, and spirit. Re Hu Tek can be amplified, modulated, and focused by the breath, vocal sound, geometric symbols, hand movements, and more.

Re Hu Tek appears to have an "intelligence" (better translated as nature or characteristics). It uses the practitioner's intent and the law of attraction, coupled with the practitioner's higher consciousness, to know where to flow in the recipients and how to affect them.

The energies that we call Re Hu Tek are passed on by transmission through an initiation or at-tunement process. This initiation installs or reawakens Re Hu Tek in the initiates. During the Re Hu Tek attunement, the two transformative energies are "installed" into an initiate through a process that permanently integrates the ability to access the Re Hu Tek with the initiate's body. The ability to use Re Hu Tek becomes part of their nature.

Characteristics of Re Hu Tek energies include:

Instant on. There is no lengthy meditation, complex visualization, or faith needed to start Re Hu Tek. A "trigger" is be used to start the flow of energy. The trigger can be nearly anything, an action, a word, sound, and so forth.

Intelligence. Re Hu Tek is "intelligent" and self-directing and can be modulated and directed by intent.

Tangibility. Re Hu Tek has "tangible" characteristics. Re Hu Tek may generate heat in the hands, internal warmth, and/or feelings of heat or cool, depending on the need. Some people with blocked or undeveloped kinesthetics (feeling sense) may not sense anything when using Re Hu Tek or other energy modalities, even though the recipients have a strong sense of it. It is not necessary to feel it for it to work. Generally, the practitioner becomes more sensitive to kinesthetics the more the Re Hu Tek is used.

Purity. The Re Hu Tek energies aren't easily polluted by our own energies, and generally travel directly through our bodies to others. Many other energy practices can be tainted by negative thoughts and energies.

Connection. The Re Hu Tek energies easily connect with our higher self, or with guides, angels, archetypal energies, and "higher powers."

Is RHT the only answer to all of our challenges, woes, and problems? No. RHT is a transformative energy force that we believe is a strong, clear, permanent connection to the forces that engender a vital, healthy life in body and mind.

A Re Hu Tek attunement reconnects us to earth energy and to the force that holds the galaxy together. Astronomers tell us that we are made of stardust. But, somewhere along the way we lost our energy connection with the stars. RHT is a way to be whole again and use this wholeness to move forward in life healthy, vibrant, and with a spring in our step.

For more information about RHT, its origins, history and lineage and view a video, visit www.rehutek.com or www.openmindshow.com.

© Anita Burns, 2009

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Anita Burns is an Astrologer, NLP trainer and practitioner, and Master Hypnotherapist. She is a certified Handwriting Analyst, co-founded the NLP Institute of Houston, Texas, and the Houston Association for Hypnotherapists. She has authored three books and numerous articles on spiritual and holistic living. She was the official astrology reporter for KFRG radio and currently writes the astrology column for the Messenger newspaper.

Anita is an experienced and accomplished instructor of a wide range of subjects both mundane and spiritual and has taught and lectured all over the world, including France, England; Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Holland. She is co-owner of MetaStudies Institute, a web based resource for home study courses in metaphysical and life enhancing subjects, and co-developer of Re Hu Tek. She is also the host of the Open Mind Show, broadcast over the Internet, which broadcasts interviews and discussions with unusual, unique, creative, inspirational people that Anita hopes viewers will find valuable in their personal, spiritual, and esoteric path. We strive to offer new insights and understanding of the vastly complex system of body, mind, spirit and cosmos. www.openmindshow.com. To learn more about Anita and her work visit www.anitaburns.info and www.metastudies.com. To contact her, send an email to Shanti3@usa.net.