Dear fairymeadow,

you are talking about many different things - I will try to say my point of view, although I am not a hypnosis expert

I don't believe, that our mind is the source of all around us - the source is "ALL".
With our minds, or better said with our believes were are able to realize the many manifestations of "ALL". The more we become capable of leaving old patterns of believe and behaviour behind, the more we will be able to be aware until we realize, that everything is already inside of us, but we forgot about it. Our (different) lifes are the opportunity to re-discover of what we are - until we realize, that there is no difference between "us" and "ALL there is".
And as well, that inside/outside is the same

Intent and affirmation - for me it is not the same.
Intent is something coming from my heart ... directing to someone or something. The intent is an "order" to my Higher Self. The Higher Self is the opposite of my subconsciousnes- although both have to work pretty well together to be able to manifest what I am intenting  
Affirmations are directed to my subconsciousness, where everything is stored we have experienced so far (during our many lifes). So there we also find our patterns of believe and behaviour.

Using affirmations is not that easy as many people believe it is, and that's why many people say "with me it doesn't work out".
If our believe is "it's cool to be poor" ... nothing can change this believe as long as we choose to believe it. You may affirm thousands of times the sentence "it's cool to be rich" - nothing will change, as long as you don't believe it and as long as you believe that "poor is cool"
This is, because our subconsciousnes ONLY works with what it already experienced and validated as "true".
So, when using affirmations there's some more work to do, in order to convince your subconsciousnes. Reiki can help to transform those believes, especially with the mental technique or with the mental-symbol - AND of course in meditation.

You might say, that affirmation is some kind of self-hynosis, or hypnosis "light"  

Therapeutic Hynosis is something similar but on a much deeper level. But even there, you might need several sessions until something starts happening !

Symbols and hypnosis
For me it has nothing in common, because using the symbols I am in a state of awareness and intent. Using or drawing the symbols with no intent ... nothing will happen. So, the symbols are the carrier of my intent and of the energy the symbol has on its own.

Try to experience the difference:
simply draw a circle = what happens? You draw and see just a simple circle.
And now draw this circle with the awareness of "never-ending creation" ... and feel what happens inside of you.

The more you do this, the more, this circle will be charged with this energy you are feeling.

Well   I don't know if I can make clear, what I mean  

Looking forward to read from you all!

Blessings
Petra

thanks petra very interesting to read what you say, my head is smoking.... I think my post was pretty messy, what I wanted to say.. lets try again... if your master would have told you, or any master of any person here, cho-ku-rei symbol is for distant healing, I wonder if the symbol would have the power for distant healing or for power healing? .

I agree with what you say, but what I wanted to compare to hynosis is the fact that we have been told cho-ku-rei is for power healing, but it fact any symbol would do perhaps or meaning? What count is what we have learnt. and I think learning is like hynosis (until your "I" sets in).. or brainwashing, which sounds very negative (please I am a not a critique of reiki, rather very analytical and interested in bringing science and spirtual things together, so I AM NOT critizing anyone, I just want to mention this, as I am new here ..)

When I was at uni, I felt I was brainwashed, or hynotised, meaning, I was thaught things without reflecting on it. When we are taught reiki, we all accept it (I speak about our first experience), the way it is done and the meaning of symbols. But later, as many write here, they changed their practise. Some stopped using reiki, some use only intend etc.. so reiki energy works anyway. the teaching, as many suggested here, is to get you focused, or simple get you running...

So the acceptence of the teaching of reiki, I see a similar strucure to hynosis (in the meaning of information access our mind and we behave, think in a particular way). and I wonder, what if reiki would still (what I think it will) work in the same way, if we were taught different meanings to the symbols???

and here I think, the teaching is influencing our mind and belief. I have not thought so deeply about subconscious mind, all there is and higherself. they are at the moment very abstract, but will for sure take them in and work them out inwardly (over the next years..  )...  I think somehow I see belief as an "accepting teaching, without reflection"  and this teaching, without reflection will affect my mind, will affect my intention and later the manifestations around me. what I am inside, will be outside...


about affirmation I am very confused now, is the subconsious mind the akashic records? I am also wonder, how far we should use affirmations, if we modify with affirmations our path and karmic experience? not very sensible is it? one day we have to face, what we try to avoid? but this is another subject for a new post...


fairymeadow

Hi masters
My reiki is no symbols, no mantras, and no ascend masters, it's good?
if I want to distant healing, I use "pengacak frekuensi" energy level unlimited for protect energy until destination.
Sorry my English is bad

Love, light & blessing

Heru

I agree with Xian, personally symbols help me concentrate on what I am working on and further strengthening my intentions. I do not remember any single session that's gone without using symbols. It's a part of my practice and I do not want to let go of it. Just like one cannot do yoga with intention (without getting into yoga positions), I believe one should not part with the symbols just coz he/she thinks that the intention is stronger than the symbols, etc.

Namaste,
Dheeraj