I've been involved with a Japanese "Healing" art called Reiki for almost 6 years now. I'm a Reiki Master in the "Usui Tradition".

To be truthful "Master" is a very fancy title, i'd rather call myself a student of Reiki, because my learning is a lifelong endeavour and there are still many things within Reiki and energy work that i don't have an answer to.

All I know is that when i left "Century 106" on Sept 12th 2000 I was an accident waiting to happen. I would have either died from a heart attack or killed someone in a fight. My anger was controlling me.That's when I decided to take up an invite from Kiyth, a caller to the late show, to join him and his fellow Shinobi ( Ninja) train at their Dojo in Newark.

Very early on in my training i'd hurt my back doing a basic technique, a forward roll, which ended with me slapping my hips off the floor. It was my own stupid fault, trying to be the big man and not listening to my teachers. When i got home i spent the next 24 hours on my living room floor unable to move. I called Kiyth for help and advice but all he said was, "see if it eases by tomorrow morning if not get yourself over to Newark and i'll see what i can do"! Not the greatest vote of confidence I'd ever had but i was in so much pain I had few other options.

I know I was in great pain and eating prescription strength pain killers like smarties! So i gingerly I drove to Kiyth's house, crawled up his garden path and managed to plonk myself on his couch. He merely smiled and said "my treatment room is upstairs, go and lie on the couch and i'll be up in a mo". The first thing that squeezed into my mind in between the shooting pains was, I'm about to be devoured by some man love and i'm in no fit state to get him off me! The pain was excrutiating as I literally crawled the stairs! The only small comfort I had was I didn't have to take my clothes off. Kiyth followed and asked me to lie on my front! Now you're probably thinking the same thing that raced through my mind, sweaty man love? Look i was in great pain and had my head poking through a hole in the treatment table, how was i going to argue

I genuinely was just a beer swilling, hot curry eating hairy arsed bloke from the North East! What was about to happen changed my life and my attitudes to life forever. Kiyth re-assured me and asked me to relax and told me he would let me know when the treatment was over.

That was when i felt the heat.

I can't really describe it, just an all comsuming heat that was eminating from his hands that were now placed in the small of my back. That was the only thing that struck me ( it's ok you can stop the man love jokes now) this incredible warmth. A soothing, gentle heat that was covering the pain centres in the small of my back. i don't even know how long the session took, i just remember hearing Kiyths footsteps pad out of the room and i was left in totall silence...painfree silence!

I went to move fully expecting the pain to kick back in, there was nothing. i sat up, expecting the pain to re-appear any second, nothing.

I stood up expecting to yelp with pain, nothing. One foot infront of the other, still no pain. the stairs that I had crawled up in agony i gingerly stepped down waiting for this unearthly pain to kick in..still nothing!

I said to Kiyth " I don't know what you've just done, but it's not funny. i know how much pain I was in when i crawled up those stairs and now I'm pain free, what the F*** have you just done". Kiyth merely smiled and said lets go for a beer!

We sat outside the pub, on a beautiful late summers afternoon with Kiyth explaining that what he had just done was a mixture of what he called "Reiki & Shiatsu". he continued saying that as he and the other instructors at the BBD Ninjutsu dojo were teaching me how to hurt people, there had to be some balance to my esoteric learning so he suggested that I take up one or both of those healing arts. Shaitsu having some basis in Chinese healing and Reiki being Japanese.

Within a couple of months i was attuned to Reiki 1st Degree.

My path with Reiki is a long and onvolved one of learning, self discovery and mastery but that is why I extol it's virtues. One day i became pain free just because someone put their hands in the small of my back. Behave, to this hairy arsed thug it's got to be tree hugging hippy nonesense, surely?

It's also a reason why I now use my Reiki box to help people. I never promise anything, but i know it has helped so many people in the past with sleeping problems, emotional problems and even some physical ailments. That's one of the reasons I continue to practise knowing it helps. So long as people accept it in the spirit it is given. LOVE.

If you'd like including in my Reiki box this is what I will need from you...

Your full name and address and postal code, date of birth and a line with what you would like helping with.

Send the details to reikimaster@adrianallen.com

Again, i cannot promise anything and once in the Reiki box I cannot take your details out. So you will recieve the energy as long as i keep practising.

I look forward to hearing from you and hopefully helping a little,

peace love and happiness

Adrian x