| p>At the end of every Reiki session, I spend a few | | | | use it to heal others and to constantly develop a |
| minutes talking with the patient about how they feel | | | | sense of deep compassion for all living beings. |
| and what they experienced. Patients will often ask me | | | | To use a real 21st century analogy, we are like living |
| how I feel and I always tell them that I feel refreshed | | | | network, wireless range extenders, connecting to the |
| and energized. No, I'm not a robot but I find that even | | | | wireless life force of the universe, absorbing it and then |
| on days when I am feeling physically or emotionally | | | | re-transmitting it back out to the network of living |
| tired, connecting to and transmitting Reiki always, in | | | | beings. |
| fact, energizes and invigorates me. I believe that this | | | | Another key factor that all Reiki students are taught |
| aspect of Reiki makes it unique among the healing arts. | | | | from day 1 is that Reiki has it's own intelligence and |
| Why does Reiki work on both the patient and the | | | | that it "knows where to go". True, we use our healing |
| healer? I think it is the very nature of Reiki that causes | | | | intuition to guide our hands to the place on the patient |
| this to happen. Let's take a step back and think about | | | | that needs healing or we visualize Reiki flooding the |
| what an attunement is and why receiving attunements | | | | area of the patient that is in distress. In my Reiki |
| is an important part of becoming a Reiki healer. | | | | practice, I have seen rips and holes in patient's auras |
| Attunements are like a super-charged Reiki session | | | | and have used Reiki to repair them. However, at the |
| where the intention is to open up the student to being | | | | end of the day, we know that it is not us but the |
| able to receive and transmit greater amounts of life | | | | patients who is responsible for their own healing. |
| force than they could before the attunement. And the | | | | And this is the difference between anticipation and |
| effect of the attunement is cumulative over time which | | | | expectation. Expectation leads to all kinds of negative |
| means that with each attunement the student is able | | | | emotions like disappointment, guilt, judgment and a |
| to receive greater and greater amounts of Reiki. (I | | | | sense of failure. Anticipation, on the other hand, leads |
| have often wondered if there is a natural limit on this? | | | | to surprise, excitement and hope. As Reiki healers, we |
| If you got an attunement every day for a certain | | | | know the power that Reiki has to heal so let's share |
| amount of time, would you be able to receive all the | | | | that anticipation with our patients so they can feel |
| Reiki in the universe?) | | | | invigorated with a sense of hope and the potential of |
| The same effect takes place on the student's ability to | | | | the future. If we can do that, then we will be able to |
| transmit Reiki. This is a very important part of the | | | | keep our own practice energized. |
| intention of the Reiki Master, that the student use the | | | | I'd love to hear your opinion on this so please leave a |
| Reiki not just for themselves, which is important, but to | | | | comment below. |