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Reiki – Frequently Asked Questions
If you visit any of the Reiki forum sites on the
internet, you will see the same questions being asked time and time again about
Reiki. These indicate that the quality of teaching is not sufficient to give
Reiki practitioners enough information or personal resource to work out the answers
themselves. In my Reiki Masters manual,
therefore, I have a section where I pass on my views about some of the
questions asked. As this is useful to have in the public domain, I am posting
also to my website.
CHAPTER 11
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
This training manual is
written primarily for my students learning Reiki. However, it will also be
available to my students who have learned Reiki with other teachers who are
learning other energies with me. Because different teachers say different
things about Reiki, there is sometimes a lot of confusion about Reiki. In this
Chapter, I try to answer some of the questions that are often asked about
Reiki. I visited a number of Reiki message boards on the internet as research
for this Chapter – the issues that I deal with seem to be a recurring theme of
uncertainty with Reiki students.
The issues are dealt with in
question and answer form – as in question from Reiki student to Reiki teacher.
Please note that Q means
question and that A means
answer.
Q. When I first started practicing Reiki and did
self-healing, my hands were always hot and I could always feel the Reiki. These
days when I do self-healing, my hands do not feel hot. Have I lost the ability
to channel Reiki energy?
A. A number of teachers say
that you lose the Reiki connection if you do not channel regularly or that you
lose the ability to channel Reiki if you go on to learn a different energy or
that you must have done something bad and that somebody ‘up above’ has taken
away from you the connection with the Reiki. I do not believe that any of these
or similar teachings are correct and do not believe in general that students
lose the ability to channel Reiki. When you first learned Reiki, it is likely
that you had a lot of blocked and stuck energy that needed clearing.
Consequently a lot of Reiki would have flowed through you in those early days
and you would have felt it working against the energy blockages that you had.
These days, after having done a lot of clearing on yourself through
self-healing, you will not need to channel as much Reiki when you do
self-healing and there will be fewer energy blockages in you for the Reiki
energy to work through. Consequently, you are not likely to feel the same
physical conditions when you channel Reiki. If you have any doubt about whether
the Reiki is flowing through you, judge by what happens to your clients. You
can also ask the non-physical beings working with you whether or not you are
channelling the Reiki. I work with a lot of energies and have now got to the
stage where often I cannot feel them physically as they flow through me, but
they are definitely received by people receiving healing treatments.
Q. I just received a
Reiki attunement and I could feel it going around me
for less than 21 days but not the full 21 days. Am I missing something from the
attunement? Did I not receive the attunement
properly? Did the attunement leave me?
A. In my manuals, I always
advise that students should focus internally to understand what is happening
with the attunement. I also advise that 21 days is an
indicator but that I believe it may take more or less days for an attunement to settle in to a person. I wrote that from my
own perception. Subsequently, I have found postings from other Reiki people on
the internet who also question whether an attunement
needs exactly 21 days to settle in. My advice would be that the attunement will take as long as it needs to settle in. If
you are worried about it not taking hold in you, do self-healing on yourself
and healing on clients and notice what happens. The healing that you do will
not be possible if the attunement has not taken
hold.
Q. I am not able to contact my Reiki Guides. What is
wrong?
A. If you learn Reiki with
me, then you will have been introduced to some Reiki Guides to help you with
your work. If you cannot connect with them, just call them in and talk to them
as if you were in full contact with them. Different people have different
intuitive and psychic abilities, and not everybody can connect easily with
their Guides. For me, I am in the strange situation that I connect very well
with a lot of Higher Beings who are involved with the energies that I work with
but do not connect easily with my own Guides. I know that they are there with
me but I do not really get a communication connection with them. So do not
worry about this.
If you did not learn Reiki with me, then
it might be possible that your Reiki Master never ensured that some Reiki
Guides were introduced to you. In this situation, you might not have any Reiki
Guides to connect to. If so, speak to me and I will try to do something to get
you connected with some Reiki Guides.
Linked to this, some Reiki teachers try
to put a rigid structure around their teaching and say that you will not have
any Reiki Guides at Reiki Level 1 but that you will have Guides at Level 2. If
this is correct, it will only be because they do not ask for Reiki Guides for
students at Level 1 – not because of any other reason.
Q. My religion/local
priest says that Reiki goes against my religion and is not a good thing. What
should I do?
A. The standard Reiki that I
teach is about being able to channel an energy that is all around us, just like
the air that we breathe. It has nothing to do with religion. We need to realise
that religion is just a system of structuring our personal energy to focus on
spiritual matters – no more, no less. Jesus still exists in the non-physical
dimensions whether you wish to belong to a Christian Church or not. Lord Buddha
still exists in the non-physical dimensions whether you wish to following
traditional Buddhist teachings or not. If a priest says that it is against your
religion to practice Reiki, you need to make up your own mind about how much
the priest knows. If you recall what I wrote in Chapter 10 about standing on
your own two feet, then you have the choice to empower yourself by working
within your own living and dynamic belief structure or to disempower
yourself by following the rigid belief structure of other people which may not
be correct. Reiki is about helping people, and there is nothing wrong with
trying to help people. If somebody needed help, neither Jesus nor Lord Buddha
would stop to ask if the person followed the religions that have been
established in their names – they would just help. It is good if we can do the
same.
Q. There
seem to be many variations on the Reiki system. How can I be sure that I have
received the correct one?
A. This probably is a
question that cannot be answered. I have tried to give you the traditional
Reiki teachings and to show you where I have added to the teachings. Where it
has been possible for me to backtrack through some of the history of Reiki in
the
Q. Some
Reiki teachers say that taking Level 1 qualifies a person to do Reiki
self-healing but that they have to wait until Level 2 to give healing sessions
to other people. Is this correct?
A. This is not correct. You
can give Reiki healing sessions as soon as you have received your Reiki Level 1
attunement.
Q. I have never seen any
lights or colours in my Third Eye when receiving a Reiki attunement.
I have never seen any non-physical beings when receiving a Reiki attunement. Is there something wrong with me?
A. As stated earlier, different people have
different levels of psychic and perceptive awareness. Some people can have
these psychic experiences when receiving Reiki attunements
and some cannot. If you cannot, there is no problem. The Reiki energy will
still flow through you.
Q. Some Reiki Masters give four separate attunements for Reiki Level 1. Does it matter if I did not
receive four separate attunements?
The purpose of giving four
separate attunements at Level 1 is to gradually
expose the student to the Level 1 energy through four stages rather than just
giving it all to the student in one attunement. The
end result is ultimately the same whether the student receives four attunements or a single attunement.
I prefer to give the Level 1 attunement as a single attunement because the student then receives the full attunement in one day. I feel that everybody can handle the
Level 1 energy in a single attunement. Also, it is a
time efficient way of passing the attunements. Many
Reiki Masters do give the four stage attunement
process on the same day without realising that each of the four attunements should be done with several weeks in between
each – so the end result of doing four separate attunements
on one day is no different to giving the single attunement
in one day. In my training manual I do not explain how to pass the Level 1 attunement in four stages but can advise about this if you
ever feel that this would be appropriate for any of your students.
Q. Some people feel very
tired after giving Reiki sessions. Why is this?
A. The Reiki energy has to
flow through the practitioner before reaching the client. Consequently the
healer receives a healing session as well as the client. The tiredness is often
due to deep energy release caused by the Reiki and the feeling of relaxation
that comes with this.
Q. Some people feel very
‘spacey’ or ‘not grounded’ or not really here in the physical world after they
have given a Reiki session. Why is this?
A. I received Reiki training from two different
Reiki Masters. My first Reiki Master taught standard Reiki
Q. Some Reiki Masters say
that if you do not draw a symbol correctly, your Reiki Guides will correct it.
Is this true?
A. My guidance is that you
should learn to draw the symbols as well as possible, particularly as the
symbols work best alongside your strong intention and mind focus. You could ask
your Reiki Guides to correct any symbols that you have drawn incorrectly but I
am not sure whether they would all do this automatically if you do not ask
Q. There are lots of
different healing energies around. Some Energy Masters say that energy x is
better than energy y. Which healing energies are best to use?
A. I do not believe that this
question is structured correctly. My teachings are that the different energies
have different characteristics and that some may be more appropriate to a
particular healing situation than others. If you know your client well and you
know the characteristics of different energies well, then you can decide which
energies to channel in the healing situation. But that is a different situation
to saying that one energy is better than another in a black and white
definitive way. So for example, if a client needs healing at a soul level, Sekhem might be very appropriate. If, however, a client has
a lot of blocked energy at the physical body level, Reiki might be the most
appropriate energy to use. So it all depends upon the situation of your client
and which is best for him/her.
Q. I have been told that
it is a bad thing to change your Reiki teacher. Is this true?
A. In the old days when
people learning energy work were not heavily involved with other day to day
matters, they had the time to study and to learn in depth through spending a
lot of time with their teachers. These teachers had a lot of experience and had
done a lot of inner personal development and could pass on a lot of teachings.
In the present day, Reiki is often taught with just a few days’ tuition from a
teacher. It is not uncommon to find that there is then no further contact
between teacher and student after the classes have ended. In these
circumstances, the quality of teaching can be so poor that a student is left
with many unanswered questions and a lack of confidence. Or sometimes, a
teacher will not give any further help without charging additional fees. In
these circumstances, if the student can find a teacher with better teaching to
offer, then it could be good for a student to change teacher.
In terms of energy, changing a teacher
generally means that you pick up the energy from a different Reiki lineage. As
I do not initiate into the lineage, you do not pick up any personal energy from
other people in my lineage before me. However, most Reiki Masters do not teach
that way so you are likely to have a connection with the energy shadows from
other people in your new lineage and could feel a slightly different vibration
in the Reiki than with your old teacher.
Also, learning with different teachers
gives you exposure to different experiences that the teachers have had and to
variations in their teaching material.
So if you wish to change your teacher,
there are a number of issues to consider. At the end of the day, it is your
decision. You will still be able to channel Reiki if you change your teacher
and will not lose anything that you gained with your previous teacher.
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