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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. Date of posting : 28th February 2007 |
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