Recently I had a conversation with somebody who had received healing from a Reiki master some time back. Based on his experience (he didn’t feel anything) he formed his conclusion that one has to be highly spiritual to learn Reiki. Mikao Usui had decades of spiritual practice, that is why he could get the power of Reiki.
These points
need elaboration
From the time I learned Reiki a quarter century back, lot of things have changed. Reiki is not treated with the respect and sanctity it deserves. Two or three levels of Reiki are taught over a weekend and majority want to start healing others immediately. Lack of proper training and attunement and deficiency of serious self work/ self healing lead to either disappointment for the client (like the person who talked to me) or the healer picking up the client’s symptoms and suffering serious health problems. Because of the latter, many Reiki masters stop healing others over a period of time.
Probably over 1000 different branches of Reiki exist today. Majority
of them evolved in the West in the New Age Movement, the practitioners altering
the basic teachings to accommodate their other beliefs and practices.
Coming to the point that one has to be highly spiritual to learn Reiki, my experience over the years has been just the opposite. After learning Reiki and doing daily self healing over a period of time, many of my Reiki students have told me that gradually they started going on the spiritual pathway.
Uniqueness
of Reiki
Reiki stands apart from all other healing systems because it can 1.heal you, 2.protect you, 3.and ensure your spiritual growth. It will bring all that are needed for you, to you. But you have the choice to either pick that up and progress, or just ignore them and go backward. Because life is ultimately moving forward or backward, it is never static.
Yes, Mikao Usui had a strong spiritual background when he
came across Reiki. But then he got the blessing of giving attunement, which he
taught his students. The problem is, many think that is the end, whereas the
attunement is just the beginning. By becoming a Reiki channel, you have chosen
a path of serious self work, which may span over many incarnations. Healing
others is a side benefit that comes along. When it is reversed ie., healing
others is the main job and self work is secondary, problems start cropping up.
Important
aspects of healing others
1. Do your Reiki self healing twice a day and follow diligently whatever spiritual practices you do daily.
2. Always do self protection before healing others. Whenever possible, be in contact with the ground while healing.
3. There has to be a proportion of how much self healing/self protection you are doing versus how much healing you are doing for others daily
4. A strong desire to heal the client is not conducive to the well being of the healer. He /she will pick up the symptoms of the client.
5. Do not think yourself as the healer, it is Reiki that is doing the healing.
2. Make sure there is adequate energy exchange (only exception is your immediate family members)
References:
https://ihreiki.com/reiki_info/reiki_today/reiki_branches/?v=c86ee0d9d7ed
