Ask a Healer Spiritual Healing Series
How to Learn Reiki
copyright, Neva J Howell
Reiki Therapy is a wonderful, soothing form of healing energy that most respond to favorably. A Reiki healing session may provide a peaceful feeling, release of aches and pains as well as emotional clearing that is important for healing.
How do you do Reiki, you may ask? When I first got attuned to the Reiki gridline, I also wondered about this. How do I know if I'm doing it right? Over time, I realized that the gridline of energy Reiki stems from has an intelligence that is Divine and infallable. My job, as far as I can determine, is to get my mind and ego-worries out of the way and simply let the energy flow.
I'm not doing anything except being available and open and keeping my personal self out of it.
Reiki Training and Attunements:
To learn how to connect with and share the Reiki frequencies, and be able to assist family and friends with healing as well as being able to give yourself Reiki therapy, you may want to take a Reiki workshop.
The purpose of the Reiki class is at least two-fold, in my opinion. The Reiki workshops may help you understand some of the experiences you may encounter while working with vibrational medicine and help you to stay centered, clear and grounded as you learn Reiki and learn how to facilitate healing for others.
However, the most significant part of Reiki Training isn't training at all but a passing on of a frequency and a connection to a gridline of energetic support.
The Reiki attunements are passed by the Reiki teacher to the student, opening the student to the specific gridlines of divine energy that inform a Reiki healing session. The giving of the Reiki attunements takes very little time yet has a profound effect on the energetic body, with clearing and preparation that continue for 21 days. Read part three of this article for what happens after the Reiki class, below.
During a Reiki training workshop, you will be shown the Reiki hand positions and taught how to work with the Reiki energy field.
In the first class, called Reiki 1 or Reiki attunement 1, the healing energy is turned on by intent and not by active use of the Reiki Symbols. There has been some controversy over whether the Reiki symbols should be readily available to the public. At first, they were carefully guarded and only shown to those who had been attuned to Reiki through proper workshops.
A woman named Diane Stein changed all that when she made the Reiki symbols public. I still believe it's best not to work with them until after you are attuned to Reiki 1 level at least, but the symbols are publically available if you want to study them before taking any class or training at all in Diane's book, called Essential Reiki which may be ordered on amazon or other online stores. I have provided some informaton on it here, for further reading:
Diane Stein - Essential Reiki
Part three: What happens after the Reiki Class?
Resources:
The role of the Reiki Healer
How to know if you should be a Healer
Learn Reiki Healing Guidelines
What is Distant Healing?
Does Distant Healing Really Work?
Health Disclaimer: Reiki is a natural healing modalitiy and, as such, is not presented as any type of substitute for any needed medical attention. Be wise with your health.
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