spreading reiki around

When I decided to get my reiki I attunement, I was doing it purely for me. As is probably clear, I love alternative methods of healing, and I thought reiki might be something good to have in my "tool kit". Truth be told, I wasn't entirely sure about this whole energy thing. However, I had recently tried reiki and had an interesting experience, so I figured I'd just see what happened.

During the class, I signed up for the reiki II class that was a few weeks later. I had just decided to cancel a trip to China for the same weekend as the class (health issues of others) and I figured that perhaps it was a sign that I was meant to take the class.

Anyway, nothing too earth-shattering happened during the attunement or class, and I still wasn't convinced that I could feel energy, but I went home and started giving myself a treatment daily. And I did start to notice changes .. I could clear my sinuses and it eased a recurring shoulder pain.

After the second attunement, things really started to shift. (Reiki II works at the mental and emotional level.) Those are stories for lots of other posts - if only I could remember them all - but suffice it to say that it was a very emotionally draining time for me. There were many moments when all I wanted was to turn reiki off and take a break for a while. The reiki master class allows you to give attunements to others so they can practice reiki - but the only reason I signed up for it four months later was because I thought it might help me with everything that was coming up.

However, seven months later, I cannot imagine not sharing reiki with others - even if that was not my intention when I started this. You know how something can be the same, and yet be completely different? That's how I feel about myself. Everything is the same. And yet everything is completely different. I know there is something to energy healing because I have experienced it for myself. And I must say, it is fantastic!

Comments

[tammy]

E, i have been looking into reiki and i want to have an attunement. i live in the middle of this country and our options for quality alternative therapies or study are rather limited. i've read enough on the internet to know that it's Dr. Usui's reiki that i would want. he was so simplistic and his reiki so pure, that i can't see why Dr. Hayashi had to add more and more hand positions for specific illnesses. i believe, as you stated in one of your testaments to it, that reiki flows to wherever it's needed in the body. the fact that Dr. Usui is the one who "found" it under the waterfall and was such a simple, lovely man, makes me even more impressed. you know, i'm sure that it's the 'laying on of the hands,' that the Bible speaks of... don't you think? Christ Michael taught it to his disciples so that they might heal people too. i'm sorry!! i'm going on and on. i should shut up! but i listened and watched the video that Kenneth Hale has on reiki.org and it convinced me to try it on my own, just quietly, while sitting here. i don't have the faintest reason why, but once, i just started to silently sob. i haven't cried in years. it came from nowhere. i don't understand it. but in a way, it was not frightening because it was not remotely sad! it was like a strange release of something. the thought of being able to help others with this is just mind blowing. and it is so beautifully simple and pure. like love itself. which of course it is. i rather resent that Mrs. Takata thought she had to charge $10,000 for us westerners to learn it. i think there might be more of us that value spirituality than she may have thought. okay. i REALLY have to stop now. you can delete this whole comment if you want to. i'd understand! Thank you for introducing me to reiki. i will look forward to all your postings on it.

[Elizabeth]

I love it! Your excitement is contagious. :) If you're interested in it, I have no doubt you will find a teacher. I'll send you an email off-line, I can do some searching and see what I can find too. I know that people offer distant attunements .. and though I can see value in learning from a teacher, perhaps that is an idea too.

I know that sobbing thing only too well .. it happened all the time after reiki II. The reason I never gave up was because I never felt horrible afterwards (you know how you feel after you've cried hard - sniffly and headachy and miserable ..). I always felt clear and light and happy. So I knew it was all good. It was just that I didn't love breaking into sobs so often (regardless of where I was or what I was doing, LOL) and never knowing why ..

[tammy]

YES! to everything you said. LOL.

[Mella]

Hi Elizabeth!

So we have a mutual friend in the fabulous Ms Jenny... she does have a good intuitive sense, I love what you are sharing about your own journey of self discovery, and feel a kindred spirit among us.

I relate to how you talk about everything being the 'same' yet totally different because of the rich internal shifts. Once I got on a path of connection to my self through a higher/deeper source, I find I am never bored and so curious about everything!

Re: tears, one of my favorite women of courage speaks of them as a source of strength and their job is to free up the log jams in our flow with ourselves and our lives... there's no controlling the river...

Looking forward to further witnessing and learning through your sharings from your progression along your path through your blogs, and wish you many blessings along the way. Pleasure to 'meet' you! :-)

[Elizabeth]

Hi, Mella. Thanks for visiting! Jenny is fabulous, isn't she. :) I am excited to follow your journey!

Yes, that shift was amazing. I was amazed how a single sentence or thought could change everything - even though nothing had really changed except my perception. Just fascinating ..

I like thinking of tears as freeing the log jams. I don't really mind the tears so much .. I just wish they would only come while I am at home (or in private), LOL.