Who here is Reiki-attuned?

[LindseyRae]

Hello all <3

Its so nice to see a forum of people speaking from love rather than snarky remarks… Thank you <3

My name is Lindsey, to introduce myself, here is my Reiki story…
I learned about Reiki when a woman came into my work and recommended I learn it, I found a Reiki Master nearby that was within my budget (free) and I was attuned in Usui and Karuna Reiki I early 2008 and shortly after I was attuned for the second level. I enjoyed learning it, but felt somehow- off (?) At the time I felt great resistance to Reiki for some reason, now I see I was ready to face my issues and heal and the teacher wasn’t the right one for me. I started school for massage in June of 2009 and took Reiki I again (as it was a part of the program) and felt something more, however again the teacher wasn’t right for me… The school had another teacher who my boyfriend was taking Reiki I with, so when Reiki II came around we took it together and I finally found my teacher. I am finishing my final course in the Reiki Master (III) Level this weekend and I have finally worked through the blocks I had to it previously. According to my school I am now attuned in 6 traditions of Reiki including Karuna, Usui (both traditional and independent), Tibetian, and Scheim, however I feel I am at the beginning of a long journey with Reiki and am curious to learn more about different traditions, rituals, attunement practices, etc. I am giving my first attunement this week and feel so honored to share this blessing with people.

Tanemon, in response to the car accident question, my thoughts (and they are just that) are that illness and diseases are manifestations of emotions and beliefs, as Bliss Sage mentioned, but I believe that impact injuries like car accidents (or my broken foot for example) are brought into our lives to teach us something. Often I feel the lesson was available to us, but if we are not open to the lesson, we are given it in a much more forceful way. What we do with that lesson parallels the healing process physically. Often emotional issues (that could be related to the lesson) keep us from healing completely. Many people have chronic pain after an accident because it never healed correctly; I feel this is because they still have much to work through. I have experience with a car accident specifically, and it wasn’t until I address the emotions I was storing in that pain that the pain went away.


Look forward to sharing more with you all <3

[Bliss Sage]

Originally Posted by LindseyRae

Many people have chronic pain after an accident because it never healed correctly; I feel this is because they still have much to work through.

Hi Lindsey
I agree with this! I might also agree with the part about the lesson and impact injuries, but I'm a little confused on the concept of being taught lessons by the universe, so I haven't concluded anything about that.

But about chronic symptoms, I do agree. I had injured my arm doing yoga and it never seemed to heal. I reikied on it for so long, and it would get better after I reikied it for a long session, but then I'd do yoga again the following week and the pain would all come back. I eventually gave up and focused on healing other things. Over the course of months, the arm pain disappeared. I think it required me to stop doing things that aggravated my arm before it would get better. It's better now.

However, I also agree with what you said because I get chronic, usually minor but limiting or unpleasant physical ailments that disappear as mysteriously as they appear.

I have concluded that nothing that appears physically on my body or, like a skin condition, or anything at all, even what appear to be signs of aging, is permanent. Everything seems to keep moving and changing with my health. It makes me feel pretty good to know that when I discover a new thing taking place in my body, and I wonder "I wonder what is changing or being healed now?" instead of "Oh God, what is wrong with me now??" Because I do so much reiki on myself, anything good could be happening

I have to admit, as well, that sometimes when I reiki myself for a big, deep-rooted issue, it may produce physical symptoms. I think if I don't reiki away all of the issue, I am left with some element of the physical symptoms. I.e. I reikied myself this summer for a deep-rooted issue from my childhood and after that I got a cough and problem in my lungs. Very minor, but annoyed, always having to clear my throat and cough - which is interesting too, because I developed asthma when I was young when there was a lot of violence in a divorce between my parents, and sometimes, in the wake of that reiki session, my lungs would feel like I used to feel the morning after a bad asthma attack.

The lung problem diminished to a large extent in the time after that reiki session, but not entirely. For months it stayed with me, until recently I reikied the ailment that was in my lungs causing the need to constantly clear my throat. I think it may still be with me a little, so I still need to reiki it.

[kidkarma]

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[LindseyRae]

Its amazing the physical reactivity the body has to reiki. I hadnt looked at it from the perspective of "Whats changing now?" but I like it. Much mroe positive than "Whats wrong with me now."

Thank you

[purplegirl]

Hi Everyone,

I just completed my Level II Reiki attunement this weekend. A small class, just one other, but plenty of time to really learn how to feel changes in energy.

[Tanemon]

Bliss Sage, I like your posts because you get into some of the 'ground level', everyday emotional and physical issues. A lot of people only want to discuss Reiki from the standpoint of chakras, energies, meridians, etc - all of which is very interesting and all of which is surely involved in the subject of healing. But, whether we're applying Reiki to a "client" (or friend or relative) or to ourselves via 'self healing', we each have to respond to physical or emotional aches and pains (or "conditions").


KidKarma/Shawn: You seem very well attuned & trained. Thanks for posting the info that you have.

Why not also share with us from the personal standpoint? It would be great to hear something of how your multiple attunements and broad training have helped in dealing with specific issues, either your own or those of the people you've done sessions with.

[Bliss Sage]

Originally Posted by Tanemon

Bliss Sage, I like your posts because you get into some of the 'ground level', everyday emotional and physical issues. A lot of people only want to discuss Reiki from the standpoint of chakras, energies, meridians, etc - all of which is very interesting and all of which is surely involved in the subject of healing.

I know. And, to be honest, I don't understand reiki from that approach. It all feels so...it makes reiki feel out of my grasp, out of my league. I feel anyone who talks like that, which is most, if not all, serious reiki practitioners, is also out of my league. I just can't relate to that approach.

Recently, while I was doing reiki on my lower chakras, I did get some insight into the nature of the areas/issues I have that are related to my lower chakras - which I have almost entirely neglected to this point. I discovered some very valuable associations between my lower chakras and issues I had which I still hadn't managed to heal - regarding money, my capability to hold a job, let alone one I like, and my really low sense of self-worth.

By contrast, I could feel that the upper chakras seem to relate to interpersonal relationships, not your ability to perform in the world.

I was primarily only working on my upper chakras all this time, until this past week. I thought the lower chakras, which I was told were not important, because they were not of the spiritual realm, were unimportant. I thought I didn't need them. I thought things like "If I want an abundant sex life and truckloads of money and stuff, I'll reiki my lower chakras" - because I associated them with the basest and most mundane experiences in life. After reiking them quite a bit, I realize how critical they are to life on earth. They actually really affect how I feel about myself, which directly affects my ability to perform and take care of myself in this world. This is what I'm working on now - giving the relationship realm a rest, as I've been feeling pretty good about that area.

Reiki is my savior.

[LindseyRae]

Originally Posted by Bliss Sage

I realize how critical they are to life on earth. They actually really affect how I feel about myself, which directly affects my ability to perform and take care of myself in this world. This is what I'm working on now - giving the relationship realm a rest, as I've been feeling pretty good about that area.

I recently came to a similar conclusion when I realized that my energy is abrley detecable in my legs and lower part of my body. I always felt grounded but didnt realize that i was far from it til I reikied my root chakra and felt grounded for the first time. I am just now starting the journey into healing these lower ones, part of me feels silly for neglecting them for so long.

[Queen of Wands]

I've enjoyed this thread.
I am going to take my first Reiki class next month.

Does free attunement over the internet really work?
I don't mean to sound the skeptic I was just trying to understand.

[Tanemon]

Originally Posted by Queen of Wands

I've enjoyed this thread.
I am going to take my first Reiki class next month.

Does free attunement over the internet really work?
I don't mean to sound the skeptic I was just trying to understand.

Given that the Reiki master is indeed a Reiki master, then yes it will work. But I should qualify this by mentioning...

Why do it this way? Well, often so you can save money... and this may be quite important to you. Or possibly you live too far from a good RM.

Okay, realize that the attunement is not actually done via the medium of on-line computers - that's just the way you are communicating with the R.M. (just like you might otherwise communicate with someone by letter, phone, text-messaging, etc). But the attunement itself is done vibrationally, with the RM working with you as a person or soul.

Second, you should realize that, yes, you will (all conditions being proper) get an attunement. But the more usual method of passing attunements within a workshop or class situation also involves the student being taught something of Reiki history, plus the basic understanding (or "principles") of Reiki, plus hands-on techniques, plus time to practice giving sessions with another person.

How much time the RM you meet on-line will take to answer any questions you have after your attunement is another open question. If your RM does not do much of this, then on-line Reiki discussion groups may be a way for you to express yourself and to get questions answered. Learning basic principles, history, and hands-on techniques can be done using books - so all is not lost if you do decide to work with an RM on-line.

[queryfairy7]

my hand hurts or gets super sore when i reiki. often times, energy would just build up in my legs while at work without my hand aimed at it. energy can be cold too. any knowledge on this?

[queryfairy7]

also, i don't practice on other people, but sometimes i have dreams where I am using reiki, such as healing a wounded turtle, or i dream that an intense energy is flowing through my body and activating my chakras. is this my subconscious or a reiki guide trying to tell me something? or, am i actually doing a healing in a different dimensional level. there's not enough information on this, reiki is still unclear to me.

[lexicon]

If anyone has the time or inclination please consider sending some healing energy to jennifer. She needs emotional and physical healing.

[Tanemon]

Originally Posted by kidkarma

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KidKarma/Sean... I believe you have a lot to share with us about healing, attunements, different enegies, etc. Please do that - do share with us.

What have you experienced? What have you learned?

[modernthing]

Hello people I got attuned to reiki about a month ago ! I am level I in Usui reiki.

The reason I have done it is because, just like Weena, I have been told there was something special about my hands, though I have been filled with disbelief about it ! (I believe my healing abilities are more linked to words and psychology, this was confirmed in various readings but the hands have come back too somehow o_O)

I saw reiki as an opportunity to help myself as well : I have been suffering from nose problems for years and I was hoping to get a little better from using some healing techniques. It clearly improved the way I felt, though I haven't been fully able to do more (it turns out I have a physical deformity of the nasal cavity, I will see a chiropractor for that bit ).

Though I have, a bit in disbelief, laid hands on a few people I know and have been amazed with the results : a quick treatment on my mother and she felt more grounded, and old energies rose within her, asking for deeper healings (she's carrying a mountain of stuff she doesn't want to let go - and has trouble simply letting go), it kept her awake 2 full nights. Then my boyfriend, who was skeptically looking at me whenever I talked about reiki healing energy. I had him lay down on his bed and started sending energy. I felt this incredible stuff within my heart, like a very agreeable burning sensation, and he slowly started to fall asleep because of all the relaxation the reiki was giving him. His cat is very exclusive, and though she loves me, she never rubs against me the way she did the very moment my hands were on my guy : she jumped on his thorax and started rubbing both of us, in an almost passionate, furious way, as if she could not get enough of both of us patting and stroking her ! (she never got that close ever again after the reiki though - my cat seems to like it too : he sits on my lap whenever I am doing a healing session to myself, and gets annoyed if there is no room for him !)

I have found everything incredible so far, I was even able to see my boyfriend's aura for a second, while running a biosen on him, before the healing session

Wow, I cannot believe all that has happened thanks to that wonderful energy ! I'm curious to get more practice now, I'll be so happy to help a few people I know

[Tanemon]

Originally Posted by modernthing

Hello people I got attuned to reiki about a month ago ! I am level I in Usui reiki.

The reason I have done it is because, just like Weena, I have been told there was something special about my hands, though I have been filled with disbelief about it ! (I believe my healing abilities are more linked to words and psychology, this was confirmed in various readings but the hands have come back too somehow o_O)

Very interesting to me... I have a degree in psychology, but in a real sense (and from a certain angle) Reiki has been more valuable than a couple of degrees in psych!

When I was studying psych, one of my profs said - comparing the various schools of psychotherapy - that studies had shown that the most gifted therapists in each of the approaches had roughly the same rate of success in improving their clients. The therapeutic effect almost did not depend on approach. After I got attuned to Reiki, I came to feel that psychological healing is dependent on the amount of healing presence or healing energy that the individual therapist has access to - much more so than the type of therapy being applied. Meaning (more or less) the healing ability is in the therapist, I feel, rather than in the therapist's knowledge.

Of course, for a person needing to heal emotionally, having someone to talk to is nice, as well.

[modernthing]

interesting you say that... was considering taking studies again, in psychology, to gain recognition, to be able to help people with the tools I am developing right now... I really want to work on that skill, but I am very afraid that without a degree I'll fail to gain recognition or credibility

Good to read you, it is encouraging, and it is a helper in my thinking, it is so blurry right now, I do not know how to start !

[rafael4490]

Originally Posted by Tanemon

Very interesting to me... I have a degree in psychology, but in a real sense (and from a certain agle) Reiki hasw been more valuable than a couple of degrees in psych!

When I was studying psych, one of my profs said - comparing the various schools of psychotherapy - that studies had shown that the most gifted therapists in each of the approaches had roughly the same rate of success in improving their clients. The therapeutic effect alomst did not depend on approach. After I got attuned to Reiki, I came to feel that psychological healing is dependent on the amount of healing presence or healing energy that the individual therapist has access to - much more so than the type of therapy being applied. Meaning (more or less) the healing ability is in the therapist, I feel, rather than in the therapist's knowledge.

Of course, for a person needing to heal emotionally, having someone to talk to is nice, as well.

I definitely agree with you. I study mental health at college, and I just recently got attuned to Reiki by my fiance (pianoperformer). I used to be very skeptical about Reiki because I was always taught it was wrong and evil. However, I know it can be very beneficial, and I always put my fiance to work because it actually helps. It is really powerful to feel God's energy coming through somebody else.

When my fiance has done Reiki for me, issues have come up that he was able to pick up on, and I was able to talk and work through them. Through Reiki, I was able to work through some issues because my fiance can pick things up about me that I can't realize myself. He's not a counselor by any means, but he does a great job when administering Reiki for me.

[Tanemon]

Originally Posted by modernthing

interesting you say that... was considering taking studies again, in psychology, to gain recognition, to be able to help people with the tools I am developing right now... I really want to work on that skill, but I am very afraid that without a degree I'll fail to gain recognition or credibility

Good to read you, it is encouraging, and it is a helper in my thinking, it is so blurry right now, I do not know how to start !

Well, recognition and accreditation are good to have. I was not trying to dissuade you or anybody from achieving that. I was just expressing my view of the therapeutic process at non-verbal levels.

[Andrew Gubb]

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[modernthing]

they are indeed, I just feel a bit discouraged because I am wondering how to finance myself to take my time and study 3 more years, I have already checked if there were financial helps for that, there are, but I simply don't fit into their criteria... (I am already working, and going back to a student position is delicate in my country - I already checked the financial needs and the offered fundings etc)

But I presume that if it is what I must do, then the proper opportunity will present itself

I was reflecting upon the fact of how funny it was that so many lightworkers actually have psychology PhDs... !

[Tanemon]

Originally Posted by modernthing

I was reflecting upon the fact of how funny it was that so many lightworkers actually have psychology PhDs... !

Well, the word "psychology" comes, of course, from the Greek word psyche - meaning soul. But the discipline of psychology in the ninettenth and twentieth centuries tended to get bound up with limited, materialistic conceptions of the nature of a human being and of the cosmos. But now it's sort of a new era...

Many individual psychologists since the 1960s (and a few from before that) felt motivated to find paths that go beyond material consciousness and materialist conceptions. So it becomes understandable that a lightworker may enter the lightwork path via his/her education in psychology - though many, many psychologists still resist the transcendental or non-materialist conceptions. Many university psych departments vigorously resist the new conceptions!


Personally, I believe that the realm of healing by spiritual or energetic means is not limited to psychological healing (as important as psychological healing is - and it is very important).

It is often said that Reiki accomplishes physical healing by dealing with the resolution of the emotional basis of certain physical issues. However, I believe that some "methods" or "approaches" to physical healing (by spiritual means) deal directly with the physicality of a physical problem, and little or not at all with emotions. Some of these approaches deal, perhaps, with the karma underlying certain kinds of physical issues - issues that, it seems, have been the result of, say, a car accident, a poisoning, some highly infectious virus, etc.

You see, Reiki has done a whole lot for me, so I'm a big believer in (and booster of) Reiki. Yet I also believe in the authenticity of other spiritual healing methods - for instance, the factuality of the personal or investigative reports of sessions given by "psychic surgeons" in Brazil or the Philippines.

Long story... huge subject.

[modernthing]

Yes ! I find this topic very interesting... I've studied Art, I am a graduate in Graphic Design, because it is what resonated with me at the time, the expression through artistic medium, but now, as time has gone by, I've felt myself attracted to people with psychological issues because I could see underlying patterns and reasons to their situations when they sometimes weren't even yet aware of it. I have already healed a friend, simply through words and understanding.

I know it can be powerful. I guess it is a fear that many people think "new agey" people are dodgy... I should get past that and look at what I can actually do and have truly done.
But it is easier said than really done.