Great to see all your different ideas and comments on our last blog, A question for you about Reiki Treatments, where we posted a question about two different types of hands-on healing sessions. Some thought it too brain numbing, others too easy, and for some - just plain too different from what they’d been taught as Reiki practitioners. Why would we ask this question?
Well, there was a second, unwritten, question in this blog…
Today we wanted to post a question to see what you think! So put your answers in the comment section below, if you like.
Below are presented two hands on healing sessions. Which one do you think will be the most profound one and why?
Last year I received a call from a volunteer planner who asked me to participate in a Wellness Day as a Reiki practitioner for The Clubhouse—about ten miles away from my home. I agreed because friends of mine were doing yoga & Indian chanting. Why not? So I packed my massage table in the back of my car and off I went. I arrived at a nondescript –two-story beige block of a building. We had to sign in at the front desk, which seemed quite official. Then I hauled the table with my wonderful, magical transporter into the space they had allotted for it.
A few of my Shinpiden students have been called to teach recently, and they’ve asked me to help them develop their courses. Apart from reminding them to teach the Usui Reiki Ryoho techniques at the core of the class, I’ve had to take some time to find what I wanted to share, from my own experience, about this important choice and its challenges.
After our initial Reiki training, my wife and I teamed with several other practitioners to spread the Reiki word and increase our Reiki practice. Through a connection of one of our members, we were asked by the Oncology Supportive Care Coordinator (SCC) to speak to a cancer support group in our local hospital.
For sometime I had been looking for a volunteer opportunity so as to give something back to the universe but had trouble finding an opportunity that really felt right. Then, one evening while waiting in the music store for my son’s guitar lesson to end I noticed a note posted for hospice volunteers with various skills, one of which was the system of Reiki.
Many things are attributed to attunements in modern times, but how are they viewed from a traditional Japanese perspective? It appears that many contemporary notions relating to what attunements actually do, do not correspond to the Japanese way.
Dogma; something that is considered to be absolutely true.
Since we entered the world of Reiki we have seen many variations on what is taught and how it is taught. One of the things that has stood out is that the teaching of hands on healing on others is often taught as a dogma rather than a healing practise. These restrictions placed on hand positions have made it very difficult for practitioners and teachers alike to become more fluid with their practise.
