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.
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.
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It is phenomenal the list of Reiki Branches with curious new Age names that have sprung up on the Internet advertising distant attunements. So, is it worth putting your money into these courses? Will you get anything out of them?
Imagine you teach the trapeze instead of Reiki ... you teach a beginner to hold onto the rope etc… and relevant safety features ... at the same time the beginner watches you do some amazing somersaults. The beginner aims to be able to do that one day. However, the beginner knows that if he or she practices that now, then he/she will fall. Thus the beginner realises there are certain steps that need to be progressed through to get that point.
Q: Why do teachers tell their students to keep their eyes closed during the attunement/reiju?
A: It seems that some teachers are afraid that their students might see the actual attunement/reiju ritual that they are performing. In fact, some teachers go so far as to remove other students from the room where they are performing the attunement/reiju.
An action undertaken from this standpoint can foster a sense of secrecy resulting in unhealthy power issues concerning the teacher/student roles.
Frans and Bronwen Stiene, your regular hosts on The Reiki Show, are themselves interviewed by the editor of The Reiki Digest, Janet Dagley Dagley.
