02.06.08

Reiki - what it does for me…

Posted in Reiki at 4:42 pm by shamsidances

What is Reiki? In a very small nutshell Reiki is a method of using the Universe’s natural, available energy for balancing and boosting our own personal energies and later, those of others. It is a healing tool that each of us carries, but which is not activated until an attunement is received.
I first learned of Reiki about 14 or 15 years ago. It was a complete mystery to me. I had friends who did it and were willing to pass an attunement to me, but they made it seem very scary and asked me all kinds of questions about why I wanted it and what I thought it would do. Ultimately I pondered so long over these questions that these friends came and went and we never discussed Reiki again.

A few years later I arrived in a whole new group of friends and again I was presented with an opportunity for a Reiki attunement. I accepted this time and began working with it immediately and every day thereafter for almost a year solid. Through the same friends I was eventually passed through the second and third levels of Usui Reiki and I am now able to work with others both present and remotely as well as pass attunements to others.

Now I will get to explaining why the first time I found out about Reiki I did not get an attunement. It is true that to those of us who have never tried (perhaps wanted) to examine our lives a little more closely, to understand the ‘whys’ of what it is that we do on a daily basis, Reiki can release some potentially frightening things. The warning prior to my first attunement went like this, “Be prepared for your whole world to change.” And it did. I will not deny that there were many things going on in my life at the time of my first attunement, but that was the beauty of delving into Reiki at the exact moment I did; I needed balance, and I needed energy to help me through a turbulent time and Reiki gave me exactly what I needed. Awareness of one’s self and one’s motivations is an amazing thing.
The metaphor of what would happen to me went something like this:”Imagine you are a hosepipe, clogged with mud and dirt and whatever else - all of which are translated into ‘past emotions’, ‘baggage’, etc. - Reiki acts like clean water coming from the water tap through the hosepipe. The more you use the Reiki and have Reiki work done on you, the more ‘garbage’ gets pushed out the end of the hosepipe until it is clean.”

The long and short of this being that because I had a lot of issues and funkiness, this stuff all came up to manifest itself completely holding true to the tenant…sometime’s it’s got to get worse before it gets better (definitely like detoxifying the body). But the beautiful reverse side of that is I HAD A TOOL TO HELP ME THROUGH!

Reiki put the power in *my* hands to take control of *my* life. Sure I have gone through stretches where I left this very valuable tool on the shelf so to speak; when I knew I could help myself but was being overtly stubborn and self-destructive, but I always went back because it is just too easy. I have seen it work wonders on people who were barely aware that Reiki was what was making it happen.

I now use Reiki on a daily basis, whether on myself or my husband and remotely when people ask. My world is a much different place than when I first heard of Reiki and having the Reiki available allows me to keep my world in perspective despite whatever chaos may be going on around it.

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