Love your common sense and gentle reminder of what Reiki is. 🙏🏻❤️ I was just having a conversation about this today. A friend asked me if I was busy with clients. I replied I learned Reiki to heal “myself “. If on my journey people come to me for healing that’s wonderful but I do it to heal myself first. So yes I’m busy 😁 We need to remember that.
I completely agree. The first time I was attuned to Reiki in 2003 the teacher did both Reiki levels one and two in one weekend. Being very sensitive to energy and sensitive in general I felt overwhelmed and overloaded. It caused a lot of imbalances. I held off on seeing clients until later. I needed to integrate the energy and work on myself first. I wound up going through the process over again more than once with different teachers who taught in a more authentic way. I took level one again and level two months later. I took the Master and then Reiki Master-Teacher levels separately and with plenty of integration time in between. I repeated the process with a different teacher later. I was very careful with who I allowed into my energy field to give me attunements. When taught the way it was meant to be it’s truly a sacred experience and can change a person forever. Why cheat myself out of the deepest, most authentic practice? I feel Reiki really is a life long journey if we allow it to be so. Thank you for this reminder!
Gosh this was SO helpful. I’m so glad I stumbled upon this. I just did a reiki 1 and 2 within a week and while I know some things. I left feeling like really lost and not ready and it just didn’t sit well with me. Thank you. My intuition was immediately saying slow down, read, focus on yourself and practice. I will continue to do this for rest of my 21 days.
