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Cripes, lots of things I don't agree with in there! But an interesting concept none the less.

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Hmmmm... well that's a new way of passing reiki on isn't it.....
Just seems a little..... deceptive?
Can't say I agree with it, but would be interested in hearing views from people who have been attuned in this way to see if they believe it has done them good, nothing at all or has taken them away from their own plans in life.

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Hi,
I agree it does sound interesting, but not something I totally aprove of.

There are many people who will accept something just because it is free. People come to Reiki because they are drawn to it, because it is time for a change in their life.
We cannot force someone to change, no matter how much we think it would benefit them.
there are people out there who have lifestyles that we find horrid or wrong, but that doesn't mean that they don't have a valid life, or have nothing to teach us. Let them find their way to Reiki naturally.
Also I have students who only begin feeling any of the more challenging aspects of Reiki until much later after the attunement. If this were to happen to those he has blitzed, who would they turn to for help?

Love and light,
Christina

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Gosh - I find the whole concept horrifying. What if the attunements draw up a whole host of emotional/psychological issues and the person doesn't know what's happened to them and how/where to find a solution. In working through any personal problems it so often helps to know why the situation has arisen or where it's come from. In taking my reiki toddling steps following attunement I've been grateful for all the love and support around me that's come through my conscious awareness of what's been happening . . .

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I guess it is good to want to share something that benefits people so much, personally I find the method not entirely nice. I am inclined to believe that some back ground, time and thought is useful for those who wish to be attuned.

I am one of those who is all for the sharing of reiki and that it should be accessible to everyone, I also firmly believe that there is not one rule for all. it is an indicvidual thing, we all vary in what the approach needs to be.

I think that the right way for learning is often presented to people, the lessons that are relevant to them at that time often turn up..even if it doesn't seem that way at the time.

Maybe this method will do good..after all the intention must be for good. There is also that certain groups of peoppe may not hear of reiki and miss out on something they would enjoy..this maybe becasue people where they live haven't heard of it.

I think it is a nice idea to tell others about it, perhaps to offer a possibility, but I feel attunements in the street are a bit much even for me.

But I suppose who am I to say...I suppose we must just hope that the people do really benefit from their reiki in a way that is right for their life path.

Also, as masters, should such people ever need some help..I guess there plenty of us happy to advise whenever asked.

I can't say i like it..but I wont condem it too fast..lets see,

Hl

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I think it's the fact that they believe they have to go about attuning people in this deceptive way that just seems so wrong. It's almost as if they are doing it because they believe it will bring greater happiness to all those people but, as mentioned above, what happens if those people have some serious emotional release? who's there to help those people? what do they know about doing some self healing or using the energy they suddenly have for their own good?

I know if I woke up in the morning to find someone had re-painted my car to banana yellow, just because they thought it would make me more cheerful and bring some happiness to the world, I'd be a little p'd off, wouldn't you? And what if the christian church went around baptising people without their permission? etc. etc.

As people with reiki, we are on a journey to find our own spiritual happiness and enlightenment, and to provide healing and assistance to those who seek it. We do not have the right to impose our own beliefs about what is good or not good onto others, but only to make our beliefs available to be sought by those who feel it's right for them.

Yep, having thought about it now, I can't agree with what they are doing, no matter how good their intentions are.

Love and Reiki Hugs

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if the intention is pure and the recipients are willing why not? oh gosh could put a lot of masters out of pocket

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But what's to say that the people are willing participants?
If someone came along and gave you ten quid for free you'd willingly take it, but if they hadn't told you that it meant an unspoken agreement that they could then take your car away, you'd certainly complain that you weren't a willing party in the agreement.

People are only truly willing if they know as much about what they are getting into as the person who has initiated the situation.

[&:]

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i must admit, i don't agree with this ... it seems really deceitful.... (edited to say i'm not sure deceitful is the right word... i feel like people are not getting the full story of what Reiki is. sorry, it's been a long day)

i do think Reiki is a big deal and something that should be considered before attunement. after all, it is for life and i believe that someone should know exactly what is involved and possible effects (emotional reactions etc)

"Yutaka Shaun Wada gave reiki attunements all over the place including escort agencies, and prostitutes so that they would quit their profession and live a wholesome spiritual life."

This annoys me... who are these people to judge who should give up their jobs or not? just because they don't agree? What would they think of me? I live a very spiritual, wholesome life as a Reiki Master and spiritual medium, yet I also work as a stripper 3 nights a week...

oh well... their hearts seem to be in the right place, so i guess i'm in no position to judge either.

Love and Reiki light to everyone...
xx sarah xx

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Hi Giles

If you think about it the receivers can and probably do reject the attunement later on if it is not right for them, attunements like most things spiritual are not set in stone and can be accepted and rejected at will.

There is nothing deceptive or wrong with what these people are doing as they are addressing the need for people to get help to move onto their correct paths without all the long delay, exorbitant expenses complicated rituals etc. which are often normally involved with most of the energy systems.

This appears to be similar to what Usui did in the early days as he gave it to anyone freely and told them to get on with their lives, short, simple and effective, it was only if they wished to take things further that he would take them under his wing so to speak and give them some instructions and show them how to pass it on.

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Agreed Paul, but I'm guessing Dr. Usui would have given a little more background on what people where getting beforehand and would have made sure he was there for them afterwards if they needed assistance with anything that came up.

This to me sounds like someone grabbing people in the street, attuning them and then scarpering, leaving them wondering what the hell has just been done to them. And that is what I think is wrong.

Their intention may be good, but as feathers says, who are they to judge who is in the right or wrong job etc. That would be like us telling feathers it's wrong for her to be a stripper, whereas I'm sure she is happy with her current journey otherwise she'd make steps to change it herself.

Love and Reiki Hugs

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hmmmm I think like many things it sounds good on paper but the reality could be very different..Just my thought

Hugs Maria xxx

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I am inclined to agree..and it doesn't sound like my cup of tea...but i find myself in agreement with what paul Crick had to say.

Soar, I don't think it will put anyone out of business..when people charge for attunements and workshops..they also charge for time, training, manuals, support and lots of valuable things.

There will always be some people who wish to have this sort of training, some who feel like having little training..etc.

I really do think there is a way to reiki for everyone and they will find their right way whether that a freebie on the road side, an 80 quid workshop, a 1,000 quid course in the bahamas, a ten pound attunement on ebay. Reiki may appear for someone wuite by chance when they least expected it..or it may be something that was long considered.

And the results will vary, no one should judge anyone else's life path or validity of their life changes resulting of reiki..may not look spiritual at all, they may not even notice it..but it may give them just what they would want.

Hopefully many people will through many means discover reiki if it is right for them and really enjoy it in their own way.

Hal

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What bothered me amongst other things was the 'non verbal agreement' to the attunement. That's not non-verbal agreement, that's copying what the person does with out fully realising what's going on!

Something similar happened to me a while back at a health fair; one of the stall holders appeared at the table where I was having a cuppa, threw herself down, announced she was exausted, then asked for my hand and drew some energy off and left before I realised what was going on! Now, she would say I had agreed to that. From my point of view, I wasn't fully informed and so was taken by surprise. In one way, it could be seen as a violation; so, perhaps, could attunement by stealth. We don't heal without verbal permission, after all.

Moonfeather

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Just another thought....

If he's that keen to attune people 'for their own good', then why doesn't he just sit at home with a telephone directory and send out distant attunements to each and every person, then if their higher self accepts the attunement, that is their agreement to take the attunement.

So would you do that? anyone?

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Good point Giles.

Nope..i wouldn't do that.

I am of the opinion that subconscious intent or acceptance or understanding is key to reiki, but am feeling that conscious accpetance and choice are also crucial.

i prefer that someone comes to me and asks to be attuned to reiki and asks questions and are certain that is what they want. I will attune others because they want it, I don't make any judgement on their reasoning but i would rather they were keen and excited to have the attunements.

One thing that bothered me about the chap giving out the attunements was that he wasn't keen to answer onjectives before the attunement..I felt his reasoning wasn't good enough.

It might be that you'd come accross someone who was dead against it all and didn't believe today..but later change their mind..wouldn't it be nicer if they did that and then sought their training.

I am all for the sharing of reiki, I like the idea that it is accessible to all, be it through being reiki practitioners and having attunements, or just beiong able to enjoy a treatment. I also think us reiki people are already doing a good job to promote it...we have websites, we are at the fairs and shows and we take time to talk to others because we are enthusiatic and enjoy it all.

I think it is important to go through with a student what reiki is and does etc so that they go ahead with reiki without trouble.

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Hi all, It is actually that Yutaka Shaun Wada attuned over 12,200 people personally to Reiki. George Draskoy has given over 250 people Reiki initiations and has produced 35 Masters.

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This was written not by Yutaka, but by his blitzing student Aaron Markham a Simon Fraser University Student residing in Burnaby, BC. He has attuned over 300 people to Reiki and had blitzed much.

The best way to attune people and get lots of practices is to have the right attitude. Keep in mind that you are doing something for the benefit of others. If you really understand that you are giving something, then in reality if they choose not to accept an attunement it is their loss and not yours. They are missing out. If you really, really understand that then you will never have a fear of rejection, which is the biggest reason which stops people from attune others.
When you understand that then doing lots of attunements is really easy. This is what usually happens with me:
Me: Hi have you ever heard of reiki before?
Them: Nope
Me: It’s a Japanese healing modality, we are just out today giving people attunements to assist them with their health and well being. Just hold your hands like this.
Me: (Then I put my hands in a cup position like I would like them to do)
Them: (They copy me and non verbally give their consent to do the attunement)
Once the attunement is finished then I will answer all their questions about it. Generally after a person has received it they are much more open to learning more about reiki than before. If you talk too much about reiki before the attunement then they think it’s a very big deal which needs lots of consideration before they ‘decide’ to do it or not. If you make it a big deal then they will. If you make it really simple then they will just put their hands out.
If someone really doesn’t want an attunement they will tell you, or get into an argument about it. Honestly don’t waste time with a ‘hard sell’. If you spend an hour trying to convince someone to receive an attunement who doesn’t want it, then you are missing out on dozens of other people who would have been more than happy to receive one. It will also lead to burn out much faster.

Last notes: The undisputed master of blitzing is Yutaka, he would be more than happy to go out with you and do some street blitzing when he has the time for it. But for that you would have to talk to him (almost always available at the club times). I would also recommend that you try doing it down at the booth when we have one. It’s much more comfortable to start practice doing reiki attunements at the booth as it’s a more formal atmosphere and you have other practitioners to help you out too.

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You seem to be of the attitude that reiki is all about how many people you can attune and using these 'unsuspecting' people as attunement practice for yourselves.

Reiki is primarily for your own personal development, not for you to shove into the lives of others. The effects of being attuned to reiki, for some people, could have a profound effect on their lives, essentially turning their world upside-down which may be for the better good of that individual but may cause much upset and stress to those around that person.

Nobody has the right to change a persons life without their permission and understanding. If those people would walk away from having the attunement after having it all explained to them, then that is because it is not something that they are comfortable with or ready to accept at this stage in their lives, and there is nothing wrong with that. At least you would have provided them with the information they need so that they could come back later in life or seek out a reiki master who they feel comfortable with before having their attument.

Reiki should be enjoyable and provide us with some fun times as well as helping us on our path in lives, but other peoples lives are not a game to be toyed with and we should not impose ourselves on others in that way.

How many of the poeple you have "blitzed" have you chased up afterwards to see how they are getting on? Have their lives got any better? How can you be so sure you are doing the right thing for these poeple?

Love and Reiki Hugs

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I quite agree with you Giles, but unfortunately don't have the time right now to pursue this at great length. I'll just say I find it conceivable that someone who is accosted in a shopping mall or on the pavement (should that be sidewalk?) might be forgiven for cupping their hands over their assailant's ears ... quite hard ... and pleading self defence when arrested for GBH.

Holistic

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Oooo, ooooo! This one I have thought about at length—agonized over even as I was trying to fit the experience of Reiki into my life.

If anyone has something they enjoy immensely and benefit from begins to think globally, they want to share what they have. If it is money they want to give away we may think they are crazy, but we will gladly take it. If it were land we would generally accept, even if there were strings attached. If it were most anything and someone asked us to simply hold out our hands, we would at least want to see what it was that this person was so excited about.

If that something were Love, we could understand the desire to share it and to want others to experience it. In fact, that’s what Love does to us; it encourages us to share it, for Love unshared ceases to exist.

I finally came to the conclusion that that’s what we access when we allow healing for others. The way I described it in my journal at the time is this:

Attune: 1) To bring into harmony, 2) To make aware or responsive

The way I see it, Reiki, like Love, is there for anyone. It just helps to have someone show the way.

The system or ceremony is for the benefit of humans. Reiki, as all other forms of healing, can be accessed without attunement, but the healing of the recipient through attunement can help to speed the process.

Others experience my Love through my expression of it. I make them aware of it through my example and through the senses, especially touch, speaking/hearing, and sight. I think it is not coincidental that this is the same way I express healing.

Through the expression of Love, my capacity for Love grows. The same is true of healing. The greater my capacity, the more I want to, and am able to, express it. By my example and my expression of both Love and healing, I make others aware of their effect. If that other person expresses a desire to share that experience—responsiveness—I have the ability to pass it on. It is my gift of Love or of healing that opens the channel. I am merely showing the way.

Now, what catastrophic effects can come from sharing Love with someone? Certainly, if it is unconditional it may be a totally new experience for them. And like Paul says, they have every right to turn away from it. But if I have Love and do not take every opportunity to share it, I have not Love. In the same way, if I keep healing away from anyone who may need it, I am not truly a healer.

In The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery says, through the fox, that we have a responsibility to those we tame—those we Love. In hit-and-run Reiki we risk abandoning that responsibility but we abandon it vastly more by not making that step in the first place.

Love is limited only by lack of expression~

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If someone came to me and said "there you go, you can have this 50 acres of land", I wouldn't just say "ta verily much mate", I'd want to know what the catch was. If they then explained the whole thing and I was happy with all the conditions that came along with the land I'd be happy to take the land and put it to good use.

I have no problem with giving love/reiki to anywone who wants it, but I feel that they have a right to know what it is they are getting from me and certainly if I were to offer attunements I would like people to know what they are getting and how itmay effect thier lives from that point onwards. I would put it in a way so as not to scare people off, but as a means to give them an understanding of what they will be receiving.

Reiki Blitzing sounds to me like people who want to practice reiki but have trouble doing so because their either a) live in a society where such things are not easily accepted or b) describe reiki to people in such a way that they find it kinda freaky and unreal and the people just want to walk away from it.

A reiki attunement is not just about giving love, but can be a life changing experience for the person involved. They have a right to have been told that beforehand. Reiki comes to find people in it's own way, yes, but I don't think reiki blitzing is one of Reiki's ways.

Love and Reiki Hugs

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ORIGINAL: Energylz

A reiki attunement is not just about giving love, but can be a life changing experience for the person involved. They have a right to have been told that beforehand.

Love and Reiki Hugs

Hi Giles,
Smiling from ear to ear!

LoveIS a life changing experience! Have you ever loved a woman, a child, another man for that matter? It is life changing and you never know how it will alter your life. How it will impact every single thing that you do. How your very thinking will change because of that Love. And it does it by sneaking up on you. . .

No one tells you, nor could they, whatmetamorphasis you will experience and what bliss and what pain will result from it. Would you take the risk if they did?

Love and healing are both free for the taking--no insurance policies, no rules, no guarantees. They are what the individual makes of it.

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Steve/Nancy,

Yes, I know what you're saying, but what I'm saying is that the person has the right to know that what they are going to receive will result in changes even if they are unknown changes. I know love is life changing, and I know you never know what is around the corner with it, but that is something I knew about before I got involved. I knew it would change the way I lived and I knew it would be full of unknowns, but I was happy to enter that arena and see what was there.

I'm understanding that these people are just believing that they are being given something to help them, without expecting it to be something that can change their whole life. They're expecting it will be something that will help them for perhaps the next few minutes, hours or days, not a lifetime!

Looking at all this from another angle, and I'm not being nasty or directing this at anyone, but just making a point....
Let's think of this scenario....

Blitzer: "Hi, just put your hands out for me and I'll give you something that will help you with your love and your life"
Person: "Err, right... ok... what's the catch?"
Blitzer: "There isn't a catch, this is something we like to give away for free. You can take it away with you and do whatever you like with it"
Person: "Well... ok... as long as there's no catch." (person puts out hands)
Blitzer: "I assure you there isn't" (I do some wavy hand stuff over their hands)
Person: "Uh, what is that? there's nothing there?"
Blitzer: "Oh, let me explain. I've just attuned you to the love of Satan. You will find you come to love Satan more and more each day and this attunement will help you to become a follower of Satan and all that he stands for"
Person: "But... But... I didn't ask for that?"
Blitzer: "You happily accepted it, and it was free. Please enjoy your new found attunement. If you've got any questions you only have to ask"

Now I'm guessing that the person who received the attunement here would probably have preferred to have know all the details beforehand, don't ya think?

Perhaps it's just me....perhaps I'm the only one that would actually prefer to have sufficient knowledge about reiki before getting an attunement to it. Yes, I wasn't sure how reiki would change my life when I did have my attunement, but I didn't go into it blind thinking it was just something that would be there and gone in the days of my course. I knew that it would stay with me from that day forward and that I could use it to help myself on my path.

Oh, and for anyone reading this, I don't even believe in Satan so don't start thinking I'm a satan worshipper or something like that, I assure you I only have love and a listening ear for everyone who wants that from me.

Love and Reiki hugs

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Oh, and I asked my other half how she would feel if someone came along and tried to attune her without explaining what they were doing....
I think the answer is a little too graphic to put on these pages, but let's just say that the blitzer would probably have trouble walking for a few month afterwards.

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Giles,

I do know what you mean, but I have never thought of healing as something that must be protected and only given to the people who had proved that they were worthy of this treasure.

In actuality, as a teacher I give students attunements to maths, to history, to science, to geography, to grammar every day. They don’t always accept that attunement and often go their way leaving me wishing that there were something more I could do. Every now and then a student will accept that attunement and will pick up the desire to write or will understand algebra. I offer but unless they accept nothing happens.

Others may offer these same kids attunements to the drug culture or to gangs; conversely to music or to religion. Again, unless they accept that attunement and make an active move to align themselves with what they are offered, there is no result. They can try it and move on or they can reject it outright. Some will choose to become fully involved in what they have been offered and others will not give it a second thought.

In the same way, you are daily offered attunements to smoking or to Renault or to a Mars bar. It’s called advertisement and those offering you the attunement want you to sample their wares and as a result become a follower of their way of thinking.

There are even people on HP who have sent attunements, unbidden, to energies and entities that I don’t want. Not a problem. I don’t use them and the attunement is void. If someone were to give me a cigar and I never lit it, I do not become a smoker.

Healing (and the alignment to it, i.e. the ability to do it) is something that every child is born with. To use your example, they are also born with the attunement to Satan if they want it—that’s called Free Will. When people give up the knowledge of it and we remind them, we call it attunement, but it isn’t necessary.

Healing is part of the public domain. You don’t have to buy it, just know where to go to find it. I would be more angry if I were asked to pay a thousand pound for that access than if someone gave it to me on the street corner. I may not know what to do with it, but the chances of me using it are greater than if I never knew about it at all.

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ORIGINAL: lionman

Reiki Blitzing
Yutaka Shaun Wada gave reiki attunements all over the place including escort agencies, and prostitutes so that they would quit their profession and live a wholesome spiritual life. .

Am I the only one who finds this a bit erm, silly? I mean, of all the professions that really harm humanity, I personally consider prostitution the bottom of the list, if on it at all. Never mind people who make bombs, people who sell arms, people who torture animals in the name of some pseudo-science, and so on, they don't even get a mention here.

Please don't misunderstand my post to mean that I want to find and target the world's most evil profession for healing or anything; I just don't like this let's-judge-'em-and-heal-'em-holier-than-thou attitude.

Now,what was that thing about respecting your elders and being gracious to every living thing?

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Well said, Suzanne!! There are a lot worse people out there than prostitutes etc!!
People forcing their ideas and beliefs upon others are worse, IMHO.
Giles, I have to say that I am in full agreement with your wife - if I were accosted in this fashion, then the accoster would (if male) be suffering from a very painful and sudden case of "mumps" (if you take my drift!)

Also, not everybody actually WANTS to be given unconditional love - there are those who would be very uncomfortable with the mere idea of it.
To some people, love is reserved for those closest to them (sad but true and their choice). Some will only talk of "love" in terms of the material aspects.
To give Reiki we must have the permission of the person first. Surely this is even more important when offering attunements? [ATTUNE : verb harmonize or adapt (one's mind etc.) to a matter or an idea]
How can this be done if there is no prior knowledge of the matter or idea?

'Fraid I'm in "attunement" with Giles on this one!!

Glenys

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Eep, she's my wife now? ermm.... nah, partner/girlfriend of 11 years. Best not to mention marriage or she'll run a mile.

Steve/Nancy,

The difference with being given a cigar is that you already know what it is and what it will do to you.

Love and Reiki Hugs