Hello everyone,
I've been away from here for a few years now (life has got in the way).
I am here to ask about Usui Reiki Level 1. I was attuned back in 2009 but due to life my selfhealing and generally using Reiki in my everyday life just tended to fall by the wayside.
My Reiki Master is no longer teaching Usui Reiki. I would love to pick up again but because I never kept up with it, feel like I forgot the "basics" like how to invoke Reiki energy in the first place. I know it's possible that I redo my Level 1 attunement with another Master but is it worth it, or should I just do a refresher course with another Reiki Master? (I do eventually want to go on to have my Level 2 attunement)
There is a lot going on in the family at the moment with health issues and I want to do as much as I can to heal.
I look forward to your replies. xx
Find a local master and ask their advice. The attunement is their for life so you don;t need to be re-attuned. I would just start self healing and ask for reiki to start flowing any way you feel comfortable with....and see what happens.........Good luck
I'd recommended to find a Master you are drawn to and ask them if you can meet up for a chat and take it from there. I don't know of any Master who offer a refresher course, although it is a good idea. I've met with several students who studied Reiki 1 with another Master, and just spent an hour or two going over the basics and filling in the gaps from their previous training to mine. I've then given them a Reiki ! manual to take home with and read through, and they've been able to e-mail any questions they had prior to the Reiki 2 training.
So you don't need to take R1 again, unless of course you want to, and having attunements is a wonderful experience. I'd just let your intuition guide you.
Also, I'm unsure what you were taught, but to call on Reiki I simply put my hands together and call on Reiki to join me.
Good luck, let us know how you get on.
Sarah
I'd recommended to find a Master you are drawn to and ask them if you can meet up for a chat and take it from there. I don't know of any Master who offer a refresher course, although it is a good idea. I've met with several students who studied Reiki 1 with another Master, and just spent an hour or two going over the basics and filling in the gaps from their previous training to mine. I've then given them a Reiki ! manual to take home with and read through, and they've been able to e-mail any questions they had prior to the Reiki 2 training.
So you don't need to take R1 again, unless of course you want to, and having attunements is a wonderful experience. I'd just let your intuition guide you.
Also, I'm unsure what you were taught, but to call on Reiki I simply put my hands together and call on Reiki to join me.
Good luck, let us know how you get on.
Sarah
What, then, is Reiki, if you can call on it to join you? Do you see it as a being, rather than as a method?
What, then, is Reiki, if you can call on it to join you? Do you see it as a being, rather than as a method?
Reiki is one of those things that is both a noun and a verb.
Obviously the verb is how you go about practicing reiki techniques (whether on others or for yourself)
As a noun it refers to the Reiki energy (Rei meaning 'unseen' and Ki meaning 'energy'; Ki sometimes referred to as "Universal Energy", the same as Chi in chinese Tai Chi or Chi Kung or Qi of Qigong); which is the energy of everything.
The practice of Reiki techniques allows the intention to connect with the Reiki energy and apply it as necessary.
All Love and Reiki Hugs
Reiki is one of those things that is both a noun and a verb.
Obviously the verb is how you go about practicing reiki techniques (whether on others or for yourself)
As a noun it refers to the Reiki energy (Rei meaning 'unseen' and Ki meaning 'energy'; Ki sometimes referred to as "Universal Energy", the same as Chi in chinese Tai Chi or Chi Kung or Qi of Qigong); which is the energy of everything.The practice of Reiki techniques allows the intention to connect with the Reiki energy and apply it as necessary.
All Love and Reiki Hugs
So Sarah is asking for the Reiki energy to be with her? Okay. Thanks. I'd just never heard a Reiki practitioner use that terminology before.
You say that Reiki energy is chi or Universal Energy - i.e. the energy that is in everything? I have heard practitioners say that Reiki energy is a seperate energy - which makes no sense to me. If anyone out there in HP land thinks that, could they explain it to me, please?
Many Reiki practitioners will express "energy" in different ways often accordingly to their perceptions, insight and just by the way they have been trained.
In my personal opinion is that Reiki "energy" isn't necessarily a separate form but just a means of energetically getting in contact with energy that is present for the use of healing.
Yes that may sound obscure to some readers, but when working with something that is quite intangible, a description is hard to describe.
Actually I just come up with an analogy:
Reiki, as an energy form, is just like other energy formats. For example, like a light bulb (lamp) that can be powered by battery when the switch makes an electrical contact. The power to the light bulb is there in the battery but it the conscious choice of flicking the switch that allows the current to flow and for the bulb to light up.
You say that Reiki energy is chi or Universal Energy - i.e. the energy that is in everything? I have heard practitioners say that Reiki energy is a seperate energy - which makes no sense to me. If anyone out there in HP land thinks that, could they explain it to me, please?
Well, as explained, the "Ki" in the name Reiki is the Japanese spelling of the chinese Chi or Qi. In Eastern understanding such Ki/Chi/Qi is universial by it's very nature and exists in everything.
Of course, a lot of Reiki teachings have been corrupted or just not understood when it's come to the West, probably because the cultural and spiritual understanding of Eastern philosophy/practices vary so greatly from those in the West. Because of that, there are many mis-teachings that happen (not necessarily deliberately, just because the teacher knows no better), so people don't get a true understanding of the nature of Ki/Chi being universal, and end up putting it in their own Western understanding that is to treat it dualistically and keep it seperate from the self. Even the translation of Reiki is one of the most commonly mis-taught parts of Reiki; I see so many people who have learnt that "Rei" means "universal" and "Ki" mean energy. That apparently stems from the true meaning of "Rei" being left out when it came to the West because (so it has been said) many would have dismissed Reiki if they had been told that Rei actually translates (roughly; as Kanji doesn't tend to directly translate) to "unseen" or "ghostly"; thus people took the translation they were given of "Universal Energy" and split each word, mistakenly, to the two parts "Rei" and "ki"
When a practitioner correctly learns that universal energy is in everything, including themselves, and that to use Reiki means to connect with it on a universal level (there's no real words to describe it, but perhaps a cheesy way is to say you "become One" with the energy) then they will be able to use it more effectively, than something they treat as seperate from self.
All Love and Reiki Hugs
Or to become one with the Oneness, or the oneness of consciousness which is my understanding of the oneness, which also contradicts any understanding of getting out of the way of the healing, for to attempt to separate self from the oneness would divide the oneness into a duality and divide the healing from one purpose to heal into two conflicting purposes of to heal and not to heal. 