Reiki Is Not A One-Shot Affair

Most people, who come to me with some sickness or illness, expect to return home hale and hearty after just one sitting. To them, it is like an injection, some sort of a universal remedy, which I just have to punch into their body, and voila! They are cured!

Truth be told, I haven’t quite reached the milestone where just one touch of my hand will draw the negative energies from you and cure you. Jesus Christ could do it, “and more”. I am walking on the same road, and God willing, shall reach that stage one day!

For now, I, and to my knowledge, all the practitioners of Reiki doing their bit all around the world, require their patients to undergo a specific number of sittings before results begin to manifest.

The reason for certain amount of time required to heal is not too hard to fathom. Just imagine the current ailment that you suffer from. The ailment did not pop up, like an uninvited guest, all of a sudden, one bright morning.

While you were going about life’s motions, these ailments were lying hidden in your body ‘ latent, perhaps
seeded by some negative habit that you began indulging in at some point of time.

Gradually, these ailments built up their strength, and when they were ready to launch their attack, they did so with a vengeance. And how! You had to drop everything and attend to them, first thing. So, removing these ingrained ailments is gradual, as the energies have to gently prod them out of the individual cells that comprise you.

There are instances when the patient before me got cured in just one sitting. And I had to take pains to assure them that I was not the next avatar of Jesus!

The only reason that I perceive they were cured in that single sitting is that their body was fully open to the energy flowing from my hands into their body. And I also detected in them a conviction that Reiki will heal them.

They had come to me in just the right frame of mind. Their absolute faith in the system, coupled with their openness and acceptance of the healing powers swirling around them, did the trick. An open mind and an open body, inviting the healing energy to enter and cleanse, is what is required for accelerated cure.

There is a subtle variation to this “Reiki is a one-shot affair” line of thinking. And that is, that once you have been cured of a particular problem through Reiki, the problem is gone forever.

That is far from true. Reiki is like the wash that your car gets in the garage. When the car emerges from the doors of the garage, it gleams and sparkles and shines as if new. But once on the road, it will depend on where and how you drive the vehicle!

Depending on the quality of roads that you drive, plus your style of driving as well as the care and love and maintenance you keep giving your beautiful machine, you might find yourself knocking at the doors of the garage more frequently than should have been the case! And the same holds with healing your body and mind through Reiki.

You need to be in touch with the healing process all along, so that the negativities and the impurities do not get the chance to build their evil strengths inside you.

Okay, so am I now trying to say that you keep paying your fees to the nearest Reiki practitioner for your entire lifetime? Nah. Far from that. What I am saying is that you clean and maintain your own car.

What I am saying is that you learn the process yourself, so that your cleansing and healing can be carried out by you. And since we are talking about your body and your mind here, you are the best person – better than the Reiki practitioner, I would go so far to say – to heal thyself! Learn the art of Reiki, and heal thyself!

Do it in the privacy of your home everyday, and elevate yourself to higher planes of consciousness. Yes, it is a continuous process, and it is possible.

In fact, we as Reiki practitioners encourage people to learn the art of Reiki healing themselves. Ours must be the only therapy where there are no trade secrets.

We actively conduct training sessions for the faithful and the converts, who would like to use this divine technique not only to cure themselves, but also their friends and family members. The adage “An apple a day ‘” should be changed to “A Reiki session every day ‘”!

Reiki Is Not For The Spiritually Evolved, Only!

Yes, this was a very strong notion that I too had, before I actually started learning it.

Somehow the spiritual element around Reiki has become stronger with time. This is partly because the words that we use while describing the process of healing border on the metaphysical and indeed the spiritual; so the indifferent listener, not directly involved with the exercise, comes away thinking that

Reiki is all spiritual mumbojumbo that goes over one’s head.

It took me some conscious effort to curb my tendency to wax eloquent on the spiritual aspect of Reiki. For, if you cut out all the so-called “spiritual mumbo-jumbo”, Reiki still heals!

We are, all of us, connected to the central source just like our homes are connected to the central power station. Energy flows into our houses and light up our four walls; similarly our source transmits energy into our body and lights up our souls ‘ Oops, here I go again ‘ I should have said “and heals it of sickness and ailments.”

On a more serious note, Reiki is for all kinds of people – from hard-nosed, grounded to-the-earth individuals, to the sporty types, to the exuberant extroverts ‘ to the silent introverts, the armchair types, to the spiritually-inclined ‘ everybody, without exception, can be healed and have been healed by Reiki.

The energy behind Reiki does not recognize the nature of the individual it is poised to flow in – it simply flows. And the Reiki practitioner acts only as a medium – or the physical wire – to bring the energy to you.

And here I come again to the point that I had touched upon earlier: Be your own powerhouse. Generate your own power. Harness the energy available so abundantly in nature around you. And, heal thyself.

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