To become a reiki energy practitioner or a master, you will need to follow the reiki attunement process. You cannot conduct a reiki education or study reiki by reading about it or hearing about it. It is something you need to undergo and experience for you to learn how to perform it on yourself and on others. You need to have faith that the energy of the universe is available to you for healing and comfort and you need to be able to open yourself to channeling that energy across space and time, as well as when the energy is directed from another reiki teacher. The reiki attunement process opens your chakras, especially the crown, heart and palm chakras.
Before an attunement, stop eating meat, poultry or fish for three days. Refrain from all stimulants. This means you should not drink caffeine, eat sugar, drink alcohol or smoke. Make sure you meditate for at least an hour a day for those three days prior to preparing yourself for the experience.
Reiki Level I
The level one attunement will put you in touch with the source of life energy available in the universe so you can learn how to channel it. During this first attunement, you will need to release any emotional distress or pain that has built up during your life, allowing yourself to break down negative energy blocks. You will go through a cleansing session that may manifest itself through powerful dreams or perhaps through physical detoxification. You may see visions or realize past life experiences. This level of attunement also involves self-healing sessions.
Reiki Level II
After you have attained the first attunement, you can proceed to the second attunement, which involves solidifying the link between you and the source of universal energy. This improves your ability to direct and channel that energy. You will also learn the reiki symbols. This will enable you to direct healing energy to emotional centers and remotely transfer energy.
Reiki Level III
The final level of reiki brings you even deeper into connection and union with the universe energy source. You will learn the final symbol which enables you to pass attunements to other reiki students.
Reiki Principals
You will meditate on these principals in a self-healing session to restore your energy daily:
Just for today, do not anger
Just for today, do not worry
Earn your living honestly
Honor those around you
Be grateful for everything and every situation
Once you have been attuned, you will be attuned to reiki forever, always living at a higher level of consciousness and able to tap into the universe life energy force for healing and comfort.
 | Reiki healing taps into the power of relaxation and redirection of the flow of life energy force through the body's meridians, triggering natural healing powers inherent in the body. |
 | If you've ever experienced the energizing, balancing and relaxing effects of reiki therapy you may be wondering about going through training to become a pracitioner yourself. |
Jikiden (or "handed down") Reiki is as close to the original Usui teachings as other variations on the traditional practice. |
The term reiki is a Japanese word meaning "Universal Life Force Energy" and is a system for channeling power into the body for the purpose of healing. |
I vividly remember the first time I was aware of receiving Reiki. I was sitting in our local Spirituality shop trying desperately to stay awake and be social. I lay down on the couch to rest between events, and soon a massage therapist friend was rubbing my back. |
