Reiki is a sacred
practice that requires reverence and our greatest respect
if we are to experience its most wonderful value. The benefits
of Reiki can be all encompassing, not only giving us the ability
to heal ourselves and others, which by itself is deeply meaningful,
but also bringing guidance for our lives. Its unlimited nature
can create opportunities for continual growth, unfoldment
and the awakening of our own boundless potential. The ever
increasing joy, peace and abundance that await those who sincerely
pursue the path of Reiki are not only a blessing to be enjoyed,
but also contain the healing that the planet so dearly needs.
Those who have been initiated into Reiki often feel this greater
potential and aspire to continue on to the Advanced and Reiki
Master levels.
The desire to grow is inherent
in simply being alive. As we look around ourselves and observe
living things, we can clearly see that the one activity that
all living things share is growth.
Everything that is alive grows.
Because this is what living things do, one could even say
that the purpose of life is to grow. Therefore, the desire
to grow in ones Reiki potential is a natural expression of
ones core essence and of life itself. If you feel this desire
in your heart, honor and respect it. Doing so, will fulfill
an innate need.
The joys of becoming a Reiki
Master are many and you don't necessarily have to teach in
order for the Master training to be useful. The additional
healing energy, symbols, techniques and knowledge will add
value to your healing abilities. Treating yourself, giving
yourself and others healing attunements and treating others
in person and at a distance will all be noticeably improved.
The fact that you can pass Reiki on to friends and family
is also a definite plus. Many take the Master training with
just this in mind. However, if you ever decide to formally
teach, you will be able to do so. As each person takes the
Reiki Master training, and increases their personal vibration,
this adds to the vibration of the whole planet!
One of the greatest joys of
Reiki Mastership is teaching Reiki to others. Imagine the
thrill of witnessing the members of your Reiki class receiving
Reiki energy during the attunement. Then, as you guide them
in its use, sharing in their joy and amazement as they experience
it's gentle power flowing though them for the first time.
As your students use Reiki to help family, friends and clients,
a wonderful sense of spiritual connection will develop between
all of you. Feelings of compassion and love for everyone will
be strengthened as you merge with the Reiki Consciousness
and know more deeply that we come from God and that we are
all one in God.
All information about Reiki
has come to us through Mrs. Takata who learned the system
of Reiki in Japan in 1935. According to Mrs. Takata, the definition
of a Reiki Master is anyone who has received the Master attunement
and Master symbol, understands how to give all the attunements
and has actually taught a Reiki class thus passing Reiki on
to others. Those who have taken Reiki Master training and
not taught at least one person would not qualify as Reiki
Masters and should call themselves Reiki Master practitioners
until they do teach. If you have taught a friend or family
member, then you qualify as a Reiki Master.
After Mrs. Takata passed on
in December, 1980, the twenty-two Masters she had initiated
continued to teach and eventually began initiating other Masters.
At first they taught in the same way Mrs. Takata had done,
teaching the complete system in three degrees. Eventually
some Masters began making changes to the system, adding knowledge
and healing skills they had acquired from experience and inner
guidance. Some took the third degree that originally contained
the complete Master training and broke it up into two or more
parts. Some actually broke the Master degree up into as many
as five parts, calling each part a new degree.
When seeking a Reiki Master
to take the Master training from, it is important to ask her/him
exactly what you will be able to do after you take the Master
training from them. Will you receive the complete training
and be able to initiate others into all the degrees including
full Reiki Master or will something be left out, requiring
you to take additional sub-levels or degrees and pay additional
fees? Because of the changes some have made to the system
of Reiki, this is a very important question.
Becoming a Reiki Master is
a serious step that must be preceded by necessary preparation.
One must first take Reiki I&II and Advanced Reiki training.
It is also necessary to meditate on your life purpose and
decide if Reiki Mastership is in harmony with it. Then, it
is important to find a Reiki Master to study with who is competent
and who you feel attuned to and will support you after you
become a Reiki Master.
Becoming a Reiki Master implies
that you will be able to initiate others into Reiki. Therefore,
it is important to find a teacher who will spend time in class
helping you practice the attunement process. Ask your teacher
how much time is spent in class practicing the attunements
as some teachers spend little or none.
Also ask them how much support
they are willing to give you to begin teaching your own classes.
This is important. Some Reiki Masters will have little interest
in helping you get started as they are afraid you will take
student away from them. If you are serious about becoming
a successful teaching Reiki Master, find a teacher who will
openly support you in achieving your goal.
Before teaching your first
class, additional practice doing the attunements is a good
idea. This can be done on friends who already have Reiki.
Ask them if they would like to be an "attunement model"
and let them know that the additional attunements will be
beneficial for them and will refine and strengthen their Reiki
energies. Most will gladly agree. If you can't find someone
to practice on, you can use a teddy bear or a pillow to represent
a person.
It will also be necessary
to practice the talks, lectures and meditations you will be
leading in class. Make outlines of your talks and practice
into a tape recorder. Listen to your tapes and take notes
on ways you can improve your talks. Then continue to practice
until you are confident. Don't be afraid to use your outline
in class. When teaching, relax and let the Reiki energy do
the work.
If you have a sincere desire
to help others and have taken the time to prepare to teach,
you should have no trouble attracting students. It is your
attitude that creates the results you receive so, assume success
and you will create success. (See the the previous two articles
for ideas on promoting your practice)
As a teaching Reiki Master
it is important to treat your students with the greatest respect.
Know that each has the spark of God within them. Never use
subtle threats or the withholding of information to cause
your students to be dependent on you. Openly encourage each
student to be connected to her/his own power and freedom of
choice. What you create for others comes back to you. As you
truly empower others, so will you be empowered. Trust in the
abundance of the Universe and you will receive abundance and
you will also be blessed with peace and joy.
When teaching Reiki to others,
it is important to set a good example by being an authentic
representative of Reiki energy. People cannot be so easily
fooled by surface spirituality now. They want and need a real
teacher who comes from experience and is working on her/his
own deep healing. This requires one to meditate on the nature
of Reiki energy and surrender to it. It is a continual process
of working with all aspects of ones being that are out of
step with Reiki energy and allowing those aspects to be healed
by Reiki energy. We must seek to develop and express the qualities
of love, compassion, wisdom, justice, cooperation, humility,
persistence, kindness, courage, strength, and abundance as
Reiki energy is all of these and more. It may seem paradoxical,
but it is true that a true Reiki Master is one who is always
becoming a Reiki Master. Like life itself, it is a process
of continual growth.
As you do this, you will realize
sooner or later that there is more to Reiki than using it
to heal yourself and others of specific problems. Reiki has
a deeper purpose. In the same way that Reiki is able to guide
healing energy when you are giving a treatment, Reiki can
guide your life.
There is a perfect plan for
your life that has always been present and has been waiting
for you. This plan is exactly what is good and right and healthy
for you. This plan is not based on what your parents want
for you, or what the culture says you need to be accepted,
but on what will really make you happy. This plan is inside
you and comes from your core essence. Reiki can guide you
to this plan and help you follow it. This plan is your true
spiritual path.
By treating yourself and others
and meditating on the essence of Reiki, you will be guided
more and more by Reiki in making important decisions. Sometimes
you will find yourself doing things that don't make sense
or conform to what you think you should be doing and sometimes
you will be guided to do things that you have vowed you would
never do. However, by trusting more and more in the guidance
of Reiki, by letting go of what your ego thinks it needs to
be happy and by humbly surrendering to Reiki's loving power,
you will find your life changing in ways that bring greater
harmony and feelings of real happiness.
Over time, you will learn
from experience that the guidance of Reiki is worthy of your
trust. Once you have surrendered completely, you will have
entered the Way of Reiki. When you do this, you will be at
peace with the past and have complete faith in the future
and know that there never was anything to worry about. Your
life will work with ever greater harmony and you will feel
that you have reached your goal of wholeness even as you continue
to move toward it!
In the end, we must consider
that a Reiki Master is not one who has mastered Reiki, but
one who has been mastered by Reiki. This requires that we
surrender completely to the spirit of Reiki, allowing it to
guide every area of our lives and become our only focus and
source of nurturing and sustenance. As we proceed toward the
end of the millinium, the Way of Reiki offers itself as a
solution to our problems and a path of unlimited potiential.
May all who would benefit from this path be guided to it.
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