My Pathway to Becoming A Reiki Practitioner
After my first Reiki experience, I continued to see Carolyn once a month for about a year.
I looked forward to the sessions because I feel these sessions healed me more than the years of therapy I endured with questionable resolution. As all of this healing happened, I knew I wanted to do this to help others in the same way I was helped. I decided to sign up for Reiki Level I training—a weekend commitment—and I was “all in.”
But as the date approached, I had a work travel conflict and had to back out of the training. I was so disappointed that I had to make this choice! When the next opportunity for Reiki I training rolled around, work interfered once again, and once again, I couldn’t go.
At my next appointment, I told Carolyn, “I think the Universe doesn’t want me to do this.”
She replied, “Beth, I think Reiki training isn’t happening for you because you have to make peace with your spiritual journey and your religion.”
During our sessions, I shared with Carolyn that I struggled with what religion had indoctrinated in me and how this co-existed with Reiki. Also, I had family members and friends who were negative about my newfound love for Reiki, stating it was “not of God.”
Honestly, I can understand why they, and others, might feel that way because Reiki is “woo woo…new wave stuff” in the eyes of many. It is working with energy fields and healing with your hands, and that is weird!
Carolyn told me that I needed to learn more about who Jesus was before I could move forward.
When she told me that, I felt insulted because I grew up going to the Church of Christ… I knew Jesus.
On my journey to discovery I read books by Delores Cannon who developed Quantum Healing Hypnosis. She regressed thousands of clients to past lives—several who had past lives with Jesus—and wrote a book about their experiences. I also read the Bible and only focused on Jesus’s words.
I learned that Jesus was a spiritual being having a human experience just like us. He felt emotions just like us. He spent time with those who needed healing and he was gifted with the ability to heal them. Jesus healed with his hands and his messages were all about loving others.
The more I learned, the more I realized that Reiki ideals are parallel with Christian teachings.
The Reiki ideals come from the founder of Reiki, Usui Mikao:
The secret art of inviting happiness
The miraculous medicine of all diseases
Just for today, do not anger
Do not worry and be filled with gratitude
Devote yourself to your work. Be kind to people.
Every morning and evening, join your hands in prayer.
Pray these words to your heart
and chant these words with your mouth
Usui Reiki Treatment for the improvement of body and mind
What could be more “Christ-like” than these ideals?
Once I was able to resolve this conflict within, Reiki I training finally came for me. It was a journey of self-discovery and an important part of my evolution to prepare me to become a healer.