Description
Can Anyone Learn Reiki?
The ability to learn Reiki is not dependent on intellectual capacity, nor does one have to be able to meditate. It does not take years of practice. It is simply passed on from the teacher to the student. As soon as this happens, one has and can do Reiki. Because of this, it is easily learned by anyone.
Reiki is a pure form of healing not dependent on individual talent or acquired ability. Because of this, the personality of the healer is less likely to cloud the significance of the experience. The feeling of being connected directly to God’s healing love and protection is clearly apparent.
The Attunement
Reiki is not taught in the way other healing techniques are taught. It is transferred to the student by the Reiki Master during an attunement process. This process opens the crown, heart, and palm chakras and creates a special link between the student and the Reiki source.
The Reiki attunement is a powerful spiritual experience. The attunement energies are channeled into the student through the Reiki Master. The process is guided by the Rei or God-consciousness and makes adjustments in the process depending on the needs of each student. The attunement is also attended by Reiki guides and other spiritual beings who help implement the process. Many reports having mystical experiences involving personal messages, healings, visions, and past life experiences.
Attunement can also increase psychic sensitivity. Students often report experiences involving: opening of the third eye, increased intuitive awareness, and other psychic abilities after receiving a Reiki attunement.
Once you have received a Reiki attunement, you will have Reiki for the remainder of your life. It does not wear off and you can never lose it. While one attunement is all you need for each level to be attuned to that level, additional attunements bring benefits. Experimentation has found that additional attunements of the same level add to the value of that level. These benefits include refinement of the Reiki energy one is channeling, increased strength of the energy, healing of personal problems, clarity of mind, increased psychic sensitivity, and a raised level of consciousness. At the Reiki support groups sponsored by the Center, additional attunements are usually given by someone who has taken Third degree Reiki, with no extra fee required.
The Reiki attunement can start a cleansing process that affects the physical body as well as the mind and emotions. Toxins that have been stored in the body may be released along with feelings and thought patterns that are no longer useful. Therefore, a process of purification prior to the attunement is recommended to improve the benefit one receives. See below for specific instructions on preparing for an attunement.
Preparing for an Attunement
In order to improve the results you receive during the attunement, a process of purification is recommended. This will allow the attunement energies to work more efficiently and create greater benefits for you. The following steps are optional. Follow them if you feel guided to do so.
- Refrain from eating meat, fowl, or fish for three days prior to the attunement. These foods often contain drugs in the form of penicillin and female hormones and toxins in the form of pesticides and heavy metals that make your system sluggish and throw it out of balance.
- Consider a water or juice fast for one to three days especially if you already are a vegetarian or have experience with fasting.
- Minimize your use of coffee and caffeine drinks or stop completely. They create imbalances in the nervous and endocrine systems. Use no caffeine drinks on the day of the attunement.
- Use no alcohol for at least three days prior to the attunement.
- Minimize or stop using sweets. Eat no chocolate.
- If you smoke, cut back, and smoke as little as possible on the day of the attunement.
- Meditate an hour a day for at least a week using a style you are familiar with or simply spend this time in silence.
- Reduce or eliminate time watching TV, listening to the radio, and reading newspapers.
- Go for quiet walks, spend time with nature, and get moderate exercise.
- Give more attention to the subtle impressions and sensations within and around; contemplate their meaning.
- Release all anger, fear, jealousy, hate, worry, etc. up to the light. Create a sacred space within and around you.
- By receiving an attunement you will become part of a group of people who are using Reiki to heal themselves, and each other, and who are working together to heal the Earth. You will also be receiving help from Reiki guides and other spiritual beings who are also working towards these goals. While Reiki is not a religion, you may prepare your mind with intention work and pray in a religious mode comfortable to you to prepare to open to higher spiritual energies and experiences.
Mandisa Armstrong –
Both my reiki session and ancestoral healing session (2 weeks after my reiki session) with Carli were amazing! I was able to fully relax as well as release within this space. I received a song from one of my ancestors during our ancestral heaking session which blew my mind. Carli created a safe space for me to just be and allow whatever was coming up to do just that.
Maya Burwell –
Prior to working with Carli at Pollynation I wasn’t aware of Reiki or very knowledgeable of spiritual healing. I lived my life to treat others with kindness without seeking rewards for it. Often times that meant forgetting about myself and my own needs. Little did I know that my internship with Carli would introduce me to something my life needed.
During my healing session with Carli it felt as though my inner self was placed in the most serene environment; a blooming field. Ever since I was a child I felt most comfortable outside. Curious about animals, plants, and how the world works. I didn’t expect it to actually mean something for me. It was emotional but enlightening. Scary, but comforting. I hadn’t ever had an experience with my spirit guides before, but they offered me comforting words and warmth. Almost like a mother’s love, but somehow deeper and more unexplainable. Since then I have been tapping into my spirituality and reaching out for their guidance more. I âm still learning and sometimes I don’t get much of a response. But, I always know when I have reached them. A tingle on my arm, a single tear in my eye, or even a dream. You can just tell when a spirit of light is there with you.
During my reiki 1 attuning I got a taste of self healing. I saw colors like yellow, blue, and green. I felt a warmth in my hands, into my heart. It’s hard to explain, and one of those things you have to experience for yourself. It was definitely grounding, and provided me with security. It also reinforced my feelings about my intuition. My gut feeling has saved me from a lot, and brought pain in its own right. But, since my attunement I have learned to trust it no matter what. To allow whatever is going to be, to be.
One of the biggest things I have learned is allowing myself to be as a vessel of positive, healing energy. Each session I do on myself be it emotional or physical brings forth it’s own rewards. Clarity. Strength. Courage. Forgiveness. Understanding. Whatever it is that I need, I receive. It’s not always immediate. It can be offered in opportunities to build my character or utilize what I already have. Reiki has definitely shown me a side of myself I was desperate to find. That I am more than what’s on the outside. That my interest in nature is no accident, and I am actually in the process of trying to connect with that a little more now. With my undergrad years coming to an end, I am finding more time to focus on myself and learn more about who I am. I strongly believe that had Carli not introduced me to Reiki I would be in the same dark place as I was a year ago. Reiki has been my tool to heal and grow, and I am thankful.