Reiki miracle

I taught a Reiki 1 and 2 class last night, and as always it was simply amazing. A group of 4 women this time, all curious and excited, and none of them having any unusual healing abilities whatsoever before the class began. Then, not to trivialize what is truly a spiritual experience, but I blew in their head, did a few things with symbols, read a few poems, and they were healers. Their hands began to heat up. They tingled. They began to sense things that they had no comprehension of half an hour before the attunement happened. The Reiki miracle occured again, except it isn’t a miracle, it is natural, and can belong to each of us if we want it.

Each woman in the class had the experience of giving Reiki to someone and knowing at a certain point on someone’s body that there was a problem–one new Reiki practitioner stopped above a woman’s uterine fibers that were acting up. Another stopped above a sore muscle. That kind of thing.

The wonderful varieties in the way Reiki manifests intuition and knowing were all present–One person knew to go back over a particular area because she smelled something different, while another felt her hands tingle harder, another felt cold and the fourth simply couldn’t move her hand. Tummies rumbled when symbols got activated on the third chakra. And the distance healing, which for me is the whole point, it takes Reiki from being interesting and cool to finally understanding the connection to the Divine that it is. When I brought out the teddy bears and said pick someone to heal, but ask permission first–and one person had to change her distance client because she got a clear NO signal, and then they turned their bears into their client and saw that it worked, it is just an amazing moment.

I have no idea how Reiki passes from one person to another. As always when I do an attunement, the rational part of me still says “please let this work this time,” because I can’t quite believe it. And it always happens, this huge gift from Spirit. I don’t know how else to explain it, except that Reiki, the healing energy of it, the mystical nature of it, is real, and when you get or pass an attunement you finally understand it, in a way that simply receiving Reiki, no matter how awesome that is, can’t quite demonstrate.

We are loved and protected by forces far beyond our knowing. We have abilities to heal and bring balance to ourselves and others, and we are meant to develop and use them. Reiki is truly an astounding gift from Spirit.