Reiki Attunements

REIKI ATTUNEMENTS -
The Key to Reiki

A Spiritual Healer is a person who is spiritually, physically and biologically adaptable as a channel between the Source of supply of Universal energy and the client.

The key to Reiki is provided by the energy attunements. The word ‘attunement’ also means ‘initiation’ and in Sanskrit translates to mean ‘empowerment’. Reiki empowers everyone who receives it.

A Reiki attunement must be given in the physical presence of a Reiki Master/Teacher. It cannot be done via the internet or telephone.

The attunements differentiate Reiki from all other healing methods. They allow the Life Force Energy to flow through you more intensely. There is sacredness within the attunement. It is a rite of passage, a ritual of moving through a gateway from one awareness to another.

During a Reiki attunement, the receiver is given a sacred gift which will change their life for ever in every positive way.

Once committed to Reiki, you pledge yourself to both learn and work. Becoming a channel for healing is not an intellectual process, rather it is an ongoing process of inner spiritual growth and a refining of your sensitivity.

The person who is attuned as a Reiki healer has the body’s energy channels opened and cleared of obstructions by the Reiki attunements. They receive an increase in Life Force Energy (‘Life Source Energy’) for their own healing, and become connected to the Source of Universal Ki. A Reiki attunement connects the receiver in an increased way to their limitless Source.

This Life Source Energy is the Source of Life itself, and far older in concept than any religious philosophy.

Upon receiving the first attunement in Reiki 1, the receiver becomes a channel for this Universal healing energy from the time of attunement for the rest of their life. The new Reiki healer only needs to place his/her hands on self or others with the intent to heal, and the energy will flow automatically, increasing the life force energy of the person receiving the energy.

As the auras of the Reiki Master/Teacher and student meet and blend, a channel opens and obstructions or blockages are released by the Reiki transmissions of energy which form part of the attunements. At each attunement, a cleansing takes place on a physical, emotional, mental or Spiritual level. As a result, the karma, or old baggage of negative thoughts and emotions, begins to release, and is removed through the aura of the Master/Teacher.

It is up to the student to allow the full effect to happen. The attunement can be blocked or resisted by the student. The Master cannot force or stop this cleansing.

REIKI ATTUNEMENTS -
Divided into Three Degrees

In modern Reiki in the Western world, three attunements are usually given, rather than the more complicated ‘traditional’ Japanese way which involves several more attunements. There is usually one attunement each for Reiki 1, Reiki 2 and Reiki 3 (Master/Teacher level) though some teachers divide Reiki 3 into two sections, ‘Master’ and ‘Teaching’.

Reiki 1 – The First Degree:

Focuses on physical healing and self-healing.

The student receives the first attunement.

We must cleanse and heal ourselves first and foremost, before the work can be done for others. The aura and chakras have their first cleansing release.

This degree opens the student to utilizing Reiki for family, friends, animals, food, plants, home and workplace, as well as his/her own physical body. Reiki energy is for the good of all, not just humans.

Reiki 2 – The Second Degree:

Focuses on healing at the emotional and mental levels

The student receives the second attunement.

Reiki 2 assists with addictions and clears negative thinking patterns and emotional problems.

Distance healing – sending Reiki to someone nearby or on the other side of the world, distance no object - is now learned and practised.

Students are given three of the five Reiki symbols – what they mean, how they function and how to use them.

Following a Reiki 2 initiation you may use the Reiki symbols and do distant healing.

You may now use Reiki on the public.

Reiki 3 – The Third Degree:

Focuses on health and healing on the Spiritual/ Soul Level and the Teaching of Reiki

The student receives the third attunement.

The last two symbols of the five are taught.

The student learns how to teach the three Degrees and give attunements to others.

Note: A Reiki ‘healer’ does not heal; he/she is a channel for divine healing energy,
and he/she does well to remember the phrase -

“Through me, not from me.”

No harm is ever done to the giver or receiver of Reiki.

Information drawn from various sources and from personal experience - Messenger Spirit