Clear as Quartz

Feeling the buzz

After I had my Reiki attunement I began to doubt that I was able to channel the Reiki energy, since I couldn't really 'feel' it. I have to say, that has all changed.

I was at my mum's tonight and she's not a well person, there are many health problems that she has. I offered to do a little bit of Reiki on her in the time I had and almost as soon as I put my hands on my mum's shoulders, I could feel my arms tingling. It was quite powerful. But what is even more interesting is that it hasn't stopped since! In fact, I'm still 'buzzing' as I type up this post!

Beginning my journey with Reiki

It is one week ago that I completed my Reiki level I with Alison Levesley, otherwise known as the Soul Coach. For anyone about to embark on the journey, it is a very surreal experience, let me tell you.

The actual process of the attunement – the ritual by which you become open to channelling the Reiki energy – is quite an experience, mainly because it is so far removed from what we’d normally do in Western training sessions!

Alison did some clearing in the room using sage and crystals, and I was sat in a crystal grid while I waited for her to perform the attunement. I didn’t see what she did exactly because my eyes were closed and I was in a deep meditation, as well as the fact that a lot of the ceremony went on behind me, but I know that sacred Reiki symbols were drawn around me and onto my palms.

Getting your head round Reiki

Reiki is a difficult concept to get your head around, to say the least, especially for logical left-brainers like myself (though my spiritual path is one of tapping into my creative right brain as much as I can).

Reiki is an ancient healing art that many people believe has been around really since time began, although it came into the ‘modern’ Western world in the early 1900s through Mikao Usui, a Japanese Sensei who developed the Usui system.

With Reiki, you are working with an invisible energy that ultimately, you cannot prove is there. But whilst there is little scientific research available, the benefits of Reiki are well-documented and even the NHS part-fund a Reiki healer at the University College London Hospital to help cancer patients.