REIKI TRAINING

REIKI TRAINING 

During Reiki training a person is taught how to work within the field of energy that surrounds all living things. Through the attunement, a ceremonial initiation of empowerment, the student is opened to become a conduit for universal life force, Reiki.

Puryear defined attunement as "... a quickening, an elevation of consciousness. I8 It puts us in touch with a greater reality."(18,p. 13) Attunements are part of every level of Reiki training.

Depending on the teacher or master, Reiki is taught in either three or four stages. 15,19 The content of the classes varies from master to master. Basically, students learn Reiki's history, the Reiki hand positions for use on themselves and others, and receive a series of attunements opening them to the universal flow of energy.

Second Degree training involves the use of symbols to focus and concentrate Reiki, work on a mental/emotional level, and to send Reiki to a distant source. At the Master level, students become teachers, receiving the symbol for attuning others and the attunement process itself.

It is this level which some teachers divide into two or more parts.