My Reiki Journey - Part 6: Reiki Classes vs. Reiki Practice
If you've read My Reiki Journey from Part 1 , hopefully it's all starting to feel a little more familiar and less confusing now. It seems important to emphasize how different taking a Reiki class is from making Reiki a continual practice in your own life. Just like taking one piano class isn't going to turn you into a piano player and taking one yoga class isn't going to make your body more flexible. Reiki is a practice that needs to be experienced frequently in order for it to be better understood. I often hear of programs that suggest fast-track progress, but then don't emphasize the importance of self-care or the dedication to the energetic journey after finishing a class. Based on my own Reiki journey, the work of Reiki is so much more than a methodology and set of tools. A class is just an introduction. It's really in the experiencing and practicing regularly that it becomes real and understandable. Without regularly applying it into our own life a