Abundant Sphere

The reiki practice attracts and develops healers, and sometimes healers just want to help everyone who appears to be in need.  However, it's very important for us to recognize that there are people out there who DON'T want to be healed and DON'T want help in their suffering.  When you have personally benefitted from healing, you think, why would anyone NOT want healing!? For some people, the side benefits of experiencing suffering are actually greater or more comforting than being healthy.  Consider someone who receives intensive care when they are ill, but feels lonely and forgotten when they aren't receiving care.  Consider the person who can have a flexible schedule or more control over what they do and don't want to do if they are disabled.  Sometimes the support people receive in suffering is much more comforting than the demands or independence of not suffering. Obviously this is not the case for people who WANT to be healed and who WANT to...

Reiki training gives us a basic framework in which to shape the experience of our reiki practice, but it is our continued practice that gives us the deeper sensory language and more detailed set of experiences through which to understand and communicate what is happening during reiki sessions. Initially, I only sensed changes in temperature, then as I practiced more I began to sense tingling.  This meant that initially, I could only communicate basic sensory changes to clients, but with even more practice, I began to notice that sometimes that tingling had more of a pulse that could change over a short period of healing focus.  As my experiences grew, my ability to be more acute in what I was sensing started to grow as well.  I started to notice that I wasn't just feeling the sensations in my hands, that sometimes I would feel it in other areas of my own body, which would help provide additional information that wasn't available just through what I could feel in my han...