By
Resko Zukic
Learning Reiki is so fascinating process. With each new step we
discover more about ourselves, about the life itself and of course about
the world of reiki. But how it all starts? How one start his or her
journey into this amazing world of reiki. Well, that is exactly what
this article is about.
What is reiki attunement?
You
might already have heard about the reiki attunement and have ever since
wonderedd what it really is and what happens during the
attunementprocess.. The reiki learning process is a little bit different
than we could expect it from common sense of the word "learning".
Access to reiki is gained through so called reiki attunement or
initiation process. This is ceremony in which reiki teacher performs
pre-set number of positions which can varie between different reiki
styles. There are several types of reiki attunements:
- Attunement in person
- Attunement via absent reiki or distant attunement
- Self attunement
Let's now look into each one of these:
Reiki attunement in person
This
is probably most known type of reiki attunements. As the word itself
implies reiki student will attend "life" reiki 1 seminar which is
usually done in two days (but can vary depending on reiki style and
reiki teacher). Ones the administrative task is out of way teacher
usually introduce the class and give opportunity to all student to say
few words about themselves and what they expect from this class. Also if
there are some questions they are answered.
This is great
opportunity for both the student and the reiki teacher to clear the
reasons why one wants to receive reiki attunement. It is expected that
reiki teacher will advise student if he was mislead that he would become
immortal or holly as the result of reiki attunement.
It is common
that during reiki 1 attunement reiki student receives four attunements
spread over two days. This of course varies from teacher to teacher.
Each attunement last fro about 15-20 minutes. During the attunement
student sits comfortable in the chair, keeps his/her eyes closed and
other than that isn't required to do anything else. Some teachers
recommend some preparation regime such as but reiki attunement will work
without that as well.
Distant or absent reiki attunement
Distant attunement is viable option to in person attunement but the opinion
about it varies among reiki teacher and goes anywhere from simply
dismissal to full acceptance. Some of the reason against say that
student misses the opportunity to have first hand experience and of
course ask the question he/she might have. This of course if valid
objection but thanks to today technologies this seems almost to be
obsolete. In addition most if not all reiki teacher who offered distant
attunements are accessible either via e-mail or even more popular via
Skype.
The technical aspect of distant attunement itself is the
same as attunement in person and it is done via absent reiki (using the
symbols for distant reiki). Student and teacher would set the time for
this attunement and student would ensure that he/she is not disturbed
during this process. Usually reiki student will receive some material
before the attunement process itself so he/she can read about that and
ask the question before the attunement process itself. I was on both end
of distant attunement and know for sure that it works.
Reiki self attunement
This
kind of reiki attunement is rather little bit controversial to say the
last. Many reiki teachers flatly dismiss it while others are open for
the possibility that it might work.
The system itself is based on
empowering the student to believe in his/her own abilities and power to
take charge of his or her life. No need to have guru who will tell you
if you are ready or not. In addition this system attunes all the chakras
and not only two as most of other reiki styles do so this is more
powerful attunement. So, yes this is totally different type of
attunemetnt that in my opinion will change the way Reiki is thought. And
yes, this is very effective attunement.
The attunement itself is
also based on the power of intention and water. Yes, the water. Water
has the ability to accept, store and transfer information. Reiki student
will prepare and carry out the self attunement ceremony. He/she will
get all she needs to carry out this type of attunement.