by Reikijim on Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:49 pm
My first experience with reiki came in the form of and Usui/Tibetan healing attunement.
At the time,I was electrical maintenance manager in a rather large public utilities plant that supplied fresh potable water to a half million people. The politics of the place had run me into the ground. I had called in the services of an old friend who was in engineering to access some test devices to help rectify a problem technically. I had not talked with him in about ten years, had no idea that he had become a master/teacher, and had no idea what Reiki was for that matter.
One morning he offered to help me, a little comfort from the stress. So I agreed, not knowing what was about to happen.
We relocated to a more quite part of the plant where I was asked to sit in a chair with my hands on my knees, palms down. I was asked to focus my breaths in and out from a point just below my belt buckle(tanden). Next i was asked to close my eyes and imagine roots growing out of my feet, down into the ground. Visualizing this I drifted away...What appeared was a shoreline, it seemed my view was inches from where the water lapped onto the small, smooth stones of the shoreline. The feeling was so entrancing and beautiful, that my body started to slowly sway back and forth in time with the waves. I could see the colors of the stones, hear the waves, the sky was was a blue/gray color.
He told me that I was in this state for about five minutes before he touched my shoulder and asked me to come back.
I felt completely different , can`t remember EVER feeling that much peace in my being. It lasted about 5 days and gradually wore off. The level of stress I was feeling prior to this experience never returned.
I know some here frown on healing attunements as they aren`t part of the original system. Maybe they disregard them for other reasons as well that I`m not aware of. All I know is the affects were marvelous for me. A month after this I experienced my Level one attunement and class.
RJ