Lambs-Wool wrote:

Compassion stands at the heart of a reiki treatment... love for the reiki process, and love for the patient is something that augments the reiki efficiency, and in a way, we may never become a good reiki practitioner unless we have a warm, affectionate, and compassionate heart

i remember James mentioned in some article on his website (www.aetw.org) that 'fiery hands' in reiki is not as important as is a 'fiery heart', if we are talking about the practitioner and the reiki process...

when we are compassionate, we naturally tend to alleviate the pains and suffering of our client/patient buddy in the shortest possible time... and at times, we feel need of use as many 'tools' within our 'holistic toolbox' as we can manage to apply... so a reiki session, often times, goes a little beyond what is called a 'reiki session'... (we tend to include too many things, which, of course, is a result of our compassionate nature)....


compassion also invigorates the circulation of 'ki' inside our bodies, and when we are in a reiki treatment session, we unconsciously tend to 'porject' our ki in making the healing buddy heal faster... this is almost a nutural outcome of we being compassionate, unless, of course, we 'know' that we should refrain...


more so, when we 'interact' with the ailments of the buddy through byosen and we identify hibki's and then apply reiki 'topically' to the affected areas, we are simultaneously developing a tendency to 'apply' reiki instead of general advice that 'let go, and let reiki'... a reiki treatment, ideally speaking, is not about 'doing' rather about 'letting go' and to let reiki flow as it would, or to let reiki 'work' as it would... but, in practice, this is not as simple and easy as it would just seem to... as our reiki session moves to 'climax' we sooner find ourselves adjusting our breath unconsciously to augment a greater projection of 'reiki' (which generally has the immediate effect of ehnancing our ki)....


then, we find ourselves often in a position, as if we were 'pushing' reiki to affected areas... the words 'directing the flow' may also be used... these practical observations suggest that we normally dont 'let go' reiki as we should... we become a part of obstacle in what we been doing and aiming ourselves....


these days, i m training myself, that how to 'let go' reiki and to 'detach from outcome' whilst actually maintaining the compassionate heat within the session... times i find that reiki flow becomes too 'subtle' yet too powerful as compared to the days when i used to 'push' reiki to the affected areas...

is 'subtelity' instead of 'intensity' is the true jewel within a reiki session ?


and, i would ask help and suggestions from my friends here that how do they manage these two important postulates within a reiki session

best regards


Salman