What is Reiki and what are empowerments?
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The practice of Reiki is simply an enhancement of a natural process.
The universe is made of energy (or vibrations). Everything in it is made of energy, from the very rocks we stand on, to our bodies, and to our very thoughts and emotions. At every moment of the day we are passing energy through us in order to stay alive. This is a natural process, something every living thing does – as natural as needing, and drinking a glass of water.
Those people who have been taught Reiki have been shown ways of increasing the flow of this energy through them. By increasing this flow we are able to heal ourselves on many different levels – physical, emotional, spiritual.
We are also able to pass this energy through us and out of our hands (primarily). This, again, is a natural process that everyone does. When we are treating someone else we place our hands near that person’s body and they are then able to use this increased energy flow for their own good.
Finally, because this is a natural process, that every living thing does all the time, Reiki can in no way harm anyone or anything. It can only be beneficial to the recipient of it because it is the recipient who is always in control. The recipient’s body automatically knows how much of this energy it needs, what particular frequency it needs and where in it is to be used.
What is an Empowerment?
When you receive an Empowerment you are not having something done to you, you are doing something for yourself. Empowerments are really self-empowerments.
The Reiki Master has been taught how to get certain frequencies of energy flowing through his/her hands and places them near certain parts of the students body, but the Reiki Master is not ‘putting anything in’ to the student. The Reiki Master is simply offering up the right type of energy to the right places, and it is the student who takes the energy and uses it for their own purposes.
The Reiki Master is not ‘tuning the student in’ to some magical force that they would not have been able to use if they had not been ‘tuned in’. The Reiki Master is helping the student remember what they are and enhance and increase their natural Reiki ability – something everyone has to a greater of lesser extent. Just like when working with a client, where the client is doing all the work, it is the student doing all the work when being given an Empowerment.
Everyone is on a journey, a journey of discovery, and Empowerments give the student a sort of ‘turbo boost’ to speed up this personal journey. It increases their sensitivity to the natural flow of energy. It strengthens this natural flow, and it makes the student more intuitive.
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