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When I treat, do I need to keep at least one hand touching the body at all times?
Keep touching or you’ll lose the ‘connection’?
In some lineages, students are taught that they always need to keep at least one hand resting on the body at all times because, if they do not, they will ‘lose their connection’ with the client, and then have to go through a ritual again in order to regain that lost connection.
But is this really necessary?
Do we have to have to touch the body every second, like a sort of Reiki tag-team, for fear of disconnecting, and is the Reiki ‘connection’ so fragile?
What’s the difference between hands-on and hands-off?
How long should I spend in each hand position?
Treat like clockwork?
In some Reiki lineages, students are taught to spend a set amount of time treating each hand position, no matter who they are working on, and some practitioners use audio CDs with little ‘bells’ that sound out every three minutes, say.
But isn’t this a bit mechanical, and everyone’s different, so why would we give essentially the same treatment to everyone that we work on?
Altering your treatments to suit the client
The energy needs of each person that we work on will be different, so it’s reasonable to expect each Reiki treatment that we give to… Continue reading
Reiki – a very portable therapy
Reiki is with you every moment of every day. When I went to Egypt on a Reiki trip in October, 2006 arranged by Louise Heseltine (what a memorable trip that was Louise!), we were in the Valley of the Kings. It was fiercely hot, and I was coming out of one of the tombs. It had been a LONG way down and involved uneven steps. A gentleman with a stick was just starting his journey down. I advised him that it was very steep and that he might have a lot of difficulty. Surprisingly, he heeded my advice and we both walked back up to the top. I… Continue reading
Standard Hand Positions or Freestyle?
One of my favourite topics when I’m teaching my Reiki First Degree students is the subject of ‘standard hand positions’ or ‘freestyle’ treatment techniques. By this I mean whether to work on a client with the 12 standard hand positions taught on most Reiki courses, (often, it seems as the be all and end all of conducting a Reiki treatment), or whether to go with the energetic flow of the treatment and flow through an intuitive, ‘freestyle’ session. I have seen therapy centre and health spa websites which describe Reiki as a treatment whereby the practitioner channels Reiki into the… Continue reading
