The Homework I Took Home: Use Reiki for Self Healing?

One thing that surprised me when I started studying Reiki was that using Reiki for self-healing was not only normal, but my teacher actually required it as homework. I was to find someone else for experience in helping others, but my teacher was quite insistent that for the first week at least that give myself Reiki treatments daily. I underestimated the simple and elegant power of this "homework".

When you are practicing Reiki, one thing that it is important to remember is that you are a conduit for the energy. It comes through you, not from you. Another important thing to remember is that the energy that you are moving is (by any human measure, certainly) unlimited. As such, giving yourself Reiki treatment forces you to realize that you're not going to "dry up" and not be able to give Reiki anymore. That, for me, was the most important lesson I got.

The second was just familiarity with the Reiki practice and energy, and both are very important when you give Reiki energy to someone else.

Once you get this important inner understanding down, you have less of a stand-offish approach, and you allow the energy to flow more freely. This in turn helps you with your life, and it also makes you a better Reiki practitioner, as you let go of your hurts, fears, and other garbage and focus better on the person you're trying to help.

The practice of self-healing does not end after level one. It, like so many things, is a continual process. As you gain confidence, and move on to level two, you don't stop using Reiki on yourself. Indeed, at this point it's become almost automatic, and you use your newfound techniques to keep working on yourself, as in helping yourself, you help others, your loved ones, your clients, and by extension the world around you.

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