Reiki Attunement: Why we can't do it to ourselves and need a reiki master?

Simplified, Reiki is an ancient technique of spiritual development that helps you align your mind, body and spirit and heal yourself and others using the chakras along with the reiki symbols.

What is a Reiki attunement?

A Reiki attunement is a process of enlightenment, where the crown, heart, and palm chakras are open to allow the Reiki healing energy to enter our body. It's advised that before receiving the Reiki attunement you take some time to cleanse your body by fasting, stop watching TV or reading the papers and spending more time in the nature.

Why we need a Reiki Master?

We as human beings have dormant psychic abilities like telepathy, precognition or dreaming our guides. We have this power through and above our senses, but we have buried them due to our culture, religious beliefs, family and friends.

During the reiki attunements, many people say they had mystical experiences like visions, levitation, healing, telepathy and past life rememberings. After the attunement, they felt a higher level of intuitive awareness and were totally relaxed. If you are just starting to learn Reiki and don't know what the process is, it's probably best that you receive your attunement from a Reiki Master.

Reiki attunements are intense spiritual experiences and, you can't learn Reiki like any other subject or science. The reiki energy healing is channeled through the Reiki Master during an attunement. This process opens the crown, heart, and palm chakras and allows the Reiki energies to flow into your body.

Once you have received a Reiki attunement, this is permanent and although one attunement is enough for each Reiki level, additional Reiki attunements bring more benefits, including better Reiki energy channeling, more powerful energy, mind clarity, higher psychic abilities and a increased level of consciousness.

We are extensions of source energy

The Reiki system was created to help you develop your skills and that's why you probably need to work with a Reiki master at first. This doesn't mean that the attunement is not valid, but it is often misunderstood in the modern system of Reiki. By tradition, in Japan, the attunement is called "reiju", which means "spiritual blessing" and it doesn't refer to enlightening someone to a specific energy, as the English word "attunement" implies. Still, it's not that the attunement is not necessary. It is, but it does not refer to attune someone to a type of energy that he or she does not possess.

You need a Reiki Master to assist you in aligning with source energy and open the chakras. The reiki attunement is permanent and you will not lose it, even if you don't practice Reiki for a longer period of time.

To conclude, Reiki attunements give you the power to channel Reiki. The Reiki energy chanels are already within you, it just needs to be awakened. But there are some steps in your spiritual development and you have to follow them, just as you go through the life's stages. Don't try to speed up the process, just let things unfold and everything will fall into place, naturally.

Other articles about Reiki training:

> How long we should wait between attunements
> Reiki certificates and organizations