'Tuning in' to reiki: how 'attunements' fine-tune the reiki healer

'Amazing!'

That is the only word I can find to describe each of the reiki attunements I have had. An 'attunement' is the process in which the channel that the chakras run through is aligned to allow the reiki energy to flow through. They are necessary for you to be able to channel reiki. For me, each attunement, at each level, has been a completely unique experience, from seeing colours, to having a sense of peace and love surrounding me.

After an attunement, there is a twenty-one day healing period, which coincides with the length of time that Dr Usui, the founder of reiki as we know it, spent on Mount Karuna when reiki was sent to him. Each chakra needs three days to clear any blockages that are there.

The first time I asked for the reiki energy to channel through me, I could feel a tingling sensation in my hands. I found that as I started to use reiki I became more sensitive to the reiki energy that I was channeling, and also to the energy my body was emitting. I also became more sensitive to the energy emitted by the clients I was treating.

I found that my intuition started to develop and although I had been taught set hand positions, I intuitively knew where my hands needed to be placed during each treatment I performed. I also found that I knew where the energy blocks were and what the root cause of them was, which enabled me to guide my client to the area of their life that they needed to look at changing.

Each progressive attunement allowed the reiki to channel through me more strongly. The reiki symbols that I was attuned to from reiki level 2 to Master Teacher level eventually allowed healing to take place on a much deeper level, in both my clients and myself.

Through this amazing process of attunement, I found that reiki did really make a powerful difference both to my clients and to my own health and well-being. For this reason, I decided to teach this wonderful form of healing so that more and more people could help themselves and others to achieve a more peaceful, loving way of life.

Now I get to hear the people I teach tell me that 'attunements' are truly amazing!