My Reiki I Course

The course started at 11am. My Reiki Master, Majid was already there to clear the room of negative energy and prepare for the lesson.

I was very curious of the attunement. However, the most part of the course, he is talking about the history of Reiki and Energy Life Force that Reiki has. I was seriously amazed at the depth that the course touches. Many questions that I thought has no answers are answered based on Reiki 's theories.

Thinking about it, the talking of history and etc is already the attuning myself to accept Reiki. The course talk about the body that will be receiving the energy once it is attuned and how we can improve our energy through breathing exercises (some called it meditation).

The attunement process took only about 10 to 15 minutes whereby my basic 7 Chakras were unblocked (if they are blocked). Think of Chakras as ferry wheel. If they don't turn or turn wrongly, it will affect the energy.

After attunement, we were told that in this modern age, Reiki Master do not attune the full energy immediately to our body as our body may not be able to handle them. So, the attunement is actually energy in packages where it will open up one by one over the 1 to 2 weeks.

• A very easy to understand way of how Reiki works as told by my Reiki Master is.
• Think that the energy or information that you are receiving as downloading a program to your computer.
• Think of yourself as a computer with an OS (operating system). If you have only a Windows 95 and you are receiving advance information from Windows XP, it may NOT work even though you already downloaded the program.
• The body must "upgrade" itself to be able to receive the Energy (or to execute the downloaded files).

A part of the human body has animal instinct. For example, animals usually fight to stay on or becomes frighten and run away when confronted. in ancient time, human also fight to survive and they do becomes frightened.

In Reiki, we have the change this perspective to allow the start up program (fight or fright) to become a program attuned to Reiki. We must program it to follow the Reiki Principles which I will share in my future post.

There are many information shared but the fundamentals are all in the Reiki Principles.

At the end of our lesson, I requested to talk about Qi (Chi or Energy) that we can feel. So, our Reiki Master actually requested us to align our palm and slowly move them towards each other. Indeed, we can immediately feels a tension between the palms. Actually, I have did it before the attunement. However, after the attunement, it seems that my palms get hotter.

Anyway, we also proceed to see our Aura. I was the "model" and my fellow course mates were able to see my aura. I have to admit, I cannot see any of it.

It is still too early for me to comment on Reiki. We were told to practice the breathing for the next 30 days to improve the energy around us. I will be doing that. Also, we were told that the best time to practice the breathing is at 4am as the sun is down and the night is serene.

To summarize my first close encounter with Reiki: -

• I felt the heat in my palm getting stronger.
• I felt my heartbeat becomes faster for a moment (not due to excitement)

That is it for day 1. Hope you enjoy it.