“Patterns repeat because you’re meant to work through them.”

This article is about patterns. Or repetition of patterns.

Now, this is something I’ve noticed in my own life and in the lives of some of my clients who have come to me several times, or who have gone to several therapists over the course of their lifetime.

Not necessarily hypnotherapists, but, you know, different kinds of healings or therapy sessions—Reiki, Theta Healing, hypnotherapy, psychiatric issues, sometimes psychologists, or various other kinds of healers and therapists.

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Chapter 1 — When the Same Thing Keeps Happening

So, one recurring pattern that I noticed, and that led me to question the efficacy of therapies itself at one point of time, was that issues tend to repeat themselves in a person’s life.

A person might find themselves often in similar patterns of problems or similar circumstances as before—problematic circumstances that they have thought they have dealt with or gotten out of.

One of the common theories in holistic healing systems is that patterns repeat until you learn how to deal with them.

Patterns repeat because you’re meant to work through them.

And until you have successfully dealt with them and learned how to deal with such situations, they keep repeating in your life, no matter where you are.

“Wherever you go, you bring your own mind with you, and thereby you take your own problems with you.”

It also goes to say that wherever you go, you bring your own mind with you, and thereby you take your own problems with you.

So, a person finding themselves in a situation like an issue with a mother might find themselves in similar issues with other relationships in their lives.

Even though the relationship might be different, the issues could be the same—repeating patterns.

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Chapter 2 — The After-Effect of Trauma

Now, another kind of pattern that I’ve seen repeat itself is the recurrence of the after-effect of trauma, even though the person has dealt with it in the past.

Let us say a person has gone through some trauma in their life that has caused them to react in a certain way to certain people. It has caused them to withdraw or change their behavior with others in a certain fashion, and it is not beneficial for them to behave like that, but that is unfortunately the effect of the trauma they’ve gone through.

Like, for instance, a person who has gone through some kind of abuse in a past relationship might have developed a set of coping mechanisms, defense mechanisms, that kind of put up a guard, you know, on relationships or similar relationships in the future.

And that might be causing the person from entering into similar relationships because the person is already on guard and is not giving a fair relationship a chance.

Or causing the person to react in similar fashions, like they did in the past.

The person might be on guard so much that they might be assessing the person, or the relationship, or the circumstances unfairly, or in a biased fashion, out of the fear that they do not want to repeat similar circumstances or put themselves in the same situation as in the past.

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Chapter 3 — When Protection Becomes the Pattern

For instance, I’m had a client who had been cheated on in her first romantic relationship in her life, and all subsequent relationships, she began to approach with caution, to the point where after a couple of failures, or a couple of similar circumstances she went through, she reversed the rules.

She would become the person who, by two-timing, or having multiple relationships at the same time, would make sure that she would not feel disappointed or traumatized when one relationship fails.

I’ve had another similar client with similar issues, but not perhaps that extreme.

But they developed a coping mechanism where even the slightest inkling or a doubt that the person is about to cheat her, or has an intention of cheating, she would dump them.

Even though, on one part of her—the rational part of her—she would argue that she doesn’t know if the person has a real intention of cheating her.

But it led her to deal with or treat all similar relationships, or even approaches by people, with suspicion and mistrust.

“Sometimes the very thing we develop to protect ourselves becomes the thing that keeps the pattern alive.”

Now, if you look at these patterns, you might even recognize similar patterns in your life.

It may not be the same issue that I’m describing here, you might notice recurring patterns in your life.

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Chapter 4 — When You Thought You Had Healed

And like I’ve said, in this second kind of pattern that I’ve noticed, a client might have dealt with a similar issue in the past and have gone to therapy and have actually dealt with it.

But they noticed that even though they have assumed, or they thought, they had worked through the issue and worked down the emotional trauma behind it, and been able to let go of the past, being able to move beyond it and worked on the beliefs that came up because of the trauma of the past, there might be some times where the similar belief system or emotional buildup seems to repeat itself.

And they might find themselves stuck in the same cycle, or going back into the same cycle again.

Why does this happen?

Well, at one time, it kind of led me to even question the efficacy of therapy itself—the therapeutic systems that I was practicing, like hypnotherapy or Reiki healing. And I thought maybe I should explore other systems of healing.

But I’ve noticed similar patterns occurring in other therapeutic systems or other holistic healing systems as well, where I’ve had clients and friends and fellow therapists talk about their experiences of similar experiences.

For instance, I’ve had clients who have been trying to deal with an issue all through their life, and it’s been coming up several times, or they’ve noticed it come up a few times in their life.

And they’ve been to several therapies or a few therapies in the past, and had been pretty sure that they had dealt with it.

But now it’s repeating itself.

Or clients who have been trying to work through the same pattern all through their life.

Eventually, I’ve come to have deeper insights into this problem of repetition.

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Chapter 5 — How Much Are We Ready to Let Go?

So, it’s not easy to, if you think about it.

Personality is a sum of all experiences of the past and a reflection over those experiences of the past.

What we try to learn from the past and what we went through in the past.

And therefore, any therapy, if it involves shedding of such a personality, we can only shed as much as we are ready to at that point of time.

And sometimes, even though our rational mind is quite ready, emotionally, or egoically, we might find it very hard to let go of some parts of it because we still believe in that part of it.

“Any therapy, if it involves shedding of personality, can only help shed as much as the person is ready for at that point of time.”

I’ve had clients who, even though they approach therapy, have found it difficult to believe that they would be able to get rid of the issue completely.

They have kind of lost faith in healing or therapy and come to believe that life is what it is.

It is an accumulation, but not a shedding of, or clearance, according to them. That’s another reason why we do not let go fully.

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Chapter 6 — When the Pain Is Too Much

And like I’ve said, in some other instances, the resistance comes from a pain or hurt that has still not been processed.

The resistance comes because the past is too painful to work through.

So they are able to only let go of a certain amount of it because they’re only willing to look at a certain amount of the hurt.

And not fully be able to process it completely because the hurt is too much.

There have been instances where clients have left therapy halfway through because as soon as they hit, or regress to, the root cause and see what has been causing them the pain, they stop therapy immediately or suddenly because the pain is too much for them to handle.

I’ve had clients come back a few months or a few weeks after this, after them being able to look at the root cause, because now it took them that much longer for the pain to be processed.

And those are the cases where the clients allow the pain to be processed.

And there are instances where clients don’t come back because they shut back, they shut down the whole issue again because it’s too painful for them at that point of time.

Nothing wrong in doing that.

And in fact, it is sometimes very wise to do that because it means that they are not exactly entirely ready for it.

And they will come back, or go to healing, or healing will happen when they are ready for it.

“Healing will happen when you are ready for it.”

It’s not necessary that healing always has to happen through therapy.

Incidents in their life also lead people to go through healing.

Life has a way of finding its—finding situations, or pushing itself to heal.

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Chapter 7 — When Life Gives You Another Opportunity

Now, that is where the first pattern occurs.

That is where, if you notice, in people’s lives, the repetition of an issue occurs because life itself, as an intelligence—a deeper intelligence—is pushing the person to deal with it.

Giving the person an opportunity, a second or a third or a fourth opportunity, to deal with the issue they’ve been trying to evade and not work with in their life.

Even though at some level they might be afraid, there is an intellectual fear built around it.

There is an aversion that they have built over the years to even approach the issue.

And life will eventually, I’ve noticed, take them into a situation where they will have to deal with it.

And that is an opportunity rather than a repetition of trauma or issue.

Because if you look at it, think about it—if you pause and reflect, or let a deeper reflection emerge—you will notice that this is the time, again, when you’re ready to deal with it now.

And you’ve given yourself a second chance, or a third chance, or a fourth chance.

Another chance to work through it.

And this might be the perfect opportunity for you to finally get rid of it.

“What looks like repetition might sometimes be another opportunity to work through something you weren’t ready to face before.”

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Chapter 8 — The Last Layers

Now, does that mean that these patterns keep on repeating themselves even though you have dealt with the trauma?

Do you need to keep dealing with it over and over and over and over again? Not necessarily.

Again, it’s because this might be repeating itself only because you still haven’t completely gotten over it.

You still haven’t shed the last parts of it, the last layers of it.

You haven’t shed the personality or beliefs around it that are false and have come because of fear rather than wisdom.

And for all I know—for who knows—this might be your last round of healing.

Now, this is where one of the things that happens.

This is where, again, sometimes clients believe that their therapy has not really been successful, even though initially they believed it was.

But now they attribute that relief to some kind of authentic release that temporarily happened.

But the issue has not, in reality, been dealt with.

It might be the case in some cases, but generally it could also be because you are now ready for the second round of healing.

It simply means, this is where—does that mean that you will have to keep going back to therapy again and again until it’s all done?

Perhaps, yes, if that is the route you prefer to.

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Chapter 9 — There Are Different Ways to Heal

There are, again, other channels of healing where people pick up self-help tools like Reiki or other meditation tools or mindfulness, or other techniques which help them deal with it by themselves.

This is possible if the pain is not, if the hurt is not too strong, and the technique they’ve picked up is gentle upon them instead of pushing them forcefully into it.

Now, it also can be, in some cases, that life circumstances itself heal the person.

Circumstances evolve, or situations, or events occur where a cathartic release, healing occurs by itself naturally too.

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Chapter 10 — The Patterns We Carry From Childhood

It’s not hard to find these recurring patterns in lives, especially the first pattern, where life situations keep recurring.

Similar relationships keep happening.

Similar financial circumstances keep happening in a person’s life.

Similar self-limiting beliefs present themselves strongly into the person’s life.

And it might feel as if the person has never really aged at all in this regard, and they are carrying still the same old feelings that they had as a child growing up.

“Sometimes we are carrying the same old feelings we had as a child, even though the circumstances around us have changed.”

It’s simply life’s way of telling you that:

Here is another place where you hear—here is another opportunity to deal with it.

Why don’t we deal with it now and get on with it?

Why don’t we get through at least the first round of therapy and healing before we are ready for the next?

And it’s only as gentle as you allow it to be.

If it feels strong, it simply means the pain, or the hurt, or the aversion, or the fear is strong, and you just need to work through it with some help.

Some outside help.

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The Final Thought

So…

If you find a pattern repeating in your life,

Maybe it’s time for you to…

Look at it head on.

And decide that it’s time to change it.

When anyone hears the concept of holistic healing and energy healing, one of the first reactions is mostly skepticism.

Even when people learn Reiki, a lot of them have questions: How does it help? And how do I apply it? What areas of my life can I heal with Reiki?

When we teach Reiki, we broadly tell you that Reiki can be applied to any issue, be it physical, mental, spiritual, or emotional.

So the question is: Does it work?

“Reiki can be applied to any issue, be it physical, mental, spiritual, or emotional.”

Can Reiki Help With Different Areas of Life?

Would Reiki help someone who was struggling with bad habits?

Would Reiki help someone with financial issues?

Would Reiki help someone with energy attachments?

Would it help someone with spiritual stagnation?

Would Reiki help with office problems or health issues?

These are some of the questions people naturally have when they first encounter Reiki.

Reiki Is Not a Miracle Cure

The first thing you have to understand is that Reiki is not a miracle cure.

It’s not like you do Reiki for your financial issue and suddenly find yourself winning a million-dollar lottery.

Reiki is a tool that primarily helps people clear the first line of blocks that stop a person from solving their problems.

“Reiki is not a miracle cure.”

The Problem Behind the Problem

If you look back at your past and think about some of the issues or problems you’ve had, you’ll notice that often, once you’re past the problem, getting past the problem was not the biggest challenge for you.

The most difficult thing to overcome was how you viewed the problem and what state of mind you were in when you were under the problem.

That state of mind may have caused you not to see the solution, not to take action at the right time, or not to be in the right frame of mind.

“The most difficult thing to overcome was how you viewed the problem and what state of mind you were in when you were under the problem.”

When Financial Problems Become More Complicated

When people are experiencing financial crunches, complications are often added to it by a sense of helplessness, a sense of not being able to respond in time to those challenges.

Eventually, a belief that this will be your state of life forever, or this is what you deserve, or even moving away from acknowledging the issue itself, will add layers of complications to it.

And this is where exactly Reiki becomes that one tool that can help you clear these layers and gateways between you and the actual problem, so that you can be in a state of mind to deal with what you need to deal with.

Reiki Helps You See What Is Blocking You

So, like I said, Reiki doesn’t help you win a one-million-dollar lottery or miraculously find that one person in your life.

It rather helps you understand what is blocking you in the path of financial prosperity, finding the right partner, finding the right job, or being able to navigate the challenges of your workplace.

It can help you deal with those complications, layers, beliefs, and blocks of the past that are holding you back from moving forward.

“It rather helps you understand what is blocking you in the path of financial prosperity, finding the right partner, finding the right job, or being able to navigate the challenges of your workplace.”

Reiki and a Sense of Empowerment

This is one reason why we often find that a lot of women tend to use Reiki more than men.

Especially women who are married and are living with their spouses tend to use Reiki a lot because we often notice that women in such situations are often the ones who find themselves feeling helpless, trapped, or perhaps even stagnated in their lives.

This can be in different areas of their lives, be it in their family life, their relationship, or their financial status.

They are also often the first ones, for some reason, who like to take action.

And Reiki comes as a certain boon in their life.

Moving Beyond Helplessness

Reiki becomes one of those practices that gives that empowerment back to these women.

And Reiki helps them heal the sense of helplessness, a sense of despair, and the sense of lack of clarity that comes when problems become complicated.

Or when you stay in a particular problem for a long period of time, there can be a further strengthening of the beliefs that harden in your system and make you think you are meant to live this life and that you cannot cross this or go beyond this.

“Reiki becomes one of those practices that gives that empowerment back to these women.”

Holding Your Ground

Reiki is the one tool that will help you hold your ground.

It will help you ground yourself, cleanse your emotional state and mental state to the point where you can see through the problem.

And you get the courage, the strength, and the energy needed to deal with what you need to work through, to do the things that you need in order to get back on track with your financial goals, your health, and other areas of your life.

“Reiki is the one tool that will help you hold your ground.”

Let Me Give You a Couple of Examples

Example 1: A Difficult Marriage

At one point, we’ve had a client who wanted — who was feeling stuck in her marriage because she was living at her in-laws’ house, which is the common tradition in the Indian Hindu family system.

And this client, being an Indian, was following this, and she was at odds with every relationship in that family.

The only thing that was keeping her from walking out of the marriage was her own sense of helplessness and her children.

Initially, she had come for a few Reiki sessions.

But once we were able to help her, she understood the value of having a tool like that in her life, and she decided to learn Reiki herself.

Taking Charge of Her Life

And once she did that, she noticed quickly that she was able to get out of the sense of despair that she was living in.

She was able to take charge of her relationships.

She was able to stand her ground — to stand up to her in-laws or to her husband — and work through the issues to the point where she is now quite happy in her own relationship.

She didn’t have to walk out of the marriage itself.

She could draw boundaries around her, and now she is quite content in her relationship with her husband.

They were also able to move out of the in-laws’ place, which was getting to be toxic for her.

“She didn’t have to walk out of the marriage itself. She could draw boundaries around her.”

Reiki as an Empowerment Tool

And even today, she continues to use this Reiki because she has understood the value of the tool and has come to see it in the right perspective.

Not as a miraculous cure-all system, but as a tool that will actually empower her.

Example 2: Reiki, Anxiety and Family

Another client of ours, when she came to learn Reiki, had already done Level One with someone.

But she had not been practicing and had gone out of touch with Reiki for a while.

She decided that she needed a fresh attunement in order to pick up where she left off.

So she had already seen some benefits of Reiki in the past, especially in the areas of her own personal health and the health of her family members.

When she came to us, she was at a stage where her kids had grown up and were going through high school and college.

And her worry had mostly been about her kids.

When Fear Gets Projected Onto Our Children

When she learned Reiki, she started using it for her kids so that they would be better able to focus on their studies, better able to find good opportunities in life, and better able to maintain their health in their schools and colleges.

But as she started practicing Reiki, Reiki started helping her in allaying her own anxieties and fears, based on her own past that she was projecting onto her own kids and worrying about them excessively.

In some areas, some of her anxieties and fears were warranted and had firm reasoning.

But in some areas, it was purely her fear from the past, from her own experiences, creating this fear and adding unnecessary pressure onto her own daughters.

“In some areas, it was purely her fear from the past, from her own experiences, creating this fear and adding unnecessary pressure onto her own daughters.”

Calming and Grounding Herself

So that practice helped her calm down and ground herself first, which is what Reiki does for any practitioner.

And Reiki helped even through financial situations because she was holding herself back at her job, and she believed deep down that she did not deserve any better.

But once she started practicing Reiki, she could work through some of these past issues of insecurity and low self-esteem.

And that’s when she was able to move forward in her career and improve her financial status.

Reiki Becomes a Family Practice

Eventually, both the daughters learned Reiki from us, and the husband also joined them later.

This is one of the few families that we’ve seen where all the members of the family have learned Reiki and are still using it.

So, What Is the Bottom Line?

So the bottom line is that Reiki is not a miraculous and magical healing system.

It’s a system that gives you the right perspective and helps you move out of your despair and helplessness and be able to see the problem as it is, without fear and panic.

It’ll help you work through these problems with clarity, improved health, reduced stress, and from a grounded state of being.

“Reiki is not a miraculous and magical healing system. It’s a system that gives you the right perspective.”

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Within spiritual and energy-healing traditions, we all have what are described as natural energetic shields — a form of energetic protection system, much like our immunity system, that is believed to keep our energies intact and largely free from outside influence.

We also tend to use terms in spiritual or therapeutic practices such as shielded and grounded.

Being grounded is understood as a condition where we are in a healthy energetic state. Outside energy influences simply pass through us without influencing us much. There are no leftovers; nothing gets attached to us.

But there are times and situations in life where this shielding can become weaker or even break down. It can happen due to various circumstances and issues, which we’ll discuss a little later.

When that happens, according to this spiritual framework, we become more exposed to the energetic influences of the outside world. We also run the risk of energies attaching themselves to us and to our energy bodies.

When our shields are down and external energies attach themselves to us, practitioners believe they can influence our thought processes and even our personalities. The influence can range from very minor mental influences to strong personality changes or even physical manipulation — possession-like cases, which are considered rare.

What Is an Energy Attachment?

We can divide energy attachments into roughly three categories, depending on the intensity of the attachment and its influence.

The first is simple free-floating energy attachments or thought forms.

The second consists of soul fragments and entity attachments, sometimes described as foreign energy attachments.

The third is what some spiritual traditions describe as dark force energy attachments.

Each of these is understood differently within spiritual healing practices, and the intensity of their influence is believed to vary considerably.

1. Free-Floating Energy and Thought Forms

Free-floating energy attachments are simple thought forms or emotional energies that we tend to pick up. These are understood as energies that have been left in the environment as a residue.

For instance, when we walk into a room filled with angry people, our auras immediately tend to recognize this. In a healthy situation, we acknowledge the anger around us but don’t pick it up.

However, in situations where there is a past fear associated with these places, or if our aura is weakened for some reason, we can pick up this free-floating anger in the air.

Our minds then tend to make it our own anger. The mind will bring up reasons for us to have angry thoughts.

Most of these free-floating thought forms are believed to have a very minor effect on us, sometimes none at all, and only rarely cause a stronger reaction.

Most often, we are not trained to recognize that these thought forms or energy forms are coming from outside. The moment we come into contact with these energies, and if we allow them to influence us, our minds come up with our own reasons to be angry or emotional based on that energy influence.

People who are deep into meditative practices such as mindfulness learn early on to recognize and shield themselves from these influences.

These free-floating energy thought forms are understood to be formed by excessive energy that is sprayed out or sent out from our body because of a very strong thought process or emotional reaction to something.

For example, if a couple has been fighting in a house over a long period of time, energy spills out and simply gets attached to the walls, or hangs about free-floating in that space. Others can sense it.

2. Soul Fragments and Entity Attachments

The second kind of energy attachment is called foreign energy attachment or entity attachment.

These energy attachments are considered a little stronger than free-floating energy attachments. Whereas a free-floating energy attachment has a very small residue of a thought form or emotion attached to it, foreign energies are believed to carry a little more personality.

They are either fragments of another person who is alive, called Soul Fragments, or an entire soul of another person floating about in space, called Entities.

Within this spiritual framework, these are what we call lost souls — souls that did not move on to the light.

What Are Soul Fragments?

Soul fragments are understood as simple fragments of the personality of people who are still alive.

Something has happened in their life that caused a part of their energy or personality to fragment. For some reason, that fragment has detached itself from the person and is floating about in space.

These energy bodies, like any energy body, are believed to need more energy for sustenance and are constantly on the lookout for it.

Whenever they find a person whose energetic space resonates well with them, or who has what we call a psychic hook, these soul fragments can become attached to that person.

I’ll discuss psychic hooks and what resonance means in a little while.

What Are Entity Attachments?

Entities, or foreign energies, are understood as similar personalities or energies of another person. In this case, however, the person has deceased, and the whole soul is roaming around lost.

These are souls that have not moved to the light, so to speak.

They are believed to be seeking a refuge — a safe space where they can hide because they are lost and don’t know where to go.

They missed the opportunity of moving into the light and, for some reason, sometimes become afraid of the light or of spirit guides who can help them move on.

Hence, they are left alone in this realm without a physical body.

So they too, like soul fragments, are on the lookout for a host or a safe space. When they find a personality that is in resonance with them or has a psychic hook, they attach themselves to that person.

How Do Entity Attachments Affect a Person?

The influence of these soul fragments and entity attachments is considered stronger than that of simple thought forms.

Where the influence of simple thought forms may last for a few minutes to a few hours, the energy influence of soul fragments and foreign energies is believed to last for days, weeks, or even years if left unreleased and unhealed.

Essentially, this is like two personalities in one body.

Depending on how strong and powerful the energy attachment is, and how influential the personality of the attached energy is, the influence varies.

The person can undergo changes in simple tastes, pick up new habits, or show behaviours that have not been part of their life earlier because they are now under the influence of this new personality.

Rarely, this can even extend to changing their direction in life — a change of occupation, education, courses, or similar choices.

Again, these beings are believed to need more energy for sustenance. This means they can significantly drain the host of energy that could otherwise have been utilized in the person’s life.

Releasing Soul Fragments and Entity Attachments

These energies are traditionally addressed in a spirit release therapy or energy release session, either directly one-on-one or through a distant session.

One needs to understand that these are considered lost souls that do not necessarily have an intention of harming the person. Nevertheless, within this spiritual framework, they can still end up affecting the person’s life.

Even if these entities could be someone close to the person they’re attached to, they still need to be helped to move on to the light.

“These are not your guides. These are lost souls that need guidance into the light.”

3. Dark Force Energy Attachments

The third kind of energy attachment is usually considered the rarest and also poses more risk to the person they’re attached to.

These are called dark force energy attachments. Within certain spiritual traditions, these are described as entities or spirits attached to a person with malicious intent.

They are believed to deliberately manipulate the person and affect their health, mental state, and emotional state.

Usually, there are one of two reasons behind this.

One is that these are entities of people who had borne some sort of resentment towards the person. After moving on from their body, they deliberately attach themselves to this person in order to hurt or harm them — to extract some kind of vengeance.

The other possibility is that these entities have been sent by someone else to deliberately harm the person.

In such cases, the entity itself does not have any personal connection to the person they’re attached to. They are described as lost souls that have been captured by people who know how to do that and used for the purpose of sending them into others — in some sort of dark witchcraft or black magic.

These attachments are believed to affect a person’s state of mind and health and deliberately undermine their progress and growth.

Within this spiritual framework, they need to be released. But again, like any other energy attachment, they need to be released safely and healthily.

So how do we release these energy attachments?

How Are Entity Attachments Released?

Spirit Release Therapy and Energy Release Sessions

There are traditionally two ways of approaching an energy release session.

One is through what is called a distant scan and release technique, and another is a hypnosis method.

The Hypnosis Method

In the hypnosis method, the person needs to be physically present with the therapist.

The therapist helps the person enter a state of hypnosis to identify, call forth, release, and resolve each of these energies.

The Scanning Method

In a scanning method, the healer is someone who knows one or more techniques of scanning and release, such as Reiki healing, Theta Healing, Buddha-do, etc.

They use these techniques to identify and release energy attachments from the person.

These techniques can be done either through distance scanning or through one-on-one scanning and release.

In both cases, consent is needed from the person to release these energies. In very rare cases of extreme possession, consent from a family member can help with the energy release alone.

Approaching Entity Attachments with Compassion

The advice is to approach these entities — even dark force entities — with compassion.

We are trained to treat them as a client within a client, and approach them as lost souls that are themselves in need of guidance and help.

Once they are released, within this spiritual healing framework, the release is considered permanent.

This is contrary to what movies show, or certain religious practices where an energy attachment or entity is forcefully thrown out of the person.

That is not the approach taken in the spiritual healing systems described here, because any forcefully thrown-out entity is believed to be bound to return with doubled resentment, or attach itself to somebody else — even within the family of the affected person.

“We are trained to treat them as a client within a client, and approach them as lost souls that are in need of guidance and help themselves.”

Energy release sessions and Spirit Release therapies are some of the safest and easiest methods of healing that I’ve encountered in my practice.

Sometimes, it can take more than one session to release an energy, either through hypnosis or distance methods.

Psychic Hooks and Resonance

As I discussed earlier, an energy is believed to become attached to a person because of resonance or a psychic hook.

What this simply means is that, for a lost soul to seek refuge within a person, it has to find something that resonates with its own personality.

For instance, a soul that was an angry person during its life would find it very easy to attach itself to a person who is also in a similar state of anger.

Sometimes, the host is playing a role that is opposite to the personality of the energy attachment.

For instance, a lost soul that is trying to find a motherly figure could attach itself to a person — male or female — who has a personality that is maternal and protective in nature.

Past unresolved emotional traumas can also serve as psychic hooks.

Addictions are strong psychic hooks for energies with similar addictions to be attracted to.

Why Do Energy Attachments Happen?

I can’t stress enough that, within this spiritual framework, it is not considered easy for an energy to attach itself to us.

We have a natural shielding and grounding system that we always carry within us.

But there are times when this shielding is believed to be down, either because of physical illness, some kind of trauma, or an intense emotional issue that the person is undergoing.

In such cases, the aura is understood to weaken and the shielding opens up.

This can happen even in cases of accidents or sudden shock to the system.

In any case, psychic hooks need to be healed by the person after energy release sessions are completed.

Unless these are resolved, the person is considered to remain at risk of attracting more attachments.

What Happens After Spirit Release Therapy?

How Does a Person Know When an Energy Has Been Released?

As I mentioned earlier, an energy’s influence can range from very small or short-lived thought-level manipulation to long-lasting personality changes or even physical manipulation.

So, within this framework, it is not hard for a person experiencing considerable influence from an energy to notice a difference.

An energy release is considered immediate, although the person may notice changes over the following few days.

The changes can range from simple emotional relief to intense physical clearance, where the person finally feels back to their senses.

The disappearance of some habits and addictions can also happen, provided these addictions haven’t been with the person for a long time.

If the energy has stayed within the person for years, the addiction may also need an additional set of therapies that the person has to undergo personally.

Feeling Back in Control

The person could feel as if something has lifted off them and they are now back in control.

Where they earlier felt compelled to react to certain emotional stimuli, they may now notice that the compulsion is gone.

They can make a choice now.

It is important that they immediately start cultivating the new choices they want to make so that the habit of forceful reaction is broken.

In cases described as entity possession, practitioners may observe improvements in the person’s overall state and a sense that their physical faculties have come back under their own control.

Grounding and Shielding After Entity Release

Additionally, the client is always advised to learn grounding and shielding techniques from the therapist, or to take up a spiritual practice or energy-healing practice such as Reiki or Pranic Healing.

Mindfulness practices and meditation techniques can also help them develop a daily practice of grounding and energetic shielding.

These practices are intended, within this spiritual framework, to help the person maintain a stronger sense of energetic boundaries after an energy release session.

Conclusion

To conclude, energy release and spirit release therapy are approaches within spiritual and energy-healing traditions that are intended to help people regain a sense of control over their faculties and their life.

Energy attachments, entity attachments, soul fragments, psychic hooks, grounding, and shielding are all concepts that form part of this spiritual framework.

The important part is not simply releasing an attachment, but also understanding why the attachment may have occurred and addressing the underlying psychic hooks so that the person can move forward with greater awareness and energetic balance.

Reiki is taught through transmission of Reiki healing energy from a Reiki Master to a Reiki student. Reiki transmission is done by a process called Reiki attunement that a Reiki Master or a Reiki Grandmaster performs on a Reiki student. And Reiki students are trained in Reiki classes that are divided into various Reiki Levels.

This post will clarify the various Reiki healing levels and how classes or workshops are conducted. I will also attempt to explain what will be taught in each Reiki Level and how Reiki courses are conducted. We will also cover the eligibility required for you to participate in each Reiki healing level.

Reiki Levels / Reiki Degrees Explained

There are various schools of Reiki and each follow a system of teaching and have their own Reiki classes laid out. These Reiki levels are usually decided by the lineage followed by the school of Reiki. Lineage is the way of tracing the line of Reiki masters back to Reiki Grandmaster and the founder of Reiki – Dr. Mikao Usui. And the current living Reiki Master in that lineage decides the Reiki healing levels to be set for any particular Reiki healing center or even set of Reiki schools.

So some Reiki schools follow 5 Levels of Reiki training classes and others follow 4 Reiki levels of teaching based on the Reiki lineage that they follow. At Purple Room Reiki Healing Center in Hyderabad we follow the William Lee Rand lineage. This is the lineage where our current living Reiki Master or, rather, Reiki Grandmaster is William Lee Rand. Therefore our Reiki training center in Hyderabad follows a 4 Reiki levels system of energy healing classes. They are Reiki Level 1, Reiki Level 2, Reiki Level 3 or Advanced Reiki Training and Reiki Master Course.

The terms Reiki levels and Reiki degrees are interchangeable. They mean one and the same thing. So a Reiki level 1 training is the same as a Reiki 1st degree class.

Below you will find what each Reiki level of training teaches and how our Reiki levels of energy healing courses in Hyderabad differ from Reiki levels of other Reiki healing schools. At our Hyderabad branch of Purple Room Healing Center, we simply use the term Reiki level.

Reiki Level 1 / Reiki 1st Degree

Since we follow the lineage and the recommendation of William Lee Rand school of Reiki, it is mandatory for students to attend both Reiki Level 1 class and Reiki Level 2 class together as a single Reiki course. This is a two day workshop where Reiki 1st Degree is taught on the first day, followed by Reiki 2nd Degree on the second day.

Reiki Level 1 taught at the Purple Room Reiki Healing Center in Hyderabad is the beginner level of training for anyone who is interested in learning Reiki sealing system. As I pointed out earlier, the ability to channel Reiki is transmitted by an Reiki attunement given by a Reiki Master to the Reiki student. This is precisely what happens in Reiki Level 1 class. The student is introduced to what Reiki is and what it’s basic principles are and then the Reiki Master performs an attunement on the student. After the attunement, the Reiki student is able to channel and use Reiki energies.

In Reiki Level 1 class, we also teach the student how to use Reiki for various healing purposes in a one-on-one setting. Reiki level 1 gives the student the ability to use Reiki on themselves and others in hands-on healing sessions. So the student is taught how the various hand positions for using Reiki on oneself. It is called a full body Reiki healing on self. The student is also taught the various hand positions for giving Reiki healing to others in a hands-on Reiki healing session. A hands-on Reiki healing session is a one-on-one session where the Reiki client is physically present with the Reiki healer to receive healing.

In Reiki Level 1 training, the student is also introduced to the Chakra system of the the energy body and how they relate to healing or sickness. The Reiki student is then taught how to scan the Chakra system with Reiki and channel Reiki to the chakras that are blocked or need healing. In Reiki Level 1 class, the student is also taken through a meditation method that is to be used by the student everyday, preferably in the morning, to help them increase their connection with Reiki healing energies and also to improve their intuitive abilities.

In order for the ability to channel Reiki healing energy to become very strong and permanent, the student must perform a full body Reiki healing on self everyday for a minimum of 21 days. This will strengthen the flow of Reiki healing energy in the Reiki healer, that is the student, and also make it a permanent flow for the Reiki healer.

Reiki’s healing energies do not deplete the Reiki healer of their energies nor do they bring back the client’s energies into the Reiki Healer. In fact, every Reiki healing session helps the Reiki healer heal themselves too. However, due to the nature of the client healer interaction, the personality of the healer, and how you may react/respond to the client when they open up and speak of their personal problems, there is a possibility that the Reiki healer connect at an emotional level with the client and thus form energetic cords or pick up energies from the client. In order to cut these cords and to clear up any energies that the Reiki healer may have picked up accidentally in their Reiki healing session with the client, we teach our students a simple but powerful technique that the Reiki healer needs to perform at the end of every full body, hands-on Reiki healing performed on others.

There are few other topics too discussed in the Reiki 1st Degree class, including a study on the history of Reiki, the ideals of Reiki as practiced by Dr. Mikao Usui, Byosen scanning method and, it time permits, a fun scanning method to find the size of the aura of a Reiki student.

After the successful completion of Reiki Level 1 training, the student becomes a Reiki healer and is eligible for starting a professional Reiki healing practice after their 21 self healing period is successfully completed.

Ghassho Meditation as was originally taught by Dr. Mikao Usui, the founder of Reiki Healing System.

Reiki Level 2 / Reiki 2nd Degree

As I said earlier, we at the Purple Room Healing center in Hyderabad, teach Reiki Level 1 and Reiki Level 2 classes together in a two day workshop training.

Attending the Reiki Level 2 class gives the Reiki healer an ability to channel and send Reiki healing remotely. The clients need not be present physically at the Reiki healer’s place in order to receive a full Reiki healing. Reiki Level 2 training focuses on symbols. Symbols are used by Reiki healers to channel specific Reiki healing energies that work on specialized areas of healing. There are three symbols taught in Reiki 2nd degree course. These symbols, of course, are valueless to the Reiki student without an attunement performed by the Reiki Master. After receiving the attunement, the Reiki healer is able to channel the Reiki healing energies associated with each of the three symbols taught in the Reiki Level 2 workshop.

Each symbol has a specific set of functions and they are discussed in the Reiki training subsequently. The Reiki healer is taught when and how to channel the Reiki energies for each of these symbols. The Reiki Master also teaches the student how to perform a distance healing for others.

Cleansing spaces of negative energies and improving the vibes of the space are taught in Reiki 2nd Degree Class.

After learning Reiki 2nd Level healing, you will be able to cleanse spaces, send healing to animals and plants, and also send healing to situations. So the Reiki Master teaches how to scan a place, how to sense energies of the place and how to cleanse a place and rid the place of negative energies and fill the space with positive, healing energies. A discussion on the nature of energy attachments and spirit energies follows. It is but a brief introduction to a vast topic.

In Reiki Level 2 training, the Reiki Master also teaches the Reiki healer how to cleanse and program crystals for personal use and for manifestation purposes. A modification of the meditation taught in the Reiki Level 1 class is imparted that helps the Reiki healer use a powerful shielding and cleansing technique for themselves and also for others when the need arises.

With Reiki Level 2 workshop, the Reiki healer’s ability to channel Reiki increases tenfold and they will be able to harness the power of Reiki even better.

At our Hyderabad branch of Purple Room Reiki healing center, it is mandatory to complete both Reiki Level 1 and Reiki Level 2 together in a two-day workshop training.

Reiki Level 3 / Reiki 3rd Degree / Advanced Reiki Training – ART

A powerful grounding and cleansing mediation called Moving Meditation is taught in Advanced Reiki Training class.

Reiki Level 3 or Advanced Reiki Training (ART) is taught at our Purple Room Healing Hyderabad center to Reiki healers who have completed Reiki Level 1 and Reiki Level 2 training and have practiced a minimum of six months both on themselves as well as on others. It is not strictly necessary that the Reiki Healers must have practiced at a professional level in the six month period.

Reiki Level 3 class is an advanced training in Reiki healing systems with tools and techniques imparted by the Reiki Master that will vastly increase the healing and channeling abilities of Reiki healers in their daily and professional practice. A new symbol is attuned for the student and the student is also taught an advanced healing technique called psychic surgery. This helps deal with tough emotional wounds like heavy trauma from the past with effectiveness and ease.

An exercise is also taught in the Reiki 3rd degree class that lays foundation for Reiki Master level course. The student is expected to master the exercise before they come for the Reiki Master class. Also taught in the Reiki 3 level training is a powerful grounding meditation that both grounds the practitioner as well as cleanses the space they do the meditation in.

Reiki Master Course / Reiki Grandmaster Class / Reiki Level 4A / Reiki Level 4B

Reiki Mastership class is taken a minimum one year of rigorous practice by the Reiki student who has completed Reiki Level 3 training. They must have done Reiki healing sessions for people outside of their family and friend circle. It is good if the participant has had a professional exposure in Reiki healing practice.

In our Reiki Healing school in Hyderabad (Purple Room Healing), we teach Reiki Level 4a and Reiki Level 4b together in one class. And as such it is called Reiki Master course. So our school does not recognize the title of Reiki Grandmaster, rather reserves that term to someone who is a very experienced Reiki healer – someone like William Lee Rand. Some Reiki schools, the same Reiki course is taught in two workshops and are named Reiki Master Course and Reiki Grandmaster Course. In such case, a Reiki student is taught how to perform an attunement for Reiki Level 1, Reiki Level 2 and Reiki Level 3 in the Reiki Master Class training, while the knowledge on how to attune a Reiki Master is taught in the Reiki Grandmaster class. In our school, we train students in giving attunement for all levels of Reiki including Reiki Master in a one day Reiki Master training class.

Certificates of participation are provided for all Reiki training classes. Though these courses are not recognized by any government authorities, these certificates have been useful in the past for our Reiki students, Reiki healers and Reiki Masters who trained with our Purple Room Healing center in Hyderabad. Some organizations and health institutes appreciate an additional Reiki healing ability in their employees and as such these certificates have increased the chances of our Reiki Healers in securing occupations such places.

Reiki is a healing and relaxing energy that can be channeled through your chakras and the body to help oneself and others. As a Reiki channel, there is not limit as to how you use the energy you channel. Sure, you cannot use Reiki to harm others. It is inherently impossible to do that in Reiki, unlike some other forms of energy healing/channeling. But, that apart, you are just limited by your imagination as to how you use Reiki for your needs or other’s needs.

The reason why Reiki can be used for many needs is because of its inherent nature. Reiki is qi or prana energy that is being channeled from its divine source. You are channeling energy that is used for creation itself. So this energy has the power to create, not just heal.

Also, coming from a divine source, this energy has its own wisdom to decide the best resolution for any situation. A Reiki practitioner also has an intention on what Reiki should heal when they channel Reiki. These two intents – one divine and one mortal – together allow for endless creative possibilities.

These two qualities of Reiki make it the best suited energy for healing, guidance and manifestation. And those precisely are three major areas that we use Reiki for in our everyday life.

Reiki as a Healing Energy

Reiki heals in three stages – cleansing, energizing and shielding.

Being energy of healing, we can use Reiki to help heal our health issues – be it mental, spiritual or physical. So if any family member is feeling unwell, Reiki can help them relax and allow the body to speed up its natural healing. If someone is feeling upset or disturbed emotionally, Reiki can be channeled into them for easing the chakras of the pent up emotions and allow them to let go.

Reiki heals in three stages – cleansing, energizing and shielding.

Cleansing is where all the harmful energies present in various forms are removed from the situation or person. For instance, in a mentally disturbed person Reiki helps clear or reduce the intensity of disturbing or negative thoughts that are influencing the person or situation. Mal-intentions are removed. Similarly, with physical problems, Reiki helps cleanse the chakras that are disturbed and helps the body release toxins or other predatory agents out of the body.

Once cleansing is done, the person or situation is given nourishment needed to recover from the damage already done by the problem. Reiki flows into areas that need energy to help with the convalescence phase. It is not necessary that all of cleansing phase happens first and then followed by the energizing process. All the three stages of healing overlap each other or can happen in any order. Usually, energizing process is the one that takes significantly more time than cleansing or shielding process. But there will always be times when cleansing or shielding is more demanding than energizing.

The final process is shielding. This is to ensure that the person or situation receiving healing is not affected by harmful influences immediately and to make sure there is enough time for the person or the situation to improve without outside influences affecting them. As I mentioned before, sometimes shielding happens even before cleansing or healing.

Shielding trains and strengthens your natural aura.

In day to day living, there arise many situations where the healing ability of Reiki can be used. From problems like children being hurt from a fall or an adult hurting themselves in small accidents to helping with problems like headaches, body aches, or daily fatigue, Reiki becomes an indispensable tool for healing.

Since food can be infused with Reiki, several Reiki practitioners give Reiki to their food while cooking. This will help heal them and their family members receive daily healing effortlessly. Similarly water and even coffee and tea are given Reiki before being consumed. The intention of the Reiki practitioner in these uses is either specific for a cause or sometimes a general intent to heal all areas of life. In the latter case, Reiki uses its own wisdom to channel the healing to specific areas of life.

Reiki as a Guiding Force

Reiki carries its own wisdom that is both natural and divine in its nature. And it is not without its effect on a Reiki practitioner who channels Reiki every day. As Reiki passes through our own chakras, nadis and the body, we tend to pick up some of its wisdom and advice.

It is a very natural way of increases one’s own intuitive abilities. This can become very evident once our third eye becomes clear and active. Gassho meditation (see picture) is particularly useful to increase our intuitive, or even psychic, abilities through Reiki practice.

Gassho is a simple but
powerful meditation
that was taught by
Master Mikao Usui.

At Purple Room Healing,
we introduce this in our
Reiki First Level Course.

Reiki becomes our guide to get clarity in everyday issues. In everyday confusions or issues that need decisions, Reiki meditation can help us arrive at a conclusion. Being able to clear chakras, Reiki can help clear confusions in people’s minds and provide clarity for any situation.

There have been several instances in Reiki practitioners’ lives where a daily Reiki meditation or simply even asking Reiki for help has provided surprising insights into the problem. Right from providing timely advice to stop venting our frustrations on others to being guided to make huge decisions, Reiki has been a pathfinder for us several times across our journey.

Reiki is also particularly useful in helping people deal with their existential crisis. In terms of energy and chakras, we sometimes describe existential crisis as a blockage of Sahasrara (the Crown Chakra) which effectively cuts us off from being able to see the ‘big picture’ or lose faith in life. Sometimes it can also be a result of severely blocked Muladhara (the Root Chakra). In both cases, Reiki will ease the blockages or reconnect us back to our purpose in life.

And since Reiki inherently carries its own wisdom and consciousness, often times Reiki practitioners leave the end result to Reiki. In other spiritual practices, it is equivalent, to saying for the highest good. So there can be times when personal attachment to the person or the situation, a Reiki practitioner cannot decide what the best outcome is and in such cases they usually leave it to Reiki to decide the best course of healing or the outcome.

Reiki for Manifestation

Reiki is a creative energy. It can bring into reality that which is not already present. This makes Reiki one of the greatest sources for manifestation. Reiki manifestation is taught in any first level Reiki workshop. Once you are attuned to channel Reiki, you are already channeling energy to manifest.

Reiki is a powerful way to
fall in touch with
our real selves and
our real needs.

Of course, on knowing this, most of us plan to use it for achieving our greatest dreams. And yes, Reiki will certainly help you there – as long as your wishes are in alignment with your highest healing. Remember, Reiki has its own wisdom.

But there are also everyday opportunities to nudge our realities into directions we would want and this is where Reiki shines. Do you want your daughter to feel protected at her new school? Do you want to nail that interview for your dream job? Do you need that loan to be approved? Or do you simply need to find that key you’ve misplaced? The needs and possibilities for manifestation and Reiki are endless.

Daily worries and the nagging sense of helplessness is gone or significantly eased for a daily Reiki practitioner. There is a sense of control and destiny. It helps us master our fates even in its smallest details and get flowing in our lives.

Reiki is a powerful way to fall in touch with our real selves and our real needs. It helps us understand who we really are and what we are looking for. Once the intention is clear, manifestation begins. Reiki helps with both.

Again, you can also let Reiki decide what’s best for you and allow it to nudge you in the right direction.

For Reiki practitioners and Reiki masters, Reiki is that everyday tool and a way of life that helps us tide over the swells and ebbs of everyday life while, at the same time, helping us move closer to the reality we want to live in.

Reiki is not a blessing in disguise, it is the blessing. Every time you channel Reiki, either for yourself or for others, you are blessing yourself and sending out blessings to the world. It is the energy of Love – the one that connects and binds us. Reiki helps create new bonds and let go of old ones that have become restrictive, it helps us create, sustain and heal.

That is why we describe Reiki as a way of life even though it is not a religion nor does it impose any rules on our way of life. We evolve with Reiki and become a better version of ourselves with daily channeling.

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• Are you looking to heal yourself or improve your overall life?
• Are you open to accepting the Reiki energy in your life?
• Are you looking to remove the negative energy in your life?

If you answered yes to all these questions, Reiki is definitively for you.

Reiki is a Energy Healing Technique that was discovered in Japan by Dr. Mikao Usui in 1922. It is a simple technqiue that can be easily learned by anyone who is interested and willing.

The word Reiki comes from two words Rei and Ki. Rei means higher power or spirit and Ki means life force or vital energy. Put together Reiki means divinely guided vital energy.

Each of us are nourished with life force energy within our bodies. This energy is supplied to our physical body through the seven major chakras and hundreds of minor chakras. Just like there is a huge network of nerve system in our bodies, similarly energy from these chakras is circulated through our bodies through a large network of energy meridians and the three nadis in our spinal column.

A healthy person has a free flow of this life force energy. However, in an unhealthy person (unhealthy either in mind, body or emotions) the life force energy is either sluggish or the flow is blocked. When Reiki is administered, the Reiki energy transmutes the negative life force to positive and releases the blocks. The flow and vitality of the life force is restored to its natural health.

Our Reiki workshop Level 1 and 2 are conducted together for beginners over a course of 2 days. The workshop is conducted online so you can learn Reiki healing from the comfort of your home. We take no more than 6 people for each workshop.

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Note: We provide a PDF document of the Reiki healing positions required for Self Healing and One-on-one hands-on healing. No other course materials are provided. Please be prepared to take notes if you wish to. We do provide a digital certificate on completion of the full Level 1 & 2 course.

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Reiki is a natural, spiritual healing way used for self-improvement and healing others. Reiki is energy drawn from the universal qi or prana and can be directed to others through a Reiki Healer to promote healing and well-being.

Anybody can receive Reiki healing as long as they are willing and/or receptive. Likewise, anybody can become a Reiki Healer if they are willing to learn. A Reiki Healer is a channel or a medium who allows Reiki to flow through them and pass out of them to heal others. A person becomes a Reiki healer when they undergo a process called Attunement under a Reiki Master.

Attunement is the process through which a Reiki Master makes permanent the flow of Reiki energies into an another person and makes that person a Reiki Healer. Once attuned, the person can use the flow of Reiki through them to heal both themselves as well as others. A Reiki Healer (after Level II attunement) can channel Reiki even remotely. This means such Reiki Healers can send healing to people who are physically separated from them by many hundreds or thousands of miles.

When I attended my Reiki Mastership Workshop (where one is given the ability to attune others), I learnt to attune people only through one-on-one sessions. We did not even conduct group attunements. No matter how large the group, my wife and I attuned people only one by one. In fact, the question of a remote attunement (that is, attuning others over distance or online) was never under consideration then.

A few years later, a client of mine who lived in a another city asked if I could attune him online for Reiki Level 1 and 2. I was skeptical about it and eventually referred him to another Reiki Master in the same city as he was in. But with the onset of the global pandemic situation, the question of distance attunement became an all important question and, at times, even a necessary solution. The need for a healing tool in the hands of each person has become an immediate one. And Reiki, among others, has come to play a vital role in helping people cope with the pandemic itself as well as its various side-effects on both mental and emotional health across the globe.

During a meditation, I asked Reiki and my guides if I should do online initiations and I received guidance to go ahead. Interestingly around this time, I came across an article that spoke of Ms. Takata having done remote initiations for some students during her time. This gave me a lot of confidence to go ahead with online attunements.

My first online initiation gave me full understanding of how powerful Reiki is. My student not only started feeling Reiki flowing through her after the first level attunement, she was subsequently also able to use it to heal her issues. After that I had no hesitation in doing online Reiki classes and initiations.

To answer the first question, can one learn Reiki online – absolutely! Not only is it a boon to us in these times but also a necessary tool to improve ourselves, to help us heal and to live the quality of life we want to.

If you haven’t invited Reiki into your life yet, I’d say it’s time you did and discovered for yourself how wonderful the healing energies of Reiki are and what miracles you can achieve in your lives.

We at Purple Room Healing conduct online Reiki initiations and attunements over the weekends as well as personal one-on-one workshops at our center in Hyderabad. You can call us at our number 9394301400 for further details and queries.

Reiki is a healing and meditative practice that originated in Japan. It functions on the principle that there is life-sustaining energy (qi or chi) energy that permeates everything in the creation and we can learn to channel and use that energy to heal ourselves. Reiki is the art of channeling this qi into ourselves or others and bring about a shift in their state of being.

Everyday healing is better than occasional healing

There are two ways you can traditionally receive Reiki healing. The first is visiting a Reiki Healer and receiving a healing from them. In this method of healing, the Reiki healer diagnoses your problem and sends Reiki to the affected areas. A Reiki healer is one who has the ability to channel Reiki through them and is well practiced in the healing art.

The second way of experiencing Reiki healing is by learning to channel Reiki through you. You attend a level 1 Reiki class and receive an attunement from a Reiki master. Attunement is the process in which a Reiki master/grandmaster opens up, clears and prepares your chakras to receive and channel Reiki. After attunement you will have the ability to channel Reiki and give yourself healing. You can even start sending Reiki to others.

There are several advantages to learning Reiki yourself over attending Reiki healing sessions. Here are some important differences.

Everyday healing is better than occasional healing

Healing is the process of alleviating stress in the body, mind or spirit and allowing the stressed organs or functions to heal themselves. When we allow stress to accumulate over time then it can lead to acute dysfunctions of the body or mind and we may eventually need a stronger medical/healing intervention. We are creatures capable of self-healing if only we provide our bodies and mind the time and energy needed to repair itself.

A daily Reiki practice heals the body, mind and spirit on a regular basis and helps us keep tabs on our general well-being. It gives us an ability to manage daily stresses and also offers opportunity to address traumas of the past. The biggest healing I received from my early years of Reiki practice was that my personal fears and panics subsided and I became calmer in my daily routine.

Reiki practice is a meditative session

Meditation is something that most of us think about practicing but a very few of us actually end up making it a part of our daily practice. The most common reason I hear from clients who gave up meditation is because they are unable to concentrate or focus. The truth is that meditation is not single-pointed focus. In fact, the ability to focus or concentrated is a benefit of regular meditation, not the pre-requisite.

Meditation is a relaxed awareness; it is being in the moment. Meditation allows the natural healing processes within to work their magic. Reiki practice of self-healing requires you to place your palms over various chakras or organs in your body and send Reiki into those chakras or organs. This is a very powerful meditation session that allows our body and mind to open up to not only receiving Reiki but also to improve our intuitive awareness of self and the moment. We are in deep meditation when we practice the daily Reiki self-healing session.

Your family has a healer now

After you attend a Reiki level 1 session and receive an attunement, you become capable of giving Reiki to others. You are in effect a Reiki Healer. Having a Reiki healer in the family has several untold benefits. I have personally experienced the immense advantage of giving timely healing to my husband, child and others in my family with Reiki. Our well-being is affected by several aspects in our life including food, familial relationships, economic conditions, social interaction and several others. Reiki has become an invaluable aid to take care of several of these aspects in my family life. Right from managing the mood swings of my family members to taking care of emotional well-being of my child, Reiki has been the biggest resource for me ever.

You can address all the small daily headaches much more efficiently without resorting to outside healing sessions every time something crops up. For me, Reiki has personally been the go-to method to address several small issues that can crop up any day in my daily routine. The confidence that comes from being able to address issues which used to leave you helpless earlier is something to be felt and experienced.

Keep your house and workplace cleansed

Reiki can be used not only to heal our bodies and minds, it also helps with taking care of house energies and fearful situations in life. Every place has its energy fingerprint, so to speak. But it is not a static and permanent state of energy, rather it is a flux that is affected by and, in turn, influences the situations and the people that move through the space. So our houses can be affected by us and our family members, energies that we carry through it, people who visit our homes, events and situations that take place there. Learning Reiki gives us the ability to keep our places regularly cleansed and also, if necessary, intervene whenever there is a dynamic shift in the energies of the place.

You open up a huge metaphysical doorway

Reiki focusses on opening up and clearing energy pathways in ourselves. This wakes up a lot of our latent intuitive abilities. We become acutely aware of subtler connections between our bodies and minds. We learn of our own manifesting ability and understand how our external reality is intimately connected with our inner realities. We interact with energies that we haven’t even known existed before. We learn how to protect, heal and transform energies even before they manifest into our outer realities. Life becomes fuller and more meaningful.

Economic advantage of learning over receiving healing

Of course, there is an immense economic advantage of learning Reiki. You don’t have to consult a Reiki healer every time something crops up in your life. You are not paying for individual sessions. You simply sit down and start giving Reiki to the problem.

Of course, like I mentioned earlier, there are times when you may have to ask for help of a fellow Reiki healer. But those are extenuating circumstances rather than daily situations. For instance, a family emergency affects us very strongly and we may need the help of another Reiki healer because we are too occupied and exhausted by the care-giving process. But usually Reiki healers tend to be in touch with their Reiki masters or be a part of an online healers group, so getting outside help is quicker in case of emergencies.

Reiki is a way of life

Reiki is not a religious practice. Neither does it place restrictions over your lifestyle choices like food or occupation in order to practice it. It is a complementary practice which means you can use it with your other practices such as Yoga, Tai Chi, Pranic Healing, Zen, etc.

But Reiki is also more than a healing technique. It is a way of life. In that, with practice, you understanding the processes of mind-body connection, how stress can manifest itself, you understand mind and its workings, you realize the flow of energies in life and body, you understand the sources of your stresses better, and we understand ourselves better.

As a Reiki master, I’ve attuned several people into Reiki healing over the past decade. I have received a lot of feedback on how Reiki healing has helped all individuals including housewives, students, professionals, and the elderly. I have a been personal witness to healing through many trying times and situations in my family. As a central figure in my family, Reiki has helped me look at life from a new perspective that not only helped me heal but also helped me keep my family well and safe throughout our journey in life. So yeah, if you ask me, I’d say learn Reiki, practice well, heal yourself and heal others.

It’s like the air curtains you find in some malls…And just like that you are in an entirely different surroundings, leaving behind all the polluted and noisy environment.

It happened the next day too. I just sat in the lab for a few moments as if I put my entire schedule on pause including my mental activity. I was simply gazing at the keys on the board. Again within a few moments my mind became calm and alert. I even noticed that I could listen and comprehend better in the class. I started doing this everyday. I would just enter the lab for a few moments and sit quietly before I entered the classroom and greeted my friends. And every time I paused for a few moments without thinking of anything in particular and simply allowing my body and mind to just rest, my system was releasing out all stress and tensions of the previous experience and becoming calm and rested.

It was like the air curtains you find in some malls and showrooms, where there is an air blower mounted on top of the entrance door which is constantly blowing air downwards. And anyone who passes through it is hit by a gust of wind as if you are passing through a wall of air. And just like that you are in an entirely different surroundings, leaving behind all the polluted and noisy environment.

There is no expectation or direction in this act. You just let everything slide away from your mind and simply be.

The effect was similar, by pausing I could simply leave behind the stress, bad mood and tensions from the traffic and approach the class with a fresh and alert mind. Like I said, it even helped me focus and understand my class better. Though I couldn’t understand the process behind this technique of stress release, it had reminded me of an incident from my childhood. I was 9 around then and I was playing in the terrace of my apartment building with my friends when I suddenly tripped over a water-pipe and sprained my foot. I sat down in pain holding my foot. Somehow I knew instinctively then that I had to quieten down and observe. I do not know how I came to know that. Perhaps it was because I was still a child, and children usually are more in tune with their body wisdom than adults. I stopped crying, looked down at my foot and simply sat still. I wasn’t frozen, it was a relaxed sitting while watching my foot without any serious concentration. In a few minutes the pain subsided and sprain was healed too. The body did it for me. I was both surprised and not surprised at the same time.

Pausing creates this gap in the mental processes and allows the body and mind to return back to their state of rest. I think this allows natural healing to take place without interference and also bring the mind back to a state of instinctive calmness. It not only reduces stress and anxiety for us, but it also, I’ve noticed, promotes healing and boosts creativity. I could always perform the best when I paused just before starting a task. Several years later I could deepen this with the practice of mindfulness. In fact, I think both are the same, just that we call them with different names.

I have to make an important distinction here. The pausing I am talking about is not like the pause button of on a remote. It is not about freezing everything. Nor is it about waiting for something to happen. There is no expectation or direction in this act. You just let everything slide away from your mind and simply be. If gazing without concentration at objects can help you, you do it. That is all.

The most difficult aspect of this practice, I found, is in the beginning when you are trying to bring this into your daily routine. We forget, or we are busy, or we just don’t want to let our minds and thoughts down. You try to do it while still thinking about what you’ll be doing once it’s done. But that doesn’t work. It’s is not pausing. One needs to simply let everything slide for a few moments.

In any case, if you are inclined towards self-healing and improved well-being I’d really urge you to try pausing before and after you do anything in your daily routine. I found this to be more effective than a single long meditation once a day because this pausing is like many small meditations spread across the entire day and gives you, with enough practice, the ability to become composed and alert in almost any circumstance you might encounter in your daily routine.