Reiki Training

Author's Note: By writing this, I am preparing myself for a Reiki training at the end of this month for the Minnesota American Indian Institute of Alcohol and Drug Studies (MAIIADS)

Level II: After one year of practicing Reiki on myself, my family, and friends, I asked Marcus for level II. He gave me level II for 4 gifts. I should explain that the gifts were small. A sweet grass braid, a book, a scented candle, and some chaga.

Level II is distance healing, and it is emotional healing. I believe Reiki II helped me to mature. After my second marriage ended in 1999, I expected to have a long, hard time, and I wasn’t sure how I would handle it. I handled it pretty well.

There were moments that I won’t go into. What gave me the information that I was doing better than I thought was my daughter saying she kept waiting for me to fall apart, and I just never did. I continued to use Reiki with my family and friends.

I asked for Reiki II as I wanted to give Reiki to others that I wasn’t living with. Other family, friends, clients from my counseling job, and even people I would drive by who had been in a car accident. I had also read that Reiki people send Reiki to heal the world daily from all over the world.

I wanted to be one of those people sending healing energy to the world. When I could send distance Reiki, I started sending Reiki to accident victims I would go by on the road, to the world, and to family and friends, and especially to those who have asked to send prayers, Reiki, or light.

In meetings and conferences, I have sent Reiki to people in need, and to presenters who described their need. They may say, I am nervous, or it will just take me a minute to calm down or some such comment for me to start sending Reiki.

When my sister and I both had level II (the ability to send distance reiki), our mother’s knee went out. I told Mom that Carrie and I would send her Reiki. I asked her to lie down, and we would send Reiki within the hour.

I called her after a couple of hours, and she explained that she could see this cactus-looking thing that was all bent and right in front of her, she could see it straighten out. She figured that was her leg. Her knee was okay after that.

I talked to her about her knee sometime before she died in 2009, and she said that she remembers when it went out and has still been concerned that it could go out again, so she was careful.

Her hip was bothering her when she got to my house that time, but it was getting better after a couple of days with me and Reiki. My mother was sensitive to Reiki, and it surprised the doctors when she was dying, as they expected to have to medicate her for pain that she didn't appear to have.

I was giving Reiki at work for some co-workers and had just finished up with one when she said, I feel like an eye opened up on my forehead. I asked if she knew about chakras or energy fields, and she said she did not.

Then I explained the third eye to her, and she was excited to hear more and to experience the opening of her third eye. Another co-worker explained how her dad was a massage therapist and how she had received massages for many years, and she then thanked me and said that Reiki was better.

I would always give Reiki to clients experiencing migraine headaches, and it always seemed to help. Mostly, though, I have used Reiki with others for relaxation and stress reduction. And with level II Reiki, it didn't have to be hands-on Reiki.

My husband decided to quit chewing tobacco, and I agreed to help him with hands-on and by sending him Reiki. After he had been chewing spearmint leaves for six months, he told me he just didn’t understand how he could continue to be so addicted to spearmint leaves.

I realized that my helping him with Reiki wasn’t really what he wanted. I stopped providing Reiki without his asking for it. He went back to chewing tobacco. I know that using Reiki should be done only with the cooperation of the individual.

I’ve been told that individuals can hold Reiki and not let it in, and then later let it in. That is fine if it continues to be free will. Reiki should always be for someone who freely accepts it. My husband did at first, but then changed his mind.

In 2008 or 2009, my sister went through the Midewiwin lodge, and I was invited to go to support her. It is a lodge that is for our Native American people. During that experience, I was sitting outside the lodge when a small child went into the lodge.

That child was a very sick child. In the lodge, we could see people all around him with their hands up, and they were dancing around him. As I watched, my hands heated up and I began to send him Reiki.

I learned they used something similar to Reiki in that lodge, they do something similar to Reiki. I was later told that it was common for people to join Midewewin when they were ill and needed that support. My sister joined when she became sick, and before she knew she had cancer.

I have seen something similar with Christianity too. The being slain in the spirit and the hands on prayers for people. I was at a Christian women's group when where we were all asked to come up and pray for a woman going through a rough time. We all place our hands on her as we prayed.

There is more to level II but this is enough for now.