Learn Reiki: The Importance of Attunements

Attunements Empower the Healer

Today there are many different versions of Reiki being taught around the world.  Despite their differences, all include attunements as a key part of their approach to training and healing.  But, what does this mean?  What are attunements?

Attunements are rituals or ceremonies conducted by a Reiki Master.  In these ceremonies, a Reiki Master uses symbols, sounds, and gestures to connect the student to the universal source of ki.  The ceremony opens the student to the source of ki so that he or she can access and channel this energy in future healings.  It is said that the initial attunement ceremony forever changes the student.  The initial attunement creates a healer.

When an attunement takes place, the student may report various sensations in response to the new flow of energy within.  In some cases, the student will report hearing sounds or voices.  In other cases, the student will report visual imagery, including colors and symbols.  In still other cases, the student will report emotions, feelings, or other hard-to-describe sensory impressions.  Exactly what occurs seems to depend on the cultural background and personality characteristics of the student.

Reiki training commonly takes the student through three, or more, levels of training.  At each of these levels the student receives additional attunements.  With each succeeding attunement, the amount of healing energy available to the student is increased and the power to channel it is enhanced.   At the highest level of Reiki training, the attunement process helps to transform a student into a "master".

Once a Reiki attunement takes place, the recipient of that attunement is forever open to the flow of Reiki energy.  Nevertheless, most practitioners believe that additional attunements can be helpful.  Additional attunements, periodically received, may act to increase the person's awareness of Reiki energy and strengthen the person's ability to channel it effectively.

Besides the basic attunements described above, many Western-style Reiki practitioners, have added more attunements to their Reiki training programs.  The additional attunements used in these programs correspond to the concepts and beliefs that are not part of traditional Reiki.  In general, the additional attunements are said to open the individual to a greater variety of energies; energies that enhance the effects, or flow, of Reiki healing energy.

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