Reiki Online Newsletter - February 2018

Sitting SessionYou Can Start a Reiki Practice
by William Lee Rand

If you have taken a Reiki class, even if it is Reiki I, you can begin charging money for your Reiki sessions. This fact is not always mentioned in Reiki classes but based on the way Reiki has been traditionally taught, it is true! Read More

 

Table of Contents

William Lee RandIt is my pleasure to send you the February 2018 edition of our Reiki Online Newsletter. Clicking on the links in the table of contents takes you directly to each item. To return just click on the "Return to Contents" link at the end of each section or the back arrow in your browser. I would enjoy your input so we can make this newsletter even more informative and valuable. Feel free use the input form link toward the end of the newsletter to send any comments, questions, information or Reiki Stories that you would like to share with other Reiki people.

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Sitting SessionYou Can Start a Reiki Practice
by William Lee Rand

If you have taken a Reiki class, even if it is Reiki I, you can begin charging money for your Reiki sessions. This fact is not always mentioned in Reiki classes but based on the way Reiki has been traditionally taught, it is true!

Charging money for your Reiki sessions means that you could use your Reiki training to supplement your income in a meaningful way! And if you find that you like giving Reiki sessions and you are so inclined, you could even develop your Reiki practice into a full-time business with a full-time income! Doing this is not as difficult as you might think. The reason is that you can start out slowly and learn as you go. What I am saying is, even though you might think this a daunting project and you may feel intimidated by the idea, you can learn how to do it.

If you are over the age of 18 or so, you have learned how to do lots of things that may have seemed challenging at first. These things could include learning to sew, learning to cook, being able to paint a wall, learning basic carpentry, learning how to go fishing, applying for and starting a new job, or learning to drive a car and so forth. And, learning how to start and run a Reiki practice can be just as easy and just as fun as any of these things.

Don’t sit on the sidelines watching life go by;
jump up and grab hold of life and
experience the feeling of accomplishment!

When I first took Reiki I and II in the early 80’s, Reiki was new, and it cost more than it does now. As an example, Reiki I was $175.00, and Reiki II was $500.00. In inflation-adjusted numbers, this is equal to about $500.00 for Reiki I and $1400.00 for Reiki II or $1900.00 for both. Because of this, most people took Reiki I and only a few took Reiki II. (1) I paid for Reiki I and about a year later, because I was able to organize the class and recruit the students, I received Reiki II free! I felt fortunate that I was able to do this.

The idea of receiving the ability to heal by simply taking a short class and getting attunements was also new and very fascinating. I had a friend who had taken Reiki training, and he confirmed that it was not a sham and that it did in fact work. So, I went ahead and took the Reiki I class, and I was very happy that I did.

As previously mentioned, at that time most students only took Reiki I, so the teacher would explain that with Reiki I you could begin giving Reiki sessions to others and charging money. It is also important to note that at that time, Takata Sensei trained virtually all the Reiki Masters (except for a few who remained teaching in Japan after World War II), and they were teaching very strictly in the way she trained them. Because of this, it is clearly the case that charging money for Reiki sessions after receiving Reiki I training was part of the Reiki tradition.

And in fact, since the ability to channel Reiki healing energy comes automatically to all students who take the training and receive the attunements, and the actual session using all the hand positions listed in the training manual is not difficult to follow, virtually anyone who takes a Reiki I class can begin giving Reiki sessions. It is also important to know that since Reiki is a very simple technique and is very easy to do, if one uses a very light touch or keeps the hands an inch or so from the body, one does not have to be concerned about doing any harm.

But of course, now, the Reiki I & II classes are often taught together, so students have even more training and are even more qualified to give sessions.

After you have received the basic Reiki training, your next step is to practice. To do this, I suggest giving simple sessions to your family and friends for free. After you have done a few of these and gotten feedback from your clients, you will see that your Reiki does in fact work and that people really enjoy receiving Reiki. This response will give you the confidence you need to go to the next step.

Next, you need to begin charging money for your sessions. To do this, it is best that you get a Reiki table. A new table will be nice, but used tables are often available and can be found in ads at the health food store or posted on New Age bookstore bulletin boards. Keep in mind that you are starting a business, and can expect that there will be some investment needed to do this and that the cost of the table is relatively small when compared to the income potential that awaits you.

Start out charging a low fee and work your way up to your target fee. Your target fee will be what others in your area are charging for Reiki sessions or otherwise, it would be the same amount that people are charging for a massage session.

To begin, tell everyone that you are starting out and will be doing your first ten Reiki sessions, as an example, for $10.00 and then you will be increasing your fee to $20.00. If you tell everyone this, they will know you will be increasing your fee and will not be surprised when you do. Also, they will know that if they sign up for a session right away, they will be saving money. This promotion will encourage people to act. Without this incentive, most people will think to themselves that yes, at some point they would like to have a Reiki session, but they will not set one up right away and may even forget about it. But with this system, they are much more likely to sign up quickly. Then after you have raised your fee to $20.00 continue in this way up to your target fee. This method will keep the motivation going for people to sign up right away for a session. You will need to check in your area, but the fee for Reiki sessions is usually between $50.00 to $150.00 for an hour session depending on the area of the country in which you practice.

As you give more sessions, you will gain more experience and you will feel more confident in charging more money. Also, make sure to get everyone’s name and email address. Get some business software and place each client into your database. Then, when you have a special event like a Reiki Day or you have a booth at a psychic fair or you will be at other events, you can notify those in your database about it. This database will also come in handy for notifying people when you are ready to teach Reiki classes.

Set a goal of giving five or six sessions for part-time or up to 20 sessions or so per week for full-time. By doing the math, you will see that the potential income for your Reiki practice can be significant! This method is a simple, straightforward way to get a Reiki business going and covers some of the important first steps. And if I have piqued your interest, I suggest you get the booklet, Developing Your Reiki Practice, and carefully read it. This booklet contains articles that cover every aspect of setting up and running a Reiki business. People just like you who learned from their experience wrote it and shared all the details of how they got a thriving Reiki business started including what worked and what did not work.

Life presents many opportunities, and it is the person who recognizes an opportunity and takes action that is the one who moves forward with his or her life. Don’t sit on the sidelines watching life go by: jump up and grab hold of life and experience the feeling of accomplishment.

1 Reiki Master was $10,000.00. (One group still charges this amount!) In the 80's, with inflation, this was the same as almost $30,000.00 now. In addition, there was a reluctance on the part of the existing Reiki Masters to initiate other Masters even if they were willing to pay the fee! Needless to say, at that time, it was very rare for someone to become a Reiki Master.
 

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Holy Fire Reiki

Holy Fire Reiki is a new form of Reiki that was introduced in January, 2014 by the ICRT. It is both powerful and gentle and provides purification, healing, empowerment and guidance. It is included as part of our Usui Reiki classes and has also been added to Karuna Reiki® training.

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Walking PathWalking on Reiki
by Laurelle Gaia

I am writing this during my healing process. You see, I am healing after a stroke that occurred a couple of years ago. I am relearning how to walk and to talk as a result of the paralysis I experienced. I recently set an intention to walk with a cane rather than a walker and to walk on my own ultimately. To help me manifest this intention, I asked some of my Reiki friends to join in supporting my intention with their Reiki energy. I immediately started to have the thought that I walk ON Reiki.

The thought that I “walk on Reiki” may seem like an abstract thought but is it?

I am realizing that those of us who practice Reiki ARE ALWAYS walking on Reiki. By this, I mean Reiki may be supporting and guiding us along our personal life path.

Our job is then to simply ALLOW that guidance to direct our life. When we reflect on our life, we may understand more of how Reiki has been guiding our steps all along.

Sometimes we do that by merely following the clues or thoughts we experience. Some call that a path of least resistance. I call it the path of clearest direction.

To me it feels vital that I explore even the seemingly most unimportant thoughts that I have, to see if they might be clues to my next step along the path. I wonder if they are steps that add up to guidance that is gradually unfolding. I think that before the stroke happened, I may have thought guidance would be apparent to me instantaneously. Now I feel guidance is an acknowledgment of patience, and guidance becomes clearer to us through time.

This healing process is encouraging me to practice patience. We should allow the energetic changes that are occurring in our being to integrate before we create more change than to assume integration is immediate. I believe I did not give much thought to this before the stroke. After all, our being may be more complicated than we realize. Perhaps patience applies to the unfolding of our path too.

Thinking back to walking with or without the walker I realize how I could become dependent on it, or I could depend on my own personal strength to walk. It is easy for me to depend on the walker, but I learn more when I depend on myself, with Reiki, to take the next step.

I learn more when I also allow all parts of myself, over time, to integrate the changes that are happening.

When I reflect on the thought that I first attended a Reiki class 30 years ago, I realize I have been walking on Reiki for a long time, I just was unaware. How is Reiki guiding YOUR steps along YOUR path?
 

Reiki at Stonehenge
Reiki at Stonehenge

Usui/Holy Fire II ART/Master Training
May 22-24, 2018 - Glastonbury, UK

Holy Fire II Karuna Reiki® Master Training
May 29-31, 2018 - Glastonbury, UK

Instructor
William Lee Rand

Sunrise
Seven Day Inward Bound
Usui/Holy Fire II ART/Master
Teacher Training on Maui

Usui/Holy Fire II ART/Master Training
Aug 15-21, 2018 - Hana, Maui, HI
 

Entrance Gate
Special Reiki Classes on Kurama Yama, Japan
Kurama Yama is the mountain where Usui sensei had
his meditative experience and was given the gift of Reiki.

Usui/Holy Fire II ART/Master Training
September 16-23, 2018 - Kurama, Japan

Holy Fire II Karuna Reiki® Master Training
September 23-30, 2018 - Kurama, Japan

Instructors
William Lee Rand and Colleen Benelli
 

Reiki Retreats 2018

This year we will feature two Reiki Retreats; one for the East coast and one for the West Coast. Click on the links to read about all the exciting activities. REGISTER before March 31st and Save $50!


Honor's Haven
Honor's Haven
June 22-25 - Ellenville, New York
Sedona
Sedona Mago Retreat Center
August 31-September 3 - Sedona, Arizona
 

Reiki Stories*

Reiki StoriesReiki and Uterine Cancer
Six years ago while a Level Two Reiki healer I was witness to an extraordinary healing of a woman diagnosed with cancer. My Reiki Master (Colleen Chauntler of Gladstone, Australia) was staying with me at the time. A woman was brought to my home presenting a distended lower abdomen and we were told by her friends that she had been sick for some months. In the week prior to this visit she had a scan and had been told by doctors that she had a large tumour in her uterus that was probably cancerous. Surgery was planned for the following week. We decided to give her three sessions of Reiki healing throughout the week, hoping that would encourage rapid healing for her after her surgery. Rather than the usual hand positions, three of us worked on her—my Reiki Master held her hands on the patient’s lower abdomen, I had my hands on her head (crown) and another Level Two healer (Sharon Honatana) was at her feet. We stayed like that for approximately an hour each session.

On the day she was to check in to the hospital I saw a large black energy in the shape of a ball and surrounded by what appeared to be sparking energy lift from her abdomen and rise up into the air. It kept rising and disappeared through the ceiling of the room. I asked if anyone else had seen it and each of the others confirmed the same thing, including the patient. She duly went on to check in to the hospital, and when they examined her they could not feel the tumour; they sent her for a scan and it had gone. She told us with great humour that the doctors were arguing and quite flustered at the result. They eventually went on to do an exploratory operation but no tumour could be found. She had therapy for the few cancer cells they did find and is fit and healthy now.

The woman believes she was healed by Satya Sai Baba and Reiki. On the night before her last session she said she dreamed she was in her car and it was teetering on the edge of a cliff. Below her was blackness; in her rear-vision mirror she could see a long road, and walking along this road was Sai Baba. He came toward her car and stood looking at her. She cried out to him to help her and he reached down and pulled her car off the edge of the cliff and placed it back on the road.

—Penelope (Penny) Hayward

Reiki and Prostate Cancer
With the thought of promoting Reiki, I called an assisted-living center to offer an Introduction to Reiki class with free mini-Reiki sessions. When I asked the social director if he was familiar with Reiki he said, “Let me tell you my story,” and proceeded to tell me that he had been recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. His massage therapist, Reiki Level II, had been told by a psychic that he (the social director) needed to receive three treatments in close succession by three Reiki healers. I quickly set things in motion and our team performed Reiki on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. No other treatment was given. Prior to treatment his test confirmed he was 4.0 and his doctor diagnosed that he had prostate cancer. The Monday after we completed the three treatments he was again tested. On the following Wednesday he called to say the test results showed 0.3 and that he was free of cancer. He remarked that in all of his life the test results were never that low. I am so honored to have been a part of his healing. I feel honored to be called by Reiki, a major part of my life.

—Phran Gacher, Stamford, Connecticut

Reiki Helps Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
This past December, my 20-year-old niece was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She was told she would receive eight sessions of chemotherapy every other week and she would need to look for a wig by the second treatment, for she would lose her hair.
I began to send long-distance Reiki to her in December. But after her first session of chemo, she needed daily injections of a drug to keep her white blood count up while the chemo wiped out her immune system. Since I am a nurse and live close to her, I saw her daily for two weeks to give her injections until she was confident to do them herself. I of course offered her Reiki each visit. The first visit was between her first and second chemo sessions and she had just returned from shopping for wigs, none of which she bought because she did not like any. I said in passing to her while giving her the Reiki, “Wouldn’t it be nice if the divine energy saw to it you could keep your hair?” She said, “Yes, of course,” and we both forgot about it. As each session of chemo passed, her doctor and all of the bald patients in the department were astounded she was not losing her hair. The physician said if she didn’t lose her hair by the fourth session, she would not lose it. He was totally amazed and said he never saw anything like it!

My niece is now getting her radiation and doing fine. She had minimal sickness after the chemo sessions, where most people suffer tremendously with nausea and vomiting. This type of Hodgkin’s is a very curable cancer, so I’m not surprised my niece is doing so well. The miracle is in having no hair loss and also minimal sickness during the hard doses of chemotherapy.

—Gerri Delmont, RN

Reiki and Heart Attacks
Without a sound, a man collapsed, sliding silently from his chair and onto the floor. People crowded around him, and one person, a Reiki Level One, began hands-on while I went into another room. I could clearly feel his heart beat. It was very faint and squishy (a technical term?).

As energy began to flow, a slightly different connection was made and I found that my heart was beating for his. That was new to me, but it added a lot of depth to Usui Sensei’s statement to “Always expect there to be oneness.” The man was sitting up by the time the paramedics arrived.

Less than a week later, a friend phoned. She had just called 911; her husband was having a heart attack. His heartbeat was entirely different: fluttery and erratic, a bit like static on the radio. Again the link was made allowing my heart to beat for his. He too was sitting up when the paramedics arrived.

Similar scenes have happened over the years—similar, yet each one entirely different. Panic attacks respond in a similar manner, except that the victims’ breathing and heart rate move into synch with mine. There seems to be a definite increase in panic attacks nowadays.

—W. Craig

Retinas Are Attached
I have a client who had both retinas detached, and the eye specialist said he would need surgery to re-attach them. After I gave him four Lightarian Reiki™ sessions my client went back for a checkup, and the specialist was amazed because both retinas had reattached. The specialist said it was amazing because the eyes needed surgery. There is still nerve damage and I am continuing to do work on his eyes, but the incident shows the power of Reiki.

—Dez Sellars

Post-Surgery Healing
This is a story about two identical hernia surgeries. The recovery from the first surgery was without Reiki. The recovery from the second surgery was with Reiki. The first surgery was an outpatient procedure. You’re in surgery in the morning, then in the recovery room. As soon as you can urinate, they send you home. Sounds easy, right? Wrong! I was in the recovery room by 10:00 am. I was waiting for the pain medication to kick in and had my eye on the bathroom door. Lunchtime came and went. I watched other patients begin to make their way to the bathroom and then be sent home. By 4:00 pm I was the only one remaining in the recovery room from the morning surgeries. Hadn’t been to the bathroom yet. The next shift of nurses came on duty. I thought if I just walked over to the bathroom, I’d be able to “go” and get out of there! As I made my way over to the bathroom the level of pain increased with each step. Needless to say, I did not “go” and had to be helped back to my Lazyboy. I finally left the recovery room by wheelchair at 7:30 pm that evening. Once home, I faced three flights of stairs which I could negotiate only one step at a time. The next three days were very painful. Two days later I was in the surgeon’s office to have my staples removed. While on the examining table I was handed a mirror so that I could view the incision. It was all red and irritated, with some infection.

Two weeks later, I participated in a Reiki retreat. I was there so that the Reiki students could experience treating someone who was post-surgery. I also helped with meal preparation. In exchange I was initiated into Level One. Months later I had the second hernia surgery. I gave myself pre-surgery Reiki. Once in the recovery room I started giving myself Reiki. I was the first one in the bathroom. I walked out of recovery under my own steam before lunch. When I got home I did not have to negotiate the three flights of stairs. I just walked up normally. I continued to self-treat for the next five days. Back in the surgeon’s office to have the staples removed. And as I gazed into the mirror a week after the surgery, the new incision was all normal skin tone. No redness. No irritation or infection. My doctor remarked about how good the incision looked. I told him about Reiki. He smiled and pulled his pants legs up to reveal what had been badly injured legs. As a child in China he faced amputation and as a last resort his family took him to a distant uncle who, he said, “Touched his legs.” Thanks!

—Rick Randig

* Some Reiki Stories may have been previously published in Reiki News Magazine.

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