I know I’ve touched on this before, but I think the implications are important enough to address directly… and that is Reiki Pacing… i.e., the pace by which you advance through the various Reiki levels.
First of all, Reiki is not a race. Advancing directly to Master Level without putting in the necessary effort can actually do you a great deal of harm, and other than the ego satisfying certificate there is absolutely no benefit. Allow me to draw an analogy from my own experience. I have advanced Scuba certification which I progressed through the various levels to achieve. The teachers I luckily happened upon were all very caring and excellent teachers. I’ve heard horror stories of teachers that are not so caring, who basically just hand out certificates as they see fit. Once, when I was doing some advanced level deep diving in Guam, I experienced nitrogen narcosis, which is a feeling of utter intoxication experienced at great depths. If I hadn’t been prepared for it, and been under the careful eye of a master teacher, it might not have resulted in the happy ending that it did. You see, when you experience nitrogen narcosis you lose all sense of time, and since you can only stay at the depths I was at for a maximum of 10 minutes without the nitrogen levels detrimentally effecting your blood chemistry, this could have been fatal (as the nearest decompression chamber was eons away). Imagine the results had I not been prepared.
Okay… I can hear you asking what this has to do with Reiki… well, in a nutshell, in the grand scheme of things your spiritual life is just as important and just as fragile as your physical one. You were brought to Reiki for a reason, and that is most likely that you were ready for a spiritual reckoning of some sort. Whether it be enlightenment or full fledged liberation you were attracted to Reiki for a reason. In enlightenment there are no shortcuts and the advancement to go without dealing with the community chest and chance cards along the way may seem like a bargain at the time, but its the work that reaps the rewards, not arriving at the destination without understanding how you got there and what it means to be there.
For those who have already become Reiki Masters without putting in the effort… its no big deal… just go back to go and start again… its not too late…. this time just be sure to do it right!!
For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!
One response to “Reiki Pacing”
I agree with pacing yourself and doing things when you are ready. All too often we feel that life is a race towards the finish line, wihtout ever really stopping to think what that finish line is…
To pracitce and master what one has been given only makes sense. In school most of us were not simply advanced to the next level simply because we said, “I want to go there now.”, we had to work and prove that we were ready. Had we not been ready, we would have found the next level extremely challenging and requiring more work and effort than if we had simply waited and been prepared for it.
I feel that it is the same with Reiki. Give yourself time to settle in to the energies and to the changes in your life that the attunements bring before embarquing on the climb to the next level. You will be thankful that you did. I have heard stories of people who have done all the attunements in one fell swoop and gone through major detoxifications physically, emotionally and mentally while feeling that their lives were changing way too rapidly and just falling apart around them. The same changes will happen, but more gracefully if we take time to integrate the energy into our lives before moving on.