REIKI WORLD MAGAZINE - WINTER 2021
Questions from a Reiki student An Interview with Leo Maria Holmes This is a great insight into how to answer questions about Reiki when teaching or just spreading the word. I hope you find it useful. Why is Reiki sometimes called light healing? I practise Usui Reiki founded by Mikao Usui who, after 21 days of meditating and fasting on Mount Karuma, felt a connection to the light - the source of everything. He said he saw nothing but light - the highest vibration of all and this is why Reiki is sometimes referred to as light healing because the practitioner is facilitating a connection to that light for the recipient.
Why is it that during the attunements and after the course I felt so emotional? Reiki is taught in a different way to most other healing techniques because it is transferred to the student by the Reiki Master during an attunement process. This initiation creates a link between the student and the Reiki source. The Reiki attunement starts a cleansing process that can be felt in the physical body, mind or emotions with some students reporting increased clarity of thought and intuitive awareness. Toxins that have been stored in the body may be released as well as feelings and thought patterns that are no longer useful. Most people involved in this sort of work will say that healing involves a shift in consciousness and this is exactly what happens during a Reiki attunement. Because we are all unique, students will be affected in different ways but it will be exactly what is needed for that person at that time. It seems that whether consciously or unconsciously most of us are very good at avoiding difficult or painful feelings. Excess use of alcohol, technology and being overly busy are just a few of the distractions we use to avoid and/or deny the pain of what is really going on with our feelings and in our relationships. During the attunement, when we receive the connection to Reiki in an atmosphere of peace with no distractions, suppressed feelings may surface. Following the attunements there is a period of adjustment during which this process may continue. This can be 22 REIKI WORLD MAGAZINE - UKRF
uncomfortable and is sometimes very painful but tears are a release and working in this way, with awareness, can free us to move forward. At this time, some find it helpful to have the support of psychotherapy. I don’t believe that there is a quick fix or that you can spiritually bypass the inner work.
Can you give a science-based definition of how Reiki works? There is no doubt of the existence of an energy field that emanates from the body as we can now photograph it and quantum entanglement explains why distance Reiki works. I won’t explain quantum physics here, mainly because I don’t fully understand it myself! And, although the science is interesting, we don’t really need to understand Reiki at mind level as it is experiential. Many have had the experience of thinking about someone they haven’t been in contact with for years, seconds before they telephone. In ‘The Divine Matrix’, Gregg Brayden expands on this interconnectedness. The Reiki Academy London run a Reiki Science course which is based on Torsten’s scientific experiments with Reiki and water. Given that the human body is around 70% water, the implications of this are extraordinary. You can find more information about Reiki and the science behind it on my website: nutritionandlight.co.uk/reiki
