| Reiki Master, what does it mean? Some say it is a | | | | emotional pain. For some, there was a spiritual void to |
| level of achievement in Reiki, whilst others say it is | | | | fill. A good Reiki Master will be sensitive to the needs |
| an acceptance that Reiki has mastered the healer. | | | | of their students. This means avoiding environmental |
| And there are many definitions in-between.To me, | | | | irritants in the class to care for students with |
| being a Reiki Master carries a great deal of | | | | chemical sensitivities. It means letting go of abusive |
| responsibility which I must humbly accept. This breaks | | | | remarks given by angry souls. It means being firm |
| down into three main responsibilities.The first | | | | but gentle with students from an emotionally |
| responsibility is to oneself, to nurture and develop | | | | unhappy life. Above all, in the class the Reiki Master |
| from within, and to release any negativity from | | | | should ensure the student feels wanted, respected, |
| within.Often in today's world, we come across | | | | accepted and loved. After the initiation and teaching, |
| conflict that we can choose to either take on board | | | | the Reiki Master can support their student by making |
| or calmly resolve. We may get disease that we are | | | | available and stressing the need for regular contact |
| to heal from holistically. We are challenged with | | | | and supervision. The rest is up to the student and |
| negative emotional reactions which we must let go | | | | what feels right for their development with Reiki.The |
| of. We are challenged with residual negative emotions | | | | third responsibility is towards loved ones and all other |
| from our past, feelings such as worry, anger, low | | | | creatures; in short, our environment. Our healing |
| self-steem, we are not to allow these feelings to | | | | includes caring for this environment. This does not |
| fester and grow but to let them go and heal. Above | | | | mean allowing an abusive family member to abuse us |
| all, we have to take care of ourselves, living by the | | | | or contributing to social wrongs because everyone |
| Reiki Principles as given by Mikao Usui, the founder of | | | | else seems to! It means being responsible, loving |
| Reiki, and allowing ourselves Reiki healing every day. | | | | unconditionally, and allowing healing to flow wherever |
| After all, we are not of much use to anyone else if | | | | it is needed and with permission of the healee. For |
| we are ourselves a mess! I find that for myself and | | | | instance, a Reiki Master can start each day by asking |
| for other Reiki Masters, this first responsibility is the | | | | that they are a channel, or conduit, for Reiki energy |
| hardest to carry out. It is an ongoing effort which | | | | and allowing it to flow wherever they walk in nature. |
| gets easier with years of practice. The key is to | | | | A Reiki Master can choose to purchase |
| keep going back to the teachings of Usui with an | | | | environmentally-friendly products. A Reiki Master can |
| open mind and humble spirit.The second responsibility | | | | be available for family members for healing as feels |
| is to people who come to us for Reiki. There are | | | | appropriate and be a force for good. A Reiki Master |
| members of the public who come for treatment and | | | | living by the Reiki Principles will earn their living |
| students who come for initiation and teaching.When | | | | honestly, honour their teachers and elders, and be |
| someone comes for a treatment with Reiki, my | | | | gracious to every living thing.I am indeed very glad |
| teaching was to explain to the client that Reiki is a | | | | that I took the step to become a Reiki Master. It |
| holistic energy, going to where it is most needed, and | | | | can be difficult to live the Reiki way of life |
| to encourage the client to holistically take care of | | | | sometimes, and I get the odd reminder every now |
| their health.. Reiki works very differently from | | | | and then. But the love and acceptance that Reiki |
| allopathic medicine. Whilst allopathic medicine fixes the | | | | teaches us for others and ourselves means that we |
| symptom, Reiki healing is directed at the whole | | | | always open to receiving love. When we channel or |
| person. For instance, if a client came complaining of | | | | receive love, love goes through us, and we feel |
| knee pain, it may be that the knee is stressed | | | | love.Complementary and alternative health education |
| because the hip is out of alignment. The hip may | | | | and empowerment is my passion. My name is |
| have become that way in order to compensate for a | | | | Suzanne Zacharia and I am committed to |
| shoulder being out of alignment. This may have | | | | empowering people to take conrol of their health and |
| happened due to stress in the person's life. If this | | | | wellness.A virus caught along with 5 other students |
| stress is still ongoing, the Reiki is likely to heal the | | | | at university at the end of 1986, plus medical |
| stress first. This makes sense, as leaving the stress | | | | negligence, meant that I got smokers lung at a |
| there may lead to further shoulder-hip-knee | | | | relatively young age. In desperation for help with my |
| misalignment and further knee damage! Part of the | | | | symptoms and quality of life, I turned to |
| responsibility of the Reiki Master is to make the client | | | | complementary therapy, and this is the 11th year I |
| aware of this holistic process and the need for | | | | have outlived one doctor's prognosis.I am now a |
| several sessions. This gives the Reiki the chance to | | | | complementary therapist, author and trainer |
| heal the symptoms as well as the underlying | | | | specialising in "energy" therapy. My company is called |
| causes.When a student comes for initiation and | | | | New Age London, with some carefully-chosen expert |
| teaching, this is the beginning of a spiritual, emotional, | | | | teachers and trainers of alternative and |
| mental and physical journey. The Reiki Master has to | | | | complementary health working with me. People have |
| take into account the road traveled before this point | | | | come from Iceland, Norway, the States, France, |
| and most importantly, support the student on their | | | | Italy, and Pakistan to train with us or to learn natural, |
| exciting new journey with Reiki.Many of us have | | | | effective techniques for their and their families' health. |
| come into Reiki from a background of physical or | | | | |