I am, by nature, a very skeptical person. I haven’t always been like that. When I was younger I was trusting and, to be honest, gullible. If you told me something, I’d believe you. I thought people were worthy of trust, and for the most part I still do. But, I investigate things before I jump. I was involved with Amway and Excel and a few other MLM “schemes.” I jumped in because it sounded so, so good. This is all just building a case. I need proof for pretty much anything, or I don’t fully believe it.

This is why, when my wife started learning about Reiki, I was supportive but non-believing. For anyone who doesn’t know, Reiki is a type of “energy healing” originating in Japan. In order to learn Reiki, you take short classes and get attunements. This is a matter of debate inside Reiki circles, some say you can heal without the attunements as a gift from God. Others say the attunements are needed. There are at least three levels of attunements, maybe four, depending on your leanings. You can be Level 1, level 2, Reiki Master, or Reiki Master/teacher.

The power of the levels doesn’t change much, but the ability to heal from a distance is added and then the ability to teach others and give attunements is added. You also are given symbols at higher levels to help with your energy levels. If this all sounds like a touchy-feely faith healing sort of thing to you, I can totally relate. If you think it is a load of crap, I can understand that, too.

I didn’t think much of it, but Deb (my lovely wife) said she got tingly hands and felt vibrations whenever she was doing healing, or even thinking about Reiki. After she got her Level two attunements, I decided maybe I would take the level one class, just to have a point of reference when we talked about this stuff.  I went to the class, feeling a bit silly, but willing to listen and participate. After the attunement, we were practicing on each other.

       So getting back to my story, we were practicing Reiki on each other. There were six people in my class, so we were paired up. The strangest thing happened. I heard a whisper in my ear. It sounded like a child’s voice. “It’s the heat.”  I snapped my head around. No one was there. No one was close. This is really weird. I said to Deb, “Did you hear that?” Her response was something like, what are you talking about? So I said to Suesie, the Reiki Master/Teacher, I just heard this voice say it’s the heat. She just smiled and told me that when people get attuned, sometimes their abilities to hear or see things from other planes get enhanced as well.

The strange thing was that my hands were actually getting warm as I was ‘doing’ the Reiki. We finished up the training and I went about my day. As part of this whole thing, we were supposed to practice every day on ourselves or others. So I did. My hands kept getting warm when I did this. I mean there was measurable temperature difference. They didn’t just ‘feel warm’ to me, they were literally hotter.

This intrigued me, so I decided to get my level two attunements. I went to a different teacher, Dave Bause, to get a new perspective. Suesie was very matter of fact. Dave was more spiritual. Not religious; that would have sent me on my way. He was, and is, spiritual. He is a very loving wonderful person who wishes only good to everyone. I hope to someday have the peace he has, and the goodness he exhibits. I think I am getting there. To make a long story short, I got my level two attunements and my hands are hotter than ever, when I think about, or am practicing Reiki.

I believe. The whole Reiki experience has me more spiritual and has altered my base beliefs to a degree. I think there are higher powers. I don’t think that the God of the Bible is real, as represented in today’s Bible, but I think there is truth in that book. I believe that there is some sort of afterlife, what, I don’t know. Do we maintain this same identity? I don’t think we are who we think we are now. I think who we are now is just a small portion of our true identity. I think we will unite with the rest of ourselves when we are gone. I think we are here to gain perspective and experience, whatever that may be. And, for the first time in my life, I am not worried about death and dieing. I am still skeptical about many things, but Reiki isn’t one of them.

I am not going to make this a commercial, but if you are interested in getting a Reiki session either from Deb or me, visit www.thespiralpath.net and we can set up an appointment.