Reiki: Should you heal others?

Having been initiated in reiki, I started practising healing for self and others. I had been told that you are just a channel and healing others will actually heal you also since the healing reiki energy is passing through you. When I started healing others though, there were things that happened which kept giving the message from within that there is something wrong about my healing others. I could feel the solar plexus chakra getting impacted and overall feeling of being unwell.

I started thinking about it and my conclusion was that when we use reiki / pranic healing or any other type of healing, we are interfering with the karma of the recipient. Yes, we can turn around and say, that while the higher power has bestowed us with something, we should use it for greater good, but as I understand, all of us come taking along a fixed baggage for the lifetime and when we are intervening through universal energy, it is actually interfering with their karma pact. You are trying to act as “the highest power”.

Apart from that, inspite of saying that you are just the medium, you do tend to get connected to the person you are healing and that in turn leads to negativity flowing to you as well. You may also be attached to the outcome of the healing session and will again get intertwined in the recipient’s destiny and tend to attract some negativity.

I feel that reiki is very effective and everyone should learn it, but only for self-growth and healing and not for healing of others. Now, we can also argue that when we are healing self, it is also interfering with the karma … well the only difference as I see it is that you are doing it for yourself and hence are working towards your karma though in a different way and its still between you and the universal energy.

This is my view which is contrarian to most of the views on reiki or other healing techniques … would like to know what others feel about it.

Reiki and Guru

Since long, I have had a mind to get initiated into reiki and this year I finally managed to do that.

There were a lot of experiences but what I would like to share here in this blog is an insight which I had about Guru- Disciple relationship.

I have heard from a lot of people that if you get accepted by a guru then from there on the guru will know about all that is happening to you. I have been given an example that though you have a lot of hair on your head, but still even if one hair is pulled, the pain is felt and similarly, you are connected to your guru… whatever happens to you is known to him.

When I got initiated into reiki, the thought that struck me is that the way this whole universe (brahmaand) is part of the same energy, and when you are initiated into reiki, you become a channel and its easier to tap into this energy, similarly when a guru accepts you, there is a energy channel which opens between you and the guru. 

The channel helps the guru to support you in your spiritual endeavors and you are able to tap into that channel for self-healing of all kinds. I have believed for long that we are part of the ONE and are connected, but I guess the commitment fine tunes and makes the communication channel much better between you and the GURU. Guru mantra is, what I would look at as a key, to unlock the channel and make the connect to the Guru into a high speed highway J

Pl share your views.