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.