The Reiki Attunement & Its Impact on Life

You will know the term ‘attunement’ from your Reiki training – no matter where you are in your Reiki journey. You may still wonder what an attunement is, how it works, and how it impacts your life but first, let’s remind ourselves of some history.

Dr. Mikao Usui, a Japanese monk, founded Reiki, an ancient healing art, in the 1920’s. Dr. Usui was a distinguished scholar who conducted extensive studies in medicine, psychology, religion, and spirituality. Reiki is a non-invasive healing practice that promotes three-dimensional healing— mind, body, and spirit.

We all are energy at the fundamental level and our energy constantly changes according to our thoughts, environment, and actions. There are two types of energy: flowing energy and stagnant energy. Flowing or positive energy offers opportunities, mindfulness, love, satisfaction, focus, improved wellness, and better resilience.

On the other hand, stagnant chi, or energy, accumulates through repetitive, restrictive thought patterns like hatred, fear, jealousy, or lack of change. External toxins, trauma, poor diet, and a sedentary lifestyle can also lead to energy blockages. These energy bottlenecks ultimately pave the way to sickness, constant restlessness, a reduced ability to work, and overall dissatisfaction with life.

Reiki seeks to open up your energy system and make you receptive to positive energy. Practitioners believe that increasing the flow of energy throughout the body allows for relaxation, pain relief, faster healing, and a reduction in other sickness symptoms.

What is Reiki Attunement?

An attunement brings about a positive shift in one’s consciousness.

During the attunement process, the Reiki Master connects the student to the universal life force energy, opening up their energy channels so they can then channel the Reiki energy. This awareness clears their energy field and helps them to remember their real nature and connection to the Source.

Through these energy transmissions, we embrace the natural healing skills that we have always possessed but were perhaps unaware of.

How Reiki Attunements Impact Life

Spiritual Impacts

Reiki's benefits are many and ever-changing, but the most visible is the re-awakened perspective on our own purpose and the clarity of thought and action that finally affirms our innate capacity to heal and be healed. With time and experience, we begin to learn the wisdom of our life purpose and continue on our spiritual pathways. And it all starts with a simple shift of perspective.

Reiki transforms your life. You metamorphose into your free, clear, spiritual self, enveloped by the Universe's love. The knowledge of your connection to the universal source of spirit, the spirit that goes through all, empowers you with the ability of manifestation.

Reiki opens up possibilities for you on emotional, psychological, and spiritual dimensions. You gain the ability to recognise petty inconveniences for what they are and not let them distort your judgment. You can look through the minutia of everyday life that jams the mind and liberate yourself from ‘lethargy’ - where we build up the pointless, meaningless issues that prevent us from seeing the greater picture and reaching our spiritual potential. We are all liberated as we embark on this road of healing and love.

Physical and Mental Impacts

Reiki has been demonstrated to be beneficial for a variety of medical problems. People who suffer from stomach problems, ankle pain, etc., have reported feeling relaxed and pain-free after receiving Reiki. Reiki also aids in cancer treatment. Its gentle tone calms patients overwhelmed by intrusive therapy, worry, and tension.

An attunement stimulates and strengthens your immune system. So, apart from healing the already present diseases and disorders, it also protects you from future ailments.

Social Impacts

Reiki practitioners reported that they no longer have the desire to please others, run towards people's approval, become part of noisy gatherings, or consume alcohol. They also no longer place as much importance on materialistic things. However, this doesn’t make them socially inactive. If anything, they become better at expressing narratives, understanding feelings, sharing compassion, and communicating thoughtfully. Because the Reiki attunement serves as the portal through which feelings may flow, many individuals feel a spontaneous desire to express deep feelings and emotions that were repressed throughout their lives and were damaging them from the inside.

You begin to realise that you’re connected to everything and everyone in this universe and not a separate being.

The experience of receiving a Reiki attunement fills you with excitement at the prospect of introducing energy work to others in your community who may be feeling overwhelmed, in need of space, and receptive to what may lie on the other side of healing.

As all lives on the planet are unique, the experiences and impacts faced by people after their attunement varies from person to person. Everyone gains a unique insight into their true reality. Think back to your own attunement(s); how did you feel? What did you feel? If you would like to be re-attuned, please get in touch.