Reiki: Nothing New Age About It - Page 4

Part of their ability to regulate comes from their control over Karuna. The Reiki Centre will only allow people who are proven Usui-Tibetan Masters to learn Karuna Reiki, and they carefully monitor the certification of all teachers and practitioners, ensuring the integrity of the modality. Once you are certified you are entered into their database and given a numbered certificate.

Not only can people than ensure their teacher is valid, they can also easily report transgressions in behaviour or any questionable practices. The only people who seem bothered by this are those people who the system is designed to prevent from teaching and exploiting the knowledge.

Like me, The Reiki Centre, has become increasingly disturbed by the dilution of Reiki's character through the birth of so many bizarre hybrids. By strictly controlling the issuing of licenses I think they are hoping to distinguish themselves from a host of pretenders, and not lose the respect the modality has earned with other fields through the actions of flakes. With Reiki being accepted by hospitals as legitimate therapy, some even having practitioners on staff, the last thing needed is to have its credibility strained through association with the worst sort of new age Babel speak.

Reiki is not a religion, it won't change your life unless your already working on changing it, and its not going to save the world. What it can do is help you focus your mind, attune you to the universal energy that flows through all live, thus strengthening your own abilities to aid yourself and others through the same process. But remember, there is no such thing as a quick fix no matter who or what anyone claims to be channelling.

Author's note: I have tried to use the Amazon.com links to illustrate some of the points that I have made in the article. Please take them with how ever much salt is needed

Article Author: Richard Marcus

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