Reiki Healers Dos and Don’ts

“Everything in Life is Vibration”

– Albert Einstein

In order for us to understand what a Reiki Healer does, it’s important to remember what Reiki is.

The law of nature that states everything has a vibration. If you’ve taken a chemistry class you probably remember learning about atoms, and that everything is made up of atoms. These atoms are in a constant state of motion, and depending on the speed of these atoms, things are appear as a solid, liquid, or gas.

Most of that atom is just the energy holding things together; 99.9999999999 percent (give or take a few nines) of the atom is just empty space, like the universe itself. There is no solidity in the universe. A form that appears solid is actually created by an underlying vibration.

Everything in this Universe consists of vibrations and we all are vibrations. Reiki is one of the vibrations that fills the Universe. From long ago, people have been aware of the higher form of vibration that heals illness and gives us peacefulness. It is called Reiki.

This vibration is described and referred to in many ways in various languages and at different times in history: Life Force, Universal Life Energy, Chi (China), Ki (Japan), Bioenergy (Russia, Europe), Animal Magnetism (Austria, late 1700s–1800s via Franz Mesmer’s experiments), Spiritus (old Rome), Prana (India), Mana, Bioplasma, Pneuma, Vital fluid, Odic force, Orgone, etc.

Reiki is known as the energy of love, harmony, and healing. Reiki Ho is to obtain a happier, healthier, and abundant life utilising such energy.

Reiki practice begins with a simple hand-placement treatment. Reiki will guide you to heighten your spirituality and energies so you will not resonate with dis-harmonious energies such as worry, anger, anxiety, problems, and illness.

The Reiki practitioner channels and transmits Reiki, being a form of vibration, in order to balance and harmonize the body, mind, and spirit.

Reiki Healer do:

• Support and encourage their clients in a progression towards good health practices. They respect their clients’ prerogative to make their own choices with regard to their health, lifestyle and finances.
• Receive professional training and get certified to ensure a safe and effective experience for clients. Certificates and other qualifications must be displayed or be made available by the Reiki Practitioner
• Recognise the value of self- treatment and also receiving Reiki from another, as part of their continuing self-development. Reiki Practitioners have a responsibility to themselves to maintain their own professionalism.
• Respect clients’ rights to be involved in decisions about their care.
• Protect their clients’ personal information against improper disclosure.
• Keep clear and comprehensive records of their treatments that truly represent their interaction with the client.
• Explain fully all the procedures involved in the treatment, including such matters as client records, likely content and length of consultations, likely number of consultations, and fees, etc.
• Do not claim to cure.
• Ask for permission from their client if another therapy is to be used in conjunction with Reiki.
• Have the same obligation to the client whether being paid or working in a voluntary capacity.
• Recognise the client’s right to refuse Reiki or disregard advice, even when the treatment has been requested by, or consent has been given by the parent/guardian, or in the case of animals, the owner/caregiver.
• Respect their client’s right to make their own decisions, even if they think they are wrong.
• Retain the right the right to refuse or postpone giving Reiki to a client should they believe the giving of Reiki to be inappropriate.
• Respect clients’ rights to be involved in decisions about their care.
• Get consent from the client, or someone able to act on their behalf, before they assess or care for them. Clients’ consent must be voluntary. That is, they must not be under any form of pressure or undue influence from you, other healthcare practitioners, family or friends. Consent is not a ‘one-off’ exercise. It is a continuing process and needs effective and ongoing communication with clients.
• Respect the client’s right to refuse any part of the treatment or disregard advice.
• Need to be aware of their personal professional limitations and refer a client elsewhere when the need demands.
• Need to explore, establish, and discuss the client’s needs and expectations
• Seek a good relationship and work in a co-operative manner with other healthcare professionals, recognising and respecting their particular contribution within the healthcare team.
• At all times conduct themselves with due diligence and respect in their relations with all members of the public, students, and professional bodies.
• Take all reasonable steps to monitor, develop and advance their professional competence, and to work within that capacity.
• Need to ensure that their working conditions and facilities to which members of the public have access, are suitable and comply with all current legislation.

Reiki Healer do not:

• Offer Reiki treatments as a substitute for medical treatment or diagnosis.
• Countermand instructions or prescriptions given by a doctor, vet, or other healthcare or animal care professional.
• Request the removal of clothing except for coat and footwear.
• Guarantee the outcome of any course of treatment
• Not engage in the criticism of other health professionals or teachers with their students.
• Encourage clients away from other professional colleagues.
• Undermine a client’s faith in any other form of treatment and shall respect and support the client’s choices.
• Disclose their client’s personal information without their consent.
• Exploit their clients/students financially, sexually, emotionally or in any other way.
• Give a Reiki treatment to a minor and those without the mental capacity to decide for themselves, unless a written informed consent of a parent, guardian or relevant medical practitioner is received.
• Use film, tape recording or digital imagery of a client unless that client’s clear, informed, written consent to the precise use of the material is received.
• Offer treatments to others if unwell.
• Offer treatments or prescribe a remedy or advice for cancer. (Please note – this does not mean that Reiki practitioners cannot give Reiki to someone with cancer, just they cannot claim to specifically treat cancer.

The secret art of inviting happiness

The miraculous medicine of all diseases

Just for today, do not anger

Do not worry and be filled with gratitude

Devote yourself to your work. Be kind to people.

Every morning and evening, join your hands in prayer.

Pray these words to your heart

and chant these words with your mouth

Usui Reiki Treatment for the improvement of body and mind

The founder, Usui Mikao

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Giancarlo Serra

Giancarlo is a Gokuikaiden (Reiki Master) of the Japanese Lineage, as well as a Reiki Master/Teacher of the Usui/Tibetan, the Usui/Holy Fire® and the Holy Fire® Karuna Reiki® Western Lineages of Reiki. He is an accredited Spiritual Healer and a Past Life and Regression Therapist. Read more.