“Over the years that I have been teaching Reiki, I have often been asked the question: “Why do I need an attunement or initiation to healing energy?” or “If this is universal life energy that is available to all why do I need to come to a Reiki class and receive a special initiation?” I would like to address these questions. I am going to focus on the word initiation as I feel that when you receive an attunement to the Reiki energy you are being initiated into the energy.”

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“I manage a  holistic women’s center, St. Luke’s Women’s Care, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. St. Luke’s Hospital is a member of a large hospital system, Iowa Health System.    We are considered rural and conservative.   In l994 Women’s Care opened a new facility located in a medical office plaza connected to St. Luke’s Hospital.  Women’s Care views women from a holistic perspective, honoring their needs from a physical, emotional, and spiritual perspective.  Nurses on staff are holistic nurses, and they integrate this philosophy with their traditional nursing care. Mammograms and diagnostic interventions are offered as well as holistic nursing, imagery, and energetic balancing techniques which initially included Therapeutic touch and Healing Touch.  At that time, the Vice President of Nursing was very open to holistic interventions.  I obtained her sanction to begin to offer these modalities, quietly, without advertising, and upon the request of clients.”

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This is an excerpt from Laurelle’s new book titled The Book On Karuna Reiki®; Advanced Healing Energy for Our Evolving World

“The more I use Karuna Reiki®, the more I recognize that it is somehow facilitating an inter-dimensional flow of energies. By this I mean it is allowing the practitioner to activate soul awareness of healing technologies from ancient and future times, and to link through the dimensions to bring them into the current time space that we know to be third dimensional reality.

Through the use of Karuna Reiki®, we have the opportunity to expand our concept of reality.  It is so easy to become focused on our daily lives in the third dimension and believe that is all there is; or think that is the only thing that is important.  Sometimes it seems as if we are afraid to let ourselves believe in the vastness of creation.”

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“Karuna Reiki® evolved out of Usui and Tibetan Reiki from a desire and a knowingness that there is always something greater waiting to be uncovered.  The love of the Creator is unbounded and because of this, there is no limit to the good that can come to those who seek.  No matter how wonderful something is there can always be more. And so it was out of this understanding that Karuna Reiki® began to manifest here on Earth.  I say it in this way because everything that could exist, exists now. It is just a matter of wanting something better and being willing to actively follow your inner guidance in order to ground it into your life.”

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“There are many people teaching Reiki classes now. Some are highly qualified and may be just the right teacher for you and others may not have the right energy for your needs. So, the question is often asked about how to choose a Reiki teacher that is right for you. Here is a list of questions to ask any Reiki master who you are thinking about taking a class from.”

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“When I attended my first Reiki weekend, I arrived with no expectations.  I had read a few books about Reiki, but until I had the opportunity to experience it for myself I was keeping an open mind and wanted to experience all that Reiki had to offer.  After receiving my Reiki I attunement my Reiki Master began passing out a sheet of paper titled, “The Twenty-One Day Clearing Process”.  Up until that point I had never heard of a clearing process.  The explanation made perfect sense.  As your physical body adjusts to the Reiki energy’s higher vibration, blockages would clear and situations would surface so you could heal and move on to create a clearer instrument for the Reiki Energy to flow through. ”

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“For several years I have been studying the power of the cycles of the moon.  Of particular interest are the experiences shared with new moon meditation groups when we invoke Reiki to assist in meditations, for personal growth and world service.”

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“In the past several years we’ve learned a lot about the Reiki taught by Dr. Usui. The research done by Arjava Petter, his wife Chetna Kobayashi, Mr. Doi and others have created a breakthrough in our understanding of Usui Reiki and informed us of many techniques new to the West.  This contrasts with what we had been told was Usui Reiki, but what we now understand was actually a Western development.  When we first began to gain this understanding, many thought that the ideal would be to practice only the Japanese style of Reiki and to stay as close to what Dr. Usui practiced as possible. But now that we have had time to practice the Japanese Reiki techniques and compare them with the Western style, a better understanding has developed about what might be the best approach.”

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“It all started with a broken gold chain that Eleanor’s husband brought into my store for repair.  “How is Eleanor?” I asked, knowing that she had spent the last two years going through surgery to remove a tumor, radiation and chemotherapy (twice) after a radical mastectomy for breast cancer.  “She’s not very well” he said sadly “ She’s home lying in bed, her right arm swollen to three times the size of the left, due to the surgery that removed 8 lymph nodes from her arm.” I ran to the phone, wanting to offer her words of encouragement.  We agreed to do a long distance Reiki healing on her that night at 9:00.  And so it began…..”

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“As Autumn and the time of many beginnings approaches, it seems a good time to reflect on how my beliefs about Reiki have expanded and changed over the years. I have been working with Reiki now for ten years. It started out as learning a simple healing technique but has blossomed into so much more. Here are some of my thoughts.

I believe that Reiki is different things to different people. It is “user friendly” so to speak and it meets you where you are at in your life. It seems to find you when you are most in need or ready for the next step on your path. Perhaps your soul calls out for a better way. Or your higher power knows you need a change.”

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