Addicted to Reiki initiations

Some people have a tendency to get addicted to Reiki initiations and I have come across more than several of them in the last two months. These people think that if they can get to the next level of attunement, their life will improve, they will become a more effective practitioner, they will be better able to address certain conditions, etc. I know firsthand what this is like because I used to be addicted to tunings myself.

When I first got involved with Reiki, I felt the need to tune in to the highest levels of each style that I could handle. I thought that the next attunement would make my Reiki more powerful and effective and this would lead to an endless chase for the next attunement. After receiving 7 initiations with various types of Reiki, he was still not satisfied. It was at this point that I realized that I had become addicted to attunements and was looking for them to become a more effective practitioner … but it was not working.

With a little internal reflection, I saw that it was not more attunements that would make me a better practitioner; It was, instead, clearing my limiting beliefs, negative thoughts, and emotional blocks that would allow me to have clearer access to the Reiki energy. Now, I know that many manuals teach that this is precisely what a tuning does for us and I do not deny it, but after so many tunings over a period of a little over a year, I was still not seeing the changes that I was. searching. Therefore, I made a commitment to actively work on these issues.

I wrote down all the limiting beliefs that I knew I had, all the emotional pain from my past, and my fears for the present and the future and began to work with them. After a couple of months of removing these limitations, I found that I was better able to help myself, my family, and my clients. Finally, he was seeing the results he had wanted for so long. Then probably the most important revelation came … if I had fully used Usui Reiki and applied it to the right areas of my life, I would not have needed all those other attunements. Although I do not regret the other initiations and I do not regret having learned as much as I did, I realize that it did not help me achieve my ultimate goal. This is not to say that it is a bad idea to branch out and learn more than what you were originally taught, but my opinion is that if your goal is to become a better practitioner (and you have gone as far as you can in a certain style like Usui) , chasing tunings is not the way to get there. Instead, go in and find out what’s blocking you in your life and use what you already have to help clear it. Then when the inner work is done, if you feel the urge to learn more, you know that your decision is not simply based on an addiction to tuning in.