Hello...
Its been about a year since I learned reiki. I have practiced it on and off during that time. Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs but I feel that explain why I feel its a conflict with me being a Christian. In this posting I will write in why I do not think the healing directly comes from God. I will also explain why reiki is different then the healing done in the Bible, which many people use to tell others what Reiki is like. I used to be one of those people. For my background information I am 2nd degree Usui reiki, and I do various holistic health services. I am no longer doing reiki but I plan on now doing faith healing (Praying to God and asking for healing and touching people). I plan on doing this for free. It IS different then reiki. Similar... but different and I will explain why.
The idea reiki started out this Japanese man went to fast and meditate for like 20 days. During that 20 days he had an enlightenment. He recieved these symbols and stuff like that. He ran this reiki clinic and not many of his students recieved all the attunements. Theres alittle more to it but thats basically it. The story to me is kinda irrelavent since no one really knows what really happened. Usui had some ideas about him that were not true such as he was a doctor. He was not a doctor or had a (PH.D equivilent) in anything. Records would show if he did or not. Some people call "healers" doctors so thats where it may of came from. He also was not a Christian minister or teacher. Had he been either he would of been buried in a Christian cemetary, not a Buddist cemetary.
This is my thought process to help you understand how I think. I believe that the Bible is the book about our God and it tells us how we should live our life. Yeah... i've heard alot of stories how the Bible was changed and altered. However, I believe what it says. I believe that God loves us and if he knew we tried following his word to the best of our ability, with what we knew, he would be happy. Besides, Jesus died for us because we wouldn't be able to be perfect anyway.
Even to take things to extreme, lets say the Bible is completely fake. Would you want to live your life believing in somthing that seems like a really good way to live and seems to make sense, or would you take somones idea who heard the Bible was fake who heard it from this person who heard it from this person and so on. In school, we did a test where you told somone a story and they told somone... our class was small. Only like 30 kids in the whole school. By the end the story was completely changed. You were able to tell the story right after you heard it so it shoudn't of been changed. Assuming the world is only a few thousand years old, which I believe, if the story of what God really is like was just handed down from person to person it would be changed alot more then a simple story was in school. Also, no one likes admiting they are living a wrong life. I sure don't! I tell people lots of things are wrong, but at least I admit to it. I also admit that telling somone somthing is wrong when you do it yourself is being a hypocrite. I admit to that also. Somtimes I even try to find ways to justify what I do, which is wrong. Most people don't admit what they do is wrong and justify it. Somtimes even lie about it. Blah... i'm getting off track... LOL
Anyway, back to the original subject and I will try not going off on anymore tangents. I believe that Jesus healed people. Other people also healed people using his name. His name and his name only. No attunements were needed, no symbols. Only faith. I'm not saying that reiki is necessarily bad... but why take a chance on it. Besides... lets just say I was a doctor and wanted to choose either healing from God like Jesus did or reiki. Below is my comparison. I refer to faith healing also as Jesus healing somtimes. It just means having faith that God does the work.
Reiki: Costs money to be able to "heal". Many people don't do it for free but do it for a business. You need symbols. The symbols are used for different things, however, the energy comes from "God" and directs itself anyway. So saying that one symbol works better on somthing then another symbol doesn't make sense since tthe energy does whatever it wants to. Also, you need to go through an attunement. This can be done hands on or from a distance. The biggest thing i've heard of reiki doing is removing a tumor. It was just on a friend and they didn't test it, reiki may or may not have directly done it but no other treatments were used. Another time was somone had a parakyzed foot, after reiki, it was only slightly paralyzed.
Jesus type healing: Jesus didn't charge anyone for healing. You don't need symbols because the power comes from God and doesn't need the symbol BS. He directs healing (energy) where it needs to go and how long. You don't need attunements. It can be done hands on or from a distance. Faith has done many things, raised the dead, healed complete serious illnesses, made blind people see, lame people walk.
Jesus's healing is clearly superior to reiki.
Also... this is the basic process for reiki and Jesus healing
Reiki: Make symbols on your hands, in the air, on the person. Place hands over the chakras for about 3 minutes each. To do distance you make symbols on the picture or piece of paper and hold it.
Jesus healing: Ask God for healing and touch the person (From what I know)
Jesus healing is far more simple.
I hope more people understand this like I do. If not, thats ok to. Everyone has their own opinion. What I read in other posts and was told before that symbols are just used to help you maintain concentration. Your not sending energy anyway! In reiki its taught it comes from God. Attunements are the biggest thing that helped me change... God didn't need to attune anyone. Just please keep an open mind and think about it. Yeah... you would lose some money if you have alot of reiki clients... but if its wrong to do, you shouldn't do it. I've used reiki for many good things. I've seen some amazing stuff. However, the reasons I stated above is mostly why I am not doing it anymore.
Its been about a year since I learned reiki. I have practiced it on and off during that time. Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs but I feel that explain why I feel its a conflict with me being a Christian. In this posting I will write in why I do not think the healing directly comes from God. I will also explain why reiki is different then the healing done in the Bible, which many people use to tell others what Reiki is like. I used to be one of those people. For my background information I am 2nd degree Usui reiki, and I do various holistic health services. I am no longer doing reiki but I plan on now doing faith healing (Praying to God and asking for healing and touching people). I plan on doing this for free. It IS different then reiki. Similar... but different and I will explain why.
The idea reiki started out this Japanese man went to fast and meditate for like 20 days. During that 20 days he had an enlightenment. He recieved these symbols and stuff like that. He ran this reiki clinic and not many of his students recieved all the attunements. Theres alittle more to it but thats basically it. The story to me is kinda irrelavent since no one really knows what really happened. Usui had some ideas about him that were not true such as he was a doctor. He was not a doctor or had a (PH.D equivilent) in anything. Records would show if he did or not. Some people call "healers" doctors so thats where it may of came from. He also was not a Christian minister or teacher. Had he been either he would of been buried in a Christian cemetary, not a Buddist cemetary.
This is my thought process to help you understand how I think. I believe that the Bible is the book about our God and it tells us how we should live our life. Yeah... i've heard alot of stories how the Bible was changed and altered. However, I believe what it says. I believe that God loves us and if he knew we tried following his word to the best of our ability, with what we knew, he would be happy. Besides, Jesus died for us because we wouldn't be able to be perfect anyway.
Even to take things to extreme, lets say the Bible is completely fake. Would you want to live your life believing in somthing that seems like a really good way to live and seems to make sense, or would you take somones idea who heard the Bible was fake who heard it from this person who heard it from this person and so on. In school, we did a test where you told somone a story and they told somone... our class was small. Only like 30 kids in the whole school. By the end the story was completely changed. You were able to tell the story right after you heard it so it shoudn't of been changed. Assuming the world is only a few thousand years old, which I believe, if the story of what God really is like was just handed down from person to person it would be changed alot more then a simple story was in school. Also, no one likes admiting they are living a wrong life. I sure don't! I tell people lots of things are wrong, but at least I admit to it. I also admit that telling somone somthing is wrong when you do it yourself is being a hypocrite. I admit to that also. Somtimes I even try to find ways to justify what I do, which is wrong. Most people don't admit what they do is wrong and justify it. Somtimes even lie about it. Blah... i'm getting off track... LOL
Anyway, back to the original subject and I will try not going off on anymore tangents. I believe that Jesus healed people. Other people also healed people using his name. His name and his name only. No attunements were needed, no symbols. Only faith. I'm not saying that reiki is necessarily bad... but why take a chance on it. Besides... lets just say I was a doctor and wanted to choose either healing from God like Jesus did or reiki. Below is my comparison. I refer to faith healing also as Jesus healing somtimes. It just means having faith that God does the work.
Reiki: Costs money to be able to "heal". Many people don't do it for free but do it for a business. You need symbols. The symbols are used for different things, however, the energy comes from "God" and directs itself anyway. So saying that one symbol works better on somthing then another symbol doesn't make sense since tthe energy does whatever it wants to. Also, you need to go through an attunement. This can be done hands on or from a distance. The biggest thing i've heard of reiki doing is removing a tumor. It was just on a friend and they didn't test it, reiki may or may not have directly done it but no other treatments were used. Another time was somone had a parakyzed foot, after reiki, it was only slightly paralyzed.
Jesus type healing: Jesus didn't charge anyone for healing. You don't need symbols because the power comes from God and doesn't need the symbol BS. He directs healing (energy) where it needs to go and how long. You don't need attunements. It can be done hands on or from a distance. Faith has done many things, raised the dead, healed complete serious illnesses, made blind people see, lame people walk.
Jesus's healing is clearly superior to reiki.
Also... this is the basic process for reiki and Jesus healing
Reiki: Make symbols on your hands, in the air, on the person. Place hands over the chakras for about 3 minutes each. To do distance you make symbols on the picture or piece of paper and hold it.
Jesus healing: Ask God for healing and touch the person (From what I know)
Jesus healing is far more simple.
I hope more people understand this like I do. If not, thats ok to. Everyone has their own opinion. What I read in other posts and was told before that symbols are just used to help you maintain concentration. Your not sending energy anyway! In reiki its taught it comes from God. Attunements are the biggest thing that helped me change... God didn't need to attune anyone. Just please keep an open mind and think about it. Yeah... you would lose some money if you have alot of reiki clients... but if its wrong to do, you shouldn't do it. I've used reiki for many good things. I've seen some amazing stuff. However, the reasons I stated above is mostly why I am not doing it anymore.