Retraining as a reiki practitioner

[Mydogpongs]

I woke up again this morning so unhappy about work, my boss, my workload, my bank balance, time away from my family and home and decided I need to do something about it.

I got a very odd ball of energy feeling my tummy when the thought of training in reiki popped into my head. Now I'm not a hippy or anything and have never had reiki and i know little to nothing about it but I can't shift this feeling. It feels like it's the universe telling me why has ut taken so long to realise this is what I'm meant to do!

Would I be mad to do this? Could I make a living doing this? I'd there anyone willing to give me the lowdown on this sort of work? Any pointers or reality checks are welcome but please be kind.

Is this placebo percentage brought to us by the reeky organization.

Yeah it is, yeah.

How much do the courses cost? I've known people that have done them and they are very coy about the costs, and very adept at changing the subject and trying to sell you some essential oils.

I see a very well qualified Physio who does reiki as an add on. I bloody love it. I'm floating on the ceiling..

Hope you find a way out of your current role OP, ideally to a more lucrative place than reiki practitioner!

Aside from anything else how are going to find clients? Will you be self employed? Can you run a business?

I had it once - my acupuncturist had recently trained and said she'd give me a free session.

I went home after and felt incredibly anxious, then burst into tears. Slept heavily then woke up feeling the best I'd felt in years. It was weird because I was expecting nothing and just let her do it as a favour.

If you've never had reiki yourself and you know nothing about it, what you are actually asking is whether reiki is a profitable scam for you to get in on. Yes reiki is nonsense but at least most reiki practitioners believe in the nonsense and therefore are providing some kind of service to their clients. You don't even do that - you just want to know if you can scam believers into paying you. That's very scummy.

I might have been prepared to not entirely dismiss reiki until the pandemic- when it was widely claimed to work virtually 😬

Well I don't think Reiki is BS and I wouldn't practice it if I thought that way. But if it's something you have a strong gut feeling about, why not explore it further and see what happens?

Go for it!
To the haters and non believers, you're not the target audience, so why comment? Your negative vibes are exactly why you should open your mind and give reiki a go.

I'm already sleeping with a married man is that a problem? We don't have sex much anymore we have been married 25 years but lots of sleeping happens.

No-one "believes in the power of massage". They understand massage works because of medical studies, evidence and bio-mechanics.

You have to "believe" that reiki works because it is unsubstantiated horseshit.

Blimey a couple of hours via zoom for a grand’s worth of “training”. Maybe that’s where you should focus your efforts OP.

Train the reiki masters online and let them do the reiki itself if they believe in it.

A friend used to go for reiki sessions to have his aura felt. Or that’s what he told his wife anyway.

I said men. Plural. But whatever floats your boat.

There was a thing about men and boats the other week wasn't there!

Why did you spend a thousand pounds qualifying in something you think is bollocks? Was it just for the money? Or did you previously believe in it and the training changed your mind?

I think you've taken a comment a bit to literally. Obviously massage isn't a belief. I don't believe In reiki but i also don't find it necessary to shit on people who do, massage is an objectively helpful skill, reiki is subjective.

Good question! I spent a couple of years keeping an open mind to such things - I had the money back then, was in therapy and exploring different approaches to life.

I didn't go down the road of cultish and/or sex modalities (dunno why I bothered with the 'or', all cults veer towards dodgy sex!) but attended a bunch of motivational courses and learned different 'healing' methods. They varied from borderline woo to common sense. It was interesting, particularly from a psychological point of view.

I actually got my investment back fairly quick, because my freshly-acquired insight into how these things work led me to stop wasting money on holistic health 😆 Haven't had as much as a hand massage since then!

The benefits of simple touch are scientifically proven . For example kangaroo care in NICU hugely improves outcomes.

Yeah - all the holistic health modalities swerve seamlessly from simple human truths: kindly physical contact is beneficial, for instance - to pointless rules and rituals. The minute someone mentions anything like 'energies', you've left the practical realm and are hearing bullshit.

That's not to say it doesn't work. It just isn't doing what it says on the tin.

Btw, Reiki isn't massage. It's laying-on of hands ... and can also be done at a distance, by means of magical air signs.

Reiki isn't touch though is it? It's waving hands around.

I thought it was light touch ? Maybe I’m wrong I might be thinking of something else ?!

Both. In the room with your healer, they do laying-on of hands. You can also be healed remotely, when the practitioner makes magical signs to direct the universal power to you 😏

I underwent Reiki healing as part of therapy for CSA. It was rubbish and I despised the woman doing it. She said she had a Masters in Reiki and foolishly I thought that meant she was university educated

Interesting, thank you. I started a course in aromatherapy years ago, and really enjoyed it up to the point I had to do an assignment about health and safety and regulation. And found when trying to research it that there is basically none, and that just put me off. I actually think that it isn’t woo, it has a lot of valid theory supporting it, but there isn’t yet enough good evidence to demonstrate that, and there won’t be unless/until scientists and clinicians take an interest, rather than enthusiastic amateurs. And it does need regulation. Everything that works does, because if it can do you good done right, it can also cause harm when done wrong.