Yes Master, Igor groaned

Last week I completed my training in Reiki and a now a Reiki Master. Whatever that means.

I am now qualified to pass on Reiki attunements and teach energy healing. It's something that I've wanted for a long time, to be qualified, or have credentials to teach; to share my knowledge and love on healing. Now that I've got it, I'm not sure I want it.

After my last Reiki Class I wrote Safety Zone. It was about an energy block that happened shortly after that class and my emotions surrounding it. I believe that the block manifested as part of the "21 day cleanse" that often accompanies attunements to new healing energies. Just after I wrote that article something else manifested, Shingles, and for two weeks I was itchy and in pain. Not to be out done, the shingles went away and I got the flu. Then the 21 one days were blissfully over. (Thank whatever Gods you believe in!)

However, now that I've done another level, and the last, I'm entering another cleansing. This one may last up to a year and if the email and phone call I received at class time are any indication of this next year are going to be like (see last weeks article Loving Memory) I think I'll run the other direction screaming.

I think I have a problem with the term 'Master'. It seems to imply a mastery over a given subject or ideology. The very basis of energy healing demands that it be done from a stance of no ego which completely destroys the possibility of me, or anyone, being its master, or master of it.

Master also implies a complete knowing of that given subject which I certainty do not have. I can neither explain how or why (nor do I want to know) laying on of hands is so beneficial to healing. I know that it works and that it helps people heal. I know that it helps to relax the body and release energy blocks, but I don't know how it does it. I've seen it do great and wonderful things. But when people ask me questions I more often than not shrug my shoulders and say three magic words "I don't know." I've seen and met some Reiki Masters who walk around like they are better than everyone and me because they have some great power in their hands. I don't like that thought and I don't want to be like that. I'm not better than anybody else is. I've taken the time to learn energy work, but anybody can learn it too, if they wish. I am special, but so are you. You are special! (I just don't think people say that enough so I thought I'd throw that in.)

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