MammaBear,
Hi.
For myself? I was, naturally, curious about the attunement process. However, we were 'kept in the dark' according to the prevailing tradition of the time (in order to step further into the light lol, lol, lol) Some irony.
Yet, there are ways, if one has some training and practice in other 'energy work', to have a bit of access to the attunement process (or at least how it is accepted by oneself). So, I feel I came out of my Reiki 1 & 2 attunements perhaps a little more tuned into the process than some (but not all) of the others in my classes.
As for fear of attunement? In my estimation, the more hands-on Reiki practices students have during Reiki 1 the more likley most will be quite ready for the attunement (having already had a couple of days to absorb energy via Reiki as well as pass along the energy to others). I would say that most who come out of 8 or more hours worth or giving and receiving Reiki practices will certainly be feeling pretty good and fairly confident and if there are any butterflies they should be pretty tame. Might someone have a case of the 'dragons'? Sure. So, ok. There was one woman in my Reiki I who seemed to do all the practices just fine but could not do the attunements. We were told later on that she appraoched the Teacher a couple of weeks later and was granted the attunements.
Cheers,
RC
