HI all;
I am new to this board and hope that those of you that are reiki practicioners/masters/teachers can give me accurate information on this. I received 2 reiki treatments last week for pain associated to pleursy, the first on a Tuesday evening, after the treatment I could take deep breaths with no pain. Wed. no pain. Thursday I started having pain with breathing again but I believe this was related to emotional issues(ran over our family cat of 12 years by accident) received another reiki treatment Thurs. evening which took away the breathing pain and also helped to relieve a lot of the emotional stress from the day. Both treatments I felt immediate warmth not only where the practicioner placed his hands but also coming from within as well as a tingling throughout the areas where his hands were placed. The warmth lasted for several hours sort of like warm blanket being wrapped around me but on the inside. The first treatment I requested, but the second I did not, the practicioner knew I was still feeling bad becasue my son, who takes karate from him, told him my chest was hurting again, he did confirm with me that I was still feeling bad but then walked over to initiate the treatment. My main questions are: 1) is it possible for a reiki practicioner to know intutively when someone needs a treatment? I am a Tai Chi student of his and he knows me and knows that I am open to reiki but also knows I am stubborn and do not like to ask for help all the time. I have always had an interest in natural healing and really want to take reiki classes but feel that reiki is something you don't enter into with a cavalier type of attitude. This practicioner has had a lot of training in this area and has had several people express a desire to learn, with me being one of those, but he has not given any concrete answer on whether or not he plans to teach or share his knowlege. 2) can you really learn and receive attunements by DVD? I am willing to wait and take a face to face class with this gentleman as I feel that he will teach but when he feels ready, meanwhile I thought that if there are DVDs out there that can give me the knowledge now that I would check them out and if they really work then when I do a face to face class it will be a reaffirmation of what I have already learned as well as exposure to possible different methods. I feel that this person is who I should learn from in a person to person situation especially since he gve me my first two reiki treatments out of sincere concern. I figure you can never have too much knowledge. Sorry for the long post but I had to share.
