Just thought i would share my experiences with Reiki.
So around December 2010 , me and my girlfriend and a close freind had a Reiki 1 attunement by our friend and his friend who are both Reiki masters. (offered for free)
During this attunement, we did some yoga,grounding exercises and then they begun doing what ever it is they do to attune us to Reiki 1 (self healing). When it came to my turn, i could physically feel the energy coursing through me. This basically made me want to cry and i was holding myself back from doing this...just about.
It wasn't because the experience was at all emotional at all but the potency of their energy and their ability to channel it through me which was causing my body to release what ever it was that i have in me.
For myself, Reiki is a Very physical and tangible thing. A lot of people don't feel it physically, but i have always felt this energy in myself (Kundalini / Shakti ) before i even knew what it was. For now, feeling the energy physically seems like a disadvantage as its making things very intense, but i know in the very near future, my sensitivity and ability to use it will help me to help myself and others greatly very soon.
About a week ago, one of our now-freinds who attuned us to level 1, put on a Reiki/healing share at her house.(again no charge/fee ) There was around 8 of us i think. Most of her and her friends were all either Reiki masters , or level 3. Our friend who we had our first attunment was, was now a level 2. My girlfriend and i are still a level 1. (essentially meaning, we have a lot more self healing to do! )During these healing shares , you all take turns laying on a massage bed, while 4 or more others all channel the Reiki energy and intentions to cleanse through the person laying on the bed...
It got to my turn ,and the same thing that happened in the attunement happened again. Only this time it was much a more 'violent' reaction. My body temperature raised and i was sweating, i couldn't even hold back the tears this time and my entire body and all of my muscles were tensing up. my solar plexus/stomach was pulsing hard enough to physically feel and see it and they could feel the heat radiating from me.
It was a very strange experience even to me now. Again, the emotion didn't come from the experience it's self, but their ability to channel this energy though you. I needed a release and this caused a huge release in me. I can't explain where the feelings came from but i know they surfaced from somewhere very very deep inside of me. I felt embarrassed about the tears and the state i was in, as i had only just met most of these people and i haven't cried properly in a long long time. But these are all very loving beings and i could genuinely feel the love in the room .
I felt like an alien having soul-surgery by loving beings of light.
It was completely overwhelming, every now and then i still get an overwhelming sense of the 'Love'/Reiki/energy in the universe and around me and it causes a similar reaction. It's like the weight of the universe is wanting to pass through me, only i believe it has weight where as it's actually all completely just light and my body/mind can't deal with that level of energy that i feel is waiting to be released, or channeled and directed outwards through me.
I guess it brought a lot of things to my attention, i think i have unresolved abandonment issues, and trust issues and issues around love that all stem from child hood that my psyche has blocked out as they must have happened at an age when a child has no ability to process complex emotions other than to repress/suppress them deep into the sub-concious mind.
A caapi and MJ experience the other day, shed some more light on this for me and i'm now spending a lot more time on helping every last bit of supressed emotion from child hood to my adult life pass through me. I had a very revealing Psilohuasca experience in December which has partly lead to my ability to see my aura/electromagnetic feild at night time when my energy has no blocakges in it. I plan to have a traditional Ayawaska brew very soon which i believe will help purge out any last drop of stagnant energy my body no longer needs to carry.
I just wanted to share my experiences anyway. As far as what Reiki is, check some of the chI /qui threads around. I believe it is electro magnetic in nature, and is essentially, dealing with the same polarized energy and meridians that acupuncture addresses.The same energy that courses around our planet. This energy permeates through the entire universe and is not a man made construction.There are many definitions of love in various contexts, but these experiences have confirmed for me that there exists a field of consciousness, accessible to us, that has the ability to clear unresolved issues, heal the self, and then ultimately heal others. It can change our perception of ourselves , to the point where we ultimately realize there exists no self or other( singularity)
We are physical manifestations of energy and there is a lot we can do with this.
Love to all of you and all of your paths 