| "The Process of Empowering One to Heal | | | | Reiki at the Apprentice Level. In that training, one |
| Themselves." This definition of Reiki was shared with | | | | explored Wei Chi’s definition of Reiki and learned |
| me, through the act of trance channeling, in 1995 by | | | | about the differences in such things as hand positions, |
| Wei Chi. Wei Chi, a Tibetan shaman, who walked the | | | | long distance healing, client interaction, symbols, and the |
| earth plane 5,000 years ago. | | | | overarching goal of Reiki itself. The student that was |
| Wei Chi brought forth a much more interactive, client | | | | attuned into the Wei Chi Tibetan Reiki was opened to |
| participatory and extensive form of the healing art that | | | | a line of intuitive messaging that helped clients move |
| we call Reiki. Over a four month time period, my life | | | | towards a more empowered and self-healing place in |
| was dominated by Wei Chi channeling through me | | | | their lives. |
| from which came the book The Lost Steps Of Reiki | | | | Also, the student was introduced to what the next |
| – The Channeled Teachings of Wei Chi. | | | | level (Practitioner) of Wei Chi’s Reiki looked like. |
| Since 1996, Wei Chi has been working with me to help | | | | The practitioner Level includes an overview of the Wei |
| bring, as fully as possible, the modern version of what | | | | Chi Tibetan Reiki Treatment Series, which consists of |
| was given to him by Master which today we call, "Wei | | | | seven, two-hour sessions. It is within this treatment |
| Chi Tibetan Reiki". | | | | series that Wei Chi’s original offering takes the |
| For the first few years, the process was interwoven | | | | client on the journey of becoming more empowered, |
| with traveling around the country, speaking to Reiki | | | | self-healing, and self-aware. |
| groups, through dialogues, and visiting healing centers | | | | Additionally, in the Practitioner Level, students learn |
| and stores. In that part of the process, I was sharing | | | | from their participation, how to elevate their intuitive |
| from Wei Chi, both the additional things that never | | | | messaging, learn to create powerful "homework" for |
| came forward in Usui Reiki, as well as some | | | | the client, perform in-session assessments, and to |
| philosophical differences. | | | | effortlessly shift from intellectual to intuitive and back |
| Wei Chi’s commentary only used the most | | | | again. |
| consistent form of Reiki at that time, the Reiki Alliance | | | | The responses I received from the sharing of this |
| Reiki, as the reference point. As disdainful as he was | | | | information went from people being very excited and |
| of certain ways in which he felt the Reiki Alliance | | | | telling me, "I have always know there was more!" to |
| version of Reiki was an improper representation of the | | | | borderline death threats where they exclaimed, |
| healing art, he was equally disdainful of the way in | | | | "You’re a heretic and you should be shot for trying |
| which renegade Reiki practitioners inconsistently added, | | | | to ruin Reiki like this!". I have had all kinds of responses |
| subtracted, and sometimes, even misrepresented the | | | | to the messages from Wei Chi. |
| Reiki they had originally learned. He felt the lack of | | | | Over the past 14 years, Wei Chi has continued to |
| oversight and standards of any kind was leading to | | | | work with me to structure and grow the system to |
| the dilution and destruction of the credibility of Reiki, in | | | | better fit this day and age. He has added a Three, and |
| general. | | | | Five Session Treatment Series, as well as a single |
| Wei Chi was also cautious about any healing system | | | | modified treatment to the original Seven Session |
| in which clients were not asked to acknowledge their | | | | Treatment Series. The work has also expanded to |
| responsibility or even agree to participate in their own | | | | include a Medical Intuitive Level and a Counseling Level. |
| process of healing. He expressed concern that, at | | | | The beauty of a living system is that it grows and |
| best, it seemed as if the client’s symptoms might | | | | evolves with the needs of the people who are |
| be alleviated in the process but no time or energy was | | | | receiving it. |
| spent addressing the cause of the imbalances within | | | | In my travels, it was sad for me to discover that in the |
| the client’s life. | | | | explosive growth that took place as a result of the |
| For over two years, I traveled full time sharing the | | | | proliferation of renegade Reiki Masters Wei Chi had |
| information Wei Chi had given me. In my travels, I met | | | | been correct in his assessments. |
| a wide variety of Reiki students and teachers, from | | | | Everything has its place. For some the more passive |
| the strictest of Reiki Alliance students and teachers to | | | | form of Reiki, like Usui, is made to order. For others, a |
| students who had received all three levels in one day, | | | | more active, interactive form of Reiki like Wei Chi |
| some of whom couldn’t even tell me who Usui | | | | Tibetan Reiki, where one "gets into the trenches with |
| was or demonstrate a hand position. The | | | | the client", seems to be a better fit, and of course, as |
| inconsistencies and various representations of Reiki | | | | in all things, some people like to have both abilities in |
| was mind boggling. | | | | their tool belt. |
| During my travels, a transitional training was created, | | | | However, for the people that feel Wei Chi’s |
| with Wei Chi’s help, to help people who were at | | | | definition of Reiki, "the process of empowering one to |
| least at a Reiki level 2, to join Wei Chi’s form of | | | | heal themselves" does work, it feels like coming home. |