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Reiki Training, Licensing, and Certification
A person does not need a special background or credentials to
receive Reiki training. Many who seek the training are health care
professionals. Students must learn the practice from an experienced
Reiki teacher or Master, as it is not a therapy that can be self-taught.
There are a number of different schools of Reiki. Usually there are
three or four levels (or degrees) of expertise, depending upon the
school or type. Each level begins with an attunement, or initiation
into that level. Receiving an attunement is believed to bring the
ability to access Reiki energy and to open what is conceived as a
central core of energy in the body.
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Training for each level typically takes 1 or 2 days. The techniques
taught can vary greatly between Reiki schools and teachers. In time,
some students undertake the effort to become a Reiki Master, which
enables one to teach Reiki and perform attunements. This process can
take years. Some members of the Reiki professional community are
interested in developing additional, voluntary standards for their
profession.
The laws regulating the practice of Reiki
vary from state to state,
and sometimes
by local areas as well. For example, in Florida,
a Reiki
practitioner must also be a certified
massage therapist. Most other
states do
not consider Reiki to be massage and thus do not regulate it
as a form of massage therapy. |
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