Yes indeed, thanks Lyn. That explains a lot and I feel much more at peace about the Reiki approach now.

With regards to attunements, this resonates deeply...

"I prefer to see them as allowing you to recognise something that is already there within you, rather than a way of hooking you up to some new energy source that you were not connected to before."

When someone presents to me, if I'm meant to work with them, suddenly I'll feel their issues inside of myself. And I'll know aspects of their karma that creates the tightness. Then rather than project energy outside of myself, I direct it inwards to those particular areas. I should also add 'projecting energy' is not an effort, nor an intention. Simply because those feelings are activated, I know I'm supposed to work with them and all I have to do is bring attention to them - consciousness is energy. They are the same thing.

When this happens, I invite the person I'm helping to feel the pain in them (or the movement of energy). Sometimes it may be so subtle for them that it's difficult to feel. But frequently, the more focus I bring to their pain inside of me, the stronger they feel it - catalysis of energy is now happening.

Once they feel it, the healing can really begin. I then ask them to talk about it. Usually the soul will start speaking. My consciousness will then be spiked to words they use - communication happens through multiple channels at a soul level - I also hear their distortions coming through the ego. My intuition plays back the words together with imagery which now starts activating in their causal body.

As appropriate, I'll share some of the imagery and ask them what it means to them or what they feel about it. It's vital to keep bringing people back into feeling so as not to too deeply engage mind in the descriptive process. Usually this takes them deeper into the activation/healing process. I'll keep asking them how they feel inside, because all the time, energy is now shifting. Other parts of the body will activate, so the dance continues until the karma has been felt, deeply explored and then released.

What people then usually feel is a deep infusion of light. That fragment of soul that had been locked within the karma has now been liberated and reintegrated - hence the infusion of light. So finally, I'll ask the person to bring their attention to the infusion which will help strengthen it. A new way of being has now been attained.

I accept that in order to work this way, requires one to be very open and harmonious within oneself. It only starts to happen once we've processed a good deal of our own karma - or else we'd be feeling our own stuff rather than the other persons. So I'd say the first steps to this kind of evolved practice would be first to channel energy as it is felt, but then to explore with the person what they are feeling - all the while empowering them by bringing their attention to what is going on for them.