This definition of Reiki was shared with me, through the act of trance channeling, in 1995 by Wei Chi.  Wei Chi, a Tibetan shaman, who walked the earth plane 5,000 years ago.

                Wei Chi brought forth a much more interactive, client participatory and extensive form of the healing art that we call Reiki.  Over a four month time period, my life was dominated by Wei Chi channeling through me, from which came the book The Lost Steps Of Reiki – The Channeled Teachings of Wei Chi.

                Since 1996, Wei Chi has been working with me to help bring, as fully as possible, the modern version of what was given to him by Master which today we call, “Wei Chi Tibetan Reiki”.

                For the first few years, the process was interwoven with traveling around the country, speaking to Reiki groups, through dialogues, and visiting healing centers and stores.  In that part of the process, I was sharing from Wei Chi, both the additional things that never came forward in Usui Reiki, as well as, some philosophical differences.  Wei Chi’s commentary only used the most consistent form of Reiki at that time, the Reiki Alliance Reiki, as the reference point.  

               As disdainful as he was of certain ways in which he felt the Reiki Alliance version of Reiki was an improper representation of the healing art, he was equally disdainful of the way in which renegade Reiki practitioners inconsistently added, subtracted, and sometimes, even misrepresented the Reiki they had originally learned.  He felt the lack of oversight and standards of any kind was leading to the dilution and destruction of the credibility of Reiki, in general.  

                Wei Chi was also cautious about any healing system in which clients were not asked to acknowledge their responsibility or even agree to participate in their own process of healing.  He expressed concern that, at best, it seemed as if the client’s symptoms might be alleviated in the process but no time or energy was spent addressing the cause of the imbalances within the client’s life. 

For over two years, I traveled fulltime sharing the information Wei Chi had given me.  In my travels, I met a wide variety of Reiki students and teachers, from the strictest of Reiki Alliance students and teachers to students who had received all three levels in one day, some of whom couldn’t even tell me who Usui was or demonstrate a hand position.  The inconsistencies and various representations of Reiki was mind boggling.

During my travels, a transitional training was created, with Wei Chi’s help, to help people who were at least at a Reiki level 2, to join Wei Chi’s form of Reiki at the Apprentice Level.  In that training, one explored Wei Chi’s definition of Reiki and learned about the differences in such things as hand positions, long distance healing, client interaction, symbols, and the overarching goal of Reiki itself.  The student that was attuned into the Wei Chi Tibetan Reiki was opened to a line of intuitive messaging that helped clients move towards a more empowered and self-healing place in their lives. 

                Also, the student was introduced to what the next level (Practitioner) of Wei Chi’s Reiki looked like.  The practitioner Level includes an overview of the Wei Chi Tibetan Reiki Treatment Series, which consists of seven, two-hour sessions.  It is within this treatment series that Wei Chi’s original offering takes the client on the journey of becoming more empowered, self-healing, and self-aware.

                Additionally, in the Practitioner Level, students learn from their participation, how to elevate their intuitive messaging, learn to create powerful “homework” for the client, perform in-session assessments, and to effortlessly shift from intellectual to intuitive and back again. 

                The responses I received from the sharing of this information went from people being very excited  and telling me, “I have always know there was more!” to borderline death threats where they exclaimed, “You’re a heretic and you should be shot for trying to ruin Reiki like this!”.  I have had all kinds of responses to the messages from Wei Chi.

                Over the past 14 years, Wei Chi has continued to work with me to structure and grow the system to better fit this day and age.  He has added a Three, and Five Session Treatment Series, as well as a single modified treatment to the original Seven Session Treatment Series.  The work has also expanded to include a Medical Intuitive Level and a Counseling Level.  The beauty of a living system is that it grows and evolves with the needs of the people who are receiving it.

                In my travels, it was sad for me to discover that in the explosive growth that took place as a result of the proliferation of renegade Reiki Masters Wei Chi had been correct in his assessments.

                Everything has its place.  For some the more passive form of Reiki, like Usui, is made to order.  For others, a more active, interactive form of Reiki  like Wei Chi Tibetan Reiki, where one “gets into the trenches with the client”, seems to be a better fit, and of course, as in all things, some people like to have both abilities in their tool belt. 

Dr. Kevin Ross Emery is a popular author, psychic, coach, consultant and teacher. Dr. Kevin travels internationally, offering lectures and workshops to empower people from all walks of life. He's also available for phone (and Skype) consultations. Dr. Kevin's primary practices are in Portland, Maine and Haverhill, Massachusetts.

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