Hi Pamela,
Thank you for this guidance – there are many great tips here to incorporate into professional practice… I was always questioning the ending of my Reiki sessions and if there was a better way- so thank you for sharing your insights here, will definitely utilise them.

I have a few questions I am hoping you could help me answer.

1. I practice Traditional Japanese Reiki and share Reiki with my whole beign with hands moving on their own during a Reiki practice … so sometimes hands will be positioned on client’s body, and at other times they will be hovering in certain spots above their body.. guided by byosen… so I don’t have a protocol in place … and I tell clients, but once they have found me, what’s going to happen in the session (as described) . Do you think that the concept of ‘hands hovering above their body’ may put potential ..new… clients off because it is introducing something to them that does not make ‘logical sense’? Therefore are more likely to not want to even try Reiki because it is not logical? Is the purpose of following a protocol to simplify our explanation of Reiki to common people without putting them off? Is this why Ms Takata would have created the Western version of Reiki (with set positions) so it could be adopted better by the Western World?

2. If for in-person practice we are encouraged to follow a protocol (because it involves a set of steps that may make client think that that particular combination of touch based movements is Reiki – how do we then explain Remote Reiki and why it works if we are not physically touching clients? We have at least 2 scientific research papers that validate use of Remote Reiki, so unsure if it is actually ok now to talk about Reiki energy?

3. Apart from the emotional release, a number of clients I am working with experiences electric type sensations, or a whole body jolt, twitching… visions or vivid dreams… etc during or post their Reiki session. What would be the best way of prepping them for an sensations that may happen? Do we say it is their body’s way of healing ? From my first ever Reiki experience, I was not told what to expect, so when I experienced whole body jolt myself, which did did not feel ‘normal’ I experienced fear… Made myself a promise to be honest about possible sensations that clients may experience… – I do tell clients’s before sessions that unusul sensations could be experienced , but I alway say it is from Reiki energy? What would you consider to be a better approach in communicating about sensations that fall outside of emotional release?

With Love and Gratitude,
Larisa