In working directly with Spirit on advancing energy modalities, there was a lot of emphasis placed on technique to protect ourselves from errant energies.Posted by REILLY (here)
If you think you are doing reiki, without the attunements and training, and are using your own energy in a relatively unskilled manner, you can actually cause yourself harm while attempting to help and maybe even helping another. With a prayerful, passive "laying on of hands" one can work sometimes with safety, but even that is best when practiced by a whole group, not by individuals.Posted by Tesla_WTC_Solution (here)
what if you are just channeling human energy?
what is wrong with that if it's given willingly?
Not unwelcome participation from anything sinister, but the ideas held by the patients that promoted what appeared as sickness. Asking for protection before beginning any work was
a matter of course.
There was also emphasis on closing the opened aura of the patient (and ourselves), to not leave them susceptible to outside influences. Much more complex than a simple smudge.
All of that works on a level that's too subtle for me. I didn't experience it one way or another, just trusted the directions.
That was something that I'd never encountered in my Reiki training. But mine, and most contemporary training isn't the discipline and dedication that it should be, and once was.
It wasn't really my lot to be a Reiki Master and encumber myself with that identity, but it was important in what it led me to.