My Introduction to Reiki

This is the introduction from my book, Awakening the BlueLotus: A Reiki Level One Handbook .

My first introduction to Reiki was in the form of a discussion with one of my first spiritual teachers back in the late 1980’s. She explained to me how healing energy was channeled through the hands of the practitioner and into the recipient, adding that it “could do no harm”. I was fascinated by the knowledge that the energy was passed by way of a controlled metaphysical experience in which specific symb...