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title: "Reiki II"
date: 2007-10-31
description: "This Sunday I will be giving Reiki treatments at an event here in Oklahoma City. I am excited and nervous about the whole situation; will the people line up to ..."
categories: ["Consciousness & Philosophy"]
tags: ["chi", "chi-gung", "compassion", "ki", "qigong", "reiki", "tonglen"]
url: /blog/reiki-ii/
---

# Reiki II

This Sunday I will be  giving Reiki treatments at an event here in Oklahoma City.  I am excited and nervous about the whole situation; will the people line up to have the treatment?  Will they be receptive to this big, shaven-headed, tattooed guy telling them to relax and to become compassion?

I have a feeling most of them will be open to the idea of reiki to begin with.  It is a fairly progressive meditation center and as such I am guessing most are aware of chi and how it can and does affect them on a daily basis.

I only recently received my attunement to level II in Reiki, so I am still not the seasoned professional I would rather be, but this is a great opportunity to learn for me.  I am hopeful that after a full day of reiki on so many people I will have an epiphany.  Kinda like being thrown over and over again in judo, after a few thousand you start to catch on.

I do something a little different in my reiki treatments though; I practice tonglen on the person receiving the reki from me.  During tonglen I do a form of meditation whereby I center my focus on the person I am sending the reiki to and consciously imagine reducing the suffering in their life.  It is a freeing meditation.

I will write more about tonglen soon.

Matt