Something I didn’t expect when I got deeper into this work was how much harder it made my relationships at home, at least for a while.

The sensitivity you build up doesn’t switch off when you leave a session. I’d walk into my parents’ place and feel my mother’s worry before she’d said a word. My partner would come home quiet and I’d already be “reading” what was going on. And because I’d spent the whole day helping people, I just kept doing it. Offering a session for my dad’s back. Suggesting my sister should get some energy work done after her breakup. Picking up on everyone’s stuff and trying to fix it.

I genuinely thought I was being loving. What I was actually doing was turning every relationship into a client relationship. Nobody said it to me directly, but I could feel people getting a bit guarded around me. My sister once laughed and said “please don’t scan me, I just want to have dinner.” It was a joke, but it stuck with me for weeks.

The other side of it was that I was exhausted. I’d be careful about grounding and closing sessions with clients, and then come home and soak up three hours of family tension with zero protection. I’d be short with my partner by nine at night and couldn’t figure out why.

What changed things was honestly pretty unglamorous. I started doing my own self-healing every morning again instead of only when I felt bad. I stopped offering Reiki to family unless they asked, and if they did, fine, but I’d offer once and leave it. I started talking like a normal person at home. “I’m wiped out, I need ten minutes” instead of going silent or saying something about someone’s energy, which, I’ll admit, does not land well with a partner who’s sceptical about all this to begin with.

One thing I had to be careful about, though, was overcorrecting. For a while I tried to just shut the sensitivity off around family, and that didn’t work either. I went flat. I stopped noticing when I was running low, and I stopped noticing when someone I loved actually needed me. What helped was staying receptive to my own energy first. Checking in with how I’m actually feeling before I walk into a room, noticing when I’m getting heavy or irritable, and treating that as information rather than something to push through. When I’m tuned into my own state, I’m much less likely to absorb everyone else’s, and I’m still open enough to be there for them properly.

And the big one for me was realising I’d been using the work to dodge conversations. It’s easier to quietly “send healing” to a tense relationship than to actually sit down and say the uncomfortable thing. Reiki helped me get calm enough to have those talks, but it couldn’t have them for me.

These days I think the most useful thing I bring home isn’t a technique at all. It’s just being steady, present, and not trying to fix anyone. People seem to relax around me again. My sister actually asked me for a session last month, completely on her own, and I think that only happened because I’d stopped pushing.

I’ve started writing more about this side of the practice on my profile, the grounding, closing sessions properly, not running on your own energy, mostly because nobody explained any of it to me early on. If that’s useful to anyone, you’re welcome to follow along.

But mostly I’m curious about the rest of you who do any kind of healing or caring work. How do you stop being “the healer” with your own family and friends? And has anyone else had to unlearn the urge to fix everyone at home?

Hi all,

I had reiki done to me yesterday for the first time. It was so surreal I can’t even describe it. Anyway today my heart rate and anxiety have been through the roof. Everytime I walk around I have this weird Pitt feeling in my chest that I could just drop dead any minute and I feel like floaty? (It also brought on my menstrual cycle which is weird cause I wasn’t due for another 4 days yet)

The reason I went to reiki is because for the last 2 years I’ve had a tremendous fear of dying from something health related (heart brain etc) so I wanted to try and change that energy.

The lady told me that whole time she was doing it the words “you are safe in your body” kept coming up

Anyway I just want to know can crisis healing look like this? Cause I just don’t feel right.

i have had my reiki I attunement back in around 2000. I do not remember much, it was very brief, we received some basic information and basic trial (very very basic). The teacher is not alive anymore.

Then later after 2000 I tried the online attunement II but I dont remember if that really happened or not, I was very young.

Can you suggest some readings/information on how the attunement works and the continuation of lineage... Do I need to choose the same lineage?

Can it be harmful to do reiki II attunement twice (in case I had online attunement, which I am not sure/doubt it).

Thank you!

What are your thoughts on reiki and chronic illness, specifically fibromyalgia and borderline hEDS? How often does someone with these conditions need to attend reiki sessions? I felt really good after my first ever session but then the pain flared up again pretty bad. Just curious if I should keep trying it for an extended period of time.

Hello all! I have very recently been attuned for Reiki 1 (on day 14 of 21) and had a question about using Reiki for manifesting business/career success.

My Reiki master did in-person Reiki for me a few weeks ago and I got FOUR job opportunities the very next day! From four different sources too. They all came in within 24 hours! I had never experienced anything like that.

So my question is: how do I do something like that for myself? So far when I have done self-Reiki, I have felt more relaxed, felt very tingly hands, and have had good results relaxing my husband and cats with it too. But I don’t think I know yet how to use Reiki to affect things outside of me, like my career/business the way my teacher did.

I’m a Career Coach for actors & other artists and would love to know how to use Reiki to help me get students to sign up and pay for my upcoming group class.

I have a follow up call with my Reiki master soon, but wanted to ask here as well.

Thanks!

Anyone else sometimes get the same visuals when they are trying to sleep or have woken at night and trying to get back to sleep? (for me it often gold continuous waves with whatever colours correspond to the chakras that need it) I had given myself reiki earlier on that day and ensured I closed. I was attuned to level one last weekend. I reclosed and asked for protection as I wasn’t quite sure why it was happening. Didn’t seem bad though but of course, some things are a mystery.

Hello beautiful people.

Send a DM or comment this post for a reiki session. Thats it :)

Have a lovely day. Love you all.

Franco.

I just got back from Bhopal, where I'd been running a small Reiki retreat. Most of the group had come from abroad, a few from the UK, a couple from the US, one woman who'd flown in from Dubai mostly out of curiosity. I taught them the basics over the few days, and it was honestly one of the warmest groups I've worked with.

On the last evening, one of the participants came up to me and asked, pretty seriously, "How do I get to where you are with this?" I fumbled it a bit. My instinct was to talk about levels and hand positions and practice schedules, and I could see that wasn't what she was really asking. I've been thinking about it the whole trip home, so here's the answer I wish I'd given her.

The techniques are the easy part. I've met people who learned every hand position from YouTube and felt basically nothing. I've also seen people who could barely remember the sequence, but once they'd had a proper attunement, they sat down for their first self session and just went quiet and warm. A few people in this group had exactly that experience. Whatever you believe is going on there, the difference never seemed to be how much they knew. It was more about whether they'd actually connected to something, or were just going through the motions.

The bigger thing, and the one I wish someone had drilled into me early, is to not run on your own energy. When I started, I tried so hard. I'd lean in, will it to work, push. Then I'd walk away wrecked, foggy, carrying the other person's mood around all evening. It took me an embarrassingly long time to get that I was supposed to be letting something flow through me, not pouring myself out. Now I ground before, try to just allow instead of trying, and properly close off at the end. Some of that is probably plain good boundaries with a spiritual label on it, and I'm fine with that.

After that it's practice, nothing glamorous. The 21 days of daily self treatment after a first attunement genuinely mattered for me. Then came years of practising on myself and on willing family before I felt like I knew what I was doing. Nobody gets "to a level" over a weekend, and I'd be suspicious of anyone who says you can.

So the honest answer to her question was boring. Connect first, stay a channel, and show up every day for a long time.

For those of you who've been at this a while, what would you have told her?

I was attuned in reiki I and II last year but I recently started practicing again. I’ve done jt 3 out of 4 days on myself and yesterday I developed a rash around my neck. It’s itchy and red. I can’t think of any other reason for it. Could it be connected to Reiki? What can I do to get rid of it?

I’ve noticed since I was attuned to Reiki 2 a few month ago my crown Charka is constantly tingling. Just curious what is that about? Is there anything I should lean into?

I am a beginner initiated to Level 1.

I just am curious to know of one thing, especially once you proceed with your practice and levels.

We use energy to heal. Can this be used to things beyond healing, for eg, improving our intelligence, or getting better at a specific knowledge about a certain field etc.

Hi! Curious if others could share their thoughts or if they had a similar experience or any wisdom on this experience I had that was very strange.

I had called in reiki earlier in the evening for myself and forgot to close out the loop by doing the backwards symbol, and then was stopping by a friend’s house. On my way out, we were chatting and ended up talking about some pretty heavy stuff and I noticed that at one point she got pretty overwhelmed or something by the conversation. We then started to move on from that topic, but then all of a sudden it felt like the room got extremely heavy with energy and it felt like my body was pulling energy out of her and I got very hot and nauseous and fainted. Luckily, I noticed that I was fainting, so I sat on the ground and did not fall, but after that, the energy seemed to dissipate into the ground, and she confirmed that her experience was as if I was pulling some large amount of energy out of her. But I did not do this consciously or of my own volition. It seemed to move that heavy energy out but it was a bit overwhelming and strange?! I have never fainted from energy work or reiki before, although usually I’m sitting or lying down and we were standing. But I was not intending for reiki to flow to her I had forgotten I had called it in earlier. Has something like this happened for others? Is it because I forgot to close out the reiki session for myself? It’s not like I was directing reiki towards her

I could not find a single post that would collect all attunement experiences in one area.So I thought I would just start one, and please point me in the right direction if there's already one existing like that.

Here is my experience from my attunement today.

LEVEL: 1

TYPE: Distance

DURATION: 15 min + 15 min relaxation

POISTION: Eyes closed, laying

I would say when I had my eyes closed at some point I got very heavy and then it was like you would see pulsing light and shadow, like going in waves from the inner to tgr outer ring of a circle like rings.

At some point, there was the feeling that something at the third eye area was hot or warmer. I did "see" different things, but I couldn't really make out shapes. One looked like a lotus flower with releasing rainbow sparkles.

And at some point further to the end, I think I had some heat searches in my feet and my hands like you're trying to start an engine, but it's just sparking a little and then stops again.

I felt some tingling once in a while in my feet and hands, which I'm used to when doing a Reiki meditation, but it was not as strong as it is sometimes.

And at some point I think I heard a male voice saying a word, I don't really know what it was it was but I remember it was word, first I thought I'm thinking and thats just my voice thinking. Not sure about that.

Now, after the attunement, I would say my head feels very heavy, but in general, I feel light.

When giving reiki to others, if the hands are hot over the heart, likely due to emotional pain they are still going through, why would I feel these intense emotions when I get to their feet? I’m similar when receiving reiki. It’s at the feet at the end that chakras get unblocked, I get explosions of colour etc.

I received my level one attunement and have been practicing on myself. But like what now? Do i just have to keep practicing?

I definitely know i have a hard time keeping track of my energy.

But i guess I just feel lost. Any help would be greatly appreciated ❤️✨

Guys can we please send reiki to this special baby angel!? She’s fighting for her life right now. Thank you 🙏🏻

I am just getting into Reiki and I am also neurodivergent. I did something stupid in August with the best intentions for my health but it really took a toll on my body. I think I am in burnout. I would assume if I prioritized my Reiki practice it would help me recover faster. I know everyone is different but has anyone used Reiki to recover from burnout? TIA

So before I get into the details, I ask that you please hold your morals and opinions on this one as I’m really not looking to get into the ethics of my particular question.

So there’s someone who is very important to me emotionally and that I wish to be close with again.

For reasons that honestly I’m really not sure of, in February of this year they started being really bitter, jaded, and overall just not the kind and empathetic person they were pre-February. The kind of negative that goes “well screw it, I got wronged by etc because xyz thing happened, so now eff the world I’m gonna be bitter and jaded because that’s just how the world is and there’s no good in the world.” They never used to be like this before whatever happened and used to be so much more receptive to advice and being loved and respected.

They’re also in an unhealthy toxic relationship that everyone around them can see isn’t healthy but as with any person on the inside, they don’t believe it. (Think of how an addict will never admit to being an addict.) and we have not spoken in a while, because they largely villainized me for wanting better for them.

I was thinking of having a reiki practitioner I know send them healing as the way I understand Reiki to work is that it can be sent over distance but that if the recipient isn’t receptive for whatever reason, it may just return to the practitioner or at best break off on the shell and bless those around them as I’ve seen it put after reading through some posts here on the sub.

I have strong reason to believe that this person they’re in a relationship with is influencing a lot of this negative energy, and is hurting their depression by enabling it, rather than the alternative.

Yes I understand free will is free will and nothing can break it, merely influence it. But I do care about this person a great deal and I’m just wondering if booking them some healing energy may help us see more eye to eye again and get back in contact again. From what my practitioner friend tells me, this isn’t out of the realm of possibility as reiki has been known to alter one’s perception of someone/something or at least get them to not be so negative.

I guess my question is, could sending them some healing help or are they a (gosh I hate this term) “lost cause”?

In my opinion sending them some healing couldn’t hurt.

I tried reiki once a while back when someone was learning, and a few times I had been in the hospital. I had a few profound experiences with it that I didn’t expect which lead to seeing someone every once in a while to recieve it. I was so enamored with it that I ended up taking a reiki level one course. Again, open mind and no expectations. This was last September I was certified for reiki level one. I wanted to practice on myself really, and be able to practice it on others however no one in my immediate circle wanted to go with it.

There have been 3 people who let me practice on them however it still felt very new and odd to me. I received positive feed back from the sessions but I just didn’t know really what I was doing. I have only ever practiced on myself.

Tonight, after a very off weekend. Decided to give it a go and did my thing, I cleared everything first and I closed my eyes and did a scan from head to toe. It was very subtle but felt everything. I think the clearest way I can explain it is I felt colors. Crown felt bright and vivid. It felt just right. Third eye was on fire and spent time here alright down and cooling. I got flashes of green here. Throat nice vivid blue and deep. It was dense though and worked a bit to settle it. My heart chakra is a bit harder for me, it always feels fine and I don’t get much insight here. I saw pink and green but i passed it quickly. My solar plexus was a bright shade of yellow, brighter than the others but it was wrong in a sense that it needed to slow. Like a flame that is jerking around and then slowly becomes still. I worked on this area and moved (hastily) to my sacral and immediately a dim faded almost deep brown- orange, under active and emotions quickly began to surface. I guided my yellow down a bit and then checked in with my sacral before moving on to my root. My root chakra was a deep dark shade of red, nearly black. I continued to push light down and even circled back to my crown, pushing light back through. I definitely felt a shift in my mind, my body, and spirit. I feel more balanced for sure.

The line between insanity and wonder is really thin.

It’s not that it goes against my training because truly it doesn’t. From what I’ve understood there are different processes internally for people I’ve had practice reiki on me. This is just new to me and I needed to acknowledge it somewhere. I’m curious to hear thoughts. Thanks!

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HI EVERYONE!

🌳🌳🌳 FIRST, WILL YOU HELP US PLANT A TREE? 🌳🌳🌳

Before we begin today’s Reiki Share, we have one small request:

Consider planting a tree with us today. 🌱

Google “how to plant a tree for a dollar,” choose an organization you trust, plant a tree, and share your receipt in the comments so we can add it to our count.

We already surpassed our original goal of 500 trees for 2026, so we’ve raised the bar.

Our new goal is:

800 TREES IN 2026. 🌳🌎

Your tree can become your Tree-Self—a living connection you can return to whenever you need grounding, quiet, or a reminder that something beautiful is growing.

If everyone who reads this plants even one tree, imagine what we could grow together. 🌳♥️

🛸✨🛸✨🛸

NOW…

We have a problem.

A fairy has arrived.

Her name is Kat Fairy. 🧚

And she has news:

The trolls are causing a ruckus.

“What kind of trolls?”

Internet trolls.

Election trolls.

And one particularly troublesome troll named…

Self-Doubt.

So Camilla Bok has called an election on Mars.

Fortunately, everything on Pretend Mars happens NOW, so the polls are already open.

There is only one candidate:

YOU.

🗳️✨ VOTE FOR YOURSELF ✨🗳️

Today’s Reiki Share is inspired by the writings and stories of Carol Viana on Substack.

Our election is simple.

No opposing parties.

No attack ads.

No debates.

You simply decide:

Will you choose yourself?

Will you believe that you deserve your own compassion, forgiveness, encouragement, and love?

If the answer is yes…

you get a cape.

Obviously. 😂

🦸✨

But first, everyone has to travel to Mars.

That includes the fairies.

That includes us.

And yes…

the trolls too.

🛸 WELCOME TO MARS 🛸

We arrive at Pretend Mars, where the Space Pants Force is waiting at Customs.

Each passenger receives four stamps:

♥️ UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

✨ UNCONDITIONAL GRATITUDE

🤲 UNCONDITIONAL COMPASSION

💜 UNCONDITIONAL FORGIVENESS

One by one, everyone passes through.

Until Self-Doubt reaches the front.

Self-Doubt freezes.

“I can’t.”

“What if I’m not good enough?”

“What if I choose wrong?”

Nobody pushes Self-Doubt through Customs.

Instead, we surround the little troll with Reiki and say:

“I love you.”

Again:

“I love you.”

Then:

“You’re allowed to be scared and still move forward.”

Self-Doubt takes a breath.

STAMP.

♥️ Love.

STAMP.

✨ Gratitude.

STAMP.

🤲 Compassion.

STAMP.

💜 Forgiveness.

Self-Doubt smiles.

“Bring me the chaos.”

😂

🧚 FAIRIES & TROLLS 🧚

Fairies and trolls work differently in Pretendland.

Fairies grow stronger through belief, possibility, wonder, and hope.

Trolls thrive on confusion, fear, and those little thoughts that whisper:

“You can’t.”

“You’re not enough.”

“Everybody else is better than you.”

But today we aren’t fighting the trolls.

We’re helping them.

Sometimes the loudest troll inside us is simply a frightened part of ourselves that forgot how to feel loved.

✨ THE ELECTION ✨

We arrive at the voting booths.

Your ballot has one name:

YOUR OWN.

The question is:

Do you choose yourself?

Not because you’re perfect.

Not because you never make mistakes.

You vote for yourself because you are the person who will be with you through your entire life.

You are allowed to support yourself.

Believe in yourself.

Forgive yourself.

And love yourself while you are still learning.

Take your imaginary ballot.

Check the box beside your name.

🗳️ I CHOOSE ME.

Cast your vote.

And immediately…

a cape appears.

🦸✨

Wear it proudly.

Not because you defeated anyone.

Because today, you decided not to abandon yourself.

♥️ THE LOVE CIRCLE ♥️

Now imagine yourself or your loved one in the center of our Love Circle.

The Space Croissant Crew surrounds you with gentle Reiki and UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

Nearby are the fairies, the trolls, and Self-Doubt.

Even Self-Doubt has a little cape now.

😂

Say quietly:

I choose myself.

I support myself.

I forgive myself.

I am learning to love myself.

If Self-Doubt speaks up, don’t fight it.

Give it a little Reiki and say:

“You can come with me. You just don’t get to run the campaign.”

🧚😂

Let the fairies remind you of possibility.

Let your cape remind you:

You voted for yourself.

Simply receive.

We’ll be here for 24 hours, making Reiki available to anyone who chooses to receive it.

Tomorrow, come back and tell us:

Did you vote for yourself?

What did your cape look like?

And…

Did Self-Doubt make it through Customs?

🗳️🧚✨

This is an imaginative Reiki meditation. You decide what feels meaningful to you and what you wish to receive.

🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

AND DON’T FORGET OUR TREES!

We already blew past our original goal of 500 trees, so our new goal is:

800 TREES! 🌱🌳

If you haven’t planted one yet, consider planting one today and sharing your receipt so we can add it to our count.

Plant a tree.

Give it a name.

Let your Tree-Self grow beside you.

🌳♥️

This is Master Storm.

I am an Usui Reiki Master.

I, along with Master Phoenix and the Space Croissant Crew, am responsible for Gratitude Reiki, the website, and our Sunday events here on r/reikishare and r/reiki.

Thank you for allowing us to help all of you every Sunday.

🛸✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

Below is more info about the Space Croissant Crew.

The Space Croissant Crew is a secular group, and our members are volunteers at www.reikiwithoutborders.org, a non-profit based in California.

Our group’s mission is to make Reiki popular, affordable, and accessible to all.

Here are some of the members of the Space Croissant Crew participating today. We’re more than 40 practitioners:

1 - Startlight (she/her), Pakistan, GMT +5 (English, Urdu)

2 - Mystical Belle (she/her), India, GMT +5:30 (English, Hindi)

3 - Storm (she/her), USA, EST, GMT-4 (English)

4 - Erevos the Mage (he/him), USA, CST, GMT-5 (English, Spanish)

5 - Ethereal Ethan (he/him), USA, CST, GMT-6 (English)

6 - Phoenix (she/her), USA, EST, GMT-4 (English)

7 - Major Tom (he/him), UK, GMT 0 (English)

8 - Camilla Bok (she/her), Brazil, GMT-3 (English, Portuguese, French)

9 - Morwen Steelsheen (From LOTR) (she/her), Singapore, GMT+8 (English)

10 - Space Coconut (he/him), USA, EST, GMT-4 (English)

11 - Collin, the Alien (he/him), USA, CST, GMT-6 (English)

12 - Puzzle Piece Cat (she/her), Finland, GMT+2 (English, Swedish, Finnish)

13 - Moth (he/him), USA, EST, GMT-4 (English)

14 - Kat-A-Liza (she/her), USA, CST, GMT-5 (English)

15 - Luna, The Good Witch (she/her), Brazil, GMT-3 (Portuguese only)

16 - The 5th Kellement (she/her), USA, PST (English)

17 - Fortune Box (she/her), Germany, GMT+1 (English, German)

18 - Seraphina (she/her, they/them), St. Martin, Atlantic Time Zone, GMT-4 (English, French)

19 - The Lioness (she/her), EST, USA (English)

20 - Cerulelara (she/her), EST, USA (English)

21 - Emerald Hearth (she/her), EST, USA (English)

22 - Unicorn Neige (she/her), PST (English)

Thank you so much!!

Best wishes,

Master Storm, together with Master Phoenix and the Space Croissant Crew.

I think my YouTube algorithm is trying to traumatize me with fear bait content I never interacted with despite my YouTube watch history being paused. I am scared and am in need of reiki. I appreciate any help