Reiki-1

 

 

CONTENTS:

Reiki-1

WHAT YOU LEARN IN Reiki-1

In SHUYOKAI i.e. Reiki-1 we learn to heal by touch. Also we get to know about this wonderful science that is so simple. The principles of Reiki let you lead your life more powerfully if followed rightly. The rules of Reiki help you be on the ground in spite of generating this wonderful power to change your life as well as the lives of others and the nature too!

Reiki 1 begins with the introduction and history of Reiki. Then you learn the GOKAI i.e. the Principles of Reiki. These are supposed to be practiced in your daily routine. After learning the principles, a student learns the rules of Reiki that tell you the dos and don’ts, of Reiki. These too are supposed to be practiced every time one is giving Reiki to ones own self or to anyone else.

Once he learns this well, he learns the principle behind touch healing. Then he learns how to place hands for healing. Then he learns about the most receptive points of healing in the body. Now he learns about how and how long one must place the hands for healing. He practices this healing before attunement. This enables him to know the feelings in the hands before attunement. Now the student is attuned into Reiki 1. After attunement, he has to practice the healing once again. This helps him know the difference in the feelings in the hands before and after the attunement.

Then the teacher gives some concluding tips and tells the student about the areas in life where he can use this healing method. The teacher also tells the student to experiment freely and use this wonderful method in as many ways as he can.

Normally, a master teacher also tells the student to practice regularly at least for 21 days. This is just to make sure that the student uses Reiki well. Also the Reiki teacher tells the student to feel free to ask for any support in the Reiki matter anytime he needs.

PRINCIPLES OF Reiki:

          In Reiki we follow some principles of life. Of course, they are good even in everyday life for all & mostly taught to all in morals class. As many other principles, these too are easy to preach & difficult to practice. But I have tried to explain them in a way that the practice can be easier too!

These principles are: 

1.                 JUST FOR TODAY, I WILL NOT ANGER.

2.                 JUST FOR TODAY, I WILL NOT WORRY.

3.                 JUST FOR TODAY, I WILL BE HONEST.

4.                 JUST FOR TODAY, I WILL LOVE ALL.

5.                 JUST FOR TODAY I WILL THANK ALL.

JUST FOR TODAY, I WILL NOT ANGER.

This principle says that one must never get angry with others. The reason behind this is that when one feels helpless and defeated, only then the ego of a person tries the last resort of overcoming the situation by threatening the person who is causing the state of helplessness or defeat by trying to threaten him through a temper tantrum. But in fact this comes as a loud declaration of your defeat and helplessness. Due to this if anyone is deliberately trying to harm you, he will know that all your defences are over. As a result, he will harm you more. When you know that anger is a loud declaration of your helplessness, you will never be angry. Of course, the best act in such situation is to keep cool and wait for the right opportunity to handle the situation. Use anger as a weapon as and when necessary, but never let others control your emotions and be angry to express your helplessness. This means, you can express anger when others understand only the language of anger, but you must never BE angry from within! In this way you will learn to use anger like a weapon as & when necessary. You will also learn to protect yourself from being controlled by others!

JUST FOR TODAY, I WILL NOT WORRY.

This principle says that one must never worry. Many times people say that one does not worry consciously. The worry automatically happens! But regarding this, you must first understand what happens when you worry. When we fear the unwanted event and suspect that it will occur, we resist it. Then again we fear its occurrence and resist it again. When this process continues, we say that we are worrying. In fact every time when we imagine the unwanted event, we become instrumental in bringing it into reality. The more we imagine it the more we bring it to reality. This way, by worrying actually we create the event we fear.

Once you know this reality about worry, you will never dare to worry! But you must know what to do at such times. The solution is a very easy. Just prepare yourself to face the event!

JUST FOR TODAY, I WILL BE HONEST.

This principle says that one must always be honest. Being honest does not just mean speaking the truth and doing things in the right and truthful way. It also means to be truthful to ones own self. For example, many a times we say that we have to do something against our wish.

This time, we are not honest with ourselves. We are deceiving ourselves to save our ego. In fact, when we do anything, we are doing it with our own choice. But at times, when we choose our desired thing, the thing that accompanies it is a thing that we want to avoid.

So, to avoid the unwanted thing, we choose a thing that we actually do not want. But this too is our choice. Yet we never recognize it. We say we had to do that thing against our own choice. This is being dishonest with us!

When we understand this, we will really start being honest with ourselves. Then we will stop feeling bad about the things that we feel we have to do against our choice for the sake of others.

This is being honest in the real sense! In the practice of Reiki, it is necessary for a person to be honest in this sense. This honesty gives you a clear thinking. Then you stop playing games with yourself. Then you start heading towards being a successful person who dares to face himself!

JUST FOR TODAY, I WILL LOVE & RESPECT ALL. 

This principle teaches you to love and respect all. The word all includes all living and non-living. The real meaning of this principle is that when we give love and respect, we also receive back love and respect from the universe. In the universe we always get the same thing that we give. That is why when we give love to all; we also receive it in abundance.

We may or may not receive love and respect from the same persons or things to which we express love. But we are sure to receive it from many other directions too! This is because when we express love and respect to all, we become the expression of love and respect ourselves! Love and respect to all makes you respectable and lovable in the eyes of others. Remember all includes yourself too! So you have to love and respect yourself along with all the other things and persons you love and respect.

JUST FOR TODAY I WILL THANK ALL.

This principle teaches you to be thankful to all. It says that we must become the living expressions of gratitude. We keep receiving so many things from so many people and things around us, but hardly do we recognize them!  Are we thankful to the nature for giving us fresh air and water and food? Are we thankful to the Sun for giving us the light? Are we thankful to mother earth for letting us be on it? Are we thankful to our parents for bringing us in this beautiful world? Are we thankful to our teachers for making us capable of earning today?  Are we thankful to our kids for choosing us as parents?

 But unfortunately, we have learned to find faults & blame more perfectly than to thank!

Anyway, if that’s our upbringing we need not prove its perfection by blaming it! We can still train ourselves to thank those who have helped us in some or the other way. But when we think of the persons who have harmed us what do we do? Naturally, we say that we cannot thank them. We also ask why of all we must thank those who have harmed us!  The answer is very simple. Every event as well as act has two sides, good and bad. The one that appears first in front of us is mistaken to be having only that quality. In fact we must know that every good event has a bad side in it and every bad event has a good side in it. It is up to us to choose the side of each event. If we put a habit to ourselves to find out and accept only the positive side of each event, nothing can harm us, at the same time, we get the ability to convert any bad event into good one!

Benefits of practice of principles of Reiki:

 When we start following the above five principles in our daily life, our life will be more beautiful. We will be in a position to get the best out of anything that we get in life. Then there will be fewer situations to be unhappy about and more situations to be happy about. We can then be a happier person. This is a situation that everyone longs to have in ones life at all the times! If you study the principles and the explanation about them well, it will be easy for you to make them a part of your being. This will shift your life to a great new dimension! This is the reason why Dr. Usui had given a great importance to the GYOKO i.e. the principles of Reiki.

ORIGINAL PRINCIPLES AS GIVEN BY DR. MIKAO USUI

 

Romaji

Japanese Pronunciation

Shou fuku no hiihou
Manbyou no Rei yaku

Kyo dake wa Ikaruna
Shinpai suna Kansha shite
Gyo wo hageme Hito ni shinsetsu ni

Asa yuu gassho shite kokoro ni neji

Kuchi ni tonaeyo

Shin shin kaizen, Usui Reiki Ryoho

Chosso
Usui Mikao

 

Literal Translation

 

We are Inviting blessings of the secret method.
Many illnesses of the spiritual (heavenly) medicine

Today only anger not.
Worry not. Be with appreciation. 
Do work. To people be kind.

In morning at night hands held in prayer think in your mind 
Chant with mouth

Mind body change it for better Usui Reiki method

Founder
Usui Mikao

 

RULES OF Reiki:

 

In the practice of Reiki, we have to avoid certain attitudes when we heal. This helps us to produce a powerful healing with our mind channelled in the right way. While giving Reiki, we must remember these things well.

 These are as follows:

1.                 Don’t consider yourself as a doctor.

2.                 Don’t GIVE Reiki; make it available.

3.                 Don’t FORCE Reiki on anyone.

4.                 DON’T GIVE Reiki for FREE.

5.                 Don’t be attached to the result.

Don’t consider yourself a doctor.

When you are giving Reiki, you are just a channel. Reiki has its own intelligence. It flows through you. You shouldn’t feel that YOU are a doctor healing the patient. Be humble. Let Reiki heal the patient through you!

Don’t GIVE Reiki; make it available.

When you give Reiki, you are making it available for the patient. The body of the patient receives the necessary amount of Reiki & heals itself.

Remember; YOU are not GIVING Reiki, the PATIENT is RECEIVING Reiki. You are just making Reiki available to the patient to heal himself.

Don’t FORCE Reiki on anyone.

When someone doesn’t want Reiki, don’t force it. When a person has said no, he will not receive Reiki even if you try to give. This is just as when a person has closed the door of his house, you cannot enter the house till the person opens the door! Similarly when one has said no, you may keep giving Reiki and nothing will happen. At such times keep quiet. Know that the person has chosen the problem by himself so let him be with it!

If you want to help someone but feel that he won’t accept Reiki, don’t talk about it. Just give Reiki. If the soul of the person is ready, he will receive it. But this can happen only when his conscious mind is neutral!

DON’T GIVE Reiki for FREE.

When you are giving anything, the circuit gets completed only after you receive something in exchange. It is the same principle on which the electricity flows. You must have seen two pins in the electric plug. One is for giving and the other is for receiving. So, unless and until you don’t receive anything in return of Reiki, the Reiki given will not work. This is the reason why this rule is made.

Don’t be attached to the result.

The law of cause and effect says that if the right cause is created, the right result will automatically be created. We have the power to create the cause. The cause produces result!

Do you know the principle of Karma stated in Bhagwad-Gita? In one stanza Lord Krishna says:

KARMANYEVADHIKARASTE, MA PHALESHU KADACHANA,

MA KARMAPHALAHETURBHU, MA TE SANGOSTVAKARMANI.

Many people interpret this as the theory that tells you to keep doing your work without expecting the result. But this is not so. It says that you have the power (adhikara) to produce the action (karma), not the result (phala). Never try to create (heturbhu) the result (phala). At the same time, never refrain (ma te sangostu) from action (akarmani).

This is the most practical explanation about cause and effect relation in nature. We have the power to create the cause that in turn will produce the effect we want. We cannot produce the effect directly.

But we must remember that if our cause is right enough to produce the result, we are sure to get the result in due course. So, we must let the cause produce the result & give it necessary time.

Law of cause says, if the conclusion is wrong, check the premises!

If the premises are right, conclusion has to be right. You don’t have to expect it, desire it, want it, or so. It is inevitable and will come to you even if you don’t expect desire, want or think about it!

HOW TO HEAL WITH Reiki

 The method of healing with Reiki is very simple. What you have to do is just cup your hands with all fingers joined and place them over the area that is ailing. The energy will get transmitted to that area through your hand and the area will be healed.

 As the healing happens, you will feel the vibrations or heat in your hands. This is an indication of the healing. You need to learn to read your hands for this feeling during your Reiki class.

 At times the feeling in your hands differs as per the kind of problem prevailing in the related part. When you keep the hand over any area, initially you may feel nothing.

After some time, you will start feeling the heat or vibrations or coldness or anything like itching or burning. This means Reiki flow has started towards the related area. This is how you recognize the presence of Reiki. At this time, even the patient also feels the flow of Reiki.

 When you continue to keep your hand over that area for some more time, this feeling will vanish and the hands will appear normal. At this time, even the patient may also have some similar feeling & when Reiki flow stops the patient also will feel that your hands have become normal.

This happens on its own when the area you are healing has received the necessary amount of energy. Just as in the washing machine, when the desired level of water is achieved, the inflow of water stops, in the body, when the desired energy level is reached, the flow of Reiki stops.

This is why we say that we cannot make mistakes with Reiki as the Reiki energy has its own intelligence!

When one part of body is healed like this, you may move to other area of problem to heal it. This is how you can heal the whole body yours & others. In the later pages you will see how you heal the different parts in the body and which body areas are most sensitive to Reiki.

the energy centres: chakras:

In our body there are some areas that give and receive energy for the whole body. These are the gateways to the energy for our body.  Just as we breathe with our nose, our body energies breathe thro the charkas. If there is any block in the way of these energies, the body does not receive enough energies, just as when there are clouds in the sky, we do not get good sun light. Then in the absence of proper energy, the body feels weak & sick. So, the removal of these clouds or blocks is necessary to restore good health. Reiki does this. So, it is necessary to know the positions of the major charkas before starting with the Reiki training. The main seven charkas in the body are,

1.                 Root Chakra: Muladhara: at the tail bone base of spine: governs Physical Awareness, vigour, heredity, survival, security, passion, feet, legs, survival, trust, home, money & job relation.

2.                 Sacral Chakra: Svadistana: at sex organs or near belly button: governs anger, fear, social awareness, and sexuality, creativity, emotions, and nurturing, spleen, food or sex perceptions.

3.                 Solar Plexus Chakra: Manipura: between the sternum bone & belly: governs Intellectual Awareness, power, accomplishments, will, ego projections, vital energy control, freedom to be oneself.

4.                 Heart Chakra: Anahatha: at heart centre of chest: governs Emotions & Security, love, compassion, lungs, breath, prana, sense of time, relationships in life.

5.                 Throat Chakra: Visshuda: at base of throat: governs speech, voice, listening, hearing, total self expression, communication, conceptual awareness & ideas.

6.                 Third Eye Chakra: Ajna: in centre of forehead above eyes: governs Intuitive Awareness,  intuition, thought, imagination, association of experiences, inner & outer sight, visions, memory, assimilation of perception, dreams.

7.                 Crown Chakra: Sehasara: at top of head: governs imaginative awareness, connection to cosmic consciousness, spiritual wisdom, desires, true knowledge. 

 

 

CHAKRAS (ENERGY CENTRES)

 

1.	Crown Chakra	Dark violet.  It is the opening to the opening to the universe to the highest consciousness and gives experience about who you are. Connects us with spiritual self. Connected with upper brain & right eye.
2.	Third Eye (Pituitary glands)	Dark Blue.  It is the intuition centre and is for inner wisdom. Connected with Autonomic nervous system and hypothalamus.
3.	Throat Chakra (Thyroid)	Light blue. Connected to throat & lungs. Function is communication and self expression.
4,	Heart Chakra (Thymus gland)	Bright light green. Connected to heart, lungs, liver & circulatory system. Function is live & compassion.
5.	Solar Plexus (Adrenal Glands)	Bright Yellow. Connected to stomach, liver & gall bladder. Function is Power & Wisdom. This is the seat of all emotions and feelings. We draw feelings from Solar Plexus and feel at heart.
6.	Hara /Sacral Chakra (Gonads, Testicals & Ovaries)	Orange. Connected to reproductive organs. This is the centre of sexual energy, feelings & emotions. Function-Life Centre, create and protect (purpose) life. We can live with ourselves in Hara.
7.	Root Chakra (Supra Renal)	Red. Connected to kidneys, bladder and spine. Function-survival issues, Seat of Kundalini energy, creative expression & Abundance issues.

CHAKRAS:

CONNECTED GLANS & THEIR FUNCTIONS

 

NO.	NAME OF THE CHAKRA	CONNECTED GLAND	FUNCTION
1.	SAHASTRARA (Crown)	PINEAL	Regulates water balance, manages working of glance, controls cerebrospinal fluid and sex desires, and stimulates growth of the nerves.
2.	AJNA (Third Eye)	PITUITARY (Master Gland)	Controls air and space, controls the growth of body, brain power and memory.
3.	VISHUDDHA (Throat)	THYROID & PARATHYROID	Controls air, lungs and heart, temperature regulation and governs energy production through control of calcium.
4.	ANAHAT (Heart)	THYMUS	Acts as a God mother till a child is 12 to 15.
5.	MANIPUR (Solar Plexus)	PANCREAS	Control fire and production of digestive juices, sodium and water balance, stress activeness and character building, regulates blood and sugar level.
6.	SWADHISTHANA(Hara)	ADRENALS	Controls APAN VAYU function of all organs below diaphragm and movement of stools and urine.
7.	MOOLADHARA (Root)	SEX & GONADS	Controls water and phosphorus contents, produces sex hormones.

 

excercises for healer, before healing session:

 

INNER GRATITUDE:

    Sit in a comfortable position.

    Close your eyes.

    Think of all who helped you.

    Think of the benefit you got out of the help.

    Thank them.

    Think of all those who harmed you.

    Find the benefit you got thro’ that harm.

    Thank them.

    Think of those whom you helped.

    Find the benefit you got out of that help.

    Thank them.

    Think of those whom you harmed.

    Mentally ask forgiveness for the harm you did.

    Think of benefits both of you got from the harm.

    Thank them for tolerating you.

    Think of the natural resources that contributed.

    Thank them.

    Feel the gratitude everywhere.

    Find yourself thankful to all the creation of god.

    Slowly open your eyes & start your routine.

GROUNDING:

    Sit in a comfortable position.

    Close your eyes.

    Concentrate on your breathing.

    Be aware of the energies around.

    Be aware of your thoughts.

    Find the thoughts that make you comfortable.

    Find the thoughts that make you restless.

    Know that restlessness is due to non-grounding.

    Let the divine love shower on you.

    Let these energies enter thro’ top of head.

    Let these energies fill your body.

    Feel the comfort with these energies.

    Let the disturbing thoughts develop roots.

    Let these roots go into the ground.

    Request these roots to reach the solution.

    Feel the relief from the upsets.

    Now let the divine love create total rooting.

    Feel perfectly grounded with practical attitude.

    Slowly open your eyes and start the routine.

NAADBRAHMA MEDITATION:

    Sit with spine straight & legs folded.

    Concentrate on breathing for a while.

    Keep the mouth closed & close eyes.

    Start the ‘hum’ sound with exhalation.

    Feel the relaxation with each ‘hum’.

    When relaxed, bring palms on naval.

    Let the open palms face upward under naval.

    Continue with ‘hum’ for some time.

    Feel the energy in and around.

    Spread the palms to shower the energy around.

    With hands on naval, say ‘hum’ for some time.

    Let the open palms face downwards now.

    Gather the universal energy from around.

    Bring palms on naval and place it in your naval.

    Feel the give and take of energy with universe.

    Lie down on your back with eyes closed.

    Feel the oneness with the universe for a while.

    Find yourself ready for the energy work.

    Slowly open the eyes & start the routine.

 

BALANCING OF CHAKRAS

    Sit in a comfortable position.

    Close your eyes.

    Feel your crown and root charkas.

    Allow the divine energies flow thro’ them.

    Feel the energies in them getting balanced.

    Feel your third eye and sacral charkas.

    Allow the divine energies flow thro’ them.

    Feel the energies in them getting balanced.

    Feel your throat and solar plexus charkas.

    Allow the divine energies flow thro’ them.

    Feel the energies in them getting balanced.

    Feel the alignment of all these charkas.

    Feel your heart charka.

    Allow the divine energies flow thro’ it.

    Feel the energies in it getting balanced.

    Feel your heart in alignment with other charkas.

    Feel the energies of all the charkas vibrating.

    Slowly open your eyes and start the routine.

 

 

GOLDEN BALL EXERCISE:

    Sit in a comfortable position.

    Close your eyes.

    Visualize the Reiki energy as a golden ball.

    Let it enter your system thro’ your crown charka.

    Let this golden ball energize your crown.

    Now let it travel to your third eye.

    Let this golden ball energize your third eye.

    Now let it travel to your throat.

    Let this golden ball energize your throat.

    Now let it travel to your heart.

    Let this golden ball energize your heart.

    Now let it travel to your solar plexus.

    Let this golden ball energize your solar plexus.

    Now let it travel to your sacral chakra.

    Let this golden ball energize your sacral chakra.

    Now let it travel to your root.

    Let this golden ball energize your root.

    Feel the energy of the golden ball in your body.

    Now let the golden ball travel to your sacral chakra.

    Let the golden ball settle here.

    Feel full of energy & readiness to heal.

    Open your eyes and start the healing work.

 

Treatment method

Reiki treatment is given to all physical, mental, emotional & SPIRITUAL level problems. In the advanced levels, we may treat the nature, events, thoughts, machines and many similar things. We can even go beyond space & time and treat the past as well as future events too! To treat these, we energize the most receptive points of the body.

Following steps are followed for touch healing as well as complete distance healing of a patient in the later stages, after mentally being grateful to Reiki, the patient & one self:

                  Let the patient lie down on his back.

                  Place your hands on each of the following points for about three to five minutes. Alternately, keep the hands as long as you feel the vibrations & heat in your hands.

                  On the front side, treat the EYES, TEMPLES, EARS, FRONT FOREHEAD, THROAT, thyroid gland, THYMUS GLAND, LUNG TIPS, HEART, SOLAR PLEXUS, LIVER, PANCREAS & SPLEEN, HARA, OVERIES or SPERMATIC CORD, THIGHS, KNEES, LOWER LEGS, ANKLES & FOOTSOLES.

                  With your index and middle finger stretched and rest of the fingers closed, draw anticlockwise spirals to lock the energies given by you, on both the sides simultaneously, around the patient from his head to toes.

                  Now ask the patient to turn & lie down on his stomach.

                  Start treating the back side.

                  Here, treat the BACK FOREHEAD, OCCIPITAL LOBE, SHOULDERS, BACK THROAT, BACK SOLAR PLEXUS, KIDNEYS, BACK HARA, BASE OF THE SPINE, BACK THIGHS, CALF MUSCLES & HEELS.

                  Now draw anti clockwise spirals again from head to toes.

                  After this, balance the charkas of the patient.

                  For this, place your hands one on each at about two inches above the following points: first place one hand above back third eye and the other above the back root centre. Check the energies here and move only when both hands have the same kind of vibrations. Now move to occipital lobe & back hara. Place the hands there till energies are even. Now go to back throat & back solar plexus. Keep the hands till energies are even again. Now place both hands above back heart and keep the hands there till there is even flow of energy. This will balance the charkas of the patient.

                  This step is necessary to confirm that after healing the energies of the patient are well aligned.

                  Now, place the index & middle finger of your right hand on the uppermost part of spine of the patient and forcefully move the fingers quickly down the spine to the base of the spine.

                  This concludes the whole body treatment.

                  Now you may ask the patient to get up and start his routine.

                  Do not forget the post treatment care instructions.

                  Wash your hands thoroughly after treatment.

                  Change your thoughts to something totally different.

                  Then feel fresh, thank Reiki, and start your routine.

WHEN NOT TO USE REIKI

               Reiki neutralizes anaesthesia quickly. So do not use Reiki before surgery or dental work.

               Do not use on broken bones until a Doctor has set them. Otherwise bones may join before right placement.

               Do not use on a severed limb until it has been re-attached. The energy can seal off veins and nerves making it hard to re-attach the limb. In these cases it is ok to treat other parts of the body such as the adrenals for shock.

               If you are Diabetic, Reiki can reduce the amount of insulin you need to have, so let your doctor monitor your dosage.

               Do not use Reiki immediately after taking any medicine or else it will neutralize the effect.

Reiki treatment positions

HEAD

   

 

     
ThORAX

   

 

LOWER LIMBS

BACK

                     
head Byosen:

 Usui's Original Hand Positions

***Healee is seated, not lying down***

Healing shall be started from head position.

The following 5 positions shall be healed in 30 minutes total.

Then other required positions showing imbalance are healed.

 (1) Zento-bu:

Forehead top (the line where your hair starts to grow)

(2) Sokuto-bu:

Both sides of your head at the same time

(3) Koutou-bu:

Back of your head and forehead (Nentatsu)

(4) Enzui-bu:

Each side of the neck.

(5) Toucho-bu:

Top of your head (crown)

I recommend that you try this method & see what it feels like.

I think we can safely say that following the head Byosen would be practiced for treating any imbalance in body.

post treatment care:

After you complete the treatment, mentally request Reiki to keep healing the patient as long as he needs healing. Then, wash your hands thoroughly. You must do this even if you have not physically touched the patient.

This step is very necessary to remove the energy particles that have remained on your hand after the treatment. The reason for this is that these energy particles may be carrying the seeds of the ailment of the patient.

If you do not wash your hands immediately after healing, these particles may enter your body & produce the same symptoms for some time, & you may feel that you got the ailment of your patient after you healed.

When the treatment is over, after asking the patient how he feels, start the conversation about something totally different that is in no way connected with the ailment and healing. Talk to the patient for some time, on this other subject. This is necessary to cut your connection from the patient after the healing session.

If you do not do this, there is a possibility that the patient may keep drawing the energy from you even later and as a result, you may feel depleted if you are not prepared for the energy transfer in this way.

These tips are necessary because those who do not follow them have a number of misconceptions about Reiki. They feel that after you heal the patient, you get his ailment. After you heal all your energy is given to the patient and you feel weak.

This does happen if the healer does not follow the above precautions. Of course this is not the fault of Reiki.

This happens because along with Reiki energy, unknowingly, your own energy too gets involved in the healing. This energy is not as intelligent as Reiki.  So you need to do this to cut this energy.