I called and spoke with Deborah Romero today.

My first Reiki appointment will be with her, one week from today after work.  Deborah combines intuitive counseling with her Reiki sessions, so I’m looking forward to seeing how that goes.

Truth be told, I’ve had Reiki twice before.  In 1999 or so, I saw a friend of a friend for an intuitive counseling session.  She gave me Reiki in the last 15 minutes of the appointment, but it wasn’t the focus of the session, and I don’t remember any particular impressions I had of it.

Then in 2003, I was offered a free Reiki session by a member of a spirituality group I was meeting with occasionally around that time.  I had a full hour-long session with him, and again, I felt relaxed afterward but couldn’t say one way or another whether I’d received any energy.  It’s not that I didn’t believe I did, just that I didn’t feel anything.

This is both a cause for concern and of no importance at all.  A part of me worries – despite that I’m a million miles from building a practice – that I won’t have anyone to perform Reiki on for not being able to explain the benefit of it.  Another part of me believes on pure faith that I will indeed feel the energy when I receive my attunements, and that it will not be my job to convince anyone that they need or want Reiki.