Reiki: Practitioner Enrichment Overview Reiki is spiritually guided life force energy administered by trained practitioners for the promotion of healing and well-being. In theory, the Reiki energy is guided by its own wisdom and therefore does not require the direction of the practitioner. The only role of the practitioner is to be the conduit for the Reiki energy to come through to the client. Therefore, the Reiki practitioner does not pick up the "negative" energy from the client or vice versa. For this to be true, however, the practitioner must be completely neutral to the healing process and its outcome thus allowing the Reiki energy to come through in its pure form.

In application, being neutral is extremely difficult to do. Most healers want to help their clients get well and become emotionally and otherwise vested in the healing process. They end up picking up the energy of the client and transferring their energy to the client. If the energy is not released, it can manifest as anxiety, depression, discomfort, stress, and even illness or disease. In the client, because there has been an exchange of energy, the same result is possible. In both cases, the goal of Reiki, i.e., healing, is compromised.

Reiki Level I: Neutrality in Healing and Reiki Level II: Deprogramming Yourself were developed by Rev. Yolanda Quiroz Soto, J.D. and Carl W. Buckhorn, M.D. to meet the growing interest of individuals, Reiki practitioners, and health care professionals in the Body, Mind, Spirit connection. The seminars review traditional Reiki healing practices and teach time-honored meditation and higher awareness techniques as a supplement to Reiki in order to promote and maintain the purity and integrity of this ancient healing art.
Client Testimonials

"I was taught that a practitioner of Reiki is protected and is never in danger of picking up negativity or problems from the client, but this is not the case. Every time I performed Reiki, I got sick. It got so bad that I had to quit. IM: Center for Integrative Medicine taught me very special meditation and healing techniques to bring myself back to health and to operate my body in a way that minimizes an exchange of energies between practitioner and client. I am practicing Reiki again, but I could not have done it without IM's Reiki: Practitioner Enrichment program."

P. Nelson