Reiki is an interesting alternative treatment that
heals the body, mind and spirit. Reiki involves active healing in which
the client too has a role to play. While undergoing Reiki healing it is
up to the recipient to deicde whether he wants to be healed or not. It
he decides to block the Reiki healing process then he will not be
healed. A hotly debated topic among Reiki practitioners is whether to
charge for Reiki or not. As healing in Reiki uses the universal energy
force a number of practitioners that Reiki masters should not charge for
healing and teaching Reiki. Others feel that since they are providing a
serivce to the client they should charge for it, but the fee should be a
nominal amount. These people feel that the client will not understand
the value of the service they are providing and will not have any
gratitude for what they are receiving unless a monetary value is
attached to it.
There is no doubt that Reiki uses existing energy to heal a person and
that healing is dependent on the person involved. So one branch of
practitioners believe that since you are using everything that is freely
there is nothing to charge for. And the healer is only a channel and the
recipient draws as much energy as he needs from the healer. The other
branch of practitioners believes that deciding on whether to charge or
not should be an individual practitioners choice. They argue that the
world needs more healers than there are. And the world does not need
burned out or sick healer who cannot heal any longer. In order to
continue the good task of healing, the practitioner has to keep his body
and soul together, for this he needs money. Hence a practitioner should
charge a small fees in order to maintain himself in this world where
everything costs money.
