REIKI AS HANDS-ON HEALING Throughout human history, healing methods have existed that involved the trans- fer of energy from or through one person to another. Everyone has the innate abil- ity to transfer Universal Energy, either directly from source or from their own re- serves of this energy in much the same way, at least as is externally apparent, as is done with Reiki and it is the healing potential of Reiki that is most widely known in the West. There are however some important differences between Reiki and other forms of spiritual healing. The most obvious of these is that Reiki is one of the few systems of spiritual healing where a person’s natural ability to channel energy is enhanced through an ‘attunement’ process (discussed
