Passing Attunements
by Rev. Jason Storm
Usui Attunement Procedure
What follows is the Reiki Attunement Technique as I learned it from my Master. Learn it exactly as it appears, try it with a few folks, and see how it feels. Listen to your intuition, as this is scaled down to be exactly what is needed to pass the attunement. Let your guides lead the way for you.
The training that I received said that in order to pass attunement you must have been attuned by someone who has been attuned, etc., etc., etc., but I disagree ever so slightly for the simple reason that "Energy flows where the mind goes" and the symbols "exist" out there between the worlds waiting to accessed by any and all who need/seek them. If your intent is to be attuned, then you will be. If your intent is to pass an attunement, then you shall. Because I (and my guides and your guides too) intend that you will be attuned by these pages, the attunement is passed.
Begin
NOTE: Once you make physical contact with the client, do not break it until the end!
Seat the attunee comfortably in a straight back chair, make sure their feet are flat on the floor, they are not wearing any crystals or "energy" jewelry or adornments. Make sure they are comfortable and at peace with their decision to be a recipient of Reiki Training. Have them close their eyes, and meditate briefly on their breath. Prior to beginning, let them know that when they feel you put your hands on their shoulders at the beginning of the attunement that they should immediately raise their hands to the "prayer position", palms together fingers extended and pointing upward, at about the level of the heart.
Stand just behind the seated recipient and allow Reiki to fill your own body completely, then open your ground circuit, and become one with all. Take three comfortable breaths, allowing Reiki to permeate you utterly. When you are ready, begin to walk around your seated client, in a counterclockwise (widdershins) direction, three times, a comfortable distance around the client, stopping at the same point you began, just behind the client. The purpose of this circling is to seal the space and the energies into the immediate area of the attunement. Once again allow Reiki to fill and permeate you. When you are ready, raise your hands and bring them to rest lightly on the shoulders of the attunee. (the attunee should raise their hands into the "prayer position" -- if they don't then just quietly ask them to raise their hands. No biggie, take it easy:-).
At this point you are just radiating with Reiki, with your hands resting lightly on their shoulders. Now it is appropriate for you to offer a prayer to your "higher power" or symbol of divinity, as well as to your own guides and the guides of the client, and to invite "all positive guides and healers to be present and participate" and to ask for this client to be attuned to the highest level of Reiki appropriate for them, "for the greatest good of all and with harm to none".
1) Open and align the chakras. Draw or visualize CKR from the top of the head, over the entire back down to the base of the spine. Settle again with hands on shoulders and flow Reiki into the client for a moment or two. When ready, draw the DKM in a like fashion, from the top of the head, over the back, down to the base of the spine. This draws the chakras into alignment and into perfect focus, this opens the channel from heaven, through the body, down into the earth. Return hands to the shoulders, settle, and flow Reiki for a bit.
2) Permanently open the crown chakra. Move your hands from the shoulders to the crown of the head (at the location of the crown chakra), in the "prayer position" but instead of pointing up, tilt your hands forward so that the fingers point forward. Now open them like a book, with the intent that this is opening the crown chakra permanently. Return hands to shoulders and flow. When you're ready, trace or visualize, the CKR, SHK, HSZSN, (and ONLY for Master Level attunements, add the DKM as well) into the opened crown chakra. Contact Hui Yin, tongue to roof of mouth, P.C. muscle clenched, and blow a strong puff of air (around your tongue) into the chakra, seeing it blow the three (or four) symbols all the way down the spinal channel and attach at the sacrum permanently. Return hands to shoulders and flow for a moment.
3) Open Third Eye and Heart Chakras. From the hands-on-shoulders position, reach around with your right hand and grasp the client's folded hands, over his fingertips, then bring your left hand around to grasp their hands over the folded thumbs. Move your own body so that you are now standing in front of your client. Shift your grasp so that your hands are holding theirs in "prayer position" but your hands are sandwiching theirs between your palms. (Do NOT break physical contact with your client during the shift). Bend slightly so that your own Third Eye Chakra looks directly into their Third Eye. Mentally project (do not physically draw) the CKR, SHK, and HSZSN into their Third Eye, contact Hui Yin, raise their hands so their fingertips contact the forehead at the Third Eye, and blow the symbols into the center of the chakra. Keeping Hui Yin contacted and leaving their hands at the level of the Third Eye, bend a bit lower, look through their arms, with your Third Eye contacting their Heart Chakra, mentally project CKR, SHK, and HSZSN into the heart chakra, and blow them into place.
4) Open the hands. Bring their folded hands down and forward, and separate them to a little more than shoulder width, making very sure not to break physical contact with the client at any time. Grasp their right wrist and with your dominant hand draw symbols as follows into the palm:
* For a First Degree attunement, draw only CKR
* For a Second Degree attunement, draw CKR, SHK, and HSZSN
* For a Master Attunement, draw CKR, SHK, HSZSN, and DKM
After the drawing is complete, tap lightly on the palm, once, then twice, then on the third time, REALLY DRIVE THE SYMBOLS INTO the palm chakra with your own palm. The idea is to open the chakra with a bit of a forceful blow (but not devastating or painful -- a strong "Hi five" kind of blow is the maximum level of force I would use). Then repeat the same process for the left hand.
5) Close down. After you complete the left hand, then raise the client's left hand and cross it over their chest to come to rest at the level of the right shoulder, then cross the right hand to the left shoulder (the wrists cross at about the level of the heart). Place your right hand on their right hand (which is now at their left shoulder) and step back behind the client, where you can allow your left hand to come to rest on their left hand (and now both your hands are on their shoulders). Flow Reiki for yourself and the client, and when you feel that you are flowing together, draw the CKR over the whole of the back again to seal the attunement. Then finally you draw Raku down the spine from the crown of the head to the sacrum, sending their root deeply down into the Earth and permanently anchoring it there. Bring hands to rest again on their shoulders, flow Reiki, and settle. When you are ready, break contact and step back out of their field. Allow them to "come back" as they see fit, in their own space and time. Answer any questions they might have, and congratulate them on their new level of Reiki.
