hi, Tanemon --

(you wrote this: ALX: "so, partly I think the impression that the self-healing slows down after a while is that we're accustomed to the Reiki energy and it doesn't have as dramatic an impact as it did in the early days of using it."

TANEMON: "It seems to me... By a point some years after attunement(s) and training (at whichever level - I, II, or III), certain conditions will have responded to Reiki while others are apparently beyond its power. The conditions beyond its power will remain in place, maybe, until a more powerful (or more specifically appropriate?) healing force is applied.
Is this a way of saying more or less the same thing?"

well, yes -- in effect we're saying the same thing. one is that some conditions simply won't respond to the Reiki energy -- it doesn't pack enough of a punch -- the other is what I'm saying, above, that the self-healing capacity is still flowing, but we're not noticing it so intensely because a lot of major stuff has already been cleared out from the earlier self-healing application.

in the case above, I'm suggesting it's a matter of perception rather than a lack of the energy itself.

but I'll offer this -- when I first came back from India and started applying techniques I'd learned there (I'd spent an INTENSE month training as a healer there, in 1999), at first the healings were dynamic, galvanizing. I couldn't BELIEVE how powerful they were -- esp contrasted with my earlier experiences of Reiki healings.

I think it took about 4 months and then I started noticing that the intensity of the energy involved when I would do healings dropped considerably. this was baffling at first.

then I went back to India, got all charged up again, even deeper, in the summer of 2000, again came back and did healings in America, and AGAIN saw a similar phenomenon -- for a few months, the energy was extreme and then tapered off.

it was pretty interesting, and convinced me that I needed to get to the bottom of the whole thing. I needed to go in deeply enough to the divine and the energy channels to find out how to sustain that connection and intensity -- or increase it! by developing it profoundly -- forever.

so I moved to India for about five years.

*grinning* definitely, I can say I found what I was after.

my master in India defines these energy stages, btw, in an interesting way -- as the three stages of Illusion.

in the first stage, you're doing a practice or healing modality and although you can't feel anything (no energy, etc.) you're doing it anyway.

in the second stage, you feel some energy, for sure -- but you don't know what, exactly, that energy is. (I think this is the condition of many Reiki practitioners and masters -- we definitely jumped into the stage of feeling the energy but not really being able to identify it clearly.)

in the third stage, you know the energy distinctly and precisely, the healings are happening, and divine beings are accessible in person (like the angels, divine souls like Jesus, etc., and/or the Mother Divine Herself). but even though the energy channels are clear, and the supernatural things are happening -- you STILL don't know how to develop and sustain that energy forever and ever.

crossing that third illusion stage -- that's a spiritual master. then there's no question about where the energy is really coming from, accurately, how it's applied precisely, and how it keeps going (and increasing) forever.

pretty interesting.

Alx