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| Home > Healing with Reiki > Preparing for the Reiki Treatment > The Invocation
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| | The Invocation
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 Before starting with the reiki treatment, rituals invoking respect for the person to be treated by the person acting as Reiki channel, and to the reiki energy itself is performed. Hands are joined as a gesture of prayer on the heart level. Then a verbal (or silent) request is done for healing treatment. Then the hands are raised to the forehead, head is bowed with the upper body, and hands are gain brought about to the heart level.
Joining of hands represents combining of different forces, namely yin and yang. This is a process of warm acceptance of the world, its inhabitants and the "Self". Through this ceremony, realities of the material world are united with that of subtle spheres. Love flows everywhere. In the same flow, a deep bond of acceptance and love is formed between the healer and the seeker. All the faults of the person along with his multifaceted personality is accepted with warmth. This facilitates open and uninhibited flow of Reiki energy from the healer to the healed. This process evokes pure feelings that cannot be evoked just mentally. They are cultivated through reverence or respect for the "true self".
After this ceremony for union, when the hands touch the third eye or forehead, personal path of knowledge is further opened up. All the desire o take control is replaced by the guidance through the natural "true" self. This requires a good amount of enlightenment for an individual. Healer merely becomes a tool for healing; the ultimate power is left in the hands of the divine itself. The development in the treatment can be quite unexpected. The healer best has an open minded, positive attitude for the results that can arise only from true faith.
The healer also gratefully accepts the trust that the other person has put in him. With the prayer position, and bowing of head the healer entrust the healing to the universal spirit. It may be Christ or Buddha or any divine form for respective individual.
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