Becoming a Reiki Healer?!
Question: I recently started thinking about making a living by helping and healing people full-time (Reiki). Will it be hard for me to live off of that kind of money?
Answers: I recently started thinking about making a living by helping and healing people full-time (Reiki). Will it be hard for me to live off of that kind of money?
You should also probably consider adding a couple of additional complementary skills to the list of services you can provide. Massage therapy would be a good choice. If you are able to do the additional schooling something like acupuncture or becoming a chiropractor would be worthwhile as well.
It's hard to say if you could find enough suckers to support a full-time Reiki practice.
If I were you I'd do Reiki secondary to something more substantial.
Edit: I completely agree with Alex F's answer - Reiki is tricky. I belive in this type of healing but Reiki allows another persons 'energy' to come into you if you don't do it right. . .
Yes, it will be very hard. Some can do it though and if it is what you really want to do then you will find a way to make it work.
Depends on where you go. Reiki is an additional practice for me along with several other healing modalities (massage, intuitive readings, etc.). Some states are more accepting of others as well. :)
Do you really want to scam unwitting or desperate people out of their hard earned money?
I'm negatively biased towards reiki (then again many of the other answers here were as well), but I'll try to give you a good answer.
Reiki is most accepted in areas that have liberal populations into new age practices. So if you try to practice reiki in an area like the bay area, it probably will get you plenty of work. I was actually reading the staff bios at a local chinese medicien clinic and about half the white workers there were "certified reiki people"
Although, being reiki certified doesn't really mean anything. You just need to spend a bit of time with a "reiki master," then you can become one too. So if you want to become a reiki healer it's not really difficult.
Pros/Cons of the actual job.
Pros: You will tend to meet nice friendly people in your work.
When you do it, it feels pretty satisfying.
If you have the desire to explore metaphysics, spirituality, and the "supernatural," doing something like reiki furthers the goal fairly well.
Cons:
A lot of the people you run into in this field will tend to have weird issues going rather deep into their energy. One of the unfortunate things about reiki is that it doesn't teach you how to guard against that stuff, and I personally know a few reiki healers who have messed themselves up.
Reiki is a very undeveloped energy practice that has no real "systemitization or need for improvement/development" built into it (since most people think they are channeling holy energy and don't need to get better etc), so if your actual goal is to start learning how to use energy to develop your own abilities, or help people in really effective ways, reiki is a bad place to get stuck at.
I guess it's really a question of what your goals are. Reiki is easy to do, and you will tend to get a lot of positive responses to you work without much effort. If that's what you want (which is totally fine), it's a good field to go into.
If you are serious about becoming a skilled healer, however reiki will just hold you back.
Hope that helps!