Expert: Eric Reiki Master/Teacher - 4/27/2007

Question
My friend and I want to start learning Reiki shortly and we may be doing a Reiki 1 workshop soon. However, my friend has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and depression and is on medications for it. I have heard that the reiki attunement can open you up to things and that you have to be ready to deal with them. My friend has a lot of repressed memories that are quite painful for him and that he probably isn't ready to face yet. He was also talking to someone with bipolar disorder and who studed reiki a while ago and she said that Reiki can mess with your energies if you have a mental illness.
Basically I am asking you, do you think it would still be ok for my friend to be attuned to Reiki or could this open him up to things too quickly or have a bad effect on him?
Thank you for your help,
Bobby

Answer
Reiki will not be any problem, but the illness may affect the process of reiki, as in his case he may have a blockage at the throat chakra or the theirth eye, and if the attunement process is done without prior checking, you may end up with a partly attunement process.
If I experience such things, I only do the process over, and it comes all ok.
Yes, the healing process may cost a lot of up and downs, but this is quite common for most of the chronical illnesses.
If I had to help him, I had no concern, as I know, I have to take my time to get through this situation.
I attune with the guaranty that if there is any douth I do the process over without charging again.
Good luck, and go ahead with your plans,

Eric Van Wanseele