Mastering Reiki: A Practicing and Teaching Primer [Paperback]

John Tompkins Jr (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 8, 2002

Written by an experienced instructor, this book is for practitioners of the Reiki healing system who want to expand their understanding of how Reiki works with the energy of the human body. For the instructor, it also provides a complete teaching programme, along with an in-depth look at Reiki's past, present, and possible paths to the future.

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About the Author

John Tompkins, Jr., (Tennessee) has been a Reiki practitioner for eight years. Having attained the Reiki II Degree, and then the Reiki Master Degree after a year of apprenticeship, he has been instructing students for seven years. He practices Reiki by itself and as part of an Integrative Medicine practice.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications (June 8, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738702064
• ISBN-13: 978-0738702063
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #457,288 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Addition to Your Studies on Reiki, June 30, 2002

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Boudica (Ohio USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mastering Reiki: A Practicing and Teaching Primer (Paperback)

As a Reiki Master/Teacher, I talk to many teachers and listen to many students discuss their first Reiki attunment.

There is a tendency these days to give a cheap Reiki first level attunment, with a quick lesson and a scrap of paper to explain it all. I have had many people who received first level attunments tell me it was a fake, a fraud and they got nothing out of it except losing their $$$.

Mr. Tompkins presents us with a book that would be a great augment to any first level practitioner who feels that the instructions were left out of their attunment.

Mr. Tompkins offers a very clear and exact manual on how to use your Reiki attunment to get the most out of this healing art. The pictures offer instruction that are clear and easy to follow.

There is a section about being professional as a Reiki practitioner. There are also correspondences for crystals and stones, and even for keeping personal records. Mr. Tompkins covers a lot of ground here, and makes this a book that is worth having in your personal library.

This book augments the first level Reiki attunment very well, and is worth a personal recommendation for those who did not seem to get out of their first attunment what they might have expected.

For those who did get a good foundation for their first attunment, this book might do well to cover those little nagging items that your teacher may have forgotten to add. Teachers are not perfect, and we do tend to get bogged down sometimes with some item or another that has us forgetting to cover another important part of our lesson. Here is a handbook that could fill in a blank or two.

This is a good reference book and it's good to see someone making this information available in a very clear and well written format.