Two years ago my lovely neighbour of 15 years had her first reiki healing session with me. When I asked Anita why she had waited so long, she said she was worried because if I wasn't very good, she would be so embarrassed!

One of my lovely newly qualified Reiki 1 students sent me a link to a YouTube video of a woman asking spiritual teacher, Sadhguru how she can protect herself from taking on the karma of others when giving a reiki treatment. Sadhguru proceeded to express his dislike of any energy work as he felt it was wrong to 'mess' with someone's energy. He also went on to say that it was very ego-centric as the person is acting as if they are God.