Half Gods, Martyrs, & Hypocrites
Reiki, for itself, is an interesting beginning: On the one hand it allows lay people to come into contact with this energy and pass it on to others.
On the other hand, being “mortal” – and on the other being able to achieve something “sacred” can be somewhat confusing.
In order to mask the accompanying insecurity (who exactly am I? What am I doing here?), some people, from time to time, start play acting, which is counterproductive for the client.
Wei Chi, an energy personality which is channeled by the American Kevin Ross Emergy and Thomas A Hensel (http://www.weboflight.com/) characterizes this typical roll playing that may occur in this situation: The half God, the martyr, and the hypocrite.
The Hypocrite
The hypocrite is someone who combines financial interests with Reiki but won’t admit it.
It is normal and totally acceptable to want to earn money with Reiki. Why not?
It is only critical when one won’t admit wanting to earn money and therefore pushes their wish into the subconscious – where it starts to take on a life of it’s own.
This can lead to dependencies, unconsciously, being developed.
For example, one lets a client repeatedly return for a session for which one is repeatedly paid but without any intention of ending the process.
Reiki should not be used to make others dependent on you. Reiki is a process which helps others to heal themselves.
If you discover the above mentioned characteristics about yourself, the first healing step is to admit this desire for money.
And thus to find a way in which you can one the one hand earn the money you wish and on the other strengthen your client to be independent of you. (Which sounds like a contradiction but is in fact the opposite.)
The Martyr
The opposite of the hypocrite. The martyr wasnts no money. They happily sacrifice themselves for free.
Martyrs belittle theselves. tThey will serve at any price. They take no money. They only want to be holy.
The problem martyrs have is that they actually want something: Recognition. They want to be useful. They want to be thanked. They want the client’s praise which tells them how pleasant, moving, or successful their treatment was.
Subsequently martyrs automatically find themselves dependent on the clients.
But the clients themselves end up being dependent.
Because the martyr takes none or too little money a honest exchange does not occur and the client is obliged (”for ever”) to be thankful.
If you notice such tendencies about yourself the first step out of this dependency is to work on your feelings of worthlessness.
The Half God
While the hypocrites secretly use Reiki to satisfy their financial desires and martyrs to compensate their feelings of worthlessness, the half Gods use Reiki to expand their power.
Half Gods want to rule over others. They put themselves above others and use the energy to belittle others. They present themselves as great healers, who can achieve great things in others and through this can save them.
Which of course isn’t true. Whether a treatment “bears fruit” or not doesn’t depend on the healer but on the person being treated.
Half Gods are playing with fire. The higher they lift themselves above others the deeper they drop.
If you notice such tendencies about yourself a first step out is to recognize your inferiority complex and to accept it.
Those who are in a position to accept this “constraint” develop real greatness in this moment.
© Martin Weiss, 2000
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The above article was written by Martin Weiss, formerly of Reiki-Online (www.reiki-online.de/ — website no longer active). Through cached pages I was able to retrieve a copy of this article which was originally written in the year 2000. It has been transcopied here exactly as written.
Although geared toward practitioners, it contains valuable information also for those who have a practitioner and for those seeking a practitioner.
