Where is my Reiki Certificate?

Where is my Reiki certificate? How often have I heard that phone message or email from a student?
My first response is to say, "Just for Today, Do Not Worry?" The second response is, "Just for Today, Do not Anger!" The third response is, "Treat the situation".

Let me share some history with you on this topic. When Hawayo Takata started teaching there were no certificates. You don't need a certificate to do Reiki. The westerners were at a loss, they had to have a certificate. Like it was some kind of proof you could do Reiki. See how the mind messes things up. After a while she did start giving certificates to those who wanted them but she charged $ for them. Over time everyone got a certificate. By the time I got my Reiki training, certificates were given out to everyone without charge.

Some Masters used the certificates from the Reiki Alliance and others created their own. Helen Haberly had always created her own. Because I was her first Master, she had not designed a Master certificate. I waited and waited patiently, knowing she was traveling so much , it would have been hard to create a new certificate. After 1 year, I finally asked her if she had my Master certificate. She said no, but because I had been so patient, she would order one for from the Reiki Alliance Office. So, I finally received my certificate about a year and a half after I had been Initiated as Master. It is viewed on the Blog site at the beginning.

"Why can't I have my certificate right away? I want it on Sunday as I finish the class", students sometimes ask. Well there is a lot that goes into the making of your certificate. I have just finished the year 2008 certificates and they were mailed for the holidays.


For years, I would do the certificates every 3 months. I would tell everyone, that is about the time you are getting lazy in doing your Reiki. Then magically the certificate arrives. Over the last few years, I started doing them 2 times a year because of my increased time away from home. I remember a long time ago, I was almost a year in getting a certificate to a mother in India. I felt a little guilty until I got a response that the certificate had arrived on her birthday and it was so well timed and such a gift. After that I knew Reiki was in charge and I didn't have to worry about the certificates arriving at a self appointed doctrine time.

I have tried various ways of getting this ongoing task at hand done. I like being home when I do the certificates. There is an ease of not hauling the letters, the class lists, the certificates, the Hon from the Reiki Alliance, the ink, the seals and the seal crimper. Are you beginning to get what this picture looks like! Sometimes I have had to do them while traveling. Then,I have to make sure the certificates are wrapped in cardboard so they don't get damaged.

I enjoy creating your certificate privately. On rare occasions, I have had students participate with me in the completion of the process. It is an incredible opportunity when this has happened. Like I said, I did this year end certificates during the holidays with my twin, Hira Reid in the Pacific Northwest during the snow bound days before Christmas.

Here is the process that reveals why I can't just get them out to you right away: the area of where I am going to do this is first energetically cleared. The names of all the students are in the computer and the class lists are imported into a program that correlates to my printer. These names, addresses, phone numbers, and etc are correlated back to the original class list for errors before they are printed out.

Copies of each class list are printed out for each student. The first and second degree letters are printed for each student. I now use my own certificate that was especially created. Each of these are printed out with your name, class date and my name. The next step is the hardest-the time of cleaning and then inking the Hon- finding the right cushion for the Hon to be clearly read and then the time in putting it on to the certificate.

Each gold seal has to be embossed with the Usui Shiki Ryoho and Master name. These are then put onto the certificate.


Each certificate is treated with Reiki.
After all that is done, the class list is pulled out to make sure each student has a certificate and the large envelopes are put together including the certificate, letter and class list.
Finally there is the trip to the post office and the certificates are sent along the way to each of you. This entire process takes me 4 to 5 days to accomplish.

The time spent in this process allows me to be with each of you energetically through all the steps. It is time of remembering you and your classmates and a time of reflection of how Reiki touches our lives and changes us. I ask you to honor my time, as a Reiki Master in completing this process and reflect on what this certificate means to you. It is not just a mere piece of paper that states you have taken this class but an energetic reflection of the gift you have given yourself. Do you need to have this to do Reiki? No, nor was it ever meant to be. It is a reflection of our shared journey with Reiki as our teacher. This gift of a certificate is given to you from me. Honor it in the same way it has been created for you. There is a $10 fee to duplicate your certificate and you will have to wait for the next time the certificates are created.