Reiki Level 2: Trust Your Intuition

Reiki Level 2 teaches you how to trust your intuition more deeply. 

This is so important, because making decisions can be bloody hard sometimes! Should I take the opportunity? Stay or go? Say yes or no? Is this actually right for me, or am I just scared?

So we think about it. Make pros-and-cons lists. Ask our friends. Pull a Tarot card. Ask Spirit for a sign. Then perhaps another sign to confirm the first sign. 😂

And somewhere underneath all that noise, there may already be a quieter part of us that knows.

Reiki Isn’t a Magic 8 Ball

Reiki isn’t necessarily going to tell you whether to quit your job, marry the person, move interstate or book the holiday.

What Reiki can offer is space.

When we practise self-Reiki or receive Reiki healing, we intentionally step away from the external noise, slow down and become more aware of what we’re feeling physically, emotionally, intuitively and energetically.

And sometimes, when everything becomes a little quieter, we can hear things we couldn’t hear before.

I don’t actually want this. Something about this feels right. I’m not ready yet. I think I already know what I need to do.

Intuition doesn’t always arrive as a dramatic vision or booming message from Spirit. Sometimes it’s simply a feeling, a thought that keeps returning, or a quiet knowing we can’t quite explain.

When My Intuition Made Absolutely No Logical Sense

One of the biggest intuitive decisions I’ve ever made actually happened around the time I completed my own Reiki Level 2.

About six months before starting Melbourne Reiki & Wellness, I was convinced I was going to pursue a career in property.

I’d done courses in property and renovation, bought my own investment property and even opened a business. The original plan had been to pursue it alongside my then-partner who was a tradie, but when that relationship ended, I thought perhaps I could do it on my own.

At the same time, I’d been teaching yoga full-time for almost ten years and knew I was ready for something new.

I’d also completed Reiki Level 1- and completely fallen in love with Reiki.

Following your intuition takes guts

I was practising self-Reiki regularly and giving Reiki to friends and family. Luckily, after so many years teaching yoga, I had plenty of willing guinea pigs! 

Around eight months later, I completed Reiki Level 2. And something just…clicked. I didn’t want to pursue property. I wanted to pursue Reiki.

It made very little logical sense. I’d invested time and money into property, opened the business and thought property offered far greater financial opportunities.

Reiki was the unknown.

But I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was trying to force myself down a path that simply wasn’t mine. So after ruminating for weeks and weeks, I made a very embarrassing phone call to my accountant and told him I wanted to close the business I’d opened approximately six months earlier (argh). 

And I followed Reiki instead.

Sometimes You Understand the Decision Afterwards

Shortly after starting Melbourne Reiki & Wellness, I moved from Mentone to Elwood.

And then something wild happened.

MRW took off.

Clients began booking, I quickly became booked out, and before long I had a waitlist. Reiki rapidly began taking over from my yoga teaching.

About six months into the business, I was giving Reiki to a client when I suddenly had this incredibly clear internal knowing: I’m in the right place. I’m doing exactly what I’m meant to be doing.

I’ve never forgotten it.

There was no booming voice, no dramatic vision, no sign falling out of the sky. I just knew.

A few months later, COVID hit and Melbourne went into lockdown. I adapted by offering distant Reiki healings and supporting people online with their mindset and energy. When lockdowns eventually ended, the business grew again and I was booked months in advance.

Looking back, I’m incredibly grateful I trusted that earlier nudge. Not because intuition guaranteed me an easy path (it certainly didn’t!).

But because underneath everything I thought I should do, something in me knew that Reiki was the path I wanted to follow. And I listened.

Learning to Know Your Own Energy

This is one of the reasons I think a regular Reiki practice can be so valuable.

The more time you spend intentionally checking in with yourself, the more familiar you can become with you.

What does fear feel like in your body? What happens when something genuinely excites you? What does your energy feel like when you’re grounded? How do you respond when you’re saying yes to something you don’t really want?

That doesn’t mean every feeling is intuition or every thought is a message from Spirit. We’re human. Fear, past experiences, expectations and other people’s opinions can all influence us.

But over time, we can become more curious about what we’re sensing, and more familiar with our own internal language.

Deepening Your Practice With Reiki Level 2

Reiki Level 1 gives us the foundations of Reiki and begins our relationship with the practice.

Reiki Level 2 gives us an opportunity to deepen it.

As we spend more time practising Reiki and intentionally working with energy, we can become more aware of our own energetic responses and intuitive impressions.

And Reiki doesn’t have to stay on the healing table.

It can become something you return to when you’re overwhelmed, processing something, reconnecting with yourself – or standing at one of life’s crossroads thinking: What the hell do I do now? 

Reiki isn’t here to make your decisions for you. But it can create space to slow down, reconnect with yourself and listen to what arises.

And sometimes, underneath all the opinions, overthinking and requests for one more sign from the Universe, you might discover that you already knew more than you realised.

Reiki Level 2 – 22 & 23 November

If you’ve completed Reiki Level 1 and you’re ready to deepen your relationship with Reiki, energy and your own intuitive awareness, my next Reiki Level 2 course at Melbourne Reiki & Wellness is running on 22 & 23 November.

We’ll build on the foundations you learned in Reiki Level 1 and explore the next stage of your Reiki practice together.

Ready for Reiki Level 2? Book your place here.

I’d love to have you there. ❤️