The waterfall reiki technique is a technique that helps my students and other reiki practitioners channel reiki in their self-reiki or when they are with a client. It teaches you to fill yourself up with reiki before you give to anyone else. I am not sure where I learned this technique or if I just took a meditation that I did and applied it to my reiki practice. I have been doing this for the whole time that I have been doing reiki myself. I teach it by giving a visualization of holding a cup under a waterfall. Filling the cup up and then allowing it to over flow that cup. I see the waterfall as the reiki energies and the cup as myself. If you are a more physical learner, you can even do the visualization with a normal cup and your kitchen sink. Just turn the water on full power and then hold a cup under the water and fill it up than let it over flow. Same thing you are the cup and your reiki is the water.
Why do I teach this technique to not only my own reiki students but to any reiki practitioner? Think about this: if you are channeling energy through your upper body without filling yourself up first, you create an imbalance in your own energies. When you do this your own energetic bodies will do whatever it needs to, to bring itself into balance. So then your lower body is out of balance with what you are doing by channeling the reiki through your upper body. It then needs to balance you so it starts to pull energies from anywhere it can. Most of the time, it is pulling all the “ick” (negative energy) off the client or in the surrounding area that you as the reiki practitioner is helping the client with. So that imbalance leaves you open to pull/attract negative energies into yourself that you than have to remove or heal yourself when those negative energies show up as dis-ease.
So I believe everyone that is a reiki practitioner no matter the level or how long you have been doing reiki can benefit from learning the waterfall reiki technique.
