Navigating Challenges on Your Reiki Journey: Why Spiritual Growth Can Feel So Hard (and So Worth It)
walking the Reiki Path: Why Challenges Are Part of the Journey
If you’ve been walking the Reiki path and feeling like it’s harder than you expected, know that you’re not alone. Whether you’re newly attuned to Reiki Level 1, diving deeper into Reiki 2, or you’re a seasoned Reiki Master, it’s common to face emotional, physical, and energetic challenges as you grow.
And here’s the truth:
Every challenge along your Reiki journey is a spiritual initiation.
It’s a call to align more fully with the frequency of Reiki, the universal life force energy that flows through all things.
Why the Reiki Path Can Feel Challenging
Reiki isn’t just a healing tool. It’s a path of transformation.
As we attune to this beautiful light energy, we begin to raise our vibration. But in order to hold more light, we must also release what no longer serves us, lower frequencies, limiting beliefs, emotional patterns, and even physical imbalances.
This is why Reiki feels so gentle… and yet so powerful.
It works across all levels—body, mind, and spirit and meets you where you are at, inviting you to grow.
Reiki Level 1: Self-Healing Comes First
Reiki Level 1 is all about YOU.
It’s the sacred foundation where you learn how to channel Reiki for self-healing.
Many people begin their Reiki journey seeking to help others, but true healing starts from within. Reiki 1 invites you to reconnect with your body, calm your mind, and release stored emotions. It helps bring your nervous system back into balance, offering support for:
Physical symptoms like headaches or chronic tension
Emotional overwhelm and anxiety
Patterns of stress and burnout
And the beauty of it? Your body already knows how to heal. Reiki simply helps remove the energetic blockages standing in the way.
Reiki Level 2: Helping Others While Healing Yourself
As you step into Reiki Level 2, you’re able to send healing beyond time and space. This deepens your energetic awareness and expands the life force energy that you can hold. You can also become a practitioner & offer energy healing to others.
But here’s where many feel stuck:
You’re holding space for others to heal, yet you’re still navigating your own growth.
This is normal. In fact, it’s sacred.
Your ability to support others is directly linked to your commitment to your own healing.
Reiki 2 deepens your spiritual lessons, calling you to release judgment, fear, and the urge to “fix” others, and instead become a clear channel for light and love. This attunement can initiate a potential for massive spiritual growth and awareness which can often be challenging, but necessary for our expansion.
Reiki Mastery: A Commitment to Living in alignment
Becoming a Reiki Master isn’t just about technique, it’s a deep soul commitment.
It means choosing to live in alignment with Reiki energy every day.
It means embodying the Reiki Precepts:
Just for today...
I will not worry.
I will not be angry.
I will be grateful.
I will do my work honestly.
I will be kind to all living beings.
Mastery is not perfection, it’s a path of presence. A daily commitment to move towards the truth of who we are without attachment to ‘being a master’. To me, the mastery is the commitment to continuing along the Reiki path, living the precepts above, and sharing the light that we all are with others. It’s remembering who you are, over and over again, living in alignment with the energy even when life gets messy.
If You’ve Been Attuned in the Past But got distracted with life…
I speak to many people who were attuned to Reiki years ago, sometimes 10, 15, even 20 years back. They felt called to Reiki in a different season of life but drifted away from the practice.
If that’s you…
Your soul was guided to Reiki for a reason.
You may not have been ready to fully step into it then, but the light of Reiki never leaves you. And now, perhaps, you’re being called to reconnect, to bring this healing energy back into your daily life.
With the planetary shifts and energetic upgrades happening right now, Reiki is evolving too. It’s expanding in frequency, and many are feeling the nudge to return, remember, and reclaim their healing gifts.
You Are Not Alone on This Path
This journey of Reiki can be tender, powerful, and full of transformation. And sometimes, it helps to walk beside someone who’s been there too.
If you’re navigating doubts, resistance, emotional releases, or energetic upgrades, I see you.
You don’t have to go through it alone.
As a Reiki Master Teacher and energy healer, I mentor students at all levels to stay grounded, clear, and connected to their purpose. I offer intuitive, heart-based support, tools, and insight to help you integrate your journey. This is what you are here for!
Feeling Called to Reconnect? you soul is ready & waiting!
We are all here for a reason! If your eyes have found this page, you may be feeling the call to:
Reignite your Reiki practice
Receive guidance and energetic support
Feeling overwhelmed physically or emotionally and want to understand the shifts you’re going through
Or simply explore what’s next on your path...
I invite you to book a free Discovery Call.
Let’s chat about where you are, and how I can support your next step forward.
With love & abundant blessings,
Sheryl Hockey
Reiki Master Teacher | Holistic Herbalist | Spiritual Mentor