Wonderful responses as usual here. Kev, I would only add that in my personal experience and when I first started getting interested in this I met a person that was into the laying on of the hands approach to healing. Similar to all forms of energy work. He did his own version of remote healing with no back ground training in Reiki or Qigong or anything else other than his own willingness and desire to help others.
It was amazing the stories he would tell and letters sent back to him giving thanks for his help. He was known only by word of mouth and yet was constantly and actively helping people. This only required his focused mind and connection to the love energies (basically the requirements that gallen had outlined) which he had naturally and was obviously very effective with.
Bottom line, these are all tools that can be used in conjunction with something we already have and are capable of. Reiki and it’s symbols are a great example of this for it is through the focusing of the mind (using the symbols) that it’s effectiveness is seen. Basically Nothing would be effective without a focused mind, an open compassionate heart and the desire, all of this you have already.
[This message has been edited by Ascending1 (edited January 06, 2004).]
