Ethics

(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)

First, every healing practitioner in any field should follow a code of ethics. Reiki is no exception. Though Reiki is said to not be capable of harm, a practitioner can violate or harm a patient without physically hurting them. Most schools have their own rules and ethics that go along with the school. For this course I have paraphrased from a school called The International House Of Reiki which can be found online at www.reiki.net.au/

• Respect all living beings.

• Do Reiki with integrity, honestly, and responsibility.
• Heal and teach your wisdom to your family, friends, and community as you spread Reiki throughout the world.
• Treat all the people you heal with fairness and equality.
• Always advise patients to try to heal themselves, if possible.
• Do not make promises about Reiki’s abilities because there are no guarantees in life.
• Practitioners should never touch a patient’s private parts, any wound, or any other part of the body which the patient does not want touched for any reason.
• Do not gossip or reveal a patient’s personal, private matters to anyone else.
• Practitioners should not advise patients to do or not do anything outside their experience or practice; therefore you should not prescribe medication or tell patients not to take medication unless you are a doctor as well.
• Reiki is not a substitute for emergency medical practices, but it could be used to help a situation.