The Inner Calling: What Really Draws People to Reiki Training

When you know, you just know.

There's a particular feeling that comes before someone begins Reiki training. Not everyone can name it, but they all feel it—a gentle tug, a persistent whisper, a sense that something important is waiting to be remembered.

Some call it curiosity. Others call it destiny. I call it the soul recognising its path home.

If you're reading this, you might be feeling it too. That subtle (or not-so-subtle) pull toward learning Reiki. Perhaps you've experienced a healing session and thought, "I want to be able to do this." Or maybe you've simply felt, for reasons you can't quite articulate, that this is meant for you.

But what is this calling, really? And how do you know if it's genuine—or just a passing interest?

The Many Faces of the Reiki Calling
Over the years of training students, I've witnessed countless reasons people are drawn to Reiki. While each journey is unique, certain themes emerge again and again. See if any resonate with you:

The Healer Who Doesn't Know They're a Healer Yet
You've always been the person people come to. Friends confide in you. Strangers tell you their life stories in checkout queues. You have a knack for knowing what someone needs before they say it. Your presence alone seems to calm people.

You might have dismissed this as coincidence, but deep down, you've always known there's something here. Something you do naturally that you've never had language for. Reiki training doesn't create this gift—it simply gives it structure, language, and amplification.

The calling sounds like: "I've always felt I could help people heal, but I don't know how."

The Wounded Healer
You've walked through your own darkness—illness, loss, trauma, depression, burnout. Somewhere in that journey, you experienced healing (perhaps even through Reiki itself), and it changed you fundamentally.

Now you can't shake the feeling that your pain had purpose. That you were meant to transform your wounds into wisdom and offer that gift to others who are suffering.

This is one of the most powerful callings because those who've healed themselves understand suffering intimately. They hold space without judgment. They know that healing isn't linear, and they've earned the right to say, "I've been there too."

The calling sounds like: "My pain taught me something too valuable not to share."

The Seeker of Deeper Meaning
You've sensed for years, maybe your whole life, that there's more to reality than what we can see and touch. You've dabbled in meditation, explored spiritual texts, felt drawn to ancient wisdom traditions.

You're not satisfied with surface-level living. You want to understand energy, consciousness, the invisible forces that animate life itself. Reiki isn't just a healing technique for you - it's a doorway into the mysteries you've always longed to explore.

The calling sounds like: "I know there's something deeper, and I need to understand it."

The Overwhelmed Empath
You feel everything. Other people's emotions, the energy of rooms, the subtle shifts in atmosphere that others don't notice. It's exhausting. You've spent years trying to protect yourself, to "turn it off," to not be so sensitive.

But what if your sensitivity isn't a burden to manage, but a gift to develop? What if you could learn to work with your empathic nature instead of against it? Reiki training teaches you to sense energy and maintain your own boundaries. To be open without being drained.

The calling sounds like: "I need to understand this sensitivity and learn how to use it."

The Professional Looking to Serve More Deeply
You're already in a helping profession, therapist, nurse, teacher, coach, bodyworker. You're good at what you do, but you sense something's missing. Your current tools only go so far.

You want to offer something that works at a deeper level—that addresses not just symptoms but the energetic roots of suffering. You're being called to integrate energy healing into your existing practice.

The calling sounds like: "I want to serve people more completely."

The One Who Just Knows

You can't explain it logically. You don't have a dramatic story or clear reason. You simply know, with quiet certainty, that learning Reiki is your next step.

This is perhaps the purest calling of all—the soul recognizing its path without needing the mind's permission or explanation.

The calling sounds like: "I just know this is meant for me."

My journey: How Reiki Found Me

I recognise all of these callings because I've felt them myself. Looking back, I was always the curious one, fascinated by ancient wisdom, tarot, Greek myths, Egypt, Buddhism, meditation, guardian angels, symbolism, dream interpretation. I drew constantly, felt everything deeply, studied endlessly. I was forever inquisitive, forever seeking. I found solace in listening quietly, trusting intuition, developing my spiritual journey. I was a natural fixer, with a soulful longing for making something greater, whatever the pursuit. I had a natural inclination toward healing and helping others, though I didn't yet have language for it.

My corporate career as a professional designer, Chartered Marketer, communicator, and event creator took me internationally. My purpose was always to find solutions and help people connect with messaging. But beneath the professional success, something else was calling. As the eternally curious, I studied many healing modalities, soaking up knowledge. Eventually, I began to clearly understand: my soul mission was to facilitate healing, awakening, and spiritual expansion.

Reiki became the centre of the work I do, though I integrate many complementary techniques. It's important to me that I can bring forward the right combination of therapies for each person, guided by strong intuition and the ability to read even the most subtle energies. Every treatment is as unique as the person receiving it.

Through deep work with Akashic Records, past life regression, and life-between-lives exploration, I uncovered a history of healing incarnations spanning multiple lifetimes—some with grisly challenges, I may add—and a connection to Mintaken.

I don't share this to sound mystical or special. I share it because your soul has a history too. And if Reiki is calling you, it's likely not the first time you've answered.

Today, I work as an energy healer full time, not just teaching Reiki, but living it, practicing it daily, integrating it into every aspect of life. When I wanted to do even more, I discovered Spinal Flow Technique©, which works with the body's innate intelligence to release blockages in the nervous system and spine, healing pain and dis-ease caused by unresolved stress.

Because your body's energy tells a story, and it's constantly trying to talk to you.

This is what I mean by "living Reiki"—it's not something I do to people or teach at people. It's become the lens through which I see reality, the way I move through the world, the foundation of how I serve.

And when you train with me, this is what I'm offering: not just technique, but a way of being.

Spiritual Service: What Does It Really Mean?
Many people are drawn to Reiki because they feel called to serve. But what does that actually mean?

In our culture, service is often framed as self-sacrifice. Giving until you're depleted. Helping others while ignoring your own needs. This is not the Reiki way.

True spiritual service flows from wholeness, not depletion. When you channel Reiki, you're not giving your own energy, you're becoming a clear conduit for universal life force. You remain full while allowing healing to flow through you. This is sustainable service. Sacred service.

Spiritual service through Reiki looks like:

Holding space without fixing. Trusting that the person's own healing intelligence knows what to do. Your job isn't to cure them—it's to create the conditions for their body, mind, and spirit to heal themselves.

Witnessing without judgment. Seeing someone completely—their pain, their beauty, their struggle, their strength—without needing them to be different than they are.

Serving from overflow, not obligation. Giving because your cup is full and naturally spills over, not because you're trying to prove your worth or earn love through helping.

Maintaining sacred boundaries. Knowing that taking on someone else's pain doesn't serve them—or you. Being open without being porous. Present without being enmeshed.

Honouring your own healing. Understanding that you can't guide someone somewhere you haven't been willing to go yourself. Your own healing journey is part of your service.

If this resonates—if you feel called not just to learn a technique but to step into a life of sacred service—then Reiki training may be your next step.

How to Know If the Calling Is Real
Not every interest is a calling. Sometimes we're attracted to things that sound appealing but aren't truly meant for us. So how do you discern?

Ask yourself these questions:

Does thinking about learning Reiki make you feel more alive?
Not just excited (though that can be part of it), but deeply energized, as if something dormant in you is waking up?

Does the calling persist?
Passing interests fade. Soul callings return again and again, getting louder over time.

Do you feel it in your body?
True callings aren't just mental. They create physical sensations—warmth in your chest, tingling in your hands, a sense of rightness that settles in your bones.

Are you willing to be changed?
Reiki training isn't like learning a language or picking up a hobby. It will transform you. If you're genuinely being called, you'll feel both excited and slightly terrified by this prospect—and you'll be willing anyway.

Does it feel like remembering, not learning?
Many students describe Reiki training as recognition. "I already knew this somehow." If you sense that Reiki is awakening something already within you rather than installing something foreign, that's a strong sign.

What Happens When You Answer the Call

When you commit to Reiki training, you're not just learning a healing technique—you're saying yes to your soul's evolution.

Here's what that often looks like:

Your sensitivity becomes a superpower. What once felt like a burden—feeling too much, sensing too much—becomes your greatest asset. You learn to work with energy consciously instead of being at its mercy.

Your relationships shift. Some deepen profoundly. Others fall away. You begin attracting people who resonate with your frequency, and you naturally release those who no longer do.

Your purpose clarifies. Even if you never practice Reiki professionally, understanding energy transforms how you move through life. Your work, whatever it is, becomes infused with healing presence.

Your body changes. The 21-day cleanse that follows each attunement isn't just energetic—it's physical. Old patterns stored in your body begin releasing. You may sleep differently, eat differently, feel differently. You're literally rewiring.

You become more yourself. This is the paradox: in learning to channel something beyond yourself (universal life force), you become more authentically who you've always been beneath the conditioning and fear.

You can't unknow what you know. Once you've felt energy moving through your hands, once you've witnessed healing that defies logical explanation, once you've experienced the profound peace of being a clear channel—you can't go back to seeing the world as only physical, only material, only what we can measure.

This is why I say: Reiki is not something you learn. It's something you remember. It's something you become.

Is This Your Calling?

If you've read this far, something in you is resonating.

Maybe you recognise yourself in one of these stories. Maybe you've felt that tug, that whisper, that persistent knowing.

Maybe you're still uncertain, still questioning whether this is really for you.

Here's what I've learned: the calling doesn't demand certainty. It only asks for willingness.

You don't need to have it all figured out. You don't need to know exactly why you're drawn to Reiki or what you'll do with it once you learn. You just need to be willing to take the next step.

That's all the soul ever asks: one honest step toward what calls you.

If Reiki is calling you—even quietly, even uncertainly—I encourage you to honour that. Reach out. Ask questions. Sit with it. See if the calling persists.

And if it does? If it won't leave you alone, if it keeps returning, if it feels like remembering something you've always known?

That's your soul, recognising its path home.

Trust it.

Begin Your Journey

Reiki training at Reiki Divine Therapy honours the sacred nature of this calling. Whether you're drawn to Shoden (First Degree) for personal healing, Okuden (Second Degree) to deepen your practice, or Shinpiden (Master/Teacher) to complete your training—each level is taught with reverence, authenticity, and intimate attention.

Because this isn't just about certification. It's about answering the call of your soul. Ready to explore whether this is your path?

nici@reikidivine.co.uk
07545 053 129
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Every Reiki Divine Experience Is as Unique as You Are.

P.S. If you're still uncertain, that's okay. The calling will wait. But if you're feeling it strongly—if reading this made your hands tingle or your heart open or tears come—that's your body confirming what your soul already knows.

Trust that.