A very good friend of mine has been attuned to level 1....and she has created her own system for giving a treatment. She works on chakras first and then physical parts of the body. She is incredibly in tune/psychic.
She told me about some of my past lives, and I had flashes of some of them while she worked on me.
I don't think there's any right or wrong way to give reiki if it comes from a place of love. I think you can place your intent on chakras OR the physical body and it will work where it should. As for crystals....I'm VERY interested in them! I have heaps of them around my house. I would love to do some study on Crystal Therapy....it's on my list of 'things to do'
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I did an Angel Intuitive course last year with Doreen Virtue. She touched on using crystals, but I think it is a modality in itself. It would mesh very nicely with reiki.
To all the cysters TTC - I am sending you lots of postive energy. I remember those days x 2 very clearly.