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Real Symbols?
What are the real symbols? We have found 22 variations of the Usui
Master Symbol, 18 Distance, 10 Mental/Emotional, and 10 power symbols
(and the count get larger seemingly everyday). Do they all work? Well,
some seem to be stronger than others. We have drawn and played with
most of them and used dowsing rods on them. One in each group came out
stronger for me [Adonea] than any of the others. Why? Personally, I
think that the symbols you were attuned to originally are most likely
the right ones for you. All of the symbols we found have energy, and
unless they were unrecognizable from the original versions, were
usable.

Here is a story to help clarify this thought: We met a man
recently that said he was a Reiki Master; he was proud and boastful of
his mastership. He told us that he was attuning people simply by
placing his hands above and in front of them, asking them to be
sensitive to the feeling of the energy, and to hold onto the memory of
what they were experiencing and Viola, they were attuned. He further
told us of his healing methods and how he was attuned by his
initiating Master (who was only a second-degree practitioner). He did
not have the Usui Master Symbol, rather a symbol which is taught by
some Raku Kei Masters (personally, I don't think that it alone will
initiate one to the energy of Reiki). He demonstrated his power/energy
by visualizing and beaming the symbols to us. We could feel only a
little energy and none from the Distance Symbol; when he showed us the
symbols, we understood the Distance Symbols was only partially drawn,
so it was not tapping into the fullness of the energy that it
represents. We talked extensively about Reiki and shared the energy
with him. He then saw the true value of the attunement process by
experiencing it first hand. He recognized the strength between a fully
attuned Reiki Master and a second degree practitioner. He ceased his
practice of "attunements" until he learned more. Point of Story: The
symbols do have energy; when altered, the energy is also altered. It
this bad? No, but is the symbol tuning into the full potential of
Reiki? Reiki can do no harm; but neither can it do the greatest good
unless the fullness of the energy is utilized.