A symbol is something that represents something else. A symbol represents the consciousness and energetic essence of something else. Everything is energy; when we assign a symbol to something, through intent we create a link between that something's energy and the symbol's energy, one thus representing the other.

In this infinite universe, there is so much we do not know or understand. It is easy to understand that there are things in the universe which could benefit us greatly but we are simply not aware of them. We also have many who watch over us, guiding us, loving us, protecting us and leading us every step of our evolutionary way. These of much higher consciousness have access to information, technologies or "things" for want of a better word which we have never heard of.

As a familiar reference, think of lasers. 100 years ago we could not even conceive of lasers and yet today, you find them in every computer and every car stereo and every CD player. Now we know of them and they are very real and useful. But 100 years ago, we were clueless about this amazing use of Light. Since we do not have the capacity to understand fully these "Light Technologies", our only means of using this technology would be through a symbol that represents that "thing", "technology", "event", "initiation" or....whatever.

Similarly, there are many things which have great spiritual application which we as humans may not naturally discover for millions of years to come.

These symbols have always been guarded in secrecy and mysticism. Unfortunately we have lost thousand of these symbols over thousands of years, destroyed in sacred temples by raiding parties. Out of greed or whatever negative emotion, these plunderers destroyed many sacred teachings like this and they had no idea what they were doing or how far they would impact humanity into the future.

When a person receives a Reiki attunement, one or more symbols are placed into their energetic bodies through the chakra centres. In our 3D world these symbols are invisible but in our energetic bodies, of higher vibration, these energy symbols are as real as a rock would be to us on 3D. These symbols have direct links to higher consciousness and when placed inside the human aura, they activate into multidimensionality and trigger the activation of this higher consciousness power.

Symbols all have different meanings and functions. In Reiki, the symbols literally blast open the chakra centres and establishes a link between the chakras and the cosmic life force energy. Most people have small little chakras that are choked off, resulting in disease and discomfort. A reiki attunement opens these centres permanently and begins a flow of divine light/ universal life force through the persons crown centres and it flows throughout the body especially out of the hands, thus instantly creating a powerful hands-on energy healer, all within minutes.

The Reiki symbols opens these centres wide and links the body energy to the divine source, thus allowing the reiki practitioner/healer to flow tons of this life force energy through their hands, never depleting themselves as they channel energy through their bodies. They never give their own precious life force energy but instead become a conduit through which the divine life force can flow unlimited and it always refills and recharges that energy channel.(practitioner)

Since time and space is relative and is no barrier for energy (source light), such attunements can be done remotely. Just like healing can be done remotely, (distantly) intent can affect change in energy anywhere across time and space. Although attunements enable you to access higher levels of consciousness (mostly subconscious), there is much more to Reiki than just the attunements.

The consciousness shift is tremendous.