Reiki and the Mind

[Milamber]

I became interested in healing meditations awhile ago, and ran into reiki. I thought it was interesting. I wanted a distant attunement, but no one ever got around to responding to me. I then just forgot about it after awhile. A few days ago, I pondered to myself if it was possible to do a self-attunment. After all, its just a normal person (well reiki master) doing the attunement and not some god or angel, so I figured you should be able to. I searched for reiki "self attunement" on google, and got some interesting results.
Yes, it is said that you CAN do a self attunement. Some say you cannot, that it has to be a master to do it for you. Others say you can. Why do they say you can? Because, people have signed up for distant attunements, and a few times the person sending FORGOT to do it at all, but the person RECIEVED the attunement nontheless! (Probably evidence being able to do reiki healing)
They chalk it up to the intent of the person that was going to send it, however I do not agree with that. Could it be the person that was recieving totally had faith in their mind that this person was going to do it, and BELIEVED that it was done, and therefore it was? Is that all there is to healing and magick etc, belief?
I think I will do a self-attunement on myself, although in the back of my mind its probably just getting me into the mode of believing in myself...anyone have thoughts on this?

[Tom]

It is easier to have a specific source in mind for the attunement to come from. Ole Gabrielsen, who started several reiki systems, has taught that it is easy to self-attune for any system. He says that there is only one step and you can have any attunement that you want: all you have to do is to ask your higher self for the attunement and be in a receptive state to allow it to happen. When you are about to go to sleep at night or when you are meditating are good times to do it.

[XenXheng]

Funny you should mention that, because I self-attuned just two nights ago.  Want to read my thread on it?

http://www.sharereiki.org/sriforum/index.php?topic=3348.0

Follow the bunny on over to the self-attunement tutorial here:

http://www.sharereiki.org/sriforum/index.php?PHPSESSID=a0573e1bdd27b4fa733fdfb3d5b63287&topic=1361.0

(Down a few replies on that one)

I'm not sure if it worked or not, but I haven't had a chance to practice past the two days I've been attuned.

Hope that helped,
Chris