Self-practice before treating others establishes the essential foundation in Reiki that ensures practitioners channel clean, powerful healing energy while maintaining their own energetic integrity throughout their healing service. The principle recognizes that practitioners can only offer others the level of healing they’ve achieved within themselves, making personal practice the cornerstone of effective Reiki service. Daily self-treatment clears personal energy fields of accumulated stress, emotions, and energetic debris that would otherwise mix with and contaminate the pure Reiki flow. The practice develops necessary sensitivity to energy flow, as practitioners must feel energy in their own bodies before accurately sensing it in others. Self-healing through Reiki addresses practitioners’ own wounds and shadows that might otherwise project onto clients or create blind spots in treatment. Regular practice builds the energetic stamina required for conducting multiple sessions without depletion, strengthening the practitioner’s energy system. The discipline of daily self-treatment demonstrates commitment to the Reiki path and creates energetic coherence that clients unconsciously recognize and trust. Practitioners who neglect self-practice often experience faster burnout, as they deplete personal energy reserves rather than maintaining clear channel status. The insights gained through self-treatment provide experiential understanding of Reiki’s effects that theoretical knowledge alone cannot supply. Morning self-practice specifically prepares practitioners energetically for the day’s sessions, ensuring they begin from centered, grounded presence. The practice helps maintain healthy boundaries between practitioner and client energies, preventing unconscious absorption of clients’ released energies. Self-treatment reveals the cyclical nature of healing, teaching practitioners patience and compassion they can then extend to clients’ journeys. The energetic development achieved through consistent self-practice directly correlates with the depth and effectiveness of treatments offered to others. Practitioners learn through self-treatment that healing is ongoing journey rather than destination, modeling realistic expectations for clients. Through prioritizing self-practice, Reiki practitioners embody the principle of self-healing that empowers rather than creates dependency in those they serve.