Reiki has undergone a huge change over the last few years, or perhaps it would be better to say that a changed version is available, as many people are still very attached to the "westernised" version, with its attunements and secret symbols that have very little to do with the founder Mikao Usui. The "new Reiki", or Japanese-style, as taught by people like Taggart King (who I trained with) is seen much more as a spiritual path, and much less about "being a healer". On the subject of attuning rituals of whatever kind he says "I prefer to see them as allowing you to recognise something that is already there within you, rather than a way of hooking you up to some new energy source that you were not connected to before."
I do send distance healing, which I feel to be very gentle, just offered for use as required.

Lyn