Because of properly directed good karma that they have earned in previous incarnations, only a few individuals are granted certain skills of active energy work (healing, for example) and passive energy work (such as clairvoyance) from the start.
Even tremendous abilities, however, must be deliberately and painstakingly developed via training and practice before they can be reliably used in the real world.
In addition to the training and practice that are clearly needed, most individuals who wish to develop such talents must practice intensely for many, many years to make themselves resonant for these enormous capabilities.
Spiritual seekers have faced the great challenge of having so many wonderful abilities resulting from an intimacy with the divine power that not only make life easier in a natural way, but can also be applied in an extremely effective way in supporting their own path to enlightenment and spiritual awakening since the beginning of time.
However, when a significant portion of one's life is spent honing a few of these skills, there is little time left to apply them to the ultimate objective, spiritual awareness.
Furthermore, most individuals do not have (or have had) the time to devote to such endeavors in addition to their regular responsibilities.
Someone has to plow the fields, publish and sell the books, make the bread, and construct the homes as well.
There aren't enough comfortable caverns in our lovely world's mountains to accommodate as many billions of hermits as there are humans.
Who would feed them if they spent the whole day meditating and fantasizing about enlightenment?
In order to develop properly, we must have specific spiritual talents accessible to us in the near term, which can only be awakened after extensive practice and study in solitude.
This is a difficult situation! The initiations are the key to unlocking this Gordian knot!
In every spiritual tradition that I am aware of, the appropriate abilities are passed on to students by people who have been trained and qualified, making it easier for them to make significant progress in their personal development in a short period of time while also being able to assist their fellow human beings in overcoming common life problems such as disease.
Shaktîpatm Hinduism, initiations into mantras such as in the Transcendental Meditation (TM) method, and Kriyâ Yoga are all well-known instances of initiations.
Certain talents may be essentially awakened in a human being via initiations.
However, in order to utilize them effectively and meaningfully, some training and expertise are always needed.
Although initiations may stimulate personal growth, we must constantly deal with our own learning experiences, choices, awareness exercises, experiments in new kinds of conduct, efforts to conquer the ego, and so on.
Awakening Abilities and Acquiring Abilities are two different types of initiations.
Initiations may basically allow you to access two distinct kinds of abilities:
1. It is possible to awaken a potential that resides in every human being.
Initiation into the Usui System of Natural Healing is one example of this.
2. A person is practically given a potential that does not exist naturally inside every human being.
The ability to work with an angel's healing power is an example of this.
You may also want to read more about Reiki Healing here.