This term is a modern concept that ensures students take responsibility for their own health. The client is asked to return the favour of a Reiki treatment by doing ‘something’ for the Reiki practitioner. In this way the client is more respectful of the treatment, leaving him/her with a sense of self-responsibility for his/her own health. Hawayo Takata taught using a parable which is commonly called the ‘beggar‘beggar story’.story’.