What is Reiki?
Reiki is a gentle, non-invasive healing practice that promotes balance and well-being in the body, mind, emotions and spirit.
Reiki practitioners deliver energy to your body, improving the flow and balance of your energy to support healing. Mikao Usui developed reiki in the early 1900s, deriving the term from the Japanese words rei, meaning “universal,” and ki, which refers to the vital life force energy that flows through all living things. Now, reiki is used all over the world, including in hospitals and hospices, to complement other forms of health treatments.
How does it work?
Reiki practitioners act as a channel between you and the source of the universal life force energy. The energy flows through the practitioner to you. Reiki heals by flowing through the affected parts of your energy field and charging them with positive energy. It raises the vibratory level of the energy field in and around the physical body where the negative thoughts and feelings are attached. This causes the negative energy to break apart and fall away.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Reiki?
Reiki is a natural & safe method of energy/spiritual healing. It helps adults, children, and even animals by releasing energetic blocks in the mental, spiritual, and physical bodies.
Reiki is based on the idea that there is an unseen “life force energy” flowing through us. Regardless of what we call that energy, it’s what causes us to be alive in these bodies. If your level of this life force energy is low, you’re more likely to feel stress and get sick. If it’s high, you experience greater health & happiness and have the energy to do the work you love in life.
A Reiki practitioner can direct this universal energy to the areas of your body that need it most. This initiates the release of stress and negative emotions in the body. Reiki works in conjunction with other medical or therapeutic techniques to relieve side effects and promote recovery.
What are the benefits of Reiki?
- Reiki clears blocks and balances your chakras and energetic body, helping to:
- Reduce stress & anxiety
- Boost immunity & well-being
- Ease tension & deepen relaxation
- Strengthen intuition & psychic abilities
- Reiki can be used to direct energy towards any aspect of your life that needs improving, including health, relationships, communication or spiritual connection.
- As a catalyst for renewal, Reiki can help you make healthier choices to maintain your well-being.
What can be treated with Reiki?
Reiki can have a positive effect on all forms of negative conditions and illnesses. This includes minor things like head or stomach aches, bee stings, colds, flu, tension and anxiety as well as serious illnesses like heart disease, cancer, leukemia, etc.
Reiki has also been shown to reduce side effects of other medical treatments like chemotherapy, post operative pain and depression.
Reiki promotes relaxation, reduces anxiety, reduces stress and offers symptom relief to improve overall health and well-being. It can bring on a meditative state, foster tissue and bone healing after injury or surgery, stimulate your body’s immune system, promote natural self-healing, relieve pain and tension and support the well-being of people receiving traditional medical treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation, surgery and kidney dialysis. It can lead to faster healing, reducing the time needed to stay in the hospital.
Can Reiki cure me?
Reiki is not medicine. While it’s shown to be effective in reducing pain levels – including for palliative care, cancer, and post-surgical patients, it does not claim to treat specific symptoms or disease.
Reiki is a stream of complimentary, intelligent energy. As such, it heads right where you need it most.
Reiki works in harmony with all other forms of healing, including drugs, surgery, psychological care or other methods of complementary and alternative care, and can help improve the results of these practices.
Reiki has been shown to improve patient outcomes, reduce the need for pain medications and further interventions, speed up recovery times, as well as reduce patient anxiety and stress.
How does Reiki work?
We’re all made of energy. Energy creates form and matter. When you experience mental, emotional or spiritual difficulties in life, this life energy gets blocked in your body. Reiki works by the channeling of energy from the practitioner’s hands into the client’s body and energy field.
Most disease starts at the mental and emotional level first, escalating to physical pain or symptoms later. Reiki releases blocks at these deeper energetic levels rather than simply placing a band-aid over symptoms. As the body regains the energy that was blocked, it can now use it for healing.
Reiki encourages the release of tension, anxiety, fear and other negative feelings in the mind and body. This leads to relaxation and promotes the healthy functioning of cells, tissues and organs.
Where does Reiki come from?
Reiki is a Japanese Spiritual practice. It was founded by Dr. Mikao Usui who established the first Reiki clinic and school in Tokyo, Japan in the 1920s.
Dr. Usui trained several Reiki masters to ensure that Reiki would continue to bring healing for ages to come. Since then, qualified Reiki masters have been using their gifts to share healing with others and to train more new Reiki practitioners around the world.
What can I expect during a Reiki treatment?
Reiki can be performed effectively through distance healing or in person. When done in person, you will either lay down or sit comfortably while the Reiki practitioner places their hands on or near your body in a series of hand positions, allowing the Reiki energy to flow. When done remotely, the practitioner directs energy to you, regardless of the physical distance involved.
During a Reiki treatment, most people experience feelings of deep relaxation and relief. Many feel a wonderful glowing radiance or a warm tingly feeling as they experience the flow of universal life energy through their body.
Some drift off to sleep or report floating outside their bodies or have visions and other mystical experiences. At the end of the treatment, you’ll feel refreshed with a more positive, balanced outlook.
How many treatments are needed?
This depends on what you are hoping for from Reiki. As a natural healing method, it’s best to allow some time for Reiki to have an effect. For ongoing conditions, a series of treatments may be more beneficial than a single treatment.
Disclaimer: The information contained on this website and the services we provide such as health coaching, reiki and any other form of healing or consultation services are not intended to be a substitute or replacement for qualified medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. While our methods and guidance may accelerate healing, please work closely with your physician or medical caregiver to monitor your current situation and receive suitable medical advice or intervention as needed.