Reiki: Healing Energy for Mind, Body, and Soul

What is Reiki

The word Reiki pronounced (Ray-key) means healing touch, “Rei” meaning Spiritual wisdom or Universal and “Ki” meaning Life force energy. Reiki is one of the simplest and most popular alternative therapy methods. Like any other therapy, it’s a way of life.

Reiki is a simple but effective healing therapy. It requires nothing but two hands and intention for curing chronic diseases even where modern medicines have no answer. Reiki can be defined as spiritually guided life energy. Reiki can never do harm and never deplete energy when you are under treatment. Reiki is supportive and complementary to all modern medical treatments. In fact, it improves the results of any medical treatment, such as those from chemotherapy, surgery, childbirth or psychological conditions. It shortens the healing time, reduces pain, stress and builds up self-confidence among patients.

Reiki can be sent to any part of the globe by way of distant healing techniques by second level practitioners and masters. Sending distant Reiki requires two things: first, establish the connection by using distant-healing symbols, and second, have strong intent with positive thoughts — since energy follows thought.

What Happens in a Reiki Session

A Reiki session typically takes about an hour. You remain fully clothed and rest comfortably on a massage table or mattress. The Reiki energy is transferred by laying on of hands that are placed lightly on different parts of your body. You may feel some emotional release, tingles, or warmth as the Reiki energy flows into your body.

The most common experience during a session is a sense of deep peace and security. Sometimes visual images or colors may be seen, and insight may be received. A series of sessions may result in dissolution of inner barriers blocking holistic growth. Clients often come into contact with new ideas after Reiki sessions — some start yoga, meditation, spiritual practices, positive reading, or even train to become Reiki practitioners themselves.

You may feel the energy directly, or you may experience heat from the healer’s hands. Most often, people fall into a deep, healing relaxation similar to meditation.

Benefits of Reiki

Everyone can benefit from Reiki. Doctors, nurses, rehabilitation therapists, and students report that Reiki can help manage pain and promote healing. Counselors and caregivers find that Reiki gives patients with terminal illnesses an increased physical and emotional ability to cope.

One of the greatest benefits of Reiki is self-treatment. Once a person is attuned, he or she needs only the intention to do Reiki on themselves or others, and the energy is immediately drawn through without further intense focus from the practitioner. Reiki is extremely effective for total relaxation and stress release, filling one with peace, vitality, and joy, combined with a pleasant feeling of security. Treating oneself also helps release withheld emotions and energy blockages. Reiki works holistically — it not only regenerates organs, tissue, and bones, but also creates balance on the mental and emotional levels.

Reiki affects each individual in a personal way, but some common results include:

• ✔ Balances Energy
• ✔ Increases Creativity
• ✔ Helps Release Emotions
• ✔ Releases Stress
• ✔ Amplifies Energy
• ✔ Works on Causal Level of Disease
• ✔ Heals Holistically
• ✔ Increases Awareness
• ✔ Reverses Ageing Process

Reiki can never do damage in any way, since it only flows in the quantities necessary for the recipient. The Usui system of Reiki is not only the most simple and natural healing method we know of, but also the most effective way of transferring universal life energy. Once a person has been opened as a “channel” for Reiki, concentrated life energy will flow through their hands naturally, and they retain this ability for life.

As with most things in life, Reiki must be experienced to be appreciated. May your exploration of Reiki be a joyous one!