Understanding Reiki Healing
So what is Reiki Healing?Reiki (pronounced ray-key), is a gentle healing technique to reduce stress, relieve pain, aid healing and promote relaxation. An ancient Japanese practice that uses an unseen “life force energy” that flows through us and makes us alive to remove blocks and infuse energy to bring our body back to balance. If our “life force energy” is at a low level, we are more likely to feel stress and become sick. On the other hand, if it is high, we are more likely to be healthy and happy. Developed in the early 1900′s by Mikao Usui in Japan, Reiki healing was brought to the U.S.A. in the 1930s. Reiki energy medicine is a system of enlightenment and healing. Some refer to “life force energy” as God directed or Holy Spirit Energy.
Reiki is made up of two Japanese words – Rei, meaning “God’s Wisdom” or the “Higher Power” and Ki, which mean “life force energy”. So in actuality, Reiki is “spiritually guided life force energy.”
Although Reiki healing is not a religion, it is spiritual in nature and it has no doctrine. There is nothing that you must believe in to use, learn and benefit from Reiki healing. Reiki comes from universal energy and does not depend on whether you believe in God or not. Intellect and spiritual development have no bearing on the benefits of this practice. So, it is available to virtually everyone and many of those who use Reiki find it puts them more in touch with the experience of their individual religion.
A centuries-old form of therapy, Reiki healing, connects the practitioner and patient through universal energies for healing purposes with many benefits. There are virtually no harmful effects to the patient or the practitioner. Based on the same energetic principles as acupuncture, t’ai chi chuan and chi kung, Reiki healing is not invasive like acupuncture and it doesn’t require physical agility, strength, and effort to gain benefits like t’ai chi and chi kung.
Always working for the person’s highest good, reiki healing will work on problems we may not even have symptoms for yet. The practitioner’s hands (and intuition) are used to scan a client’s body and to perceive as well as treat areas of reduced energy vitality.
The vital energy of the universe is then channeled through the practitioner to energize the different body systems on levels that promote healing and wholeness. Reiki healing is a simple procedure, consisting of calm and concentrated energy, with the practitioner focusing on healing while giving energy to specific areas on the patient’s body.
Practitioners place their hands over positions on the body where the organs and endocrine glands reside, as well as the areas that correspond to the chakra centers. Practitioners also use mental visualization to send reiki healing energy to areas of the receiver’s body that need it. In special cases or with injuries, a no-touch technique is used, in which the practitioner’s hands are sometimes held just above the body. Advanced practitioners rely on intuition and experience to determine which areas of a body need the most energy healing.
Treating the whole person, body, mind, emotions, and spirit, a Reiki healing treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance flowing through and around the recipient as it creates many benefits–including feelings of peace, security, relaxation and well being. A person might fall asleep, feel goose bumps, tingling, or nothing at all, but the energy is working even though we may not feel it because each Reiki healing treatment is distinctive. Simple, natural and safe, Reiki is a method of spiritual healing and self-improvement everyone can use. It has been effective helping virtually every known illness and malady while creating a beneficial effect. It has proven to work in conjunction with all other therapeutic and medical techniques; it can help relieve side effects and promote recovery as well.
Because Reiki healing promotes deep relaxation and the release of blockages in the physical, mental and emotional bodies, the natural flow of energy is allowed to release those toxins and waste products. When those blockages have been removed the recipient can receive, hold, and store more energy thereby increasing their energy vibration which helps them to feel more joy and more alive.