Understanding Reiki in the Simplest Terms

26Jul10

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Reiki is basically a way of balancing mind, body and spirit so you feel less stressed and healthier through directed self-healing. If Reiki was an exercise, it would be similar to Yoga in the way the positions supply different focus to various energy centers, calming and soothing the body, mind and spirit.

A Reiki practitioner has been indoctrinated into the use of Reiki and typically uses a light touch to balance your body’s energy. A full-body Reiki session focuses on the seven main chakra centers, but you can also direct the practitioner to focus on an area of discomfort or somewhere you feel needs healing.

Reiki is not tied to any religion or belief system, although it is a very spiritual practice. You don’t even have to believe in Reiki for it to work for you. All it requires of you is that you be open to receiving the energy guided through a practitioner. Healing/balance may be noticeable to you right away; maybe not for hours or days later when you may notice that your pain has lessened or is no longer there at all or discover that something that’s been bothering you no longer has the power to upset you. Remember, Reiki is a mind, body and spirit-centered healing that focuses not only on the physical symptoms of discomfort, but on the underlying causes.

How does it work? I can’t begin to tell you. I can just tell you from my five years of being involved with it, both experiencing it through others and in using it myself, that it does. There is ongoing, formal research on Reiki, and you can find many research papers on the Internet. I’m more focused on the results than the “how.” You may not know it, but the medical community prescribed aspirin for 70 years before they found out just how it works on the body. One day we’ll have accepted, documented proof of how Reiki works, but for now I’ll just accept that it does.

A person receiving Reiki may experience tingling, muscle twitching, a feeling of deep warmth . . . You may see colors or be more sensitive to what you are hearing. You may sleep better that night. Most often a client walks away feeling more calm and relaxed and may have no further inkling of the actual healing received until later on as the Reiki works through the body to balance and harmonize the mind, body and spirit energies. If a recipient of the energy was experiencing pain at the beginning of the session, he or she may find that the pain has lessened or disappeared entirely.

Reiki does not take the place of regular medicine or your doctor’s instructions, but works hand-in-hand with it to help focus your body’s natural instinct to heal itself. You already use hands-on healing instinctively without even knowing it. When you have a headache, your hands automatically go to your head. When your stomach hurts, your hands go to your stomach. This is your body’s way of telling you how to “lick your wounds,” like an animal does when it’s hurt. In fact, many doctors and healers like chiropractors are using Reiki in their practices today, and that number is growing. Some well-known hospitals that have ongoing Reiki programs include: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Penn Medicine, John Hopkins Hospital & Health System, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, George Washington University Hospital and California Pacific Medical University (from Reiki Master Pamela Miles). Reiki is often used with hospice and cancer patients to help ease their pain. It can be used on sick animals, with colicky babies . . . The uses are infinite.

In my Reiki practice I bring in other subtle healing methods with the client’s permission just to make the session more pleasant. I offer light therapy, sound therapy, affirmations and aroma therapy to enhance your Reiki experience. I also draw upon the energies of Goddesses to help with certain charkas. Calling upon these Goddess energies are my way of giving name to the inherent qualities within a person that already know how to help you heal. By focusing on certain Goddesses, I am reminding that part of your body that houses this healing energy to “wake up” and heal itself.

Reiki comes from Dr. Mikao Usui, a healer who first received the energy of Reiki in Japan during the 1920s. One of his students later brought the teachings to America, and it has spread to other countries as well. There are many excellent sources on the Web to find out more about the origins of Reiki and explain it more fully. I would encourage you to research Reiki on the Web if you have an interest in finding out more.

If you’re in the Columbia, S.C., area and want to learn more about Reiki or even give it a try in person, contact information@reioflight.com to schedule an appointment. For a limited time, I am offering free half-hour sessions as part of my research on the healing effects of Reiki. Because Reiki is essentially energy healing, it can also be done long distance. If you’d like to experience Reiki in this manner, contact me. If you’re not in the Columbia area and had rather experience a hands-on Reiki session, look on the Internet to find a Reiki healer close to you.

Until then, Namaste, which means “The Higher Power in me recognizes the higher power in you.”

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