What is Reiki and How Does it Work? (Part One)

Reiki is an alternative therapy that makes use of ancient healing energy techniques to bring about more vitality and a healthier human being.

Reiki treatment can be used to increase your personal energy as well as to build resilience and strength. It can modify the mindset to reflect the positive and can provide more insight into your inner self. The healing energy of Reiki can give way to an intense and often immediate feeling of deep relaxation and calmness which can automatically reduce the stress load that a person is carrying.

Reiki is a type of healing treatment that got its start in Japan in the 20th century. The word “Reiki” means “spiritual or soul energy.”  It was created by Buddhist Sensei Mikao Usui. Practitioners of the therapy believe that it can be effectively used to unblock spiritual and/or emotional blocks that are the root causes of sickness.

The practice of Reiki is believed to have the ability to heal an individual by way of the energy that flows from the practitioner’s hands. It is universal life energy that fuels Reiki. The healing therapy works on the causes of a disease as opposed to the symptoms of it.

Is Reiki a Healing Therapy for Everyone?

The effects of Reiki will be very subtle for the person who is healthy in most respects, including physically, mentally, socially and spiritually. However most people have an area of weakness and one that causes them some level of discomfort and grief. For that reason, Reiki can benefit practically everyone at some point in their lives.

The individual is the one that must be willing to accept and use the energy that is transferred during a Reiki treatment. Energy cannot be transferred if a Reiki treatment does not take place. The Reiki experience is not the same for everyone. Some people will experience it in a very subtle manner and will wonder if anything happened at all while other people will find that the effect is truly profound and amazing.

Reiki is often thought of as intelligent energy because it responds to healing at the highest possible level, which is to say the spiritual core of a human being. It is very much a spiritual practice because it deals with energy or what many may refer to as the spirit of a person. A treatment by a Reiki practitioner is not the same as a massage as there is no manipulation of tissues and no pressure exerted on the body whatsoever.

Learn more about the practice of Reiki in part two of this series.

Samantha