Introduction to Reiki: Physical and Spiritual Healing
by Meghan Roces
Introduction to Reiki: Physical and Spiritual Healing
Reiki is an alternative therapy that helps with stress reduction, relaxation, and awareness as you connect with the free-flowing universal energy.
Are you under a lot of stress and anxiety lately? Do you wish to grow spiritually and overcome that sluggish feeling? One way you can seek healing and guidance to solve these predicaments is through Reiki healing.
Reiki is an alternative therapy that helps with stress reduction, relaxation, and awareness of one’s mind, body, emotions, and spirit as one gets more connected with the free-flowing universal energy. Are you interested to learn more about Reiki and how it can help shape an improved version of you? Continue reading below.
Understanding Reiki
According to The International Center for Reiki Training, Reiki is a Japanese technique that involves the laying over of universal energy from the practitioner’s palms to the patient to correct imbalances in the body and promote energy healing.
The term Reiki is a combination of two Japanese words—rei, meaning God’s Wisdom or the Higher Power, and ki, meaning life force energy. Hence, Reiki means spiritually-guided life force energy.
The earliest origins of Reiki are credited to Mikao Usui, a medical practitioner who discovered the root system of energy healing, which is now known as Reiki. Usui’s methods and traditions were passed through several masters of the technique.
Energy healing aims to help with the flow of energy and get rid of blocks in a similar way as acupuncture or acupressure. Reiki treats the wholeness of a person, bringing many beneficial effects that include a sense of security and peace, as well as spiritual healing and self-improvement.
Health Benefits of Reiki
Reiki healing teaches people to listen to their bodies and pay attention to their overall well-being. It does not cure illnesses or diseases, but it can help assist the body in developing an environment that can help with the betterment of their treatment and the body’s natural healing process. Let’s have a look at some of the benefits of Reiki below.
Alleviates anxiety and depression - Receiving regular Reiki therapy brings upon mood benefits to those who struggle with unkind or pessimistic thoughts and feelings. Mood improvements ease symptoms of anxiety, anger, confusion, and depression.
Promotes relaxation - One of Reiki’s primary benefits is stress reduction and relaxation. The treatment is designed to correct or trigger the body’s relaxation response.
Eases joint and muscle pain - Reiki therapy helps in accelerating the healing of the range of motion of the affected areas of the body.
Spiritual growth and emotional cleansing - Reiki treatment enables patients to form a deeper connection with their mind, body, emotions, and spirit, bringing about inner peace and wellness.
Apart from these benefits, Reiki treatment can also help patients with better sleep and focus, physical body healing, metabolism, and inner balance with oneself.
Reiki Session
Reiki is an alternative therapy that helps with stress reduction, relaxation, and awareness as you connect with the free-flowing universal energy.
Since Reiki is a form of energy medicine, it’s best held in a peaceful setting, although it can be done anywhere. The client will be asked to either lie on a massage table or sit in a chair. Then, the practitioner will place their hands lightly on or over specific parts of the head, limbs, and torso.
The practitioner will use different Reiki hand positions for roughly two to five minutes, and they can lay their hands over 20 different parts of the body. In case the patient has an injury, they will place their hands just above it.
The transmission of energy occurs when the practitioner lays their hands on or over a body part. As it takes place, their hands may have a warm or tingling sensation. They will maintain the hand position until they sense that the energy has stopped flowing. When they feel that the energy in their hands has become less intense, they will move onto the next area of the body.
Some Reiki practitioners may use chakra healing wands and crystals for healing and protecting a home from any negative energy.
Improve Your Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Healing with Reiki
Reiki is not an alternative treatment for cancer, heart problems, and other medical issues or diseases. Still, it serves as a supplemental therapy that can further support and enhance the overall well-being of a person, allowing them to improve in all areas of their lives.
If you’re considering getting into Reiki therapy, make sure to undergo regular sessions to keep your energy field free of blocks and negativity and to build a healthy life from the energy that flows through you.