Reiki is a Japanese healing art that is gaining worldwide popularity. What makes Reiki unique is that it incorporates elements of just about every other alternative healing practice, such as spiritual healing, auras, crystals, chakra balancing, meditation, aromatherapy, naturopathy, and homeopathy.
Reiki involves the transfer of energy from practitioner to patient and claims to enhance the body's natural ability to heal itself through the balancing of energy. Reiki utilizes specific techniques for restoring and balancing the natural life force energy within the body. It is a holistic, natural, hands-on energy healing system that touches on all levels: body, mind, and spirit.
Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a Japanese word representing universal life energy, the energy which is all around us. It is derived from rei, meaning "free passage" or "transcendental spirit" and ki, meaning "vital life force energy" or " universal life energy."
Reiki energy has several basic effects: it brings about deep relaxation, destroys perceived energy blockages, tries to detoxify the system, provides new vitality in the form of healing energy, and increases the vibrational frequency of the body.
The laying of hands is used in Reiki therapy as in other spiritual healing. There is a difference though. In spiritual healing, a person with a strong energy field places his or her hands above a particular part of the recipient's body in order to release energy into it. The healer, in most forms of energy work is the one who is sending out the energy. In Reiki, however, the healer places the hands above and or on the recipient. It is the recipient that draws the energy as needed. The individual being healed has to take an active part in the healing process. The individual takes responsibility for his or her healing.
Reiki is believed to have begun in Tibet several thousand years ago. Seers in the Orient studied energies and developed a system of sounds and symbols for universal healing energies. Various healing systems, which crossed many different cultures, emerged from this single root system. In the late 1800s, the healing method was rediscovered by Dr. Mikao Usui in Japan and later introduced into the western world by Hawayo Takata, an American from Honolulu, Hawaii
Reiki—also called energy medicine—is an ancient hands-on
healing practice which harnesses what believers call the Universal Life
Force—the energy field that surrounds all beings, including humans.
A Reiki session is normally very relaxing, people have stated they feel very light almost like floating or they claim to be drawn downward towards the earth as if being grounded. Some people have an emotional reaction during the session (or a delayed one hours later) if this does occur let the emotion play out, if you try to control it you will engage that blockage again.
During a Reiki session you are dressed, normally laying on a table you can be covered with a blanket (some people get a little cool when having a session), Hands may be placed upon your body or not (normally depends on the client's wish) and the client may feel energy pass through them, a throbbing or a wave sensation, they may feel warmth or coolness in that area being worked. The energy moves and builds up, maintains, then slowly goes a way this is the indication for the practitioner to move to the next area Each person is unique in what they experience so no two sessions are the same.
The ideals listed below are both guidelines for living a gracious life and virtues worthy of practice for their inherent value.
The secret art of inviting happiness
The miraculous medicine of all diseases:
Just for today, do not anger
Do not worry and be filled with gratitude
Devote yourself to your work. Be kind to people.
Every morning and evening, join your hands in prayer.
Pray these words to your heart
and chant these words with your mouth
Usui Reiki Treatment for the improvement of body and mind
The founder , Usui Mikao
What Reiki can do for you.
