Reiki is considered alternative healing, holistic therapy, natural healing, or natural touch and is used in holistic health and alternative medicine. By accessing the universal life force energy (also known as prana, mana, chi, holy spirit, and source) it helps promote healing on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels.

The Reiki Master and Reiki Practitioner are channels for this healing energy.

How Does Reiki Heal?

Energy flows within the physical body through pathways called chakras, meridians and nadirs.

This energy is responsive to thoughts and feelings and can become disrupted when we accept, either consciously or unconsciously, negative thoughts or feelings about ourselves. These negative energies attach themselves to us – causing a disruption in the flow of energy. When this flow of energy is disrupted, it causes diminished function in the organs and tissues of the physical body.

Reiki heals by raising the energy field’s vibratory level in and around the physical body and then cleans the disrupted areas of negative energies by causing the negative energy to break up and fall away.

In so doing, Reiki clears, straightens and helps to heal the energy pathways, thus allowing the life force to flow in a healthy and natural way.

How Can Reiki Be Used?

Reiki can be used for everything and anything that needs healing. That can be physical, mental, spiritual or emotional; past, present and the future.

Reiki is both powerful and gentle. In its long history of use it has aided in healing virtually every known illness and injury. It helps to improve the effectiveness of other types of alternative therapies and the results of medical treatments, acting to reduce any negative side-effects, shorten healing times, and reduce or eliminate pain and stress

What is a Reiki treatment like?

Most recipients enter a deeply relaxed state of peace. Besides this, people have felt cold, pulsating heat, or a tingling sensation during a session. Some muscles may twitch. In some people, chronic or acute pain can diminish or completely vanish. For others, allergies and other infirmities completely disappear.

How Many Reiki Sessions Will I Need?

Many troublesome conditions were not created overnight, and so don't expect a recovery overnight.

Healing takes commitment and time.

To begin with, three or four sessions over ten to fourteen days are suggested to remove entrenched blocks in your energy system; then once a week or once every two weeks until the issue has resolved. You may begin to notice some improvement after the first session.

What Do I Do After My Reiki Session?

Immediately after a Reiki session, you should take some time to enjoy the deep state of relaxation and to slowly come back to full awareness.

Expect the body to detoxify. You might have to go to the bathroom more frequently, or your skin might release toxins. To help the detoxification process, you should drink lots of water immediate after treatment, and during the following few days. You may also want to rest more.