Reiki

Introduction to Reiki

Reiki is a Japanese form of healing that is becoming increasingly popular worldwide. What makes Reiki unique is that it incorporates elements of just about every other alternative healing practices such as spiritual healing, auras, crystals, chakra balancing, meditation, aromatherapy, naturopathy, and homeopathy.

Reiki involves the transfer of energy from practitioner to patient 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".

How does Reiki work?

I, as a Reiki practitioner, channel energy in a particular pattern to heal and harmonize. Unlike other healing therapies based on the premise of a human energy field, Reiki seeks to restore order to the body whose vital energy has become unbalanced.

Reiki energy has several basic effects: it brings about deep relaxation, destroys energy blockages, detoxifies the system, provides new vitality in the form of healing universal life energy, and increases the vibrational frequency of the body.

The laying of hands is used in Reiki therapy, but Reiki healing can be performed with the hands a few inches or further away from the clients body.

The Benefits of Reiki

When the flow of the "Life Force Energy" is disrupted, weakened or blocked, emotional or health problems tend to occur. Imbalances can be caused from many situations occurring in our lives, such as: emotional or physical trauma, injury, negative thoughts and feelings, including fear, worry, doubt, anger, anxiety, negative self-talk, toxicity, nutritional depletion, destructive lifestyle and relationships, neglect of self and lack of love for oneself or others, from emotions that are not expressed in a healthy way... Reiki is excellent for healing any physical, mental, emotional and spiritual issues of any kind and it gives wonderful results.

• Creates deep relaxation and aids the body to release stress and tension.
• Assists in the reduction of anxiety and depression.
• It accelerates the bodies self-healing abilities.
• Aids better sleep.
• Reduces blood pressure.
• Can help with acute (injuries) and chronic problems (asthma, eczema, headaches, etc.) and aids the breaking of addictions.
• Helps relieve pain.
• Removes energy blockages, adjusts the energy flow of the endocrine system bringing the body into balance and harmony.
• Assists the body in ridding itself of toxins.
• Reduces some of the side effects of drugs and helps the body to recover from drug therapy after surgery and chemotherapy.
• Supports the immune system.
• Increases vitality and postpones the ageing process.
• Raises the vibrational frequency of the body, creating a state of physical, mental & spiritual equilibrium.
• Helps spiritual growth and emotional clearing.

History of Reiki

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. Unfortunately, the original source itself was forgotten.
Dr. Mikao Usui, a Japanese Christian educator in Kyoto, Japan, rediscovered the root system in the mid- to late 1800s. He began an extensive twenty-one-year study of the healing phenomena of history's greatest spiritual leaders. He also studied ancient sutras (Buddhist teachings written in Sanskrit). He discovered ancient sounds and symbols that are linked directly to the human body and nervous system which activate the universal life energy for healing.

Usui then underwent a metaphysical experience and became empowered to use these sounds and symbols to heal. He called this form of healing Reiki and taught it throughout Japan until his death on the 9th March 1926. The tradition was passed through several grandmasters of reiki such as Dr. Chujiro Hyashi & Hawayo Takata. Reiki was introduced to the Western world in the mid-1970s. Since then its use has spread dramatically worldwide.

There are many forms of reiki being practiced now, but the Reiki treatment I practice is "the Usui System of Natural Healing". The Usui System of Natural Healing balances and strengthens the body's energy, promoting its ability to self heal. Reiki is useful in treating serious illnesses as well as others. Examples are: sports injuries, cuts, burns, internal diseases, emotional disorders, and stress-related illnesses.