Through gentle contact, the energy healing practice known as reiki promotes relaxation and lowers tension and anxiety by moving universal energy through the body.
By enhancing the flow of your energy to facilitate healing, reiki practitioners use their hands as conduits to transfer universal energy through your energetic field.
In the early 1900s, Mikao Usui established reiki. The phrase was derived from the Japanese terms rei, which mean “universal,” and ki, which denotes the essential life force energy that permeates all living things. Today, reiki is utilized all around the world as a supplement to conventional medical therapies, including in hospitals and hospices.
“Reiki aids in healing by helping people become energetically balanced — physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually,” claims Bodner.
The Advantages of Reiki for Health Benefits
For the purpose of enhancing general health and wellbeing, reiki encourages relaxation, stress reduction, and symptom treatment.
According to studies, receiving a Reiki session can contribute to the feelings of:
No, receiving a Reiki session shouldn’t take the place of seeing a doctor or a therapist.
According to Bodner, reiki enhances the effectiveness of other forms of healing through energy and may be used in conjunction with them.
However, frequent reiki sessions can improve your capacity to handle stress and act as a type of preventative alternative adjunct to medicine if you’re already in excellent health.
According to Bodner, “Reiki may be beneficial in all sorts of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual healing because it facilitates energy on the complete self—mind, body, and emotions—and because it is universal life force energy.
Although it is not specialized to any one sort of illness or condition, reiki can benefit those who are dealing with:
Between you and the source of the global life force energy, reiki masters serve as a conduit. Through the hands of the practitioner, the energy travels to you.
By just receiving what they require, the practitioner’s hands’ navigate the energy flow, according to Bodner. “This enables the client to understand that we are simply providing them with the assistance they require, not what we believe they should need. As a result, it strikes the ideal balance to satisfy the patient’s demands.
The average length of a Reiki session is 60-90 minutes. Your reiki practitioner will gently lay their hands, palms down, on or just above your body in certain energy regions while you lie on a massage table completely clothed.
According to Bodner, “the flow of energy through their hands at each location determines the length of time the practitioner leaves their hands in each position.”
In contrast to other touch therapies, reiki doesn’t include any pressure, massage, or manipulation.
