Through gentle contact, the energy healing practise known as reiki promotes relaxation and lowers tension and anxiety. By increasing the flow and balance of your energy to facilitate healing, reiki practitioners use their hands to send energy to your body.
In the early 1900s, Mikao Usui created 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 utilised 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
For the purpose of enhancing general health and wellbeing, reiki encourages relaxation, stress reduction, and symptom treatment. It can:
According to studies, receiving a Reiki treatment could make you feel:
No, receiving a Reiki treatment shouldn’t take the place of seeing a doctor or a therapist.
According to Bodner, reiki enhances the effectiveness of other forms of healing 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 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 acts on the complete self—mind, body, and emotions—and because it is universal life force energy.
Although it is not specialised 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 absorbing what they require, the patient controls the practitioner’s hands’ energy flow, according to Bodner. “This enables the patient 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 50 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. They employ between 12 and 15 distinct hand postures.
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.
