What is Reiki Therapy?
March 26, 2011
Reiki, pronounced ‘ray-key’, is a spiritual healing practice which was originated in Japan by a man named Mikao Usui. It’s a lying on of hands healing technique. Reiki practitioners place their hands lightly on the client receiving treatment. The goal of Reiki is to facilitate the body’s own healing response. In the U.S., Reiki is considered a part of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
Reiki teachings advocate the idea that there is a never ending universal life force or spiritual energy. This spiritual energy has a healing effect on the body. Anyone can gain access to this energy and access is gained by receiving an attunement from a Reiki Master. There are three levels of Reiki attunements. Reiki has healing effects on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. The healing energy flows through the Reiki practitioner’s hands into the body part.
Reiki Is…
- Part of complementary and alternative medicine in the U.S.
- A powerful and natural system which uses the body’s healing response
- An evolutionary process which increases the flow of patterns of manifestation in life
- Always available and unending supply
- Spiritually guided
- Available for a lifetime once attuned
- Safe to use anytime, any place, any situation
- Beneficial when used with massage therapy
- Beneficial when used in combination with medical or other procedures
- Restoring and balancing the natural energy of the body
- Used for preventing disorders, maintaining wellness, and boosting the healing process
- Used for those who desire of a higher quality of life
- A complete self-contained natural healing system
- Synergistic with other types of healing
- Safe for children
- Safe for infants, babies, and toddlers
- Working on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels
- Working whether you believe in it or not
Reiki Is Not…
- Difficult to use
- A religion
- A cult
- Manipulation or control
- Taught by only one organization
- A form of mind control or hypnosis
- Psychic healing or psychic surgery
- A massage technique
- Just for times of disease and illness
- A dogma or specific doctrine of beliefs
- Limited to a select few people
- Merely "laying-on-of-hands”
- Imagination or wishful thinking
- Channeling
- Taught by just anyone
Benefits of Reiki
- Promotes natural self healing
- Heals the cause of disease
- Balances energies in the body
- Balances the organs and glands
- Eliminates imbalances
- Does not conflict with religious beliefs
- Is an alternative natural healing method
- Strengthens the immune system
- Treats causes of illness
- Treats symptoms of illness
- Can be combined with other healing methods
- Relieves pain
- Minimizes feelings of helplessness when faced with a crisis situation
- Enhances personal awareness
- Reduces stress
- Releases blocked and suppressed feelings
- Clears toxins
- Lasts a lifetime
- Promotes creativity
- Promotes qualities of love, care, growth, compassion, trust, self-actualization, and peace
- Is an intelligent energy which goes to greatest need
- Adapts to the natural needs of the receiver
- Reiki starts to flow when you touch something because it is always on
- Heals holistically
- Helps in meditation and positive thinking
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