Reiki
In-Depth Explanation
In-Depth Explanation
Reiki
Reiki is an energy based healing technique that originated in Japan. The idea is that energy naturally flows in the human body entering in through the head and exiting through the feet. Energy blockages occur when we stop the energy flow within ourselves typically as a result of avoiding, repressing, or ignoring difficult emotions. Reiki seeks to unblock these self-imposed energy blockages which allows for improved emotional (and sometimes physical) functioning once again.
How Reiki Benefits You:
1. Emotional Shift
- Reiki can bring about emotional shifts and changes.
2. Feeling Energy
- Feeling energy is a unique experience that is hard to describe unless you've experienced it yourself.
3. Potential Paradigm Shift
- A paradigm is your perception of the world. A paradigm shift is when you rethink what you think you know about reality.
Understanding Reiki Energy
Reiki is an energy that can only be used for healing purposes. It is also an intelligent energy, meaning that it will flow where it needs to, how it needs to, kind of like water flowing down a gradient. This makes it a very safe and simple method of healing. The energy from Reiki is said to come from "the source", as in the source of all energy, which some people refer to as God or whatever other name you want to call it.
Learning Reiki
The ability to do Reiki is something anyone can learn and is acquired through a series of similar mediations. There are four stages of Reiki development, three stages of Usui Holy Fire Reiki and one of Karuna Reiki. Holy Fire Reiki is a more masculine energy characterized by powerful, direct energy while Karuna Reiki is a more feminine energy characterized by a calm, flowy energy. Reiki trainees learn Holy Fire Reiki first and then learn Karuna Reiki.
In order to do Reiki on yourself, you will first need to learn Reiki, which you can do for free here. Then follow these instructions which are oriented towards teaching practitioners, but you simply do the same thing just on yourself instead of someone else.
This training normally costs $2,000-$4,000 but is provided here for free.
Be Forewarned
***Be forewarned: Learning Reiki is not always a calm and relaxing process. Many people go through large emotional shifts as they learn Reiki because the energy within themselves shifts and releases. The more repressed emotions you have, the higher the possibility of potential emotional difficulty.
Practicing Reiki
A Reiki practitioner draws energy from the source and channels it through the body which exits through the practitioner's hands. The client is typically laying down on a massage table, face up, while the practitioner places their hands over the client's body to direct energy flow. The practitioner uses a combination of intuition and feeling energy to know where energy is needed. Practitioners who prefer to use touch to transfer energy should always obtain permission from the client to do so before engaging. Typically practitioners keep their hands over a spot in which they feel an energy disturbance until they no longer feel it anymore, which is how they know it's time to move to a different area. An energy disturbance is characterized by any feeling of energy. Ways that I've felt energy include: pleasurable pins and needles in different areas of my hands, pulsing energy, pushing or pulling energy, hot or cold, feelings in my wrists, and others. You may feel different sensations but the idea remains the same, if you feel energy over a particular body part, keep your hands there until the energy dissipates. A Reiki session is done when the practitioner senses no more remaining energy disturbances in the client. I always check in with the client at the end of the session by asking how they are feeling to see if I missed anything. If you feel depleted after doing a Reiki session, that means that you are drawing from your own energy, not the source of energy outside of your being.
Full Body Scans
When starting out new practitioners are recommended to do full body scans with their clients. This is done by placing the hands over a client's head and slowly moving the hands towards the client's feet, stopping whenever an energy disturbance is felt, and continuing once it feels released until the whole body is covered. It's a simple technique to do a Reiki session.
The Role of Intuition
Intuition is king in Reiki, meaning that you should appropriately do what your intuition tells you to do. Different practitioners do Reiki differently, some moving energy with their hands, others jumping to different parts of the body as they feel guided to do, others doing what speaks to them. Follow your intuition and experiment with what you feel comfortable with and what works.
Additional Information
Keep in mind that what I am going over is not comprehensive nor describing all there is to know about Reiki. There are things I will not be covering and it's advisable to seek out someone to help you learn. Additionally, in order to buy the Reiki books (on Reiki.org) you must have proof of having learned it from a Reiki master.
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