Reiki is a Japanese form of healing that is becoming increasingly popular worldwide but has been around for thousands of years. Reiki involves the transfer of energy through the 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".Reiki practitioners 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 vibration frequency of the body.In Reiki the healer places their hands above the recipient; however, it is the recipient that draws the energy as needed. Thus, in this case, the individual being healed takes an active part in the healing process as opposed to having a passive part as in traditional medicine. The individual takes responsibility for his or her healing. The recipient identifies the needs and caters to them by drawing energy as needed.
Reiki treatments do not require actual touching. The practitioner can hold his or her hands a few inches or further away from the patient's body and manipulates the energy field from there. Reiki practitioners will ask before touching a patient so that the patient is always in control.
Reiki energy is regarded as life force energy at its most effective-with the maximum vibration. It is considered to have an almost divine quality and as such includes everything, in a world where problems and disorders are deemed to be due to the feeling of detachment from the world. There is no division of Reiki energy into positive and negative forms but when a person undergoes a session of therapy, they allow the energy to be taken into themselves with beneficial effects. Essentially, those receiving Reiki energy decide subconsciously just how much of the life energy is taken in.
Those who use Reiki regularly often find they are more joyful, lively and their own energy is enhanced-almost as if their batteries had been fully charged! Existing conflicts within the person are broken down and there is a greater vitality, leading to relaxation and a stimulation of the body. As this improvement develops, the natural processes of renewal and removal of toxins are enhanced and rendered more effective, ultimately opening up more of the body to the life energy.
Body organs such as the skin and protective systems such as the immune system are improved provided that the individual is prepared regularly to undertake Reiki and to undergo an attunement or initiation into Reiki energy. The initiation is merely a means whereby the universal life force energy is bestowed through the Reiki master. The master acts as a channel and a link with the Divine, the universal life force energy, spirit guides, reiki guides and all the healers kind enough to help to pass on the healing power.