What is Reiki?
Reiki, literally translated, means ‘Universal Life Force Energy’. Reiki is an ancient eastern form of hands-on energy healing.
Dr Mikao Usui, a Japanese scholar from the 19th century, rediscovered the essence of Reiki in ancient Buddhist teachings written in Sankrit sutras.
Like other complementary therapies which work with this life force, such as acupuncture and shiatsu, Reiki works as a preventive and curative therapy, stimulating the body’s ‘chi’ or ‘intrinsic life energy’ that flows throughout and around our body. We all have an energy field around us, which is connected to our physical body through powerful energy centres called chakras. A diseased condition exists in this energy field before manifesting in our physical body. This is the dimension where the majority of healing is usually needed.
When this energy is blocked, our health systems are diminished and we feel ‘stressed’. When stresses are prolonged, our internal functions can become disrupted. Suppressed, painful emotions from our past, even from our childhood, can affect our present behaviour, confidence, health, relationships and state of mind. Reiki is simple, safe and works on the physical, mental, spiritual and emotional levels. Reiki helps release and transform past suffering and stimulates the body’s natural ability to heal.
I have now retired from practising complementary therapies professionally, but have left Reiki information on here for visitors to the website.
Reiki healing can promote & help:
- Boost the immune system
- Alleviate aches and pains
- Calm the nervous system
- Relieve stress & tension
- Ease depression & anxiety
- Promote relaxation
- Help heal faster after surgery
- Improve quality of sleep
- Help improve confidence
- Help with bereavement
- Support recovery from effects of traumas (ie abuse/accident)
- Help find our purpose in life
- Help with our Spiritual path
- Promote Chakra balancing
- Ease emotional and psychological conditions
- Heal the body, mind, spirit and emotions
Reiki healing sessions
Reiki treatments are on an individual basis and usually last about one hour. The receiver lies fully-clothed on a treatment couch or sits in a chair if preferred and the Reiki practitioner will gently places their hands in various positions on, or just above the client’s body. Experiences during a treatment vary from one person to another. You may feel pleasant sensations of warmth, coolness, tingling or other physical sensations. You may experience a very deep sense of peace and relaxation; feel underlying emotions; go into a refreshing sleep; see images or colours; recall memories or receive inspiration on how to resolve a current problem.
Reiki healing treatments are very relaxing. Following treatments, clients feel invigorated, with a sense of wholeness and a calm state of body, mind and spirit. It takes a few days for the energies to be fully absorbed and on rare occasions a client may feel some temporary healing reactions after the first treatment as toxins and negative emotions are released from the body. During that time a client may feel just a little worse for a short while, which indicates that they are releasing the cause of the symptoms. Drinking plenty of water after sessions helps to flush toxins out of the system and to minimise side effects.
Many people receive Reiki on a regular basis – it is like having a regular MOT for body and soul!
The five principles Dr Mikao Usui devised are as follows:
- Just for today, do not worry.
- Just for today, do not anger.
- Honour your parents, teachers and elders.
- Earn your living honestly.
- Show gratitude for every living thing.
These principles are given with the intention of meditating on them so that they become a way of living