Reiki Healing – An Introduction

Reiki healing is possible because everything is energy, and all things are connected through a subtle, underlying energy matrix. Consciousness is part of this matrix too, and that includes our thoughts, beliefs and emotions. It’s the energetic vibrational patterns we construct in our consciousness that lead to illness, disease and other unwanted situations in our lives.

Energy healing in general is about treating a person holistically. Energy medicine goes beyond the symptoms of disease but instead looks at the causes – and these can be found at the spiritual, emotional, mental or physical levels. Because the root causes of conditions can be complex and multilayered this healing shouldn’t be seen as an ‘instant fix’ – although sometimes, that’s exactly what can happen.

Reiki Healing Is Reconnecting To Spirit

As the Greek philospher Plato said, ‘the cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul… this is the error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.’

So in order to truly heal, we need to reconnect with our spiritual origins – although this doesn’t mean we have to be religious. The difference between spirituality and religion is that followers of religion look to a divine power outside of themselves for help and healing, whereas people with a spiritual outlook believe that the power is within.

Reiki Healing Energy

There’s nothing special about Reiki healing energy; this energy is common to many systems that use energy healing, such as meditation, qigong and yoga. But with Reiki, it’s the system which is unique, and it’s the simplicity of it that appeals to many people and explains why it has become so popular and is practiced in almost every country in the world.

The word itself is pronounced ‘rey-key,’ and it means ‘universal life force energy’. The equivalents to this are qi in Chinese Medicine and prana in the ancient Indian traditions.

There are five Reiki elements:

• Gokai - The five spiritual principles, or precepts

• Kokyu Ho – Breathing techniques

• Tenohira – Hands on healing

• Jumon and Shirushi – Symbols and mantras

• Reiju – Attunements

Perhaps the most well-known of these elements is Tenohira – hands on, or palm healing. We can all transmit energy to ourselves and to others by placing our hands on our bodies, and in fact we do it instinctively, touching others to comfort and reassure them, but few people are aware of how powerful simple touch can be, and what lies behind it.

Reiki practitioners draw energy from the universal life force and channel it through the chakras in the palms of their hands, and it’s this energy, transmitted to ourselves and to others, that enables them to heal. The energy dissolves the blockages which prevent our own healing, on whatever level that happens to be.

Reiki healing doesn’t need any special talent, it‘s totally safe, and it’s suitable for adults, children, animals, plants – you can even give Reiki to inanimate objects and to places! And because of the interconnectivity of all things at a spiritual level, it can be effective at a distance, too.

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