Reiki is an excellent practice that is effective in reducing stress, enabling relaxation and encouraging the body to heal itself. Reiki uses the unlimited supply of "life force energy" to improve overall health and quality of life.
Reiki heals by allowing the life force energies to flow through the body and charging the affected parts with positive energy. Reiki clears the negative energies away and heals the energy pathways allowing healing to take place. Reiki is an all natural health care practice.
A Natural Way to Heal
Reiki encourages the body's own natural healing abilities. It improves emotional and physical health and overall well-being. It is completely safe for anyone to receive and a benefit to all who do. This natural therapy works well with all forms of medical treatment, including traditional, complimentary and alternative therapies.
Healing on the Physical Level
The physical benefits of receiving Reiki are many. These effects increase in effectiveness with continued Reiki sessions:
- Healing time for health concerns including injuries can be reduced.
- Tight and sore muscles can be relaxed and the pain lessened.
- Joint mobility can increase as stiffness is eased.
- The immune system can be strengthened.
- General and local pain can be relieved and removed.
- Toxins can be released and removed by the body's own cleansing system.
- Side effects of some medications can be reduced.
- Effectiveness of medical treatments can be enhanced.
- The speed of recovery from surgery can be increased.
- The side effects of chemotherapy can be counteracted.
Emotional Healing
Emotional and spiritual issues and concerns are also effectively addressed with regular Reiki sessions. Stress, anxiety and depression can be relieved. Other benefits include:
- Insomnia and sleep disorders can be reduced or diminished.
- A deep sense of peace can be instilled.
- Energy blockages can be cleared.
- The body can be balanced.
- Energy and vitality can be increased and sustained.
- Emotional clearing can be attained and maintained.
What to Expect During a Reiki Session
During a Reiki session, the person receiving the treatment lies comfortably on a couch, bed or Reiki table. Reiki can also be performed while being seated. The client remains completely clothed. All that is necessary is relaxing and allowing the process to occur.
The session consists of the Reiki practitioner moving their own hands from one location to another on the body in a series of traditional positions. These hand positions basically correspond with the major energy centers within the body. These are referred to as chakras.
There is no pressure applied by the Reiki practitioner. Although this is a touch therapy, there are times when the hands may be lifted from the body. The healing effects of the life force energies are just the same.
At times, there may be feelings of warmth from the hands. This is the energy passing from the Reiki practitioner to the client. When there is a cool feeling, then the extra energies are being drawn from the person. This is a part of the healing and is good also. Sometimes sensations of tingling may be felt. Many times, there is no real noticeable physical evidence of the life force energies at work, but at the end of the session a sense of overall peace and relaxation can be felt.
For additional reading on Reiki, please read The Five Reiki Principles.
Lynne Nofziger - As a Reiki II Practitioner and a Holistic Therapist, I am particularly fond of natural therapies for the fact that they incorporate the ...
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