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Reiki FAQ's
All About Reiki
- What is Reiki? Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. Reiki is the Japanese word for “universal energy” and focuses on the imbalance of life force energy. As a technique, it promotes healing both physically and emotionally by inducing relaxation and bringing balance to a person’s life force energy. To learn the history of Reiki, visit Reiki.org at the International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT)
- What is Holy Fire III Reiki and is it based in religion? Holy Fire III Reiki is a new form of Reiki introduced by William Lee Rand and the ICRT. While there are several forms of Reiki, Holy Fire III Reiki is the newest form using the highest vibration of energy and combines the traditional Usui Reiki with a new, evolved level of Reiki. The Holy Fire III energy comes from a higher level of consciousness and is more refined. Holy Fire III Reiki is not religious or based in any religious belief system. The word holy has as it's root meaning to be whole and complete and this is how it is used in Holy Fire III. It is simply a spiritual energy that creates wholeness through healing, empowerment, purification and guidance.
- What happens during a session? Reiki is administered through the hands of a Reiki practitioner with the client lying fully clothed on a massage table and their shoes are taken off. A session is 45 minutes for children and 70 minutes for adults. The Reiki practitioner places her hands at locations around the head and shoulders, arms, the abdomen and the legs and feet. Tissue is not manipulated. The practitioner's hands are simply held at each location, lightly touching or slightly away from the body.
How Will Reiki Help You?
What hurts or aches? Are you struggling with anxiety? What problems are keeping you up at night or waking you up in the middle of the night? What can you do to help your body feel good again?
Reiki, Reiki, Reiki! Reiki can help any problem or any ailment, ache or pain by stimulating the body’s own healing abilities. It will go to the root cause of the discomfort, problem or illness and begin working in that space. Reiki meets you where you are and that is a wonderful gift! Reiki is first and foremost deeply relaxing. Some people may actually fall asleep during a session. When the body is relaxed, cortisol levels (also known as your stress hormone) begin to decrease. How is that helpful? First, it’s important to understand how much stress negatively impacts your whole body system. Cortisol interferes with memory and learning. It affects one’s blood pressure and immune system. When a person is chronically stressed, cortisol levels remain high and those individuals are at a higher risk for depression, heart disease, cancer and other serious illnesses. Relaxation brought on by Reiki, can potentially reduce a person’s cortisol levels. Once reduced, he or she is able to think more clearly, prioritize more effectively and begin to regain control of their anxieties and stressors.
We all know the repetitive negative loop stress and anxiety can create. When we are stressed, we eat poorly, we don’t feel like exercising, we are easy to anger and be on edge. Our bodies are tired and we feel poorly. We get upset with ourselves because we are now in this position of discomfort, but we are too tired to adjust, so we keep going and the cycle continues.
But what if there was a positive loop? Our bodies want to be in balance. When they are balanced they feel good and function well. We sleep more soundly and digest our food better. Our minds are clearer when we are calm. We want to exercise and have the energy to make it happen. Our bodies are absorbing nutrients more effectively therefore feeding our cells and keeping our immune system strong. Our strong immune system fights off illness and disease. Reiki helps create this amazing positive cycle we strive for and it plays an important role in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Why Choose Reiki and What are the Benefits?
The immune system and nervous system are in constant communication with each other. Our mental and emotional states impact our immune, cardiovascular and digestive systems in a manner that can influence disease. Every living entity is comprised of an energetic system. That is why doctors use electrocardiogram’s (ECG) and electroencephalogram’s (EEG) to measure activity in the human heart and brain, respectively. When our mental and emotional systems are under stress and suffering from anxiety, this energetic system is interrupted or blocked and the communication between systems breaks down.
Reiki practitioners work with a client’s energetic system, also know as ki or universal life force energy, and aim to re-tune and unblock the communication pathways. By using a therapist’s hands as a conduit for Reiki energy, a client’s energy field is stimulated and the body’s auto healing response gets to work! Over the session or sessions (if a client has chronic issues), the energy field responds and balance is found. This balance promotes physical and psychological healing. Physical benefits reported include improvements with overall stress and tension, joint pain, headaches, insomnia, stomach and digestive ailments and other minor conditions. Psychological benefits reported include release of anger, fear, worry and other emotional barriers.
Some of the qualities clients have experienced:
- Works continuously even when not thinking about it and spontaneously heals issues as they come up.
- Heals deeply and quickly without distress.
- Heals relationships and interactions with others.
- Releases worry and replaces it with a sense of safety in a most pronounced way.
- Spontaneously provides guidance that is palatable for every level of life experience.
- Tends to develop all the personality traits that are healthy for a person to have such as love of self and others, kindness, patience, confidence, vitality, enthusiasm, optimism, trust, joy, peace and so forth.
- One of the more wonderful effects is a feeling of being loved. This is a deep and refined feeling that is very nurturing.