Anyone who is interested in the metaphysical and alternative healing has heard of Reiki.  The word itself means Universal Love.  The practice of Reiki involves the universal healing of humans, animals and the planet.  Reiki uses touch as a healing system. This type of healing can also be sent distances as a type of healing as well.

Reiki has been used for centuries for healing. This healing system is now being used as a part of Western medicine. Hospitals are hiring practitioners of Reiki to help with patients. The results are positive.

Reiki is a Japanese practice. It is not mediation. It is not massage. It’s a different type of touch healing that is linked to Japanese culture and Japanese spiritualism.

The Japanese woman  who is credited with Reiki’s spread to the west in the late 20th century is Hawayo Takata. Research shows that references have been made to Reiki as far back as the 1880’s.  Takata helped spread the word about Reiki’s usage and benefits by creating records to support the practice.

Reiki has successfully transitioned from a purely Japanese system to popularity in the West.  There is a great interest in the United States and Europe.  It is a popular method of stress relief and a great resource for energy control.

Reiki is used to direct bodily energy in a way to heal. Reiki practitioners remove anything that can be blocking energy and other things that can prevent the healing process.  Reiki can help those who are suffering from pain and chronic disease.   Reiki helps by making the body ready for healing.  This is because all healing starts from within.  Reiki starts with the practitioner placing their hands on the person who is being healed. This is a no pressure touch.  This allows the practitioner  to manipulate the Ki, life force energy.  It is from the Ki that healing flows. The energy then flows through the Chakras in the middle of the hands and then through the tips of the finger.

Reiki can also help animals as well as humans. Animals are naturally open to touch energy. Reiki can also help ease an animal’s passing over. Practitioners of Reiki are guided by visualization to position the one being healed’s energy.  Reiki sessions can be as long as an hour or even more.  As long as the practitioner feels the energy, the session can continue.

Healing is a process. This process comes from within. Reiki helps guide the energy within a person so that the healing can begin.

Reiki is a Japanese therapy to reduce stress. It is a spiritual healing for energy with roots from Japan. The word “rei” is formed of two Japanese words – Rei means “universal” and Ki means “life energy”. So Reiki means “universal life energy”

Human body is surrounded by a field of invisible vibrations that have the power to enhance the general well-being.

Negative thoughts and feelings cause the negative energy such as stress, anxiety, physical pain, sadness, confusion, etc. which affect the energy field around the body. Reiki help heal and clarify the energy pathways.

There is no set protocol or length of time in a typical Reiki session. Reiki can be administered by anyone with appropriate training, who could be a professional practitioner, a healthcare provider, a friend or family member, or even yourself. Reiki can be administered to a fully clothed recipient who is lying on a treatment table or sitting comfortably, and the treatment can be done by anyone with appropriate training, who could be a professional practitioner, a healthcare provider, a friend or family member, or even you yourself if you have the appropriate Reiki training.

Reiki can be done at any quiet place. The practitioner frequently plays soft music during the session, but you can tell your practitioner if you prefer silence.

Reiki is offered through by placing practitioner’s hands lightly on or over specific areas of the head, limbs, and torso using different hand shapes, for between 2 and 5 minutes. The hands can be placed over 20 different areas of your body. The hands’ placement should never be intrusive or inappropriate. If the recipient has any particular injury, such as a burn, the hands may be placed just above the wound.

Although people typically feel refreshed after a Reiki session, sometimes they may feel more tired than usual in the evening. However, this is normal as a natural healing response. People commonly sense calmness and mental clarity and sleeping well after Reiki.

Your practitioner may recommend you 4 sessions as a traditional recommendation and will give you time to evaluate what benefits you are receiving.

Let the practitioner know your needs before starting the session. For example, if you have trouble breathing or if you are lying uncomfortably. Or mention if you have any surgery’s scars and don’t want to be touched where the scar is still tender. Also, inform your practitioner if you are pregnant or have digestive complaints.

As the session proceeds, you will feel more relaxed. Let the practitioner know if you feel uncomfortable to adjust your position. Make sure to ask for anything that will add to your comfort, such as additional pillow under your knees or a blanket. This is your special time and your reiki’s practitioner is there to help you.

A Reiki session is intended to be a healing process, bringing about a sense of comfort during times of ill health. Reiki sessions can vary greatly each time as they have no set structure, time or setting. Anyone who has had the necessary training can carry out a Reiki session, even you.

Whilst there are no set-in-stone expectations from a Reiki session, the following points will detail what you generally tend to encounter when receiving a session from an individual who has at least basic Reiki training.

Does a Reiki session include an intake process?

Most Reiki practitioners tend to avoid the type of intake you commonly find in healthcare, but some may conduct an interview prior to your session to determine your physical well being and may ask you to sign a consent form.

Let your practitioner know if you have any specific needs they should be aware of such as whether you have any health issues that may cause problems when lying flat on your back or front, or whether you have any particularly sensitive areas that they should avoid.

Who should carry out a Reiki session?

Do your research to find a practitioner you think will be best suited for your needs in order to have the best experience possible. This could be a professional, or if you feel more comfortable, a friend. Whilst a friend may not have as much training, the bond you share can work to elevate a Reiki session.

Whoever you decide on, go with someone who will inform you of their processes and how they intend to structure the session, so you can go into it feeling comfortable with what they plan to do, and with have an awareness of what to expect.

Where should a Reiki session be held?

A quiet place of serenity is ideal, preferably somewhere where you can proceed undisturbed. Reiki sessions can take place in complete silence, or with background sounds of gentle music based on your own personal preference.

Trained Reiki practitioners typically have a dedicated space to use for Reiki sessions, but they are also experienced in creating the best possible environment outside of their practice if you feel more comfortable setting up a home visit.

How long should a Reiki session last?

The sessions can be as long as you feel necessary, but usually tend to last around 90 minutes. For those experiencing a Reiki session in a medical centre, sessions tend to be shorter, at around 15-20 minutes.

What should you do to prepare for a Reiki session?

There’s not very much you need to do to prepare for a Reiki session. However, there are a couple of things that may make you feel more comfortable, such as requesting the use of your own chosen music or requesting complete silence if you prefer. If you’re concerned about being touched, ask to see the hand placements before you begin to confirm you’re comfortable with them.

Bring any additional materials you think may allow you to be more comfortable throughout the session, such as a blanket ,and use the restroom before you begin to avoid any disturbances throughout the session.

What does a Reiki session involve?

In order to begin the Reiki session, you will need to lay on a treatment table, or sit comfortably in a chair.

Reiki typically consists of the practitioner lightly touching areas of your head and the front and back of your torso. If you have an injury in a place outside of this, additional placements can be done as needed. The touch should be non-invasion and there should be no pressure applied.

What will you experience in a Reiki session?

The most typical reaction is to feel profound comfort, falling into a state of consciousness somewhere between feeling fully awake and aware of your surroundings, and a meditative state in which you are deeply indrawn. Don’t try and force yourself into a relaxed state, allow this to be a natural shift throughout the session.

It is commonly reported that energy is felt radiating from the practitioner’s hands, creating waves that pulse around the entire body. For some people, the temperature of the Reiki practitioner’s hands will offer comfort and warmth, and for others they will feel refreshingly cool.

Some people experience many sensations throughout the course of the session, and for others, the session may feel rather uneventful. Either way, it’s likely you will feel more relaxed and stress free after the session and will notice further changes as the day progresses, such as a sense of feeling more centered. These experiences will become more profound each time you have a Reiki session.

What will happen after the Reiki session?

Sessions require aftercare centered around looking after body, such as drinking plenty of water. Make sure all activities outside of your Reiki session continue to have a focus on your wellbeing and avoid anything that may have a particularly negative effect on you.

As previously mentioned, it’s likely you’ll feel more relaxed following a Reiki session and experience a sense of calm and clarity. Feeling sleepy and experiencing a deeper sleep than usual is a common occurrence after a session, as this is a way in which your body is working to heal you.

How many Reiki sessions should you have?

Your practitioner will suggest an amount of sessions based on your own individual needs. The typical suggestion is usually around 4.

Your practitioner should be willing to work around your schedule and space the sessions out to give you time to reflect on the benefits you’re experiencing between each session, unless you’re experiencing a pressing health challenge, in which case sessions should be held across consecutive days.

Reiki is a portmanteau of Rei and Ki, two Japanese words that mean (roughly) ‘ghost’ and ‘vapor.’ Of course, this is only literal, so it may not indicate the deeper meaning behind what Reiki truly means, but at least it’s a nod in the right direction.

As its usage has increased over the years, we can now take ‘Rei’ to represent the higher intelligence of the universe that guides all of creation. It also denotes the wisdom that courses through all of evolution in every life of every galaxy.

‘Ki’ continues to have strong attachments to its original meaning. It is the unseen energy that drives every living creature, empowering a person to lead a healthy life when it is strong, and to feel weak when it is low.

In order to strengthen the Ki to allow oneself to thrive, meditative exercises can help to build on its power. Ki is also made stronger by all the basic elements we need in order to survive; sleeping, eating, and air. This is why it’s of high importance make sure we’re getting enough of these basic needs, to ensure we are feeding the Ki.

When we put the two words together, keeping in mind their individual meanings, we can take Reiki to mean a powerful unseen healing energy, led by the higher intelligence of the universe. Reiki practitioners often report that Reiki energy takes on an intelligence of its own, tailoring itself to meet the needs of the individual seeking its healing powers.

With this in mind, it’s notable that Reiki is not an energy that can be in any way misused, as it’s adaptable to each and every person. This is what separates it from other kinds of energy that are typically influenced by the mind.

As opposed to our organs allowing the body to function, it’s actually energy from the Ki flowing through our body that determines our health. Any disruption to the Ki can have a negative effect on our organ tissues, resulting in illness.

Our thoughts and feelings play an important role in maintaining the positive balance of the Ki. If our outlook on life becomes negative, the flow of the Ki can deteriorate. This has been recognized by western medicine, which states that up to 98% of illnesses are generated by the mind.

One of the main reasons for this is that our mind is present throughout the entirety of our body, as our organs and tissue are connected to the mind through our nervous system. The mind even goes as far to extend beyond this, in an area known as our ‘aura’ that surroundings the area 2 to 3 feet beyond the body.

This is what leads a Ki to have a restricted energy flow. Any negative thoughts and feelings we may have will take over our entire bodies and collects in the areas around us. As a result, the flow of the Ki slows and prevents our organs from functioning to their full extent, resulting in illness if the negative outlook on life continues for some time.

One of the major concerns we have with this is the fact that sometimes, negative thoughts and feelings can sit in our subconsciousness without us being fully aware. This is where the Reiki plays a huge part – because of its higher intelligence it works to eliminate the negativity in our subconsciousness, despite us not being fully aware of its existence.

Reiki works to wash away any negative thoughts or feelings throughout the entire body and mind, allowing the strong flow of the Ki to resume. This allows our organs and tissue to strengthen and builds us towards full health again.

As western medicine continues to research the part the mind has to play on one’s health, Reiki is certain to become a more sought-after healing technique.

Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen (pronounced as: “Hon-Sha-Zee-Show-Nen”) is the Reiki Distance Healing symbol.  The symbol generally means “No past, no present, no future.”  Another way of interpreting this symbol is saying, “The Buddha in me contacts the Buddha in you.”   The symbol is used by the practitioner to send Reiki energy across the distance where time and distance will not be a hindrance.  

Many practitioners consider Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen as the most useful and powerful symbol. The use of the symbol gives access to the “Akashic Records”, also known as the life records of each soul and can therefore be used in karmic healing.  Trauma and other experiences from this life, previous or parallel lives that affect and mirror people’s behaviors can be brought to light and released.

In doing distance healing be, open! Do not focus your efforts on healing a specific problem, for instance, a headache.  Send the Reiki energies without limitation as they will go where they are best needed.  When doing distance healing the energies will work on the receiver’s subtle body, the Chakras and the Aura, and not as much on the physical level.  That is because it can take some time before the energy sent can seep through the body and ease the pain.

The person you are sending Reiki to is likely to feel it happening. If he/she has an open mind he/she can usually tell that they are being infused with energy from someone else.

Distance healing does not take nearly as long as a hands-on treatment.  You actually only need a few minutes to send distance healing. You can even set up a Reiki distance healing to automatically repeat sending energies to a person. If you want to do this, it is recommended that you put a time limit on the repeat, otherwise might continue on forever. If you sent energy every other day, it will allow you to renew your energy and to add power to the distance healing, Remember it is your intention that guides what happens!

Common use for Reiki distance healing are to:  send Reiki healing to people far away.  It is ideal for victims of calamity.  “Beam” Reiki to people across the room.  Send Reiki energies to the future to help with a specific task or be there as a support.  Send Reiki to the past to lift up, to understand and release trauma.

It is not necessary to describe how to do distance healing for the main reason that different masters employ different methods.  You can put ten Reiki Masters in one room they would probably all do distance healing in a different way. Absentee healing is basically a process of visualization, that is to say you can imagine or “see” the person you want to send healing to and do it.  You can use a photo if you have one, if not, don’t worry about it just beam.  Think of the details you have of that person like name, city where they live, and the like.  It is the intention of sending Reiki to this unknown person that makes it work.  It is advised that we should let go of all our doubts, instead formulate a clear intention, employ the Reiki symbols and send the energies to those you want to help.

The form of the Distance symbol is complex.  This probably is the symbol with most variations.  It is from the Japanese Kanji set of letters and represents the human body incorporating the chakras and the five elements namely fire, earth, metal, water, and wood.  

Reiki, an otherworldly spiritual practice created by a Buddhist, has formed into different customs. Some call it palm mending, others name it hands on recuperating – primary concern, it’s reciprocal treatment and a type of contemplation. That being said, Reiki emerges in the realm of contemplation – but how and why?

A traditional Reiki whole-body Reiki treatment would go like this: The Reiki practitioner has the patient lie down and relax on a massage table, and then helps bring the patient to a clear and more peaceful state of mind. The practitioner places his hands either on or above various positions and is kept for a few minutes on each position. The main areas covered by this process are the head, back and front of the upper body, the knees and the feet. A general treatment usually lasts 45 minutes to an hour and a half.

The practitioners believe they are “transferring universal energy (known as reiki) through the palms that allow self-healing and a state of equilibrium.” The process is energizing as a massage and there is a unique emotional/mental level of enhancement that the form of meditation provides. Reiki is unique for having its own array of formats and soundtracks.

Some hospitals have adapted Reiki principles in their programs to help cancer patients and other ill-bodied folk. Throughout the country, Reiki has become a regular practice for them. However, according to the American Cancer Society, “Available scientific evidence at this time does not support claims that Reiki can help treat cancer or any other illness. More study may help determine to what extent, if at all, it can improve a patient’s sense of well being.” Backed by the NCCAM (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) on that theory, Reiki has no scientific evidence to help anyone with anything. But then again, the art of meditation and massage has never been backed by science (other than for general relaxation and localized improvements, respectively) – it dates back for centuries and is based on anecdotal results rather than scientific research. There must be something to it; otherwise the tradition would have died down over the years instead of finding its way into modern-era hospitals.  That something is called “the placebo effect“.  Throw in a little confirmation bias, and a dash of  personalized 1-on-1 attention from another person, and you’ve got yourself an “effective treatment“.

The Committee on Doctrine of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops stands strong against Reiki’s practice for Catholics. Issuing a decree stating that, “since Reiki therapy is not compatible with either Christian teaching or scientific evidence, it would be inappropriate for Catholics institutions, to promote or to provide support for Reiki therapy.” Reiki is not religiously affiliated, but is opposed by religious denominations.

Overall, Reiki seems to stand out in the world of meditation practices with its apprehensive style of practice and controversy in the media. Perhaps the most controversial form of meditation, yet booming and up-and-coming, Reiki practice is growing fast… and who knows? Maybe the great Reiki debates will be fished up in somebody’s net.

NO. Not in the way “channeling” is generally known to people and understood. When people discuss about channeling, it seems like, they’re talking about connecting onto something at a distance and bringing it to where they are. A psychic “channeling” Edgar Cayce, for example, or Archangel Gabriel. Presumably, Edgar and Gabriel are two discrete entities in two different locations … and, to channel them, you would have to create a channel (a line, a pipeline, a canal of some kind) between each of them and yourself. I’m absolutely sure that’s not how Reiki works.

If we say that Reiki’s natural habitat is another dimension, and that we channel it from that dimension … well, I can’t even quite agree with that – because we’re still not channeling it anywhere, we’re only activating it in the dimension where it lives.

A lot of Reiki people talk about “bringing Reiki down from above” … and how it enters their body through the crown, flows to the heart and through the arms and then out through the palms when they put their hands on something. That’s what I was taught, in fact. But I don’t believe that’s what really happens – even though it may feel that way (the power of suggestion is powerful indeed : ^ ). Just as, when we “send” Reiki to someone at a distance, we are not really sending anything from Point A to Point B. This can be seen just by noticing that no time elapses between the “sending” and the “receiving” – even if sender and receiver are thousands of miles apart.

That bit of evidence alone makes it pretty clear that Reiki is not a part of our 4-dimensional world (3 Spatial dimensions + Time). The simplest, most literal translation of the word reiki is “spirit energy” (rei 靈 ki 氣) – and in the spiritual dimension there is no Time, no Space. We’ll see very soon (in this article) that Time and Space come after Reiki, in the sequence of creation.

An Energy, or a Level of Consciousness?

I would like people to start seeing Reiki as a level of consciousness. Of course we can say, “everything is energy” … and that “everything” includes levels of consciousness. But I think we get a more accurate understanding of Reiki when we see it as a level of consciousness or a state of being – or as an aspect of self.

Over the years, I’ve received some valuable insights (in addition to other information) from Reiki teacher Dave King. Dave has learned from several Japanese teachers in Japan, and he told me once that his Japanese teachers had described Reiki not as an energy per se but as an aspect of self. I think that’s an accurate description and a helpful one to keep in mind…..

Here’s the way I see it: Reiki is everywhere – within every wave-particle of our world; within every wave-particle of us.* But it’s not in the Space-Time dimension. Reiki is an earlier step in the process of the creation of All That Is. Reiki is essential and indispensable in the process of creation and continued existence of every wave-particle that ever comes into being in our world!

 * I use the term “wave-particle” because everything is made of light, and we know that light acts as both wave and particle.
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HERE’S my understanding of the sequence of manifestation: The Source Of All (Great Spirit, God, The Unmanifest) is beginningless and endless, Pure Being. This is “Tao” (道) in Chinese and “Shin” (神) in Japanese. The very first manifestation of Shin is Shin-ki (神氣 – “God-energy” or “Source-energy”). From that comes Rei-ki (靈氣 – “spirit-energy”). From that comes Ji-ki (磁氣 – magnetism) … which leads to Den-ki (電氣 – electricity).

From magnetism and electricity come everything else in our electromagnetic world – including Space and Time! **

Now that we see that Reiki is a step in the sequence of creation … does it make sense to believe that we “bring Reiki down” from the atmosphere and that it flows into our body from there? How could we take the atmosphere’s Reiki (the Reiki that was essential in creating the atmosphere) away from it? If we could and we did, how could the atmosphere continue to exist? (If you have a recipe for making bread, and you take out a step in the recipe, you no longer end up with bread – right? : ^ )

So … I think, when we access Reiki, we are accessing it from its own dimension within whatever we are putting our hands on (or putting our attention on). If I “give” Reiki to my foot, I’m not taking Reiki from the atmosphere and putting it into my foot – I’m putting myattention in my foot and setting my consciousness at the Reiki level, accessing and activating the Reiki dimension and its role in the ongoing creation of my foot…!

Likewise, when I “send” Reiki to someone in Zimbabwe … Reiki is not going from me to Zimbabwe; my consciousness is accessing and activating the Reiki dimension within that person in Zimbabwe.

And, when we feel that Reiki is moving from place to place in our body, for instance – what’s really happening is that our attention is moving from place to place, activating the Reiki in each place as it goes (kind of like some electric signs, which give an appearance of something in motion, but are really just patterns of stationary light bulbs going on and off in sequence). Or, we are simply tuned into the Reiki dimension throughout the body, and the Reiki is activating in a pattern of its own…. : ^ )

Clearly, Reiki is a state of being, a level of consciousness, a dimension or aspect of self. It occurs above or before the stage of electromagnetism – which is yin-and-yang-chasing-each-other-in-circles! And, to the degree that we keep ourselves in the Reiki dimension (or higher), we can stay out of that whirlpool – being “in the world but not of the world.” As more and more of us spend more time in the higher dimensions of Reiki and Shinki, the whole world is changing faster and faster.

I want to commit this article to my fatherly granddad who passed away precisely three months back, with whom I’ve had the first yet effective psychic communication.

When I visited the hospital during my Grandfather’s last days, he was then in oxygen mask and since he was half paralysed he could not speak rather he tried to converse with his bright twinkling blue eyes. As he gently lifted his un – paralysed wrinkled hand towards my cheeks, trying to speak something, he suddenly slipped into unconscious and hours later he left for his heavenly abode, in spite of doctors’ several attempts to bring him back to life. Now post my grandfather’s death, the grief really gripped my heart. Since he loved me most, I was emotionally very attached to him. Moreover, my mind was restless as to what he was trying to communicate with me few hours before his death. Something inside me wanted to go for psychic communication with him.

Following are the steps for effective psychic communication.
You can use the same process to communicate with your soul mate, or with a person’s soul with whom you have difficulty in expressing your feelings.

1. Ground yourself to Mother Earth so that you are intact and protected. This is the most important step especially in psychic communication, astral travel etc.
2. Shield yourself with white light.
3. Invoke 3 times “I am now ready to have psychic communication with xyz person. I request all my spirit guides and xyz person’s higher self and spirit guides (if xyz person is alive) to please help me in having a successful psychic conversation”.
4. Draw all Reiki symbols in your palms, make a chi ball and release it from your Crown chakra.
5. Give few minutes Reiki healing to your Crown chakra for effective psychic communication.
6. Count your long breaths in reversing order from 20 to 1 and simultaneously visualizing that you are climbing the ladder to spiritual realm.
7. Connect to xyz person’s higher self/soul through HSZSN.
8. Now Invite person’s higher self/soul to have a psychic communication with you. Use all your 5 senses during this process.
9. After successful communication break the connection by thanking and requesting xyz person’s higher self/soul to go back.
10. Come down to Mother Earth and thank Mother Earth, God and your spirit guides.

My Visual Snapshot:

When I met my Grandfather, asking him of what he was wanting to say to me just before his death, he gently held my cheeks with his hands and in his ever soft voice said “My princess – Always bind your people with unconditional love, care and trust.” He then careased my head, kissed my forehead and further said “You are richly blessed, My dear!”. As I gazed at him, his lovely serene face, his warm sunshine smile, the beautiful angels then wrapped him around their long, feathery, smooth wings, and took him away to a tranquil place and bathed him under bright, glowing white light. I was summoned by my spirit guides to come back to my body. I thanked Reiki energy and wiped my tears – tears of sadness? No, not really.