- June 7, 2022
- transformationhaven
What is Reiki and what are its benefits you ask? Who would have thought that an age old energy healing process that dates back millennia would be used to aid in the healing of countless physical, mental, emotional and spiritual issues that we face today.
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Reiki uses a form of energy healing to deal with stress, anxiety, depression, pain management and other illnesses. Reiki takes a more spiritual approach than more traditional hypnotherapy for anxiety and other mental illnesses.
For those who do know what Reiki is, did you know that the word “Reiki” is derived from the Japanese language and roughly translates to universal life force energy flowing through all things alive?
Dating back 2,500 years but rediscovered in the 19th century, this alternative form of therapy is viewed as an effective energy healing therapy by more than 1.2 million adults in the US alone. Not only this but according to a UCLA study, more and more hospitals and hospices are now adopting Reiki as part of their patient care and treatment.
What is Reiki - Let's take a closer look!
Reiki is a form of alternative therapy. It can be best explained as a type of energy healing technique that delivers energy to your body to improve the flow and balance of energy. Today it is widely used as a healing therapy, especially when combatting stress, depression and even pain.
According to the Victorian State Government’s Department of Health, many Australian hospitals, nursing homes, pallative care hospices and community service settings now use this gentle and non-invasive form of therapy.
Reiki practitioners aim to help clients become more energetically balanced – physically, emotionally, spiritually and mentally. Reiki is widely used to help people with:
- Stress and stress-related illness
- Chronic pain
- Digestive problems
- Psychological issues (including anxiety and depression)
- Cancer
- Infertility
- Parkinson's disease
- Preparing a patient for surgery as well as recovery
What happens during a Reiki session?
A typical Reiki session usually lasts for about 50 minutes. Experienced Reiki practitioners act as conduits between the patient and the universal life force energy source.
During a session, a patient must lie down on a massage table and cover themselves with a blanket. Unlike other therapies, there is no touching or massage involved. Instead, the reiki practitioner places their hands just above the patient’s fully clothed body and moves their hand above the entire body using a series of different positions.
As the practitioner transfers the energy to your body, one can expect a series of different sensations like tingling, pulsing or even heat. Alternatively, many patients have reported feeling so relaxed that they fall asleep. In contrast, a few may not feel anything at all.
Benefits of Reiki
One of the key benefits of using Reiki is how it makes you feel more grounded. So if you are surrounded by a chaotic lifestyle and constantly juggling priorities and responsibilities, Reiki can help by providing a strengthened sense of energy. This, in turn, helps create clear boundaries and ignites the determination to take on the world.
Alternatively, since Reiki healing focuses on channelling energy, many of its benefits are correlated with improving one’s state of mind. Some of the most widely recognized benefits of Reiki include:
- Promoting harmony and restoring balance across your mind, body and spirit
- Relaxation and releasing unnecessary tension from our body
- Ability to get in touch with our inner selves and reflect clearly on our lives (thus helping with depression)
- Improved sleep hygeine
- Cleansing all the toxins from our bodies and supporting our immune system
- Improving focus and dealing with anxiety
- Breaking down the energy barriers and balancing our mind, body and spirit (doing so helps a great deal in controlling mood swings as well as dealing with pain management)
- Promoting emotional cleansing by elevating your mood along with your attitude towards life itself
- Reiki also helps balance your body and return it to a near-natural state. This automatically has a positive impact on your heart rate, blood circulation, breathing and even blood pressure.
Final thoughts?
In today’s fast-paced life, we all end up bagging a lot of different emotions – emotions that eventually start to take a toll on our bodies. Luckily Reiki isn’t just for people struggling with depression, pain management or even cancer.
Reiki can help almost anyone – even ordinary people like you and me. It can help break down the huge burden of feelings mounted on us so that these pieces can begin to float to the surface and we can be more aware of them. Doing so can automatically help us lead a calmer, peaceful and happy life.
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