FAQ
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What is Reiki?
How does Reiki work?
Reiki is a Japanese hands-on healing technique for healing and stress reduction that works in a person's energy field. It can be healing on all levels, mental, emotional, and physical. It is administered by a certified Reiki practitioner. To receive Reiki, you lie on a Reiki table (like a massage table), fully clothed, and the Reiki Practitioner may lay hands on you or work in your energy field, often 2 to 4 inches above your body.
How does Reiki feel?
People experience Reiki in a variety of ways. Some people feel heat from the Practioner's hands. Others feel energy moving their body. Reiki is a soothing sensation for many people that gently moves you to a more peaceful and serene space, like being gently rocked to sleep. After a Reiki session, you may have clearer, more lucid thoughts, be more at peace, feel spontaneously happy or loved, and experience relief from physical pain.
Is Reiki safe for everyone?
​Yes, Reiki is safe for everyone. It is becoming increasingly widely used in hospitals, in particular in hospices for the elderly and dying, because it is soothing and gentle. It is also used in oncology wards, where it is helpful for releasing the side effects of radiation and chemotherapy. Reiki is safe for pregnant and nursing mothers, newborn babies, and people suffering from physical illness. It is also safe for people who are weak and fragile or those on prescription medications.
What else will Reiki do for me?
Reiki helps us on several levels. During a Reiki session, most people achieve a deep sense of peace that stays with them for hours or days after the Reiki session. It may alleviate physical or emotional pain or emotional trauma. Reiki is especially beneficial for those suffering from brain fog, PTSD, ADD, and other conditions that stop you from performing at your best. If you continue to receive Reiki over several sessions, it works in you at a conscious and subconscious level to remove long-held beliefs that no longer serve you, allowing you to let go of addictions, depression, and anxiety and also freeing up trapped energy that can energize you and help you move forward with projects or life changes you have been putting off. Resistance and negative emotion are often trapped in the subconscious and layered in along with negative beliefs and experiences. This is why it may take more than one Reiki session. If you think about it, it takes years to become unwell and so it makes sense that it takes us time to heal.
Reiki is high-vibration energy. It works by breaking up energy blocks in the body's energy field. Your energy field naturally flows around your body and is a component of the human body system. When your energy is blocked you feel less than your best.
Why do you need Reiki?
As we go through our daily lives and routines, energy blocks come and go in response to all the daily stressors we face. Sometimes, these energy blocks spontaneously clear up when our emotions are positive and we are happy. Other times, especially if we are dealing with long-term stressors, such as family, job, and financial issues, they build up over time, slowly moving inwards to our physical body and causing illness. Reiki removes the blocks in the energetic body. Your physical body is always trying to be the healthiest it can be. When the energy field is flowing smoothly, the physical body operates more efficiently, cleaning up day-to-day toxicity and illness.
Can you give Reiki remotely?
​You can absolutely give Reiki remotely. Many people prefer to receive a Reiki session in person because of the personal interaction with another human. The human touch and the atmosphere of the Reiki room enhance the experience of the person receiving Reiki. However, it is not necessary to have Reiki in person and in fact many report that a distance session is more powerful than an in-person session. If someone is bedridden, in another town, another state, or even another country, Reiki is still effective. You can even send Reiki to yourself or others for a future event, such as a job interview, a dentist visit or a meeting at work with a difficult individual.
How does remote Reiki work?
Consciousness is energy, and energy is consciousness. So when we set the intent to give Reiki remotely, it finds the intended recipient. There are many scientific theories for how this works. It has to do with the quantum field, which various scientists have called various things. Essentially, there is a web of interconnectedness that permeates the space-time continuum. Reiki energy travels across this web of interconnectedness – the Field – to reach the recipient. Radio waves, cell phone signals, and light, all of which are energy, travel through the Source Field. Thought is also energy and can be directed with conscious intent.