WHAT IS REIKI?

Rei-ki, meaning Universal Life Force Energy, is a centuries-old healing practice and is becoming more popular today. It is recognised by the British Complementary Medical Association and the National Health Service already employs a Reiki Master in London.

The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words - Rei which means "God's Wisdom or the Higher Power" and Ki which is "life force energy". So Reiki is actually "spiritually guided life force energy."

A treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and wellbeing. Many have reported miraculous results.

Reiki is a simple, natural and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement that everyone can use. It has been effective in helping virtually every known illness and malady and always creates a beneficial effect. It also works in conjunction with all other medical or therapeutic techniques to relieve side effects and promote recovery.

A Reiki practitioner channels Divine energy into the recipient's energetic system or aura. By definition the aura is the energy field or Life Force that surrounds, encompasses and permeates all living things. The human aura is similar to a force field protecting and vitalizing every cell and organ of the body. A person's aura is composed of an emotional, mental, physical and spiritual body.  

As the practitioner channels Reiki, the energy directs itself to where healing is most needed. Working with the various bodies, Reiki can heal physical symptoms, emotional symptoms, mental symptoms and of course spiritual symptoms underlying all things.

Receiving a Reiki treatment involves the client relaxing fully clothed on a treatment couch while the Reiki practitioner applies their hands on specific points of the body, which are gateways to Universal Energy. Reiki practitioners also work off the body using the energetic field - the aura.

Recipients respond to Reiki in various ways – some feel an immediate response whilst others may take weeks to notice any difference. However, in all cases, Reiki is working at some level.  

Universal Life Force Energy, or chi or Divine Energy, is pure unconditional love. This energy has the power to heal and transform anything it touches. Whilst many people are attracted to a Reiki session(s) for physical ailments, there is also a powerful spiritual/psychological effect that Reiki can have. As Love energy is passed to the recipient, old negative fearful patterns are dealt with to allow an individual to spiritually grow and thus embrace higher truths of freedom and happiness. So in effect, fears and insecurities are dealt and healed as an ongoing process of spiritual en-light-enment.

An amazingly simple technique to learn, the ability to use Reiki is not taught in the usual sense, but is transferred to the student during a Reiki class. This ability is passed on during an "attunement" given by a Reiki master and allows the student to tap into an unlimited supply of "life force energy" to improve one's health and enhance the quality of life.

Its use is not dependent on one's intellectual capacity or spiritual development and therefore is available to everyone. It has been successfully taught to thousands of people of all ages and backgrounds.

While Reiki is spiritual in nature, it is not a religion. It has no dogma, and there is nothing you must believe in order to learn and use Reiki. In fact, Reiki is not dependent on belief at all and will work whether you believe in it or not. Because Reiki comes from Spiritual Source, many people find that using Reiki puts them more in touch with the experience of their religion rather than having only an intellectual concept of it.

Click here for A History of Reiki - find out where and how it originated!