Reiki for everyone.
Reiki is a relaxation technique that promotes healing and wellness by working with your body’s own built-in “balancing” system. A Reiki practitioner acts as a conduit for positive, life force energy and focuses it for a recipient to receive and experience. The most common response from Reiki recipients is that they feel “lighter,” calmer, and “clearer.” Scroll below for a few links to important scientific research on the benefits of Reiki.
What’s a Reiki treatment like?
Sessions usually begin with some sort of visualization as a way to help calm the mind and create a sense of openness to receiving Reiki, but every person and ever single session is unique. Click here to see what some people have to say about their Reiki experience.
Connecting to your own inherent virtue is a powerful thing.
Reiki energy is only delivered by the person administering the Reiki session. It’s the recipient who determines how they use the energy they receive. Receiving Reiki can be an incredibly subtle experience, or remarkable, depending entirely on the needs of the beneficiary. Scroll below for some science and wonder.
Reiki Research:
Effect of Reiki Therapy on Pain and Anxiety in Adults
Effects of Reiki on Autonomic Activity Early After Acute Coronary Syndrome
Integrative Reiki for Cancer Patients
Reiki Provides Improvement in Common Cancer-Related Symptoms
Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic are among hospitals all over the country who are employing Reiki as a complement to Western Medicine. Even the U.S. National Institutes of Health and Veterans Administration are researching Reiki and integrating the practice into traditional treatment protocols. Reiki is administered as part of a holistic approach to variety of conditions, including pain, anxiety, fatigue, and depression.
There aren’t many studies on Reiki because the practice itself is tough to measure. Science has a hard time applying empirical testing models for a practice that lacks a universal teaching standard and is subject to transition and refinement within a practitioner’s own methods and experience. However, there are many ongoing discoveries in the study of quantum physics that’s getting us much closer to understanding dark matter and zero-point energy. Just as science is inching toward understanding the invisible workings of the universe (that mystery 4th neutrino, anyone!?), someday it will help us to understand how thoughts and intentions (such as Reiki) are created, transmitted, and used.
Still, there are known therapeutic effects of Reiki, and that’s a place to start. Reiki is a relaxation technique designed to elicit a response from the parasympathetic nervous system (cue the oxytocin!), and many of its immediate benefits are in line with other therapies, such as massage. People choose to receive Reiki for any number of physical or emotional holistic health reasons, including that it just makes them feel good.
Everyone deserves to tap into their own inherent healing and Reiki is a leg up on doing just that. Reiki is 100% non-denominational and has no cultural, racial or economic boundaries. Reiki is non-invasive, non-chemical, and has no negative side effects.