A Reiki treatment enables one to enter a deep state of relaxation and also increases the body’s vibrational frequency, which promotes the balancing of all four levels of being: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. When the body is in a state of balance, it is better equipped to heal itself. The Reiki practitioner is simply creating optimal conditions for the body to accept and enter into a healthier state. Reiki is not a cure-all, and it does not replace traditional medicine. But it is highly beneficial when incorporated with other forms of health care. Reiki is also not a religion, nor is it associated with a particular religion. But, like prayer, it can be incorporated into a person’s spiritual path because it points to God as its source.

 

During a Reiki treatment for the self or others, the hands are placed on various energy centers (or chakra centers), as well as on any point of pain or illness. Because the healing life-force energy is emitted through the practitioner’s hands, sensations such as heat, tingling, or electricity may be experienced by the provider or recipient. Sometimes practitioners work just above the body, treating the auric field. Generally during a session people usually experience deep relaxation, emotional harmonization, stress reduction, and feelings of unity. Some experience relief from headaches, acute pain reduction from an injury, relief from stomach aches, and even a drop in blood pressure. Other common reactions during treatment include crying or laughing (as emotions are being unblocked), sighing or coughing (signaling an energy release or the lungs clearing), body twitches, sleep, or a dreamlike state (because of deep relaxation), and visualizations of images or colors or hearing sounds (body is receptive to extrasensory perceptions). Reiki can produce miraculous results, but these are never to be promised. It always works for the highest good in the way it is needed to at the time.

 

When a practitioner has been attuned to the energy of Reiki by a master teacher, it is as if a light switch has been turned on within their energy system, increasing their vibrational state permanently and opening the channels of healing. The attunement to Reiki is what makes it stand apart from other forms of energy work, hands-on healing, and therapeutic touch.