06 Jan Reiki Energy Healing
Reiki originated in Japan in the 1920s when Dr Mikao Usui (1865–1926) ‘discovered’ a way of channelling healing energy. Of course, ancient traditions, sacred texts and indigenous cultures evidence similar practices long before this.
Reiki is most often translated as ‘universal life-force energy’ or ‘spiritual energy’. It is also understood to have the inner meaning of True Self.
The word Reiki comprises two component parts:
Rei describes the universal, boundless aspect of energy, sometimes interpreted as soul or spirit. Rei is the pure potentiality. Rei can be remembered as life-giving, like the rays of the sun. Omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent, Rei is often understood as ‘UNIVERSAL’.
Ki describes the vital life force energy, a life-sustaining energy which flows through and around every living thing. Ki is the gentle, flowing strength, flowing at high vibrations and fast/strong frequencies and is sometimes called Prana, Chi, Qi, mana, energy or light. It can be guided and focused consciously. Ki is often understood as ‘LIFE FORCE ENERGY’.
Combine the two component parts: REI + KI = UNIVERSAL LIFE FORCE ENERGY, Spiritual Energy or True Self.
Reiki is a simple, safe and natural energy which can be used for all purposes, conditions and situations. It balances and harmonises. It is energy which is always already flowing to, through and from us. The holistic healing system of Reiki enables us to remember and reconnect to or access what is innately within and around. This energy is safe and will only work for the good. The intention or invocation that Reiki work for the greatest good is made by the practitioner at the beginning and end of any treatment.
Reiki works holistically—reconnecting, harmonising, and balancing emotionally, physically, spiritually and mentally.
Everything is Energy
Ancient traditions, religions and cultures have long practised and known that we live in a universe of life force, or cosmic energy, the cosmos. Science has ‘caught up’ with the ancients or spiritual and can now ‘prove’ that everything is energy—particles moving constantly. We are energy and only part solid matter, as is everything else in our universe.
Modern scientific theories and mainstream conversations pertaining to energy, The Quantum Field, vibrations and frequency are more prevalent and less ‘woo woo’ than they perhaps once were. Reiki is increasingly recognised and accepted in mainstream conventional culture. This evolution increases the popularity and accessibility of many ‘systems’ and approaches to energy work, energy medicine, healing and inner practice.
Energy is, after all, available to us all, within us all and can be harnessed by us all. We all have the capacity to amplify our vibrational frequency and choose how we direct our thoughts and energy. This power and potential is not exclusive to those trained in and attuned to Reiki. Nor is Reiki the only way or system—there are many tools and practices which can be effectively employed for similar beneficial purposes (and I personally, although a Reiki Master Teacher, am trained in other schools of energy healing and continue to develop my knowledge and practice in this field).
However, receiving a treatment from someone trained in, experienced at and committed to channelling/directing or supporting the flow of energy is a wonderful way to remember our own capacity and to receive and rebalance easily and effortlessly.
If you are in any doubt about energy, think of a time you have been inexplicably drawn to someone in a room. Or a time that you have just felt ‘off’ around someone or in a particular space or place. What about when you cannot put your finger on what it is, but you feel something? Have you ever thought of someone out of the blue and soon after they appear or get in contact? How about inexplicable synchronicities? If you want to test energy out, try looking at someone in a crowded space in front of you who does not know and cannot see you are looking at them. I promise you it will not be long before they turn around because they can just feel something!
We are walking Wi-Fi signals, picking up on energy all the time. We are simultaneously emitting a frequency. When we become conscious of this, we can tune into the signal, ‘change the radio station’, turn the dial, and deliberately and consciously create resonance.
Reiki’s pure light and love energy enhances and elevates our own frequency and enables us to support others. Receiving a Reiki, or other energetic healing treatment, is a little like tuning that radio to reduce the static and hear the best music! It quite literally supports the flow of energy to and in your system and thus supports everything—a little like turning up the dial on your own energetic frequency and state.
Reiki can enhance or restore a healthy flow of energy and alleviate blockages, stagnancy, excess, constriction and interference, which, unresolved, will create a myriad of issues.
What Can Reiki Be Used For?
Well… what can it not be used for, really! Reiki is commonly (but not exclusively) used for:
- ✨ Relaxation
- ✨ Stress reduction
- ✨ Illness or injury recovery
- ✨ Balancing or increasing energy
- ✨ Alleviating physical conditions
- ✨ Alleviating or managing pain
- ✨ Easing overwhelm
- ✨ Reducing or managing anxiety
- ✨ Supporting sleep
- ✨ In hospices
- ✨ Alongside cancer treatments
- ✨ Balancing or moving through emotions
- ✨ Personal transformation or spiritual development
- ✨ Connecting to self, practising self-care
- ✨ Developing intuition, inner guidance, or spiritual connection or trust
- ✨ Healing and growth on any level
- ✨ Releasing emotional or other blockages
- ✨ Preventing or restoring imbalances
- ✨ Empowerment
- ✨ Harmonising
- ✨ Self-healing
If you haven’t ever had a Reiki or Energetic Healing treatment—what are you waiting for?!
