How Reiki Works

By Joy Baker, Usui Reiki Master

At The Bay Healing Arts Center

. http://www.bayhealingarts.com/

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How Reiki Works

The energy in and around all of us can be experienced by us as the differences between how we feel when we are at our best and or our worse in body, mind and spirit. Reiki is an alternative method to help people feel balanced and centered.

Reiki practitioners have taken classes to learn about Reiki and to be attuned to be able to practice it. Once they are attuned they may work with energy to heal people on many levels. Attuning allows them to channel energy from the universe through their hands to a person. Their hands begin to feel hot, tingling and or pulsing to themselves and to the people they work on. Energy is the tool they use to help relieve tension on all levels.

The person receiving Reiki will often experience a deep relaxation and a light sleep. They may have light dreams or visions. It starts with the individual laying down on a flat surface, fully clothed. They are encouraged to relax and be comfortable. Practitioners will now place their hands, palms down, over the person to detect areas that may need some attention. They may or may not actually touch the person with their hands directly. It’s not necessary as their hands can feel the energy even without direct contact.

Their hands may feel hot or cool, tingling or pulsing while held over certain areas of the person’s body. This is an indication that there may be pain, inflammation, disease issues, injury or even healing that is not completed yet, as well as trauma, anxiety, depression and spiritual discontent.

Practitioners balance the energy in specific areas as they come to them while working on the entire body. Then they can recheck any areas that need extra attention throughout the session. They are checking to see if these areas need more work or if they feel more balanced.

At the end of the session they talk. The practitioner wants to know if the person’s original complaint has been resolved and to ask what their experience was. It’s a time for “comparing notes,” questions asked and answered, and making plans for another appointment.