| > | | | | result is that the healer will instinctively know |
| Reiki is an ancient Japanese word which means | | | | where and how to move their hands. Healers |
| "including all" and is a healing energy which works | | | | report feeling rejuvenated and recharged after |
| by transference of energy through the hands of | | | | sessions, as Reiki does not deplete energy, but |
| the healer to the afflicted. | | | | rather uses it in a type of spiral, recycling it back |
| It is believed by practitioners that Reiki energy | | | | into the healer after cleansing the patient. |
| changes the frequency of ones aura, or body | | | | Reiki is mean t to be used as a co operative with |
| energy, and promotes healing on a physical level | | | | other types of healing, and is particularly good |
| first, followed by the emotional level and finally | | | | after a massage. Practitioners and patients both |
| the spiritual. | | | | report that the use of Reiki helps reduce the |
| The big difference between Reiki and other types | | | | negative energy brought forth by more |
| of hands on healing is the belief that Reiki energy | | | | conventional but necessary medicines, such as |
| can be transmitted from the healer not only | | | | chemotherapy and AIDS related medication side |
| through actual physical touch but also distance. | | | | effects. It also can be used on anything that has |
| The healer is filled with universal energy all the | | | | energy-another aspect that differentiates Reiki |
| way down to the cellular level, asks the clients | | | | from other forms of alternative medicine-such as |
| spirit for permission to heal the body, and then | | | | cars. |
| transfers the Reiki energy only if it is determined | | | | It is important to note that while Reiki |
| ( by the Reiki energy itself) to be within the | | | | practitioners believe that Reiki can be sent to heal |
| patients highest good. | | | | from far away, that a reputable Reiki practitioner |
| The treatment is started by the healer rubbing | | | | will not do it without the person's permission, and |
| their hands together and then placing their hands | | | | in fact, can not. In order for Reiki to work both |
| on the patients body or just above the body but | | | | healer and patient must believe that it will work, |
| still within the aura field. Reiki energy knows | | | | and even the most painful suffering sometimes |
| exactly where to go and how to heal so it is not | | | | can not make someone believe that just laying |
| necessary for the healer to know what is making | | | | hands over their bodies and sending energy will |
| the patient sick or even how to heal them, Reiki | | | | help them. |
| is based a lot on trusting the universal energy of | | | | However, the other side of that coin is people |
| life and health and allowing healing to take place; | | | | who are in so much chronic agony that they are |
| to the point of the patient possibly not even being | | | | willing to try anything to have even a small relief |
| healed of the affliction they originally went to the | | | | from their pain. If that is the case, far be it from |
| Reiki healer for, as the energy will heal whatever | | | | me or you to try to talk them out of it. As far |
| part of the body, mind, or spirit needs it the | | | | fetched as you might think the practice of Reiki |
| most. | | | | sounds, there are absolutely no proven negative |
| While in a healing session, both the patient and the | | | | side effects, so even if you don't believe Reiki will |
| healer may feel cold, prickly sensations or nothing | | | | help your suffering friend or relative, remember, it |
| at all. Practitioners believe that Reiki will adjust its | | | | can't hurt. |
| intensity by the needs of the patient, and the | | | | |