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Reiki Healing
What is Reiki and how does it work?
Reiki is a complementary therapy relating to energy healing. Some people say it works through the transfer of universal energy from the practitioner’s palms to the client.
Some controversy surrounds Reiki, as clinical research has not proven its effectiveness. However, many people who receive Reiki claim to experience positive outcomes.
Reiki is a type of energy therapy. The word “Reiki” means “mysterious atmosphere, miraculous sign.” It comes from the Japanese words “rei,” meaning universal, and “ki,” meaning life energy.
Reiki is a type of energy healing. According to practitioners, energy can stagnate in the body where there has been physical injury or even emotional pain. In time, these energy blocks can cause illness.
Energy medicine aims to helpTrusted Source the flow of energy and remove blocks in a similar way to acupuncture or acupressure. Reiki practitioners believe that improving the flow of energy around the body can:
- enable relaxation
- relieve pain
- speed healing
- reduce other symptoms of illness
What happens in a Reiki session?
Practitioners typically give Reiki treatment in a peaceful, private setting. However, the treatment can take place anywhere. During a session, the client will sit in a comfortable chair or lie on a table, fully clothed.
The practitioner will then place their hands lightly on or over specific areas of the client’s head, limbs, and torso. They will typically keep their hands in these positions for around 3 minutes.
If there is a particular injury, such as a burn, the practitioner will hold their hands just above the wound.
Advocates state that while the practitioner holds their hands lightly on or over the body, an energy transfer takes place. During this time, the practitioner may report that their hands feel warm or are tingling. They will hold each hand position until they sense that the energy has stopped flowing.
When the practitioner feels that the heat, or energy, in their hands has gone, they will remove their hands and place them over a different body area.
The whole treatment takes around 60 to 90 minutes.
Some Reiki practitioners will use crystals and chakra healing wands to enable healing or protect a home from negative energy.
Health benefits of Reiki
According to practitioners, Reiki channels universal energy known as ki, pronounced “chi.” This is the same energy involved in tai chi exercise.
This energy supposedly permeates the body. Reiki experts point out that, while this energy is not measurable with modern scientific techniques, many who tune into it can feel it.
Reiki allegedly:
- aids relaxation
- assists in the body’s natural healing processes,
- develops emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.
However, no studies have conclusively shown this to be true.
Some anecdotal evidence suggests that it may:
- induce deep relaxation
- help people cope with emotional stress
- improve overall well-being.
Some people may include Reiki into their wellness plan for conditions such as:
- cancer
- heart disease
- anxiety
- depression
- chronic pain
- infertility
- neurodegenerative disorders
- autism
- Crohn’s disease
- fatigue
It is important to note that Reiki should never take the place of medical treatments.
However, a 2017 studyTrusted Source suggests that Reiki may be able to support the treatment of certain health conditions. For instance, some people with cancer may find Reiki beneficial as it may help them relax.
The gentle nature of Reiki therapy may have a soothing effect on people who find that they become overwhelmed with invasive therapy, fear, and stress.
Who should go to a shamanic healing session?
If you face any physical, emotional, or mental disease or imbalance and have tried conventional approaches to heal it with no improvement, you can benefit from a shamanic healing session.
Unlike the conventional western approach to health, based on treating the symptoms, shamans heal the very cause of your ailment.
What Does Shamanic Healing Do?
Depending on your initial healing inquiry, shamanic healing addresses three causes of mental, emotional, and physical illness: disharmony, fear, or soul loss. Let’s look at them in detail.
#1: Disharmony (or power loss)
Disharmony, or power loss, occurs when you feel that life has lost meaning. This loss of connection can happen subtly or catastrophically.
Either way, losing your will or life power directly affects your energetic matrix and can make you vulnerable to illness.
#2: Fear
Fear is the most common cause of illness and mental states such as anxiety, chronic stress, and depression.
Scientists and researchers agree that fear triggers stress producing hormones that disintegrate the protective mantle of the body’s immune system and overall energetic matrix, making illness inevitable.
The fear of disease is more dangerous than the disease itself.
#3: Soul loss
Soul loss is the most extreme cause of illness and even premature death. It is experienced after a traumatic event, such as fighting in a war (a common trigger of PTSD), a bitter divorce, or intense bullying.
Sometimes these events can be so shattering that one’s soul gets fragmented and dissociated. At worst, these soul parts get too far lost and fail to return. This is why people, after a severely traumatic incident, feel like a part of them died that day.
Here are other symptoms which may signify soul loss:
- Feeling split or fragmented
- Blocked memory
- Emotional distance, or complete apathy
- A lack of joy, motivation, or enthusiasm
- Addiction
- Suicidal tendencies
- Chronic depression and negativity
Within any shamanic tradition, the shamanic healing session isn’t a stand-alone treatment but a part of the multidisciplinary approach. Usually, it’s combined with physical healing modalities, plant medicine, and dietary changes.
What to Expect From Shamanic Healing
A shamanic healing session brings about a significant shift of deeply rooted energies that people feel instantly after. Then it ripples in time, impacting multiple aspects of you and your life.
You can also expect a release of toxins stored in the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual body. So, in the days, weeks, and months following the session, you want to observe how you feel.
Shamans recommend listening to and accepting the energetic changes you may feel following a session. Any discomfort will pass, and new, vibrant, life energy will take its place.
For the following months after a session, the shaman will frequently check in with you to see how everything is unfolding to offer any additional guidance.
The shamanic journey
When the energy work is complete, the shaman explains what you will experience during the shamanic journey:
- tingling and warming sensations
- meditative-like states of consciousness
- an emotional release
- the energy of the spiritual communion
Then the shaman accesses non-ordinary reality, inducing a trance (theta brainwave state) via rhythmic percussion (generally using a drum or a rattle).
When the shaman embarks on the journey, they connect with their spirit helpers and travel through spirit realms in search of wisdom and healing.
Their non-physical journey may translate into shaman’s hands-on or hands-off energy work — this is how they channel energy from the spirit world and move it throughout your body.
The journey part of the ceremony lasts about an hour.
The shamanic journey expands your perception of what you’ve known to be the physical reality. Even though you aren’t accessing non-physical realms alongside the shaman, you are an indispensable part of the shamanic journey into the spirit worlds.
This expanded perception will inevitably lead to higher awareness and deeper understanding of your past experiences, traumas, and spiritual essence.
The return
Once the shaman returns from their journey, they hold space for the after-journey discussion, where you share your experience.
They also articulate wisdom and advice gifted to them from the spirit realm and discuss what you can implement in your physical reality to integrate your shamanic healing.
Is Shamanic Healing Right for You?
Let’s admit that shamanic healing is more than just a hyper exotic medical treatment. But if you are reading this, chances are you have tried quite a few ordinary and extraordinary methods to resolve your challenge. And you aren’t satisfied with the results.
And here you are, wondering if some metaphysical woo-woo modality like shamanic healing is right for you.
It’s right for you if you:
- Have a strong desire to create more meaningful relationships with oneself, others, nature, and the spirit world
- Are ready to move forward beyond old thought patterns, limiting belief systems, and unhealthy habits that no longer serve you
- Seek genuine self-inquiry to move into a greater self
- Want to create lasting change but feel blocked
- Are committed to fully surrendering to the experience and receiving guidance
- Are willing to put forth the effort needed to fully integrate new wisdom and healing and take all the time needed to heal
Whatever it is that you want to heal, if you are open to shamanic healing, you should give it a try.