Reiki involves the transfer of energy from practitioner to patient to enhance the body's natural ability to heal itself through the balancing of energy. It is a holistic, natural, hands-on energy healing system that touches on all levels: body, mind, and spirit. This energy is often described by both the Reiki practitioner and the Reiki client as a tingly sensation that produces soothing warmth. It seeks to restore order to the body whose vital energy has become unbalanced. Because Reiki is a Universal energy, the Reiki practitioner is simply a conduit for the energy.

EFFECTS OF REIKI
-Brings about deep relaxation
-Destroys energy blockages
-Detoxifies the system
-Provides new vitality in the form of healing universal life energy
-Increases vibrational frequency of the body

HOW IT’S DONE
A Reiki healing is very simply performed. The practitioner places his or her hands upon the person to be healed with the intent for healing to occur, and then the energy begins flowing. The energy knows where to go, and what to do once it gets there, managing its own flow to and within the recipient. It draws through the healer exactly the amount of energy which the recipient needs. All this happens without direct conscious intervention by the healer. The healer’s job is to get out of the way, to keep the healing space open, and to watch/listen for signs of what to do next.

Although there are a few positions in which the practitioner is in contact with the client (such as cradling the head), most Reiki treatments do not have to involve actual touching. The practitioner can hold his or her hands a few inches or farther away from the patient's body and can work from the energy field there. The client stays completely clothed.

In any healing the goal is to find the limitation, recognize the pattern, where it came from, and let it go. Reiki accomplishes this by providing the recipient enough energy to step above (metaphorically) to see all that and have the courage to let go. This usually does not happen consciously as a result of Reiki, but sometimes it does happen that Reiki gives the recipient the conscious awareness of the pattern and recognizing where it came from. Our lives are a constant flow of patterns of activity (such as the pattern used to accomplish eating breakfast) and it is our choice to have these patterns remain stuck in limited expression, or to release the old patterns and try on new and shinier ones.

During a Reiki session with me I sometimes use Tuning forks, toning bowls, and crystals to aid in the tranfer of this energy. Tuning forks and toning bowls are attuned to the Earth’s natural rhythm and assist the body in restoring peace and balance. Like adjusting an instrument, your body can be tuned to bring your nervous system, muscle tone and organs into harmonic balance. Healing crystals have the ability to amplify, store, transmute, focus, and radiate high vibratory frequencies and electromagnetic waves into the body’s charkas and energy fields. Crystals help to reduce blocks, bringing mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical vibratory frequencies into alignment.