When you feel pain in your body, it’s common to instinctively place your hands on the affected area. Similarly, when you injure yourself, you naturally try to provide warmth and comfort with your hands to seek relief. What you may not realize is that you are unknowingly applying the fundamental principles of reiki, a Japanese therapeutic practice that involves healing through the hands.
Reiki means REI ( Universal Energy) and Ki ( vital energy), and is a healing technique rediscovered by Mikao Usui, a Japanese Buddhist monk) who rediscovered the ancient technique during a spiritual retreat in the mid-19th century in India.
But for what is Reiki useful for?
Reiki works on the principle that the human being is energy. The correct flow of Vital Energy through the different chakras is what ensures a good state of health in the organism and that when this energy is blocked, mental and physical diseases start to develop. Through the imposition of hands, that kind of knot or energetic blockages is dissolved, helping to restore well-being and balance the body.
The practice of Reiki is based on a transmitter that, through its hands, transfer Reiki (vital energy) to a receiver that can be himself or another person with the final goal of cure discomfort or disease.
How can Reiki help my emotional, physical and spiritual health?
It considers the person globally in the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies, so that it is not only aimed at suppressing the pathology, but also at recovering the natural state of balance that produces well-being and happiness.
Reiki is a preventive and healing energy. Reaches far beyond the physical body. It can be effective, in expert hands, to control high number of discomfort and disorders, both physical and psychological, some of them are:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Agression
- Stress
- Insomnia
- Anger management
- Emotional Blockages
- Help to control physical pain
- Arthritis, Migraines, Gastric problems
- It can help in detoxification therapies
- Reduces the side effects of all kinds of treatments, including chemotherapy
- Reiki helps us face life with greater balance.
- In injuries, helps to speed up the healing process and to heal bone lesions.
- Reduce inflammation in sprains, heal torn muscles etc.
- Helps the body increase its ability to fight viral diseases by strengthening its immune system.
- Cancer: It has been used successfully in combination with chemotherapy to help the body maintain the physical strength necessary for treatments.
- Reiki serves to balance people energetically and spiritually.
- Generates big relaxation & tension.
Reiki is currently used in some prestigious hospitals where studies are being carried out on its effectiveness, some examples are taking place with HIV/AIDS patients, where this healing technique is being used to reduce pain. Another example is Crawford (2006) studies where he conclude that 30 minute Reiki session treatments, once a week, significantly improve cognition skills and symptoms of Alzheimer disease or mild cognitive impairment. In the same way, there are some small research that study how significantly the significant reduction of pain, depression and anxiety experienced by chronically ill patients Dressin and Singg (1998);Shore (2004).
Now you know more about this interesting healing technique, if you want to try it or get more information about it, don’t hesitate to contact us, well be happy to share more insights about it.
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