What is Reiki? - Masterful Alternative Healing Therapy

There is an aura of mystery surrounding this “secret art of inviting happiness,” “miraculous medicine for all diseases” (Reiki prayer). In fact, the mystery only comes from the fact that very few people are Reiki initiated – and the rest just have heard about Reiki as an “Oriental exotic something about uncertain mystic energy.”

Reiki’s etymology is simple, as the phrase is formed of two Japanese words: Rei (soul, spirit) and Ki (vital energy). As a free translation then, Reiki would mean “the energy that comes from the Spirit (the One),” the “universal force.” Of course, numerous definitions have been given to Reiki. What is to be remembered is that a Reiki practitioner passes this energy (ki, chi, prana, light, holy ghost, whatever you would wish to call it) directly to the patient’s body, plugging her/ him directly to the Universal Energy.

An Introduction to Reiki:

Reiki-Treatment

The secret is long time not a secret, as it has been known to Eastern civilizations for millennia. In fact, the far Orient is the cradle of what we call now “traditional healing methods,” in opposition to “medical methods.”

When saying Reiki, almost nobody thinks of its universal energy meaning; the noun Reiki has become synonym to “healing technique,” more precisely “hand healing technique.”

Reiki healing was developed by a Japanese Shinto monk, Mikao Usui, during early 1920s. The legend says he has received the Reiki symbols by a divine revelation, while having a 21 day retreat on a sacred mountain near his town. When back home, he founded a school where he wanted to teach the path to enlightenment. In its early days, Reiki was an initiation process and it took the students several years to become Masters. Once brought to the western world, Usui Shiki Reiki Ryoho was essentially simplified and turned into a healing technique. Over the years, several schools detached from Usui Reiki – Dolphin Reiki, Quantum Reiki, Mayan Reiki and so on.

One thing to have in mind: you can’t avoid Reiki, for any reason, if you want to get something out of your present existence. Reiki is the shortest path to… many things.

How Does Reiki Work?

Overlapping the physical body at the most minute detail, we are given – at birth – an energetic body. Through the spine channel, chakras and meridians, the Universal Energy (Reiki) is fed to every cell of the physical body. Reiki is the element that makes us live – for without Reiki, we are only decaying flesh. Reiki is the blueprint of any being.

The principles and elements used with Reiki (Universal energy, energy plexuses, energy channels, energy mastery, energy healing, etc.) are common to the majority of initiatory schools in different civilizations (Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Mayan, Hindu, Chinese).

In a healthy body, the Reiki is flowing naturally and makes the organism function normally. Whenever a block obstructs the spine, a chakra or a meridian, an energetic imbalance happens. We shall further on see that each chakra is responsible for a series of internal organs. If not removed on time, the imbalance will turn into a disease and then into an illness (installed at the organ governed by the corresponding blocked chakra).

How Does Reiki Heal?

For a better understanding of the phenomenon, let us compare the body to a television set, and Reiki to the television program you receive. The radio signal is crystal clear – your neighbor watches the same show – but your TV set in not functioning well. One if its components (chakras) is not working as it should, and at some point in the future, the TV unit will crash.

You have two “healing” possibilities for your TV set defective part: either have it repaired when still working (Reiki), or throw it away when permanently damaged (surgery).

The Reiki practitioner would feel the imbalance with his palms, or even see it with his third eye. He would not give you a diagnostic; he would simply detect an imbalance in your energetic field. He would ask for the Reiki to come and heal you. As a principle, the universal energy will then channel through his hands and repair your imbalance, all by itself, without any need to be precisely targeted, directed, pushed or pulled.

The Reiki will automatically fill in the gaps, clean the negative energy, then smooth its flow inside your organism. That is because the Reiki knows what and how to heal.

In fact, for advanced practitioners, there is no need of the hands: they can send the Reiki by looking at you, by looking at your picture or by thinking of you, in your absence.