Reiki (commonly misspelled as reiky or raiki) healings involve the channeling of the vital universal life force in order to facilitate a healing or rebalancing of someone’s energy field.
You will have noticed that I refer to channeling the universal life force.
In other words with a reiki healing the energy does not originate from us but rather from the universe and the reiki practitioner is merely a conduit and not the source.
As such all reiki healings start from this universal source and therefore all healing are actually remote.
photo credit: anomalous4
If you are hoping for an irrefutable scientific argument explaining exactly what reiki (often misspelled as raiki or reiky) is and how it works, I’m sorry you have come to the wrong place.
In fact, I am going to begin this post by telling you that I actually do not know the answer to how reiki works and where this source of energetic healing originates.
A cursory Google search on “Why are we alive?” does not reveal any scientific answers – we are straight into the range of the metaphysical, an area which no peer-respecting scientist will touch with a barge pole. It is regarded as a fringe pseudoscience.
I am now going to tell you that this o.k. We can survive without a scientific experience justifying the reason for our existence. It is perfectly acceptable to place some weight on your own personal experience.
It is alright to trust your own experiences and listen to someone else’s anecdotal evidence. You are also free to disregard their experiences (just as they are free to disregard yours).
In my opinion (and as I said at the beginning of this post there is no concrete science to back me up) the rei energy interacts with our own energy field in order to help us on our quest to answer the question “Why am I alive?”. I choose to accept that all of our emotions are actually energy vibrations that we are experiencing, and reiki works in a similiar manner along the same type of frequencies as these emotions.
This post is aimed at exploring reiki and the interaction between universal energy and ourselves. As a point of departure on this journey I invite you to explore the question of why we accept that love exists?
I mean, no scientist has concretely proven the existence of love…we have not discovered the love molecule from which this feeling originates. Surely that means that love does not exist! What utter and total codswallop! We accept that love is real because we have experienced it – we do not need science to verify our own experience. So why do we hold reiki and the rei energy to a different standard to love energy?
photo credit: inoc
The essence of a reiki (often misspelled as reiky or raiki) healing is channeling the rei energy in order to improve someone’s health. As has been previously discussed this healing can be done over a long distance.
People have anecdotally reported the following benefits from reiki distance healing.
- Pain relief
- Increased vitality
- Relief for conditions such as arthritis and rheumatism
- A more positive outlook
- Normalized blood pressure
- Relief from insomnia
- Feeling of deep relaxation
Please use your common sense and by all means send reiki to someone who is seriously ill but under NO circumstances would I reccommend that reiki replaces conventional treatment. A reiki distant healing should be used in conjunction with conventional medicine and not as a replacement.
Bottom line: Reiki distance healing should not replace conventional medical care but rather as a complement to it.
photo credit: me and the sysop
Reiki (sometimes misspelled as reiky or raiki) healing does not have to be done in the presence of the person being healed but can be done over a distance.
Here I liken reiki to a form of prayer.Very often when someone is ill we will prayer for their speedy recovery and in this case we are focusing our prayer energy (directed to whichever higher being we believe in) on a specific person.With a remote reiki healing we channel the rei energy to a specific person over a distance, for me this is comparable to praying for someone in a different location.
In my opinion, a distant reiki healing done in the name of a deity is a focused healing prayer. And as reiki is spiritually neutral I do not see this as conflicting with practising reiki ethically (with the important caveat that the person receiving the healing does not object to receiving the reiki).
photo credit: quinn.anya
Reiki (commonly misspelled as reiky or raiky) is an art of working with the life energy (or vitalic force if you prefer) in order to achieve self-actualization or healing. Here we will be focusing on the use of reiki for healing. When referring to distant reiki we mean reiki where the person is not physically present with the person chanelling the reiki energy.
A lot of sceptics will tell you that it is not possible for energy to be sent over a long distance. This is utter and total rubbish – energy by its very nature can travel over a remote distance (think about it – scientifically the sun is energy and how far does the sun’s energy travel?)
In a remote healing the person channelling the rei energy is simply focusing on someone that is not physically present with them. This does not make the healing any less efficient.
photo credit: César.
“History is the propoganda of the victors” – Ernst Toller
Reiki (sometimes misspelled as reiky or raiki) is a system of energetic healing and self-actualization that is generally accepted to have been discovered by Mikao Usui in Japan.
Perhaps forced by the circumstances relating to the demise of the samurai and the fact that no clear path was set out for him Usui became a spiritual seeker. This is a possible reason for him undertaking a retreat to Mt. Kurama, associated with one of the popularly accepted versions of the origins of reiki, which tells that Usui went to a waterfall on Mt. Kurama for a 21 day retreat that included fasting, meditation and prayer. During this retreat Usui had a mystical experience and became attuned to the system of reiki.
Usui taught reiki to over 2000 students before his death in 1926. Usui developed five reiki principles which are generally accepted to have been influenced by the literary works of Emperor Meiji. The principles are
“Just for today:
-
- Do not be angry
- Do not worry
- Be grateful
- Work with integrity
- Be kind to others and to yourself”
After Usui’s death one of his students Chujiro Hayashi simplified the reiki techniques and focused on the physical healing (ignoring the spiritual and emotional aspects of reiki) in addition to using a more codified and simplified set of reiki techniques.
One of Hayashi’s students was Mrs. Takata – the woman who is credited with bringing reiki to the west. Mrs. Takata who firmly believed that the only manner in which a westener would gain respect for reiki was by paying a large sum of money for it – and it is believed that she fixed the price at $10,000 to become a reiki master.
photo credit: ♣ ℓ u m i è r e ♣
Something that is not discussed very often about reiki (often misspelled as reiky or raiki) is its ethical use. This is partly because people say (correctly) that the reiki energy cannot be used in a negative manner. However a question that should always be asked by any healer is can I ethically administer this treatment to the intended recipient?
Now here I am most likely going to step on a few toes and possibly offend a few people – this is my opinion, you are free to disregard it if you wish. I am a firm believer that any person who is about to receive any form of healing be it from a conventional medical doctor, a physiotherapist or an alternative healer or whoever has the right to refuse treatment.
Now obviously I am not talking about someone at the scene of an accident who is clearly in need of immediate emergency treatment, we generally assume (I think correctly) that the person would consent to treatment and we administer treatment accordingly. And I think we can also send some emergency reiki that way too.
I am referring to a situation where a person is in a position to be able to make decisions about their own bodily integrity. In such a case before administering a remote treatment I believe you should at the bare minimum ask the intended recipient whether they would object to the healing.
If the person does not know anything about reiki I also believe that it is appropriate and ethical to explain a bit about it to them. Another important consideration is the recipients spiritual or religious beliefs some people regard reiki as being contrary to their faith. In my opinion they have the right to refuse a reiki treatment on this basis.
I hope this got you thinking – reiki is a gift and it should be used with respect and in my opinion that includes respect for other people’s beliefs and opinions as well.
photo credit: denise carbonell
Reiki encourages us to live in the present and not worry unduly about the past and the future.
- Just for today do not be angry
- Just for today do not worry
- Just for today be grateful
- Just for today work with integrity
- Just for today be kind to others and to yourself.
The list above states the five reiki principles to live by. Imagine trying to not be angry for the rest of your life! Seems impossible, doesn’t it? Now, this is where the beauty of the first part of each principle comes in – Just for today. Today is much less daunting than the rest of our lives and reminds us to start here and now.
If you slip up in living these principles, so what? I promise that the world will not end because of it but keep trying to live according to these principles. I am sure that you will find the difference will be worthwhile.
photo credit: ♣ ℓ u m i è r e ♣
