All About Reiki

1. All About Reiki: How This Type of Energy Healing Works, and Its Health Benefits Reiki is a form of energy healing that originated in Japan in the early 20th century. According to the International Center for Reiki Training, the practice is based on the idea that we all have an unseen “life force energy” flowing through our bodies. A Reiki practitioner gently moves her hands just above or on the client’s clothed body, with the intention of reducing stress and promoting healing by encouraging a healthy flow of energy. What Is Reiki and How Does This Energy Therapy Work? Reiki therapy is a way of guiding energy throughout the body to promote the recipient’s self-healing abilities, according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH). The Reiki belief system and that of the practitioner is that they don’t cause the healing, nor are they the source of that healing energy; they’re a channel for the energy — similar to the way a garden hose acts as a channel for water, according to a past review The word “Reiki” is a combination of two Japanese words: “rei,” which means “God’s wisdom,” or “the higher power,” and “ki,” which means “life force energy,” according to the International Center for Reiki Training Reiki is taught according to the Japanese tradition of the sensei (teacher), who passes the knowledge to the student through attunement, an initiation ceremony that is

2. thought to help open the student’s energy channels to facilitate the flow of healing energy. Once opened, these channels remain accessible to the practitioner for the rest of their life Quantum physics is the study of how the incredibly small particles that make up matter, such as electrons (particles with a negative electric charge), nucleons (protons with positive charge, and neutrons, with no charge) and photons (particles of light energy) behave, in an attempt to explain the interactions of energy and physical matter. Quantum physics may also help explain how Reiki practice works. Quantum physicists, much to the awe of those who digest their findings, have found that these tiny particles of energy can be in more than one place at one time (both a wave and particle at the same time, depending on how it is examined), and that thought or intention may change how the particles work. In other words, the Reiki practitioner may be able to gather and direct biofield energy to the recipient through thoughts and intentions.