Reiki

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What is Reiki?

Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is thought to have originated thousands of years ago in Tibet and was rediscovered by Dr. Mikao Usui, a Japanese Buddhist monk in the 1800's. Reiki has its roots in ancient Tendai/Shingon Buddhist and Tibetan Sanskrit healing practices, is increasingly becoming an established complementary therapy.

Today Reiki is practiced in every country in the world and is joining other complementary therapies in the conventional settings of hospitals, hospices, counselling centers, emergency rooms, and intensive care units. Nurses, physical therapists, surgeons, midwives, and anesthetists report that Reiki can help manage pain and promote healing. Counsellors and caregivers treating those with terminal illness find that Reiki gives patients an increased physical, emotional, and psychological ability to cope.
Research into the esoteric meaning of the Japanese kanji character for Rei has given a much deeper understanding of this ideogram. The word Rei as it is used in Reiki is more accurately interpreted to mean supernatural knowledge or spiritual consciousness. It understands each person completely. It knows the cause of all problems and difficulties and knows what to do to heal them.

Ki means the same as Chi in Chinese, Prana in Sanskrit and Ti or Ki in Hawaiian. Ki is the life force. It is also called the vital life force or the universal life force. This is the non-physical energy that animates all living things. As long as something is alive, it has life force circulating through it and surrounding it; when it dies, the life force departs. If your life force is low, or if there is a restriction in its flow, you will be more vulnerable to illness. When it is high and flowing freely, you are less likely to get sick. Life force plays an important role in everything we do. It animates the body and also is the primary energy of our emotions, thoughts and spiritual life. Martial artists in their physical training and mental development use Ki. It is used in meditative breathing exercises called Pranayama, and by the shamans of all cultures for divination, psychic awareness, manifestation and healing. Ki is the non-physical energy used by all healers. Ki is present all around us and can be accumulated and guided by the mind.

It is the consciousness called Rei that guides the life force called Ki in the practice we call Reiki. Therefore, Reiki can be defined as spiritually guided life force energy. This is a meaningful interpretation of the word Reiki. It more closely describes the experience most people have of it; Reiki guiding itself with its own wisdom, and being unresponsive to the direction of the practitioner.

What can Reiki help with?

Strengthens the immune system
Treats symptoms and causes of illness
Relieves pain
Promotes creativity
Releases blocked and suppressed feelings
Aids meditation and positive thinking
Promotes natural self-healing
Balances the energies in the body
Balances the organs and glands
Clears toxins
Enhances personal awareness
Relaxes and reduces stress