Reiki and energy healing are powerful tools for restoring balance and promoting wellness.
Here are some tips on how to feel energy in your hands and body, then a straightforward look at how they work.
Want to try feeling energy in your hands? Try some of or a combination of these tips:
Breathe into your heart (bring your awareness to your chest for every breath until you start to feel a warmth in your chest.
Rub your hands together for up to 30 seconds to generate friction, bring your awareness into your hands and surrender. (Thinking about how to do it or if you're doing it right is the wrong place to be. Don't think about it, feel it in your body).
Hover your hands 5-10cm apart and move them slowly together and apart (without touching), and repeat. It's as if you have a band of energy between your hands and it feels like a gentle tingle and / or magnetic feeling.
You can also hover / wave your hands over crystals to feel their energy. You can do this with anything that nature provided us, crystals are just quite easy to feel. So is your own heart. Hover your buzzy hands over your heart.
What is Reiki? Reiki is a form of energy healing that originated in Japan. It involves channeling universal life force energy through the hands of a practitioner to the recipient. This energy helps to balance the body's energy systems, promoting physical, emotional, and spiritual healing.
What is Energy Healing?
It's pretty much the same thing without the framework.
Reiki has a specific practise that helps the practitioner remain clear with intention and direction.
Energy healing is like Reiki but rogue. It's still important to ground yourself and the person you're doing reiki on. It's important to set clear intentions for what you're hoping to achieve. You still want to access the source / life force / prana energy through to your body to channel it earthside.
However energy healing leans on intuitive guidance from source to dictate the kind of session and what the person needs. This is is very open, so the practitioner could be free flowing, only doing what they're guided to do on the day, or they might have their own framework they've built that suits them.
Within general energy healing, it's also quite common to also be channelling in whatever way works for you, if the person who is receiving the healing is okay with this.
Energy healing is broad and innately frameless. We are made of energy, everything is, it's the main aspect of our very existence.
It's fun to practise energy healing on yourself and your friends!
How Does Reiki Work?
Reiki works by addressing energy blockages in the body. These blockages can cause physical discomfort, emotional distress, and spiritual disconnection. During a Reiki session, the practitioner places their hands on or near the recipient's body in specific positions. The energy flows through the practitioner's hands to the recipient, clearing blockages and restoring balance.
How does Energy Healing work?
It's much the same as reiki in many many ways, just without the framework. I've had energy healings where the practitioner is also giving me acupuncture (she is trained in acupuncture) and doing sound healing with tuning forks and bowls, as well as channelling from source for me.
I've also had an energy healing session where a different practitioner was using drums, singing in certain frequencies, channelling messages for me and laying her hands on my head and hovering them over other areas of my being. Both were fantastic. The point is, whatever the lightworker is called to do, is fine, as long as they are safe, kind and you're happy with what they're doing with you.
Benefits of Reiki and Energy Healing:
- Reduces stress and promotes relaxation.
- Induces /activates people into their energetic power.
- Guidance from the universe.
- Supports emotional healing.
- Enhances mental clarity and focus.
- Boosts the body's natural healing processes.
- Improves overall well-being.
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