What is Reiki?
Reiki (霊気) is the practice of guiding the higher spiritual power that exists within all life for healing purposes. Rei meaning Spiritual/Divine, (knowing only love, compassion, kindness, generosity, and oneness) Ki meaning life force energy, or that which brings and maintains life.
This universal life force energy has also been called Chi/Qi (氣), Prana (प्राण), Orgone, Odic, Aether, Quintessence, and Vril.
It is best described as an invisible, natural,
bio-magnetic force possessed by all living things.
During Reiki Healing the practitioner places the hands on or above the body to facilitate the flow of Ki energy for relaxation and stress reduction.
By reducing stress, we aim to improve the ability of your body to heal itself. Depending on each individual one or more treatments can help to shift energy creating a more positive life.
The best way to understand Reiki is to have a healing and experience its life-changing power!
Benefits of Reiki Treatments
Reiki treatment offers several benefits over other types of therapy that may be used in healing. Some of the benefits of Reiki are listed below.
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Reiki is non-invasive.
Unlike many other treatment options, Reiki is non-invasive and does not require any incisions, use of chemicals or other potentially-dangerous actions.
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Reiki is risk free.
Because Reiki is non-invasive and uses no medications, there is no risk of side effects or complications from utilizing Reiki energy.
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Safe for all types of ailments.
Reiki can be used safely to help patients with virtually any ailment, from diabetes to cancer.
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Reduction of stress and pain sensations.
Regardless of what ailment Reiki is being used to treat, it may provide the added benefits of reduced stress and lessened sensations of pain. This can be helpful for clients dealing with a wide variety of problems.
"I'm not sure, what does the science say?"
Because of the numerous benefits Reiki offers, Canadian hospitals are beginning to offer it as a treatment option. One hospital study published in The Journal of Palliative Care in 2013 found that providing patients with Reiki treatment led to lower levels of discomfort, restlessness, anxiety and pain. Reiki treatment was also associated with mood improvements. The study ultimately concluded that Reiki was a valuable addition to the treatment options offered at the hospital.
Another study found that the use of Reiki on patients in the oncology and infusion services unit decreased VAS anxiety scores by more than half. The mean VAS pain score of patients in this study dropped from 4.4 to 2.32. In addition, patients showed signs of improved sleep quality, better relaxation, reduced anxiety and enhanced overall well-being.
Beyond Standardized Reiki
At Sláinte Solutions we are always learning, creating, and improving. We venerate the ancient teachings, and also champion free-thinking and innovation. This philosophy is why we offer Reiki alongside (often in tandem with) hypnosis, as well as other services.
Did you know? The term "mesmerize" actually comes from German doctor Franz Mesmer in the 18th century. Mesmer pioneered hypnotism with his practice of "mesmerism" wherein he utilized what he believed to be an invisible natural bio-magnetic force possessed by all living things.
Modern hypnotism owes it's entire existence to the precursor discipline "mesmerism" yet (most) modern hypnotists do not even acknowledge the study of life force energy. Similarly (many) Reiki practitioners have no understanding of the myriad other ways the flow of Ki can be utilized: such as pranic, aetheric, mesmeristic, etc. - even fewer understand modern secular hypnotism!
How we do it differently
Many Reiki practitioners focus on simply streaming energy,
rather than moving energy by utilizing and orienting the Ki flow.
Energy is the expression of waves with specifics frequencies and vibrations. Everything has a frequency. It is this dance of frequencies that your eyes use to see the beautiful color of the world.
Your ears translate frequencies in the air into symphonies.
Your nerves pick up the frequencies (or, again, vibrations) and translate them into electric signals (also, frequencies!) that your brain interprets as a touch sensation.
Conscious application of these principles in Reiki opens up many options that standard Reiki practice can not easily achieve!
For example: when helping with stress, a standard Reiki healing is merely the use of the hands as a conduit to give Ki for relaxation to ease the stress. However, moving the Ki energy in other ways can often remove the stress itself. A powerful tool for change!
One cannot understand flow without understanding duality. Some other overt expressions of duality in our universe include: day & night, positive & negative, light & dark, male & female, order & chaos, hot & cold, yin & yang, life & death, and so on. Everything in our world works in this way, on some level. Not merely in a philosophical sense - but physically our universe itself operates this way on a fundamental level! It can be observed in our technology and in most ways, it's why our technology works at all.
Closing thoughts
Our reality is created by ourselves. In both a metaphysical sense (many people understand this as The Law of Attraction, or God's providence) but also literally in the physical sense. As I previously described: Our eyes create color, our ears create sound, etc. so we quite literally create our experience, on a metaphysical and physical/biological level.
Words attempt to communicate understanding of reality, and we think of our world, our memories, and our lives in these words... yet you can not confer experience through words. We run the risk of oversimplifying huge concepts when we try to fit them into these little word boxes like "vibration" "frequency" and other popular modern terms - but in a way, it is completely useless to do so!
To describe a Reiki session or the broad process of energy work (or even applied hypnosis, for that matter) to someone who has no experience with it is similar to describing a color to a blind person who has never seen it. How would one go about that?
This is why we recommend everyone interested and capable to try Reiki for themselves!
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We relay the above information with humbleness, honor, and respect for all the Masters who have gone before us; who shared their wisdom and knowledge through verbal tradition and written material.
We practice with grateful hearts and open minds. We give thanks to those support us during healings and for those who will cross our path for experience and learning.