Reiki is a difficult concept to get your
head around, to say the least, especially for logical left-brainers like myself
(though my spiritual path is one of tapping into my creative right brain as
much as I can).
Reiki is an ancient healing art that many people believe has been around really since time began, although it came into the ‘modern’ Western world in the early 1900s through Mikao Usui, a Japanese Sensei who developed the Usui system.
With Reiki, you are working with an
invisible energy that ultimately, you cannot prove is there. But whilst there
is little scientific research available, the benefits of Reiki are
well-documented and even the NHS part-fund a Reiki healer at the
As with any form of therapy, particularly those that are not tangible, there is a lot of controversy and difference of opinion on Reiki’s true origins and how we should use it.
For those who practice Reiki, as I now do, it takes a lot of trust that you are able to channel the energy once you have had your training and have become open to the energy flow that is all around us (I have written about my attunement experience in XXX). This is because it is so different from other alternative treatments such as acupuncture which can be ‘seen’ as they are being worked with.
When you are sticking little pins into people you know that they are there, but when you are placing your hands over a person or on them for Reiki healing, other than sometimes a tingle in the arms or heat in the hands, it can be more difficult to gain confidence in that you are doing right. It goes against everything we believe in the West, with our reliance on modern medicine.
Still, I know from having experienced Reiki that it can and does work, though it may be in far more subtle and different ways than we are used to. Many people believe it is a very powerful force, and if we can trust that it can help us and go with the flow, we have nothing to lose.
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