What is Reiki?
Rei - Spiritual Wisdom
Rei is the Japanese kanji character for supernatural knowledge or spiritual
consciousness. This is the wisdom that comes from God or the Higher Self. This
is the God-Consciousness which is all knowing. It understands each person
completely. It knows the cause of all problems and difficulties and knows what
to do to heal them.
Ki - The Life Force
Ki is the Japanese kanji character for life force. It is also called the
vital life force or the universal life force. It is the nonphysical 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.
It is the God-consciousness called Rei that guides the life force called Ki
in the practice called 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.
Many cultures from ancient times to the present have acknowledged the
existence of an unseen energy force that flows through all things and is
connected directly to the quality and vitality of life. This "life force energy"
has many different names. The Chinese call it Chi. The Japanese call
it Ki. Wilhelm Reich called it Orgone. George Lucas called it The
Force. Physicists call it the Unified Field. Many westerners simply
call it Life Force Energy. While the existence of life force energy
remains a controversy in the West, many medical doctors are considering the role
it plays in the functioning of the immune system and the healing process.
Reiki is a technique for healing that allows anyone to tap into an unlimited
supply of life force energy to improve health and enhance the quality of life.
An amazingly simple technique to learn, the ability to use Reiki is not
taught in the usual sense, but is transferred to the student by the Reiki
Master. Its use is not dependent on ones intellectual capacity or spiritual
development and, therefore, is available to everyone. It has been successfully
taught to thousands of people of all ages and backgrounds.
What Does Reiki Feel Like?
A treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through you
and surrounds you. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind
and spirit and creates many beneficial effects including relaxation and feelings
of peace, security, and well-being. Many have reported miraculous results. Reiki
is a simple, natural, and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement
that everyone can use.
Is Reiki a Religion?
While Reiki is spiritual in nature, it is not a religion. It has no dogma,
and there is nothing you must believe in order to learn and use Reiki. In fact,
Reiki is not dependent on belief at all and will work whether you believe in it
or not. Because Reiki comes from God, many people find that using Reiki puts
them more in touch with the experience of their religion rather than having only
an intellectual concept of it.
What Can Reiki Be Used For?
Reiki can be used for any problem area in life, whether that be physical,
emotional, psychological or spiritual. Reiki uses the universal life force
energy which is capable of healing on any level.
For more information, please see Reiki
Sessions and
Resources Pages.
