| Reiki is a healing system that uses laying of hands on | | | | Once the person discovers their limitation and |
| a person who wants to be healed. The practitioner | | | | identified it they must move on to letting it go. Reiki |
| of Reiki is not the healer but merely the channeler of | | | | helps to accomplish this by providing energy to the |
| the Universal Life Force Energy, or Reiki. Practitioners | | | | recipient to become aware of these factors and to |
| of Reiki tout that the practice is limitless, repressed | | | | utilize the Universal Life Force Energy and release |
| only by the limits the person to be healed places | | | | them. Reiki's energy is extremely positive, flowing in a |
| upon themselves. The healing that occurs is one of | | | | sense of pure love throughout the universe, it allows |
| self-development, eliminating bad habits or patterns, | | | | the recipient to transcend his or her limitations, pains, |
| accepting change, accepting healing and opening up to | | | | emotional shortcomings and helps encourage listening |
| possibilities within oneself. Reiki operates on the level | | | | and remembering the ideal state of being. |
| of the underlying force that unites all things, the Chi | | | | An analogy for Reiki's healing process can be |
| or Ki, this force that vibrates and flows through all | | | | understood by the example of a glass of water with |
| matter whether it is physical, mental or spiritual. | | | | dirt in it and a magic pitcher full of pure water. |
| People who have suffered trauma are equally as | | | | Imagine the pitcher's water never emptying no |
| healable as someone suffering from a physical | | | | matter how many times it is poured out. This is the |
| disease. | | | | Reiki energy. The dirty glass of water is the person |
| The healing that is described in Reiki goes beyond our | | | | to be healed. The magic water pours into the dirty |
| traditional understanding of what it means to be | | | | water until all the water is now clean, as this |
| healed. Often, we think of being healed the same as | | | | happens, the water slowly becomes as crystal clear |
| being cured, of symptoms or an ailment. Healing in | | | | as the magic water. This is perfect health. Reiki can |
| the Reiki sense is the return to wholeness. Reiki | | | | clear the 'dirt' from within oneself- be it bad habits, |
| purports that each human being has an ideal form, | | | | sickness, impatience, laziness, addiction or disease. |
| that which is the highest and clearest expression of | | | | It is widely accepted that stress will cause sickness. |
| their true selves. Through sickness, stress, emotional | | | | Whether the stress is in the form of unresolved |
| trauma or upset we get further away from this | | | | trauma, worry, fear, anxiety, anger or negative |
| wholeness and become tainted. Reiki helps to bring a | | | | thought patterns it has the potential to cause disease |
| person back to their ideal form through treatments | | | | in a physical, emotional, mental or spiritual state due |
| with a practitioner. Reiki helps to change a person's | | | | to the lack of energy that is not flowing through the |
| limitations, or perceived limitations that are | | | | body. Reiki cleanses toxins, eases stress, trauma and |
| exemplified by patterns he or she has developed | | | | shock by calming the body. It promotes vitality and |
| such as behavioral, eating, physical, imagined, | | | | allows the body to heal itself. Reiki induces feelings of |
| psychological, emotional, mental, living and loving. | | | | well-being, relaxation and increase of energy. |