| Reiki energy healing may not be fully understood. | | | | individual energy field. With his hands, a practitioner |
| Here are 10 common misconceptions about Reiki. This | | | | assesses and balances the bio-energetic field around |
| article is to clarify the issues and to align you with | | | | a person's body. The practitioner manipulates this field |
| your highest path of healing growth. | | | | to encourage the person's natural healing. Therapeutic |
| REIKI MYTHS | | | | Touch was developed by Dolores Krieger, R.N. in the |
| 1. Reiki is a Religion. | | | | '70s, as a tool for patient care by nurses. Later it |
| No. Reiki is spiritual, not a religion. There is no Reiki | | | | was shared it with the public for anyone's healing. |
| church, no Reiki liturgy, no priests, no sermons. There | | | | 6. All Reiki Practitioners Give The Same Treatment. |
| are Reiki principles for practitioners. These are not | | | | Well, yes, Reiki is Reiki, but not all Reiki practitioners |
| religious, and come from the Japanese Emperor. The | | | | are the same. Some combine Reiki with other |
| Code of Ethics goes hand in hand with the ability to | | | | therapy, other specialize in Reiki. There are also Reiki |
| heal. Reiki principles might be (but usually are not) | | | | variants, traditional or non-traditional. |
| communicated with Reiki recipients. Communication | | | | It is desirable to choose someone who does Reiki all |
| usually completely centers around the recipient's | | | | the time such as a Reiki Master or very active Reiki |
| well-being. | | | | II practitioners. Masters & active practitioners' |
| 2. A Reiki Practitioner Can Heal a Reiki Recipient. | | | | ability to channel energy is likely to be much greater |
| Well, no. I like to phrase it humbly: a Reiki practitioner | | | | than someone who is just dabbling in it, or someone |
| is kind of like a 'garden hose' pouring Reiki (Universal | | | | who has just done the beginning Reiki level I course. |
| Life Force) energy onto recipients so they can heal | | | | Most importantly, it is important to choose someone |
| themselves. The Reiki energy comes through the | | | | who, energetically, 'feels right'. I recommend |
| practitioner, but is not the practitioner, and is given to | | | | prospective clients to 'follow your heart and intuition |
| you, the Reiki recipient. The Reiki practitioner is the | | | | when selecting your Reiki practitioner'. Furthermore, |
| facilitator of your healing. None but you can heal | | | | geographic proximity is not a good determinant , but |
| yourself. This task can not be 'delegated'. | | | | synchronicity is. |
| 3. A Reiki Treatment Should Be Free. Reiki is Divine, | | | | 7. If You're Healed, You're Cured. |
| Thus Free. | | | | Healing may include curing. However, healing is not |
| It's true that Reiki is Universal Life Force energy, and | | | | curing. Healing and curing come from the opposite |
| therefore is Divine. However, unless the practitioner | | | | end of a spectrum of wellness. While curing works on |
| offers Reiki as a charity or gift, it can not be | | | | the symptoms and their immediate physical causes, |
| provided free. The Reiki practitioner must take time | | | | healing works on the root-cause of a problem or |
| to prepare and give the treatment, have previously | | | | physical condition. Reiki healing entails emotional, |
| acquired and paid for the ability and skill to be able to | | | | spiritual and mental unblocking and re-balancing. |
| channel Reiki for your healing, and must make an | | | | Dissolving the root-cause of the problem usually also |
| effort to be a professional health service provider. | | | | releases the physical problem and its symptoms. |
| This is why recipients should pay for Reiki, just as | | | | 8. You Need to Believe in Reiki for It to Work. Based |
| they pay for dental surgery. | | | | on Placebo Principles, It Is A Self-fulfilling Prophesy. |
| 4. If I Get Reiki Once, I'm Healed Forever. | | | | Well, I have good news for non-believers: you don't |
| I wish this was true. Well, sometimes it is true that | | | | actually need to believe in Reiki for it to work for |
| with a single, short Reiki session, clients heal and cure | | | | you. All you need is to be open to healing, and to the |
| of something forever. However, that's working with | | | | possibility that it might work. In addition, I ask |
| a too narrow definition. Healing is holistic and as such, | | | | particularly my clients with racy minds during |
| healing is a path, a process. | | | | treatment to give themselves the mantra: "I'm open |
| To make significant shifts on this path on significant | | | | and receptive to good" or similar. |
| issues, clients are recommended to take 3-4 sessions | | | | 9. Healing is Lineair: You're Unwell -- You're 1/2 Fixed |
| at a time. Typically, clients do this. Then they take a | | | | -- You're Done. |
| break. A few months later they come again. If they | | | | It does not work like this. I would say that healing is |
| come in for another specific issue, we do another | | | | a spiral process taking huge re-iterative loops up. |
| few sessions in a row. Alternatively, if we commence | | | | Every loop we heal from something, making us lighter |
| a preventative health maintenance program, we do a | | | | and our light shine brighter. Therefore, every loop we |
| session about once a month. No matter whether you | | | | go a bit (or a lot) higher on the spiral. Then, we take |
| work on your health preventative or reactive: healing | | | | our next loop, where we will work on something else. |
| is a process. | | | | As we are now higher up in the spiral, we have and |
| 5. Reiki is The Same as Therapeutic Touch. | | | | operate from a different and more spiritually more |
| They look similar, but are different. They are similar in | | | | evolved viewpoint. |
| that in both a Reiki and a Therapeutic Touch | | | | 10. People in the Healing Profession Never Get Sick. |
| treatment, a practitioner gently places hands in | | | | Oh, I wish... and then again, I don't. I don't want to |
| specific positions on or over a person's body for | | | | rob anyone of their process of healing and of the |
| healing; They are both non-invasive techniques for | | | | insights they obtain along the way. |
| clearing, energizing and balancing energy of the client's | | | | Clear and square: Reiki practitioners and masters are |
| body and aura. In both cases, a client's first response | | | | mere mortals. We are not above the human condition |
| is relaxation - the required condition for healing. | | | | of spiritual evolution. I hope that many have landed |
| But Reiki and Therapeutic Touch are not the same. A | | | | at an advanced spiritual developmental level, but |
| Reiki practitioner helps people heal by channeling | | | | that's not even so. It is however my observation |
| Universal Life Force Energy (Reiki) into their body. A | | | | that people in the healing professions do tend to use |
| Reiki practitioner receives the ability to heal and | | | | their healing tools for self health maintenance. |
| instruction on how to use it from a specially attuned | | | | Furthermore, it is a group of people that regularly |
| Reiki Master. Reiki was developed in early 1900s by | | | | exchanges alternative health therapy with each other. |
| Mr. Usui in Japan. Reiki is also a life philosophy; | | | | Now that the 10 Reiki Healing myths are debunked, |
| practitioners are required to work on themselves | | | | consider the wonderful health benefits of Reiki for |
| through self-Reiki. | | | | yourself: relax, rebalance, rejoice. |
| A Therapeutic Touch practitioner works with people's | | | | |