| Reiki healing essentially consists of hands-on | | | | As well as touch, some healers use an appropriate |
| treatments designed to optimize the flow of positive | | | | combination of symbols and sounds. And Chakra |
| energy through the body. Chakras channel the | | | | healing prescribes certain gemstones and crystals, as |
| energy flows, and accordingly Chakra healing is | | | | well as certain colors, to assist with balancing a |
| incorporated by many healers. | | | | particular Chakra. Particular physical and emotional |
| Rain of (rei) life force (ki) is where the word Reiki | | | | characteristics are influenced or controlled by each |
| comes from. It only makes sense that the energy | | | | Chakra. |
| around us and flowing through us has healing qualities. | | | | Usui, the founder of Reiki, did not specifically refer to |
| Illness and ailments can occur with bad, or sub-optimal | | | | the Chakras in his Reiki program, but we know that |
| energy flow. | | | | he incorporated many of the ancient healing methods |
| It is best to perceive Reiki as a philosophy of life. | | | | which deal with how energy flows through the body. |
| There is no mystery to Reiki, particularly Western | | | | Self application of Reiki treatments is possible. It can |
| Reiki. With traditional Reiki, there is a little more | | | | also be used to heal and balance others. As a student |
| secrecy, with intuition driving the placement of the | | | | progresses through training, the ability to remotely |
| hands in a Reiki healing session, for example. Defined | | | | heal is also taught and learned |
| hand placements are used in the Western variety of | | | | During a Reiki healing session, the master may |
| Reiki. Because of that, it is much easier to learn and | | | | endeavor to balance all of the Chakras. He or she |
| understand the healing methods of the Western | | | | may also focus on one or two, depending on the |
| variety. | | | | reason for the treatment. Depending on the ailment |
| A treatment is no more than a session to attempt to | | | | or illness, only some of the Chakras may appear to |
| achieve energy balance in order to strengthen the | | | | the practitioner to be out of balance. Watching a |
| flow of life force through the body. Reiki and | | | | Reiki treatment is surely eye-opening. Many a skeptic |
| quantum physics share the concept of how energy | | | | has been swayed by the clear improvement in the |
| flows and interacts. If proper alignment and balancing | | | | patient, and the aura of well-being and serenity after |
| is achieved for the energy channels in the body, then | | | | a session. |
| the flow of the universal life force is optimized. | | | | |