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Reiki

Reiki, pronounced RAY-KEY, is a form of energetic healing based on the principle that all living things have energy flowing through them. This energy flows through our physical selves as well as our emotional, mental, and spiritual selves, to make up what some refer to as the aura.

The flow of this energy can become blocked. This is largely due to trauma (which often affects us physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually) and limiting beliefs systems. When there is a block in the flow of energy we feel it on all levels. For instance, an emotional block often manifests as unexplained or chronic pain.

Reiki acts like Drano! Entering your system and clearing out the blocks. Once the blocks are cleared you can function at an optimal level.

For more information on Reiki please read the following article.

The Healing Art of Reiki
by Chantal Garneau
Originally printed in the Georgetown Independent and Free Press
Wed, April 6th, 2005

Reiki is an ancient healing art that is gaining popularity for its seemingly magical ability to heal and restore balance to the body.

Sceptics have been blown away by the sensations and experience of Reiki. What once seemed impossible turns out to be possible.

Reiki, pronounced RAY-KEY, is Japanese for universal life force energy. Energy exists and flows through all living things, but this flow can get blocked, causing physical mental or emotional distress. Reiki is a frequency of energy that is transferred through the practitioner’s hands to the client to free energetic blocks and to restore balance.

How Reiki works can be difficult to understand because we don’t actually see this energy or the blocks. We do, however, feel the energy.

Have you ever spent time with someone and felt completely drained afterwards? Or walked into a room and immediately felt uplifted? If so you are feeling an energy exchange. Energy not only flows through us, but also around and between us. We are in a constant exchange of energy. Sometimes we receive uplifting energy, sometimes our energy is taken from us and sometimes we pick up other peoples’ energy and end up feeling their feelings. This is primarily on the subconscious level since most of us are not aware of our energy.

Our daily activities and thoughts as well as past experiences affect our energy flow. Past trauma can create blocks which can eventually lead to disease. When Reiki clears these blocks we can feel a variety of sensations. For just as we are all unique, so too are our energy blocks, and therefore our experience of releasing them is unique as well.

Some people feel intense heat or cold, numbing or tingling. Some feel the energy coursing through their bodies, while others enter deep meditative states. Often there are emotional reactions such as crying or laughing.

Reiki has been known to decrease the frequency of migraine headaches, alleviate chronic arthritis or fibromyalgia pain, to reduce anxiety and stress. Reiki is safe for people of all ages, and has increased the concentration abilities of children with ADD and ADHD and helped minimize the post birth trauma of babies. It has also helped people with depression and those who are searching for a focus in life.

Reiki treatments are generally an hour long and by appointment only. A Reiki treatment can be compared to a massage in that you lie down on a massage table and relax, the big difference is that with Reiki, your body is only lightly touched, if it is touched at all, and you remain clothed.

Reiki Symbol

The Japanese Kanji symbols Rei (top), means universal and Ki (bottom) means life force energy. In martial arts, this life force energy is referred to as ‘chi’, as in Tai Chi and in yoga it is called prana.

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