What Is Reiki Good For?
If you are wondering what Reiki is good for, the answer is a whole range of things! First and foremost, it is important to note that Reiki is not intended to replace care and treatment by a medical doctor or other licensed healthcare professional. Rather, you can use Reiki to heal at levels not typically addressed by traditional medicine. This can, in turn, have a positive effect on the issue you would like to address. For example, it a well-known fact that negative emotions can have an impact on our physical health.
In addition, if you are feeling anxiety or stress, you might not be as motivated to take care of your physical health as you normally would be. In these two examples, Reiki would be a perfect addition to your health and wellness plan. Reiki treatments can help you restore a sense of calm and balance. It can help you quiet the negative emotions you are feeling. This, in turn, may help lead to improvements in the effects of these emotions.
Reiki Can Lead To Greater Self Awareness
Sometimes, we are not fully aware of the depth of our suffering. Often this only becomes apparent once Reiki treatments begin and the recipient experiences a healing incident. A healing incident occurs when greater awareness is reached. This causes blockages to be released at the physical, mental, emotional or spiritual levels. Many people experience this as something of a catharsis. As these blockages are released, we may experience some discomfort, or become emotional, sometimes needing to cry during the process. However, once this has been successfully navigated, we often experience a greater sense of peace and wholeness.
A greater sense of self awareness can lead us not only to discover the root causes of our suffering, it can also lead us to take greater responsibility for our own healing. This is absolutely imperative because in order to be healed, we have to want to be healed. We need to take responsibility for our own eating, our stress levels and our diet. It will be much more difficult to benefit from Reiki sessions if you are indulging and poor health habits!
Along with increased self awareness, may also come a great sense of spirituality. Reiki brings us into contact with universal life energy, which contains infinite wisdom. When you are in closer contact with this energy, you may experience greater clarity about your spiritual path. Or, you may realise that you have been acting out of fear, and experience a increased sense of courage to act in ways that are more in line with your true self.
It Can Lead To Amazing Changes In Your Life’s Path
Because attunements allow us to access a universal wisdom that knows exactly what is right for us, many people report experiencing great life changes before and after their attunements. For example, some people might change jobs, or move, or experience changes in their relationships with others. Although these changes may initially be scary, they are always for the best. Just as we sometimes do not realize the depth of our suffering prior to working with Reiki, we have also often forgotten how to listen to our inner voice. Reiki can get us back on the path that we have strayed from.
Reiki May Reduce Anxiety And Lead To Other Benefits
It is important to note, that although there has been more interest in recent years in studying the effects of Reiki, large-scale, formal studies remain relatively rare. However, there have been some, and although they have a limited scope, the results have been largely positive. As always, we recommend seeking the advice of a qualified medical doctor.
There have been studies that have shown that, in oncology patients, Reiki treatments have led to an increased sense of well-being, pain relief, better sleep and less anxiety. Researchers also noted a reduction in fatigue and better sleep in the participants. Some other studies, too, have noted improvements in anxiety and fatigue. Other studies have shown improvements in blood pressure, breathing and anxiety. In a study on the effects of Reiki on oncology patients, 82% of participants found the Reiki session helpful, about 73% plan to continue using Reiki and about 82% recommended Reiki to others.
We encourage you to perform your own research on Reiki when deciding whether treatments and attunements may be right for you.
Reiki Treats The Whole Person
As you can see, Reiki does not only have physical benefits because it works every level of our being. This is, in my opinion, the most important thing that Reiki is good for, namely, treating the whole person. It is only in recent years that mainstream science has begun to recognize the impacts of factors such as stress and beliefs on physical health. Consequently, mainstream medicine often only treats the physical or the mental when trying to heal illnesses. The great strength of Reiki is that is complementary to mainstream medicine and can be used treat dimensions of our being that science is only now coming to recognize.
Handling physical health issues can be challenging. Reiki can help by lessening the emotional, spiritual and mental impact of those challenges, leading to improvements on all levels, including the physical.