Reiki

Many ancient cultures embrace the knowing that life energy flows through the body, deeply affecting our entire being. Although indigenous cultures have known this for millennia, current research has only recently begun to strongly suggest that energy extends throughout as well as beyond the physical body and that disruptions or imbalances correlate with physical, mental and emotional health. Reiki addresses these imbalances to support health and well being.

For thousands of years, healing traditions around the globe have been based on the cultivation of energy. Indigenous tribal nations of the Wolof, Zulu, Congolese, the Mohican, Sioux, Navajo, and Algonquin among many, many others have traditionally cultivated ancestral energy in ceremony. Widely known practices within Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) like acupuncture and Qi Gong and Indian Ayurvedic traditions that work with the subtle anatomy have also been based on the cultivation of energy, Qi or Prana.

Although sometimes discussed in terms of “energy,” Reiki is actually primordial consciousness. It exists before the level of energy and energy flow. It is that ever present consciousness from which Qi springs from. It’s presence allows Qi to address the root causes of illness and to replenish a person’s energy body. When Qi circulates unrestricted in a person, it brings healing to the mind, body and spirit. It also brings heightened awareness and can bloom inner peace, sometimes profound inner peace.

Though Reiki is a gentle practice/treatment suitable for even the most fragile patients and infants, with no known negative side effects in medical research, it is potent in its ability to helps individuals release stress, to relax and ultimately promote deep healing. Consequently, it is widely accepted and available in hospitals and hospices around the world to use alongside allopathic medicine. Currently Reiki is offered and practiced at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Cleveland Clinic, NY-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia, the Yale Cancer Center in New Haven Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, and Brigham and Women’s HospitalGeorge Washington University Hospital, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, California Pacific Medical Center among many others.

Written by Diana Fine, Reiki Master and practitioner at Yaad Wellness

Email Diana at dianasessionspace@gmail.com for more information and to book a session.

According to the Mayo and Cleveland Clinic, Reiki can:

  • Regulate the autonomic nervous system (to ease fight or flight response in the mind/body and allowing an open pathway to heal)

  • Induce a meditative state

  • Diminish the negative side effects of chemotherapy

  • Foster tissue and bone healing after injury or surgery

  • Stimulate the body’s immune system

  • Improve positive surgical outcomes

  • Reduced pain associated with injury/illness