What is Reiki Used For?

So what are the benefits of Reiki? What do you use Reiki for? How do I know when I need Reiki?

I found a great summary here of Reiki Benefits: 
Reiki works on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels, and can help you enhance every aspect of your life. For example:

• Reiki calms. It reduces stress, and provides deep relaxation, comfort & peace. It supports good health and vitality.
• Reiki may bring spiritual clarity.
• Reiki offers relief during emotional distress and sorrow. Reiki helps in the grieving process. It cleans and clears the emotions from being so draining and offers perspective.
• Reiki relieves pain.
• Reiki can improve good blood circulation and stop small bleedings.
• Reiki can cleanse organs (liver, kidneys, arteries, spleen, gall bladder, lungs & heart).
• Reiki is safe to treat sympthoms of imbalance: chronic and acute conditions, stress related disorders, conditions related to sinus, menopause, migraine, cystitis, asthma, chronic fatigue, arthritis, back sciatica, insomnia and depression - to name a few.
• Reiki speeds up recovery from surgery or long-term illness. As it tends to reduce side-effects, it helps in adjusting to medicine/treatment. For example, Chemo-therapy patients who received Reiki noticed a marked  decrease in side effects from treatment. Reiki can also be put directly in medicine (as well as food and water).
• Reiki purifies environments, and can facilitate the removal of bad energy or pestering spirits from an office, house, garden, room, etc.
• Reiki helps athletes to heal faster from injury faster and to perform better.
• Reiki is for everyone: it helps heal adults, elderly, babies (on mother's stomach), toddlers, children and pets.
• Reiki for pets? Yes, pets may be helped in their recovery from stress, separation anxiety, trauma, and illness. Treat your pet with a dose of distant healing following doctor's treatment. 


Reiki is fantastic emotionally and spiritually.  It can encourage letting go of tension, fear and anxiety or other negative emotions. This is why it has been called 'a secret art of inviting happiness into your life.' This alone can be life changing for some people. Reiki also assists in the purification and the cleansing of the energy pathways; the meridians, nadis, chakras as well as the aura. It is also very beneficial to people who are working on personal and/or spiritual growth.

So you can see there are many, many benefits of Reiki, I find it hard to believe there would be someone it doesn't benefit. If I can assist you in any of the above or in any other way, I would be honoured.

What Reiki is NOT

There are a lot of misconceptions about Reiki. When the uninitiated hear the word 'Reiki', it's likely that a few inaccuracies will pop into their mind. I am going to debunk a few common misconceptions:

Is Reiki some kind of new healing 'voodoo' that only the gullible fall for?

The short answer is no, it can't heal you directly like taking panadol for a headache. It can't heal a specific issue like cancer or MS. Reiki should be considered more like an additional support to other methods of therapy. Reiki helps the body to aid itself in releasing stress and tension by creating deep relaxation. It can help accelerate healing and assist the body in cleansing toxins.

In addition, Reiki is not 'new, nor a 'fad', it has been around a long time, Reiki was developed in 1922 by Japanese Buddhist Mikao Usui.

Is it some kind of weird offshoot of Tai Chi?

Tai chi is a martial art, it is gentle exercise that tends to encourage calm and peace with your self and the world. All the while gaining strength, balance, and flexibility. Reiki on the other hand is a hands-off gentle approach which yes, like tai chi works with chi, or life energy, but there are no moves or postures involved.

Is Reiki a religion?

This is a common misconception. No, Reiki is not a religion, nor a sect. There is no god in Reiki, no deities, no prayers. Reiki is about moving energy and thus, it's no religion at all. You can use Reiki while practicing any religion you choose. It can, however, open your spiritual practice. 

Is Reiki some fancy massage treatment?

I can see how it can be confused for massage, as hands move over the body, but the practitioner barely touches you . The Reiki Practitioner directs the energies by holding their hands above the body or only touching lightly. The practitioner does not knead, rub or prod you in the slightest.

So there you have it, do you you have more of an idea of what Reiki isn't? I have been a practitioner since 2007 and would be honoured to work with you. So tell me, what have you heard about Reiki compared?

Additional Sources:

http://nathanu.hubpages.com/hub/Reiki-101-Everything-You-Want-To-Know

http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43901/13467329/Reiki_or_Tai_Chi?pg=2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiki