The Magic of Reiki

You would be curious to know howReiki works and what it feels like to both practitioner and patient.

Each person reacts in a different way to Reiki. Since it works where the recipient need it most, no general rule can be said to exist. Some recepients of Reiki admitted that they had never experienced such a deep sense of relaxation in their whole life and some said that they were filled with a feeling of peace and serenity. A gentleman said that his legs prickled all the time and he got very restless. A lady saw many images, wonderful landscapes and colors. 

Reiki treatment is done by laying hands gently on the various parts of the body with fingers closed tight. The recipient soon feels a kind of flowing sensation, often combined with a sensation of warmth, which can turn into heat or become quite cold. The patient will often feel the flowing as noticeably as practitioners do, as well as the sensation of hot and cold. On some occasions, he will also sense warmth at a different part of the body than where we feel it, or what he experiences as warmth it cold for us.

But, if a thermometer is placed between the practitioner's hands and the patient's body it will not register a noticeable change in temperature. Obviously, the change that is experienced as taking place, cannot be measured physically.

Many Reiki recipients fall asleep during treatment, but this won't make any difference in the effects of treatment. A release of emotions can occur and tears will flow or a laugh of relief will be released. It has also been known for experiences of a strongly visual character to occur; this may take on a visionary character in the case of people who regularly practise a form of meditation. It can also occur that a series of treatment will bring about dissolution of inner barriers which had been blocking holistic growth in a person.

When a healer lays hands on the patient's body in order to link him to the energy of Reiki, it won't merely affect him on the material plane but will involve him in his entirety of spirit, body and mind. Physical illness or weakness is only the bodily expression of lack of basic order, a sign of having fallen out of a state of inner union with all life.

Reiki will bring you a decisive step closer to an original state of order. Reiki energycannot be explained along the usual lines of therapeutic thinking. When someone is treated with Reiki, he is brought back into a state of unity with the harmony of the universe. This harmony, which is able to reach him in this smallest of cells, makes him whole and healthy again, the patient can heal himself by utilizing his natural ability.

Reiki opens new doors for us, it leads us to a state of wholeness. Some people start to meditate or practice some other kind of spiritual method. Others will change their eating habits or their approach towards life or even try to become Reiki practitioners themselves. Some patients will become aware of problems that had been repressed all along and find solutions for them. It is not seldom that a person will take certain bold and new steps or develop the wish to change something in life. A patient should follow these positive impulses for his own good.

If one starts Reiki he will notice that the effects of treatment may differ from what he had been expecting.

Reiki has its own way or formula, knowing where and to what extent it is required. For this reason, it is not necessary to make a diagnosis before treatment, a fact that spares us no few mistakes. Every now and then patients come with certain complaints only to discover after treatment that other things have helped him a lot which looked insignificant in the beginning.

FEATURES OF REIKI

REIKI strengthens both body and soul
REIKI re-establishes spiritual equilibrium and mental well being.
REIKI functions on all levels, whether mental or spiritual, physical or emotional.
REIKI encourages the body's natural ability to heal itself.
REIKI cleanses the body of toxins.
REIKI delivers according to the needs of the recipient.
REIKI is effective on animals, plants and other various things.
REIKI is an extremely pleasant method of healing.
REIKI balances the energies of body.
REIKI loosens up blocked energy and helps to attain a state of total relaxation.

Reiki can never do damage in any way, since it only flows in the quantities required by the recipient.
The effect of Reiki on the practitioner! What does he feel, what does he experience when he is treating someone with it? It has already been mentioned that the practitioners are only a channel for Reiki. They are not the source of this energy; rather they place us at its disposal as a kind of catalyst. No special kind of power or ability is necessary and no great effort is required. On the contrary, while they direct the flow of Reiki to a patient's body, they are being charged with it simultaneously.

The practitioner frequently experiences a sense of flowing in their hands. Some often have the feeling of sparks flying away from their hands, as if flashes of energy were jumping over to the patient. This is always a pleasant and harmonious experience for them. The experience that the practitioner has above all is a deep feeling of inner union with the patient. One often intuitively senses of patient's deficiencies or disorders while he is treating him. Afterwards he feels happy and balanced physically and spiritually.

The treatment with Reiki can result in the appearance of a slight or more vehement detoxification symptom on the physical level. These symptoms are to be regarded as a biologically sensible means of self-regulation. They generally take on the form of increase evacuation of the bowels and urine, and increase mucus secretion in the upper respiratory tract, while burning tears in eyes may also occur. Sometimes ears and skin expel an increased amount of waste products. A temporary fever or a a temporary return of an earlier illness are also possible. These occurrences are to be considered as a valuable means of recovering physical health and not as a return of illness representing as they do in absolutely natural cleansing mechanism. These reactions only last a short time, and the patient will generally feel all the better for them, it should be noted that after a long period of fasting, similar kind of symptoms appear.

It may look odd to some people that Reiki therapy may cause previous illnesses to reappear and run a shortened course with Reiki treatment, but the illnesses previously suffered are experienced briefly again in reverse order, signifying a genuine and natural healing a phenomenon that may occur as a result of Reiki treatment.

First of all, unresolved experiences and problems should be brought back to consciousness where they can be  resolved and laid to one side as being over. In this manner, tensions, which are often rooted in the past and are the cause of blockages in the present, can be neutralized with the help of Reiki.

If one treats with Reiki to a great extent, similar reactions to the ones described above may happen to him, too. This is because when you treat someone with Reiki, it will be flowing through your hands and yourself, unfolding its healing power withing you at the same time as the patient. Thus, by passing Reiki onto others, you yourself will be cleansed more and more and made whole and healthy. You will notice that trust will slowly begin to develop within you, trust in a wisdom and power that will stick to your the whole life. The Reiki will lead you to insight and knowledge, to a conscious sense of unity with the whole of universe and above all, it will fill you with love and joy.