Reiki: Your Questions Answered

What is Reiki Good For?

Our bodies, as we experience stress and emotional issues, create energetic waste. I like the formal term “gunk.” 😁 This gunk gets stuck in our aura and bodies. It causes physical issues, and even more emotional turmoil. Reiki clears the gunk.

This allows your life force energy to flow better. (Similar to the Chinese concept of Qi) It also allows your body the extra energy to begin to heal itself.

Because Reiki impacts your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies it can have a wide variety of benefits. Below are my three favorite benefits of Reiki.

• Stress Relief – Reiki is very relaxing. If you choose to do it simply for this, you will improve many areas of your life!
• Mental Clarity – this is an additional benefit to the stress relief portion. The more relaxed you are, and the more stagnant energy that is moved – the easier it is to see things clearly.
• Improved Sleep – another benefit of the reduced stress. But in addition, when it removes the energetic gunk, you have been carrying there is less energy blocking your sleep! I often sleep to a Reiki infused music track because it is so helpful.  Check out my Reiki infused sleep meditation.

Is Reiki Massage?

No. Reiki is energy healing. It is delivered either through light touch or hands placed slightly above the body. Some massage therapists may also be Reiki therapists. But they are two different services.

Is Reiki Real?

Short answer: yes. 

Longer answer: The healing energy of a Higher Universal Source and your own ability for healing energy to come through you is real. However, over centuries of modern thinking, this art and belief has been lost. Reiki is one of many energy healing techniques that is pulling this energy into our daily lives again. It does work, as a Reiki therapist is simply focusing universal healing energy on the client.

Remember, as with everything if you think it will not work – it won’t. Our minds are very powerful and can override even the strongest of treatments – both in the eastern and western medical traditions.

How Long Does Reiki Take to Work?

Reiki energy begins to work immediately. By the end of a session, your Chakras and energy will be balanced.

How long you stay balanced depends on your current situation. Many factors impacting including emotional, physical, spiritual and mental wellbeing.

Which actually brings us to the next question after this…

How Many Reiki Sessions are Needed?

Every person is different, and it depends on what you are dealing with. Talk to your practitioner to determine what your healing plan may entail.

From my experience, most clients need three to four sessions to get everything to clear and stabilize. Typically held once a week.

From that point on sessions are for maintenance. Again, how often will depend on the client’s life circumstances, but in my practice, I see a range from once a month to once a quarter.

Can Reiki Be Dangerous?

Reiki itself is not dangerous. With that said, you need to keep in mind that your Reiki Therapist needs to be energetically balanced and take the right steps to protect not only their personal space but the environment too.

While your therapist is a channel for the energy, and it does not come through them. Their own energy can still come off onto you. Energy is transferable to anyone by anyone – even when Reiki is not involved. 

This is why it is important that you know what your practitioner does to keep their own energy clean and how they ensure the space is energetically safe.

What Are the Risks of Reiki?

Reiki does not have any risks, like you would have in surgery. It is however energy healing, so you may experience some tiredness. When we clear out your energy your body can take some adjustment time. In my experience this is rarely more than 24 hours, and it does not impact everyone.

When Should You Not Use Reiki?

Because Reiki does impact your energy you don’t want to receive healing while you are doing anything that could cause harm if you fall asleep. For example, don’t drive a car while your practitioner is doing a distance session. If you have never had it and don’t know how you will react, I recommend for the first session you are just relaxing and not much is planned for afterwards.

Once you have experienced it and know how you are impacted by Reiki then you can better plan for when it is best for you to receive Reiki.

Additionally, you will want to avoid Reiki during medical procedures. But you can have it afterward or beforehand to relax and help the healing process.

What is a Reiki Master?

A Reiki Master has completed all three levels of training. Some traditions have four levels, where level three gives you the title of master practitioner. Then level four is Reiki Master that can train others in Reiki.

What is a Reiki Attunement?

Reiki attunement is what occurs when a person goes through each of the levels of training. The attunement opens the person up to being able to channel the Universal energy.

With each level opening you up more to the energy.

What is Distance Reiki?

Reiki can be done without the client and practitioner in the same room. So, when someone says they can do a distance session for you, it just means you can relax at home while they do the energy healing.

How Does Distance Reiki Work?

As a Reiki practitioner reaches level two, they learn how to focus the healing energy over a distance. Reiki energy does not come from the practitioner. The practitioner is a channel for energy from our higher life source. Because we are all connected, directing that energy to you from afar is possible. Time and space are not a factor with energy.

The process involves connecting through a symbol and a prayer. This opens the channel of energy to be directed to the client.

What Should I Expect After a Reiki Session?

The healing experience is different for everyone. Depending on what and how much we worked on you may feel some physical or emotional detoxing effect after.

In my practice I see this happen in about 1 out of 6 healings.

So, what exactly might you experience if this happens to you? You may be more tired or be more susceptible to sickness. This should clear within a few days.

You may also experience an emotional detox. If your energy block was due to a specific issue, you may find it easier to work through it. Or it may creep up and test you!

On the other hand, you may feel more energetic. Until you know how you typically react, remember to allow extra time after your sessions for anything that might come up.

Are all Reiki Practitioners Intuitive?

No. Just as every doctor is trained in the basics, and then they pick a specialty to practice. Every Reiki therapist is taught how to transfer healing energy from the universe to a client. Then we all do it with our own style!

For example, my style is intuitive healing with the focus on helping you find clarity around your next steps in life. But I have friends that use Reiki to help people with long term illnesses and it doesn’t include intuitive messages.

Learn more about my Spiritual Energy Healing Sessions

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