Reiki and other forms of energy therapy are unique in their ability to be used across distances. What this means is that you can receive reiki remotely. Through telephone or online platform, a practitioner can connect with your energy system and send reiki and healing energies to you.
Reiki works with your life force (similar to how “chi” or “qi” is understood in Eastern medicine). Reiki itself is a form of universal energy that engages your personal life force system in a way that allows impurities to purge from the body, heart, and mind. A reiki practitioner is typically trained in multiple energy medicine techniques that enable them to connect your energy to reiki so that it can access a person where healing is needed most.
These techniques are all intention based and look different for each practitioner in accordance with how the practitioner reads and receives energy. Some practitioners can sense visually where healing is needed, others can feel in their own body what needs to be paid attention to, while some move through a session guided entirely by intuition.
In accordance with the client’s intention for healing, a practitioner is shown where reiki needs to go. Often a practitioner can tell their client how reiki is shifting or moving out an energy of illness.
This kind of healing is layered and does not only operate in the physical body. There are emotional, mental, and spiritual components that are involved in a healing session. A well trained practitioner can help you connect the dots between your physical healing and how things may also be shifting in your mind, heart, and spirit.
For more on how reiki can be used and understood, please reference these posts HOW REIKI AND THE CHAKRAS CAN HELP US FIND OUR WAY and WHAT HAPPENS DURING A REIKI SESSION?
This kind of healing does wonders for calming the nerves and bringing you back to center. It has been likened to the kind of deep relaxation that is experienced by other healing techniques like hypnosis and yoga nidra. Reiki not only reduces stress and anxiety, some studies show that it can actually affect the immune system in more direct ways. In a study conducted by the Helfgott Resarch Institute, patients who received Reiki experienced enhanced red and white blood cell counts. This is significant as red blood cells send oxygen through the body helping to discard carbon dioxide and white blood cells enable our body to fight off infection. Conversely, patients who were in corresponding control groups experienced very little change (Hodsdon, W., Mendenhall, E., Green, R., Kates-Chinnoy,S., Wacker, E, & Zwickey, H. “The Effect of Reiki on the Immune System”. Helfgott Research Institute at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Portland, Oregon, USA)
I have operated as a distance healer locally, nationally, and internationally for 8 years. All of my client’s report having powerful experiences (more than once I have been someone’s birthday or Christmas present). This work is particularly successful with the highly sensitive and empathic communities. Because this healing modality engages the nervous system in a way that reduces external stimulation, those who often have the experience of being inundated by the energies of their environment are able to find respite during reiki. Some people even find that they have a strengthened energetic resiliency that allows them to move through life less bogged down and influenced by their surroundings.
Curious to know what a reiki session experience looks like? Here’s a run down
· A conversation about what you would like to be different (stress relief, immune support, clarity around decision making, relief from physical pain, etc.)
· It will be encouraged that you lie down or sit in a relaxed position without distraction if possible. Eye covering and blanket are nice to have as well.
· A healing “container” is created for you by the practitioner so that you are in a state of mind and body to receive healing. This is done by guided meditation.
· The practitioner will track out loud for you where all of the places reiki and healing energies are going to (organs, muscles, bones, nervous system, etc.) and you will be told what kind of healing is happening (emotional, mental, and/or physical).
· Once the healing is complete, the practitioner will gently release your energy from the healing container and bring your awareness back to your surroundings. A brief discussion may be had around what healing works was done and how to maintain it.
· Sessions last approximately 50 – 60 minutes.
· The effects of reiki vary from person to person. Generally, people describe a reiki session as a “reset” that allows them to remain aligned for days or even weeks. Much like other healing modalities, this kind of work asks for a certain amount of self care to support the healing. Having a consistent routine of self maintenance is the best way to reap the benefits of reiki long term.
Reiki sessions can be scheduled through our regular booking system. If you wish to have your session provided remotely, just make a note in the space provided that this work is requested to be distance. We will follow-up with an email with more information.