About Reiki:
Reiki is the process of learning how to heal yourself and others through a sacred hands-on-healing technique
Manny first experienced Reiki at his job working as a corporate director of a Chicago based company. Manny had been to several doctors and even the emergency room complaining of chest pains and heart palpitations yet was unable to find any physical reasons for the symptoms. The diagnosis was that the pains were stress related and also related to acid reflux. After taking acid reflux medicine and undergoing distressing techniques suggested by his physician, Manny found that his chest pains were only getting worse.
His supervisor at the time was a Reiki Practioner and she suggested Manny try out Reiki to help with his chest pains. Having exhausted other options, Manny agreed to a session the following week. Within 2 weeks of the initial session, Manny’s chest pains had vanished and he was no longer experiencing heart palpitations.
The following is an account of some of what Manny experienced in his first session:
“About half way through the session I found myself in a fairly deep meditative state. At that point I recalled a memory from childhood I had forgotten about. During my early teen years I was struggling with bullies at school and was having an extremely difficult time sleeping at night. I remembered nights where I would cry myself to sleep after a particularly brutal bully encounter had happened earlier that day.
I recalled one night in particular that I had completely forgotten about until the Reiki session. As a teen boy I remember lying in bed sobbing and being in a terrible emotional state. All of a sudden I saw a face appear before me. I could not make out the features and did not know where this image was coming from. It had an extremely familiar and loving feel to it even though I had no idea who or what it was. I immediately felt a sense of intense calm and peace that I had not felt for a long time. I quickly fell asleep that night and had the best night sleep I had had in weeks.
During the Reiki session as an adult, I saw my younger self lying in bed sobbing during that memory. As an adult looking back at that memory I actually said to my younger self, “Everything may seem very dark right now but you must know that this is only temporary. You are divinely loved, guided, and protected and this time will pass. It will most definitely get better.”
At that moment I saw my younger self look right at me. He was staring at the very face that I remember so long ago comforting me and letting me know everything would be okay. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that face was actually me. “
In this particular case Reiki served as a conduit in helping to mend the relationship between the present and the past. Einstein’s theories state that all of time is happening simultaneously in space. Younger and older version of ourselves exist now and the relationship and bonds between these selves is vital to our physical and emotional health.
While not all Reiki sessions have quite as dramatic effects, they can many times serve to move a person toward healing that is appropriate for them at the moment.
Reiki helps to get to the emotional and spiritual root of physical symptoms. Physical symptoms actually start in the body as emotional or spiritual blocks. The physical result is actually the last aspect of how the block manifests itself.
Reiki is the process of learning how to heal yourself and others through a sacred hands-on-healing technique
Manny first experienced Reiki at his job working as a corporate director of a Chicago based company. Manny had been to several doctors and even the emergency room complaining of chest pains and heart palpitations yet was unable to find any physical reasons for the symptoms. The diagnosis was that the pains were stress related and also related to acid reflux. After taking acid reflux medicine and undergoing distressing techniques suggested by his physician, Manny found that his chest pains were only getting worse.
His supervisor at the time was a Reiki Practioner and she suggested Manny try out Reiki to help with his chest pains. Having exhausted other options, Manny agreed to a session the following week. Within 2 weeks of the initial session, Manny’s chest pains had vanished and he was no longer experiencing heart palpitations.
The following is an account of some of what Manny experienced in his first session:
“About half way through the session I found myself in a fairly deep meditative state. At that point I recalled a memory from childhood I had forgotten about. During my early teen years I was struggling with bullies at school and was having an extremely difficult time sleeping at night. I remembered nights where I would cry myself to sleep after a particularly brutal bully encounter had happened earlier that day.
I recalled one night in particular that I had completely forgotten about until the Reiki session. As a teen boy I remember lying in bed sobbing and being in a terrible emotional state. All of a sudden I saw a face appear before me. I could not make out the features and did not know where this image was coming from. It had an extremely familiar and loving feel to it even though I had no idea who or what it was. I immediately felt a sense of intense calm and peace that I had not felt for a long time. I quickly fell asleep that night and had the best night sleep I had had in weeks.
During the Reiki session as an adult, I saw my younger self lying in bed sobbing during that memory. As an adult looking back at that memory I actually said to my younger self, “Everything may seem very dark right now but you must know that this is only temporary. You are divinely loved, guided, and protected and this time will pass. It will most definitely get better.”
At that moment I saw my younger self look right at me. He was staring at the very face that I remember so long ago comforting me and letting me know everything would be okay. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that face was actually me. “
In this particular case Reiki served as a conduit in helping to mend the relationship between the present and the past. Einstein’s theories state that all of time is happening simultaneously in space. Younger and older version of ourselves exist now and the relationship and bonds between these selves is vital to our physical and emotional health.
While not all Reiki sessions have quite as dramatic effects, they can many times serve to move a person toward healing that is appropriate for them at the moment.
Reiki helps to get to the emotional and spiritual root of physical symptoms. Physical symptoms actually start in the body as emotional or spiritual blocks. The physical result is actually the last aspect of how the block manifests itself.