Reiki is a beautiful way to restore, rebalance and heal. A gentle but deep, hands on or off healing technique that infuses your being; emotions, body and spirit with the unconditional love of source energy. It brings balance and harmony, igniting the body’s natural healing process enabling you to release struggles and negative emotions returning once more to an inner state of peace and tranquility, to a place where insights and inspiration can be received.
History
If you are anything like me, you are reading thus, think sounds good, but what is Reiki and where did it come from? Well here is a very brief explanation. It is said that Reiki was first used by Tibetan Monks and was then rediscovered in 1800’s by Mikao Usui a Buddhist man from Japan. The word Reiki is pronounced Ray-Key and is often translated as ‘universal life force energy ‘or ‘spiritual energy’. The Japanese character for Rei is 霊 and is translated as ‘universal’, ‘spirit, ‘soul’ and “atmosphere of the divine’, it is the divine intelligence that comes from source/god/universe/ all that is. It is the all-knowing wisdom which understands the root cause of all problems and difficulties and knows how to heal them. The Japanese character for Ki is 気 and is translated as ‘energy’ or ‘life force’ (as in Chi or Prana in Sanskrit). When the Ki in your body is high you feel healthy and vibrant, you have a greater resistance to illness and disease and you will find it easy to deal with life. A common translation is of Reiki then is ‘universal life force energy’ and thus could be seen as a pure source energy that is the unconditional love of the Universe, available to us all.