What is Reiki?

Reiki is an energy healing therapy used to balance the flow of energy throughout the body. It is used as a complementary therapy that treats the body as a whole by balancing the body’s energy centers which unblocks obstacles to well being. This in turn aids the body’s natural healing process.

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also has many health benefits. The word Reiki is made up of two Japanese words - Rei and Ki.

“Rei” means spiritual wisdom, higher knowledge or spiritual consciousness. “Ki” means life energy, vital life force or universal life force.

While fasting and meditating for 21 days on Mt. Kurama , Dr. Mikao Usui (“Usui Sensei”) discovered Reiki energy in 1914. He used Reiki from this point forward to help others. Eventually he began teaching Reiki to students who wanted to learn this powerful form of healing.

How Does Reiki Heal?

Scientists have discovered that every cell in our body is made up of energy. Therefore, the organs in our body are made up of trillions of cells and since our organs are in our body then our body is made up of energy.

If the energy in a cell or group of cells is weak or unhealthy then the energy in the organ or body part the cells make up is weak or unhealthy. If the energy in a cell or group of cells is strong or healthy then the energy in the organ or body part the cells make up is strong or healthy. Therefore, disease happens when the energy in a cell is weak or unhealthy.

Reiki brings the energy of the cells of the body back into alignment or a healthy state which allows the body to tap into it’s own natural healing ability to fight off disease. A healthy cell equals a healthy body.

Why Does Distant Reiki Healing Work?

Distant Reiki healing has been practiced by healers in the Far East for centuries.  Distant Reiki healing and energy healing therapy is being clinically studied in the West by places such as the California Pacific Medical Center in Northern California.

Cardiologist Robert Bryd determined that people who were prayed for had better outcomes than those who were not when he conducted a double blind study of 400 patients. The field of Quantum Physics may provide some answers why remote healing works. 

In the early 1980’s a team of scientists at the University of Paris led by Alain Aspect made an incredible discovery that may be one of the most important discoveries in modern science.  They found that under certain circumstances some subatomic particles were able to communicate instantaneously with each other no matter how far apart they were from each other.  It didn’t matter if they were millions of miles apart.

In other research in 1997 Nicolas Gisan duplicated these findings and concluded that some particles appeared to be communicating at the mind boggling speed of 20,000 times the speed of light.
These conclusions may give clues as to why distance healing works.

Well known quantum physicist David Bohm concluded the reasons why subatomic particles can stay in contact with each other despite vast distances is not because they are transmitting some unknown signal back and forth but because the separateness of the particles is an illusion.  Bohm surmises that at a deeper level of reality the particles are not individual entities but are extensions of the same fundamental something and everything in the universe is infinitely interconnected.

Some scientists are now recognizing what mystics from many traditions have said for millennia, that we are all connected and that we are not separate.  

Distant healing energy can get transferred over long distances because we are all connected.  It doesn’t make any difference if the one transmitting the energy is in a different state or country than the recipient.