What can I expect at a Reiki Session?

First, let me start with a disclaimer: Reiki practitioners don't diagnose or pretend that Reiki replaces traditional medicine. 

When Reiki flows through your body, it dissolves energy blockages to restore the free flow of one's own life force energy.  After a Reiki treatment, people usually feel relaxed, centered, focused and with a better disposition. 

In a typical Reiki session, you can expect me to lay hands gently in different places of your body.  A questionnaire is used to determine which places you are not comfortable being touched.  I will use floating hands in these places as well as over the chakras that are located on sensitive parts of the body.  There will be no exceptions to these positions being floating hands only.

You may request for the whole session to be done using floating hands as Reiki will still be passed on this way and it is as effective as the gentle laying of hands.

The session starts with you lying on the Reiki table, I will give your Reiki and then ask you to turn so you are face down to continue the treatment.  Once I have intuitively been guided by Reiki on which hand positions to do, I will let you know that the treatment is over, and I will allow you time to incorporate and slowly seat yourself and eventually get up.

What is Reiki?

The word Reiki is a composition of two Japanese words.  Rei which means a higher power and Ki which means energy, life force energy.

Reiki is a Japanese technique where the Reiki practitioner can channel energy into the patient to promote stress reduction, relaxation, and healing by means of touch or laying of hands or floating hands as touch isn't really required for energy to flow.  A Reiki session can also be done even of both practitioner and client aren’t in the same room.  These sessions are called Distance Reiki Sessions.

Our bodies have energy centers called chakras.  Life Force energy flows through our whole body and the chakras are special centers of spiritual power where the energy flows.  If there are energy blockages in the body that doesn't allow our life force energy to flow freely, our bodies manifest sickness, stress, physical, emotional and spiritual ailments.

Reiki energy is intelligent.  Allowing it to flow through the body, helps dissolve blockages to restore the natural flow of energy.  It balances the chakras and brings a sense of relaxation and reduction of stress.

Reiki practitioners are not meant to replace traditional medicine though.  These are merely spiritual guides of wellness.

About Reiki and Me

Welcome to my reiki blog.  I learn many great things about Reiki each day, and I would like to share them with you.  This is why I have started My Reiki Notes.

What is Reiki

I almost started telling you about me and Reiki before properly introducing Reiki.

Reiki is a healing technique that works with energy.  We can all do Reiki, we just need to be attuned in order to do so.  But it is not a technique just for a few "chosen" ones.  It is available to all.  Do you want Reiki?  Great!  Just take a Reiki I course, give yourself Reiki every day and start living better for the rest of your life.

Our body has major energy centers that are called chakras.  Whenever you have a problem, illness or something difficult in your life, energy starts accumulating and creating blockages.  Reiki helps liberate those blockages and improves your body's energy flow.

When I give Reiki, I am using the energy of a source that is available to all.  You can call it God, Budda, Ala, the Cosmos, The Universe or simply call it Love.  It is energy that will always do you good, and that can never be used to harm or manipulate.

How I stumbled Upon Reiki

I first listened about reiki many many years ago.  There was this person I did not like, who said she was a Reiki Therapist.  I did not even care to ask her what Reiki was.  I let my own defects get in the way of having learned about Reiki earlier in my life. 

Later in my life, I was living in Madrid and a friend invited me to a meditation.  I have always liked meditations and anything that can help me live better.  If you speak Spanish, visit the meditation Website, there are many mp3s of meditations that you can download for free http://www.medita.es/

At the end of the meditation, there was this man that offered a Reiki Introduction for all those who had questions and wanted to know a little about Reiki.  He was there mostly to answer questions, and since I had no idea about Reiki, I had no questions to ask.  But I started to get a general idea that Reiki was some sort of healing technique that worked with energy from the questions other people had.

I kept going to meditations and one day my friend told me that she had completed her Reiki level 1 course and that she needed someone to practice with.  This is how I received my first Reiki session.  Even though I felt sensations and things happening in that session, it took me almost a year to register for Reiki I myself.

I received my attunement in Madrid, from Reiki Master John Curtin (http://www.sanacionysalud.com/) and my life started changing.

My Attunement

I received my attunement on a Saturday afternoon.  I had always had cold hands.  Now my hands are always warm.  Even in cold weather, they do not get as cold as they did before my Reiki attunement.

I was taught to give myself a reiki session daily for the next 21 days while a cleansing and energy liberating process was taking place in my body.  I felt physical changes during these 21 days.  A secondary reaction to this cleansing was that I was sleeping great, even a little sleepy during the day; and I had to go to the bathroom a lot in the first week.  This was my way of cleansing and liberating all those energy blockages that were present in my body.

Why did I want Reiki?

Little did I know...

I wanted Reiki because I suffered from chronic lumbar pain.  My knees were pretty bad and I used to get headaches.  I was told that Reiki helped to heal, and I wanted to be able to help my body.

What has Reiki Given me?

A new life.  Reiki not only has taken away that chronic lumbar pain - I do get it from time to time, but it is not a daily issue for me anymore - it has given me wonderful changes in all aspects of my life.  It has taken harmful friends away from my life.  It has given me wonderful new friends in return.  It has given me a new life in a new Country, and it is giving me serenity, joy, and happiness.

My Physical Changes

I am sure there are many changes I am not aware of and cannot describe.  But I am aware of not having lumbar pain daily, of wanting to eat better things for my body, of the warmth that I feel inside me.  I had not realized until now, that I do not have headaches anymore.

My Emotional Changes

I am a different person.  I am more patient.  I always wanted to rush.  I do cultivate these newly acquired assets, but Reiki makes it so much easier.  I also truly believe that I have to give the best of myself wherever I go.  That I always have to clean my side of the street and that it is not my place in life to take other people's inventories.  I used to think that everything was the other person's fault, never mine.  I see now, that I'd rather be happy and kind than be right!

My Spiritual Changes

All these emotional changes and being able to surrender my character defects to reiki, and fill them up with energy so that they can work for me instead of me working for them (the story of my life) have taken me to another spiritual level.

I want to live better and be happier every day.  So my body, my emotions, and reiki are just taking me to that path.

I have a daily ritual where I practice gratitude before starting my day and set intentions of kindness for my life.

I am able to trust there is a power greater than myself that can help me with absolutely everything in my life, that this Reiki energy comes from or is that power, and that I am no longer alone against the world.  I am now a part of it that is grateful and willing to surrender my life to what is best for me.

My Reiki Notes

There is no wrong way to do or receive Reiki.  Give yourself that gift!