Reiki isn’t a religion and requires no set belief system for it to work. It doesn’t re- quire meditations, incantations, rituals or ceremonies. You don’t have to play music, burn candles or incense, or do anything special. All you do is intend to channel Reiki. Then place your hands on yourself, another person, a pet, a plant, your food, and the air around you in a room where you feel the energy is stagnant, dense or constricted. Or you direct it to a distant person, place or past or future event. The energy will follow the intention.
For a concrete example of how Reiki works, imagine a sphere of light in the sky above you. This light is the intelligent source of Reiki energy. That Reiki has its own intelligence is …show more content…
The Reiki practitioner can place his or her hands on the client’s head, but the energy may go to their arms, chest, back, or feet. The higher self of the recipient moves into direct relationship with the energy.
The energy knows exactly where it’s needed and goes there, regardless of where the practitioner’s hands are placed. A Reiki practitioner is nothing more than a hollow reed, allowing the energy to pass through one’s own body to another person.
Another way of looking at it is to imagine that Reiki is a natural healing life force that should be part of us all, but as modern life moves us away from nature, we are cut off from that energy. Through the attunement process, the Reiki practitioner gains access to this energy again. When the practitioner intends the energy to ben- efit someone else, the connection to this life force is once again awakened in the recipient. A vortex is created where the practitioner’s touch on the client’s body not only introduces Reiki into the client, but allows the Reiki energy to run on its own for the next day or so. The Reiki energy will balance the physical systems,