Have you ever walked into a room and felt immediately uncomfortable or very at ease? It isn’t easy to pinpoint or explain why. This is your intuitive voice keying into the energy in a space or from a person. Every cell in our bodies hold the emotional energy of our thoughts and actions. Words and feelings in our minds, even unspoken, carry great energy into the world.
There is an Eastern belief in an energy that supports the body’s innate or natural healing abilities called Reiki.
Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation in which practitioners place their hands lightly on or just above a person with the goal of guiding one’s life force energy to facilitate the person’s own healing response.
Reiki is spiritual in nature, not a religious belief, promoting the idea that the mind exists not only in the brain, but also through-out the body. That means negative thoughts and feelings could collect in the body and restrict the flow of energy, which can lead to illness. Very little high-quality research has been done on Reiki, so we don’t really know the usefulness for health-related purposes. We do know that Reiki hasn’t been shown to have any harmful side effects (as long is it is not used instead of or postpones seeing a health care provider about a health problem).