What is Reiki

Reiki is a Japanese healing therapy that works with the universal life force energy, that aims to rebalance, recharge and align the body’s energy.

What is energy?

Simply put energy is the force that causes things to move or change.

In Reiki terms, energy is the life force which flows within our physical body through the energy centres and pathways known as “Chakras” (Nadis) and meridian pathways.

The way we think and feel can have a direct impact on the energy we emit. For example, certain situations or people can incite a reaction affecting our emotions. We know that if our emotions are affected positively or negatively, this can be noted by either a change in body temperature or a reaction or both. As a result we give off an energy that creates our aura or the mood around us.

This free-flowing energy surrounds everything and forms an energy field around our body which is known as the “aura”.

What is an aura?

An aura is a distinctive atmosphere, quality or feeling that surrounds a person or object. Auras can sometimes be seen by certain people as colours surrounding a physical being.

There are special cameras and technology that can capture the wavelengths and frequencies that form the aura in colour.

How does Reiki change our energy?

We know by simply brushing past a person in a room, that very movement can change the energy surrounding them. Think of the wind, we cannot see it but the energy it produces enables us to feel it and see its ability to move physical things.

By using specific reiki hand-placements, movements, providing a relaxed environment, a safe space and tapping into universal energy reiki has the ability to bring about positive change in the physical and emotional wellbeing by changing the energetic field and aura surrounding that person.

Reiki healers are deeply meditative, set intentions that draw on universal healing energy working intuitively to trigger a healing response. Reiki healers use hand placements and reiki healing symbols to channel Reiki energy.