Reiki CAN be life-changing in so many positive ways.

Reiki is a gentle yet powerful energy healing system that can go beyond just healing. It has also the power to reconnect you with the life force around you and realign you with the deepest core of your being, your Soul.

In this article, I’ll discuss 7 powerful benefits that Reiki can offer you and you didn’t know you needed.

Whether you are just curious about having a Reiki session or even become attuned to the Reiki system, the following list will inform you well on your path of becoming familiar with the spiritual phenomenon called Reiki.

1. Reiki Connects You to the Universal Life Force

Reiki, as I mentioned in this article’s intro, is not just another energy healing modality, it can also help you connect with the life-force that surrounds you all the time making you sensitive to the subtle shifts of this force within and without.

The meaning of Rei and Ki

If you look up the two Japanese characters that make the word Reiki, you find that the Rei part means mysterious, spiritual while the Ki means life-force.

I would also like to add to the above that many Reiki practitioners refer to it as a form of Universal Energy that a practitioner is channeling when applying it.

In my experience (as an intuitive and sensitive to the subtle energies of life-force), I have discovered over the years that this energy a has a unique signature that makes it a nurturing, gentle, calming and calming one.

Reiki as a bridge to the same energy known as prana or chi

Reiki can become your entry point to sense life-force and the subtle energies yourself if you haven’t already learned how to do so.

The word ki is what in Chinese Traditional Medicine is called chi. Chi refers to the life force energy that surrounds us. This chi energy can take many forms. One of those forms is the particular energy channeled by Reiki practitioners.

Reiki can become your entry point to sense life-force and the subtle energies yourself if you haven’t already learned how to do so.

So, when a newbie to the subtle worlds of energies begins working with Reiki, they will definitely be able to sense these energies in a very tangible way (of course if they are open to it).

2. Reiki Helps Heal Emotional and Energetic Imbalances

How Reiki works like an energy-based massage
Reiki can be described as a gentle massage on your energy body.

While in common massage, the practitioner’s goal is to loosen up tightness in the muscles of the body. Through Reiki the goal is to release tension in the subtle energy body of a person.

The role of the energetic body in holding past emotions

Your energy body can hold negative emotions either caused by trauma or by absorbing it from people, or places. By sending Reiki to the root cause of these emotions, you can release you from them.

You do not need to suffer from severe emotional issues to experience the positive effects Reiki has on the emotional body.

For instance, whenever I have a long day, or have experienced something unpleasant that created stress in me, I always try not to go to bed without dealing with the stress that my energy body now holds.

Your energy body can hold negative emotions either caused by trauma or by absorbing it from people, or places.

What I do is just lie down and send energy back to the situation that caused my upset (I will discuss how you can send energy either back to the past or towards the future later).

3. It Uses Gentle, Non-Invasive Healing Touch

What to expect during a Reiki session (light touch or no touch)

Reiki energy can be applied in two ways. It can either be applied through light touch, or through the intention of the Reiki practitioner to send this energy to the recipient (again, I will discuss how to send Reiki to someone without touching them later).

In this way, people that are sensitive to touch can choose to receive Reiki without the practitioner’s interference of placing their hands on them.

Sensations you may feel when receiving Reiki

How someone can sense the Reiki energy varies from person to person.

Generally speaking, people have reported that during a Reiki session they might feel either warmth coming from the practitioner’s hand, a pulsing sensation or even some sort of tingling. You might also feel nothing during a session, just a deep sense of peace.

How someone can sense the Reiki energy varies from person to person.

Either you feel the energy of Reiki or not when receiving it does not matter because Reiki energy is an intelligent and knows exactly what you need and takes care of it.

4. Can Open the Door to Spiritual and Intuitive Messages

Messages through symbols, words, or even visions

Reiki, being spiritual energy, can also strengthen your intuition.

Many people report that during a session, they have received intuitive messages either as images, symbols, or even words coming into their minds.

I can distinctly remember the first time I received my in-person Reiki attunement.

Reiki, being spiritual energy, can also strengthen your intuition.

With my eyes closed, I had a vision in my mind of sculpture of a Buddha-like figure meditating. I felt that my heart somehow opened, and this was followed by a very expansive feeling in the same region of the heart.

5. Reiki Can Be Sent Across Space and Time to Heal the Past and Empower the Future

How energy transcends time and space

As I promised above, it’s time to discuss a Reiki practitioner’s ability of sending Reiki through space and time.

Reiki is not bound to the laws of physics, because it transcends it.

There are three Reiki attunements that you can receive (some may receive a four-part first attunement, or receive all attunements in one go) this depends on the Reiki teacher offering the attunements), each one of them granting you with new ways on how to apply this energy.

A Reiki practitioner that has received the second attunement of the Reiki system can send Reiki energy to a recipient that is not in the same space that the practitioner is.

Upon receiving the second degree of the Reiki system, you have also the ability to send Reiki energy either to the past or to the future. This can open you up to the possibility of either heal deep wounds from the past, or manifest something you want by sending Reiki to the future.

That energy can transcend space and time can nowadays be verified by physics.

Reiki is not bound to the laws of physics, because it transcends it.

With the works of either physicist Albert Einstein, or the theories of quantum mechanics, the viewpoint of today’s society on how the universe works has shifted.

It has move away from the idea that the universe operates like a clockwork machine with rigid laws bound to space and time that prevailed before the 19^th century (which called Newtonian physics, attributed to the works of the physicist Isaac Newton), towards an expanded, and energy-based way of seeing things that defy these rigid laws (at least in the subatomic world).

6. Reiki Offers Clarity, Emotional Support, and Self-Love

The nurturing, validating effects of Reiki

Any person who either had experienced Reiki in a session or has been attuned to the Reiki system can attest to the nurturing nature of it.

Reiki energy can be felt as an invisible friend that can support you during challenging periods of your life.

In my case, this support helped me during a very stressful period of my life that had affected my mental health.

Reiki energy can be felt as an invisible friend that can support you during challenging periods of your life.

Applying to myself Reiki frequently (and with the help of traditional ways of dealing with mental health issues) I overcame this hurdle and come out stronger on the other side.

7. You Can Practice Reiki on Yourself for Ongoing Support

Learning Reiki for self-treatment

One of the biggest benefits that one can experience, even having only received the first attunement of the system, is the ability to give Reiki to yourself.

Reiki, (as I mentioned above) can support you in many ways.

Adding the routine of giving myself at least 30 minutes of Reiki each morning has helped me improve my life immensely. Also, whenever a crisis occurs, or something is troubling me, I will also add a one-hour session into my schedule of Reiki self-treatment to deal with it.

One of the biggest benefits that one can experience, even having only received the first attunement of the system, is the ability to give Reiki to yourself.

So, I would encourage you if (if you have only received the first attunement of the Reiki system), to build the habit of giving yourself a Reiki treatment at least 10 minutes a day. You will notice the benefits of this daily routine from the first week.

Conclusion

Reiki can gently shift your world from the inside out. From acquiring the ability to connect with the life force energy around you to receiving emotional support or achieving spiritual clarity, you will see the benefits of Reiki in all facets of your life.

If after reading all the above have a strong sense that you need Reiki in your life, I would encourage you to listen to this voice and not hesitate to enter the wonderful world of Reiki because this will truly change your life for the better. I can attest to that!