What is Reiki:

     Reiki is a Japanese healing arts technique for stress reduction and relaxation. It promotes healing by switching our body from a fight or flight mode to a rest and digest mode. Reiki translates as "spiritually guided life force energy" or what we may understand as the "Holy Spirit" through a Christian lens. However, Reiki is not tied to any religion, only that of pure, unconditional love.​ So, Reiki is appropriate for those of all faiths and religions. Overall, Reiki is a very relaxing experience. Many people report feeling a calming and loving sense of security and well-being surrounding and flowing through them.

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       Reiki uses a light hands-on technique over one's clothes to increase the proper alignment and flow of one's energy. Many things can influence energy disruptions or distortions from physical injuries to even negative thoughts and emotions. If the energy becomes chronically distorted, physical manifestations of dis-ease can even occur. Since Reiki works to realign energy distortions, it can act as a preventative therapy as well as one to treat current issues.

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       Pain is a signal to the body that something is out of alignment and needs to change. This can occur as physical pain or as mental/emotional pain such as anxiety which often produces physical tightness along with it. Every pain we experience serves as a teacher to help us learn a lesson and come into alignment with our Higher Selves. That's why it's so important to ask the body and soul why the pain is present. Sometimes the reason is obvious, but other times, it can be more elusive. Once we learn the why/the soul lesson and make the appropriate changes, the pain is no longer needed by the body and can be released. Sometimes, we need to truly understand the reason so we can make the appropriate changes, but other times, we simply need to allow ourselves to feel the trapped energy/emotion to release it. For example, have you ever released a knot during a massage session or gotten to your edge in a stretch only to have different emotions well up to be released too? That's trapped energy tied to emotions. Reiki helps us get straight to the underlying trapped energy! So, often times people leave with reduced pain and tightness in their physical bodies just by receiving Reiki.

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       Reiki brings you into a deep meditative state, changing your typical waking consciousness of beta brainwaves to deep healing brainwaves such as theta. In these states, one can access their subconscious and dream-like state much more easily. Here is where your soul speaks to you helping inform you of "the why" to your pain and issues. Our bodies know how to heal themselves. We just often need to get out of our own way. For more information on brainwaves and Reiki, check out this link.