HIGHLIGHTS

• Reiki is an energy healing modality from Japan.

• It's like water - it's gentle and goes wherever it's needed.

• Reiki can't be used for harm. It always works in the highest good.

• A person always receives as little or as much Reiki as they're open to.

TRANSCRIPT

Let's look first at “what is Reiki”.  Reiki is an ancient energy healing modality that comes from Japan.  It's a Japanese word. Reiki means universal life energy. And Reiki is a natural energy modality. It's very gentle and harmonious with all sorts of different other types of healing modalities.

And so it can really work together with acupuncture, with yoga, with sound healing, with crystals. People give Reiki to products that they create, like candles or Reiki infused water. There's so many things that you can mix and blend with Reiki because it's so gentle, but powerful.

Reiki assists the body in its own highest level of healing and wellness. It doesn't conflict or interfere with other types of treatment. So I actually use water as the metaphor for Reiki. Reiki, like water. Water is very gentle, and it's soothing. And it's nurturing, but it's also very powerful.

Over time, water can carve canyons. And like this, the more that you're working with Reiki, the more it's clearing out your energetic system, whatever you're ready to let go of at the time, clearing and balancing and harmonizing your system. So that very organically and comfortably and naturally over time you really change.

Reiki cannot be used for harm. It is a high vibrational energy. It's this high vibrational energy, if somebody were wanting to have a low negative intention and trying to use it with Reiki, they just wouldn't match up. In order to work with Reiki, Reiki helps you to raise your vibration to be aligned with it.

When we're using Reiki, it's gentle. It works in the highest good. It heals, aligns, balances, clears, teaches, energizes, illuminates, transforms, uplifts, harmonizes, replenishes and more. It's just amazing energy that's very powerful, but very pure and very gentle. So you'll always receive the amount of Reiki that you're open to receive.

If that's a little bit for you, then you'll receive a little bit. Reiki will be subtle and gentle if you are open to receive a lot, you're really ready to shift and change and transform, then you can receive a lot of energy and Reiki can work that powerfully for you. So again, using this metaphor of water, As the Reiki practitioner, I'm like the tube or the funnel that the water flows through.

Reiki, like the water- if you pour water onto dry soil, it'll just absorb everywhere it needs to go. And so in that way, we don't have to direct the Reiki. into the person and we don't have to imagine and envision where it needs to go. We can place our hands anywhere on ourself or on another person and the energy will go wherever it needs to go.

So if I place my hands here, but if my knees needed the Reiki, the Reiki will go to my knees. I don't even need to know where I need Reiki. I just show up and offer the Reiki and my body absorbs it wherever it needs to go. Just like when you're pouring the water on the soil and it absorbs wherever it needs to go.

It's very nice like that because it's foolproof. We don't need to figure anything out as the practitioner or giver of Reiki. We can just be the pure conduit, the pure channel. Like I said, the tube or the funnel that the energy flows through and trust and know that Reiki will go wherever it needs to go.

And in the same way, this metaphor of water for Reiki, as the practitioner or the giver of Reiki, I show up to offer this (the water metaphor) this water. Some people will be like dry parched soil. They'll be very open, very receptive, and they will absorb a lot of the Reiki energy. If you pour water on cardboard, some of it will absorb and some of it will roll off.

Some people will be somewhat open but not fully open and they will receive the right amount for them. If you pour water on glass, the water just rolls off and nothing is absorbed. That shouldn't happen to you, if you're not trying to push Reiki on somebody who's not open. But, just for example, if you try to give Reiki to somebody who's not open to it, basically they're like glass.

They're not going to absorb anything. And so, in that way, Reiki's foolproof. You can't force Reiki on somebody. And so both for the giver and the receiver, it makes sense only to give Reiki with permission to someone who's open to receive it. Otherwise nothing happens. And it's a waste of your time and energy as the giver.

And it's a waste of the receiver's time and energy. Reiki is beautiful like that. It always works, in the way that is appropriate for the person because the receiver, whether consciously or unconsciously, determines how much Reiki they will receive by their openness. So, that's a very basic little overview of what is Reiki.