When you change and lift your vibration/emotional feeling you create a healthier energy and environment in the cells of your body. This can be hard to do during difficult times, during periods of stress and illness of yourself or others. It can feel wrong to try and be happy if a member of your family is ill for example.

A way to reframe this avenue of thinking can be to realise that you would not stop eating healthily if your family member was ill in an attempt to try and be as ill as they were. You would try to keep yourself healthy, fit and well enough to be able to be of support to your family member.

This can be the same with energy. Raising your vibration during the day is as health giving for your body as a healthy lunch can be instead of a quick packet of crisps and sweets. You know that healthy food will make you feel better and keep you going through the tough times, and so it is with raising your vibration. This does not mean you are ignoring the challenges or your emotions, it means you are keeping your energy flowing to enable you to better deal with these challenges.

Bereavement councillors are specifically taught that it is a healthy part of the role to be able to disconnect from the energy and situation of the client they are helping. Admittedly this is harder to disconnect with people we know and love in tough times, but it is a necessity to keep mentally healthy.

Everyone finds their own way to disconnect and find a joyful moment. Finding joy really is about raising your own vibration. Joy is different for everyone, it can be a quiet walk, an energy giving run in the park, a good Friday night out, a good Friday night in, but all have the same result in rebalancing the negative, lower energy vibrations in the body.

As grounding works to balance the physical electrical energy in the body (see previous blog post for more information on the benefits of grounding), the effects from Reiki go far beyond the physical body and can be used as a holistic system for balancing, healing and harmonising all aspects of the individual – body, mind, emotions and spirit.

It can be used to encourage personal and spiritual awareness and growth, and can bring a greater clarity of mind, increased creativity and a more relaxed, flowing approach to life.

In this way Reiki is more than a laying on of hands for a physical therapy. It is a way to use energy as a tool to thrive in our lives, physically, energetically and spirituality.  It is a hugely beneficial lifestyle and health technique, fully relevant for the modern, urban way of living.

Reiki can begin the awareness of our ability to absorb and release energy within our body, which is something that we can all do whether someone has been attuned to Reiki or not. Tai Chi is an example of just one form of martial arts through which it is taught how to focus and direct the flow of energy through the exercises and sequences performed. In Tai Chi this body energy is called Chi and the theory is the same: to move energy around the body to keep it healthy on a physical level and also to allow the emotions to flow and be free to be expressed.

When emotions are expressed in a healthy way they no longer are kept inside and create blocked energy.  Any blocked energy can create stagnant areas in the body which can then develop into physical aches, pains and other physical symptoms.  It can help to think of your body’s energy flow like a free flowing stream, when the stream becomes blocked the water becomes stuck.  The water can become stagnant and create diseases within it’s environment, and so it is with the energy flow within your body.  If we can keep this flow fresh and help to clear small emotional blockages regularly then we can have a sparkling fresh energy supply throughout the whole body.

This is how the flow of emotional energy and physical energy are interwoven, and how Reiki works on many levels – body, mind, emotions and spirit.

In the following blog posts I share some easy energy techniques to bring this sparkling energy into your body and into everyday life.

During a treatment you remain fully clothed and can remain seated or lie down on a treatment couch for complete relaxation.

The therapist will place their hands in various positions on your body; these are based around the chakra points – the energy centres of the body. These are also the same areas as the endocrine organs, which regulate hormones and the main systems of the physical and chemical body. This is how Reiki energy can connect to the various levels of the body: physical and energetic.

During the treatment the therapist’s hands can be touching the body or held a few centimetres away. You may feel heat, cold, tingling, see various colours when you close your eyes, retrieve memories, or as it is deeply relaxing you may even fall asleep.

You do not have to specially prepare for the Reiki energy to work within you but it is advisable to allow some time for quiet reflection after a treatment and to drink water to help with the physical detoxification that can take place. For 24 hours following the treatment is it also advised to avoid any other treatments that work on the body energy systems such as massage, reflexology and acupuncture. This is to allow the body and it’s energy pathways to adapt, detox and heal any blockages that may have been released within the Reiki treatment.

For more information on Reiki you can view this link below from my Reiki Master Torsten A. Lange of Reiki Academy London:

What is Reiki? Reiki Academy London

Beyond form there is energy.

As quantum physics has indicated we are all connected to an energy that is throughout our cells, throughout our planet and throughout the universe itself.  It is a big concept to absorb so an easier way of thinking about it could be to notice that the air we breath contains molecules, these molecules at some point have been out and about in the city in which we live, and perhaps blown in from across the ocean.  Perhaps before that these molecules were blown into our planet’s atmosphere from just outside in space.  Now these same molecules are inside us, and will go on to make certain parts of our body work.   Being connected to the universe is a little like this molecule having been a part of a lot of things before it became a part of us.

Physics has also discovered that these molecules are always vibrating with energy, and at different rates – or frequencies.  During a treatment the reiki therapist is able to facilitate a connection to the higher frequencies of this universal energy.  They are able to channel this through their own electromagnetic field into their bodies and out through their hands.  Reiki is a gentle and safe hands-on healing energy technique, using this connected universal energy to treat physical ailments without using pressure, manipulation or massage.

Reiki harmonises your energy system, putting your body in the best possible position to heal itself on all levels: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

Research also indicates that infra red energy is emitted from a therapist’s hands during a treatment. This can explain why physical pains are reduced and healing greatly encouraged with Reiki due to the energy reaching deep into the tissues.  Infra red saunas are another way to receive these healing health benefits.

Reiki: The benefits

The benefits of promoting a good energy flow, and releasing negative and blocked energy through Reiki therapy, are many.  Here are just a few:

Less stress

Calmer attitude

Clearer head

Better intuition

Increased creativity

Improved memory

More stamina

More energy

Emotional release

Physical release

Better sleep

Relaxation

Stronger immune system

Slower ageing

Reiki is all about energy.

It is an energy therapy that helps with releasing trapped energy flow and emotions within the physical and energetic body.

I discovered Reiki during a period where I was releasing and letting go of many things myself, past relationships, being made redundant from my fashion design job, and my way of life, as I knew it. I was sitting with a sense of wanting to move on to something different for myself – a restlessness.

During a yoga retreat in Thailand I received Reiki almost everyday as a part of a stress release programme. I was apprehensive and didn’t feel too much during the treatment except a deep sense of rest and peacefulness. Then during the latter part of the holiday I started to experience emotional releases and finally, when I was packing my suitcase to go home, whilst listening to a music podcast I surprised myself by starting to sing along and dance in the bathroom. I had lost my mojo for a few years and couldn’t dance for toffee…..but now something had shifted.

Afterwards I entered a period of self-discovery: I was made redundant and I was also becoming restless with fashion, seeking something deeper, a greater purpose. I was studying nutrition part time, but followed my intuition and switched to studying Reiki. I also researched and started freelancing for sustainable sportswear fashion companies. This new fashion area was a perfect match for my interest in wellbeing and an eco friendly way of living that I was beginning to adjust to.

As I continue on my journey I am excited to see how everything is tying together and where Reiki will take me next.