What does a Reiki treatment feel like?

People who experience Reiki often report a gentle rush of energy, like a warm glow, or even a warm shower, it brings about a deep and peaceful relaxation and often the client will fall asleep. People often say that they feel as though they’ve had a gentle massage! When the energy flows through the body it can be felt as a deep nurturing heat and other experiences include a tingling sensation, colours or lights, muscle spasms or a rumbling stomach as the energy moves through the body.

Those who experience it on a regular basis open themselves to a vibration, which will boost their energy and zest for life whilst building an effective immune system; therefore it can be used as a preventative treatment as well as a cure. This beautiful energy has it’s own unique and natural way of restoring balance to the body’s life force.

The practitioner simply uses a non-intrusive hands-on technique to transfer the energy. The hands are held over each area for 3 – 5 minutes, usually starting from the head working down to the feet or until the practitioner feels it right to move on.

Reiki energy heals on all levels – body, mind and spirit and directs itself to the areas which need healing, this is why it is regarded as a very intelligent energy as it appears to know exactly where to go and what to do, the healer is simply the vessel through which Reiki flows and passes. It even draws the precise amount of energy it needs to heal, the healer has no say in how much to channel, in other words it does all the work whilst the healer remains intuitively linked throughout the healing. Because Reiki is drawn through the channel by the recipient, the Reiki practitioner will never feel drained, nor take on the condition of the client – on the contrary, the practitioner is receiving a self-treatment as the Reiki energy flows through the channel to the recipient.