Reiki - Spiritual Energy
When you practice Reiki you are not just dealing with a ‘cold’ ‘clinical’ energy, the same energy that is manipulated by acupuncturists or controlled by practitioners of yoga or tai chi.
There is more to Reiki than that. When you channel Reiki, it does not feel like a neutral energy that you are dealing with: it feels beautiful, and the more you practice Reiki, the more beautiful it becomes!
Reiki has important similarities to conventional spiritual healing, particularly in terms of the things that people feel when they are having a Reiki treatment.
Many people see the Reiki energy as having divine origins, and interpret the energy as divine love or divine light. Reiki opens you up to the divine, however you wish to interpret that; Reiki reinforces your individual connection to your deity, and it feels beautiful.
Because Reiki is not attached to any religion or belief system, though, it does not conflict with an individual's beliefs, or lack of beliefs, so Reiki is acceptable to atheists and believers alike, agnostics and Catholics, Moslems and Pagans.
The Reiki Symbol
The Japanese characters making up the word ‘Reiki’ are usually translated in the West as meaning 'Universal Life Energy' , but the characters can be translated as meaning ‘soul energy’, or ‘aura’ or ‘mysterious spirit’, or even 'spiritually guided life force energy'.
So when the name of the system was chosen, they weren't just thinking of a cold, clinical energy that you can move round the body by sticking needles into a person: they were thinking also of an energy that has a definite connection or resonance with a person's soul or spiritual aspects too.
Interestingly, the latest interpretation of the word 'Reiki' is that it can mean 'a system that has been arrived at through a moment of enlightenment', and we will talk more about the history and development of Reiki shortly.
The intention with all these energy techniques is that if you can harmonise your energy system, you are putting your body in the best possible position to heal itself on all levels: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. In fact, the Chinese view is that chi not only flows through your body, but surrounds and engulfs you, too.
For example, feng shui has been developed as a way of arranging your living environment to allow for the smooth flow of chi around you, eliminating areas where stagnant chi might accumulate, for example.
Reiki seems to deal with this same energy, to an extent; you can focus the energy on yourself, and you can use the energy to treat others if you like.
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