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What is Reiki and How Does It Work?
What is Reiki?
Reiki is a Japanese energy healing technique. The predominant form of reiki practiced throughout the world today, also known as Usui reiki, was created by Dr. Mikao Usui in the early 20th century. It’s a complementary or alternative health approach. Reiki does not directly cure diseases or illnesses. Instead, it’s used to manage symptoms and improve general well-being.
During a reiki session, the practitioner places their hands either directly on you or just above you to bring about healing. The belief is that the practitioner is able to stimulate your body’s natural healing abilities.
How Does Reiki Work?
As Reiki becomes a more common healing modality in our society, many people wonder exactly what it is, how it works, and what evidence exists to show its effectiveness.
Reiki works by tapping into the human body’s electrical and magnetic fields. Our heartbeat is regulated by an electrical field that can be measured by an ECG or EKG, our brain produces a lower-level electrical field, and every cell in our body creates small amounts of electricity which contribute to a magnetic field, due to the positive and negative charges of the outer and inner cell walls. When you go to get an MRI scan, the internal mechanism producing the images of soft tissue is your body’s magnetic field.
The job of a Reiki practitioner is to harness the client’s energy field and help move energy throughout the body to alleviate stuck points or energy blockages. Practitioners don’t cause the healing, they simply serve as a channel for the energy to move in the client. Many clients report feeling great relaxation and a release of tension through Reiki.
Five Benefits of Reiki Healing
1. Relieves pain, anxiety, and fatigue
Reiki may help to reduce pain and anxiety, though more research is needed. It may also help to reduce fatigue.
A 2015 study found that people being treated for cancer who received distant reiki in addition to regular medical care had lower levels of pain, anxiety, and fatigue. These levels were significantly lower than the control group, who only received medical care. Participants had 30-minute sessions of distant reiki for five days.
In another 2015 study ,researchers looked at the effects of reiki on women following cesarean delivery. They found that reiki significantly reduced pain, anxiety, and the breathing rate in women 1-2 days after having a cesarean delivery. The need for and number of analgesic painkillers was also reduced. Reiki didn’t have an effect on blood pressure or pulse rate.
2. Treats depression
Reiki treatments may be used as part of a treatment plan to help relieve depression. Researchers looked at the effects of reiki on older adults experiencing pain, depression, or anxiety. The participants reported an improvement of their physical symptoms, mood, and well-being. They also reported more feelings of relaxation, increased curiosity, and enhanced levels of self-care.
3. Enhances quality of life
The positive benefits of reiki can enhance your overall well-being. Researchers found that reiki was helpful in improving the quality of life for women with cancer. Women who had reiki showed improvements to their sleep patterns, self-confidence, and depression levels. They noted a sense of calm, inner peace, and relaxation.
4. Boosts mood
Reiki may help to improve your mood by relieving anxiety and depression. According to results from a study , people who had reiki felt greater mood benefits compared to people who didn’t have reiki. The study participants who had six 30-minute sessions over a period of two to eight weeks showed improvements in their mood.
5. May improve some symptoms and conditions
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headache
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tension
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insomnia
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nausea
The relaxation response that happens with Reiki may benefit these symptoms. However, specific research is needed to determine the efficacy of reiki for the treatment of these symptoms and conditions.
Experience Reiki in Santa Monica
Book a session with Reiki Master Jennifer Dickens at her studio in Santa Monica or at your home. Distance healing is also available and highly effective.. Contact us to learn more.
Heartfelt Praise...
Jennifer is a kind and compassionate individual with great insight into human behavior, thoughts and emotions. She is a tremendous asset to my medical practice in offering HeartMath instruction on mindfulness and heart centered breathing. She has brought a wealth of knowledge to my patients in helping them achieve balance, calmness, peace and happiness. In addition to the workshops, she has hosted small group coaching sessions as well as private one on one coaching. I know many of my patients have benefited from her wisdom and insight. Thank you Jennifer.
We retained Jennifer Dickens to provide a Building Resilience & Wellbeing training for our internal Town Hall meeting. The resilience training complimented our Corporate Wellness initiative. Jennifer taught us the importance of resilience and three helpful strategies to practice daily for building and sustaining it. Jennifer is easy to work with and I found the three strategies to be highly effective. I recommend Jennifer for your upcoming stress management, resilience and well-being training needs.
Esther Newman
HR - The Wonderful Company
I truly enjoyed my journey through the Six Hearts Illumination group coaching program under Jenn's loving and nurturing guidance as she shared wisdom teachings of the heart and intuition along with guided visualizations and practical skills and coaching specific to each member but still applicable to the group as a whole. In addition, it has been wonderfully healing to learn and grow with the other participants in this safe container facilitated by Jenn. She exemplifies what she teaches -- compassionate, joyful, nonjudgmental, supportive and heart-focused while she lightheartedly reminds us of our divine nature having this human experience so we can courageously be, do and have what our hearts' desires. I highly recommend her program!
Thank you again for the lovely Heart Activation yesterday. It really WAS what I needed! I kept my awareness heart-focused for the remainder of the day and went off to sleep (and woke up this morning) with that focus. I have actually set my watch timer hourly to check in and re-focus on heart activation to keep this wonderful energy flowing.
Thanks again and much love!
I found the heart purification work with Jennifer to be perfect for how I was feeling. My heart was heavy due to the end of a relationship, and it was easy for me to get lost in the head, feeling like the thoughts may spin out of control at any moment. Sometimes I can be very hard and judgmental towards myself, and this heart purification was a beautiful reminder to come back to the heart and reconnect to the inner peace that is always present there. I was amazed how quickly things can change when you shift your attention to the heart. Feelings of contentment, lightness, and well-being were patiently waiting for me, but all the heaviness I was carrying around didn’t allow me to experience them. Jennifer is an amazing guide on this journey of the heart, and she has a way of putting you completely at ease so that you can go deeper into the process and release the negativity that weighs you down. I continue to redirect my awareness to the heart and do the heart purification as much as I can. Many thanks Jennifer!
The HeartMath coaching sessions with Jennifer have helped me understand how important it is to have my heart and brain work together in a coherent way. Each session started with the discovery of an issue I wanted to work on, and Jennifer masterfully helped me find the root of the issue, after which she gently guided me through one of the HeartMath meditations to help release the cause. It is way better than therapy and it’s much more effective than regular coaching sessions, because the HeartMath techniques, especially when guided, have you feel what is going on in a coherent way.
To experience peace and connect to your heart then work with Jennifer!
I whole heartedly recommend Jenifer’s coaching. She is a superb, highly effective teacher and a genuinely good, caring, warm person who is helping so many people have a much happier and better quality life in these unprecedented times.
Jennifer has been teaching me stress management and resilience coaching for nearly a year. I use the practice every day as it’s an amazing technique. I use anywhere, anytime to reduce my stress and give me resilience techniques in these extremely difficult times. I have MS and am on an immunosuppressant so stress can cause a relapse and damage my walking permanently.
Jennifer has been an extremely positive influence in my life and has helped me become more resilient to the stresses around me. I practice the stress management and resilience Jennifer has taught me for about 5 minutes at a time and sometimes a deeper 10 minute practice. It became an important part of my interview for a senior manager post – it gave me confidence and control and stopped me panicking.
Learning and doing the techniques together, your way of leading and pacing is gentle and perfect timing for me to really get into it. Also, repeating it is helpful especially with Freeze Frame which is a bit more complicated.
The 3rd session was so valuable since I just had a brush of challenge (with the road rage guy) and able to remember and use the technique. Not sure if I can do it every time I encounter a challenge, but it seems more in my everyday conscious attitude.
I hope to progress as time goes by so I can enjoy coherent life rather than chaotic life I had lead for so many years!! Thank you my dear!!!
