Alternative Therapies: What is Reiki?

Reiki is an ancient form of energy healing in which a properly attuned Reiki Practitioner serves as a conduit for Universal Life Force (or Reiki).

The Reiki practitioner opens them self up as a conduit for a semi-sentient energy summoned from a higher source to facilitate healing or correct a person�s aura. The Reiki Practitioner is not a healer per se � but the energy moves through them to work with the recipient�s higher will in correcting imbalances and treating situations from the core causal point rather than the effect.

This is thought to have a beneficial effect on the body, mind, and spirit, emotional and in Indian systems - the chakra system.

Everything in the universe is thought to have an underlying energy that gives it form, structure, health, strength and autonomy.

This invisible, but formidable force is called the Chi by Chinese mystics and martial artists and referred to as Prana by Indian masters and healers. It is also called �orgone energy� and the practice itself is also described by the names Chi Gong and Polarity therapy.

Whatever you want to call it, the word Reiki literally means �Universal Life Force.� Reiki is capable of healing anything because it works at very fundamental levels of reality. The level of reality where Reiki operates is the underlying energy structure of matter, as the physical matter we see around us is a solidified form of energy....
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What is Reiki?