What if feeling good in your body and in your head, did it go through your hands? These are the supposed benefits of reiki to calm the mind and drive away physical and emotional tensions. By placing their hands at certain points on the body, reiki practitioners help you regain your vital energy.
Of Japanese origin and Buddhist inspiration, reiki combines relaxation to meditation by touch. Anyone can practice this traditional therapy because its sole purpose is to free body and mind daily tensions (stress, fatigue, lack of motivation, psychosomatic pain, etc.).
Restore the body’s energy flow
Reiki means “universal mind and personal energy”. It is above all a tool for personal development, whose goal is self-discovery to increase one’s level of well-being.
It is inspired by yoga by taking the principle of the seven chakras, these energy centers through which the “vital breath” circulates. The goal is therefore to work so that this flow of energies is restored.
When enjoying the benefits of reiki, the student (or patient) is relatively passive. He just lies on his back and lets go. It is the practitioner who places his hands at the level of certain specific points of the body (head, knees, torso or feet) to help him enter into communion with himself.
Learn about the benefits of reiki
Reiki goes through several initiations, each spanning a minimum of one day. The initiation of the first degree includes theacquisition of the basics and care techniques. That of the second degree aims to strengthen concentration of the spirit and that of the third degree leads to the status of ” master teacher“.
According to practitioners, the student is able to care for others and himself from the first degree. He also feels more zenbecause he learned to do things without expecting anything.
From this point on, the important thing is to practice as much as possible for thus the perception of one’s own energy will be stronger and the power greater.
Watch out for drifts
But the so-called benefits of reiki are facing several criticisms. Regarding the scientific validity of reiki, it is considered in the United States that it is not a medicine based on evidence but a “belief based on faith”. And the vast majority of the scientific community is in this direction. This alternative medicine would be as effective as a placebo.
Worse still, it is the risk of mental control that worries. Some denounce the exploitation of the sick, to whom we dangle a cure. And the perverse effect of this hope is that these same patients can then refuse conventional medicine to focus only on reiki.
The benefits of reiki must intervene in addition to conventional medicine or for emotional comfort, but this discipline is not a quick fix.
It is therefore important to remain vigilant on the personality and reputation of the practitioner and to avoid all those who proclaim themselves reikiologists because the drifts exist.
The French Federation of Traditional Reiki (FFRT) sought to have this practice recognized as much as possible through various certifications including the DEKRA procedure which verifies
the skills of professionals. In vulnerable people who, for example, suffer from depression, the prior agreement of the attending physician is necessary.
