What is a Reiki session like?
Before the session begins, we start with a 10-15 minute intake in which we discuss the client's reasons for wanting Reiki. During this time, I customize the treatment plan to reflect the client's concerns. After this, the actual Reiki session is done on a body-work (massage) table. Reiki is a hands-on treatment method. Moving around the table, I will use around twenty different hand positions on a client's front, head, back, and legs to allow the Reiki energy to flow. The client begins on their back and is asked to flip over about halfway through the session.
What will I experience during the Reiki session?
The experience differs for most people, as most people's needs and sensitivities are different. However, most people experience a deep state of relaxation during the session and some drift in and out of sleep. Some people feel heat, tingling, or pulsing during the session while others feel a sense of cold. Some people feel simple relaxation. The Reiki will flow regardless of whether the client feels a result or not. I have had multiple clients report feeling energy releases or energy shifts and sometimes they have seen a variety of colors. Most people report feeling calm, peaceful, and relaxed afterward.
What can Reiki Help me with?
No one can heal you. Your body must heal itself. Reiki is a powerfully harmonizing energy which brings one's body and energetic system back into a state of balance. It brings balance, can reduce pain, and often helps bring about a positive outlook and state of peacefullness. For those recovering from serious conditions, the body must be ready to be fully heal. Reiki is a wonderful complementary therapy for physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Although the foundation work of each session is the same, various techniques are utilized depending on the conditions being treated. From this perspective, Reiki may help in treating people with stress and anxiety, pain, depression (postpartum and others), and the side effects of autoimmune diseases, cancer, heart disease, athletic injury, swelling, addictive behaviors (alcohol, tobacco, drugs, etc.), sciatica, and migraines, among a host of other issues. It is often used pre and post surgery and has become more common for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. It can help people establish a more positive frame of mind and free their thoughts from the negative emotional loops of sadness and anger which often follow life changes such as loss of a loved one, divorce, and other existential times in our lives.
Can Reiki help me with my goals?
Advanced Reiki techniques focused on one's higher consciousness can be powerful when used to help attain specific goals in life. A series of sessions specifically designed to focus on a particular issue can be transformative in its ability to help one change a negative mindset. Want to be more positive and relaxed? Would you like to lose weight? Want to try to change addictive behaviors and negative thought patterns? Live basking in the present moment instead of worrying about tomorrow and move forward with a strong, positive attitude of growth, health, and abundance.
Can Reiki be Harmful?
Reiki is a balancing energy and does no harm. It cannot hurt you in any way and works for the highest and most beneficial good. In the days following a Reiki session, most people have an increased sense of relaxation and overall well-being. In some cases, a client may experience what is called a reaction. These are not harmful; on the contrary, a reaction is when something negative is leaving the body. They are often wonderfully liberating. Sometimes emotions that have been buried deeply come up during or after a session. This is a necessary step for one to release these trapped thoughts and when they are gone, people often report feeling a renewed sense of peace. Sometimes it's been so long that we have forgotten what healthy feels like.
How does Reiki compare to other complementary methods of health care?
Although powerful on its own, Reiki is a wonderful complement to other forms of health care. Reiki is different than other forms of energy work in that the practitioner does not use his or her own energy. Reiki practitioners have been attuned to channel Reiki energy essentially redirecting universally available energy to those places it is needed. Reiki is not associated with any religion; it is not a massage technique, and it is not a form of faith healing. Having a positive attitude is essential for healing, but one's belief in the existence of Reiki is not necessary for it to work.
What does my doctor think about Reiki?
This is a wonderful question for your doctor. Currently there are over 800 hospitals in the United States providing Reiki services for their patients. Why? Reiki works and patients are increasingly asking for it. Reiki is being used at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, and Memorial Sloan Kettering among other leaders in the medical fields. Locally, Reiki has been used effectively for over 8,000 treatments at Portsmouth Regional Hospital since 1995 and is routinely used at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, New Hampshire.
Where did Reiki come from and what is Usui Shiki Ryoho?
Usui Shiki Ryoho is Japanese and translates to the "Usui method of natural healing." Reiki was discovered in Japan in the 1920's by a monk named Mikao Usui. Usui practiced, developed, and taught this technique to worthy students in Japan. Before his death, he trained a number of masters to carry on his teaching lineage. Among his students, Chujiro Hayashi was his youngest. Hayashi, an admiral and naval doctor, expanded the healing art throughout Japan and taught many himself. As westerners, the most well known of his students was a Japanese-American woman named Hawayo Takata whom Hayashi agreed to train as a Reiki master. She was the first person outside of Japan to be taught this technique and because of her, Reiki exists outside of Japan. Takata taught twenty-two (22) masters before her death in the 1970's. This group is sometimes called the original masters, as they and their students were the ones primarily responsible for spreading Reiki throughout much of the rest of the world including the U.S, Canada, Europe, and Australia. One of the first among the original masters, John Harvey Gray became the longest practicing Reiki master in the western hemisphere before his death in his 1990's. His surviving wife, Lourdes Gray taught with John for decades. Scott has received all of his Reiki training from Lourdes, connecting him to the teachers in the oldest lineage in the west. This was vitally important for Scott who sought a teacher who could provide Reiki in a form close to its original source and unaltered as much as possible. Scott's training in Reiki is only five people removed from Dr. Usui, the original source from 100 years ago.
What else should I know that I am not thinking of?
We take the comfort level of our client's very seriously. We thought you would like to know that:
1. Rising Earth Reiki, LLC is a registered business with the state of New Hampshire.
2. Scott is fully covered by liability insurance equivalent to that typical of a massage therapist.
3. Scott has been CORI-checked. This is a high standard required of educators and other adults who regularly work with children.
4. Scott is an active member in good standing of the International Association of Reiki Professionals (IARP).
5. This documentation may be seen on request at Rising Earth Reiki.
6. Disclaimer: Reiki is a complementary therapy and should never replace the care and advice of a physician. If you feel you are suffering
from any physical, emotional, or psychological conditions, please consult your doctor. Reiki can be a valuable part of your overall health
plan.
1. Rising Earth Reiki, LLC is a registered business with the state of New Hampshire.
2. Scott is fully covered by liability insurance equivalent to that typical of a massage therapist.
3. Scott has been CORI-checked. This is a high standard required of educators and other adults who regularly work with children.
4. Scott is an active member in good standing of the International Association of Reiki Professionals (IARP).
5. This documentation may be seen on request at Rising Earth Reiki.
6. Disclaimer: Reiki is a complementary therapy and should never replace the care and advice of a physician. If you feel you are suffering
from any physical, emotional, or psychological conditions, please consult your doctor. Reiki can be a valuable part of your overall health
plan.