'Reiki' healing: Therapy using God's energy

By Tom Suhalim

JAKARTA (JP): We hear a lot about holistic therapies such as acupuncture, acupressure, meditation, yoga, aroma therapy, vibrational flower energy and many other things. But reiki? What is reiki? If you think the word comes from Japanese, you are correct. The reiki therapy we know today originated with Japanese holistic therapist Master Usui.

But the funny thing is reiki is more popular in western countries such as the United States, Canada, England and Germany than in Japan.

Rei means God or universe, and ki or chi is energy. So contextually, we can say that reiki is energy from the universe or God. A healer performing reiki treatment in a healing session cannot do it without the acceptance of the person being healed. A reiki therapist/healer only channels God's energy to help people heal themselves. This means the universal energy will flow to a person if they accept this energy.

The heal thyself holistic concept of this therapy sometimes is difficult to understand for people. So the most important thing in a reiki healing session is for the person being healed to know exactly what will be happen during the session.

Why is reiki therapy different from other energy therapies? Because the energy that flows to the person being healed really depends on that person. This means if he is simply curious about this type of therapy, it will be useless. This therapy will work only if the person being healed is relaxed and wants to accept the universal energy.

Being people, most of us are probably curious to know what is the procedure of reiki therapy. The first thing we have to know is the concept of this healing treatment. Second, we must believe and trust that universal energy will balance all of our health problems. Third, we need to pray to God to help us heal ourselves through His love, power, and energy, as channeled through the reiki therapist and ourselves.

As stated above, the concept of reiki healing is heal thyself. As you know, humans were created in the image of God. So when we ask God for his help and believe in Him, all of His loving, healing energy will enter our bodies during the reiki healing session.

You will draw God's energy from the healer's hands without the healer's intervention. The reiki therapist/healer only channels the universal energy to help you heal yourself.

Reiki treatment is usually performed only after a person understands the concept and accepts it. For the first treatment, the healer usually performs a whole body treatment, from top to bottom and front to back.

This treatment will last for about one or one and a half hours. (This is true only if the treatment is performed by one therapist only. If there is more than one therapists it usually only takes 30 minutes). It is standard procedure for people to go to three session in one week for the best results. In some reiki centers, this number could increase.

People frequently ask what they will feel during the session. Every person experiences different sensations. Some feel warmth and heat, while others feel an air flowing across their body. Others relax and go to sleep (sometimes snoring), and others release pent up emotions and begin crying. There can also be a feeling of energy, heaviness in certain part of the body and many other feelings and sensations.

But the most common feeling for someone taking reiki treatment is one of lightness, relaxation and energy, as well as an improvement in their sleep.

If we are already healthy, should we have reiki treatment? As we know, reiki does not involve medication or food supplements; it is really just energy.

It also differs from other energy therapies in which the healer pushes the energy to the person being healed. In reiki you draw the universal life energy to your body according to your needs. Also, reiki therapists feel fresher after performing a reiki healing session. (In other energy therapies, healers feel drained after a treatment).

So if you are healthy and take reiki treatment, it will add to the life energy in your body. The conclusion is that reiki is also good for healthy people.

For years, reiki has been well-known in the West. Not only holistic practitioners perform this therapy, but also medical doctors. From their experience in treating patients, we received information that reiki is very useful in treating patients. Personally, I have seen a lot of people improve their health after taking reiki treatment as a sort of supplement to whatever medication they happened to be on.

Our body consists of millions of cells and millions of atoms. And if we refer to Einstein's theory, everything is energy. So when the universal energy flows into a person's body, it will automatically balance the cells, atoms and energy in the body. And because of that, the vibration of the organs will be normal.

Disease actually is an abnormality or imbalance in a person's energy. When the energy is balanced, disease will disappear. This is a very simple and natural concept of today's healing. Many pharmacies sell drugs that can be absorbed by cells in our body to help us heal ourselves.

Nowadays, modern drugs and vitamins are produced in a way that allows cells to easily absorb them.

What exactly happens in a reiki healing session? In our body, there are seven main energy centers that we call cakra. These cakra cannot be seen by the naked eye, but if there is an imbalance in these cakra it could affect our health. Usually, if we do reiki, these energy centers will be balanced.

Our emotional, mental and spiritual health will also be energized and balanced through reiki. The balance of energy in our body will cause harmony and peace and eliminate disease.

A lot of reiki therapists combine their reiki healing with other tools such as crystals and vibrational flower energy. The combination of these healing methods will increase the effectiveness of the treatment.

In Jakarta, there are many reiki therapists who can help us heal ourselves. But one thing you have to remember, only YOU can heal yourself. The therapist is only a way, a medium, a channel to help God's healing energy flow into your body.