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What can Reiki do?

Reiki works on several levels, the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual. The 'universal life force energy' is channelled through the giver (rather than given from) and flows to the places the receiver needs the energy to work on.

In this day and age of great stress and distress, Reiki helps to calm the mind and bring peace, all of which can only be good. It helps to enable the mind to close down and find true peace and contentment. On a physical level, Reiki can help assist all manner of ailments from broken bones - it can help speed up the fusing of broken bones, can help relieve toothache (the writer of this article has used Reiki to this effect on herself and others to good effect!), headaches, stomach problems and many, many more things which would take more than this article to list.

One of the different things with Reiki is that the giver is also receiving a fill of this healing energy whilst they are aiding the healing of the receiver. So everyone benefits - no energies are drained or wasted.

Reiki can also be equally effective on animals of all shapes and sizes, smaller ones needing perhaps a much less treatment than larger ones.

Some ailments, as with most other kinds of alternative / complimentary treatments, may not be resolved completely after one session of Reiki. Several sessions may need to be carried out, but, even then, the 'life force energy' is going to be carrying on working well after the initial treatment has been finished, with subsequent treatments, really just topping up the previous one.

Reiki can also be combined with other therapies - a good example is massage. (The writer) Being an aromatherapist, I have frequently needed to call on the Reiki energies in order to help very stressed, tense shoulders in order to release some of the tension in a much more gentle way, thereby causing less pain and discomfort to the client.

Working on an emotional level, Reiki can help calm the mind, help people come to terms with things and be more accepting of things. Reiki has been used for people who are terminally ill, and this has helped them enormously in coming to terms with their situation, and allowing them to be at peace with themselves. Equally, Reiki can be used for their families during these times of stress and sadness.

Reiki has even been known to resurrect an ailing car battery back into life just enough to start the engine if it's gone flat! (Strange but true!)