What is Reiki?
Reiki (pronounced Ray-Key) means universal life force energy. Reiki is an ancient Japanese Healing Art used for stress relief, increased energy, improved sleep and pain management while also promoting healing. Healing can include the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of an individual. Energy is all around us, such as when you get a shock or your hair is static. Reiki was practiced in Japan and brought to the US by Hawoyo Takata in the late 1930’s and is beginning to gain in popularity and name recognition.
If you have ever heard of Chi in the Chinese language you will know the Chi energy is used in Yoga and martial arts. Often martial artists will use the Chi (energy) to break bricks with their hands and feet. They are using their hands but harnessing the energy around them to break the bricks. This is how Reiki works – harnessing the energy around us to balance the energy within each person to relax and heal the individual. Reiki is often used in hospitals, nursing homes, hospice, and animal therapy, in conjunction with medical procedures such as chemo therapy, surgery and pain management for illnesses.
Why Reiki?
- Reduces and Relieves Stress while increasing energy
- Improves sleep
- Balances energy and reactivates the body’s natural ability to heal itself
- Effective Pain Management
- Compliments all medical treatments and medications and speeds healing
- Appropriate for all ages
- Can be applied to humans and animals
What happens during a Reiki Session?
A treatment feels like a wonderful heating pad that flows through and around you. The client will lie on a massage table or sit in a chair, fully clothed, and allow the energy to flow through Chakras (like pressure points). The session is especially relaxing and many people fall asleep. You are able to talk or just relax during the session. It takes 3-4 sessions for your body to rebalance its energy from all the daily stress and worry we work through each day, then to a few monthly appointments and then eventually every few months and even once or twice a year just to keep in balance. Most people like the monthly appointments just for stress relief and rejuvenation. Each session is about 45 minutes. You will notice better sleep, more energy, a happier attitude and also an acceleration of medical healing.
How does it work?
The energy is balanced through a hands-on technique that reduces stress, promotes relaxation and balances emotions. Practitioners receive training in Reiki which raise and accelerate their energy flow. Anyone can learn Reiki and receive the attunements to open the energy flow. Reiki energy flows into and through the organs situated around the seven major Chakras or energy centers. Chakra is a Sanskrit word which means “wheel”. When the Chakras are balanced and experiencing an even flow of energy, then the recipient’s entire health and well-being is improved substantially. Reiki is wonderful to give to yourself, family and friends.
To schedule a Reiki Session or receive more info on available classes in Cary, contact:
Noël Stevens at 919.455-8914 or email at relaxandreiki@aol.com