How Does Reiki Help
Anxiety & Stress?

Reiki’s Healing Energy & Reiki Hand Positions

How does Reiki help Anxiety and Stress?

Reiki’s healing energy is perfect for putting yourself at ease on a restless night, reducing stress during a busy work day, calming down a child… it’s great for on-the-spot relaxation any time! You simply use the Reiki hand positions and let the energies flow to relieve stress.

How does Reiki help anxiety?

It brings your body to a state of relaxation and calms the mind. When your body is in a relaxed state it has the ability to heal itself. The founder of Reiki, Sensei Mikao Usui, suggested to start a Reiki healing with the head... to calm the mind... relaxing thoughts = relaxed body.

Managing stress levels requires conscious effort towards a balanced lifestyle of relaxation, coping strategies, altering behaviors to gain a positive consequence and a focus towards healthy living. Reiki allows this process of health to become a normal state, rather than the ‘stressed’ state which many of us have become accustomed to.

There are many different types of Reiki schools. Each one originates from the founder of Reiki, Sensei Usui, in Japan. Usui-Do is what Mikao Usui's original (some are still living) students call his method.

Usui believed that it was important to treat the head first. This is especially true when using Reiki to treat anxiety and stress symptoms. When we treat the head we start to relax our thoughts and body.... this allows our body to heal its physical symptoms.

How does Reiki help anxiety? Reiki relaxes your mind and allows your body to heal itself.

So, what is Reiki?

Its original system was based around the concept of Chi energy or Prana and allowing that Universal energy to flow through our bodies naturally.

Reiki Theory believes that there is a universal energy which touches and links to us all.

Some people believe that Reiki’s greatest benefit is reducing stress. Reiki brings peace to your mind – your thoughts melt away – leaving your physical body completely relaxed and stress free.

How Does Reiki help anxiety and AFFECT STRESS?

Stress is a natural response that occurs when we are threatened or overwhelmed... the side effects of ongoing stress is detrimental to our health and wellbeing.

One of the greatest benefits from receiving or giving yourself Reiki is stress reduction. How does Reiki help anxiety? Reiki brings a state of peace to your mind – your thoughts melt away – leaving your physical body completely relaxed and stress free.

How does Reiki help anxiety and reduce stress? The Reiki energy is healing because it helps to reduce stress and brings clarity to your present situation allowing you to solve problems easier.

How does Reiki help anxiety and stress?

It offers relaxation.

It reduces our stress levels.

Allowing our bodies to heal.

Use the Reiki hand positions and allow the Universal energy to flow through you to create a peaceful energy, ease your thoughts and bring a state of relaxation to your body.

“From the evidence I have managed to gather, this is what is known at this time: Usui taught only treating the head. A common reason for this was the belief that most ailments arise from the brain. Treating around the head and finally placing most energy into the crown. (source Eguchi manuals).”

Namaste

I honour the place in your in which the entire universe dwells. I honour the place in you which is of love, of truth, of light, and of peace. When you are in that place in you, and

I am in that place in me,

We are ONE.

Suggested Books:

Modern Reiki Method for Healing (Hiroshi Doi; Fraser Journal Publishing, 2000)

The Original Reiki Handbook of Dr. Mikao Usui (Usui and Petter; Lotus Press, 2000)

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment(Tolle, Eckhart; New World Library, 2004)

Suggested Websites:

http://www.reiki-history.co.uk

http://wind.prohosting.com/johreiki/ http://johreiki.net/

http://www.threshold.ca/reiki/home.html

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