Reiki - Healing From The Inside Out By Paula Casey Githens / Reiki Master Teacher and Mentor AsisMassage.com What is Reiki? It is universal life energy – intelligent energy that flows through every living thing and works at cause to restore balance to the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual bodies. Reiki sees the big picture about you or the situation you are facing and, when applied, will facilitate the best possible outcome for all concerned every time. Including Reiki in your life contributes in a highly positive way to how you see and experience the world. Its beauty and significance is in its simplicity. Someone attuned with Reiki draws in the healing energy through the gentle placement of hands on the body. Some people describe the feeling as a gentle warmth, a pulsing energy, a ‘tingling’ that flows to the areas where they feel pain or discomfort. Most people feel relaxed, more present and grounded in their lives after receiving a treatment. The energy moves through the body and nourishes all the organs and systems. It is all about prevention and renewal! Reiki’s possible benefits may include: relaxation, stress reduction and bringing the body into balance. Reiki has been used by people with anxiety, chronic pain, HIV/AIDS and other health conditions as well as by people recovering from surgery or experiencing side effects from cancer treatments. Reiki is often shared with people who are dying (as well as their families and caregivers) to help impart a sense of peace and well being. It is promising to note that according to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey, which included a comprehensive survey of CAM use by Americans, more than 1.2 million adults had used an energy healing therapy, such as Reiki, in the previous year. Dr. Mehmet Oz, a pioneer of integrative medicine, featured Reiki specifically on his TV show several months ago. He told viewers that he includes Reiki treatment before, during and after surgical procedures to deal with trauma to the body. He sees Reiki as one of the energy medicines of the future. Scientific research is under way to learn more about how Reiki may actually work, its possible effects on health, and diseases and conditions for which it may be helpful; but experience it for yourself and you may very well feel the benefits immediately. Reiki can complement treatment by a physcian and is not meant to be used in lieu of a doctor, nor is it a medical diagnostic tool. Reiki can be used without contraindication with all traditional medical treatments. Anyone can benefit from receiving and/or learning Reiki. It involves an amazingly simple technique whose only requirements are openness and desire. Reiki is not “taught” in the usual sense, but is transferred to the student during a series of attunements given by a Reiki Master in a workshop setting. The attunements enable the practitioner to tap into an unlimited supply of life force energy for the rest of their lives. As with anything worthwhile, the more time spent using Reiki the more dramatic and immediate the results will be. There is nothing here that forces or confronts. Answers come gently as you open yourself to the work within. The more time spent applying Reiki, the more profound life becomes. It is seen and lived from a higher, more positive point of view. Everything is renewed, brighter, more inclusive. We become more sensitive to the interconnectedness of everything! After advanced Reiki training, practitioners are no longer limited by time and space, and are able to send Reiki to the present, past, and the future. They are able to use Reiki for situational healing, to create their day for its highest rewarding potential! It is heartwarming to be able to share a gift that takes the ‘effort’ out of the healing process; one that contributes to the Reiki practitioner’s personal well being while, offering comfort and relief to clients even after they go home from a massage therapy session given by a Reiki-trained therapist. For information about Paula’s upcoming Reiki Workshops please call (928)639-3455 or visit asismassage.com. RETURN TO OMPLACE HOME