What is Reiki? Certified R.M. Teacher, Daya Devi-Doolin

What is Reiki? 
A.Reiki is a spiritual or vibrational healing practice that promotes balance on every level - body, mind and spirit. Reiki treatment is offered through noninvasive, light touch to a clothed recipient.

Q. Describe how a Reiki session proceeds?
A.In a formal session, the recipient lies fully clothed on a treatment table, covered by a blanket if desired. Treatment usually lasts between 45 and 90 minutes, although in a hospital it is typically 15 to 20 minutes.

Q. What is its origin?
A.Reiki practice began with the teachings of Mikao Usui in Japan in the early 1920s. One of his close students, Chujiro Hayashi, was a medical doctor retired from naval service. Hayashi simplified the healing practices and helped his student, Mrs. Hawayo Takata, bring Reiki to the U.S. in 1938. Reiki is now practiced throughout the world.

Q. How is Reiki related to spirituality?
A.Reiki is a healing practice that enables people to access their own unique spirituality without dogma. 

Q. How does Reiki compare or relate to other techniques that manipulate energy? 
A.Actually, Reiki practitioners do not manipulate or direct energy. They merely provide a connection through which the healing pulsations called Reiki activate spontaneously according to the need of the receiver. Reiki practitioners remain passive during treatment. Although Reiki is healing, it is not medicine in the sense that it is not directed toward a specific goal. No diagnosis is needed, and the treatment plan is the same for every condition.  

Q. What can Reiki do for someone?
Q. Tell us about your successes in working with Reiki?

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