what is reiki?

Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a method of natural healing based on the application of universal life force energy (the name literally means universal life force energy).

Reiki is one of the more widely known forms of energy healing. Energy Healing involves direct application of Chi for the purpose of strengthening the clients energy system (aura). Chi is the term used by the Chinese mystics and martial artists for the underlying force the Universe is made of. Mystics in all cultures have talked about the physical universe being made of an underlying form of something, much as modern physics research is now coming to understand the Universe is made of energy which is subject to (or affected by) thought. Just as modern physics says this energy is affected by thought the mystics also say this underlying form is affected by thought, going so far as to claim we create our own reality from our thinking and the thoughts we share between each of us every day.

How might giving something like Reiki can make any changes in a persons body or attitudes? This isn't a very well understood question and, well, the answers tend to reduce to hand waving. And so it goes that the public at large finds it difficult to accept this technique when the medicine they are familiar with is able to explain itself so well, or so it seems. While western medicine is able to explain a lot of things and put up a dazzling array of words with precise meaning, in actuality the functioning of the body remains largely a mystery.

There is an overall energy field that is vast, wide, and encompasses all that is. This energy field is both vastly more complicated and vastly simpler than the physical world we see with our eyes, taste with our mouths, smell with our noses, hear with our ears, and touch with our skin. This energy field permeates all the physical things we see, and the physical things we see are nothing else but this energy field vibrating at its grossest level. Reiki is subtler, Reiki vibrates with God. Other words for Reiki are "Qi" (Chi), Unified Field, Absolute, Great Spirit of Life, etc.

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