A typical Reiki session will start off with a brief
conversation. This conversation is very important and allows a few different things to
happen. The first one obviously is that it lets the client tell the practitioner why he or
she is there, what is going on in his/her life, and what he or she is hoping to get out of
the session(s). The second thing that happens during this conversation is that it gives
the practitioner a chance to get a feel for the client's energies prior to starting the
session and allows for even more insight into the client's current situation. The third
thing that happens, and one of the most important, is that it gives the practitioner and
client a chance to build a rapport. This allows the client to let go and open up more to
the energies during the session. Most people these days have a lot of issues with trust,
and unless the practitioner is able to bring down some of those walls prior to the
session, the client will unknowingly block most, if not all, of the energies the
practitioner is attempting to channel into the client, thereby defeating the entire
purpose of the session. The more the client is able let go, the more benefit they will
receive from the session(s).
The next step is to have the
client (fully clothed) lay down on his or her back on the massage table. The practitioner
then generally starts at the head and works down toward the feet, stopping at the knees or
possibly the ankles. There are general hand positions that the majority of practitioners
follow, at least to some degree. These hand positions attempt to cover all the seven main
chakras and all the major organs. Each hand position is held for anywhere from 2 - 5
minutes or longer. During this time the practitioner simply allows the energy to channel
out his or her hands and into the client. There is no physical manipulation whatsoever
during a traditional Reiki session. Everything is done on a purely energetic level. After
the practitioner has finished with the front of the client, they generally will have the
client turn over, and will continue with similar hand positions for the back, once again
starting at the head and working down toward the feet. After all the positions on the back
are completed, it is now time for the practitioner to "ground" the client back
down to the planet. This is done by moving to the feet and channeling the energy into the
soles of the feet. This works to open the chakras on the bottoms of the feet which connect
us to the planet.
Due to the nature of Reiki, it is quite difficult to say exactly
what will be experienced during a session. This will depend on any number of things
including, but not limited to, the practitioner, each individual client, the level to
which that client is able to open up to the energies, and what areas the energy itself is
addressing. Often people describe their experience by saying they felt as if they are
floating during the session, or they were being enveloped by or wrapped in a warm, loving,
nurturing light that flowed throughout their being. Often, if there is a physical problem,
the client will feel that area of the body becoming quite hot as the energy targets that
area. People usually become very "astral" or disassociated from their bodies,
during a session and, for people who are able to let go, it is very common for them to
sleep through the entire session. I am always quite pleased when this happens because it
means that the person is opening up fully to the energy and it will be able to work on a
very deep level. By finishing the treatment at the feet and opening the feet chakras, the
practitioner is able to help the person come more fully back into his/her body before
ending the session, so that they will not feel as light-headed or disoriented after the
session. This is important, not only for the obvious safety reasons such as driving home
from the session, but also so that any information the client may have received during the
session can be brought back with them and "grounded" into the present so that
they may have conscious access to it.
The results of a session are also quite dependent the same
influences named in the beginning of the above paragraph. The most immediate broad
spectrum results are a drastic reduction in stress, and an extreme sense of relaxation,
similar to what people usually feel after a massage but it seems to be more profound and
longer lasting, and an overall feeling of being more balanced, calm, and centered. These
results are almost always attained through just one session. The more profound results
that Reiki can yield (i.e., the "healing" of a specific dis-ease, release of
habitual thought patterns or old emotional scars, etc.) are rarely attained through a
single session, but instead must be addressed in the same way that many of them were
manifested, over time (For more on this, see the section on How
Reiki Works).
Reiki and other energy sessions are
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