The Reiki Centre Blog

The most powerful proof that Reiki works is reading true stories from people who practice Reiki. These wonderful case studies come from the Global Reiki Survey We asked respondents for any "wow" stories they had experienced with Reiki. We got over 1,000 amazing stories, we have tried to fit as many in here as we can...enjoy! A client who had known me for many years before Reiki, had a stroke and was told she needed a serious operation to assure she would not have another, de

How does Reiki differ from other natural therapies and energy healing modalities? There are five things that set Reiki apart and makes Reiki the easiest and safest introduction to energy healing. Reiki’s five main qualities: Reiki energy flows through your hands from areas of high energy to low energy Reiki is all-encompassing and treats physical, mental and emotional issues Reiki energy flows automatically and does not require any special skill or practice Reiki is complemen

“Reiki is a Japanese energy healing practice where a practitioner channels universal life energy through their hands”. This is true, we do channel energy through our hands. What is missing is the fact we should be doing this TO OURSELVES, and not the assumption that we need someone else to do it for us.

Ho’oponopono: The Ancient Art of Healing Through love, (forgiveness, letting go).

Choosing the right Reiki Master and class would probably top the list of considerations for many people when deciding to embark on their Reiki journey. Often, those new to Reiki find themselves attracted to a post or a free talk, or feeling an urge to enroll for a class right away, when for years they have been thinking about learning Reiki, but not acting on it for some reason or other. These strange urges are simply your intuition’s way of telling you the time is now! To he

‘Can Reiki cure me?’ is a common question posed to Reiki Masters and practitioners, whether it is asking about Reiki’s ability to cure an ailment, disease, pain or injury, or asking about the validity of Reiki in replacing surgery or medical intervention. It is extremely important to understand that Reiki is not a replacement for any kind of intervention advised by your doctor; instead, Reiki complements medical practice. Reiki works as an amazing balancing factor in the bod

During this time of uncertainty there are many important things we need to be doing to keep ourselves resilient, calm, healthy and happy. Could it be that Reiki provides all these answers in one easy to use package? The Reiki Centre survey would say YES! Reiki is a Japanese word meaning ‘Universal life force’ and is an easy to learn and popular self-help technique. The steady rise in popularity of this practice is partly due to its ease of use, simply placing your hands on

Reiki's key benefit is self-help, so what to look out for when choosing a class, a teacher and what basics should be covered? For starters, make sure they have your healing and self-empowerment front and centre of their curriculum. Sadly many people, including in their internet searches and AI responses, are told that Reiki is a complementary therapy that you have to pay a practitioner to do for you. This could not be further from the truth. Reiki is first and foremost a self

Family gatherings are fascinating, like little microcosms of intense behavioural analysis over short periods of time – all your childhood trauma and patterns on display for a few days. I always learn so much! The theme for this holiday was people pleasing. I have always been a chronic people pleaser. I have gotten much better, able to draw boundaries with clients, students, some friends. But family and loved ones? Much harder. I was pondering the roots of this, why can’t I ju

I used to believe in Law of Attraction, the idea that I could manifest whatever I wanted by bringing my energy into 'better alignment', but with honest investigation, I am finding that idea harder to find evidence for. The reality seems to be quite different. As I am landing into a more and more sensitive barometer of what is aligned, and what isn’t, I am finding it harder and harder to believe that I am navigating, authoring, manifesting, controlling anything at all in my li

Is it possible to attune yourself to Reiki? Reiki is thought to need an attunement process, from teacher to student, in order to open channels in the hands to allow Reiki energy to flow. But in recent years I have found that more and more people are able to access Reiki simply through intention. This has amazing ramifications! I am a researcher by nature – I try to follow the evidence. What I found over the past few years in my own online teaching was people were jumping ahea

I recently completed a course called Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), I took it to see what secular mindfulness was all about. The course was nice enough, but I have to say I struggled with the pointlessness of it all, if I was coming at it fresh without any spiritual background, it would have gone straight in the bin. To get some perspective, mindfulness is actually mind training, a bit like relaxation is body training. It comes from the eastern tradition of medita

Reiki is a Japanese energy healing practice where you can channel universal life energy through your own hands to support relaxation, stress reduction, and emotional balance. It is a self-healing modality although over the years, particularly in western Reiki, it has turned into a complementary therapy where people think they need to go to a Reiki therapist - this is not true, you can and should learn Reiki for yourself to heal yourself. Let's take a look at some common quest

"What one can be, one must be" - Abraham Maslow I read this quote recently in an article where the author was emphasising it as – we ‘must’ become whatever it is we can be, i.e. we must strive towards it like a duty. If we don’t, we feel the pain of wasting our life. I do resonate with the pain part. I have had many times when I feel driven by an impulse to not ‘waste’ my life. But I also often wonder if this pain is really a need for external striving, or an inability to sim

When I have questions or problems that I’m dealing with and I take time out to meditate and clear my mind, I sometimes get answers during the meditation. How do I tell whether these answers are my intuition or my mind? They feel like a hunch but then after the meditation I end up rationalising that hunch and can’t tell if the original answer was intuitive or my mind. Do you have any advice on how I can tell the difference between an idea generated by my mind and pre-existing

There are essentially three stages to spiritual growth. The one most of us recognise is the external seeking, goals and climbing ladders, being successful. Often that then shifts into internal seeking, self-improvement, personal growth. Then finally we see the error of both ways moving into a deep appreciation of the flow of life. It can be confusing when tools seem to contradict, so it is handy to have a road map that helps you to put tools into perspective – where they belo

Women have been persecuted throughout history, even today there are stark injustices and inequalities. But things have changed dramatically and we are no longer burnt at the stake for brewing herbal tea. We need to update our nervous systems and stop shying away from our power, and start speaking up. According to Wikipedia from 1580 to 1630 an estimated 50,000 “witches” were executed in Europe. 80% were women and most of them over the age of 40. Witch hunts went on over an ex

Open Source is a term used for software program development that is freely available for anyone to update and change. Open Source pretty much built the internet. More than this it is a philosophy of community, collaboration, transparency and sharing. Systems and programs improve quickly, gaps are filled, there is a combined vision and many people working towards this shared vision. The input of thousands of programmers also pushes creative development in a million different d

An empirical study Background Reiki attunements open doors to allow people to channel Reiki through their hands. It is seen as an essential part of the Reiki training with Reiki Masters being the only people able to carry out attunements. Traditionally attunements are done in-person but in the past decade a growing number of Reiki Masters also offer attunements virtually. The traditional wisdom is that people must be attuned by a Reiki Master who is trained to follow a specif

“3D” or “5D” is terminology used in many spiritual forums and the general idea is that these past few years has been an acceleration of our evolution towards 5D beings. The age of Aquarius, the splitting of the timelines, the stepping into the light. But what does all this actually mean? What is the 3rd Dimension? When we talk about “3D” we are talking about the level of living that would be considered “normal” ie: 1. Survival of the fittest – the desire for more. More ac