Is Reiki Magic?
A LITTLE SCIENCE AND THE BIG SOUL OF REIKI
If you’ve been lucky enough to receive Reiki, you might have left basking in the glow of deep relaxation wondering what just happened? You may have even experienced dramatic healing in the physical or emotional body and seriously questioned the validity of magic. There is a phenomenon experienced when a trained practitioner is moving your energy. We don't always have language for it. It is best generalized as a change in how we experience ourselves. However, we are a collective of souls who love to prove what we can not see or touch before it is deemed ‘legitimate’. If your anything like me, you like a little history and science. A good mind blowing piece of science might actually make me salivate. Im really an information junkie! So excuse any of my indulgences here and if you are like me, drool on!
Okay, so since the dawn of medicine Our Electromagnetic Field or Aura was considered a myth or at least woo-woo-quackery. What the collective medical and science fields once believed to be certain up until recently was that there was NO such thing as an energy field around the body. Now, it is a know known fact. Well, amongst the scientific community. Medicine is catching up. This is an exciting time friends! We have to remember that Aspirin was used as a pain reliever for 2000 years and yet was not “understood “ until the 1970’s! And you could see, touch, and taste Aspirin!
Did you know that your energy field which is both around your body and in your body, holds measurable ghz of energy and is created by currents running through your nervous system and the electrical activity in your cells?
Yup! In a study done by Dr. Gary Schwartz with Healers Vs Sham Healers, the oscillation of magnetic field energy was measured between the hands of both trained Healers and sham Healers (untrained people mimicking healers) . The trained Healers demonstrated a significantly higher magnetic field when they were sending energy while the sham healers did not have any changes in the energy oscillation measurements of their magnetic field. The possibility of this phenomenon happening by chance was 1 in a million. Gary Schwartz and his team did further research on the effects of Reiki. Due to concern of Lab mice who suffer from stress induced blood leakage in the gut (because of loud noise and stress), Reiki and Energy Healing Masters vs Sham Healers were asked to send energy to the Rats. In the Rats that received healing from the Master Healers, there was greater than a 50% reduction in microvascular leaking (blood leaking from the gut). The "Sham Reiki" control group showed no change. You can find interesting studies like this in the Journal Of Alternative and Complimentary Medicine.
Did you know that your heart holds the largest Electromagnetic Field of your entire body?
Our poor brains are so exhausted. We mistake them for being in charge but the truth is our hearts are meant to drive the bus. The human heart has the largest electro magnetic field that extends 7-12 feet from your body; above you, below you, front to back and side to side! ~ Heart Math ( Childre, The Heart Math Solution)
Infact, The Heart sends more information to the brain than the brain sends to the heart. The heart also synchronizes many systems in the body so they can function in harmony with one another. These heart signals to the brain especially affect the brain centers invloved in strategic thinking, reaction times and self-regulation. (Childre, Martin, Rozman ad McCraty, Heart Intelligence, Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart.)
In Reiki, the heart is the great balancing point. It is in charge of balancing and integrating all of the upper energy centers with the lower energy centers. The heart is our intuitive center and "knowing place" and its job in our energy system is crucial to our health and wellbeing.
As technology expands so does the sensitivity and precision of its scientific tools. We now know that our organs, tissues and cells have their own measurable electric magnetic pulsing. According to Natures Own Research Association, in the 1920’s and 1930’s, a distinguished researcher at Yale University School of Medicine, Harold Saxton Burr suggested that diseases could be detected in the energy field of the body before physical symptoms occurred. He was convinced we could prevent disease by working with the energy field. Around this time in 1922, Reiki was also being rediscovered by a Japanese monk, Mikado Usui, before it found its way to America. Actually, Reiki appears to date back over 2500 years. While possibly Buddhist in orgin, Reiki is reported to be several hundred years older than Christianity.
Nonetheless, here you are present day. You are submerged in a time where survival of the fittest means being pummeled by the chronic stress of our vastly changing and demanding world. Our former human race could not have even imagined this on demand world we have created. The most unimaginable has been our technological growth. And as we begin to see technology open its eyes to spirituality and science we are at the cusp of amazing possibilities in healing. We now know that manipulating and working with the energy field around your body and within your body can help to heal your body. Enter Reiki. This healing modality works with the energy of your electro magnetic field. In doing so, it stimulates and supports your body's innate ability to heal itself. But, its not just working to heal you on a physical level. Additionally, there is another major nugget of gold that occurs during your Reiki session that can have lasting effects on your wellbeing. It is the release of old, stuck and murky emotions. These old stagnant energies cause major blocks to maintaining your health.
As we learn about the role emotions play on our physical bodies we have realized that its not simply Crones Disease or other chronic illnesses that bring you to your Doc’s office. We are now learning the important role emotions play in your energy health.
Emotions are the underlying cause of most all dis-ease in the body.
Negative emotions and chronic stress deplete you. They change the necessary healthy vibration you need to maintain your wellbeing even down to a cellular/genetic level. We also know that negative emotions or stressful emotions throw our nervous systems out of sync and our heart rhythms can become disordered. This lowers our immune system functioning and can negatively impact our genetic expression. However, positive emotions like gratitude, love and compassion have been found to increase order in the heart. These positive emotions balance the nervous system into harmony while giving the immune system a major boost. What also happens in response to this? People think more clearly and maintain further positive emotional self regulation! For more information on this cool growing body of research check out Dr. Joe Dispenza's books, meditations and his recent segment in the Heal Documentary.
But what about all the years of holding back and pushing through those difficult murky emotions? Thats what we are suppose to do right, suck it up? Zip it up and show up for the job, school and family responsibilities. Well, now we are learning it is better to just cry. Go ahead and throw rocks, scream into a pillow or journal through your tears. Have it and let it go. However, even after all that emoting, life is hard. Sometimes, we are faced with our deepest pain and there are not enough tears in the world to express our grief. So we keep it together and push through. Reiki and other healing modalities (particularly Emotion Code) are many times able to assist in the release of old emotions in the body which otherwise deplete your energy system and cause “blocks” in it’s vital flow. This explains why many times people can experience unexpected emotions during a session. Sometimes it can be a subtle tear on the cheek while for others it can be an all out sobbing.
So how is it possible that we could not notice our need for an all out sobbing session? It’s simple. We are all addicted to "busy". And busy, like any good addictive substance, numbs us to the point of successful avoidance of uncomfortable feelings. I shall not digress too far here but it’s an important part of what comes next; the deeper soul connection that Reiki fosters and a remembering of who you are.
I can assure you, in this fast pace on-demand rapidly changing world, most of us have forgotten our soul purpose and soul needs while getting lost in busy, stress, depression, anxiety and illness.
The re-connection with our true nature is the real gift that Reiki fosters. It is also in this state of connectedness and calm that our bodies hold the innate ability to heal ourselves. When Reiki energy is filtered into the body I see it filling and charging all that is you. The energy is not simply targeting stress, anxiety and illness. In fact its the opposite in my experience. It is also targeting all those parts of your authentic self, the parts of you that have never been sick or heart broken. It sheds all its light on the beautiful you that is your spirit vs your personality. Your spirit is connected to love, purpose and a greater knowing. Your personality, aka ego, is focused on your wounds, fears and striving for acceptance in spite of these things. Reiki offers the opportunity to reconnect with your spirit. As you become more filled with your spirit, old emotions release and your busy and anxious personality/mind/ego relax. You litterally feel your body in a new way. After a healing session, many people comment on their feet, as if suddenly they are "club footed" due to previously expending so much energy in the upper half of the body that their once depleted lower halves and feet suddenly feel very heavy!
This is the true Soul of Reiki; the unbecoming of whatever you have become (in personality or matter) that is false and pushes you into a state of dis-ease. Additionally, Reiki energy is also simultateoulsy charging and nurturing your creative, purposeful self. I have witnessed people who have literally become more colorful, animated with joy and healed of various health issues after their Reiki healing journey. I must clarify, these people did the work between sessions. They explored their own soul's needs in our therapy sessions along with healings and it usually got hard and dark before it became light. Sometimes we must struggle longer then we would like to in order to learn all that we need to learn. However, expressing our true, creative soul driven selves (vs ego and fear) is the highest form of healing. So even when illness prevails, your soul has won. So is Reiki Magic? I say yes, I think it's all quite magical! What is your experience?
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