Reiki Healing
- Jul 2
- 8 min read
Updated: 6 days ago
You could look up Reiki right now and find thousands of articles explaining what it is, how it works, and what science has to say about it. But this isn’t that kind of article.
This is for the person who's heard of Reiki and still isn’t quite sure what it means, or why something in them is nudging them to look a little closer. It’s for the person who has tried everything else, or who’s simply feeling off and doesn’t know why. It’s for you, if you’re craving connection, ease, or a deeper relationship with your own healing.
This is not an expert lecture or a mystic sales pitch. It’s one practitioner’s lived experience with Reiki, what I’ve seen, what I’ve felt, and what I’ve learned from holding space for others. I hope this helps you feel more informed. But more than that, I hope it helps you feel seen.
Reiki is hard to describe because it doesn’t live in the mind, it lives in the body. The word Reiki combines two Japanese characters: Rei, meaning “God’s Wisdom” or “Higher Power,” and Ki, meaning “life force energy.” At its essence, Reiki is the practice of transmitting divinely guided energy from practitioner to recipient.
It’s the deep exhale after holding your breath for too long.
The comfort of a child melting into your arms.
The stillness that settles in a forest just before sunset.
It’s the warmth behind your ribs when someone you love walks into the room.
It’s that moment, rare but unmistakable, when your whole system says, “Yes. This is it.”
For some, Reiki feels like calm. For others, it’s release with tears, warmth, tingling, breath. Sometimes you don’t feel anything at all until later, when you realize something subtle has shifted. That your body is quieter. Your thoughts less jagged. Your heart, a little more open.
Reiki speaks to the part of you that remembers what it feels like to be fully present, fully loved, and deeply at peace within yourself.
How Reiki Works
Everything in the universe moves in frequency, including you. Your body, your thoughts, your emotions, your breath, all vibrate with their own unique signature. When stress, illness, trauma, or grief enter our lives, those vibrations shift. We fall out of sync. Out of alignment. Out of ease.
Reiki is the practice of helping your system remember its original rhythm.
During a session, I attune to a healing frequency, that steady current of calm, truth, and divine intelligence. I don't force anything or give you something you don’t already have. I simply offer resonance. Like tuning forks placed beside each other, your system picks up the signal, recognizes its own potential for balance, and responds in its own wise timing.
Sometimes that looks like an emotional release. Sometimes, a wave of peace. Sometimes, it’s quiet—and the changes unfold gently in the hours or days that follow.
However, when it arrives, the healing isn’t coming from me. It’s coming through your own field, once it remembers how to listen.
What Reiki Is Not / Misconceptions
Reiki is not about belief. You don’t need to subscribe to a particular religion, worldview, or philosophy to benefit from it. Your body doesn’t ask your permission to heal, it simply needs the right conditions to begin.
Reiki is also not a performance. It isn’t dramatic. It doesn’t require incense or chanting or altered states of consciousness. At its core, Reiki is presence. Stillness. A return to what is steady and nourishing beneath the noise.
While Reiki has traditional roots that include specific symbols and practices, my approach is slightly different. I focus on aligning with the original frequency of health, love, and truth—what I understand as Divine design. Rather than calling on ancestral energies or spiritual entities, I attune to a state of deep coherence and invite your body’s innate wisdom to respond. This process isn’t about channeling something outside of you—it’s about helping you remember and return to your natural state of balance. Each session becomes a sacred space for realignment, where healing can unfold in ways that are unique to you. I honor the origins of Reiki while practicing in a way that’s grounded, discerning, and deeply connected to the Creator.
I’m not channeling a being or calling in ancestors, though some practitioners resonate with that approach. In my practice, I attune to what I believe is the Divine source code, the frequency of truth, order, and love that lives within all of us.
Reiki doesn’t override your will, your boundaries, or your beliefs. Instead, it gently invites your system to recognize its own intelligence and return to its natural state of coherence.
My Personal Experience with Reiki
Before I ever had a name for it, I was already feeling what Reiki describes.
I could place my hands on my children and see their discomfort ease. I could soothe a crying baby without words. I could walk into a room and feel what others were holding; grief, anxiety, even unspoken tension, long before it was said aloud.
At the time, I didn’t know how to explain it. I just knew it was real.
Reiki gave me the language for what I had already been living: the body’s sensitivity to frequency, the reality of entrainment, the unspoken way we share energy and emotion with those around us. It helped me understand why tuning in matters and how healing is often less about doing and more about allowing.
In my own journey, Reiki has been a continual invitation to return to resonance. To notice where I’m carrying dissonance or distortion, and to gently recalibrate.
That’s what I hope to offer you, a chance to remember what your own system feels like when it’s safe to let go and supported enough to heal.
The Science of Frequency, Resonance, and Entrainment
We’re learning more each year about how the human body responds to frequency.
Science now confirms what ancient systems of healing have long understood: that we are vibrational beings, constantly in motion, constantly responding to the fields around us. Our nervous system, brain waves, heart rhythms, and even immune responses are all influenced by energetic environments, seen and unseen.
Entrainment is one of the key principles at work in Reiki. Just like metronomes will sync up when placed on the same surface, or how heartbeats can begin to align in moments of emotional connection, your body has the ability to “tune” itself to frequencies that are coherent, calming, and beneficial.
When you enter a Reiki session, you are stepping into a carefully attuned energetic space. As the practitioner, I’m intentionally resonating with what I perceive as a Divine blueprint, an energetic signature that supports health, harmony, and truth.
Your body is wise. It knows when it’s met with something safe and true. Reiki simply invites your system to remember that resonance, and in doing so, begin the process of self-correction and restoration.
For those curious to explore the science further, you might enjoy these resources:
What You Might Feel in a Session
No two Reiki sessions are alike, just as no two people carry the exact same energetic imprint. Some clients feel a profound sense of ease within minutes. Others notice subtle shifts, like a softening of breath, a drop in heart rate, or a tingling sensation where the energy is most active. Some feel warmth, others coolness. Many feel nothing at all until hours or days later, when a sense of clarity, lightness, or emotional release arrives gently and unexpectedly.
You may cry. You may laugh. You may fall asleep. You may simply rest. All of it is welcome.
What’s happening beneath the surface is a rebalancing of your system’s resonance, like retuning an instrument to its original, harmonious tone. We’re not forcing change; we’re inviting coherence.
And because your system is intelligent, it will only shift what you are ready to shift.
Why I Practice Reiki
I began practicing Reiki because I needed a name for what I was already sensing in my body and in others. It felt like love. It felt like truth moving through me when someone needed comfort or calm and I wanted to understand what that meant.
But it was during my training, when I began practicing on others, that something shifted. I saw people’s bodies soften. I saw tears rise, breath deepen, energy lighten. I witnessed transformation in ways I never anticipated. That’s when I knew this was something I wanted to understand and a service I was being called to offer. Reiki gave me a framework and a path forward.
I practice Reiki because I believe we are all capable of healing. Listening to our symptoms, and reasserting that quiet connection that allows us to feel whole, known, and alive. I believe in the beauty of a world where people feel safe enough, supported enough, and attuned enough to return to themselves and their Divine blueprint.
What Reiki Is (and Isn’t) in My Practice
Beyond skin and bone, each of us is surrounded by a subtle yet powerful electromagnetic field—an extension of our being that carries information, memory, and emotion.
This field is constantly shaped by experience: stress, trauma, joy, connection. When it becomes dissonant—out of tune with our innate design—we often feel it as anxiety, fatigue, or disconnection from self.
Reiki interacts with this field by introducing coherent frequency into the energetic environment. It’s a gentle nudge, a realignment.
You might think of it like a software update for your system—your quantum body receives what it’s ready for, integrating shifts that can ripple through mind, body, and spirit.
Reiki, as I practice it, is not a religion, a belief system, or a performance. It is not about channeling spirits or transferring power from one person to another.
It is a practice of resonance and co-regulation of energy that supports your body’s natural ability to come back into balance. It is scientific, in the way entrainment and the nervous system work. It is spiritual, in the sense that life itself carries meaning and intention. It is personal, because your experience will always be unique to what you need.
I don’t see myself as the source of your healing. I’m more like a tuning fork—attuned to a frequency that reminds your system how to recalibrate, re-pattern, and re-member itself.
In my sessions, there may be gentle touch or no touch at all, depending on your comfort level. What you may feel is warmth, relaxation, release, or simply a quiet shift that continues unfolding long after the session ends.
Reiki simply meets you where you are, offering support even when words or understanding fall short.
The Reiki Experience – What Clients Often Feel
Each person’s experience with Reiki is uniquely their own, shaped by what their body, mind, and spirit are ready to release or receive.
Some describe a sense of warmth or tingling, a heaviness that feels like being deeply grounded, or a lightness that lifts emotional weight. Others report emotional release—tears without a clear story—or a feeling of being held in quiet stillness. Some don’t notice anything at all during the session, only to realize later that something internal has shifted.
A session may bring physical relief, a calmer nervous system, mental clarity, or a reconnection to a deeper sense of peace. These outcomes are not manufactured—they are invitations your system chooses to accept when the environment feels safe enough to let go.
Whether the change feels like a subtle breath of ease or a profound turning point, the wisdom that guides it comes from within you.
Who Reiki Is For
Reiki is for anyone who longs to feel more at home in their body, more at peace in their mind, and more connected to something meaningful.
You don’t need to understand energy work or believe in a particular philosophy. You may be feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, anxious, physically unwell—or just quietly aware that something within you wants attention. Reiki welcomes it all.
Whether you’re navigating a season of grief, burnout, illness, emotional upheaval, or simply seeking alignment, this practice offers a compassionate space for your system to recalibrate.
Reiki does not discriminate by belief or background. It simply offers a gentle invitation to return to the part of you that already knows how to heal.
If any part of this resonates with you—if your body is asking for rest, your heart for clarity, or your spirit for connection—Reiki may be a powerful next step. Healing doesn’t have to be complicated. I’d be honored to walk that path with you. If you feel called to explore, to feel more, to remember yourself again, I invite you to book a session and experience Reiki for yourself. Follow the Book Online link to experience the healing power of Reiki.
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