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What is Reiki?

Reiki, (pronouced ray-key) is an ancient healing technique used for promoting healing primarily in humans, but can be applied to any living thing. The word Reiki means "universal energy". Reiki originates from Japan (Usui Reiki) but there are numerous branches and offshoots of Reiki being practiced around the world today.

Reiki energy is administered by the practitioner's hands which are placed over the specific energy centres called Chakras on the recipient's body. See the CHS Energy Page for more information. Reiki is a very gentle, yet powerful energy (ki or chi) that is transferred from the practitioner to the recipient.

But really, what is Ki or Chi energy? For those inquiring skeptical minds, a scientific explanation may provide you with answers to you questions regarding the "nuts and bolts" of Reiki energy.


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The "Technical Stuff" Behind Reiki.

All living things produce bioelectricity. This life force is what is referred to as ki or chi in Asian Energy Medicine. To understand bioenergy it is useful to first know how energy waves behave and how bioenergy compares with them.

There are many different kinds of energy waves. They differ in length and speed travelled. An energy wave consists of an electric field and a magnetic field at right angles to each other and both at right angles to the direction the wave is travelling. The number of waves formed in one second is called the frequency and the distance the energy travels (at the speed of light = 2.9989 x 10^8 meters/second) during one oscillation is its wavelength. The higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelength and the lower the frequency the longer the wavelength.

Electromagnetic radiation spans an enormous range of frequencies. The shortest, Gamma Rays, are a tenth of a billionth of a millimeter long and vibrate sextillions of times per seconds. Belonging to this group of waves are x-rays and the shortest type of ultra-violet rays. The next largest group includes energy that can be seen by the human eye. This band of visible light vibrates hundreds of trillions of times per second. Microwave frequency is measured in gigahertz or megahertz at millions and billions of cycles per second. At the lowest end of this spectum are ELF waves or Extremely Low Frequencies which vibrate at 10 hertz. It is these same ELF waves or alpha waves (.025 volts per centimeter) that are produced by the human body. This electric field is what is recognized as the bioelectric field. For more information on bioelectric fields, I recommend that you read The Body Electric by Robert Becker MD and Gary Selder.

How does the body produce this boielectric field? There are several factors involved in this process. One factor seems to be the human pineal gland. This small gland, located in the center of the brain, is responsible for the production of melatonin, seratonin, and two neurohomones that assist in controlling the bio-cycles in the body including the bioelectric field. A symbiotic relationship occurs within the body because research groups have proven the magnetic field of the body also in turn influences the functioning of the pineal gland.

Another factor in the human bioelectric field is due to neuroepidermal junction P-N diodes. Bones contiain P-N junction diodes (Wolff's Law of Growth and Regeneration). These diodes emit electrical energy. The human skin also contains P-N junction diodes used in triggering regeneration of skin which produce current emmissions of light and energy from the skin. This emmission is the biofield energy in humans. This bioelectricity is also called chi or ki energy; the human life force.

So how does a Reiki practitioner channel energy? There is reason to believe that people who are considered to be "gifted healers" are exceptionally good conductors of this energy and that they generate supportive electromagnetic effects which they then convey to their patients.

Back to Reiki Energy.

Reiki practitioners work in the body's bioelectric field. They help to channel energy (chi) to the recipient through the seven (7) major chakra centres. These centers take in energy which aid the body through health and wellness. When a person's life energy becomes low or the flow of this energy becomes restricted, they can gradually become more vulnerable to illness. When this life energy is high and flowing more freely people feel better and they have more energy and are more resistant to disease. Chi energy is also the primary energy of our emotions, thoughts, and spiritual life.

Therefore, body energy work is an orchestrated symphony of pure science and spiritual healing. The practitioner does not heal the recipient's body directly, instead the body heals itself. The Reiki practitioner merely facilitates the healing process.



Disease [is] not an entity, but a fluctuating condition of the patient's body, a battle between substance of disease and the natural self-healing tendancy of the body.
--Hippocretes



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