Reiki for Anxiety

Reiki for Anxiety

Like many alternative treatments Reiki is fairly new on the western front but is gaining in popularity due to the number of people who're trying to get away from the use of drugs to control their conditions. These days, people are looking more and more for methods that will either cure or prevent their ailments rather than merely controlling them alone as is what tends to happen with prescription drugs.

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Unlike counterpart alternative treatment methods such as Ayurveda and Acupuncture, the history of Reiki only dates back to the early 20th century when Mikao Usui developed the practice. Reiki gained a following however and moved across the globe to America where it's now more popular there than in Japan, its birth country.

The word Reiki is derived from the Japanese pronunciation of two Chinese characters "Rei" meaning soul, or spirit, and "Ki" meaning life force or life energy. If you read the section on Acupuncture you'll recognize the Ki as Qi or Chi. In this context they all convey the same idea of life force energy.

Reiki healinghas sometimes been compared to the "Laying on of hands" method of healing. This method, the hands method that is, is infinitely religious whereas as the Reiki method isn't religious. Although Mikao Usui did gain the ability to "heal without energy depletion" after fasting and meditating for three weeks on Mount Kurama in Japan, Reiki healing isn't dependent on religious belief to cure. More a belief in the cure and the treatment method are what's needed and that could really be said of just about any line of treatment even western medicine. If you don't trust and believe in your practitioner you're less likely to take heed of any advice or even treatment that is offered to you.

How Reiki works though isn't by using traditional methods such as sticking needles into you or giving you nasty smelling potions to drink. Reiki works by drawing energy into the practitioner, flowing through specific chakra's before finally entering the patient via the practitioner's hands.

Reiki energy is thought to be an intelligent energy knowing where to go without being directed. So once the energy has left the practitioner and entered the patient the Reiki energy will go directly to the spot that needs to be healed. If the patient is skeptical or somehow unwilling to accept treatment the Reiki energy won't work. For Reiki to work the patient has to believe 100% that the treatment method is genuine and that it will work. Not too much to ask really.

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