“Reiki has been shown to help with recovery after hospital procedures, stress reduction and prevention, anxiety, depression, pain reduction, improve resilience and boost immune supports, and for physical and mental health support for cancer patients.”
— AMERICAN COUNSELING ASSOCIATION

Reiki is an energy healing therapy that “promotes relaxation, reduces stress and anxiety, and promotes a positive mental state, according to the Cleveland Clinic.” Reiki is a somatic therapy that frees stuck emotions and thoughts from the body. Free-flowing energy relaxes your body and mind, supercharging your body’s natural healing mechanisms. Racing or negative thoughts turn into quiet calm. People report a feeling “lighter, balanced, and clearer.” You will feel reconnected to your spirit, to others, and to the Divine. Reiki provides a Chakra Healing and Chakra Clearing.

How does Reiki work?

Science tells us that every part of our universe is made of energy, and we humans are a denser form of that energy that flows around us. We exchange energy with our environment as we breathe and interact with people, plants, and animals. Within us, we have energy “organs and channels” that carry energy flow through us much like nerves and veins carry signals and blood. Medicine measures your energy flow with tests such as EEGs and EKGs.

Have you ever “felt” someone approach before hearing them? You felt their energy field connecting with your energy field. This energy connects us and provides a communication channel that we use to constantly scan for safety and other information from those around us. Our energy also broadcasts who we think we are and how we feel about ourselves and others to our world.

How are we affected by blocks in our energy?

Ever feel drained and sluggish or anxious and stressed? Those are symptoms that your energy is blocked. Your energetic pathways allow you to receive life-force energy to keep the body in a state of balance and well-being. Negative thoughts and feelings, stress, trauma, drugs, injury, abuse, and environmental toxins can contribute to an imbalance of our energetic balance. When our energy system is chronically out of balance, it can result in pain and dis-ease.

How is Reiki performed?

The Reiki Master gently touches or hovers over the body although it is just as powerful long-distance. In this bodywork, you stay fully clothed as the Reiki Master channels Universal life force energy into you. Reiki compliments traditional medical and psychiatric care.

Reiki is evidence based and embraced by hospitals

Reiki is now one of the top three alternative healing in-patient therapies in U.S. hospitals, according to an American Hospital Association (AHA) survey. All 20 of the 2021-2022 Best Hospitals Honor Roll as ranked by U.S. News & World Report offer services by the Reiki Master. Reiki is offered worldwide at medical facilities to its most vulnerable populations for acute (post-surgery) and chronic conditions such as cancer patients.

According to UCLA Health, an increasing number of nurses, physicians, and rehabilitation therapists have become Reiki Masters to augment their patient care in hospitals, hospice care settings, rehabilitation centers, emergency departments, psychiatric settings, nursing homes, operating rooms, family practice, addiction recovery centers, military bases, and many other settings. Hospitals such as Mayo Clinic, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and UCLA Health train their nurses and caregivers to become Reiki Masters to support their allopathic medical care.

Reiki Masters improve patient care and reduce staff burnout. For example, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center not only offers Reiki therapy to patients but also has Reiki Masters teach the patients’ caregivers, the patients themselves, and the general public Reiki. “Patients love it because it works.” says Simone Zappa, RN, an administrator in the Integrative Medicine Department at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.

“As our health care system challenges institutions to offer high-quality but cost-effective service, Reiki is being recognized as an important tool to maximize patient care and minimize recovery time,” according to Libby Barnett and Maggie Babb, co-authors of Reiki Energy Medicine: Bringing Healing Touch into Home, Hospital and Hospice.

What information would be helpful for the Reiki Master?

• What hurts today? Where do you have chronic pain?

• Are there physical, emotional, or mental challenges that you would like to release?

• Would you like to be touched or prefer that the hands hover over you or virtually? (I have clients around the world who receive healing.)

• Any questions?

Become a Reiki Master

Are you interested in healing yourself or providing healing to others? Contact Wendy Wisner for the Reiki I: Day of Self Healing. Experience Reiki Meditation on YouTube at RadiantYou Healing.

About the Author

Wendy Wisner is a gifted spiritual healer and teacher who uses energy healing to help people achieve their health, relationship, and career goals. Energy Healing clears unconscious patterns and heals unresolved feelings. Free-flowing energy allows our natural healing mechanisms to heal the body, mind, and emotions. Science-proven and practical spiritual growth tools empower you to consciously choose to live life more fully, authentically happier. Freed to be the real you. Wendy is the Director of Radiant You and its CAM for Recovery program, Reiki Master Teacher, and interfaith minister. Working with Wendy, you will restore your belief that, “I’ve got this.” We now offer healing in Spanish with Rodrigo Ortiz. Rodrigo brings 35 years of Energy Healing experience to help you heal. Connect now.

All services complement allopathic medical and psychological care provided by traditional healthcare practitioners.