Reiki 101 - Learn What It's All About

Welcome to the Insight Timer meditation app.

My name is Tamiya Johnston and I'm a teacher here.

I also have certifications in life coaching.

I have my meditation teacher certification as well as Reiki master and teacher.

And I wanted to chat today a little bit about Reiki.

Sometimes people don't even know what it is.

I know it's some form of energy work,

But.

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To clear this up,

I would love to tell you about Reiki.

So Reiki is basically,

It is a form of energy.

Healing energy movement.

And Reiki is basically universal consciousness.

So the idea of Reiki,

I like to explain it that it is like a massage for your soul.

So when people are doing,

If you are receiving a Reiki session in person,

Sometimes part of the session,

There are hands placed on you.

Other times,

Throughout the session,

The hands hover over.

Practitioners have their own preferences as well as people receiving Reiki.

So the beauty of Reiki is that it is this gentle,

Relaxation technique.

That is Japanese in origin and has been practiced for.

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Many,

Many years.

And the beautiful part of Reiki is that when I was trained,

We learned that Reiki is going to go where it needs to go.

As practitioners,

We simply hold the space.

We have certain hand positions.

That we have been trained to follow.

Sometimes we may add ones or we may,

I don't know,

Do some different techniques that add to it.

But essentially with these basic techniques,

The Reiki is going to flow through us.

We're simply a conduit.

We're just holding this channel so that Reiki energy can flow.

What it does is it basically clears anything that's sitting stagnant.

So the idea that emotional stresses,

Trauma,

Kind of those things that are deep,

Deep seated if we don't deal with them.

Years,

Past,

Months,

Whatever it is.

They kind of sit in our body and they will eventually,

The idea.

Is that they will produce disease,

Sickness,

Just general unwellness.

So when we do practices like Reiki,

We give that energy kind of a little shake.

And we let it,

We help it kind of move along.

And a lot of times when people are experiencing Reiki,

They can feel,

You know,

Heat,

Cool,

Tingling.

It can feel like a rushing feeling.

They can have their stomach gurgling.

There's a wide variety.

They can receive really brilliant visions or ideas that can come in.

It is part of almost like a meditative experience.

As well as your practitioner may have some intuitive abilities that allow messages to come through for your greatest and highest good.

We work with the chakra system,

So we kind of tap in,

We may get some insights We are never,

Ever here to diagnose anybody medically.

This is simply an accent piece.

This is,

Again,

A relaxation technique.

If we receive insights and we think,

Oh,

You know what,

Maybe you want to go get that checked out,

Then that's our job to just kind of say,

Hey,

You may want to double check on your whatever it may be.

So Reiki.

It's this beautiful,

I always tell people,

Worst case scenario,

When you receive your Reiki session,

You will just feel beautifully relaxed and likely have a great sleep.

On the other end of the spectrum,

You may receive or experience some of the things I listed before.

So that's kind of a high level,

What about Reiki?

So if you have any other questions,

Feel free to reach out and enjoy this Insight Timer app.

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Courses,

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Take care.