—Susan B. Eirich, founder of Earthfire Institute
How Reiki Works
The Short Answer
Healing can be more thorough and more rapid with Reiki. In this way, Reiki effectively complements both conventional and alternative therapies.
Reiki is just as effective over distance, or more so, as it is in person. This is due to the property of quantum entanglement of energy.
A Closer Look
Life source energy is always in motion, even in more stagnant areas. This energy heals as it flows and the greater the flow the more enhanced the healing. This flow heals by restoring ultimate balance of energy to overall health at its most fundamental levels—cellular and energetic.
The body’s focus is on survival. Reiki life source energy will always flow naturally to the root of the problem—whether that problem is accurately known or not—just as water flows naturally to its level place. When freed to do so, energy naturally repositions into a state of optimal balance.
Reiki is in no way a process involving manipulation or control, but one of letting go and facilitating the recipient’s own natural ability to heal. The Reiki practitioner uses meditation techniques with clear and focused intent to align with and activate the inherent life source energy of the recipient. Once aligned with a recipient’s energy flow, the practitioner can facilitate a clear and energized conduit for that flow to release from stagnation and reposition toward its own unique balance of optimal health.
Life source energy flows in response to need, not want. It may affect things not expected or specifically requested in order for the whole body to be most well. By nature, there are no circumstances or conditions possible for Reiki to do harm. Reiki—life source energy—can only flow toward highest optimal balance, highest good.
Non-human animals have an instinctive awareness of their ability to heal from within. For humans, once awareness is placed on the healing ability of one’s own body, that ability is strengthened. Truly amazing healing has been reported, when life source energy is allowed to come to balance.