Introducing Reiki

Rei Ki is Japanese for Universal Life Energy.

Rei - universal, or spiritual (the essence that gives something spirit)
Ki - life energy.

Every thing is made of energy, and all living things exist within a continuum - a field - of universal life energy. Every plant, animal, human has personal life force energy which is necessary for it to grow, move, communicate, and/or think. Without that life energy, it wouldn’t be a living thing.

I start with this because it shows us…
…that being aware of and connecting with life energy is the most natural thing!

That’s why I love this photo of my son - it captures the simple, intuitive connection with life energy which children so often have, before societal expectations, cultural projections, and lived experience burdens create distance from feeling and flowing life energy.

Noticing, connecting with, protecting and nurturing our life energy isn’t a weird, new idea, or a cultural belief or religion.

Animals, children, sensitive people do it ALL the time. And it is what everything in the natural world does continually: it seeks a state of balance. Balance means a state of ease, equilibrium, and relaxed flow. Everything in nature is constantly shifting, adjusting and finding this balance.

We can connect with our life energy to support it to do this too.

Natural life energy

Reiki is therefore two things:

1. Rei Ki is simply life energy, and

2. And Reiki, is a system for learning to become aware of, expand and heal by connecting with personal and universal life energy.

We are part of the universal energy field, and, we have our own personal life energy, which feels different depending if it’s resonating at a high or a low vibration.

Things like emotional state, mental wellbeing, environment pressures, relationships, stress and worry all change the vibration of our personal life energy. And for that, founder Mikao Usui Sensei developed a system for noticing (feeling) and self-healing (flowing) life energy by introducing people to a system which encourages self-awareness of energy, and techniques to ground, centre, flow and connect.