Reiki Meditation has a Powerful Extra Feature to Help You Truly Relax
Today, Reiki meditation is more popular than ever as a value-added complement to other forms of meditative practices or on its own.
So much so, the globally-respected journal The Atlantic wrote an in-depth article titled "Reiki can't possibly work. So why does it?" about the sharp, results-driven increase in its popularity:
Over the past two decades, a number of studies have shown that Reiki treatments help diminish the negative side effects of chemotherapy, improve surgical outcomes, regulate the autonomic nervous system, and dramatically alter people's experience of physical and emotional pain associated with illness.
I've been using Reiki successfully for many years to help people treat the symptoms of life-affecting conditions like depression, anxiety, insomnia, and mood due it its ability to manipulate the central nervous system in helpful ways.
Recently, I've become increasingly convinced Reiki is especially effective over other more solitary forms of meditation for one big reason: human contact.
Touch is a Powerful - and Real! - Healing Additive
It's a long-confirmed fact that being touched via things like hugging or massage cause your brain to release hormones and chemicals that make us feel good, spur healing, and help us relax:
Dopamine: Also known as our "feel good" chemical.
Serotonin: A nervous system "messenger" that controls things like mood, nausea, healing, and sexual desire.
Oxytocin: The anxiety-fighting hormone that gives us a sense of well-being, security, and comfort.
When Reiki is performed, the practitioner's light touch carries a physical and emotional impact on the patient that starts the flow of these healing chemicals throughout the body in a way that other forms of meditation cannot.
If Reiki could be described in one short phrase, it would be the "transfer of energy" from one person to another.
While difficult to measure directly, this transfer can be seen via its effects. Like we can't see the wind, we can see trees sway, and leaves get blown along the ground.
Just as the wind can be mighty in forms such as tornadoes and hurricanes, experiencing Reiki with an expert practitioner can have real physical effects, such as lowering high blood pressure.
Tweak Your Nervous System to Treat Life's Pains & Problems
Reiki allows you to tap into and influence your body's central nervous system in surprisingly helpful ways.
Mainly, Reiki interacts with the parasympathetic nervous system, or "PNS." That's our body's control functions for rest, recovery, digestion, and urination.
Learn more >>> 2-Minute Neuroscience: Parasympathetic Nervous System
In other words, it's a kind of "control panel" that gets used most often to return calm to our bodies when we're under stress or have come out of a dangerous situation.
Nowadays, all our daily lives are more stressful than ever (which may be another big reason for the uptick in Reiki popularity).
Whether it's work, family, global pandemics, or political overload, so-called "dangerous situations" don't have to be immediate life, limb, or death.
Hazardous and harmful situations can develop over time under continuous exposure to these things. Our bodies always stay in a low-grade "fight or flight" mode without a break. That leads to some of the most common pandemic complaints we have as humans today:
Stress
Anxiety
Headache
Hypertension
Anger Issues
Insomnia
Practicing Reiki lets you tap into the PNS and perform a reboot, restoring your body to a state of relaxation where healing can begin.
Contact me today for a private, complimentary consultation to see if you could benefit from a reset. I'll review your concerns and problems, then give you some valuable info on how Reiki can help you.