Reiki Reiki Reiki Just what is this thing we call Reiki, and what do we know of it today?   If you read much through this site, you’ll see me looking at the definition of Reiki a number of times because I think it’s important to be really clear about what we mean when talking about alternative healing methods.   For instance, Reiki healing is different than what’s been called “esoteric healing.” Esoteric healing is the effort of a practitioner to try aligning the mental, emotional, and etheric/physical bodies so that the soul can pour its healing energies in through the entire personality system (which incorporates all of those bodies). According to this approach, the soul is always trying to pour in its healing energies, but due to misalignment of the personality system, it’s unable to do so.   Reiki healing, on the other hand, works specifically on the energy field, which IS PART of the physical realm.   This means that it IS something we can study, although we’ve only really begun to explore the energy field – and therefore energy healing – in the last couple of decades.   Today there is a lot of talk about the Zero Point Field, and this is really the energy field we’re talking about. This is an all-pervasive energy field through which we’re all connected – which is why Reiki can be done in person or at a distance.   As I understand it from research, this is some of the information science has today that relates to this field:   If you remove all matter from an area of space, you’re supposed to be left with a vacuum – that is, left with nothing at all. But when scientists have created vacuums, they’ve observed that there were still emissions within the vacuum. Figuring this must be due to residue heat, they have reduced temperatures within vacuums to absolute zero. This is the temperature at which there is no movement whatsoever, and thus no heat.   Still, inside those vacuums, there were seemingly random emissions. Today, this is being talked about as “the information field” – which is the same as the all-pervasive energy field. And since scientists understand that consciousness itself affects experiments on the quantum level, it is now postulated that CONSCIOUSNESS is the very thing stimulating those emissions inside the absolute-zero vacuum. They’re not random emissions after all.   When we use Reiki or other energy healing methods to help people, we are attempting to manipulate this energy field in such a way that a person’s energy body receives new instructions (information) so to speak. When the information that organizes and directs the dense physical body is thrown off by stress or accidents or illness or emotional/mental disorders or anything else, the dense body runs into problems. If we can give the CORRECT instructions to the energy body via Reiki or other energy techniques, we have the opportunity to help that person’s physical experience.   This is what energy healing is all about. It’s what Reiki is all about. And yes, Reiki is in its modern-day infancy. It is not yet practiced as a science, and there’s much we have to learn about it. But it is through our work with it that we learn, and it is my hope that the free service here at Distance Reiki will help us to learn all we can about the benefits that Reiki offers.