Origins Holistic Psychotherapy | Dr. Michelle Shlafman LPC, ACS

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Usui Reiki

Natural healing using gentle life force energy, which flows through all things. Reiki can help to promote mental clarity, relieve stress while balancing the body, and bring healing to internal systems, generating wellness.

Promotes Harmony & Balance

Reiki is believed to be spiritually guided life energy and has been practiced for thousands of years. Practitioners believe this energy to be of the purest and highest frequency of energy or “life force,” allowing the client’s body to enter a relaxed state. This relaxed state can help the body to activate its natural healing properties. According to Eastern medicine, life energy or ki flows through the body. When this energy is compromised in some capacity, it hinders well-being. The goal of Reiki is to allow the body to be at its optimal condition for life energy to flow freely, thereby affording the opportunity for natural healing properties to occur in the body. It has been found to help in the healing process through energetic transfer.

Relaxes And Releases Tension From The Body

Records of Reiki’s use are growing as Western medicine seeks ways to provide care in a holistic manner. Reiki is currently being offered not only for management of physical pain, but emotional pain as well. Reiki is used in the possible treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma, stress and memory loss, as well as in palliative and oncological care.

Breaks Down Energy Blocks And Balances The Mind, Body, + Spirit

Regular Reiki treatment helps promote the unlocked flow of energy throughout the body. This may allow people to feel less stress, can enhance learning and memory, promotes mental clarity, and physical healing/ less physical pain. When energy passageways are blocked, positive energy has difficulty flowing to certain parts of the body, which can result in mood swings, fear, anger, pain, and more. Reiki can help keep these passages clear. Reiki also can help clients ground and be fully present in their bodies, listening to what the body, mind and soul are disclosing and manifesting as symptoms of anxiety and depression. It is a beautiful way of blending grounding energy with talk therapy.

Accelerates The Body’s Self-Healing Ability

Reiki may be able to help balance your internal body levels to return to a near-natural state. This means that your breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, circulation, and other bodily systems can improve. Reiki addresses the whole person—mind, body, and spirit—not just the physical being. This means that the positive energy transfer through Reiki is may be supportive in elevating the receiver’s mood and general attitude towards life. 

Reiki reminds receivers to be in the present moment. The positive energy transfer can help the mind focus on current events, release past mistakes, and not fret on anxieties about the future. This can help with accepting how life is unfolding and can promote positive reactions to situations, people, and circumstances. Principles of Reiki healing can resonate with cognitive behavior therapy and expressive therapies. Clients employ their senses in creating an image that captures their sensory experience of their perceived angst. They are then asked to affirm their desire for change and their desire to make the changes necessary to affect change. 

Reiki is also a tool that clients can learn for their own personal use in self-care. The tenets of counseling promote the empowerment and self-sufficiency of the client. Reiki can promote a practice of clients becoming more self-aware to their physiological and energetic needs and provides a means to address care and healing.

♥︎Your Go-To Holistic Therapy, Michelle