Misconceptions About Reiki

• Reiki can’t be done if you are religious

Reiki does not belong to any religious group and does not require you to believe in any certain thing or follow any certain religion in order to receive. Reiki is simply universal life force energy.

• Reiki is just “placebo effect”

Reiki and other forms have energetic healing have been around for centuries. As we now “catch up” in the modern world to the old teachings and knowledge, more and more studies are being done on energy healing and other such things such as the meridian points in Traditional Chinese Medicine. I firmly believe that within the next ten years, a greater emphasis will be placed on the necessity of energetics for good health in all capacities.

• Reiki practitioners have supernatural power

Reiki practitioners are regular people acting as conduits of universal life force energy. Anyone can learn and develop reiki skills and be initiated into a reiki lineage.

• Reiki can’t help physical ailments or reiki can’t help emotional/mental ailments

Reiki works on the energetic body. All physical ailments manifest only after the emotional/mental component has not been able to heal or has been ignored. Reiki works on the energetic level to help heal emotion and mental ailments before they manifest as physical ailments. Of course, reiki can also help with physical ailments, too.