WHAT IS REIKI?

The Reiki Hippie
Aug 8
3 min read

✨ What is Reiki?

A Journey into the Living Light ✨

Close your eyes for a moment.

Take a slow, deep breath in through your nose… and let it out gently.

Imagine warm hands resting lightly on your shoulders—soft, steady, filled with a quiet glow that travels deep into your being.

This… is the ancient art we now call Reiki.

🌙 The Whisper of Hands Across Time

From the first dawns of humankind, we’ve known—without anyone teaching us—that touch carries magic.

A mother’s hand on her child’s fevered brow, a friend clasping your hand in grief… the comfort comes before the words.

💫 Pause & Feel: Place one of your hands on your heart right now. Notice the warmth. Imagine that warmth spreading into every cell, as though your own body is reminding you: I am here. I am whole.

Across the globe, this life-force energy is known by many names—Chi in China, Prana in India, Ruach in Hebrew tradition, and Reiki in Japan. The words differ, but the truth is the same: there is an invisible river of energy flowing through all that exists.

🔮 A Bridge Between the Mystical & the Modern

Mystics whisper of a universe woven from unseen threads.

Modern science, too, is discovering that everything—every stone, leaf, and thought—is made of energy. And thought itself? It shapes this energy like wind over water.

💫 Reflection Question: If your thoughts could shape the fabric of reality (and they can), what thought would you choose to send out into the universe right now?

Reiki is the practice of stepping into this river of life-force and letting it flow through your hands, your heart, your being.

🌊 The Gift of Attunement

When you are attuned to Reiki, something stirs awake inside you.

Your body’s energy pathways—once tangled or blocked—begin to open, like a long-closed flower turning to the sun. You are linked to the Source: the Great Mystery, the Divine, the Infinite—call it whatever your heart whispers.

💫 Sensory Moment: Imagine a silver thread of light descending from above your head, flowing gently down your spine. See it pool in your hands. Feel them warm, tingle, or simply grow still. This is your channel. This is your connection.

After your Reiki I attunement, your hands know what to do. You don’t push or force—Reiki flows of its own intelligence, finding exactly where it’s needed.

🌀 The Dance of Healing

As a Reiki channel, you are not “doing” the healing.

You are holding the door open for light to enter.The energy knows its path; your role is to trust and witness.

💫 Self-Check: Think of something in your life that feels heavy or blocked. Now imagine placing that part of yourself gently in your own hands. Breathe. Let Reiki flow—no trying, no controlling—just allowing.

Healing in Reiki is not about “fixing” symptoms. It is about returning to your truest, most radiant self.

🌟 The Patterns We Carry

From the earliest days of childhood, we collect patterns—beliefs, fears, old wounds—that shape the way we move in the world. Some protect us for a time, but others keep us from shining fully.

💫 Guided Release: Bring to mind a limitation you’ve carried—perhaps a voice telling you “you can’t,” or “you shouldn’t.” Now see it dissolve in a golden stream of light flowing through your palms, leaving only openness and space.

Reiki provides the energy for such letting go. But remember: the choice is always yours.

🕊 Beyond the Physical

Not every condition is meant to vanish in this lifetime.

Sometimes, illness is part of the soul’s deeper journey. And sometimes, the greatest healing comes in the form of peace, acceptance, or even the gentle transition we call death.

💫 Sacred Perspective: If you could see your life as your soul sees it—woven from many lifetimes—how might your challenges look different?

💗 Reiki is Love in Motion

Reiki works because it is love—pure, luminous, unconditional.

The original blueprint of life is wholeness, and Reiki is the reminder.

You cannot take on another’s dis-ease when you work with the Source and the Reiki guides. In fact, the more you channel Reiki, the more healed you become yourself.

🌺 For All Ages, For All Souls

Reiki is for everyone—babies, elders, wanderers, seekers, the curious, and the skeptical. It is a mirror that shows you your own light. When you open to Reiki, you open to the deeper truth of your being.

💫 Final Invitation: Place your hands together in front of your heart.

Whisper—silently or aloud—I am ready to remember who I am.

Feel the current moving through you.

You have just taken your first step.

Reiki is not something you “do.” It is something you become. The more you allow, the more it flows. And in the flow, you will discover—you have been whole all along.