Reiki Healing Therapy now available
See below for answers to the most frequently asked questions about REIKI.
Meet your Reiki Therapist
Laureen House
- Reiki II Practitioner, student of Deanna DeAna Merrill, Reiki Master Teacher, Sanger, Texas
- Working towards Reiki Master Teacher
- Lifelong Community Service Volunteer
- Boston Wounded Vet Run – They Fought We Ride
- National Capital Region Wounded Vet Run
- Former Event Coordinator, Golden Opportunities for Independence
- Travis Mills Foundation
- Veteran and Community Fundraisers through DHouse Photography, Operations Manager
- United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, Foxboro Jaycees, Blue Hills Jaycees, Waltham Jaycees
- “Life is an Adventure” and “Everything with Love and Compassion” mantras that have changed her perspective and thus her world.
Frequently asked questions about REIKI
What is Reiki?
The Reiki system of healing uses universal life-force energy. Reiki originated in Japan and was discovered by Mikao Usui in 1922. Usui Reiki has two main branches: Japanese and Western. Both forms include the same basic features, including those in the following list. Reiki is
Safe: No one can do any harm with the Reiki energy.
Intelligent: The energy knows where to go and what to do to help you.
Natural: You need no other tools or instruments besides the Reiki practitioner, who channels the Reiki energy through their hands.
Gentle: The practitioner places their hands softly on the body or just above it. Practitioners don’t use massage or manipulation.
Simple to learn: You can learn Reiki in three classes: 1st degree, 2nd degree, and 3rd degree (Master level).
Lifelong: After you’re attuned to the Reiki energy by studying one of the three degrees of Reiki, you can channel Reiki for life.
Compatible with all religions or belief systems: You can receive or practice Reiki no matter what your religion. People of all faiths use Reiki as a way to relax and heal.
Components of the Reiki healing system
Reiki contains five central elements that the practitioner uses to prepare to channel Reiki energy and heal themselves and others. Go through this list when preparing to give or receive Reiki:
Attunements (initiations): Within a context of Reiki training, you are put “in tune” with the Reiki energy so that you have the life-long ability to channel the energy.
Hand positions: Use a set of positions to know where to place your hands during a Reiki session.
Self-Reiki hand positions: Use these positions to treat yourself with Reiki.
Treating others with hand positions: Use these positions to treat other people with Reiki.
Meditation and focusing: Connect with the source of Reiki universal energy and concentrate the Reiki healing energy within yourself.
Symbols: Use the Reiki symbols and the sound of their name as a mantra to connect with Reiki energy.
Reiki Principles: The five principles of Reiki are used as the basis of a daily meditation practice.
What Reiki is
In short, Reiki gives you what you need, whether it’s a release of tension or an energy boost, or both. To help you more fully understand what Reiki gives you, here are some terms used to describe Reiki:
Gentle: Reiki’s touch is soft and light.
Harmless: Reiki can have only positive results.
Natural: You don’t need any equipment or tools.
Healing: The highest level of healing is the goal of Reiki.
Balancing: Reiki will balance your energy levels.
Relaxing: The top reason to try Reiki is to feel the bliss of deep relaxation.
Energizing: If you’re drained of energy, Reiki will revive you.
What Reiki isn’t
Knowing what Reiki isn’t is as important as knowing what it is:
Reiki is not religious. Reiki is totally nondenominational. You can practice any religion (or none) and still use and benefit from Reiki. Reiki Founder Mikao Usui was influenced by the religions of his country, Shintoism and Buddhism. But Reiki isn’t associated with any religion, and people of all faiths and beliefs are Reiki practitioners. Reiki isn’t New Age either.
Reiki is not massage or reflexology. Reiki is an energy-healing system and not a manipulative system (hands moving the body). Reiki is distinct from reflexology and massage. But Reiki is sometimes confused with other hands-on healing arts, especially reflexology.
Making the religion/spirituality distinction
Reiki isn’t a religion, but it is spiritual. The distinction between spirituality and religion has caused a lot of confusion with regard to Reiki. These concepts are overlapping but separate. Spirituality is the belief in your connection with the divine, no matter whether you call it a higher power, God, spirit, soul, or even the stars. The purpose of spiritual development is to improve this connection and see the divinity within yourself and all around you.
Religion provides guidance on how to develop yourself spiritually. It tells you what the divine looks like and gives you frameworks of texts, places of worship, and guides to support you.
You can be part of a religion and not have a spiritual connection. You can have a spiritual connection and not belong to a religion.
Reiki provides a means for spiritual growth. No matter what your religious background, you’ll find that the principles are relevant and don’t conflict with your religious practice. In fact, Reiki should enhance your personal religious connection. The spiritual aspects of Reiki enable you to do the following:
Connect to a higher source: You use prayer and meditation to connect to God or the higher power of your own beliefs. Spiritual connection provides the never-ending supply of Reiki energy.
Channel the higher energy: Reiki healing energy is not from the practitioner but comes through the practitioner from God or another higher power.
Keep spiritually healthy: Just as you maintain your physical health with nutritious food, fresh air, and exercise, you also need to maintain your spiritual health. Prayer, meditation, quiet times, and spiritual exercise (doing kind acts) can help in this regard. Reiki uses the following spiritual tools: Reiki principles, meditation, and symbols and chanting.
Finding / Interviewing the Right Reiki Practitioner for you
Interviewing your potential practitioner
After you have the names of some professional Reiki practitioners, you can contact them by phone or in person to see which one appears to best meet your needs. Ask them the following questions:
What level of Reiki are you?
A professional Reiki practitioner should have studied 2nd-degree Reiki or beyond. Although people with 1st-degree Reiki training may treat family members or within the setting of a Reiki circle, they don’t have the experience to treat professionally.
What healing systems do you use alongside Reiki, if any?
Find out whether they use other systems of healing, such as reflexology or polarity therapy. Some massage therapists or other healers combine Reiki with other healing arts. Let the practitioner know if you want a combined session (which sometimes costs more) or want to receive only Reiki.
What do you see as the value of Reiki, especially for me? This question is important because it gives insight into the practitioner’s view on how Reiki can help you. See whether the answer meshes with how you feel about receiving Reiki.
How many sessions do they think I will need? This answer gives you further insight into the practitioner’s perspective on how Reiki works. Some practitioners recommend a series of appointments, especially for dealing with long-term illness or stress. Others take a more laid-back approach and leave it to you to decide.
How long have you have practiced Reiki? It helps if the practitioner has been working on her own healing with Reiki or another healing modality for at least a year if not decades! However, it’s quality over quantity when it comes to practicing Reiki, as some people work on healing for years to get to the same place as another person can get in a year.
On a practical note, consider these questions for yourself:
Is the location of Reiki convenient for you?
The closer to home, the easier it will be for you to get there.
Can you afford the price of the Reiki?
You’ll be more likely to repeat your Reiki experience if you can pay the fee. If the cost is too high, speak to the practitioner. Some Reiki professionals use a sliding fee scale.
Can the practitioner travel to your home or office?
Some Reiki practitioners, like their massage therapist counterparts, take traveling Reiki tables and travel to a location of your choice. Doing so frequently involves a greater cost, as the price of the session includes travel expenditures. However, this service is useful if you are homebound.
Do you feel comfortable with this person?
This is the most important thing. For you to be able to relax, you need to have some basic trust that the person knows what she is doing and treats you with respect.
Trust your gut (your intuition) when choosing a Reiki practitioner. If someone “feels” right to you, then she is, no matter what the answers to any questions might be. On the same note, if someone “feels” wrong, then that person isn’t the right one for you, no matter how well recommended the person might be.
Non Traditional Reiki Symbols
Some of the symbols Reiki practitioners use do not directly derive from Mikao Usui’s original teachings. If you want to delve further into their use, find a Reiki teacher who can initiate (give attunements) to the non-traditional Reiki symbols in the following list:
Sacred Reiki Symbols
The sacred Reiki symbols can help clarify your personal meditation and may also help you channel the healing energy Reiki is all about. The sacred Reiki symbols and the realms they affect are shown in the following list:
Components of the Reiki Healing System
Reiki contains five central elements that the practitioner uses to prepare to channel Reiki energy and heal themselves and others. Go through this list when preparing to give or receive Reiki:
Attunements (initiations): Within a context of Reiki training, you are put “in tune” with the Reiki energy so that you have the life-long ability to channel the energy.
Hand positions: Use a set of positions to know where to place your hands during a Reiki session.
Self-Reiki hand positions: Use these positions to treat yourself with Reiki.
Treating others with hand positions: Use these positions to treat other people with Reiki.
Meditation and focusing: Connect with the source of Reiki universal energy and concentrate the Reiki healing energy within yourself.
Symbols: Use the Reiki symbols and the sound of their name as a mantra to connect with Reiki energy.
Reiki Principles: The five principles of Reiki are used as the basis of a daily meditation practice.
Levels of Reiki Training
Reiki has three levels of training to reach the level of Master. The following list decribes the three levels of Reiki training. Keep these in mind when training or when looking for a Reiki practitioner:
1st degree: Also called Reiki I or Shoden in Japanese. This is entry-level Reiki training where you study Reiki history, learn how to perform self-Reiki, and how to give Reiki to someone else, and are initiated (attuned) for life to the Reiki energy.
2nd degree: Also called Reiki II or Okuden in Japanese. You learn how to use the first three Reiki symbols and how to perform distant Reiki techniques. You receive further attunements to the Reiki energy. After this class, you are considered a Reiki practitioner.
3rd degree: Also called Reiki III or Shinpiden in Japanese. This is the Master Teacher level of Reiki, and the class may be separated into two parts. You receive the Master Reiki attunement and learn the Master Reiki symbol and how to give the Reiki attunements to others.
Reiki Pricing
Our Reiki Fees are:
$95 60 Minutes
$120 90 Minutes
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