Natural Harmony ~ Centre for Well Being
A centre of excellence for Reiki Powys, Mid Wales.
What is Reiki?
Reiki (ray-key) is a Japanese word, Rei - meaning the universal life force, and Ki - meaning energy, breath or prana.
This form of hands on healing is based on the belief system that all beings have an ability to heal themselves and return to an innate healing state. Reiki energy reaches all levels of the person - the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
The focus of this form of healing is to help bring into harmony the specific needs of the recipient. The Reiki practitioner is trained to be a conduit, allowing the person to open up to his or her own innate ability to balance the body and the mind. The Reiki universal energy flows through the hands of the practitioner to the person receiving it.
The mind and body of the person receiving the Reiki healing has the opportunity to heal, harmonize and balance oneself back to its own natural state.
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What is a Reiki session like?
Reiki is a simple, natural, nurturing, and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement that everyone can benefit from.
A Reiki treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you. Reiki treats the whole person including the body, emotions, mind and spirit. It creates many beneficial effects including:
- relaxation
- feelings of peace
- feelings of security
- feelings of well-being
Reiki healing works with all other medical or therapeutic techniques to relieve side effects and recovery.
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What to expect at a Reiki healing session.
- The person usually lies or sits in a comfortable position, fully clothed.
- The Reiki practitioner places his or her hands on or above the body of the person, moving to specific places over the entire body.
- The Reiki therapy treatment lasts for an hour. Reiki healing is often experienced as a feeling of warmth or vibration or even sometimes a feeling of cold flowing through the practitioner's hands.
- The person receiving Reiki healing usually leaves the session with a feeling a deep relaxation and well-being.
Because Reiki works with each individual's unique life force energy at a specific moment in time, experiences vary. Reiki always facilitates your natural ability to come into balance. Its effects are cumulative. The more treatments you receive, the more the benefit.
Reiki works well with all other therapies, traditional or complementary.
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What is Reiki for? Do you have to ‘believe’ in it?
These are Dr Usui’s own words from his explanation of Reiki therapy:
"The Usui Reiki Therapy… does not therefore require an explicit consent on the part of the patient, or any loyalty to the practitioner concerned. Not only that, we practitioners of the Usui Reiki Therapy do not mind however much our practices are doubted, held in contempt or rejected. For example, the Usui Reiki Therapy is remarkably effective in treating even those who are unconscious of the world around them, such as infants* and patients with serious diseases…A great deal of diseases, displaying mental or physical symptoms are cured…The therapy does not involve the treatment of the body’s diseases alone. It can remedy a troubled heart or anguish, imbecility or a poor constitution generally, cowardice or timidity, indecision or infirmity of purpose, nervousness and other unfortunate conditions."
*Parents and guardians are legally responsible for the health of their children and are required to consult a medical practitioner
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What does it feel like to have a reiki treatment?
During a treatment, you may feel reiki energy in a form such as heat, cold, tingling, a breeze, energy movement inside, or muscles twitching. Some people may feel pain in old injuries as the Reiki re stimulates the healing process. You may also experience colours, sounds or smells or some sensation from one of your other senses. Alternatively, you may feel nothing at all. It is not important to understand what each experience means, just to accept it as part of the experience. What matters is to be aware of what is happening in your body during a session and notice what happens to your symptoms over a period of time.
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What is involved in a reiki treatment?
Reiki can either be given in person, or sent ‘long distance’ (also known as distance healing’).
There is no need to remove any clothing. In general your reiki practitioner will either ask you to sit on a chair or lie on a couch in a comfortable, relaxing room. It is also up to you to indicate a preference.
Reiki healing can take a number of forms, according to the techniques being used. The most common way is to place the hands either near or on the body, but there are other ways of giving reiki healing. Generally,the practitioner will give an all-over treatment. However, if you have a particular physical issue, such as a broken bone or a particular localised problem, a practitioner may spend much of the time focusing on this area.
Reiki can also be beamed from a distance and the breath can also be used.
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Can anyone learn reiki?
These are Dr Usui’s words...
"From eminent scholars, both male and female, to the illiterate, can, if they are equipped with common sense, impressively cure their own diseases within a short time, and unerringly acquire the spiritual power to cure the diseases of others"
Like learning a musical instrument, it requires dedication, focus and daily practice for the best results. An attunement is only the start.
Natural Harmony provides an ideal centre for learning Reiki in Powys, we are pleased to answer any questions you may have.
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How does Reiki work?
We're still looking for the person who has found the answer to this!
However, in general, Reiki students receive attunements from their teachers which allow them to bring through Reiki. The Reiki has been shown through e.g. experiments at Arizona University (communication from Melinda Connor) to manifest increased infra red radiation from e.g. the palms. It is believed to offer the body, mind and spirit the energy to bring itself back into balance. People received Reiki often go into a deep state of relaxation where the body's healing systems can work more effectively.
Reiki can be used on people, animals, plants – in fact for any living thing. See Theory & Research for more information.
For a full range of Reiki Courses, training and workshops in Powys, please see here
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At the Natural Harmony Centre this service is delivered by:
Gill Evans Kath Jones
Sessions are typically about 1 to 1 ½ hr in duration...
Typical Sessions costs: £30 - £35
Double Sessions (typically 2hrs) may also available and cost £48
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