Book in for a Reiki session with Greta, we recommend 4 sessions over a 4 week period (for the sceptics out there) to experience the effects of Reiki on you. And maybe one day, you will even want to get on the journey to be able to give yourself a Reiki session.
Reiki, The Ancient Art of....Healing :). Lets go back to the basics. Reiki, standing for Universal Life Energy. We are matter and matter is made up of energy. Each one of us, is effectively a system of energy. And just like any other system, blockages in one part of our system, can affect the entire system, what we like to call our bodies. Concentration of energy in one part of our body due to a blockage elsewhere, could perhaps be experienced as a headache.
With this in mind, one can then hopefully see how dispersing energy blockages can help our system flow freely again. This is the role of Reiki, to harness the energy from around us, flushing the body with a fresh flow of energy, removing blockages and bringing back a balanced flow. This then allows all the other parts of our system to do what they do best, including protect us from illness before there is a shift in the equilibrium and disease takes over.
Practices of Reiki (and reflexology) are widely accepted therapies in cancer hospitals around the world. Why? Because modern medicine sees the role they play in stress reductions. Modern science for years now has accepted that emotional stress is a major contributing factor to illnesses. In fact some countries go further to say that stress is the may contributor to the six leading causes of death: cancer, coronary heart disease, accidental injuries, respiratory disorders, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide.
Our medical and governmental models accept that stress cannot be avoided, and whilst they recommend lifestyle changes, their primary response to dealing with stress is the supply of medications, to help once the stress levels get bad or end up contributing to debilitating illnesses.
Rather than waiting for these models to shift, for health insurance models to shift, we can take a bit of control back into our own hands, be the pioneers of our own wellbeing and utilise these recognised therapies and tools like Reiki to minimise our risks of serious illnesses.