Performing Reiki on Friends and Family

How to Perform Reiki on Friends and Family: A Guide to Energy Healing

By Dennis Bluthardt, Namaste Studios

Reiki is a potent tool for energy healing, offering a physical, emotional, and spiritual balance that hails from Japan. In practice, one-person (acting as a vessel) transfers’ universal life energy to another person or themselves! What makes Reiki so accessible is that it can be performed hands-on or at a distance. Most energy healers use Reiki (even if they don’t know it) to reduce stress and pain and to produce relaxation, i.e., to heal. People who do Reiki on others also do it on themselves, promoting personal growth and maturity.

Doing Reiki on a friend accentuates attributes of friendship.

Doing Reiki on a loved one touches on aspects of romance and heightens sensitivity and empathy toward that person. Doing Reiki on a friend encourages the ‘opening up,’ the yin, part of a relationship. Try out some yin and yang with your friends by inviting them for ‘group healing’ or a Reiki share.

Embracing a friend doing Reiki uses the principle of duality and non-judgment. It involves observation and acceptance of others for who they are. Making yourself vulnerable using Reiki can help a friendship in amazing ways.

Doing Reiki as a group of friends establishes some common spiritual ground. The get-together uses ‘the Reiki effect.’ Want to ramp up your party? Make it a costume party and play a game where everyone removes their human costume (oooh)

Understanding Reiki and Its Benefits

Reiki practitioners utilize palm or hands-on healing methods. They believe a “universal energy” is transmitted from the healer’s palms to the patient to foster physical and emotional healing.

Reiki is a Japanese stress reduction and relaxation technique that promotes healing. It was developed in 1922 by Mikao Usui. Reiki is administered by placing hands either on or just above the person receiving the treatment. The practitioner is a channel for Universal Life Energy (the energy from which all life forms are created). At the practitioner’s direction, the energy flows from the practitioner into the recipient, where it immediately goes to work, tending to whatever needs tending. Reiki can be practiced by anyone trained in the technique (no unique spiritual gifts are necessary), and it can be used anywhere in the world without conflict with any other religious or cultural practices.

Reiki is a form of pseudoscience, an example used in scholarly texts and academic journal articles. 

Preparing for a Reiki Session

Making a peaceful Reiki environment is intrinsically about creating an atmosphere that beckons energy healing. You want every part of the environment to be conducive to making someone feel as if they’re about to experience a kind of true relaxation that guarantees they will not be disturbed for the duration of the experience. You need to control:

Ambiance:

Managing the ambiance is a large part of creating your space for Reiki. This is where lighting plays a huge part. Soft, diffusing light is best. Warm and welcoming colors, plants, crystals, and a treatment table that is simply comfortable help create an atmosphere that is pleasant and relaxing for the administration of Reiki.

Sound: The next step is to procure a Bluetooth (or non-Bluetooth) speaker setup. Natural sound FX and/or light new-age music offer just enough mellowness to drown out any background or household noise, yet they are quiet and easy enough to listen to that they are not distracting while performing a session. If your space permits, you can also experiment with the therapeutic resonance of Tibetan singing bowls or tuning forks.

Scent: Preparing for Reiki involves decorating the space to invite the right energy and preparing yourself and your energy before the client arrives. Techniques like deep breathing, grounding, and setting an intention for the session will help you use your energy more effectively, put the client at ease, and feel more secure before, during, and after your sessions. No matter the approach, the only way you can make an adequate calming Reiki space is by making one that works for healing. Custom-fit the design to your and/or your client’s lifestyle, treatment style, or discovery path. Dress the space to accompany the areas of your specialties, Chakras, or healing needs. Make it your own.

In short, making a good Reiki space is also essential if you want to make a promising career out of doing Reiki. Although it takes further work and development, learning other clinical tools and techniques outside of the ones done in Reiki that also achieve the centering effect can take the effectiveness of this part of the treatment session/energy work to a whole other level.

Performing Reiki on Friends

Before administering Reiki to an acquaintance, you must have their explicit consent and a frank dialogue. Before the treatment, invest the time in ensuring your friend knows the ins and outs of what will happen during the session. This is pivotal because few individuals are familiar with Reiki, which can appear strange when first encountered. Relay Reiki to your friend in simple, direct language and terms he can relate to and understand. Make what will occur clear so there’s no room for ambiguity. This discussion allows your friend to process the information, express any initial concerns, and discuss how he feels to ensure he feels safe having a session.

Once he has given explicit consent, the next step is to learn the treatable positions, which include the hands on the pubic bone, pelvic area, collarbone, chin, under the armpits, on the breasts, and in the mouth, as well as underneath skin folds from the areolas down to the base of the breast. With practice, you will grow more confident in developing the know-how of ‘where, what, how, and why’ to treat.

Performing Reiki on Family

Performing Reiki on family members is somewhat different. These are members of the “family” (parent, sibling) with specific concerns. Maybe the parent has stressors; possibly, the sibling has teenage angst. In any case, the “patient’s” individual problem is what you need to help them solve with energy.

Trust is the one thing most easily handled within a family dynamic. Most family relationships are more potent than average because of the familial bond, so trust is more straightforward. This will undoubtedly strengthen the Reiki shared within the family unit. Conversely, if bad relative feelings exist, they may be challenging to conquer, and proper treatment may be less likely to result.

Also, it is less likely that your family members will not suffer from “the problem” of everyone working on each other. We are “family” and must get along! Perhaps this is the only “unity” environment of all Reiki learning environments where such can occur at an advanced/consistent level except in “advanced level” classes.

The “unity” that is part of the environment and the “conversations/discussions” that may be “drawn” around/into those that may occur will usually center around those thoughts that are “personal” feelings for the “professional” versus the “unlicensed” person concerning Reiki practice (only).

Aftercare and Follow-Up

Maximize the benefits of a Reiki session by taking good care of yourself afterward.

Hydrate. After energy work, flush out toxins released during your session by drinking plenty of water. This will make you healthier overall. Hydration also helps all your body’s cells stay healthy and energetic.

Rest. After an energy work session, you may desire to sleep or rest. You’ve undergone an intense energetic realignment, and your body needs to catch up! Help things along by taking a nap or stretching out on your sofa.

Share. If you’re the talkative type (or at least the sharing type), talk about your Reiki experiences with your friends and family. Sometimes, you can get fresh insights into what worked in your sessions and what didn’t. Remember, everyone’s experience will be different, and that’s okay! 

Who knows? Maybe your sharing will result in others coming “out of the closet” with their wellness pursuits, which can help you build up your network of like-minded friends.

Working with our friends and family with Reiki can be an invaluable practice for ourselves and the person on the receiving end. Reiki is a type of energy healing that promotes relaxation and stress relief, and it can make us feel better. We help our loved ones find relief from physical and emotional discomfort and have this shared healing and connection experience.

Energy healing is interesting in our relationships and how we trust others. When you offer to give a friend or loved one Reiki, it shows them that you care about them in your lives. You can strengthen your relationship deeper and find ways for both of you to open up and act intimately. If the person doesn’t act that way or you have difficulty, you can give them Reiki and write about your experiences.

Asking readers to try giving Reiki to a loved one plays a different, personal book that sets the reader up for a powerful, transformative experience. If you do, then start giving full, one-hour sessions. Others may not figure out what they want or need other than asking others and adding them to this book. They don’t want a complete book, other than just enough of their stress and adding someone else as a hero.

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