Reiki for Children
Unlocking the Benefits of Reiki for Children: A Guide to Energy Healing for Kids
By Dennis Bluthardt, Namaste Studios
Understanding Reiki and Its Benefits for Children
Reiki, originating from Japan, is a form of energy healing in which universal life energy is transferred from the practitioner’s palms to another person. It’s a very gentle but powerful technique that can help children feel calm and focused as if they’ve received a loving, safe, thoroughly calming hug. This makes them feel more “held together” while dealing with everything they don’t understand.
Reiki is the “unloading”/relaxing tool they’re meant to use to stay healthy emotionally and physically. During a brief 30-minute to one-hour session after school one day, kids can lie on a table, fully clothed, and another person will lightly place their hands on their body and completely relax in a way they’ve never experienced. It’s a significant, brave, profound, monumental place where they need their body and minds to be so that they feel secure around the people they’re used to seeing daily.
This “life” has so many vital parts, and “physical body” and “emotions” are just two of them. But if they don’t learn to control and help themselves, that doesn’t mean it’ll stop! It may come out in another way, whether physical, such as a headache or an upset tummy, or as something emotional but shown physically through anger and “attitude” (that may be mistaken as hormones or their age). Kids have the “right” to say no and “swat it away” from themselves (with their hands) to keep themselves in control.
How Reiki Can Support Children’s Mental and Emotional Health
Reiki is increasingly recognized as a complementary therapy that benefits mental health. Why? This energy healing technique involves channeling universal life energy to rebalance clients on many levels, which can help us cope better (i.e., experience less stress or anxiety).
Incorporating mindfulness techniques with Reiki treatment can only increase peace and calm as clients learn to stay ever-present with how their bodies feel or their thoughts sound without attaching any meaning to it.
Insightful thoughts and proper problem-solving (or coping strategies) occur only when in a state of presence. Overall, more excellent resiliency can take root. Learning to stay calm and relax into an uncomfortable thought means that our psyches will remain strong (and not put us in fight-or-flight mode so quickly!). Also, incorporating easy relaxation techniques, with deep breathing practices or guided imagery, is excellent for maintaining mental health.
Practical Tips for Performing Reiki on Children
Creating a safe, comfortable environment for doing Reiki is especially important when working with children. This basic rule is good to follow with any Reiki practice. That environment can start with soft lighting and soothing music.
Then, the sole concern remaining is crafting the idea in the child that they occupy a safe, solid space with no reason to be concerned. Once that is realized, a signal somehow lights up you and your child, as if to say, “Relax! It’s time for bedtime!” It is nearly impossible to unwind in that signal space, a state of relaxation and comfort. When that is comprehended, it is almost impossible for a child to do anything but go with the signal and unwind in this experience.
Children can receive hands-on Reiki treatment starting at about three years of age. At the Reiki practitioner’s initiative, parents can draw attention to the idea that the practitioner’s hands may get hot so the child can better enjoy the treatment.
At the end of a children’s Reiki session, the Reiki practitioner/teacher can encourage them to draw a picture of their session. Most children draw a self-portrait with exploding sunbeam hands.
It is essential to know that the children have experienced the discovery of their healing hands with enthusiasm and joy. After a talk like this, where they had already been able to keep up with the older participants for minutes, the children wanted to go out first.
Then, the children can distribute Reiki cures for animals and work with their mother or aunt, applying Reiki to the soil or cutting off abundant healthy rose leaves in exchange so that an end is finally here!
Real-Life Experiences and Testimonials
The essence of presenting parents’ and practitioners’ testimonials is to share the noticeable benefits many parents see in their children (for example, less anxiety, more focus) and the “I’ve never met a child who didn’t like Reiki” or “Children are just naturally open to healing energies” responses. The goal is to completely demystify what Reiki is and does for a kid and encourage a parent to (or not prevent a child from doing so) think of Reiki as “probably something my kid should know.”
And, of course, articles/blogs address the “Yes, but . . .” arguments as well, all those questions parents are likely to raise that say, “While I understand what you’re telling me, I just don’t think energy healing, Reiki, is right for my kid.” Obviously, “Is Reiki healing safe?” and “What about this in contrast with that?” style arguments will figure on any parent’s “likely to ask” list. It is, therefore, essential to present the “why what can go wrong” evidence that goes with the “why what are more likely to go right” testimonials that support how gentle, non-invasive ways dictate a Reiki treatment.
Many blogs that teach the Reiki customer, rather than the hopeful practitioner, naturally follow the course of such “this is what Reiki has to say about . . .” argument. Removing is most likely what any “Okay, tell me more” parent will consider as likely being able to address the customer’s “Here’s how Reiki helped my son/daughter hathe-turn off” advantage. Again, stay with the process. Product-item blogs will attempt to keep parents from giving up on or not trying the previously considered and “it’s not for me/my kid” alternatives.
Reiki, a centuries-old gentle energy healing practice, has healing gifts for children. Among the benefits I have seen are pure stress reduction, emotional balance, and sharpened focus. Children are going to experience normal anxiety and emotional upsets. They could experience other states like grief, depression, intense fear, anger, frustration, or excitement. The energy of Reiki feels wonderfully peaceful and calming. Children often mention that it makes them feel more secure and more self-centered (better centered). When I can help a child feel more peaceful, focused, and centered, it can become an essential ritual for weaving those states into the subconscious material.
The more “I am okay” identifications, the merrier 🙂
It’s not only that. This type of therapy, classified as “energy healing therapy” in the Center for Holistic Healing module, is holistic. This means that much of what you hope to impact your child or what they are willing to change for themselves upon reading this could show up physically, but you can expect that some of it is taking place on the emotional and mental levels.
That’s a good thing.
Holistic therapies like Reiki can help facilitate better, more balanced well-being in mind, body, and spirit.
You see, the lifestyle and level of impact our children feel in the programs and daily tasks their minds seek to focus on are pretty “Type A” today – to be specific, left-brain centric.
The Kasambah has a whole “Reiki Healing” subcategory among the 30+ they suggest seeking to consult, where some psychics are listed as licensed or certified practitioners. These healers’ psychic sections would be particularly wise to investigate if you sought to see how Reiki could benefit your child. This healer directory link could start conversations if you are the “hands-on” parent. Your spirit knows what will best serve your child.
“Know” that your child is always perfect ;)…that those physical ailments are likely to pass (if they haven’t already, perhaps you are seeking to remember when those ailments were there) …that they can always do something about it. They are perfect. Just like you.
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