Reiki Therapy and Weight Loss

Reiki Therapy and Weight Loss

Reiki therapy works to change the body’s inner energy composition. Healing the inner self may provide the foundation for setting up a positive frame of mind for healthy limit setting and eating.

A Typical Reiki Session
The client remains clothed either seated or lying down. The Reiki practitioner channels energy by touching associated or unhealthy areas over the course of an hour. There are a dozen different hand positions and through touching or hovering over the affected area for a few minutes, a warmth or tingling is felt in the practitioner’s hands and sometimes felt by the client. The theory is the negative forces within the client are broken apart in order to create a new balance by using the client’s own innate healing ability. Fluids are recommended after the session. Four sessions may be required along with nutritional counseling.

Reiki Practitioner Training

Reiki, meaning life energy, is an alternative healing created by Dr Mikao Usui. Stories vary whether he was a Buddhist or a Christian. He was a scholar of healing techniques. Dr Usui claims to have received his healing power during a 21-day meditation. Reiki draws from the fields of universal life force energy and quantum physics. Research is ongoing.

The three levels of training consist of learning the hand movements and the work of channeling energy. Next, the practitioner learns about the energy of mental power for distance work where the client need not be present to receive the therapy. Last the student becomes a master practitioner, with experience and the ability to teach others. The practitioner is one with energy attunement.

The International Center for Reiki Training is a self-credentializing organization “licensing” teachers who are already master level in a one to three year program. Practitioners have varied backgrounds, though many are drawn from the fields of massage, medicine, and psychology.

Reiki is an adjunct to weight loss. This is not a diet pill or injection type process. The therapy and its potential for relaxation, healing and stress reduction is an adjunct to dieting, along with counseling on portion control and nutritional awareness. If obesity is seen as a disease or negative force then Reiki can affect healing. Weight gain has many etiologies beyond poor eating habits, including depression, immobility, sexual issues, over-eating and phobias. Reiki can center the body, dissipate the emotions around eating and weight, allowing the relaxed, calmer body to sleep and eat properly or be aware of hunger and satiety.