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Explaining Reiki To Skeptics
Explaining Reiki to Skeptics can be a daunting task because Reiki, fundamentally, is something that is intangible . However…I hope with the points that I cover in this video not only will you be able to explain your Reiki practice to others…but further even the most ardent skeptics will understand what this thing called Reiki is…and perhaps they will even see that they have been practicing Reiki longer then they thought!
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how do we explain Reiki to Skeptics believe me there's plenty of space here for skepticism because Reiki is something that is so intangible and so foreign to many people indeed many people in the west you know I used to live in Hong Kong and it always was bringing a smile to my face when you could just walk around central like downtown Hong Kong or jump in a taxi or whatever and you would just see people you know hitting their meridians or you know slapping their back or drinking herbal teas or whatever because all of those things work on the idea of the movement of energy through the body it's just literally part of the culture so nobody bats an eyelash at things like Reiki or acupuncture or medicinal herbs or whatever in the East because it's just part of the culture everybody has an understanding of Health from the movement of energy out in the west we don't necessarily have that in our vernacular and in our cultural heritage so obviously there's going to be a little bit more skepticism on it right so I hope in this video that I can give you some really clear almost and hopefully actually unarguable positions as to why Reiki works right to the most Ardent Skeptics okay so first and foremost we practice Reiki instinctively we always have we always will right think about when you the example that I always give is when you twist your ankle or you bang your knee or you know you dislocate your finger or whatever it might be just think of some sort of a of a not crazy emergency like you know what I mean like you don't have to rush to the hospital you're not passed out from it or anything like that but something that hurts that you can be present with what do you do what does everybody do what has everybody always done and we'll always do we put our hands on that place right you twist your ankle your hands go over the ankle why do we do that is that not Reiki indeed that's Reiki right but why are we doing it this is the million dollar question and the way that I explain it is like this see if my hands go over the side of trauma let's say that I've just twisted my left ankle and I'm sitting down on the ground and I'm holding it I close my eyes most likely I'm most likely breathing slowly I'm most likely swearing or whatever like if it's a really bad pain um but I'm holding the ankle with my hands right and just in the act of placing my hands over the ankle it starts to very quickly and very effectively narrow my mental focus on my body it brings my awareness directly to where my hands are and so my awareness when I've twisted my ankle is not also on my shoulder or my neck or my other ankle it's specifically on that ankle and once that awareness is established see then we can make a more efficient line of communication from the brain to the side of the trauma so we can and we do this all the time right our brain can more effectively understand how much inflammation right that is necessary at the the site of the pain any type of nutrients or any type of vascular dilation or anything that is needed to hopefully facilitate the healing process we can't do that as effectively if we have a busy mind right and an unarguable way to address what I'm just saying about a busy mind not healing and it's still mind healing is when we sleep each and every night we go to sleep and when you're deep asleep right the idea of Bruce or the idea of you is not there you're asleep you have probably little to absolutely no awareness of yourself and that's when we heal because the self and the stories get out of the way right remember Reiki is the movement of energy the natural movement of energy through the body so what is it that resists that energy well it's belief it's trauma it's resistance in the muscles in the skeletal system in the organs whatever it might be right all of those things are going to be framed around belief okay even with the belief of the twisted ankle right notice what happens when we place our hands over the ankle then what do we do we turn most likely we turn directly into the pain not in the embarrassment of twisting your ankle in front of all your friends or whatever all of the other things might all of the other stories that might be there right we're not looking at those we're simply looking at the pain and we're working to breathe through the pain and by breathing through the pain like this we start to let it leave the body it happens very quickly right and again everybody has done this another great example of instinctive Reiki healing is when pregnant women simply Place their hands on the womb right they Place their hands on the womb they slow down their thoughts close their eyes and come into a communication with the child is that not Reiki healing right we have an opportunity here to connect into the child to the flow of energy or communication between two beings again everybody does this and we always have done it and we always will do it the more that we can reduce the story right the more that we can reduce the story of suffering or of trauma or of belief or whatever it might be then the quicker we can heal right now those are all very literal discussions as to how Reiki heals now the more abstract or metaphysical discussions would be things like well from my perspective anyways you know we can feel the heat I'm saying from my perspective anyways because Reiki healers can this can vary in intensity and so on my hands get very very hot during a session and that heat can be very comforting very reassuring right when I'm placing my hands on somebody's body again it's going to create that feedback loop to where my hands are their attention is going to go to where my hands are placed and their body is going to be more able to more accurately honestly and effectively assess anything that's going on at that part or location in their body right and why I'm saying that my hands are going to be comforting is because the assessment of what's going on for that person in that spot or in that part of their body might not be a very comfortable thing to look at it might be a trauma it might be a belief about the self right it might be their own Darkness and so by simply holding space for the client with the heat with a Feeling of in you know this is a feeling of intuition from the person that I'm working with hopefully they can feel this about me that I have no belief inside myself right so I'm simply holding space for the person I'm not projecting belief or thoughts into their own Journey I'm simply holding space if they can feel that that energy is neutral and supportive and kind and loving then when they face their Darkness they're going to be able to go one step further at least I hope right so you know the way to kind of distill this whole video down and what I would urge everybody to really sink into and let maybe go back and re-watch the video or whatever you need to allow this to really dive into your own uh vocabulary and verbiage when it comes to explaining Reiki is the Simplicity with Reiki and the way that we have always done it right the way that it has always been a part of us and always will be a part of us we just have to remember what it is I think the friction from the external world or the resistance for more people to not come into the Reiki world is because there is a sadly a relatively accurate I think anyways uh belief that Reiki is burning sage and waving feathers and using crystals and channeling angels and doing all of these things that the majority of people are not going to have any connection to are not going to have any willingness to make a connection to or believe or any of these types of things and so they're immediately put off right so I would urge you as a practitioner you know if there's nothing wrong with those things I have all of these these tools as well I utilize them on myself not on my clients because if we can hold a neutral space and a neutral practice with Reiki and a practice free of Pomp and Circumstance and Hyperbole and all these types of things then we can reach a greater crowd right that's always going to be true because think about it like this the person who is coming to us who wants the crystals or the shamanic rituals and all these types of things to be done are going to be equally happy with a really intense non-dualistic neutral Reiki session and you're also going to be able to reach all of the people who would have been turned away by all the new age stuff that can be found within Reiki I'm not saying don't do it I'm not saying it's a bad thing in any way whatsoever I'm a shamanic practitioner I'm a plant therapy practitioner I do breath work you know I talk about crystals I do all of these types of things but the overarching practice that I hope to put forward is one of neutrality right because then we can cast a wider net and we can allow people to experience Reiki on their own terms so I hope that helps as always if you have any questions or if there's anything that landed with you and resonated with you I'd love to hear about it in the comments below this video and thank you so much for the support on my channel if you haven't subscribed yet I'm always very grateful to each and every one of you for subscribing and supporting my channel here and please do hit that Bell icon to be notified of all of my videos and my videos come out every Sunday so it's my honor and my privilege to be making this content for you I hope it's helping your practice I hope it's helping your practice of Reiki and holistic Wellness and so thank you so much for watching to each and every one of you and as always be well and in gosh out to all
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Thank you so much for your video!!! I am just starting my Reiki practice and I am on the same page of just explaining it just from Reiki aspect (I still use all the tools I just don’t introduce them to the main stream of people because like you said it can turn others away!!). Again thank you!!
I loved to hear this and wished I would of taken reiki before learning massage therapy many moons ago. I naturally did use polarity when energy was heavy but my direction and practice became more physical and I didn’t protect myself enough hence the burnout stage. I am taking reiki now to help my Mom and others and doing sound therapy. I think California is way more open nowadays so it’s a good time for less skepticism. 🎉❤ God bless!
Chi seems to be similar to electromagnetism. Maybe it's a field as well.
Thank you. It's so interesting.
This is an amazing descriptive explanation. Thank you for putting this out there.
Nope. Didn't explain anything. You want to explain? Go dig up scientific studies and then use them to support your…. uh…. "explanation".
Make sure that they are peer reviewed, and not from a predatory journal. The more reputed, the better.
Alternatively, you can also type in "scientific consensus on reiki" in Google search bar to know how "scientific" this is.
🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🎯🎯🎯🎯💕100 thank you for sharing this. I needed this today for so many reasons. So very well said 💕😃🙏🏻
its about belive, if you believe it will affect your mind and bodie, vice versa..
I too value the neutrality approach to our service offerings. Other tools are available, but it builds off a foundation of simplicity and approachability.💜 TY for sharing this.
I had reiki done on me a few years ago, not really expecting much to happen. I walked away feeling the most aligned peace I had maybe ever felt.
I heard from a very smart person, and I totally believe this is true. If you can think of something, it has to be real and I’ll use the color theory as an example. Try to think of a color that does not exist, you can’t. This is the same thing if you can think of something it is absolutely 100% real you cannot think of something that isn’t real. so all those stories you hear about things that you think is funny and laughable that it actually possibly could be real is actually real. It had happened to someone. It was an experience someone had a long time ago. You cannot come up with something in your mind that is not real it just isn’t possible.
Great
I appreciate your vid. It’s odd, I am so into herbs, and plant medicine – I literally did not know what Reiki was and this is the first insight I had into the subject. (I wasn’t sure if it was hypnotism or such). – I am going to watch another video, but I am still unsure, it seems like it’s like a massage, but you don’t touch the person, based you said about feeling energy.
I don't have a problem in believing in energy flows being enhanced by touching or rubbing parts of the body. And I don't have a problem believing that a calm safe space will help people relax and de-stress. I do have a problem believing that running your hands over someone without touching them is going to do anything at all. So, for my money, and sessions are not cheap, I would rather go to a competent Thai masseur where muscles are stretched, joints loosened, and if you like energy allowed to flow freely along the sen lines. They can even ring the occasional temple bell if they like to help calm me, but it's the hands on massage that increases the blood flow, drains the lymph system, removes the knots and makes you feel more at one with the universe.
Thank you. Love n light. ❤😊❤
Thank you! 🙏❤
This was a great introduction of Reiki for me.
Let the journey begin!
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To play devil's advocate, would it not be more reasonable to assume that the reason we intuitively reach for and cover injured parts of ourselves is an evolutionary instinct to help us defend against duplicate blows hitting the same part of our body multiple times, and thus decreasing the risk that an injury is made more severe? If someone is punching your gut repeatedly for example, it makes perfect sense to cover your gut with your hands in order to provide it with greater shielding from subsequent punches.
I was attuned yesterday. I am excited and your videos encourage me!
Thank-you
Hi, did you place a light source behind you, or is that your aura i can see on the right (my right) of your head and neck?
Un used reiki after atunment not. Used reiki for 20 yrs due to reaction after atunment errors began no reiki support ect so we're do u begin ?
So good. Thank you. 🙏
me watching this video while living on the east side of the world
Im also a reiki master healer level 3a next month I'll be at level 3b reiki master teacher 🙌 with a lineage that I'm very proud of im and American but my teacher is from Bangladesh and he traveled from Bangladesh to India to seek out one of the best teachers in India she was somewhat of a celebrity in a sense and my teacher shahed a dude searched for this lady who he heard was retiring from teaching reiki so he went to India to find her she only accepted 10 thousand US dollars because she was the best my teacher told me,so I talk to my teacher almost every day for the past 2 years via Facebook it took me about a year and a half to get to level 3a….I find it mind blowing that here in America that there is so many reiki healers that get the master symbol in 3 days 😂😂😅😅 and it's kind of sad to know that we have so many reiki healers here in America that I've met personally that really doesn't know a quarter of what I've learned, but what can you expect from someone who learned only 3 days of teaching and they cut corners and take people's money and don't really know very much…my point is that reiki has become so waterd down and generic here in the west and it makes us educated reiki healers look bad because these fly by night reiki healers are making us reiki healers who have a much better understanding on what and how reiki works, but im so glad you are posting this video to enlighten people on what reiki healers do and what were about, people ask me what is reiki and where did it start and when I mention anything other than Christianity they are so close minded that they think it's witchcraft or somethin' lol😂 luckily the people I've healed and sent reiki to could tell a difference with just one 1 hour sometimes even just 30 minutes can tell a difference in there mental and physical health!!!!!!!
This man is 100% right from having a chinese mother and my father from irish descent and watching my mother growing up doing tai chi it was normal for me but my American friends that came over would tease me and my mom which didn’t end up well between us and they started this rumour in school they didn’t understand which made me feel like they hated me and started calling me racial names then i started turning on my chinese roots i hated and did not want to admit anything i was ashamed now im all grown i try to make up all the hardship i have n brought into my moms life and that side of the family cone to think of it no matter what I did my Asian side never gave up on me they were always there showing unconditional love. They just waited until I was ready for my Irish side. Let’s just leave it as that abandoned me. now i’m an adult i’m proud that i can speak and understand cantonese and i appreciate my asian side for teaching and showing me what love does and will do if you truly love someone or thing. as for my american side whom only taught me to be ashamed of my mother background no more influence on me i know better now. makes me happy to see Americans learning annoying about Reiki about energy flow love it good feeling in my inside
❤ great video 📹 🎉 thank you
Thank you!!! I'm a reiki practitioner, I was attuned to the Master Reiki in 2000, and I've attuned family and close friends who've always loved and trusted me. Now 25 years later, I've relocated to a different geometrical place where there may be more resistance. I'm now retired from my job and can now put more time and practice into what I feel is my truer purpose, which is healing. I'm appreciative of this video because it helps my new future students who are interested a place to ground their beliefs.❤
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