Reiki 101: 1 What is Reiki? | Mainstream #Reiki

Reiki 101: 1 What is Reiki? | Mainstream #Reiki



New educational series answers the most common questions about Reiki. Join Reiki Master Teacher, Andrea Kennedy with 29 years of experience with Reiki. Tune in each Friday to keep learning, and comment below with your questions.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction to Reiki 101 Series
00:51 Series Purpose: Demystifying Reiki
01:39 What is Reiki? A Basic Definition
02:33 How Reiki Supports Healing
03:30 Scientific Backing and Hospital Use
04:51 Reiki's Effectiveness and Accessibility
05:41 Holistic Nature of Reiki
06:47 How Reiki is Administered
07:32 Brief History of Reiki
08:34 Life Force Energy and Energy Anatomy
10:09 Reiki's Role in Restoring Energy Balance
11:29 Reiki as a Complementary Therapy
12:26 Closing and Next Episode Preview

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DISCLAIMER
This video is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which support the body’s natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Results vary by individual.

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Hello and welcome. It's Andrea. And 
here on the Mainstream Reiki YouTube channel, I've only ever had one goal, and that is to be 
helpful. I hope you've enjoyed the channel and the many different videos that I have here for 
you. We're going to start a new series, though, that I hope is helpful in a different 
way, and I'm calling it Reiki 101. And that's because People 
have so many questions about Reiki and I thought it would be helpful to offer 
some insight for you based on my many years of experience. I started with Reiki back in 
1995. I've done thousands of sessions. And so what I want to do is I want to help you 
understand what Reiki is and what it isn't. I want to help demystify this 
and bring it more mainstream because Reiki is really something that everyone can 
benefit from. And if you've ever heard anything about Reiki that's made you fearful 
or scared about it, then I'm really glad that you're listening to me right now. And I hope 
that you'll stick around for this series. Also, I hope that anyone who has a 
question about Reiki and sees this right now will comment your questions down below the video. Ask 
me, what are your common questions? In this video, we're going to start with what is Reiki and 
then tune in every week on Fridays and I'll have a new video for you. I also want to warn 
you, I'm not going to script this too much. Um, I just find it. More 
real. I think if I just try to talk, hopefully it comes out pretty well, but we'll 
see. Uh, and if I need to get a little bit more organized and my thinking, please let me 
know that also in the comments. I just kind of wanted to have a more relaxed atmosphere for this 
series. Anyway, let's go ahead and get started. And what is Reiki? This is 
really hard because there's so many different things that I could say, but let 
me go a little bit more into teacher mode, uh, Reiki level one. What would I say 
to you in, in class? And I would say that Reiki is a Japanese healing technique. 
That helps the body reduce stress and relax, and that stress reduction and relaxation 
actually helps the body to heal itself. You know, we 
all know that the body has, um, mechanisms in place, the immune system, you 
know, for example, that helps us heal ourselves. To find that balance again, you know, we get sick 
and then we recover, um, the body responds to a virus or a bacteria and it works to get us 
back into balance. It works toward wellness. And so Reiki supports 
those systems for us. And the, the way it does that is it helps shift our 
nervous system from the fight or flight mode, which we're in most of the time, you 
know, when our busy, busy. Uh, world, and it shifts that into the rest, digest 
and restore mode of the body. And so what these are known as is the sympathetic and the 
parasympathetic modes of the nervous system. The body can't repair itself when it's 
under stress. It needs to be in a relaxed state to do that. Scientific studies support 
the fact that Reiki does this. And so if you're coming to this video thinking 
that Reiki is completely woo woo, it's new age and, you know, it's all made 
up. Search online, find some studies, actual scientific studies that 
back up the efficacy of Reiki. Not only that, there are hundreds 
of hospitals in the United States and even more around the world. That offer Reiki in 
some form in their health care facilities, and some hospitals even have Reiki 
teachers, they actually offer Reiki classes on site. That's pretty remarkable. So 
I just want to start off the series with that. Um, so if you're skeptical, which 
I have to admit, I was completely skeptical when I first found Reiki back in 1995. 
Uh, with my physics degree that I had, I was very analytical, I was very 
science minded, but I have to tell you, it is something that sounds too good to 
be true. Something that sounds like the results don't match, uh, the level 
of, um, work that you have to do. You know, it really sounds too 
good to be true. But what I'll say is it really is that good. And it doesn't cause 
harm. It's perfectly natural. And anybody, anybody can learn it. Anybody can receive 
the benefits and you don't have to believe in it and it'll still work. Pretty remarkable. 
All right. So let's get back to what Reiki is. So Reiki is. As I said, it's a 
stress reduction and relaxation technique that helps supports the body in its own ability to heal 
itself. Another thing I can tell you is that Reiki is holistic. And what that means is it treats the 
whole person. And, um, this means emotions, um, thoughts, thought patterns, and, 
uh, we often get stuck in a rut. Reiki can actually help us recalibrate 
our thought patterns and shift those into a healthier, um, healthier state of being. It's 
really remarkable. Physically, it's been shown to decrease pain and the need for pain medications 
in scientific studies in hospitals. So what we see is Um, my goodness, there's really way too many 
things to, um, actually list here, but better. That's what I'm going to say. In 
one word, Reiki can help people feel better, physically, mentally, emotionally, and 
spiritually. And so that's one word better. Reiki equals, that's what it offers. 
All who. Enjoy Reiki. And so let's see, what else can I tell you about Reiki? It's 
administered through hands of the practitioner. So the hands are either placed 
on the body or off the body. And if you've seen any of my videos, you're well aware that 
Reiki is transmitted over distance as well. So people don't even have to be in the same physical 
location in order to have the benefits of Reiki. And a quick note, um, Reiki people didn't come 
up with distance Reiki because of the pandemic. It's always been a 
part of Reiki training. And Reiki actually goes back to a little over 
a hundred years ago. Um, originate, it originated the way we practice it today for 
the most part in Japan. And it was founded by And that's a whole history that 
we could talk about, but my point in bringing that up in this little way is that there is a 
tradition and a framework for Reiki classes and, uh, training and different techniques 
that go along in the coursework where Reiki practitioner and distance Reiki 
has been a part of that for decades. So this is nothing new for 
us, so it wasn't something that we came up with when we couldn't get together 
in person as a result of the pandemic, the entire system of Reiki is based on the 
life force energy that flows in and around all living things. And that might sound 
kind of woo woo, but if we think about it, everything that is alive has that 
vitality has an energy to being alive. I don't know a better way to 
say it really, but all living things have life force energy that life force energy flows 
in and around. The body in a certain way. We have what I call energy anatomy. So you might 
have heard words like chakras and meridians, for example. And so these energy centers 
or pathways in the body help the life force energy flow and be distributed in a certain 
way to help support life in the physical body. And so this is really. Central to 
Reiki practice because it is this life force energy that helps us feel in balance 
when it flows in and around the body the way it's designed to. The problem 
is that we're under stress in life. We have abuse and trauma and all kinds of 
things that upset that flow of energy. And we'll probably talk much more about 
all that stuff later, but just in short stresses of everyday life. Get in the way of that energy 
flowing freely the way it's designed to what I want to say here is that a Reiki person 
offers Reiki energy through their hands, either to themselves or another person, and even 
over distance and what the purpose of that is, is to help that life force energy restore 
back to flowing the way it's intended to. I hope that that makes sense. 
So whatever's been blocking the energy from flowing the way it's intended to, 
whatever has been the issue of imbalance, Reiki helps to release those so that the flow 
is restored. That I think is an important aspect of Reiki. So we've got life force 
energy flowing in and around our bodies. When that does that in a balanced 
way, we feel good. We feel centered. We sleep well. We process life and move through life. With 
ease, but then when life happens and we react to that stress and perhaps have to just move on, 
we have to stuff emotions. We have to to, um, feel as though we've been hurt by others and 
we don't have a healthy way to remedy that. We have to move on, we have to get over 
it, but when we do those sorts of things, we're actually causing some issues in the way our energy 
flows. And so Reiki helps restore that balance again. Another thing I want to say in this video 
is that Reiki is a complementary therapy, not an alternative one. And that's a very important 
distinction, because we're not asking anyone. To ever replace medical care 
with Reiki, Reiki goes right along with anything that you might want to do or 
need to do for your well being. And so, if you, for example, are going through 
chemotherapy, you can also be receiving Reiki. And what is often seen is that the 
chemotherapy and that whole process is a bit smoother and the side effects are lessened 
for someone who is receiving Reiki throughout. So Reiki is just something, 
again, that makes life better. I thank you so much for tuning in to this 
and I would welcome your questions down in the comments. Let's move on together 
and we'll see where we go from here. And I hope you'll tune in next Friday for the 
next video. And if you're not subscribed and getting notifications and you don't want to 
miss these videos, now's a great time to do that. Thank you so much for being here and 
I look forward to meeting you here next time.

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