Reiki 101: Reiki vs. Energy Healing | Video 3 in #Reiki Series

Reiki 101: Reiki vs. Energy Healing | Video 3 in #Reiki Series



Reiki 101 continues with our third video, in which we compare Reiki to other energy healing modalities. We'll recap the concept of Ki, discuss how our thoughts influence it, and why how you talk to yourself really matters! Discover the unique role of Reiki practitioners and why Reiki does not deplete their energy. I'll share a personal teaching story to illustrate Reiki's approach to chakra work and touch on Usui's original practice.

Whether you're Reiki-curious or experienced, this video offers something for you.

⏰ Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Reiki 101 Video 3
00:24 Understanding Ki (Life Force Energy)
00:46 The Mind's Influence on Ki
02:33 The Importance of Self-Talk and Optimism
03:32 Comparing Reiki and Energy Healing Modalities
03:49 The Practitioner's Role in Reiki
05:25 Example: Chakra Work in Reiki vs. Other Modalities
07:30 Trusting Reiki's Wisdom
08:43 Practitioner Energy Levels After Sessions
10:16 Usui and the Origins of Reiki
11:03 Recap: Ki and Mind-Body Connection
11:33 Preview of Next Video: Reiki Attunements
11:55 Closing Remarks and Channel Information

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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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Hi, it's Andrea; and this is the third video of 
our series Reiki 101 that I'm making here on the Mainstream Reiki YouTube channel. Thanks 
for joining me and having an interest in demystifying Reiki. All right. Let's dive 
in, in this video. I want to talk to you a little bit more about ki. And ki, if you recall, 
from one of my past videos is life force energy. And that life force energy is inherent or a part 
of all living things. That's our vitality and it needs to flow in and around the living thing, 
the way it's designed to. Uh, free to flow, uh, without stagnation or blockages. 
And when that happens, we feel good. We have a sense of wellbeing physically, 
mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. All right. So, that's a quick 
recap about what ki is. Now, there is a characteristic of ki that I felt was so 
important, I wanted to start this video with it, and that is ki is influenced by the mind. 
Now your mind is with you 24/7. And that's why I think this is so important. You've 
probably heard of the mind-body connection. Well, here we go. The mind, body connection 
and ki. It's all the same thing that we're talking about. So, what does this 
mean? If you have a positive outlook, if you're optimistic and perhaps most 
importantly, if your inner dialogue, how you talk to yourself is loving and 
supportive, it impacts your ki by making it flow more powerful, more powerfully, 
and better, better balance, more vitality. You feel better. This supports you in staying in 
balance and staying healthy because that energy is flowing the way it's designed to. Now let's 
look on the other hand, if you are negative, fearful about life, if you're down 
on yourself and you aren't very kind, perhaps critical of yourself in your thinking 
and how you talk to yourself. In that case. You're going to impact your life 
force energy or your ki as well. But in this case what's going to happen is you're 
going to diminish your flow of ki or life force energy. You're not going to be as in balance. 
You're not going to feel as vital or alive. And over time, if you keep up those patterned 
ways of thinking and talking to yourself. You can actually be more susceptible to illness. 
It's true. So that mind-body connection that you've heard a lot about, add this concept of key 
to the mix and you'll understand how important it is to be aware of your thinking and that 
inner dialogue that you have every single day. It's so important. And as a side note, this might 
help you understand a little bit more about why, in some of my videos, I offer supportive 
messages to you when I talk to you or perhaps offer you affirmations to say for 
yourself. So Reiki is a wonderful healing tool that helps us on all levels. It's 
holistic and it never causes harm. Why not be more mindful of our thinking and 
our thoughts and add that to the process? You know, it just makes it better and better. All 
right. Let's shift gears and we'll talk about the second topic of the video, which is comparing and 
contrasting energy healing modalities with Reiki. I'm going to highlight three key differences, and then I'm going to preview what we're 
going to talk about in the next video. The first difference we're going to 
cover is the practitioner's role. In Reiki, you really don't have to know any 
particular set of knowledge or skills in order to successfully practice Reiki, share it with 
others and reap the benefits of it. You don't have to know all about anatomy of the body or 
even chakras or the energy system of the body. You don't have to have special skills about how 
to find root causes or how to muscle test or, any other techniques that you might 
find in other healing modalities. The most effective Reiki sessions actually 
happen when the practitioner steps aside and doesn't get involved in the healing process. Now, that might sound counterintuitive, but if 
you recall, in my first video of this series, I explained that Reiki, at its core, is 
universally guided life force energy. The wisdom that is part of the energy knows how to 
best help you if you're offering it to yourself, or the other person, if you're sharing Reiki 
with someone else. So the results are really not based on any knowledge or, um, technique 
or skill of the Reiki practitioner. The practitioner's role is to simply make an 
opportunity for that pure spiritually guided life force energy to meet with the person. 
And, the wisdom is there already.So a Reiki practitioner does the best for whoever it 
is, they're helping with Reiki to remove themselves from the equation and trust the 
Reiki energy to know how to best help them. To illustrate this a little bit more for you, once 
I had a student in Reiki class, I think it was the masterclass, and she asked me, well, Andrea, 
um, How do you know when the chakra is open, that you're working on so that you can move to the next 
chakra where there's a block. And, you know, that question sort of caught me off guard and I said, 
well, um, I don't really care if their chakra is open and I'm not really trying to determine 
what's open, what's closed or anything like that. Because, if I were to do that, then I'm 
inserting myself in the process. Instead, I simply offer Reiki and I'm an intuitive 
practitioner and can sense where the energy is needed. And I follow that. But even 
practitioners that aren't intuitively guided yet, you know, it took me a long time of practice 
before I got to that, to be able to do that. So in the beginning, like many people, I 
couldn't sense the energy at all. I just relied on the different hand placements that were 
taught in Reiki class and it worked just fine. The main idea here is that people and their 
energy, they are very complex. And who am I as a practitioner to determine what chakras 
need to be open and what order and how much, and you know, that that's just one example of 
something that the energy might help them with. I am much more comfortable stepping aside and 
trusting the Reiki. It knows how to help them. I am just making it available and the wisdom of 
Reiki and the wisdom of that person's body, mind, and spirit, they get together and they work 
it out. And as a practitioner, I love that. Because it's then that I can trust. Reiki does 
no harm because all I'm offering is that energy. I'm not getting in the way. I'm not making 
decisions about what is best for that person. In my studies of other energy healing modalities, 
it isn't like that at all. I had to learn certain things. Um, I had to diagnose certain 
things in a session and I don't mean diagnose like a doctor would diagnose, but 
just in my other example, you see how that student was in the practice of diagnosing 
chakras —what’s open, what’s not. And then she would work to, or at least she was implying 
by her question, that she would work to open the chakras for that person. Again, that’s out of 
my realm of what I want to be responsible for. I think people's energy that flows in and 
around their bodies is the most precious thing that a person has. And I want to be 
extremely careful about, uh, working with that. And that's why even after I've learned 
all these modalities, I concentrate on Reiki. I have confidence and I trust the Reiki. I 
know it's not going to do any harm. And one of the other things I want to mention 
in contrast Reiki and these healing modalities is the fact that in Reiki, 
the practitioner is never depleted, never drained in a session. And I know in other 
healing modalities, , that isn't always the case. And so the practitioner, in that regard might 
feel drained or tired after offering a session. With Reiki, it's very different because 
the practitioner is not utilizing their own energy at all. Remember, they're removed 
from the process. They're trusting the Reiki energy. And not only that, they're actually 
receiving Reiki as they're offering it. So they'll feel energized and even better 
after sharing Reiki with another person. You might've heard about Reiki people saying 
that they feel drained or depleted after a session. And what I would say about that is 
there's something else going on in addition to offering Reiki. Maybe we'll talk about that 
in a later video, but I just want to make that clear when you're only offering Reiki, the 
practitioner will feel great after the session. I just want to make one more 
point about this. And that is, remember in the last video I talked 
about Usui and the fact that. When he received Reiki. It was just the energy. 
And it worked beautifully in healing, not only himself, Immediately after that. But when he would 
share it with others now, in those early days, he didn't have certain techniques. He didn't 
have anything to go along with the energy. There were no symbols. It's further evidence 
that Reiki works without all the techniques, all the knowledge, and you know what? He 
didn't teach chakras and opening chakras and all of that. He didn't teach that. So, 
if we go back to the very beginning of Reiki, we see it's the energy, the energy, the energy. as 
Reiki practitioners, let's just offer the energy and get out of the way. It's a joy, and a 
gift, and a blessing to work in that way. And we can always know that whoever we're 
sharing Reiki with will be helped in accordance with whatever's in their highest good. And we 
don't have to get involved or know what that is. So before we wrap up, I just want to 
remind you about your ki and that mind, body connection with your ki. Monitor 
your thoughts and choose wisely. And Reiki is a subset of energy healing but it is very different. The role of 
the practitioner is different. The way we can just trust the energy and not rely 
on our own knowledge or skills is a huge bonus and we never feel depleted. There's no sacrifice 
when someone offers Reiki to another person. In the next video, I'm going to talk to you 
about attunements because that is the real difference when we get to training. Learning 
Reiki versus learning other healing modalities, it's that attunement that gets a lot 
of attention. And a lot of people have questions about the attunements, what they are, 
how they work. And if they're even necessary. In this day and age, we're going to talk 
about that and more in the next video. And so, thanks for watching. And if you're not 
subscribed, why not subscribe, get notifications, and find out when the next Reiki 101 video’s 
coming out? I'll see you next Friday. And until then, take wonderful care. Thanks for being a 
part of the Mainstream Reiki YouTube channel.

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