Reiki is an alternative therapy in health and medicine. Reiki is faith healing. Reiki is a form of spiritual healing.
In the West, Reiki is practiced very much as a form of complementary medicine, where practitioners give Reiki 'treatments', though with Reiki it is also possible to treat yourself, which cannot be done easily or comfortably by people who practice, for example, Indian Head Massage or Reflexology! Reiki is largely seen as an oriental version of spiritual healing, based on the laying on of hands and the channeling of a form of energy, or a "spiritual" energy, and this energy can also be used for the benefit of the practitioner.
When Reiki was taught by its founder in the 1920s in Japan, what was being taught was a spiritual path, a self-healing method, a path to enlightenment, so Reiki has certainly gone through an interesting journey during the last century, to end up now being presented to the world as a treatment technique, and we will find out how this happened later.
So most Reiki practitioners will treat other people, they will treat themselves, and they will also follow a simple set of 'rules to live by' that were set down by Reiki's founder, Mikao Usui. The system was made available to people from different religious backgrounds, so you do not need to be a Buddhist, or a Christian, or follow Shinto, or have any religious beliefs, in order to benefit from the teachings and the practices. Reiki is 'neutral'. Reiki is all about moving more into a state of balance on all levels, achieving more balance in your life. Moving into a state of balance may involve the resolution of some health problems, it may involve a change in beliefs and attitudes, it may involve making decisions that have been put off or ignored for a long time, and a realisation of one's true values and priorities in life. Reiki is all about change: change for the better, finding out what is right for you in your life and making decisions to move you closer to what is right for you.
The successful practice of Reiki involves committing some time, regularly, to invest in yourself through working with energy to achieve more of a state of balance. The beneficial effects of working with Reiki develop over time, they build cumulatively, and the positive changes that you can experience through working with Reiki are governed by your commitment to working with the system. You invest in yourself and you reap the benefits.
Learning Reiki does not mean that you are committing yourself to becoming a Reiki practitioner, and many people who learn Reiki do so because they are looking for some benefits for themselves, and they are looking to be able to do something to help their friends and family members as alternative therapy for health. Some people take Reiki First Degree and stop there, though most people seem to go on to second Degree level. How far you progress with the system is up to you, and how much time you invest in working with Reiki is up to you.
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