What is Reiki, Anyway?

What are Chakras?

The human body has seven energy centers that run along the spine called chakras (or "wheel" in Sanskrit). Our entire range of human emotions lies within these 7 main energy points. Each chakra is responsible for its own set of experiences, both good and bad.

When we avoid negative experiences like tension, anxiety, conflict, it can lead to long-term imbalances in your energy system that then manifest into challenges like insecurity, anger, stress, or disease. To learn more about the chakras, see below. For now, Let’s talk more about these affects.

Blocked Chakras

Throughout our life, we often create blocks in the spin of our chakras by repressing traumas, fears and ‘negative’ memories. 

A root chakra block can manifest as/from fear, a blocked heart chakra can cause one to become callous or unaccepting of love, a throat chakra block can result in/occur from not speaking one's truth. 

Let’s take a look at anxiety, which is rooted in the solar plexus chakra. Anyone who has had anxiety KNOWS it can be physically uncomfortable and you will feel it in your center (hara)! This is the junction between the upper and lower chakras. When it is blocked the flow of the other chakras are limited and will move towards blockage eventually as well. 

An unbalanced solar plexus may look like self-doubt on one extreme and may look like arrogance on the latter. While a balanced solar plexus, may exhibit a humble sense of confidence.

How Can Reiki Help?

Reiki harmonizes your entire energy field, also known as your aura, and aligns all of your chakras, filling in as it needs, to enable wellness of mind, body, soul. 

First, the main energy flow of the chakras is unblocked and balanced using light placing of hands along the meridians. The body is scanned for any remaining, built-up energies. Any found, usually turn out to be troublesome areas for the client or areas of previous ailments/‘dis-ease’! However, the important focus is aligning the energy and then explaining in simple terms how to maintain this higher vibration.

After the initial balance, we are open to discuss focused healing, guided self-healing meditation, etc. However, typically, the ‘self-harmony’ experience is all that is needed to begin a self-healing process, your most important inner healing journey!