The difference and connection between Reiki and energy healing

Reiki is a specific subdivision of the energy healing system. The two are included and included.； The core differences are concentrated in the three dimensions of inheritance traceability, operational logic, and access standards. The common point is that they are all based on the underlying assumption that "life energy imbalance will cause physical and mental problems." They are both complementary healing methods and cannot replace formal clinical treatment.

Let me tell you something that I encountered at a healing industry exhibition last year. An aunt in her sixties held my arm and asked for ten minutes: "Girl, please comment, I did Reiki last week. I lay down and slept for 40 minutes and my shoulders and neck were not stiff when I woke up. I went to do another quantum energy healing this week, and I felt dizzy and nauseated after doing it. Aren't they both energy people?" Why is there such a big difference? ”

In fact, it is quite normal for many ordinary people to confuse the two. After all, the promotional slogans for healing programs on the market today are all the same. Things like "cleaning chakras" and "dredging negative energy" all seem to be a set of words at first glance. But anyone who has been doing Reiki for five or six years and has tried more than a dozen different energy healing methods knows that the difference between the two is neither small nor big.

The most fundamental difference is that traceability is completely different. Reiki has a very clear line of inheritance. It was founded by Usui Ongo in Japan in 1922 while meditating on Mount Kurama. Later it spread to Europe and the United States and developed different branches. Whether it is the most traditional Usui Reiki, or the later Karuna Reiki and Tibetan Reiki, the core rules have not changed. Change: A teacher with inheritance must do "attunement" to open your channel as an energy channel. After that, you don't need to use your own energy, you only need to guide the "cosmic life energy" to the case. Even remote operation is possible. Nowadays, the understanding of spiritual energy in the circle is relatively unified. As long as it is passed down in a serious way, there will basically be no outrageous operations.

In contrast, energy healing does not have a unified definition, let alone a fixed inheritance. We sometimes joke in our circle that energy healing is a basket that can put anything in it - as long as you say you are adjusting the energy, whether it is banging singing bowls, setting up crystal arrays, doing quantum touch therapy, or even doing shamanic dance or past life regression, it can all be classified under the broad category of energy healing. Here I should also mention the controversy between different schools: many teachers who practice traditional oriental health care are particularly disgusted by being included in "energy healing". They feel that this is a concept created by the Western New Age movement (New Age), which has dwarfed the ancestors' guidance, yoga, and moxibustion. This statement is indeed reasonable, and it is essentially a problem of classification logic.

In addition to their different origins, the operating logic of the two is also quite different. The operation of Reiki is actually very "rigid". When you get started, the teacher will teach you fixed hand positions, from the top of the head, shoulders and neck, chest, abdomen to the lower back and knees. There are more than a dozen fixed points in total. You only need to leave each position for 3 to 5 minutes. You don't need to sense the energy status of the patient. Even if you are a novice who has just finished learning for a day, as long as you have done some attunement, most of the operations can make the patient feel relaxed. The most memorable time I had was when I was doing Reiki on a little girl who had just lost love. As soon as I put my hand on her solar plexus, she burst into tears and said that her chest, which had been blocked for half a month, suddenly became clear. After it was over, she said she smelled a touch of sandalwood, but I didn't light any incense that day. This kind of inexplicable little detail will always come across after doing it for a long time.

However, energy healing operations are diverse. Some require the healer to practice inner sense for many years. He can sense the blockage points in the etheric body of the individual case and make targeted adjustments.； Some rely purely on tools. For example, a crystal healer will place a crystal array with a corresponding frequency according to your chakra status, and a sound bowl healer will knock different bowls to correspond to different body parts. ； Some people don’t even need to meet in person and can just clear their consciousness remotely. I once met a teacher who did quantum touch therapy. When he was doing conditioning, his hands were still ten centimeters away from the body, and he was stroking in the air. He said that he was removing the sutures on the etheric layer of the patient. After the treatment, some people said that their back pain was gone, while others said they felt nothing at all. The evaluation was extremely polarized. It is true that mainstream academic circles have not reached a unified conclusion on the mechanism of energy healing. Many researchers believe that most of its effects come from the placebo effect - that is, you believe it is useful, so you really relax and the discomfort is alleviated. This is actually not bad. After all, emotions have a great impact on the body.

Speaking of which, there is another very realistic difference, that is, the barriers to entry are very different. The study of Reiki is standardized. If you find a serious inheritance teacher, you can learn the first level content in one or two days, and after enlightenment, you can do it for yourself. After learning the third level, you can do master level enlightenment for others. Even if you have no basis in healing at all, you can get started as long as you follow the process. Of course, to be good, you still need to practice more. But the thresholds for energy healing are really different. Some sell crystal courses for 99 yuan, and after learning and memorizing the chakra correspondence chart, they dare to open a studio and collect money. There is also a common controversy in the circle: many Reiki practitioners feel that their inheritance is more orthodox, and other energy healing methods are unstructured and wild. ； On the contrary, many other energy healers feel that Reiki is too rigid and cannot be flexibly adjusted according to the status of the case. It is not effective when it comes to complicated cases. Both opinions have their own truths, and there is no absolute right or wrong.

As for connection, to be honest, the core is the same. No matter what method you use, you are essentially adjusting people's energy frequency. It is believed that people's emotional depression and physical discomfort are essentially blockages in the energy field and the frequency is too low. If the blockage is cleared and the frequency is raised, the state will naturally improve. And now there are no clear boundaries in practice. When many reiki masters I know do a case, they will give the case crystals corresponding to the chakras, play the audio of singing bowls in the background, and after the end, they will also give the case a suitable crystal bracelet to wear. Do you think this is pure reiki? No, in fact it has been integrated with many other energy healing methods.

In fact, after having been in this business for a long time, I no longer have to worry about the orthodoxy of schools and the quality of methods. Whether it is Reiki or other energy healing, in the final analysis, it is just a tool to help people relax. If you believe it, if you can put down your anxiety and have a good sleep while doing it, it will be worth it. ； If you feel nagging and don’t believe it, just go for a few steps to sweat, the effect may be better. The only thing to remember is that if you are really suffering from physical illness, go to the hospital first. Don’t rely on healing as a life-saving straw. That would be putting the cart before the horse.