Why Reiki Energy Healing Makes You Feel Lighter

I have had a few Reiki sessions this week, where my clients remarked to me their amazement in how much lighter they feel. It is remarkable how much physically lighter we feel after bringing the flow of vital energy back into the body. It brings about the question, how and why do we feel so weighted down? And what does a Reiki energy healing session do that makes us feel so much lighter?

First of all, we ourselves are made up of energy. Just like everything in life. The trees, the animals, the buildings around us, food, furniture, and even our thoughts. Everything is made up of energy. We have an energy body that functions to keep our vitality flowing continuously. Like the way a river or stream flows, we also have this flowing current in our body that keeps us feeling “alive”. You may have heard of the Chakras, our 7 main energy centers that serve as pools for this energy along a stream that continuously flows. Just as the stream may collect debris and become stagnant in places, so can we.

Imagine every event in your life, every thought and action/reaction to anything and every emotion you have as energy that needs to move through you. When you need to sneeze and you hold it back, that is containing that energy. Harmless I’m sure, but when you have heavy grief from a great loss, and you push the feelings down out of inconvenience, feeling unsafe, or being stoic, this may contribute to an energy block, as it is stuck in the body.

When you are a child and these energy centers are developing, is often when so much energy can be trapped. There are so many circumstances in a child’s life that cannot be understood, or that are forced to be pushed back and not felt. These create imprints of “stuck energy”. Every time something similar happens in a child’s life and as they grow up, again these balls of energy are forced down, creating more tension in the body.

The reality is that most of us grow up with some forms of stuck energy in our body. The less we allow our feelings to be seen and felt, the more pockets of bound energy are stored in the body. It makes the body feel tight, it creates pressure and makes it difficult to even take deep breaths. Sometimes feelings and events try to surface, but fear causes us to press them back down so as to not look or feel. It seems like the easier way to deal with life, not having to face our fears, emotions, and traumas. But it is a much more constrictive and heavy way for our body to live.

So as all of those little pockets of energy cause clogs in our pipes, vital energy can no longer flow throughout the body and give you that sense of “aliveness”. It becomes difficult to do day to day tasks without feeling overwhelmed. Eventually, all of the energy we are containing to prevent us from dealing with the pain accumulates enough to cause actual physical pain and symptoms. Why? It takes way more energy to hold everything in, than it does to let it surface and release. Holding it all in takes a major toll on the body and mind.

Why the mind? Because in our minds, we are wondering what the heck is wrong with us? Why do we feel this way? There is shame, anger, sadness weighing us down even more. I know it’s hard. I had so much build up in me that I created chronic pain and autoimmune illness, that took me years to realize was all connected to trauma that was stored in my body. Much of it I wasn’t even aware of, because like many people, I would try and contain my pain with substances or mindless habits designed to blind me to what needed to be seen.

Reiki is Universal Life Force Energy. As we are all made up of energy, there is one perfect source of this that we can all connect to. Some of us, Reiki “healers”, can channel this energy in a way that allows the body of our client to connect to, and pull in the energy and direct it to where it is most needed in the body. I do this by calling in the energy and laying hands upon my client. Typically the client drifts off into a lucid dream like sleep state where the body is completely relaxed yet they are fully aware.

As the body pulls in the energy, it creates a flow once again, where the chakras pull in what they need to balance, then spin the energy on to the next chakra, and the next until the body is freely flowing energy again on its own. In the process of this, the body releases energy that is built up, stagnant, and/or toxic and is then revitalized with pure vitality. This is what can cause people to feel so light after a reiki session. They are no longer carrying the weight of what they have been carrying energetically. There is nothing blocking them from their soul self.

This does not mean that they will forever be free of stagnant energy. What this does, is hopefully bring an awareness of how it feels to be weightless, unstuck, and unblocked from their true nature. It gives you the opportunity to connect with your deepest self and heal on the deepest level. As you continue to let life happen and not force things down, you will nurture this vital energy flow rather than cut yourself off from the source.

Meditation, Yoga, and other mind/body exercises are so helpful to become aware of your body and flow of life from the inside out. Breathe with movement is another way to move stuck energy in the body. Everyone can do this, and everyone has the power to heal their life and feel way lighter in the process. If you would like to find out more about what I do as a Reiki Master, and schedule an appointment for yourself, click this link to my Reiki page. I know for some of you this sounds foreign, but I welcome both believers and skeptics into my space. All it takes is one session for you to feel transformed and revitalized.