10 surprising facts about Reiki & Shamanic Healing

Excited to explore the world of Reiki & Shamanic Healing for the first time? Eager to uncover its mysteries and understand its workings?Considering a journey to become a certified practitioner or experience a transformative Reiki and Shamanic Healing session yourself?

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1. Understanding Reiki

Reiki is a practice that involves channeling "universal life-force energy" through the hands of a trained practitioner to facilitate healing on the emotional, physical, and spiritual levels of a person, plant, animal, or object.
Reiki is commonly referred to as a "hands-on" technique, where the practitioner places their hands on the recipient to transmit energy. However, it can also be administered remotely, without physical contact, through distance healing techniques (Reiki Level II).

What to Anticipate During a Reiki Session

Physically: Clients typically experience a sense of calmness and muscle relaxation during a Reiki session. There may be changes in temperature, with warmth often felt in areas receiving healing energy and occasionally cold sensations in the hands and feet. This phenomenon is attributed to the focus of Reiki on the chakra system, which is connected to the vagus nerve along the spine.
Emotionally: Feelings of peace, joy, and emotional release are commonly reported during Reiki sessions. It is not unusual for clients to experience emotional responses either during or after a session, sometimes extending for days. These reactions occur as the body is guided back to a state of equilibrium, enabling the nervous system to address emotional imbalances in a controlled manner.
Spiritually: Clients may perceive colors associated with the chakras being worked on by the practitioner, receive intuitive messages, or enter a dream-like state. This occurrence is prevalent as individuals often reach a deep state of relaxation during a Reiki session, sometimes drifting into sleep or attaining a "theta state" that facilitates the emergence of the subconscious mind and messages from the higher self.

3. Understanding Shamanic and Healing Practices

Shamanic healing shares similarities with reiki, as it transcends time and space to facilitate the body's natural healing processes and promote relaxation of the nervous system. However, unlike reiki, which relies on universal life force energy, shamanic healing incorporates energies from the earth, angels, ancestors, and spirit guides during sessions. In a shamanic healing session, the practitioner may visualize elemental energies, such as water flowing through the body to cleanse and purify every cell, or envision a gentle flame burning away negative or unnecessary energies surrounding the individual. Shamanic healing enables individuals to access heightened states of consciousness, fostering profound awareness and healing on both a molecular and energetic level. These expanded states of consciousness aid in addressing deep-rooted emotional, mental, ancestral, or past-life traumas, offering clients a transformative healing experience. At Lead By Light, LLC, shamanic healing and reiki are utilized interchangeably, with Jordyn, Reiki Master, Shamanic & Quantum Healer, intuitively tailoring healing sessions to meet the unique needs of each client, guided by divine wisdom.

4. What to Expect During a Shamanic Healing Session

Shamanic Healing sessions are akin to reiki sessions, encompassing familiar experiences along with additional elements.
As a Certified Reiki Master & Shamanic Healer, Jordyn typically begins with reiki to establish a serene, secure environment for clients to unwind and delve into their emotions, psyche, and physical state.
During the transition to shamanic healing, the client's energy ascends to elevated consciousness levels. While shamanic healing can induce a similar sense of tranquility as reiki, the energy may exhibit a more dynamic quality. Some individuals may perceive a gentle pulsing sensation coursing through their body, signifying the healing energy's targeted flow. Shamanic healing brings to light the aspects of ourselves that we resist, overlook, or struggle to comprehend, facilitating healing, acceptance, and release. Emotional responses during sessions are common, reflecting the shedding of feelings and energies that hinder personal growth across physical, energetic, emotional, and mental dimensions. Shamanic healing fosters self-love, compassion, and self-understanding through profound acceptance and soul-level healing.

5. What are the benefits of energy healing?

Reduces stress, anxiety & depression.
Improves sleep
Reduces inflammation in the body
Reduces pain perception, allowing clients to feel alleviated from chronic dis-ease.
Supports respiratory recovery & lung rejuvenation.
Supports healing on a cellular level - supporting the bodies cell regeneration process.
Promotes relaxation & regulates the nervous system
Helps relieve common discomforts of pregnancy such a nausea, exhausted & muscle pain. (There are countless case studies on how regular reiki sessions during pregnancy improved the ease & success of pregnancy)
Promotes healthy cell growth and supports the body's immune system to fight against illness & disease.

6. What Is Reiki NOT?

Reiki is NOT a religion. Reiki is a glorified form of co-regulation, sensing the energy in the room and space within & around the client & bringing it back into balance with the intention of filling the space with pure love, healing & peace. We are all energy & we are all capable of healing from within, sometimes we just need the help of others to see that.
Reiki is NOT a cure.
Reiki is NOT something that heals you... it is something that promotes & supports healing that naturally takes place within you when your body is not longer under stress or dis-ease. Reiki regulates the nervous system, assisting in the immune and energetic systems & bodies to come back into alignment and optimal well being.

7. What DOES Reiki Do?

Reiki DOES support a better quality of life.
Reiki DOES promote peace, relaxation & a regulated nervous system by creating a safe space for the client to relax and receive source healing energy.
Reiki DOES work well with other medicine to combat disease and illness and dis-ease within the body. (Please check with your licensed health professional before having a reiki healing session)
Reiki DOES benefit those with mood or psychological struggles and helps them find more joy, peace & presence with their current selves.

8. How Often Should I Get Reiki?

I recommend bi-weekly to my clients, this way the client has time to process the energy they received as well as transmute and heal the things that may have came up for them in the session.
Weekly sessions are also very common for my clients that work in high stress environments, have autoimmune disorders, cancer patients, pregnant and or experiencing anxiety or depression.

9. Is it better to receive reiki healing over distance (via zoom or phone call or simply intention) or in person?

Both are equally effective! Regardless of what kind of healing you are receiving, in person or distance, the intention is to disrupt, release and ground any energy that is no longer of your highest good. If you are receiving a reiki healing please make sure your practitioner is certified to Level II Reiki or Higher as Reiki Level I is focused on 'Reiki Healing For Self'.

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10. Can I become certified in reiki or do I need to meet certain prerequisites?

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