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Reiki Can Help With Grief

Oct 31, 2022 09:31AM ● By Cristina Boyle
Reiki, a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing, is given by a laying of hands that has been practiced for thousands of years. The basis for modern reiki may have started in Tibet more than 2,500 years ago. The word reiki comes from two Japanese words—rei and ki. Rei means higher knowledge or spiritual consciousness. Ki means life energy.

 

This has the same meaning as in chi (Chinese), prana (Sanskrit) and ti/ki (Hawaiian). Life energy plays an important role in everything we do, and reiki harnesses that life energy to promote healing, relaxation and a sense of calm. Reiki is not a religion and does not interfere with any belief system, but it may enhance it.

 

When we are grieving, everything seems to go out of whack. Our minds can’t compute fast enough anymore and we feel like we are in a fog. We may experience symptoms like insomnia, headaches, loss of appetite, difficulty falling asleep, weakness, fatigue, feelings of heaviness, rollercoaster of emotions, aches, pains and other stress-related ailments.

 

Grief is an energy-depleting emotion. If we aren’t replacing or balancing the energy the body loses when grieving, we feel awful. If nothing is done to replenish the energy being removed from the body, we feel worse over time because a person’s body, mind and soul can only take this for so long before any number of unhealthy things start to happen.

 

Reiki promotes relaxation, improves sleep, reduces stress and tension, helps with pain management, reduces anxiety, soothes digestion, improves circulation and enhances healing. It is not unusual to get sick when grieving or have some sort of accident. These two outcomes may result in worse consequences than if we just emotionally felt our grief from the beginning.

 

Cristina Boyle is the owner of Happie SoulWellness, located at 5000 Lenker St., Ste. 103, in Mechanicsburg, offering therapeutic massage, reiki, emotional support and self-awareness tools for personal growth. For more information, call 717-254-7250 or visit HappieSoul.org.