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Reiki: Center For Integrative Medicine

Reiki is a hands-on healing technique that uses gentle touch to facilitate the flow of life force energy. During a Reiki session, the practitioner places their hands lightly on or near the fully clothed client to channel this universal energy and promote relaxation, reduce stress, and support healing. Reiki is non-invasive and can complement traditional medical care by helping to relieve pain, boost recovery from illness or injury, and enhance overall health and well-being. The Center for Integrative Medicine offers Reiki treatments that may benefit those with conditions like cancer, chronic pain, or stress-related diseases, as well as people seeking preventative care.

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Reiki: Center For Integrative Medicine

Reiki is a hands-on healing technique that uses gentle touch to facilitate the flow of life force energy. During a Reiki session, the practitioner places their hands lightly on or near the fully clothed client to channel this universal energy and promote relaxation, reduce stress, and support healing. Reiki is non-invasive and can complement traditional medical care by helping to relieve pain, boost recovery from illness or injury, and enhance overall health and well-being. The Center for Integrative Medicine offers Reiki treatments that may benefit those with conditions like cancer, chronic pain, or stress-related diseases, as well as people seeking preventative care.

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Center for Integrative Medicine

Reiki
What is Reiki?
Reiki is hands-on natural healing using the universal life practitioner; rather it comes through the practitioner from the
force energy. The term comes from the Japanese words universal source. There is no energy drain on the practitioner.)
“rei,” meaning universal, and “ki,” which means vital life
Reiki treatments typically last about 50 minutes. During the
force energy that flows through all living things. Reiki, an
treatment the patient lies on a massage table, fully clothed.
abundant, gentle spiritual energy is not tied to any specific
The Reiki practitioner gently places her hands palms down
religion or nationality.
on or just above the patient’s body in specific energy loca-
Reiki, which is used all over the world in places including tions and uses a series of 12 to 15 different hand positions.
hospitals and hospices, was developed by a Japanese man The length of time that the practitioner leaves her hands in
named Mikao Usui in the early 1900s. It aids in healing by each position is determined by the flow of energy through
helping people become energetically balanced physically, her hands at each location. There is no pressure, massage
emotionally, mentally and spiritually. or manipulation.

The patient experiences the energy as sensations such as


How does Reiki work?
heat, tingling or pulsing where the practitioner has placed
The Reiki practitioner is the conduit between the patient her hands. Sometimes, the sensations are felt moving
and the source of the universal life force energy; the energy through the body; some people do not perceive any change
flows through the practitioner’s energy field and through her at all. Most people feel very relaxed and peaceful, and many
hands to the patient. (The energy does not come from the fall asleep during the treatment.
continued
What are the benefits of receiving Reiki?
According to the National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine, people use Reiki for relaxation, stress
reduction and symptom relief, in efforts to improve overall
health and well-being. A Reiki treatment may do the following:

• bring about a peaceful, deep state of relaxation

• dissolve energy blockages and tension

• detoxify the body

• support the well-being of a person receiving


traditional medical treatments that are debilitating
(e.g., chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, kidney dialysis)

• supply universal life force energy to the body

• stimulate the body’s immune system

• help to relieve pain

• stimulate tissue and bone healing after injury or surgery

• increase the vibrational frequency on physical, mental,


emotional and spiritual levels Reiki practitioners in our Center for Integrative Medicine
help patients to prepare for surgery, which may help boost
Can Reiki replace traditional medical or recovery afterward. Our Reiki practitioners see patients for
therapeutic treatments? the following conditions, among others:
No, Reiki complements all other types of medical and Cancer Chronic pain
therapeutic treatments. Reiki treatment should not be used
Infertility Digestive problems
as a substitute for consultation of a physician, a practitio-
ner of natural therapeutics or a psychotherapist. Reiki can Parkinson’s disease Stress-related diseases
increase the efficacy of other types of healing. Psychological illnesses

What conditions can be treated by Reiki? Will I benefit from Reiki if I am in good health already?
Reiki is not specific to any particular type of disease or Yes. If you are in good health already, regularly applied
condition. Because it works on the entire self – mind, body Reiki treatments (about once a month) enhance your ability
and emotions – and because it is universal life force energy, to respond to unhealthy elements in your environment and
it may be successful in all types of physical, emotional, help you to handle stress. By promoting the harmonious
mental and spiritual healing. Pets and other animals distribution of energy, Reiki is an excellent form of preven-
respond positively to Reiki healing as well. tive medicine.

Contact the Center for Integrative Medicine for Reiki appointments

To schedule an appointment for Reiki or other forms of integrative medicine, call 216.986.HEAL (4325).
For more information on Center for Integrative Medicine services, please visit clevelandclinic.org/integrativemedicine.

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