What to Expect in a Reiki Treatment

• Q. How long is a session?
  A distant healing session is 1hr 10mins.
  In-clinic is up to 1hr20mins depending on venue.
  Nature Reiki is 1hr30mins to include 10mins grounding afterwards. 
   

• Q. Where?
  In-person at a clinic (subject to availability). 
  
  Nature Reiki outdoors (subject to seasons and availability)
  
  Distant healing service. No need to travel - you can enjoy a relaxing and healing Reiki session from the privacy and comfort of your own home. I remain in my home and enter a meditative state and connect with your biofield. For this to work, we don't need to connect via a video or audio link during the healing. In fact doing so, would probably impair your relaxation, it's much better to have privacy and be able to relax deeply. Also for me too, I can enter a deeper meditative state while off camera. This also applies to distant healing for animals and plants. 
   

• Q. Help me envisage a session. What does it look like?
  For optimal relaxation and comfort, you will be lying down on your back, on a padded massage couch, or your bed/sofa/lawn at home.  After internally saying my prayers and calling in spiritual protection for us both, I will then begin to methodically scan your biofield and chakras with my sensitive hands. Because I am able to feel energy and work in partnership with my SGT (Spiritual Guide Team), I will detect any energetic anomalies and which areas are absorbing the most energy. If attending in-clinic, you may feel warmth from my hands when they rest on specific chakras. I work from head to toe, but my SGT may re-direct me to a specific area or instruct me to do additional work; for example emit an invisible coloured light into a muscle or organ.
  
  A proportion of clients report seeing bands of colour in their mind's eye, in the room, over their body, or see swirling like a vintage lava lamp. 
  Research programs that have built upon the ground-breaking work of Dr. Fritz-Albert Popp show that our body’s cells emit a radiation of 'light' – called 'biophotons'. Especially the fingertips. This cloud of light is spontaneously emitted from the skin of humans, and animals. Plants also emit light. Photonic light is imperceptible by the human eye, but can be measured with scientific methods. Research using an infrared spectroscopy shows evidence of light channels in the body that relate to the meridian system within Traditional Chinese Medicine too. To see photonic light is a beautiful experience; however it is not a common experience. 
   

• Q. Will I feel anything?
  Hands-on clinic treatment - You will typically feel warmth, especially on your ears, hands and feet.
  Distant and in-person: Maybe a few yawns, but typically you will not experience a phenomenon.
  Occasionally clients experience:

• Sleepiness

• Yawning to release energy. Your practitioner may yawn too, and release on your behalf

• Tummy gurgles, burps

• Eruptions of laughter

• Head gently rocks when crown chakra touched

• Involuntary jerks 

• Floating sensation

• Sense presence of ancestors

• Tears arise in the chest but disperse before reaching the eyes

• Your pain may move around the body

• Visuals: Seeing images of places, people, symbols, animals. Seeing lights, orbs or colours; either in the mind's eye or around your body. 
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• Q. If an area absorbs more energy does it mean that location has blockages and disease?
  When I am sharing the Reiki energy with you, the energy will be seeking to optimize your biological functions, supporting areas where your energy has been flowing sub-optimally, and therefore undermining your wellbeing.
  If I find an area, 'hungry points' that absorb extra Reiki, for example your heart?, it doesn't mean that your heart is necessarily malfunctioning or an illness is developing.
       To use a real-life example, Patient X: the heart area absorbed extra energy due to un-healed emotional heartache and emotional amnesia surrounding a relationship incident decades ago. After several Reiki sessions not only did the healing and healthy grieving process begin, but the release of this heartache also healed a long standing arthritic type pain in the hands and a latent telepathic ability developed simultaneously. 
  
  Together with my SGT, your own innate healing ability will also play a role. We all work together as a team; I don't view the process as me 'giving' a treatment. Is it more accurate to view this as Reiki energy being shared, not channelled.
  I hold the space and act as a facilitator. We are treating the biofield, boosting the health of the chakra energy centres, which in turn optimizes the health of the physical body.
       This is the same for pets and plants. With plants especially, it is all about optimizing internal biological functions and the plants symbiotic relationship with the soil, atmosphere and location. In the human body, biological and functional processes are synergistic and work in harmony. In the musculoskeletal system for example, releasing held tension in the hips or upper back, can often relax a tension in the ankle and foot you were not aware of.
  
  After your session, please allow up to 72hours for me to send a copy of my notes, which list the areas that absorbed the most energy. Plus any relevant shares from my SGT. My notes include a list of physical locations and chakras that have been boosted, rebalanced and optimized. Some areas may need several sessions, if trauma is stored.

• How often do I need to book treatments?
  See how you feel in the weeks and months after your session, and please assess for yourself when you would like to rebook. An initial course of 4 to 6 healing sessions is of course ideal, but I like to offer flexibility and I am very welcoming of clients that need to book ad-hoc, perhaps a few sessions to clear something acute, an injury or a memory recalled. 
  One-off maintenance sessions are also available for general wellbeing. Look out for special offers for block bookings. 

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• Q. Does Reiki involve talk therapy? 
  No. In clinic sessions will include a brief preliminary chat for you to share any reasons/hopes for your session. With distant healing you have the option to chat for 10minutes before your session or a few days before, via Zoom or telephone. Alternatively, you can just send a few details by email or Telegram app - this is a popular choice, especially for follow-up sessions, or situations where you lack privacy and cannot talk openly.  ​
   

• Q. Do I need to undress? - No, for in-clinic treatments you remain fully clothed, but take shoes off. Warm socks can make you feel comfy; cold feet can be distracting during the session. You will be lying down on a padded massage table, covered with a soft throw. A pillow and bolster for comfort.
   

• Q. With intuitive healing, do you include animal communication? 
  Animal Communication/channelling is not part of the session. My focus is on optimizing the bodily functions, chakras, and clearing the biofield. My SGT will sometimes share anatomical and physiological data with me. If relevant, I will share this information in your feedback report.
  
  However, I do always take time to tell your pet how much you love and care about them, and explain how the Reiki is like a special gift to help them feel relaxed and enhance their wellbeing. Occasionally a pet or wildlife casualty will convey their needs, direct me to a place they would like extra healing, or will verbally talk to me. Some of the comments they come out with are so cute and make me laugh. To date, two feline clients told me they wished they could fly, and Florrie the dog said to me with such joy, "I LOVE my paws!" 
   

• Q. What does Intuitive Reiki mean exactly? 
  Intuition with regards to energy healing, is like an extra perk. Giving me access to occasional deeper insights, extra medical or behavioural information. Input can come from the pet, my Higher Self or my Spiritual Guide Team. However, the session is focused on healing, not messages, and any additional information is received with thanks and gratitude. 
  In-clinic sessions tend not to offer an environment conducive to a deeper meditative state, so I focus more on intuitive hand placement than messages. Plus the session time sadly does not allow time for discussion and interpretation of messages. 
  
  The other way intuition plays a role, is when I scan the body with my hands. Instead of working head to toe as per the traditional Usui Reiki Method. Instead, I allow your body/your pet's body or the plant's spirit to guide me, and I will hear, sense, know and feel where to move my hands. 
  
  Outdoors
  **I am looking into offering sessions outdoors in nature and this could offer a form of deeply relaxing intuitive Reiki where we both connect with nature, the elements and nature spirits.  I have already offered a mini seated session in a wooded valley. I'm looking for quiet locations in the south east. Feel free to get in touch if you have a room/woodland/nature reserve that I can rent ad-hoc, and that is accessible by train or a regular bus. 
   

• Q. Do you protect the space and clients? 
  Yes. I keep my own energy at a high vibration. I mediate and protect myself daily.
  Prior to the session I will clear the space and call in protection. At the start of the healing I will also call in further protection. 
   

• Q. How can I pay?
  At the moment: Pay Pal, or Cash (sterling) is also acceptable. In my local area many stores, services and practitioners are advocating for a return of cash usage. 
  
  Distant healing - please pay before session via payment link. 
   

• Q. How can I prepare for a distant Reiki session
  For distant healing clients: please lie down if possible and make yourself comfortable.
  Getting comfy 15 minutes prior to the session can give you time to wind down. 
  You may need a blanket within reach; deep relaxation can cause the body temperature to drop.
  
  Q. Can I listen to music? Choose your relaxing and meditative playlist ahead of time, so you don't feel distracted by selecting the perfect music choices. Gift yourself this time of self-care. It is advisable to turn off any distractions:
  non-emergency phone notifications, background radio noise, and TV visuals. Your may find that your pet asks to join you, and this is fine. 
   

• Self reflection, prior to and after a session
  In the week leading up to your session it can be helpful to spend some time in reflection and make a few notes in a journal or your phone's notepad. Feel into anything you are ready to release emotionally or mentally. Below, are some uncomfortable questions we don't like to ask ourselves. Any hint of something being caused by stressors, or the mind and emotions, we might roll our eyes and think urgh! surely not. Surely I'm balanced and I've tended to that particular garden of discovery long ago. But if you are looking to heal a health condition or stuckness, it's worth double checking these and then happily ticking them off the healing to-do list if they are no longer relevant.
  
  1. Are there any secondary gains to having this symptom, illness, injury, time off work? Double check no new gains have crept into your mindset since the last time you checked.
  2. What are the positive opportunities this difficult situation brings?
  3. Do I even want to let go of that? If I did let go, what do I fear I will lose/gain? Bizarrely, sometimes we can fear good things coming in because it might mean losing something else. Relocating is a good example. Dig deep to unearth hidden worries and undermining beliefs, holding you back.
  4. Has the nervous feeling you have about something been mis-identified as a warning sign and a gut feeling to say no. Double check it's not a normal healthy reaction to change which brings butterflies into the belly too. There is a phenomenon that occurs especially for younger sensitive and intuitive folks, where they said no to something, thinking their butterflies were 'a sign' to hold back. When in actual fact they were meant to go for it and other things within them were causing the butterflies.
  5. “It did not happen, so it wasn't meant to be.” Sometimes, we say this to process, accept, surrender and come to terms with a situation. However, energy healing can help us reconnect with how we really feel about something/someone. Occasionally, we might find in journaling after Reiki that this stage is a lesson and we are actually meant to step out of our comfort zone and take action that might feel brand new. The “What will be, will be” was resistance, fear, self soothing and loss of confidence in disguise. We might be mis-interpreting the situation as another loss to let go, and often that is the case, but not always; so it's worth being mindful. It is worth double checking how we truly feel. We would do this for our friend, partner or child; but often we don't do this for ourselves.
   

• Q. Any guidance for after the session
  It is wise not to rush back to your to-do list. Firstly, ground yourself, by intending to ground into the earth. Physical grounding is connecting to the ground and Mother earth. Spiritual grounding is intending/asking for your spirit to be grounded within your body.