Reiki students often have questions about hand placements, particularly:
- Does it matter where Reiki hands are placed for treatment?
- Are some of the hand placements more important than others?
- Does the order of the hand placements matter?
- Is a full treatment necessary?
Let’s start with the big picture, and forgive me for stating the obvious: what matters most is that you actually practice. If all you do is put your hands on yourself as you fall asleep, that’s better than nothing. Mrs. Takata* often said, any Reiki practice is better than no Reiki practice.
That said, let’s look at the local vs. the global effects of Reiki treatment.
Reiki practice to the rescue
Clearly there is a local aspect to Reiki practice. Where we place our Reiki hand seems to matter most when we practice Reiki as an immediate intervention to address a problem.
A Reiki hand gravitates toward the head to waylay a threatening headache, or to the solar plexus to settle a jittery stomach. When an accident happens, Reiki hands reach immediately for the site of the injury, and revisit it often during the healing process.
Besides the local benefits, each Reiki touch also brings global, whole-system benefits. Even brief Reiki treatment encourages the entire system to move toward balance.
For example, one hand to a single placement at bedtime can be enough to stimulate the overall balancing response from within your system and ease you into sleep. In stressful situations, even moments of Reiki touch can evoke a sense of well-being that puts everything in a more workable context.
When a brief hands-on can bring such palpable results, why bother with a full treatment?
Why a full Reiki treatment?
The overall balancing effect of Reiki practice brings benefits far beyond symptom relief. Reiki healing happens through the system’s own self-healing mechanisms, and offers the potential for the deepest possible healing–healing that not only helps you feel better, but which, given adequate treatment, can resolve the underlying cause of a symptom or condition. Mrs. Takata referred to this frequently in her comment, remove the cause and you remove the effect.
Even when there is no apparent condition to remedy, there are powerful incentives to maintain a balanced system:
- A balanced system functions better, making life more enjoyable.
- A balanced system is resilient, responding efficiently to stress and even trauma, thereby minimizing damage to the system.
- Maintaining systemic balance is the essence of preventive health care.
Although the systemic balancing response can be elicited no matter where we place our Reiki hands, profound healing is best supported by a consistent full treatment. We don’t just want to start this balancing response; we want to maintain it.
What Reiki results do you want?
I’m guessing you want to receive the greatest benefits from your Reiki practice as quickly as possible (yes, I am a New Yorker).
If that’s what you want — as much as possible as fast as possible — give yourself a full hands-on Reiki treatment every day. This is the only way to be sure you receive the full local and global benefits that Reiki practice offers. (Click here if you want a self-treatment protocol to follow.)
Self-treatment.
Full session.
Every day.
*Hawayo Takata and her Reiki master Chujiro Hayashi brought Reiki to Hawaii from Japan in the late 1930s.
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