Reiki therapy is based on an Eastern belief that vital energy flows through your body. The person who specializes in reiki treatment, uses gentle touch – or places their hands just above your body – to help guide this energy in a way that leads to balance and healing.
The Reiki healing system, founded by Mikao Usui in the early 1900s, said that people should practice certain standards or values that bring about peace and harmony – ideals that most cultures practice. It was brought to the Western part of the world by Hawayo Hiromi Takata and become popular in the U.S. quickly.
The term comes from two Japanese words: “rei,” which means universal, and “ki,” which loosely translates to a flow of a lifeforce energy that happens in all living things.
