Hands-on Healing

Hands-on healing, also known as Energy, Radiant or Spiritual Healing, has been practiced by many cultures for thousands of years. In Greek mythology, Chiron, the wise Centaur, taught Asclepius, the God of Medicine, hands-on healing. This practice was so revered that Grecian statues of Asclepius were made with gold-gilt hands, celebrating the power of touch to heal. This was also the source of the caduceus, modern medicine’s symbol of healing and the word Chi-ergy, which evolved into surgery.

Later, in Christianity, we are told countless stories of Christ’s ability to heal using the laying-on-of-hands. Jesus further told his disciples in John 14:12: “…he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do…” Humankind was truly given a profound legacy in hands-on healing.

Spiritual Healing

Spiritual healing is now being used by a wide variety of practitioners in private practice, as well as in many hospitals around the world. Even a number of eminent doctors—such as Dr. Mehmet Oz at New York’s Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital—are using energy healing prior to, during, and after surgery, with remarkable results.

Today, many more people are proactive about their health and want to learn tools for self-healing. Healer training courses and schools are developing nationwide. Students include medical professionals, wanting to learn more tools to deepen their existing practices, and people on the path of self-discovery, transformation, and self-healing.

As we begin to understand that our health is in direct relationship with our mental, emotional, and physical energetic patterning, it becomes evident that we hold the power of health in our own hands. Spiritual hands-on healing is one of humankind’s special legacies for achieving optimum health and is a valuable component of the medicine of the new millennium.

Reiki

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by “laying on hands” and is based on the idea that an unseen “life force energy” flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one’s “life force energy” is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words – Rei which means “God’s Wisdom or the Higher Power” and Ki which is “life force energy”. So Reiki is actually “spiritually guided life force energy.”

A treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and wellbeing. Many have reported miraculous results.

Reiki is a simple, natural and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement that everyone can use. It has been effective in helping virtually every known illness and malady and always creates a beneficial effect. It also works in conjunction with all other medical or therapeutic techniques to relieve side effects and promote recovery.