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 At nearly 80 years old, master Reiki practitioner Vince Gilhool has volunteered over 6,700 hours providing Reiki sessions to patients, caregivers, and others at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) and the Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) since 2010. Gilhool, a retired Philadelphia parole officer and former cancer patient, says it has been the greatest privilege of his life to watch patients and their loved ones become visibly relaxed as a result of a session—even if they can’t explain why. 

 Before examining today’s local world, let’s take a quick time machine visit back a century, to the tranquil foothills of Kyoto, Japan, in March 1922.  

A modest man by the name of Mikao Usui had just scaled Mount Kurama, and initiated an intense three-week period of meditation.

On the 21st day, Usui reported receiving a divine revelation, including the symbols and techniques that would become the foundation of the healing power of Reiki.

The beauty and wellness industry has seen many additions over the years when it comes to modern-day skincare rituals. However, people are also going back to explore ancient healing rituals in the form of crystal rollers and more that have made their way into the daily skin rituals of many. Here’s what reiki-infused skincare is all about.

Reiki is a powerful way to develop a relationship with your body’s subtle energies and incorporate deeper energy healing into your life. It asks you to imagine your clearest vibrational state, and then to activate that frequency within your present moment and transfer that energy into the body through intentional touch.

Reiki-infused yoga is a combination of the energy healing technique of Reiki with any yoga modality including physical postures, meditation, or breathwork ('pranayama' in Sanskrit). A Reiki practitioner may use Reiki techniques on themselves during a class. 

If you are looking to add depth to your massage therapy sessions—without adding any more strain on your body—consider learning Reiki. The most well-known type of energy healing, Reiki can give you a new tool to use to help your clients.

Reduction in mental health issues and enhancing mood can make a person more joyful and stress-free. It eventually improves mental and physical health because our mind and body are interdependent. A physically and mentally strong individual tends to live more happily than others.

The Reiki practitioner or reiki master gently places their palms on or over a part of the body. They leave their palms in that position while an energy transfer occurs, which could take up to 10 minutes. Reiki practitioners don't perform the healing but serve as a channel through which the energy flows. During reiki healing, you may feel sensations like heat, pulsing or tingling in the body, and many fall asleep.

Those seeking a way to reduce stress, encourage relaxation, and achieve balance from within that doesn’t require introducing instruments into the body can look to Reiki healing. The ancient Japanese technique utilizes the body’s energy or life force to promote physical, emotional, and spiritual healing, and enhances the body’s natural healing abilities.

According to a past survey conducted by the National Institutes of Health, 1.2 million adults and 161,000 children in the United States had received energy healing therapy like Reiki in the previous year. Reiki is now used by a growing number of Americans to help with relaxation, anxiety, pain management, and depression.

Reiki is a complementary health approach in which practitioners place their hands on or just above different areas of the body. It’s based on an Eastern medicine belief that living beings have energy fields that support their health and vitality.

Depending on a) how mystical you are and b) how far you are willing to speculate on rather flimsy (but possibly true) evidence, the history of Reiki is generally either seen to have began in Tibet (or, at least, ancient Buddhist times) or (less speculatively) with ‘Dr’ Usui towards the end of the 19th century.