What Reiki Does Not Do

We want to know what can be done for us and how quickly. We love quick fixes and we often don’t know how to cope with our stress, pain or discomfort.

We can only see our own perspective and the wishes we hold in that moment. Even when we try our best to understand the perspective of another, it is still utterly impossible to understand all of the energy patterns that have created that person’s reality up to that moment.

The way that Reiki works is for both the practitioner and the client to set aside their own desires for any particular outcome or wishes.

A true healing will get to the underlying issue, rather than only working to bring about the result you think you want. This is far more helpful in the long run, as the problem will resolve itself in the most appropriate way, often in ways that could not have been expected.

Reiki will not do the following:

• Make someone like you or love you (though it may help you find peace with your current life situation and heal your heart)

• Help you get an ex back in your life

• Help you get revenge or otherwise create negative energies against someone (this is the opposite of what Reiki does)

• Make you wealthy, make you win the lottery, etc. (though it can help heal underlying wounds with regard to money, such as feelings of greed or lack)

• Make anyone do anything or create any kind of “magic” (though it can bring about acceptance and trust in your own ability to make changes in your life)

• Promise a cure of an illness (though it can bring balance to the underlying issue, ease pain and bring calm)

If a Reiki practitioner has promised you any of these things, or any specific outcome, please understand that you may not actually receive these results. Consider that you may be doing more harm to yourself by seeking the quick solution, the fastest relief to your problem. You may find that there is much more healing to be found by getting to the root of the problem, the underlying energies, and healing those. This may not offer you an end result you can foresee, and it won’t be a quick fix in most cases, but it does offer long term healing and true healing. Quick fixes never do and they often only prolong or worsen our suffering.

It is definitely possible to move toward our own goals and desires using energy by making a choice and following through with actions. And often that will work. You don’t even need anyone else to help you do that. But if our ultimate goal is true healing, then it works even better to open ourselves to the larger energy and allow all of the channels of healing energy to be available to us. So many more options present themselves and underlying problems heal, sometimes so gently we aren’t even aware of the process aside from the gradual changes. This truly helps relieve suffering and pain, both now and in the long run.