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Reiki is a Japanese term meaning “spiritually guided life force energy.” It is a spiritual practice used as a complementary therapy to strengthen one’s own “life force energy” so to enhance the quality of life. The technique is used to decrease stress, increase relaxation, and induce a healing effect. 

The benefits of Reiki develop as a practitioner works to raise the “life energy force” of another, most commonly through laying one's hands on them. This energy force is available to everyone and is not dependent on one’s intellectual or spiritual development. Reiki is also not a religion nor does it have an order, but people have found that using Reiki has helped them experience their religion better on a spiritual level rather than just as an intellectual concept. As a simple, natural, and safe means of spiritual healing, Reiki works through the whole person creating many beneficial effects such as feelings of peace, security and wellbeing. Reiki cares for the body, emotions, mind and spirit and thus can easily work with and compliment other medical or therapeutic techniques. Allowing for the unseen “life force energy” to flow through us positively correlates to our sense of life, which is why Reiki contributes so well to self improvement and has been effective in helping nearly every known illness and trouble.