Comparing Bioenergy Healing and Reiki

Bioenergy Healing and Reiki

This month I have decided to write about Bioenergy and Reiki. As you will see, they are not very different.

Quantum physics suggests that everything, including matter, can be understood as different manifestations of energy, and quantum physics also suggests a deep interconnectedness of everything.

Bioenergy begins with this premise – everything, you, me, the chair, the wall, the rock, the plant, the air is energy. Everything is connected and is vibrating at different rates. Even though a rock or a chair appears to be still, it is vibrating very slowly.

Bioenergy practitioners use, or one could say channel, the energy from the air that is all around us and offer it to their clients to aid in healing or balancing their clients’ bodies. They consider that the energy is intelligent and will know where to go in order to heal or balance the body.

They begin by opening the “biofield” or aura and are then able to step into the client’s energy field. [One of people I studied with, Kurt Peterson, could see when I did that.]

Reiki originated in Japan and was founded by Milao Usei. It is based on the idea of ‘universal life force energy’ that is spiritually guided. When studying Reiki, students need an “attunement” from a Reiki Master to begin to channel this “universal life force” energy. Attunement is a spiritual ceremony that opens the student’s energy field and allows them to channel for Reiki healing.

Bioenergy healers do not need this kind of attunement. They are able to channel the energy that is around us, that is considered intelligent, and that knows where in the body the client needs help.

Reiki Practitioners channel “universal life  force energy” through their hands into the client. They use a light touch or hold their hands slightly above the client’s body. They use specific hand movements or can follow their intuition.

It gets more complicated. The aura, that surrounds the physical body has at least 7 layers.(Some say twelve). It is believed that dis-ease begins in the aura and only after time manifests in the body.

Bioenergy and Reiki practitioners work with different levels of the aura to effect healing on the physical, emotional and spiritual level.

Bioenergy practitioners act as a conduit for the energy that is offered to the client’s body. Both the practitioner and the client intend healing of the issue that is troubling the client, listen to music, imagine themselves walking in a forest or on a beach, so that neither of them interferes with the energy being offered to the client. They focus on health and work with the client sitting or standing, if possible.

The Reiki practitioner is a passive conduit of “universal life force energy”, places his/her hands on, or above, specific locations on the client’s body and/or follows their intuition as to where on the body they might work.

Both Bioenergy and Reiki practitioners can practice either in person or remotely. When working in-person, they can touch the client or work a few inches away from the body.

Bioenergy practitioners use intention, specific hand movement, and pre-determined protocols, for specific dis-eases. They may put energy into the client or remove it, or both. Both Bioenergy and Reiki aim to balance and harmonize the client’s energy field. They never diagnose, but rely on the clients’ doctors to do that.

Bioenergy and Reiki practitioners can also offer the energy to animals, plants and water when any of these are ailing.

Reiki is considered a spiritual modality. However, some Bioenergy practitioners will also call on their higher selves or spirit guides to help them with their clients.

If you would like to have a discussion about how Bioenergy Healing might be able to help you, please give me a call.

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