There are moments when life quietly points us toward something that will change us. Reiki arrived like that for me — not through searching, but through a series of clear signs that felt too aligned to ignore.
Reiki is a Japanese energy-healing practice that channels universal life force through the hands to restore balance to body, mind, and spirit. But for me, it has never been about technique or symbols — it’s about learning to work with energy in a practical, grounded way.
While anyone can receive Reiki and feel its calming effects, learning to practice it requires training and attunement with a qualified teacher. During attunement, the student is connected to Reiki energy and its sacred symbols — an initiation that opens the flow of this universal current through the hands. When I first felt guided to study Reiki, it was as if I had been handed a key. What began as curiosity soon became a steady practice — one that helped me understand how energy moves through daily life, and how it can be directed to bring calm, clarity, and renewal.
The Personal Journey — Discovery and Deepening
When Reiki entered my life, I was already beginning to recognise that my jewellery and my spiritual work were both forms of energy transmission — yet I didn’t know how to harness their true power. Reiki gave me a tool, a simple and profound way to work from my own frequency.
Through self-practice, I learned to nurture my energy when it became unbalanced or over-extended, to restore flow when too much was directed outward. Reiki became a gentle homecoming — a reminder that the same current flowing through the cosmos flows through me. It showed me that light doesn’t need direction; it simply needs permission.
The Grounding of Light — Reiki as Container
Reiki is more than a personal practice — it’s part of a global wave of compassionate care. Across the world, it is now used alongside conventional medicine in hospitals, cancer centres, and palliative-care settings.
In many places, Reiki sessions are offered to patients before and after surgery, to ease pain, reduce anxiety, and support recovery. Studies from Hartford Hospital in Connecticut — one of the first U.S. hospitals to formally integrate Reiki into its care program — have shown that patients consistently report lower stress, improved sleep, reduced nausea, and faster healing. Similar results have been echoed in oncology wards and hospices around the world, where Reiki brings peace and calm during some of life’s most vulnerable moments.
Increasingly, Reiki is also being used to support people navigating the modern mental-health crisis. Many practitioners, including my own teacher, have seen a growing number of clients seeking relief from stress, burnout, and anxiety. Reiki provides a calm, non-invasive way to regulate the nervous system and reconnect with inner steadiness — a pause in the noise of everyday life.
What these stories reveal is simple: when we invite light to flow, everything else begins to work better — medicines, treatments, breath, and hope. Reiki doesn’t replace science; it harmonises with it. It reminds the body how to rest and receive so that healing can unfold naturally.
For me, Reiki has become that same kind of grounding presence — the quiet force that steadies me when I’m working with high frequencies in readings, meditations, or creative work. It keeps me centered in my body while the energy around me expands. It’s how I stay calm in the current and clear in the channel.
Over time, Reiki stopped being something I practiced and became something I am. It’s now the default setting of my being — the quiet hum that charges my days with clarity and grace. Every breath, every word, every piece of jewellery is an offering of light. I no longer “turn Reiki on”; I simply live within its flow.
If you wish to experience this current for yourself, my Flow of Reiki meditation on Insight Timer was created as an open channel — a remembrance of your own connection to life’s healing flow. May it remind you, as it reminds me, that the capacity to heal and restore balance lives within us all.
