Abstract
This research explored the experiences of healing and transformation within Reiki practitioners. Reiki practitioners are attuned to a traditional and ancient hands-on healing technique which involves the practitioner channelling life-force energy through their hands to heal themselves or others. The methodology of intuitive inquiry was used, and the interview transcripts of eight participants were analysed using Thematic Content Analysis. Eight themes were formed and included: Opening the Door, Shifting Beliefs, Lifestyle Changes, Healing Crisis, Moving Past Doubts, Spiritual Connection and Self-Empowerment. The results were presented through a compound narrative of the participants’ experiences. The findings showed that Reiki practitioners experienced transformation on mental, emotional, physical and spiritual levels. Many of the participants experienced struggles that they learned to interpret as meaningful. They also shifted their beliefs and made lifestyle changes which led to greater self-empowerment.
Highlights
This research was inspired by my personal experiences of healing and self-healing that followed my attunements into the traditional system of Usui Reiki in 2018
Most studies have investigated Reiki’s healing effects on others and found them to include: lower levels of stress; reduction of pain; improved quality of sleep; and clearing of negative emotional patterns and blocks (Gilberti, 2004). This indicates that Reiki may influence patients’ healing process; I found a lack of literature exploring Reiki practitioners’ experiences of self-healing and transformation
The findings showed that Reiki practitioners underwent a journey of self-healing and transformation after their attunement into Reiki
Summary
This research was inspired by my personal experiences of healing and self-healing that followed my attunements into the traditional system of Usui Reiki in 2018. The spiral process suggests a return cycle in which an individual in the later stages of development may return to an earlier developmental stage Both Washburn and Ruumet’s models propose that an embodied integration of the spiritual into the material is crucial for one to access higher levels of transformation. Most studies have investigated Reiki’s healing effects on others and found them to include: lower levels of stress; reduction of pain; improved quality of sleep; and clearing of negative emotional patterns and blocks (Gilberti, 2004) This indicates that Reiki may influence patients’ healing process; I found a lack of literature exploring Reiki practitioners’ experiences of self-healing and transformation. This indicates that Reiki may influence patients’ healing process; I found a lack of literature exploring Reiki practitioners’ experiences of self-healing and transformation. Warber et al (2015) supports this and points out that most of the research into the healer experiences focuses on nurses and “is situated in the nursing literature” (p. 72) and “suggest[s] that relatively little research has been undertaken with the specific aim of understanding practitioner perspectives of healing” (p. 75)
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