Reiki is a gentle, powerful hands-on technique that uses the Universal Life Force energy around us to heal the body,  mind, emotions and spirit. Reiki utilizes positive healing energy to promote physical, emotional and spiritual health and well-being. Reiki knows where the energy is most needed and sends it there.

 

Reiki can offer deep support for dying people. Reiki is beneficial throughout life but also at this pivotal transition between life and death on many aspects. This energy work can be a powerful addition to hospice or palliative care and can lessen anxiety, fear, and depression allowing someone to feel greater ease, comfort, and peace.

 

Reiki reduces the anxiety and fear that can be associated with growing older or with a terminal diagnosis. This energy work can minimize the side effects of medications and medical procedures and promote overall relaxation. Whether at home, or in a facility, the love and peace that Reiki inspires envelops a dying person and his or her family and encourages a sense of presence and compassion among those involved. Though this energy healing will not cure at this stage of life, the loving presence and healing touch in which Reiki is shared, can be deeply healing. 

Reiki allows us to better handle the uncertainty of life and death.  We can feel warm, loved, and connected to those around us and to ourselves. It helps us to lift our spirits and accept things as they are. 

Emotions and grief run very high at this time, and the use of Reiki can help calm everyone involved, as well as help them get in touch with their feelings in a constructive manner. As we lift each challenging, and sometimes devastating, portion of the grief journey up to the light of Reiki, wonderful miracles of healing and comfort are allowed to shine through and illuminate the new reality of death and the afterlife. Reiki allows us to better handle the uncertainty of life and death.  We can feel warm, loved, and connected to those around us and to ourselves. It helps us to lift our spirits and accept things as they are. 

"Healing does not mean a cure will occur, but that the heart will come to rest."
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