Monday 6 June 2011

Using Reiki in Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy

From time to time I get asked what connection there is between Reiki, which is an energy healing model, and talking based therapies like psychotherapy and hypnotherapy.

In brief -  Reiki enables the practitioner to practice self care, and therefore in the first place it helps the therapist to be more stable and with better wellbeing.

Secondly practicing Reiki or Chi Gung exercises in the therapy space prior to talking therapies grounds not only the therapist, but also the space itself. This is especially true in bare foot practice spaces like the Salisbury Centre and The Health Life Centre -  my two practice bases in Edinburgh.

Thirdly when using a hypnotic process, you should as a professional therapist be monitoring the client carefully, monitoring body tension, skin colour, breathing rate etc. While doing so, and maintaining either the relaxation process, or the suggestion process, it is quite straight forward to send positive Reiki energy into the space, and to the client.

Finally (for now) whenever you think about a client, email them, call them, note them in the diary, senda reminder or just think about planning a session, you have the perfect opportunity to send healing Reiki energy.

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