Can Reiki Help With Anxiety?
8.2 Million Adults Suffered with Anxiety in 2013
How can we help?
What is Anxiety?
Anxiety is a type of fear usually associated with the thought of a threat or something going wrong in the future, but can also arise from something happening right now.
Unnatural levels of anxiety may be related to blockages or disturbances in the individual’s energy pathways. Reiki seeks to unblock energy and restore normal flow in order to support the body’s ability to heal itself.
What is Reiki and How Does it Work?
Reiki originated in Japan in the 1800s. The word Reiki comes from the Japanese words “rei” (universal) and “ki” (life energy). It is a non-invasive treatment, using gentle yet powerful hands-on techniques.
During this complementary treatment, the practitioners place their hands on or just above different areas of the body. Working on many different energy levels, reiki is based on the principle that all living beings have energy fields that support their health and vitality. Reiki produces a deep cleansing effect on the mind, body, spirit and emotions.
Physical, mental and emotional illnesses can be as a result of our energy becoming blocked due to:-
- emotional or physical trauma
- a physical injury
- negative thoughts & feelings such as fear, worry, doubt, anger, anxiety
- lack of good nutrition
- lifestyle and/or relationships
- lack of love for yourself or others.
Like acupuncture and reflexology, reiki helps to release stuck energy, thereby allowing our body to activate its own natural ability to heal.
People who have had a reiki treatment have described it as deeply relaxing and have likened it to having 3-4 hours’ sleep.
Reiki is an excellent treatment to help you when facing physical, mental and emotional challenges.
Reiki is a treatment that you can have either in-person or as a Distant Reiki Session
(Read the science behind reiki here: https://drdavidhamilton.com/is-there-science-on-reiki/)
Reiki Employee Wellbeing Workshops
One simple and effective way to reduce stress in the workplace is to invest in your employees. They are the cornerstone of your organisation and their health and wellness is paramount to the stability, success and growth of your business. You may have premises, computers, equipment and a list of potential customers but without motivated, engaged, ambitious employees you will struggle to sell your products or services.
Offering regular Reiki sessions to employees as a stress management tool will help to reduce workplace stress and anxiety. When stress is managed effectively, employee performance increases, absenteeism is reduced and morale improves.
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Making your Health Insurance Plan Pay
In the UK many organisations (large and small) included a health insurance plan as part of employees’ benefits package. These plans usually include dental health, opticians, health screening, hospital in-patient visits, chiropractors etc. Most of these treatments support physical conditions that if untreated may result in absenteeism. Over the last five years or so there …
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How can I reduce my stress and anxiety levels?
I am passionate about helping people to live their life with less stress. Empowering them to put their mental health and well-being on their to-do list is what I love doing. Over the past 15 years whilst working as a complementary therapist I have worked with hundreds of people from different walks of life and …
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What is Distant Reiki?
If you’ve had an in-person Reiki treatment with me, you’ll know how relaxing it is and how energised and calm you feel after it. My treatment rooms are all designed to give you a relaxing atmosphere to have your treatment in. As you lie on my couch, I link up with the Reiki energy and …
Benefits of Reiki
Reduce physical pain such as a headache
Increase feelings of gratitude & wholeness
Soothes negative emotions of anger, anxiety & sadness
Aid sleep and physical relaxation
Help with the healing process after surgery
Increases creativity & mental focus
Sharon Taylor –
Clinical Reflexologist & Reiki Practitioner Near You!
Sharon is a health and wellness practitioner and works with busy professionals to help them manage their stress and anxiety levels and put their needs on their to-do lists.
After experiencing workplace stress, anxiety and burnout, Sharon was advised to try holistic therapies to help manage her symptoms. Amazed by her results, Sharon decided to train as a complementary therapist.
Using her many therapy qualifications, her vast life experience and her listening skills, Sharon empowers clients by offering treatments and workshops to help them manage their health and wellness long-term.
When not working Sharon loves spending time with family and friends doing anything that involves eating; she loves an afternoon tea. Trying new crafts and different therapeutic treatments are also high on Sharon’s agenda.
Effects of Reiki on Stressed Employees
Reiki – Reducing office stress & absenteeism
Due to an array of physical, emotional, intellectual and behavioural issues within the workplace, a programme of regular Reiki sessions was trailed.
During this 90-day programme, four participating employees received a 20-minute chair Reiki session every two to three weeks.
The desired outcomes agreed were:
to reduce office stress
reduce production mistakes
reduce unscheduled sickness absences.
At the end of the 90-day programme they found:
on a scale of 1-10, office stress reduced from 9 to 2.5
errors reduced from 55 to 10
sick days reduced from 20 to 5 days.
The results of the study showed that reiki had a large effect on performance and concentration.
Reiki – Wellbeing for Carers
Data from Employee Wellness Programmes serving healthcare workers & carers found they make the highest numbers of anxiety-related calls to the programme when compared to other groups of workers. They found that healthcare workers experience more negative impacts on their health than the general population. They have a 9% higher usage of medical care, higher drug costs, higher hospital admission rates for obesity (46%), depression (20%) and asthma (12%).
Chronic workplace stress can affect employees in the physical, emotional, intellectual and behavioural areas
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