REIKI IS MEDITATION IS REIKI
As Reiki grows in popularity, people ask, "how does Reiki compare to meditation?"
Headspace meditation says, "Meditation isn’t about becoming a different person, a new person, or even a better person. It’s about training in awareness and getting a healthy sense of perspective. You’re not trying to turn off your thoughts or feelings. You’re learning to observe them without judgment. And eventually, you may start to better understand them as well."
As a complementary healing modality, Reiki helps clear and restore balance to the energy body by clearing and releasing energy blockages. It releases stress, relieves pain, and promotes self-healing. As a result, people experience a state of deep relaxation.
During both Reiki and meditation, people enter a state of relaxed awareness called, "alpha." In this state, the mind is clear and receptive to information from the higher or subconscious mind. In the alpha state, people are able to make connections and realizations that may be missed in a conscious state.
Like Reiki, meditation has been an integral part of many cultures. Records indicate that meditation was practiced in ancient Greece and India more than 5,000 years ago.
While meditation is widely accepted as part of religious dogma, Reiki is not associated with a specific religion. In other words, your beliefs have nothing to do with Reiki or its influence --- one does not need to believe in Reiki for it to work.
Meditation is one of the proven alternative therapies that in recent years have been classified under mind-body medicine therapies. It is continuing to gain popularity as more and more health experts believe that there is more to the connection between mind and body than modern medicine can explain. More and more doctors are prescribing meditation as a way to lower blood pressure, to improve exercise performance, to help people with asthma to breathe easier, to relieve insomnia, and generally relax everyday stresses of life.
Traditionally, both meditation and Reiki have been used for spiritual growth, but more recently, they are valuable tools for managing stress and finding a place of peace, relaxation, and tranquility in a demanding fast-paced world. A common benefit of Reiki is a shift from 'victim' mentality to a more empowered sense of self. When this happens, people are more likely to participate in their own healing process, as well as take positive actions toward their own best interests.
Some other benefits of Reiki and meditation are:
Physical and emotional healing
Easing stress, fear and grief
Developing intuition
Deep relaxation
Exploring higher realities
Finding higher guidance
Unlocking creativity
Manifesting change
Emotional cleansing and balancing
Deepening concentration and insight
Both practices counter stress and tension. In his book Awakening the Buddha Within, Lama Surya Das writes, “Meditation is not just something to do; it’s a method of being and seeing an unconditional way of living moment by moment. In other words, learning to live in this moment because this moment is all we have." Likewise, Reiki allows one to just ‘be’ in the present without distractions, because the present is all we have.