What Will I Feel When I Receive Reiki
The sensations, the energetic shifts and the extraordinary experiences that unfold.
Reiki is universal life-force energy, an intelligent, loving and harmonising energy that flows through all living things. Through Reiki healing, we consciously connect with this energy to restore energetic balance, release disturbances, replenish vitality and support the body's innate capacity for healing, while nurturing harmony across the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual dimensions of our being.
What Will I Feel When I Receive Reiki?
And what is happening when you feel absolutely nothing?
One of the questions I am often asked is, “What should I expect to feel when receiving Reiki?”
My answer is that Reiki is a deeply personal energetic experience, and what you feel during a treatment is only the beginning.
You may experience warmth, coolness, tingling, numbness, pulsations or gentle vibrations. Perhaps a current travelling down your spine, sensations around your head or a beautiful feeling of energy moving through your body.
These sensations can arise anywhere, internally or externally. They may last seconds, hours or longer.
You may feel emotional, wonderfully light, deeply peaceful or so relaxed that you fall asleep.
And you may feel absolutely nothing.
You do not have to consciously feel Reiki energy for the healing experience to unfold.
What happens when you fall asleep during Reiki?
This is one of the most beautiful aspects of receiving Reiki.
As your conscious mind rests, Reiki continues to flow. Your awareness does not have to remain awake or actively engaged.
From the perspective of Reiki healing, the energy continues to support harmony across your aura, chakras and wider energy field, while engaging the deeper dimensions of your being.
During this restful state, several experiences can unfold:
Energetic harmonisation: Reiki supports balance and flow throughout your energy field.
Deeper energetic clearing: Longstanding patterns and energetic disturbances are given space to shift and realign.
Emotional processing: Feelings that have been held beneath conscious awareness may surface, soften or release.
Subconscious awareness: Old beliefs and patterns can become clearer, creating space for new choices.
Dreams and intuitive insights: Some recipients awaken with vivid dreams, fresh perspectives or a deeper sense of inner knowing.
Deep restoration: The body settles into rest, supporting relaxation, calm and a renewed sense of wellbeing.
You may sleep through the treatment, but you do not miss the Reiki experience.
Reiki continues beyond the treatment
The experience of Reiki does not end when your session ends. The energetic journey continues to unfold as you return to everyday life.
People have shared remarkable experiences following Reiki, particularly through consecutive treatments.
Some living with longstanding physical difficulties describe renewed sensations, greater mobility or abilities they had believed were lost. Others report improvements in their wellbeing, vitality, physical comfort and emotional resilience.
And the changes are not always physical.
Recipients describe greater clarity, renewed confidence, changes in relationships and unexpected opportunities. Sometimes the shift is immediate. Sometimes its significance becomes apparent over the following days and weeks.
The depth of my Reiki practice
As a Reiki Master Teacher, my work is rooted in Japanese Usui Reiki Ryōhō and Western Usui Shiki Ryōhō.
Through Reiji-hō, I receive intuitive energetic guidance. Through Byōsen Reikan-hō, I perceive and respond to energetic disturbances, including the subtle expressions of Hibiki.
My practice also embraces multidimensional energetic perception, channeling, intuitive knowing, conscious presence and distance Reiki healing.
Each treatment is a unique energetic encounter, honouring the whole person and the unfolding flow of Reiki.
What should you expect?
Expect a welcoming space where you can release the need to do, achieve or hold everything together.
Bring your intentions. Allow your body to rest. Let your conscious mind become quiet.
You do not need to manufacture sensations, stay awake or understand every energetic movement.
Reiki is not limited by what your conscious mind can perceive.
And sometimes, the most extraordinary part of the experience is what you discover afterwards.
Whether you are drawn to a single Reiki treatment or a personalised series of sessions, I welcome you to experience the depth of Reiki healing at Soulspace Healing.
Come as you are. Rest deeply. Receive fully. Let Reiki flow. 💗
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Bola Abimbola is a Reiki Master Teacher, Quantum Reiki Practitioner, an Akashic Record Practitioner, Speaker, Author, Teacher, and Energy Coach for High Performers, Host of the Daily Soul Bytes Show
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