26/05/2026
For a very long time, I stayed quiet about Reiki. Coming from a clinical background, I was cautious about speaking openly about energy work because I know it can be misunderstood. But over the years, through both personal experience and working with clients, I’ve seen how deeply powerful simple energetic support, relaxation, and nervous system regulation can be.
Reiki isn’t about magic or fixing people, for me, it’s about creating space for the body and mind to soften, rebalance, and heal. Reiki works on the understanding that everything in the body carries energy …. every cell, every organ, every emotion, every thought. We are not just physical beings; we are energetic beings too.
Our bodies constantly communicate through electrical impulses, magnetic fields, hormones, vibration, and frequency. When our energy is flowing freely, we feel calmer, clearer, lighter, emotionally balanced, and more connected to ourselves and our environment.
Over time, stress, trauma, grief, fear, illness, emotional suppression, exhaustion, and even constant overstimulation can create energetic congestion within the body. These “blockages” are not always something we can physically see, but we feel them. They show up as tension, anxiety, emotional heaviness, fatigue, brain fog, disrupted sleep, pain, or a feeling of being disconnected from ourselves. The body tightens in response to stress, and the nervous system moves into survival mode.
Reiki gently supports the body back into a state of balance. It is not about forcing or fixing; it’s about allowing. During Reiki, the body often shifts from a stressed sympathetic state into a parasympathetic state … the body’s natural healing and restorative mode.
As the nervous system relaxes, breathing deepens, muscles soften, and the body no longer feels the need to “hold on” so tightly.
When energetic blockages begin to release, people often describe feeling lighter, warmer, calmer, emotional, peaceful, more expansive or deeply relaxed. This is because stagnant energy starts to move again.
Our vibration is influenced by everything we experience:
🌿our thoughts
🌿emotions
🌿environment
🌿stress levels
🌿relationships
🌿nutrition
🌿sleep
🌿self-worth
🌿and the energy we surround ourselves with
Higher vibration does not mean being “happy all the time.” It means the body and energy field are functioning in greater harmony and coherence. Emotions such as love, gratitude, compassion, calmness, purpose, and connection tend to create a lighter energetic state within the body, while chronic fear, anger, shame, overwhelm, or emotional suppression can feel heavier and denser energetically.
People often notice that after Reiki they feel more grounded, emotionally clearer, and more able to cope. Their energy feels softer rather than depleted. Others around them can often sense this shift too … even without words.
Animals are incredibly sensitive to energy because they do not rely on language in the same way humans do. They respond to frequency, nervous system regulation, intention, and emotional safety. Animals often instinctively move towards people with calm, balanced energy and will avoid chaotic, dysregulated or heavy energy. They can hear changes in tone, feel tension in the body, and sense emotional states long before words are spoken.
This is why animals will often settle beside someone who is calm and energetically grounded. It’s also why our voice changes when our energy changes. When we are relaxed and regulated, our tone naturally softens, slows, and carries safety. Both humans and animals respond to this instinctively.
Reiki reminds the body of what balance feels like. It creates space for the body, mind, and energy to breathe again … not by adding something unnatural, but by supporting the body back towards its own innate ability to heal, to regulate, and restore itself.
It’s simply beautiful
