12/29/2025
Reiki helps nervous system regulation by shifting the body from "fight-or-flight" (sympathetic) to "rest-and-digest" (parasympathetic) mode, creating a deep sense of calm that lowers heart rate, reduces stress hormones like cortisol, and promotes healing. By providing a safe, still space, Reiki allows the nervous system to release stored trauma and stress, improving sleep, reducing anxiety, and fostering emotional balance, often described as feeling centered and peaceful.
How Reiki Regulates the Nervous System
Activates Parasympathetic Response:
Gentle, hands-on or near-body energy work encourages the body to enter a relaxed state, counteracting chronic stress.
Reduces Stress Markers:
Studies show Reiki can lower heart rate, decrease blood pressure, and increase heart rate variability (HRV), a key indicator of a healthy, flexible nervous system.
Releases Stored Emotion:
It creates saftey for unprocessed emotions and trauma to surface and release gently, helping the body process experiences without re-triggering the system.
Soothes Overactive Intrusive Thinking Loops:
By calming the brain and body, Reiki helps quiet anxiety and mental loops, supporting those with PTSD, burnout, and chronic stress.
What to Expect During a Reiki Session
You lie down, fully clothed, on a treatment table. The practitioner places hands lightly on or above the body in specifichsnf positions which calm the nervous system. You might feel warmth, tingling, or just deep relaxation, even falling asleep.
Emotions like tears or clear, precise thoughts with clarity surface as energy shifts. Afterwards, drink water, rest, and integrate the experience. Beta overactive brainwaves are temporarily replaced with theta brainwaves.
Benefits for the Nervous System
Deep relaxation and sense of peace.
Reduced anxiety and overwhelm.
Improved sleep and digestion.
Greater resilience and clarity.
Supports trauma recovery and integration.
While Reiki is often described as energy work, its effects are deeply physiological — calming the nervous system and supporting the body’s innate regulation.
Reiki is a gentle yet profound practice that encourages the body to return to its natural state of balance. Through intentional touch, it activates the body’s relaxation response — helping to reduce stress, quiet the mind, and restore equilibrium on every level.
Each session with me offers a moment of stillness in a world that rarely pauses — a space where your system can shift from doing to be-ing, and from tension to renewal, and behind every moment of stillness, there’s a physiological shift — a return to balance that modern research continues to explore.
I specialise is authentic Japanese Reiki and am accredited to practice by The Jikiden Reiki Institude of Kyoto and to practice and teach by The International House of Reiki. If you’re curious about Reiki please connect with me. I am happy to answer your questions. Book a session and we can also chat about how Reiki might be able to help you and begin treatment right away.
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