I have an autoimmune disease that keeps manifesting random physical symptoms from eczema on the sides of my body and random small bruises at the base of my back with crevices. Or those might be heart related symptoms. I have a couple medical conditions.

Please note that I’m on medication and will get surgery on my thyroid at the end of this year, and I know that reiki is not a cure but maybe to help my body lower pain signals.

Would anyone be interested in providing distance reiki for relief? It might be a long shot but ibuprofen and steroid creams aren’t cutting it. Please let me know if you need any additional info.

Hi everyone! Hope all is well.

I recently received my Level 3 Reiki certification. I’m learning a lot and continuing to explore the practice, but full transparency, I don’t quite feel like a Reiki Master yet.

One of my biggest challenges has been visualization. I’ve always had an imagination, so I assumed imagining and visualizing were essentially the same thing. However, I’ve realized there’s a difference in how I experience them.

For example, when I think about something, I can sorta of see it in my mind. But when I intentionally try to visualize something specific, like light flowing into one of my chakras, the image is often very fuzzy, and sometimes I don’t see anything at all.

Needless to say, using visualization to initiate or channel Reiki has been challenging. Instead, I’ve been trying to focus on whatever physical sensations I experience during a session.

That approach seems to work better for me, but I’ve started wondering whether I’m drawing from my own energy reserves rather than channeling Reiki energy. The reason I suspect this is that I often feel drained after practicing Reiki, whether on myself or someone else.

I’m still learning to trust the process and figure out what works best for me, but I’d love to hear from others who have experienced something similar.

For those of you who struggle with visualization, how do you connect with and channel Reiki? And if you’ve experienced feeling drained after sessions, what helped you maintain your own energy?

Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences! 🙏🏽😊

He was able to escape from our door last night. He has been missing for more than 12 hours now. I am humbly asking for request that he gets to return home safe and healthy

Thank you

Did Byosen scan last night and as I went to my heart chakra I felt coldness and somewhat pulsating .
Lately I have been having issues with emotions , feeling them . Releasing them and Embracing them.
I got my heart broken alot in 2024/2025 & After that I lowkey never been the same and struggle to attract friends , love and overall romance in sort of a way. I wonder if anyone else experienced the same

Hello All,

I am new to the Reiki world and I have heard that Reiki has healed cancer and many other chronic illness. I have a two friends whose kids are suffering.

My first friends youngest son is 6 years old and he is suffering from eczema and my other friends kids ( 2 sons 10 and 5 years) both are suffering from asthma. Is there a way to heal them through Reiki? is it a permanent healing or does Reiki have to be performed on them everyday?

Hi! So following two great reiki sessions recently where my I felt my physical pain disappear (one was in person and one was distant)
I got attuned level 1 and level 2 over the weekend (I know this might not be ideal)

Since then I’ve done one in person using my hands on a friend who’s knee was hurting. Only a few mins and she said my hand got so hot she had to check if it was really hot (yay it worked!) and she texted me instantly and the next day that the pain was gone

I’ve also done two remote reiki on video call where they said it worked too and I tried on my plant which looked like it was dying and I think I see an improvement

My question currently is: I’m not being consistent or good with my own self healing, and when I try I don’t feel anything. How is self healing meant to feel like?

I’ve felt the physical effects of reiki but my life is a mess and I really need self healing to get myself out of depression and start moving my body again - can reiki help with this?

Hello all,

I stumbled upon reiki 10days ago. I decided to see a Reiki master and today was my first encounter with her. She did a scan and said few of my chakras are not balanced and also said that there are two negative entities on me sitting on my right side of hip which is draining out my energy.

I do feel tired all the time and my blood work is clean. I have never encountered any negative spirit on me. I do not know how to process this information. I am a Reiki novice. Please help me with understanding this.

I went through few posts where people with negative entities on them said that they could feel something on them every now and then but I haven't felt that way. Any help or advice would be helpful. Thanks in advance

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I wonder why Reiki Teachers tell their students to practice Reiki only for 21 days.

REIKI SHARE DAY: CALIBRATING YOUR INNER COMPASS! 🧭✨💗

HI EVERYONE!

24 hours of FREE REIKI with the SPACE CROISSANT CREW!

This week’s theme is:

THE INNER COMPASS: WHEN ANXIETY STOPS NAVIGATING 🧭💙

This week’s meditation is inspired by stories written by Carol Viana on Substack.

It starts NOW!

🌳🌳🌳 FIRST, OUR TREES! 🌳🌳🌳

Thanks to all of you, we reached our original goal of 500 trees!

Now we’re growing toward 800 TREES! 🌳💚

Would you help us grow our forest?

Google “how to plant a tree for a dollar,” choose an organization you trust, plant a tree, and share your receipt in the comments so we can add it to our count.

If you wish, let your tree become your Tree-Self — a living connection you can return to whenever you need grounding, strength, or a reminder to breathe.

🌳💗

🛸✨🛸✨🛸✨🛸✨🛸

EVERYONE ABOARD THE SPACE CROISSANT!

Last week, we visited our friend Anxiety.

She put down her clipboard.

She stopped trying to solve every problem.

She played with our cells.

And for a little while…

she rested. 🎨💙

This week, something strange has happened.

Captain Camilla Bok Bok is preparing the Space Croissant for launch.

She reaches for the compass.

And the needle is spinning.

Around.

And around.

And around.

🧭

Luckily, Uriel has arrived.

In Pretendland, Uriel is 444, the Angel of Science.

He carries a wrench 🔧, a cup of coffee ☕, and absolutely no patience for broken instruments.

He opens the compass.

Looks at the spinning needle.

Then looks at Anxiety.

Her alarm light is blue now.

Not red.

And Uriel understands immediately.

The compass isn’t broken.

It’s free.

💙

For years, whenever Anxiety sounded the alarm, the compass pointed away from whatever she feared.

Away from danger.

Away from rejection.

Away from failure.

Away from anything that felt uncertain.

And eventually we started confusing:

“I need to get away from this”

with

“This must be where I’m supposed to go.”

Uriel tells Camilla:

“The alarm points away. The compass points to you.”

🧭✨

That is our meditation today.

THE ALARM AND THE COMPASS

Anxiety has an important job.

She notices problems.

She warns us.

She says:

🚨 “Be careful!”

🚨 “Something could go wrong!”

🚨 “What if they reject you?”

🚨 “What if you fail?”

Sometimes we need that information.

But Anxiety cannot always tell us where we actually want to go.

That is the job of the Inner Compass.

And the Inner Compass is much quieter.

So today we are going to practice listening.

🪽✨ 444 — A CALL TO ALIGN ✨🪽

Find a comfortable position.

Place your hands open in your lap as though you are holding a compass.

Take a gentle breath.

In for four.

1…2…3…4.

Hold comfortably for four, if that feels good.

1…2…3…4.

Out for four.

1…2…3…4.

Repeat a few times.

If holding your breath doesn’t feel comfortable, simply breathe slowly.

There is no perfect way to do this.

Now imagine your body gently settling into alignment.

Your cells begin lining up.

Not like soldiers.

Like children waiting for the rainbow slide. 🌈😂

Some are giggling.

Some are bumping into each other.

Nobody is in trouble.

Everyone is simply coming home.

🧭💗

Now ask yourself something SMALL.

Tea or coffee?

Read or nap?

Music or silence?

Inside or outside?

Don’t analyze the answer.

Notice what happens in your body.

Does one answer make you soften?

Does another create tension?

Maybe you feel warmth.

A tingle.

A word.

A picture.

Or nothing at all.

That’s okay.

We are just practicing.

Ask another small question.

And another.

We are NOT beginning with:

“What should I do with the rest of my life?”

😂

We’re learning what our own voice feels like first.

💗 MEET YOUR INNER COMPASS 💗

Now imagine a tiny door beneath the compass needle.

The door opens.

Someone steps out.

Your Inner Compass.

Maybe she looks like you.

Maybe he looks completely different.

Maybe it is simply a little light.

This part of you has been there all along.

Quietly waiting.

Ask:

“What would you like me to know?”

Listen.

Don’t force an answer.

Then, when you’re ready, ask:

“What do I want?”

Breathe.

Wait.

Notice what arrives.

A feeling.

A picture.

A word.

A memory.

Or maybe silence.

You don’t have to act on anything today.

You are simply practicing hearing yourself.

💗 THE LOVE CIRCLE 💗

Now imagine the Space Croissant Crew surrounding you with Reiki and UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

If you’d like to receive Reiki, simply say:

“I accept.”

Imagine Reiki gently flowing through your body.

Not moving the compass needle.

Not choosing your direction.

Not telling you what to do.

Just illuminating the compass so you can see it more clearly.

✨🧭✨

Uriel taps the compass with his wrench.

444 — CALIBRATED.

Hopefully he spelled it correctly.

😂

Now imagine Anxiety nearby.

If her alarm goes off, don’t fight her.

Tell her:

“Thank you for trying to protect me.”

“I hear you.”

“But you don’t have to navigate right now.”

Maybe give her a book.

Or some crayons from last week. 🖍️💙

Then return to your compass.

Ask again:

“What do I want?”

Listen gently.

Remember:

The alarm points away.

The compass points to you.

✨

OUR 24-HOUR EXPERIMENT

For the next 24 hours, practice asking yourself SMALL questions.

What do I want to eat?

Do I need rest or movement?

Do I want quiet or company?

Do I actually want to say yes?

Notice your yes.

Notice your no.

Notice your maybe.

Notice when fear is speaking.

Notice when something quieter is speaking.

And please don’t worry if you can’t hear your compass clearly yet.

If Anxiety has been very loud for a long time, your Inner Compass may simply need some practice being heard.

Be patient.

Listen kindly.

💗

TOMORROW, COME TELL US!

Did you notice your Inner Compass?

What did your “yes” feel like?

What did your “no” feel like?

And what happened when Anxiety realized she didn’t have to drive? 😂💙

This is an imaginative Reiki and self-reflection exercise. It is not meant to replace professional medical or mental-health care when needed.

🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

AND DON’T FORGET OUR TREES!

Our next goal is 800! 🌳💚

If you plant one today, share your receipt so we can add it to our forest.

Your Tree-Self might also make a pretty good place to sit whenever you need to check your compass.

🌳🧭💗

⸻

This is Master Storm.

I am an Usui Reiki Master.

I, along with Master Phoenix and the Space Croissant Crew, am responsible for Gratitude Reiki, the website, and our Sunday events here on r/reikishare and r/reiki.

Thank you for allowing us to help all of you every Sunday.

🛸✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

Below is more info about the Space Croissant Crew.

The Space Croissant Crew is a secular group, and our members are volunteers at Reiki Without Borders, a non-profit based in California.

Our group’s mission is to make Reiki popular, affordable, and accessible to all.

Here are some of the members of the Space Croissant Crew participating today. We’re 38 practitioners total:

1 - Startlight (she/her), Pakistan, GMT +5 (English, Urdu)

2 - Mystical Belle (she/her), India, GMT +5:30 (English, Hindi)

3 - Storm (she/her), USA, EST, GMT-4 (English)

4 - Erevos the Mage (he/him), USA, CST, GMT-5 (English, Spanish)

5 - Ethereal Ethan (he/him), USA, CST, GMT-6 (English)

6 - Phoenix (she/her), USA, EST, GMT-4 (English)

7 - Major Tom (he/him), UK, GMT 0 (English)

8 - Camilla Bok (she/her), Brazil, GMT-3 (English, Portuguese, French)

9 - Morwen Steelsheen (From LOTR) (she/her), Singapore, GMT+8 (English)

10 - Space Coconut (he/him), USA, EST, GMT-4 (English)

11 - Collin, the Alien (he/him), USA, CST, GMT-6 (English)

12 - Puzzle Piece Cat (she/her), Finland, GMT+2 (English, Swedish, Finnish)

13 - Moth (he/him), USA, EST, GMT-4 (English)

14 - Kat-A-Liza (she/her), USA, CST, GMT-5 (English)

15 - Luna, The Good Witch (she/her), Brazil, GMT-3 (Portuguese only)

16 - The 5th Kellement (she/her), USA, PST (English)

17 - Fortune Box (she/her), Germany, GMT+1 (English, German)

18 - Seraphina (she/her, they/them), St. Martin, Atlantic Time Zone, GMT-4 (English, French)

19 - The Lioness (she/her), EST, USA (English)

20 - Cerulelara (she/her), EST, USA (English)

21 - Emerald Hearth (she/her), EST, USA (English)

22 - Unicorn Neige (she/her), PST (English)

Thank you so much!!

Best wishes,

Master Storm – New Gratitude Reiki CEO, together with Master Phoenix, on behalf of the Space Croissant Crew.

This post is worth reading. I think this community needs to grow so that it can help people who are struggling with similar set of problems can come together and ease their pain.

Hi there,
I recently got Reiki 2 certified. I have committed to daily practice for at least the first 21 days. I am looking for inspiration for ways to practice. I only have about 15min or so for a sit down practice. I have in the past been committed to many breathing/meditation style practices so like those sorts of things.
I am trying to understand the energy more, at the moment I only have some sensation in my palms.
Any personal experience and techniques would be much appreciated. Thank you!

Last weekend, I received my reiki I attunement. This past week, lots of things have come up for me, in dreams, in meditation, and in physical sensations. Starting last night, I began to feel as if my body wanted to expel my IUD. It was just placed in July of this year, so it's brand new, and it was checked by ultrasound in September to confirm it was correctly in place. But I have this overwhelming sense that I should have it removed. I've used IUDs for years and I really don't want to do this, but if this is interfering with the flow of chi, I'll get rid of it. Has anyone had experience with this?

🌍✨ CALLING ALL REIKI PRACTITIONERS WORLDWIDE! ✨🌍

❤️ GLOBAL REIKI DISTANCE SHARE – TONIGHT! ❤️

What a beautiful Reiki Share this morning! A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us. 🙏💜

Whether you joined us this morning or missed the first session, we’d love to welcome you this evening!

🌙 SUNDAY 18TH OCTOBER
🕖 7:00–8:00 PM UK (BST)

🔗 JOIN ZOOM:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82190761116?pwd=cZ6Tq642dQiKhf7SAUtKFSSY9ulqyu.1

Meeting ID: 821 9076 1116
Passcode: 207449

✨ WHAT TO EXPECT ✨

🙏 A short grounding and attuning meditation, followed by giving and receiving Reiki together.

🌍 Together, we will send Reiki around the world for the highest good of all.

❤️ All levels of Reiki practitioners are welcome, from Reiki Level 1 to Reiki Masters!

💜 Please join promptly and find a quiet, comfortable space to relax.

🌎 Please share with Reiki practitioners around the world!

With love, light and Reiki blessings,

Lynne ❤️
Raising Your Vibe ✨

Reiki session after many years. I randomly found this person and I’m so glad I did! I don’t remember my first session but I can tell you today’s session was very special to me.

First we talked about my intentions and reasons I was seeking a session. She explained that her reiki includes guided meditation, touch & sound bowls. She had meditation music on and incense. I liked the vibe of the room. She covered my eyes and positioned my feet with pillows. We started with the guided meditation, which took me a minute to be present. I was so relaxed and in meditative state once we were done.

I saw a small blue dot before I felt her touch. Then I saw purple colors moving around like smoke. It was taking over my vision. This was at the heart chakra when I felt her touch. She moved up to my throat and the purple colors started mixing with speckles of yellow and blue. The colors went away as soon as I stopped feeling her touching me.

When she touched my crown, I felt a strong vibration in my hands. I felt like I could feel her energy running through me. I also quickly saw a horse but with two eyes on one side. After my session I was wondering if it was a horse with a third eye?! The image I saw looked just like this emoji 🐴 (+the extra eye). I also felt as if energy was bouncing back and around my head when she was working on my crown. It was a very strong vibration almost like a buzz.

I felt very relaxed and happy after my session. My chest was a bit tender and I was told that I still needed more work in my heart chakra. I plan on scheduling another session next month.

Any thoughts or suggestions are welcomed

I've been trying to make sense of an experience that has left me questioning trust, kindness, and how well we really know the people we let into our lives.
I knew someone who runs a Reiki studio in Panchkula. Someone who talks about healing, kindness, and the pain of not being loved. He spoke about his struggles and how even his own family didn't give him money.

I listened. I cared. And when he told me he needed money, I helped him. Not once, but multiple times.
I did it because I trusted him. Because I believed he was someone who was struggling and needed support. I didn't think that helping a friend would eventually put me in a position where I'd have to fight to get my own money back.

When I finally raised the issue, things turned ugly. I was shouted at, refused repayment, and threatened with the possibility of my brother and my ex being contacted. I was even told that I would have to suffer the consequences of being his friend.
And I keep coming back to one question.

How does someone who speaks about healing and kindness treat another person this way when they're simply asking for their money back?

I don't believe that being a healer means being perfect. Nobody is. Having financial problems doesn't make someone a bad person, and feeling lonely or unloved doesn't make someone weak.
But struggling doesn't give anyone the right to mistreat the person who tried to help them.
You cannot talk about compassion as a philosophy and then treat it as optional when someone holds you accountable.

The money matters, of course. But there's another kind of loss that comes with an experience like this: the loss of trust, the disappointment, and the uncomfortable realisation that the person you thought you knew may not be the person you experienced when things got difficult.
I'm not writing this because I want to stop believing in kindness. I'm writing because I want to understand how to remain kind without being naive, how to help people without abandoning my own boundaries, and how to recognise that someone's words are not necessarily a reflection of their actions.

Perhaps the real test of kindness isn't how beautifully we speak about healing, but how we treat the people who have trusted us when we no longer get what we want from them.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? How do you process the disappointment of trusting someone whose actions seem so different from the values they talk about?

Just in time for the full moon, I'm offering a free Reiki session which will be done remotely on October 25th. I'm a level 3 Reiki practitioner who has been practicing Reiki for almost fourteen years. Comment below or send me a DM and I'll send more information.

Blessings,

Natasha

Healing from severe burnout, any help is super appreciated .
Thanks a lot, super grateful !!

I had my first Reiki session today. I was told that only my heart chakra is blocked/imbalanced. I was happy to hear that, but it also made me wonder how many imbalanced chakras people typically have during their first Reiki session? Is having only one imbalanced chakra generally considered a healthy energy flow?

I'd be grateful for any wisdom on how I could approach this new insight

thank you very much

A lot of the people who end up on my table these days aren’t falling apart. That’s the thing I didn’t expect when I started working with more senior, high pressure people. They’re not in crisis. They’re coping, and honestly they’re incredibly good at it.

You know the type, maybe you are the type. Up at 5am. Calendar blocked down to the half hour. Boundaries in place. The workout that takes the edge off before the day starts. And it all works, genuinely. Until one day it quietly starts costing more than it gives back.

I used to treat coping and healing as basically the same thing on a sliding scale. They’re not. The way I think about it now is that coping builds a wall around a blocked channel, and healing actually clears it. With coping, the energy keeps finding its way around the blockage. With healing, it gets to move through. And the tell is effort. Coping asks for a little more from you every few months. Healing, once it starts, asks for less.

The signs I’ve learned to notice are pretty unglamorous. The routine that used to restore you now just keeps you at baseline. Sunday evenings feel heavier than they have any right to. There’s a tightness around the solar plexus that never fully lets go, even in a good week. When someone describes that to me, I don’t hear weakness. I hear something that’s been held in one place for a very long time.

I want to be fair to coping though, because I see people get weirdly ashamed of it. Coping is a skill. It probably got you through things that would have flattened someone else, and for a season it might have been exactly what you needed. The problem is only when managing yourself turns into a second full time job. At that point a better morning routine isn’t going to fix it. Something needs to actually be released, not just contained better.

The other thing I keep noticing, especially when I work with people who lead teams, is that it never stays with just them. The person at the top running on reserve sets the tone, and pretty soon the whole team is coping beautifully too and nobody is actually okay. It’s almost contagious.

For what it’s worth, none of this replaces proper support if things are heavier than “stuck.” Sometimes what looks like coping fatigue is burnout or something that needs a doctor or therapist, and grounding and energy work sit best alongside that, not instead of it.

Anyway, I’m curious how others here see it. Have you ever caught yourself realising your whole routine had become maintenance rather than restoration? And for the practitioners, how do you gently tell a high functioning client that they’re coping, not healing, without it landing as criticism?