When you heal with both the chakras and Reiki energy, it’s possible to achieve greater healing. This is why as a holistic Reiki Master I consciously add chakra work into Reiki healing sessions.
I’ve met many energy healers who strictly adhere to two foundational tenets of energy healing: the centrality of client self-healing and the optimal practitioner posture of a “hollow bone” or a pure open channel. This perspective typically manifests in channeling energy in a semi- or total trance state, remaining silent throughout the session, and offering little or no feedback once the session has concluded. In this way, the wise healing power of Reiki is the sole force in orienting and restoring balance and recovery.
That’s one way to offer healing and there’s nothing wrong with that. And, I wholeheartedly agree with the centrality of the client. This is one reason I include the chakras. They are channels of your life force.
However, I prefer to engage my clients and their whole mind, body, and spirit in their healing process during my sessions. This is the topic of this blog post. I want to demonstrate how I deliberately integrate chakra work into a Reiki session by directly communicating with the client during the session and sharing feedback. I find this enhances healing outcomes as well as bolsters my clients’ self-agency.
Reiki Origins – the Energy, Endocrine System, and Chakra System
A review of the literature on the origins of Reiki reveals scant references to the chakra system. This could be why many Reiki practitioners have only vague familiarity with it.
Nonetheless, evidence suggests Mikao Usui, the founder, was aware of the chakras given his roots in Buddhism, and Japanese Buddhists’ familiarity with them during Usui’s time, the Meiji era from 1868 to 1912 (Petter, Frank Arjava).
The literature is replete with remarks on the relationship between Reiki and the endocrine system. Dr. Usui aimed to balance and improve energy flow to improve endocrine functioning, which would in turn balance and heal the various systems of the body. However, as he was well aware, Reiki energy healing is more diffuse and capable beyond this one pathway through the endocrine system.
Chakra energy and its influence are overlaid onto the primary glands of the body such as the solar plexus (yellow chakra) and the pancreas, the throat chakra and the thyroid, or the crown (purple chakra) and the pineal gland. In addition, the various attributes of each energy center closely correspond to the functions attributed to their affiliated endocrine gland as held by conventional medicine. Thus, the relationship between the endocrine system, chakras, and Reiki is readily apparent.
The Primary Function of the Endocrine System
As noted, the endocrine system is critical to body function, balance, and health. It consists of glands (thyroid, pineal, adrenals, etc) and their associated organs that produce the hormones used to monitor and coordinate important bodily functions such as metabolism, and growth and development. These monitoring and coordination roles point to the system’s significant influence.
Furthermore, an unbalanced, tired, or exhausted endocrine system will eventually, if not immediately, produce poor health outcomes. Of course, the health effects depend on the glands, organs, and person involved. Probably the most widely experienced example, chronic stress, produces adrenal fatigue.
Returning to the chakras, the attributes of energy centers form a consistent but rough mapping with the endocrine system. Within the overall system, the energy centers are more fluid and codependent with each other and contribute to mutually determined outcomes.
However, compared to the endocrine system, the mapping of dysfunction to symptoms is more diffuse and dynamic within the chakra system. It’s a kind of whole mind, body, and spirit experience. For example, stress can result from the root chakra through visceral fear, or solar plexus in the form of unconstructive thoughts and negative limiting beliefs. Stress can also stem from central nervous system imbalance (sacral chakra) and trigger the fight-or-flight response.
How Chakras Enhance My Reiki Healing and Achieve Greater Healing
As mentioned above, Reiki’s healing energy works throughout the mind, body, and spirit. The subtle life force flowing within the energy centers and layers of the aura do as well. Since all energy can be expressed as frequencies, working with both increases the number and character of energy frequencies available and the variety of healing attributes associated with those frequencies.
Seven Ways That Using Chakras and Reiki Together Promote Greater Healing For You
1. Reinforce the Endocrine System’s Rebalancing and Healing Capacities
Welcoming and working with chakra energy can support, reinforce, and orient Reiki’s energetic flow as it rebalances the endocrine system. This can speed up and enhance recovery of body function and well-being.
2. Access More Healing Frequencies and Their Related Healing Properties
Drawing upon Reiki and the life force energy from your energy centers increases the number of healing frequencies available to any given session, and expands the variety of healing properties collectively associated with different frequencies taken collectively.
3. Deepen and Expand Your Understanding of Your Issues – The Causes and Way Forward
Each of your energy centers uniquely expresses and influences the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of a specific imbalance. Knowing the attributes and influence of each center involved reveals important information to both the healer and the client.
The knowledge can explain how one aspect of the self relates to and affects other aspects of the self, or how multiple parts and forces relate to the specific imbalance and symptoms in question.
The greater awareness expands the understanding of what is currently being expressed and experienced, and why. And, this stimulates insights and greater healing.
4. Initiate Releases and Shifts In Subconscious and Subtle Energies to Create Greater Healing
Big releases and shifts can occur when a client makes connections between the energy, interpretation, and the personally meaningful story that it uncovers.
Interestingly and importantly, your subconscious and subtle energy hold aspects of your story and these can be released and/or rewritten without the need to reexperience or explain.
5. Benefits of Sound Healing With Chakra Toning
Frequencies of each energy center can be expressed with and balanced by a particular sound or tone, called the mantra. Tuning or chanting a specific mantra encourages balance in the corresponding center.
6. Ability to Access the Benefits of Complementary Modalities
Chakra therapy, like Reiki, combines well with other complementary modalities such as color, crystal, and aromatherapy. The affinity among these modalities can reveal more both in detail and in breadth.
7. Enhance Your Engagement and Open Yourself to Creative Practice
Clients often resonate with these visual and tactile modalities and engage more. Such modalities open pathways to creativity as well. All enhance your healing and learning even more.
To Sum Up
At this point, it should be clear chakras and Reiki blend well and together significantly expand, deepen, and quicken the healing process. Not only do clients gain from greater healing but also the wealth of knowledge and wisdom chakras can reveal.
