Does it really do that? 🤔
Recently, one of my beautiful students in the Natural Healer Reiki Student Community asked me a really interesting question:
“Is performing Reiki opening up the door to unknown realms?” 😱
I loved the question so much that I initially recorded an audio response for my student.
But after thinking about it, I realised this is probably something other people have wondered too. So I thought it would be worthwhile sharing my thoughts with you. Before we answer the question though, let’s remind ourselves what Reiki actually is…
Reiki is energy healing 🌿
Reiki is simply a form of energy healing. And energy plays a part in all healing, whether we’re talking about a broken leg or a broken heart!
I won’t go too deeply into that here, but I’ll leave some links below if you’d like to explore energy healing and Reiki in more detail:
✨➡️ What does Reiki feel like?
✨➡️ How to STOP absorbing other people’s emotions
✨➡️ Overwhelmed in crowds? Protect your energetic boundaries
✨➡️ Feeling “meh” from the space around you? Let’s CLEAR it 
Instead, I want to look at something we all experience every single day: Energy vibration 💫
Every day we expose ourselves to different energies and vibrations.
- Our phones
- Social media
- The news
- Television and movies
- Our work
- Our conversations
- The people around us
All of these things can affect the energy we’re engaging with…
High vibration vs low vibration ⚖️
And since energy is vibration, I think most of us can recognise the difference between something that feels “high vibrational” and something that feels “low”. But to simplify:
Higher vibrations feel lighter ✨💟 They’re connected with love, positivity and flow. You can express yourself more easily and life can sometimes feel as though there’s less resistance.
Lower vibrations feel heavier ⛔ Things can feel sluggish, difficult or simply off.
Think about how you feel after watching something incredibly uplifting compared with how you might feel after consuming hours of bad news, conflict, deception or negativity.
You’re interacting with very different energy and it’s not only what we watch that plays a part in this. We can engage with lower vibrations through our work, conversations and even our thoughts.
Perhaps you’re continually revisiting something from your past that you regret. Maybe you’re engaging in gossip; or maybe your work exposes you to difficult or heavy situations. Whatever it is, you’re interacting with that vibration channel…
It's like a radio 📻
To further clarify, there’s a simple analogy I use when explaining this to my Reiki students…
Imagine you’re listening to the radio and you want to hear rock and roll, but your radio is tuned to a jazz station. You can sit there all day waiting for your favourite rock song, but you’re probably not going to hear it!
Why? Because you’re tuned to a different channel… So you need to change the channel to get to the song you want to hear!
I think of energy in much the same way. If you’re sitting in a lower vibration, it’s going to be much harder to create or intend an outcome that comes from a higher vibration.
So what do you do? You change your frequency! 🫶 You focus on love and set your intention. And importantly, you let go of expectations that can pull you straight back down again!
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So, does Reiki open us to negativity? 🫣
Let’s return to that original question… Does performing Reiki open a door to unknown realms, particularly something negative?
With the way I teach Reiki, the way I practise Reiki, and how I personally understand Reiki, my answer is: No! No! No! 🙅
And the reason comes back to vibration and intention. For the past 14 years, I’ve taught my students to practise Reiki from a place of love 💞 We focus on positivity; we focus on what serves our greatest and highest good; we connect with our divine, loving selves…
In other words, we’re intentionally tuning ourselves to that higher frequency: LOVE 💗
And if we return to our radio analogy, when you’re tuned into the frequency of love, that’s the channel you’re interacting with.
It's not Reiki... it's YOUR intention 🫢
This is perhaps the most important point I’d like you to take away from this conversation…
This not really about Reiki, it’s more about your intentions! 🔍
If someone continually focuses on negativity, fear, self-doubt, harmful thoughts or experiences, then yes, they may find themselves engaging with lower vibrational energy.
But that isn’t Reiki doing it. The same person could engage with those lower vibrations without practising Reiki at all. Which brings me to an interesting question…
What are you tuning yourself into every day? Are the things you’re watching, thinking about, talking about and doing keeping you connected with a higher vibration? Or are they continually pulling you towards a lower one?
Open the door to love 👐💗
The Reiki I teach isn’t about opening a door to something negative… it’s quite the opposite!
It’s about opening your heart to love and higher vibration 💗✨
Whether you’re preparing for a Reiki session, practising Reiki on yourself or sharing Reiki with someone else, the intention is to lift your energy and connect with that loving frequency. And just like our radio example, when you’re tuned into that channel, you’re not tuned into the other one.
So rather than being afraid that Reiki itself is opening a door to something negative or unknown, I encourage you to pay attention to the vibration and intention you’re carrying into your practice, and into your everyday life.
A very special thank you to my beautiful student in the Natural Healer Reiki Student Community for asking such a thoughtful question.
I hope our conversation has helped you too! Big love to you always. 💖 Melissa