How are the benefits of Reiki different to Kinesiology?

The best way to show how Japanese Reiki and Systematic Kinesiology are different is to describe the differences in the treatments. Click here to read about what happens in a typical Kinesiology session.

If you book a Reiki session, your treatment time lasts for an hour. When you arrive, you lie down fully clothed and I make sure that you are warm and comfortable. You then close your eyes and are welcome to drift off to sleep or just to lie quietly and enjoy the quietness of the time. I tune into your body, and then with my hands I do a sweep over — but not touching — your body to get a general sense of where your energy might be weak, blocked or depleted. I then spend the hour channelling energy through my hands to various parts of your body. Sometimes there is no touch: I hold my hands about six inches away from you. At other times, depending on what I am guided to do, I do place my hands directly on you, but always in an appropriate and trauma-aware way, and always with your consent at the beginning of the session.

My clients visit me both for Kinesiology and Reiki sessions. In a Kinesiology session, there is a lot of discussion; we verbally interact with each other throughout my investigations during the session. Japanese Reiki is an incredibly powerful healing modality in its own right. It gives you time to switch off and drop down into a quiet, peaceful and still state of being while I am working to strengthen and rebalance your physical and emotional energies.

Japanese Reiki can be a powerful way to ‘save’ and deepen the work of your Kinesiology treatments. Some clients like to alternate between both healing modalities on a fortnightly basis: monthly Kinesiology supported by monthly Reiki sessions is an intensive way to guide your healing process into the deepest layers.

How do I decide between Reiki and Kinesiology?

There are a few scenarios that may help you to decide.
One of my clients had been through decades of debilitating health issues, and her body had frozen into a state of high alert. This was the only way that she was able to keep going day after day, but she was stuck in fight/flight and deep tension. We found that starting her off with Kinesiology treatments was too much for her. By switching to a series of Reiki treatments first, we activated a deep peace and trust in her body. Once her energy was softer and less locked into the rigidity of ‘coping mode’, we were able to move from Reiki to Kinesiology. We still make a decision on the day based on her pain and energy levels as to which treatment will be most suitable.

A different client gets a huge amount of emotional release from her Kinesiology treatments, but sometimes she is overwhelmed when she arrives and needs to ‘shut down’ into the quietness of a Japanese Reiki energy healing instead. She is able to switch off and take refuge in being silent and having her eyes closed for an hour, while I quietly work around her body’s energy field, moving blockages and strengthening areas of low energy.

Some clients enjoy when I combine Reiki and Kinesiology in a single session, and others like to mix it up and either book Reiki with the occasional preventative Kinesiology, or vice versa. Systematic Kinesiology is like approaching the body with a set of keys, unlocking one clue after another across multiple sessions. We work together like detectives along a spiral of information that your body offers through the muscle-testing techniques. So Kinesiology tends to be a step-by-step journey rather than a one-off treatment, whereas you can gain enormous benefit from having occasional Reiki treatments.