How Reiki Can Relieve Back Pain & Improve Your Health

Reiki is a Japanese word meaning "universal life force energy". It is a simple, natural and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement that everyone can use.

The benefits of Reiki are that it brings about deep relaxation, destroys energy blockages, detoxifies the system, provides new vitality in the form of healing universal life energy, and increases the vibrational frequency of the body. As such it is also useful for treating back pain and as a sciatica treatment.

Reiki treatment aims to improve health and enhance the quality of life by treating the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit. It follows a traditional pattern of hand positions, resting without pressure on or above the body. Typically, the healer places their hands above the recipient.

The difference between Reiki and spiritual healing is that the patient (or recipient) draws the energy as needed, thus taking an active part in the healing process and responsibility for their healing. In contrast, in spiritual healing the patient has a passive role as recipient of the healing energy.

There are several forms of Reiki now being practiced. The two principal ones are: "the Usui System of Natural Healing" and "the Radiance Technique."

What Has Reiki Got To Do With My Back?

If you ask most back specialists they will tell you how your back is linked to virtually everything else in your body. In addition, they will describe how the health and state of your back has a direct influence on most other bodily functions.

For example, if a certain part of your back is 'out' or 'subluxated', it could affect your digestion or your bowel movements. Similarly, if your neck is 'out' you might have a runny or blocked nose. These effects manifest right around your body.

The back and spinal cord form the major transmission conduit for signals to and from the nerves in your body. These signals are scientifically measurable as electrical impulses. Interestingly, your back has a structure very similar to the capacitor which is a storage device for electrical energy.

Anyway, 'behind' or 'underneath' the measurable electrical energy that activates your nerves, there is another type of energy. This is your life force energy, whose effects can be measured and photographed.

It operates at a more fundamental level to the electrical nerve-related energy, because it underpins everything that happens within your body. As such, disruptions to it manifest (appear) ultimately as physical symptoms or problems.

In traditional healing practices, this energy was always treated first, whereas in western medicine, the physical symptom is usually treated first. You can see that treating the physical symptom is not treating the source of the underlying disruption, although it may mask some of the effects.

Because your back is a major energy conduit and storage area, it is more susceptible to disruptions in this energy which then manifest as 'back problems' such as lower back pain, sciatica, a stiff neck and so on.

This is why energy treatments that work on the fundamental energy of your body are often successful after mainstream treatment has failed.

Understanding The Link Between Your Energy Systems and Health

"In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy."
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel Laureate in Medicine

What Is "Life Force Energy"?

This is described as Ki, Chi in Chinese, Prana in Sanskrit and Ti or Ki in Hawaiian (and orgone by some including the legendary heavy/psychedelic rock band Hawkwind, from whence springeth Lemmy of Motorhead, but that is indeed a whole other story!).
Anyway, Ki or Chi is the vital life force or the universal life force. It is the non-physical energy that animates all living things (and some people say it is also present in items we currently deem to be inanimate, albeit at a different level of vibration).

As long as something is alive, it has life force circulating through it and surrounding it, which can be seen as san aura using specialised photography and measured using special instruments; when it dies, the life force departs.

If your life force is low, or if there is a restriction in its flow, you will be more vulnerable to illness, lower back pain or sciatica. When it is high, and flowing freely, you are less likely to get sick.