Although more and more people have become familiar with energy healing, the notion of absent treatments continues to stump would-be clients. As a Master Reiki practitioner and teacher, I’m frequently asked “How does distance Reiki work?”

Answering this question requires stepping outside the range of answers conventional medicine offers us, and embracing aspects of modern science, quantum physics, and Eastern medicine.

This blog post assumes that the reader is familiar with energy healing and Reiki in particular. If not, see my website pages. They’ll provide a good background to the post about distance healing.

What is Distance Reiki

Distance Reiki is just Reiki energy healing sent over time and space. In other words, it’s the healing of someone or something absent or not present with the practitioner. The apparent disconnection can be over space, e.g., in another room or another country, or over time as in the past or the future. I’ve used remote healing techniques to work on unconscious hospital patients and the dynamics of relationships.

What Can Distance Reiki Do

Distance Reiki is capable of the same type and depth of healing as an in-person session. As an in-person practitioner in Bethesda, MD, and the Washington, DC area as well as a remote healer globally, I have ample experience with both options.

I’ve noticed the limitations of remote healing lie in the client’s disbelief of lack of comfort. This is because all energy work involves self-healing and free agency. Doubt and disbelief constrain the flow and outcomes.

Some Common Healing Benefits:

• Reduce worry and stress and relieve their physical, emotional, mental, and energetic impacts
• Improve the quantity and quality of sleep
• Relieve physical pain, stiffness, and tension
• Improve concentration and mental clarity
• Boost physical or mental energy
• Clear physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual blockages
• Get unstuck and move forward
• Achieve and maintain balance and integration
• Support the process of change initiated by loss, necessity, or personal choice
• Change undesirable mental, emotional, or behavioral patterns
• Improve personal and professional communication and relationships
• Explore and define a goal or life purpose
• Improve the overall quality of life

What’s the Science Behind Distance Healing

Answering the question “What’s the science behind distance healing” isn’t short. An adequate explanation requires dispelling some theories thought to be absolute facts and embracing what can’t be seen or fully measured. However, the evidence of energy healing abounds in the multitude of direct experiences and measurable outcomes. In other words, the effect of distance healing is more easily measured than the energy itself.

What can be said and is often cited in the literature is energy healing, including distance Reiki, lies largely outside Newtonian or cartesian science and is better understood and explained by Einstien’s Quantum physics, vibrational medicine,  and Eastern medicine (Gerber and Gardner).

Through his research and studies, Einstien observed what he called quantum-interconnectedness or what is more commonly referred to as “quantum entanglement.” Essentially everything is made of energy, energy can be both a particle and a wave, and particles that are not directly connected can be aware of and influence each other.

The mounting science built on Einstein’s original work does not specifically test and validate Reiki nor distance Reiki. However, it explains it. And, practitioners and clients alike provide both the direct experience and validation that science requires as evidence.

How the Distance Healing Symbol Works

Reiki employs several symbols that correspond to certain healing intentions, life force frequencies, and associated healing properties. While symbols aren’t necessary to induce healing, they greatly focus, intensify, and facilitate the process.

Level II Reiki training includes an attunement to the energy of the distance symbol. They know how to use it to initiate remote healing and some practitioners have found ways to use it for other purposes. For example, I use it to create and reinforce a connection between chakras, layers of the aura, or different parts of the body.

So, Does Distance Reiki Work?

The answer to the question “Does distance Reiki work,” is a resounding yes. Practicing energy healing for the past twenty years, I’ve seen ample proof. New science bears out the possibilities as well.

The best way to know that it works is to try it yourself. Approach your session with an open mind, heart, and body. And, don’t doubt what you experience. Energy healing and Reiki are subtle. If you sense something, embrace it and it will grow, take form, and support the fulfillment of your healing intentions.

For More On Reiki Distance or In-Person Sessions, See:

• A description of my energy healing sessions
• Sending Healing Energy to Improve Your Life
• Choosing between remote and in-person healing
• Purchase a healing session and package of sessions here