The Connection to Reiki and Psionics
By: Reiki Reverend, PhD
Is Reiki Really A Psychic Ability?
Due to its nature, higher ranging psychic, or psionic abilities such as making fire or stopping time can be a difficult idea to consider in reality. But what about ‘lesser’ gifts that range though perception like empathy or precognition? For that matter how about healing methods such as Reiki?
What is Psionics?
Psionics is defined as a form of doing that can relate to or imply the use of psychic powers or abilities. These powers are commonly considered unable to be explained by the natural laws we govern.
A famous actor once said, “Don’t think, just do.” This quote to me is what I would consider a foundation for how the use of psychic powers or abilities can be thought to manifest. Moments where doubt is eliminated and the mind can flow with ideas or actions, free of its lower logical weight of burden to create ways, in a way that may not be explainable later.
The study of psychic powers and phenomena is called Parapsychology. There are a good number of resources available online for further reading, and even a few games if you are feeling a bit adventurous.
The best way to understand psionics is the manipulation of natural forces in ways that are not commonly explained. These abilities can range from heat and cold manipulation to psychic communication such as telepathy, empathy, or precognition. The limits of psionics is similar to what limits one could think of when they understand Reiki. In essence, the two terms both point at working with forces outside of themselves, and in ways that can’t quite be explained. All we really know of these features tangibly is that sometimes there is more than meets the eye or touch for those willing to experience it.
How Similar Are Reiki and Psionics?
Reiki is a spiritual practice that is only enabled to work its best by intention to allow, and would never seek to harm. Practitioners of Reiki bless others and themselves with healing energy or universal life force. This energy is consciously allowed to flow through as a channeled source to empower both the healer and recipient.
In psionics, you can learn to do similar by aligning or attuning with your chosen source of empowerment. Some choose the Sun or Moon, but the choices only range with the imagination of the person channeling. One could imagine channeling the heat of the sun to keep warm is similar to channeling the energy that governs life to channel healing. By its character, psychic abilities are only enabled by the will or idea of the practitioner. There are no laws by our standards that fully protect against someone with bad intentions. Only a means to work similarly to disrupt or prevent it.
Is Reiki Mind Over Matter?
This is the question I chose because these two ideas can very simply be confused for the same thing, not to exclude magic or spellcraft from this forum. Psionics and the like are all considered to use the power within our minds to grant us other than ordinary gifts to use how we can with the world around us. As these gifts may carry our intentions and philosophies, the difference is by description.
The implication from any of these types of psychic abilities may carry is personal, I will do my best to highlight what should be transparent.
Reiki is a form of channeled healing that only requires a conscious connection between Reiki and the recipient. There is no manipulation of force, otherworldly or not. The environment created during a Reiki session is not an alteration of will to make you feel anything, or even force your body to heal itself. Reiki enables the naturally occurring processes within the recipient to heal themselves. The same goes for the one channeling Reiki.
When I think of the two, I think of psionic healing (for example) as willed healing and Reiki as channeled healing. If someone wants to stop Reiki from working, they only need to intend it. Also, Reiki as a conscious force itself can continue working as your alignment with Reiki is strengthened by a meditation or session.
When you focus your will upon someone, your intentions have the potential to become another’s reality no matter the consequence or thought. If someone wants to stop psychic will and does not have proper protective methods, it may be difficult for them to function as they were without assistance by methods such as Reiki or magic.
Thinking back about my own personal experiences with psionics, I find that it was one of the best ways for me to learn how to explore my extra senses and capacity for growth in a secular way, but I do not use psychic manipulation in my healing practice. I do however, work with many different beings and channel intuitive knowledge to guide and assist with my psychic readings. I do so under the same protection that governs the guidance as well as other beings of full Love (perfect love) and Light (perfect, or highest vibrating light).
There is an air of the psychic world all around us, and in many different ways we are all psychic inside. New Age terms do not change what has already been, but they can give insight to those who want to believe.
