Solutions to Trauma: Reiki for Trauma

Reiki is a healing system that uses energy life-force through the hands on to the person who wishes to be cured or healed. The practitioner is not the healer but simply the channeler of the Universal Life Force Energy. Reiki practitioners tout that the practice is limitless, just repressed by the limits the person to be healed places upon themselves.

The healing that takes place is self-development, getting rid of bad habits or patterns, accepting healing, and opening up to possibilities in oneself. This healing works on the level of the underlying force which unites all things, the Chi or Ki, this force that vibrates and flows in all matter, whether it is mental, spiritual, or physical. People who have experienced trauma are equally as healable as somebody experiencing a physical illness.

Trauma: Overview

Trauma can be experienced in many different ways. We all process events in a different way; therefore, what may be moved on instantly by one individual might have a long-term effect on another. The source of trauma doesn’t always have to come from instant experience either. For instance, it can happen vicariously when a person empathetically connects with a traumatised person, thereby internalising the experience of the other person. This is common in people who are in the healing field.
Trans-generational trauma is a lesser-known form of trauma. Quantum Reiki is especially good for the realease of deep-seated trauma that the patient was even aware they were carrying, or thought they had dealt with previously. The concept is that the emotional, spiritual, physical, as well as mental aspects of one’s life are interrelated. All come together to make the single whole person, and imbalances in one of the factors mentioned will affect the others.
When it comes to Reiki for trauma healing, this approach aims to promote deep relaxation and the removal of stress. Stress is the main contributor to adverse medical problems for those who survive trauma.

This is due to the fact that in the face of danger, we as human beings execute a response called fight and flight, during which our system is flooded with cortisol (stress chemicals) and adrenaline. Your sympathetic nervous system is set off for the main aims of mobilising your muscles and preparing to fight the danger you are facing or flee from it. This takes place very quickly. The signals delivered from your brain to get going are sent prior to your conscious mind is even aware. In cases where the danger can’t be fought or fled from, you have another response: freeze.

When you freeze, your body is shut down, and you are mentally dissociated from what is taking place because the offending situation is extremely hard to handle. On the other hand, you cannot simply go from zero to freeze. You should pass first in the fight and flight stage. It means that if you go into that condition, your energy level is very high.

Fight, flight, and freeze happen in all mammals; however, human beings are different in the result of their response to danger. When getting well from a difficult or threatening state, other mammals can shake off their energy and return to a normal condition in just a few minutes.

Sadly to say, for human beings, our thinking often hinders and inhibits us from frantic or erratic shaking that would help us to free that frozen energy. Instead, if the danger has passed, we keep on with our lives but with the added weight of traumatic experience in the type of stored energy. This influences us all on a daily basis until we sucessfully transmute the energy away from the body’s energetic system. This is where Quantum Reiki can be very effective.