{ Reiki vs Kinesiology }

Should I book for KINESIOLOGY or REIKI?

The energetic healing modalities of Kinesiology and Reiki both:

• Offer a gentle, non-invasive way to shift energy towards a return to healthy balance

• Work complementary to other therapies/treatments

• Remove stress from any level of the system, bringing us back onto our axis when we have been ‘rocked’ and so, improving:

  • steadiness/sense of safety

  • coping mechanisms

  • nervous system regulation/discernment of what is of value for our needs to be met

  • physical function/operation

  • energy levels

Kinesiology means ‘movement’

It overlaps western medicine (anatomy and physiology) and eastern health systems (Traditional Chinese Medicine and Indian chakras) to ask, how are you moving through the world - physically, biochemically, emotionally, energetically? Kinesiology is a somatic therapy that can assess a wide range of health imbalances from numerous angles - muscular or postural to emotional, energetic and spiritual.

Reiki means ‘life force/universal energy’

It is a Japanese practice/way of living that asks, just for today, how can I embody my intention? How might I replace judgement and unrealistic expectation with understanding and compassion? Reiki invites reconnection to inner trust and what is needed to bring love and balance to your life.

Kinesiology clients are awake and proactive during sessions, witnessing via gentle muscle testing, their mind-body connection in action; seeing how their thoughts/stories/patterns/beliefs - often stored subconsciously - are affecting behaviour and any level of function.

Such stresses are brought to conscious awareness where they can be acknowledged and shifted by introducing different energy movement in or around the areas of stress to reset balance.

Reiki clients are resting deeply during sessions, encouraging their innate healing abilities to be restored and allowing their mind-body connection to return to healthy communication through deep rest (as we do during a clean sleep cycle or in meditation).

Resting while partly conscious, partly in the subconscious offers space for reflection, free from judgement, expectation or stress around how things should look or what should be done about it.

A Kinesiology balance may involve an element of counselling (conscious discussion) if necessary but always in combination with somatic (bodily/subconscious) considerations to bring awareness, understanding, acknowledgment and movement of energies that are no longer serving current needs. Sessions also provide clients with invaluable tips and techniques to assist in continuing intention for change/wellbeing, improved self understanding and maintaining one’s own health.

A Reiki session creates an optimum environment for you to just Be, peacefully, for a time. Reiki music played during sessions is composed to healing frequencies that support mind-body connection during this reflective/meditative brainwave state. Discussion after a session is welcome. However, in the reiki tradition, there is no real way or need to deconstruct or analyse the healing. If a client is curious about what may have been sensed energetically, feedback is therefore offered through the eastern health system of Chakras and may be helpful for ongoing focus.

Kinesiology resets energy by using vibrational tools such as acupressure points, meridian flow, neurovascular points; neurolymphatic points; sound/frequency; flower essences or chakras as well as lifestyle or nutritional guidance to remove stress and return the overall flow of energy to equilibrium.

Reiki resets energy by creating an optimum environment in which you can rest while the practitioner focuses universal energy through their hands on or above your body, depending on what is most comfortable for you. Certain types of healing in certain spaces of the body/energy field are represented by the tracing of Japanese reiki symbols by the practitioner. Much of the benefit of receiving reiki comes from you giving yourself permission to rest deeply regardless of what is happening in your life. Clarity, answers or guidance tend to show up after having allowed for this unstressed reflection.

Kinesiology is most helpful when:

• You ‘know’ what you’re wanting or trying to achieve but can’t seem to align the knowing with action/behaviour

• You find it difficult to shake old behavioural patterns or belief systems that you know consciously no longer nourish or serve you - you’re stuck in or keep falling back into the same old patterns

• Allergic reactions/ intolerances are indicating

• Aligning to necessary medications or medical treatments

• Experiencing/managing unexplainable physical pain

• You have difficulty expressing certain emotions healthily

Reiki is most helpful when:

• You are reacting (fear based) more often than responding (care based) to yourself or the world

• You are taking a break from therapy or healing - a pause in which to ‘do’ no more but rest and integrate the work already done

• Recovering from surgery/medical treatment

• Experiencing/managing physical pain

• You are seeking to explore or understand your spiritual self, soul connection, self compassion or wish to embrace a mindful practice

Additionally, Kinesiology and Reiki can both be helpful when:

• You just don’t feel like yourself

• You are or have been experiencing heightened physical or emotional stress/tension, challenge, busyness for 18 months or more

• You have ongoing low energy, low motivation, low inspiration and/or fatigue

• Mind, body or soul seem to be on different pages about what you want/how you want to live

• Physical symptoms or injury are repetitive or unexplainable

• You seek ways to allow awareness, acknowledgement and affirmation of your intentions

• You are seeking a peaceful, steady centre amidst the busyness/change/difficulty

• You wish to live more consciously than habitually