This might be a little bit of a long About Me Page, so bear with me! 

I had been a client of Reiki for over three years before I made the decision to officially become Reiki qualified. I started Reiki at the start of 2022 when I was in chronic pain for three months with costochondritis after having had Covid. I started CBT therapy weekly to help me manage the pain. Once the pain began to subside and I went back to working as a team leader in the financial industry, my therapist suggested that I try going for a massage to release some of the tension from when I had been unwell and to help with the daily stress of the corporate world.

The only thing is that I am not keen on physical touch and can also be a bit ticklish, so my therapist suggested I try Reiki. I had never heard of it before even though I had lived in Japan for eight years! So, I gave Reiki a go, but I didn't actually know anything about it or what I was doing. Since the beginning of going to Reiki, I felt a lot of body movement, thoughts, and images, sometimes it made me feel reluctant to go back, but I kept going. I kept feeling this draw.

At the end of 2024, I wrote in my journal that I wanted to make strong, healthy life choices in 2025 as I was turning 40. I wanted to work on my physical and mental health, and part of my plan included going to Reiki more frequently, twice a month. I had also written down that I would like to become Reiki Level 1 attuned, but I often wrote ideas down and never followed through, so part of me wonders if I would have ever followed through with that if Reiki hadn't found me as it did.

In January 2025, I had the most interesting Reiki session to date. At the time, I had a Healing Crisis, which is when the body has a lot of processing. For a week and a half, I kept zoning out, crying uncontrollably, and just felt like I wasn't in control of my body or mind. I had been able to maintain work, but barely, when I wasn't doing a task, my mind would just go blank and I'd stare into space. I started searching online for what was happening. It wasn't my time of the month, I didn't have a cold, the only thing I could link it to was the fact I had a Reiki session just two days before these symptoms began. Then, one Tuesday a week and a bit later, it was like this fog lifted from my brain and I felt back to normal, just like that! I knew for sure at that point it must have been something to do with Reiki. During that particular Reiki session, I remember I had so much body twitching and light beneath my eyelids.

Then, in the next Reiki session, I felt proper, strong energy move up and down my body from my neck downwards and back up. Since I was a child, I had felt energy in rooms, especially old buildings. It felt like a heavy weight on my shoulders and chest, I always avoid going into older places as I hate the feeling it gives me. So, I kind of knew what energy felt like. This was a gorgeous feeling though, and I felt really truly alive for the first time since I can ever remember.

For the week or so after that session, strange stuff began happening to me. I had a lot of vivid dreams, people began talking to me more out and about at bus stops and in shops, and the most unique experience was when I was sitting at my desk at home working. Listening to music, I felt something move down my left arm into my hand. It was interesting because it was as if my mind knew what it was without expecting it; I knew it was Reiki and it didn't scare me. I was shocked, but I wasn't scared and didn't feel like I needed to go to a doctor. I just knew.

I didn't feel the energy in my arm and hand again until the third session of the year, just two weeks after I had felt something move in my arm. This time was even more intense. During Reiki, I felt my chest squeeze and something move from my chest up into my forehead over and over. Alongside that, I developed something I refer to as "energetic breathing", it sounds kind of like shivering in the cold and I also saw the most intense bright white light under my eyelids.

These sensations came home with me this time and began happening spontaneously throughout the day, especially in the morning and evening or when I was relaxed. I began to get strong symptoms of attunement, including constantly clammy hands, vivid dreams, feeling energy moving, and I even saw myself in the third person for a few days. Overall, the symptoms lasted at their strongest for two weeks, but some continued for months. In those first few weeks, I felt the energy move to my hands when listening to music or just thinking about it. I found my hands wanting to dance to music as the energy moved.

I was incredibly lucky that I had the support and understanding of my friends, family, CBT therapist, and Reiki Master to help me stay grounded.

I read lots of information online about spiritual things, trying to understand what happened to me, but the words they used in the articles and videos just didn't resonate with me. I'd say that I am spiritual, even though I was brought up without knowing anything about religion or spirituality. Because of this, I don't connect with words like "divine," or when people talk about "ego death" or "higher consciousness." Even when I read up on Reiki itself, the spiritual side or the explanations of it just didn't connect with me.

I absolutely love giving Reiki and helping others, but I feel extremely drawn to the research side, the understanding of what Reiki actually is, how it works, and being able to explain it using words that we use in our everyday, modern lives. Seeing it this way has helped me to see it is a normal part of all of us and actually has scientific benefits. I'm not out to prove that Reiki is real, I am hoping to be able to explain what Reiki is from a different point of view.

My degree is in Journalism, not Neuroscience, so please do take note that the information on here is my own opinion through my own personal experiences, my clients' experiences, other Reiki practitioners' experiences, and research through official reports and webinars. I have my Reiki qualification, insurance, and am a member of The Reiki Guild.

If you ever want to know more about what happened with my spontaneous attunement, something you have gone through that is linked, or just want to chat about Reiki in general, please do reach out anytime.