One theory as to how Reiki actually does what it does is that it dissolves blocks in the body’s various energy systems and this has piqued my curiosity of late… especially in regard to difficult healings and stubborn blocks. So I’d like to take a look at this in more detail here.

The body consists of a network of energy channels and the free passage of energy through these channels creates a healthy system. Obstructions anywhere along the way create an imbalance of sorts and dis-ease is often the result. Systems such as Acupuncture, Acupressure, Reflexology and many types of Massage Therapy seek to manipulate things in such as way as to allow for the free passage of energy strictly on a physical level.

In Reiki (as well as in other esoteric arts), it is also believed that there are also mental, emotional and even spiritual energy channels that can just as easily become obstructed and systems such as Hypnosis, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and even many forms of Psychotherapy deal with mental and emotional blocks while many forms of religious worship and meditation deal with spiritual blocks. While Reiki Level One deals primarily with the physical blocks, Reiki Level Two goes more deeply into Mental and Emotion Healing while Reiki Level Three deals with those stubborn Spiritual Blocks standing between us and Enlightenment. I say primarily, because, as I’ve mentioned on several occasions, there is no controlling where Reiki energy goes or what it does during our healing sessions… we just point and shoot and Reiki does the rest… so there actually is quite a bit of mental, emotional and spiritual healing going on even while Reiki Level One Practitioners are performing Reiki on themselves or others.

This brings us to to the subject at hand, which is dealing with stubborn blocks occurring in the physical, mental, emotional and/or spiritual energy channels. Reiki Level Two offers some assistance by way of the power symbol which can be used to break through more stubborn blocks as well as the mental/emotional symbol which works specifically on mental and/or emotional energy blocks. Even with the use of these symbols (as well as with the all powerful master symbol) there are those blocks which refuse to budge and I generally find that the older these blocks are, the harder they are to remove.

What is needed in these cases is of course more Reiki (more frequent sessions and the assistance of others) as well as some of the more advanced practices that we have discussed on these pages (including many more that will be discussed in days to come). I personally find the key to be found in the personal development of persistence, determination and focus. I’ve mentioned before my love of Sudoku and I find the same rules apply to difficult energy blocks as to difficult puzzles. When one particular Sudoku refuses to yield under my barrage of Ninja Sudoku Attacks 🙄 I’ve got to knuckle down, double my efforts, take the phone off the hook and attack it again (maybe after a good nights rest). Ultimately they will yield and in the case of energy blocks there are cases that they won’t… and in those cases we must accept that there is a higher power at work here and that perhaps the healing of the symptoms we are working on is not in the highest interests of that person (for reasons that we may never understand).

I hope this doesn’t lead to a defeatist or ‘why bother in the first place’ attitude because I truly believe that in most cases, healing is in the person’s highest good and that if the blocks aren’t dealt with in this lifetime they will be passed on to the next in order to be dealt with then. We are offering the highest form of healing that is currently available to be used in cases where it is acceptable and this has a very high rate of success as is witnessed by the thousands of Reiki healing stories we’ve all heard. The bottom line is that it is not our decision to make… we can only do what we can. And I recommend we all do… 🙂

For further explanation or discussion, your thoughts are most welcome and highly encouraged, please feel free to comment below!!!