What Happens During a Distant Reiki Session?
How do we explain to our clients or friends what happens during a remote session? And how do we do it in a way that makes sense? It's a difficult question to answer and one that, as everything in Reiki, will vary from lineage to lineage and to whom we communicate.
The first step is to answer that question for ourselves as practitioners.
As a starting point, we could ask ourselves, what happens during an in-person session? Are our hands doing the healing or are they helping us focus our energy and remember that deep sense of interconnection in which healing takes place?
If the healing happens by the union of our heart-mind, then a remote session is just one in which we don't use hands as reminders. We enter a space of deep concentration and interconnection in which time and space are irrelevant, and healing takes place.
In more Western lineages—where the practitioners are channelers of the universal force, not an embodiment of the universe themselves—it's still all about interconnection. Although hands are used to "send Reiki energy" to recipients through the use of proxies (dolls, pillows, etc.), if you think about it, they are not really touching the person or pointing in the direction so that Reiki vibes reach the right location.
Our hands are, once more, tools for awareness and focus, for remembering our interconnection with every living being (in the case of the remote session, with one in particular.) The remote session protocol is, therefore, a ritual to let go of mental limitations like time and distance and remember our true interconnected essence.
These concepts are pretty high-level and may not make sense to many of our clients. Developing a sense of what to say is an interesting exercise. In my case, I keep it very simple. This is one of my favorite explanations:
Reiki practice is based on the concept that we are all interconnected. During the session, we'll enter a meditative state where time and distance are irrelevant. I will hold the space energetically and offer everything you need to empower your own healing process.
If you have not done it yet, I would like to invite you to write a description of remote sessions in your own words, based on your direct experience. Do it just as an exercise, it doesn't need to be shared in public, and see what comes up for you.
Love,
Nathalie
