Feeling Better: The Essential Guide to Reiki and Chakra Balancing
Debbie Esplin 
Discover how Reiki and chakra balancing may support relaxation, emotional well-being, energy flow, and a greater sense of balance.
What is Reiki?
Reiki is a gentle wellness practice based on the belief that life force energy exists everywhere, exists around and within living beings. A Reiki practitioner offers this energy to the client. The idea of channeling life force energy has been used in the world, under different names, for centuries. Reiki, as it is practiced now, was developed by Mikao Usui in Japan in 1922. Since that time, it has spread around the world.
What are Chakras and the Energy System?
The word Chakra is from ancient Sanskrit, and it means ‘Wheel’. The concept of Chakras came from ancient India and is part of Ayurvedic medicine, along with the concept of energy pathways called Nadis (channels). Chakras are energy vortices along certain Nadis/energy channels in the human body.
There are many Chakras in and around the body but most Chakra work is done on the primary seven chakras that run through the centre of our body from the bottom of the trunk to just above the crown of the head. Each Chakra extends through our body like a cylinder and actually begins in the front aura outside our body and ends in the back aura behind our body.
In the 20th Century the Chakra concept from the east started to be adopted in the West and merging of Western understanding of the body, especially the endocrine system, and Chakras spread through wellness circles in the West and other places.
What are some of the ways that Chakra imbalances can show up in your life?
As energy centres, unbalanced Chakras can affect us in many ways. Here are some examples.
Do you feel unsafe, or worry about money even if you are safe and financially secure?
Do you sleep all night and wake up tired?
Do you feel responsible for taking care of others, and putting their needs and priorities ahead of yours?
Do you struggle with knowing your purpose or you feel like your life lacks a purpose?
Do you feel your life is lacklustre and you don’t know how to enjoy yourself?
Do you feel your creativity is blocked?
Do you feel your self-connection is blocked?
Do you sometimes feel like you can’t trust yourself, or others?
Do you struggle with expressing your feelings and asserting boundaries?
Do you feel mired in past pain or grief?
Do you feel guilty or ashamed even without recent cause to feel that way?
Do you feel like every day is a struggle and you are not sure why?
Do you feel like making decisions is challenging when it should be easy?
Do you have tension or mild or intermittent pain in your body that a medical visit has not found a cause for?
There are many ways that blocks in the seven main chakras show up, but these are some of the very common issues people face when they have one or several challenges in their Chakras and energy system.
Chakra Imbalances Do Affect Our Total Being
Based on this information you can see that a stagnant or blocked chakra can have an impact on your life, how you feel, how you sleep, and the decisions you make.
Very often people will have clusters of out-of-whack chakras relating to the same issue. It is possible, in a Reiki session, to energise and balance all the Chakras and your energy system. Many clients leave feeling much more balanced, clear, relaxed and connected to themselves.
My clients often report that they feel much more in tune with themselves, they feel lighter, sleep better, more clear around their life and what they want and more at peace with themselves. These are powerful benefits to bring into your life.
How Can a Reiki Session Help?
Chakra and energy system work is one of the amazing ways that Reiki can help people. Life force Reiki energy travels from the practitioner and to the client along their energy channels throughout the body and the aura. As the energy travels through and around it also travels through the Chakras.
In a session, I will work specifically with each Chakra sensing how it feels and using energy and drumming, if permitted by the client, on the Chakra until it feels fully energised. After each chakra is working well, I will then balance the entire system. Sometimes it takes one pass to get each chakra spinning like it should and other times it can take several passes, but with time and patience, all the chakras can be energised and the entire energy system balanced.
I think of this as a Chakra/Energy System tune-up. Just like a car, daily life, common little stresses and wear and tear can affect our Chakras and energy system so that they get out of balance. Changes in the seasons, especially major changes from spring-summer to fall-winter can affect our Chakras and energy system.
I often recommend two sessions per year at the major change of seasons and when people are in a time of stress, dealing with major life events, or grieving.
Reiki is a very gentle life force energy, and I have never had a client say they did not like the Reiki experience. Reiki is considered a low-risk wellness practice, and research continues to explore its potential benefits for relaxation, stress reduction, and overall well-being.
Are you experienced with Reiki and ready to release what is stressing you?
Are You New to Reiki?
If you are new to Reiki, here is some additional information. Reiki sessions can be done in person or at a distance and they are equally effective.
In Reiki sessions, the client remains fully clothed although they may want to remove shoes, jackets, chunky jewelry and glasses for their own comfort. Most clients also like to have a sheet or light blanket on top of them as this gives a sense of comfort and helps them relax.
Reiki is done either on a massage table or in a chair depending on the client’s preference. Most people prefer to lie down, but if someone has back pain they can lie on their side or sit in a chair.
Permission to carry out the session with gentle touching of non-private parts of the body is always requested. If touching is allowed, it is very gentle and light and consists of the practitioner lightly placing their hand on head, neck, shoulders, hands or feet. There is no rubbing or manipulation of the body, just light placement and removal of the hands. If permission isn’t granted, then the Reiki session is carried out with the hands placed over the body a few inches away. This is equally effective.
How Do Reiki Sessions Work?
In my sessions, I always talk to the person before starting the Reiki session to get a sense of what their biggest issues are then we review the options and make a plan. I work with the client to help them set a clear intention for the session as this helps guide the Reiki energy to the client’s top priority.
During the session I work mostly in silence, but there may be some talking, drumming or sound as agreed at the beginning.
At the end of the session, I go over what I noticed, and the client can express what they experienced. Sometimes clients get insights as well during the session or see colours as I work on the chakras. I instruct the client on the simple wellness care for the next few days, and I may give them an exercise to help integrate the work we did.
More About Reiki Sessions
Many people do not feel anything specific during a Reiki session, but they all feel extremely relaxed. Some people even fall asleep. Occasionally some people do feel a little tingle as I work on them.
Reiki is not a religion. It can be a spiritual path for some practitioners, but it is not a belief system, it is a wellness practice. You do not need to know or believe anything to have a Reiki session and to benefit from it.
I offer sessions from 45 to 60 minutes. I do not offer longer sessions as for most people 60 minutes is enough for their body and energy system. Longer sessions can be fatiguing.
For many issues one session is enough. For people going through a long recovery from serious injury, illness, or difficult life event more than one session can be helpful. We will always discuss this in advance. If you have never had a Reiki session and you have a lot of stress and tension in your life, booking a few sessions can be a good idea. I offer packages of three and six sessions for people who feel the need.
If you know you would like to have more than one session, considering a package is a good idea. You pay for three or six sessions in advance, but you schedule them as you wish and they do not expire.
If you feel your Chakra and energy system is in pretty good shape and you just want some minor adjustments, I also offer a 30-minute session over video chat. In this session we work on each chakra and balance the energy system, but as a shorter session it is less in-depth. For some people this feels like enough.
Are you ready for inner peace and balance in your system?
If You Are Not Sure
If you are not sure if Reiki or Chakra and energy system work will help you then book a complementary chat with me and I will answer your questions.
Know that I will not pressure you to book a session. Reiki and any type of energy or coaching work is best when the client feels motivated and wants to see improvement and make change. We will chat and at the end you will decide what is best for you.
Book a complementary chat and learn more.
Why I Love Reiki?
I had back pain for many years and someone suggested I try Reiki. I did and it helped. I thought to myself I want to learn this. Many years later I was in a place in my life where I could put the time and money to the training and I loved it.
What amazed me and caused to completely appreciate, and love Reiki is the feedback from customers. I could see how this simple energy practice helped them.
I can’t totally explain why but when a women struggling with cancer diagnosis and treatment comes to me for sleep problems and after one session, she sleeps much better, then one year later she comes back with her daughter for sleep problems, and the Reiki energy helps her daughter as well.
The stories like these from my clients of how Reiki has helped are common. It is seeing how Reiki helped others that has really developed my commitment to and love for this method. I am deeply grateful to have found Reiki and to be able to share it with others.
More About Debbie
Who is Debbie Esplin, Reiki Master Teacher, Quantum Shamanic Reiki Master?
I am a Certified Life Coach, Reiki Master Teacher and energy worker who helps people reconnect with themselves, gain clarity and move forward. Trained in two Reiki traditions to the top Master Teacher level, and in my fifth year of practice, I bring solid training and experience to my work with clients. My philosophical orientation is the client knows what is best for them and I guide them to find that.
I tell people, when they enter my space. this is a place of non-judgement, of peace, and wellness. I do not judge any client. My goal is to help them shift what they are struggling with through Reiki or the other tools in my box.
My in-person Reiki sessions are carried out in a separate, quiet part of my private residence. That area is a place of sacred space where you can enter, put down your burdens, breathe, relax, and receive Reiki.
If you enjoy Reiki, you may want to consider training in this lovely way to give yourself and others self-care and wellness. I teach Usui Holy Fire Reiki online and in person in Pointe-Claire, Montreal. You can learn more at the link below.
Namaste, thank you and may you find what you need on your journey through life.
Kind Regards,
Debbie, Aligned Clarity
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