The experience of the patient is unique to every healing as well. Often patients can feel energy moving in or out of their body and sense the “connection” to thoughts and emotions. When deeper levels of healing begin to manifest the patient may move into a greatly expanded state that feels somewhat like a blissful twilight sleep. Sometimes the patient benefits from being more consciously present with the healing as it progresses and participating by using their intention to identify and release an energy block or receive a new healing pattern. Other times, the need to “process” is not immediately relevant and new templates for the energy field can be created without the conscious participation of the patient. At the completion of the healing session the patient may feel: expanded, peaceful, balanced, joyful, clear, calm, energized or sleepy and connected to deeper awareness of Self.
Everything that we experience is energy, every physical anomaly, emotion, thought and state of being. By working with our energy patterns we are able to create change. Change the template of the energy and the form, emotion or thought that arises out of that energy template is changed. Einstein's famous equation, E=MC2 can be applied to everything, including us. After a healing session, most people can feel the availability of new ways of being. Old, out dated habits of thought, emotion and physical discomfort can easily be sorted and new choices can be made or are simply no longer an issue. This window of change is most profoundly noticed in the first 24 to 36 hours after recieving Reiki. The shifts can be lasting, or may require further treatments to soundly establish the new patterns.
| “As is the human body, so is the cosmic body. As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind. As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm. As is the atom, so is the universe.”  The Upanishads |