by Sarah Vigue

Created on: April 23, 2010   Last Updated: August 06, 2010

Understanding the differences between Reiki and Healing Touch is simple, but first you have to figure out what each one is. Both Healing Touch (also known as Therapeutic Touch) and Reiki treatments offer a simple way to receive [light] energy. People talk about feeling heavy and gloomy during winter months, whereas the same people shed their seasonal depression in summer time. Commercials show men and women basking in the warm summer sun feeling light as a feather and vibrant. Think of energy healing agents like Reiki and Healing Touch as the bottled-up version of this, only the bottle of sunshine comes through a practitioner who uses hands to conduct light over your body.

What is Reiki?

Reiki specifically is defined in countless dictionaries as an ancient, hands-on type of massage healing. However, there is no touching in Reiki, unless that is what the patient chooses, as it is an energy modality. The practitioner hovers, if you will, his/her hands over the patient and essentially conducts energy through the hands on to the energy field (also called chi, prana, aura and auric field) that encases all individuals. As explained in science class, living creatures give off energy and vibrations, body heat is a good example, but if there is an injury, depression or some other kind of block, the energy output is interrupted. Reiki is one form of energy healing that puts energy back into the body. Continuing with the body heat example, the patient receiving Reiki feels heat coming from the practitioner- nothing painful or sweat inducing. The Reiki practitioner seems to turn his/her hands into a heating pad that also feels somehow like it reduces gravity pressure on your body. Talk about a way to feel lighter!

What is Healing Touch?

Healing Touch is a very similar form of energy healing. Like Reiki, H/T is an energy agent that removes energy blocks. When skin is clogged, it cannot breathe and in severe cases, the body cannot sweat to cool off the body. Think of a large portion of your body covered in blackheads or in history events where someone is tarred and feathered. The injured person suffocates because the skin cannot breathe. People are made up of molecules and energy so this happens to a person’s energy [field.] Once blocks are removed, a healing can occur or at least more vital living can take place.

The Differences

What is truly fantastic about Healing Touch is that because there are more healing techniques than Reiki, that specific section of the

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