Reiki Cairns Teaching Usui Shiki Ryoho, the gentle folk healing art of Reiki

You will have read many places statements about “how Reiki works”. The absolute honest answer is no one knows. No amount of magical or wishful thinking changes that simple fact.

The critics are able to say that the different explanations offered for how Reiki works are invariably contrary to the accepted science of a hundred years of physics, chemistry and biology. That’s not in dispute, and it serves no useful purpose to make statements that are not clearly framed as a statement of a belief, or a theory. However, it is really OK to not know an answer to “how it works”.

Not knowing doesn’t alter the experience that healing occurs. It doesn’t take away from the experience of those who have derived a benefit from the hands-on practice. It simply means that we don’t actually have a proof for how this happens. That’s true for many things in life, even in the field of science.