Breathing the Stress Out!

Have your ever experienced a time when you’re going through various aches in your body and at the same time, feeling a certain imbalance in your life? And you know that the aches you feel are more than just physical. If so, then maybe you should try to dig deeper in your senses and experience the healing powers of Reiki.

What is Reiki? It is a way of explaining how the proper flow of an individual’s energy levels affects one’s body. Reiki is basically from Japanese origin as a technique for stress reduction and relaxation that can also promote healing. It treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and wellbeing. The reiki technique is to bring wholeness in you and get rid of all stress whether they may be on the outside or in. The Reiki technique believes that if one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel the stress and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

The purpose of this technique is to let your body unwind and release all tension. Let the aches and stress find release, it can be as simple as the practice of meditation where basic and proper breathing keeps the mind and body relaxed. There are various types of meditation, the most common being formal sitting is concentrated in keeping the body immobile and the attention controlled. Examples of these would be Zazen and Vipassana meditation; these elaborate on how a posture can affect our breathing and how our breathing can affect our body’s way to relieve stress. Other meditation techniques involves how a person treats the situations that happens to him/her, there are expressive practices where we are let to have anything happen and be happy with it.

A popular form of getting rid of stress is also through massage. This can be expanded with healing starting from the physical state of a person and getting through all the way to the mind and the soul. The goal of a massage is to slowly eliminate tension in muscles after the body has felt better; the mind will also start feeling better. It has been said that pain is only in the mind and if ache is taken off from the body then the mind would also stop thinking of pain.

Massage involves acting on and manipulating the body with pressure, this could be done with the hands, feet, elbows, fingers and forearms of a person. Though massage can be in the comforts of home it is always better to consult a massage therapist. This is someone who is already professionally aware of where to put pressure on the body. Either you set an appointment or request for home therapy.

There are simple and easy ways to feel better. Whether we choose to start from our physical pain moving inward or create an inner balance in ourselves and move outward. Various methods will help us get through every back-breaking day with ease and comfort.