Most of the Reiki practitioners find that while giving Reiki, the most common feelings they get are sensations in their hands. The sensations are of heat, tingling, pins and needles, etc. Sometimes while treating very sick people, the hands of the Reiki Master may feel the sensations of an electrical current flowing. It is not necessary that the sensations should be felt for obtaining results. It differs from subject to subject and from treatment to treatment.

Reiki does not give rise to any sensations on it's own, but what the patient feels depends upon how his body and mind are reacting to the Reiki energy. Reiki is flowing through the practitioner's hands, enters the patient's body and then polarizes. When it is polarizing, it produces certain reactions by the body mind complex of the receiver and depending on factors like the sensitivity of the receiver, the state of his health, the state of spiritual evolution that the person is in, etc. all determine what kind of experiences the patient could get or expect to get. The same person might get different sensations at different times, through different Reiki practitioners' hands.

Whenever a Reiki Master or student thinks about Reiki, it starts flowing. This means that they start getting those specific sensations in their body especially in their hands. They do not have any control on its flow.

It is also an interesting and positive observation that more difficult the disease-case that the Reiki practitioner is handling the greater is the flow of Reiki. It appears as if Reiki is conscious of herself and knows that the patient needs more. It functions according to it's own laws. The greater the degree of disharmony, the greater the quantity of Reiki flows in to the patient's body.

While giving Reiki, anyone touching the Reiki masters' body can also feel the flow of Reiki. Reiki flows uniformly throughout the body. Whether Reiki is given with one hand or the other or may be with both the hands, the Reiki flow will be similar and homogenous everywhere.

Reiki masters may treat even 100 patients a day, their Reiki would not get exhausted. It has been observed that in other energy healing systems, the prana of the person who is treating the patients gets depleted. The more number of sick patients the practitioner has to deal with, greater the exhaustion he experiences. The vitality of the practitioner and the store of his pranic energy becomes a sole important factor in the effectiveness of the treatment. Whenever the prana is depleted, he has to recharge the body to restore it otherwise the further treatment would not be effective and there is a risk of the practitioner falling sick.

As said above in other pranic healing systems even if the practitioner is in his best positive health, he feels low after treating others. Clinical observation shows the exact opposite phenomenon in Reiki. Even if the Reiki healer were physically sick, he would be able to heal better than any other practitioner. This indicates that Reiki is truly non-physical in nature.

Animals are innocent creatures. They respond very well to positive emotions like love and affection. They do not have mental blocks and generally they do not suffer from undue mental stress. Hence animals respond to Reiki better than humans. It is inversely proportional to the degree of domestication of the animal. The more domesticated an animal is, the less responsive it will be to Reiki. The reason for this is that pets do take on the stress of their owners.

Psychiatrists, Cardiologists lay less stress on preventive aspects of medicine with their self and others alike. Even if they preach those to others, they do not practice it themselves. This is one of the best advantages of being a Reiki healer, that first he has to practice what he is going to teach. Unless and until you cure yourself of the blocks in your energy system you do not proceed in healing others.

For Reiki practitioners, the time spent in self treatment is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

Reiki could be taught to a person of any sex, caste, creed and religion or cult. Age wise, the person should be mature enough to use Reiki in the right way. Anybody and everybody can be initiated to Reiki. Reiki is beyond cults.

Once you are initiated in to Reiki, it flows forever in your body. If properly initiated, you do not have to get initiated again. Even if you miss practicing Reiki for a few days, months or years, you can feel it flowing through your body again when you restart giving it to yourself.