People in India can sometimes be very superstitious. They would think that Reiki healing has got something mysterious or miraculous in it. Similar kinds of misconceptions exist about hypnosis in the Indian community. Reiki is only a positive and harmonizing creative energy that cannot do any harm to anything. It can do only good.

There is a peculiar clinical observation about Reiki like few other systems of Natural medicine that the disease which is being treated might sometimes get little aggravated, before getting eliminated from the body totally. The toxins come out to the surface before getting eliminated.

Reiki has no negative interactions with other healing modalities

Just like Yoga when properly done there are no contraindications for the practice of Reiki. It can be used with any other mode of treatment since it is a non-invasive therapy. Even doctors who strongly disbelieve in Alternative Medicine, would have no reservations against the use of Reiki. It is recommended that for small injuries, surgeries and certain life threatening conditions, Reiki could be used as a complementary therapy. It would reduce the treatment span and dosage of the allopathic medicines which have side effects. This in turn would reduce the adverse effects of the drugs and promote early recovery from surgery. Certain terminally ill cancer cases have been treated with Reiki and doctors were surprised to see the reduction in pain without painkillers and an increase in survival time.

Reiki heals and the healer just acts as a medium for the healing. The healer need not have any medical knowledge or even he may not even know the modern medical diagnosis. As discussed earlier, Reiki flows wherever there is maximum disharmony according to it's own innate laws. A Reiki practitioner has only got the role of being a medium for the healing Reiki to pass through his hands in to the patient's body.

In the classical method of treatment, some hand positions are recommended so that the patient feels that his entire body is getting healed. It is of some psychological benefit to the patient. Some Reiki practitioners at the Master level and above develop a kind of intuition through which their hands automatically go to those parts of the patient's body, which have maximum disharmony.

As previously stated Reiki goes to the greatest level of imbalance in the body, it's organs and the systems. Some patients may experience that even if the Reiki practitioners' hands are put on the chest they get vibrations in the knees. When enquired, it may be found that the patients were suffering from knee pains due to arthritis. Hence it is evident that Reiki treats at the root cause level and goes to the area in the body, which has the greatest level of imbalance or malfunctioning. People getting treated by Reiki do feel that their symptoms are reduced. It is not due to the placebo effect, but the real process of cure being initiated by the diseased organ.

The single most common reaction of patients after the first session of Reiki is that of being felt extremely relaxed. This means that Reiki acts as a stress reliever in most of the cases. In today's society, the worst enemy of people is stress and the related disorders. It is being proved more and more scientifically that the mind is the culprit behind physical disorders. The group of disorders of this kind are called as psychosomatic diseases. They include migraine, chronic sinusitis, asthma, hypertension, psoriasis, etc. If people who are subjected to a lot of stress in their lives, use Reiki as a preventive management of stress, the prevalence of the above disorders could be reduced to a minimum.