Reiki for Caregivers

Individuals who care for others for a living are much more susceptible to high stress on a consistent basis. 

Reiki is a great option for these individuals who experience intense pressure on a regular basis. 

Any time that you're touching another person, or in close proximity of their energy field, you are co-mingling with their energy. This can be extremely difficult when the other person is not feeling well, sick, or uncomfortable.

Reiki can be used in advance, when you know that there is a difficult situation upcoming, on the spot, or even after the fact, so it's a great tool to have box. 

Medical Professionals

Reiki can help these individuals to better handle the high stress and intense demands of the job. It also supports calm confidence in surgery and other treatment situations. Reiki can also be used in conjunction with any type of traditional medicine.

• Doctors
• Nurses
• Physicians Assistants
• Medical Assistants
• Office Staff

Social Workers & Therapists

Studies have shown that integrating mind-body practices can help with overall progress. Using Reiki may help:

• speed up the therapeutic process
• increase communication between clinician and patient
• decrease the perception of pain
• reduce emotional distress
• alleviate tension and anxiety

Hospice Workers

Studies have shown that Reiki can be helpful in hospice settings for both patients and their caregivers, without creating any additional side effects. ​

Patient symptoms including anxiety, pain, agitation, nausea, and insomnia were among the most commonly addressed with Reiki treatments.

Family members can also benefit from Reiki, as the emotional toll of hospice is heavy is draining. 

Caregivers of Children & Seniors

Reiki training gives parents, families, and caregivers new tools they can use to bring enhanced levels of caring, calming, and pain relief to their families in any situation and at any distance.

This can be helpful when caring for children, teenagers, young adults, and even elderly parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles.

Self Care

Caregivers are some of the most commonly overworked and stressed out populations. Reiki can be a great tool to use in order to help relax going into or coming out of a stressful shift or situation, and proactively address symptoms of burnout.​

Especially in family care situations, self-care is often overlooked in favor of caring for everyone else. Consistent self Reiki can help with symptoms of anxiety and depression that caregivers often face.

Reiki Benefits

Some of the benefits that you may experience from Reiki are that it:

• Helps to reduce stress
• Helps to empower the caregiver
• Establishes a self-care tool
• Gives space for caregivers to breathe and recharge
• Helps to heal the body
• Helps to provide comfort, relaxation, and pain relief to those you care for (including yourself!)

Are you a caregiver, or in a caregiver profession? How has Reiki helped you? I would love to hear about it in the comments below! 

Love,
​Arielle Sterling