Hypno-Reiki: The Spiritual Healing Combo Everyone Is Talking About
Hello love,
What happens when you merge ancient energy work such as Reiki, with the techniques of modern neuroscience, like hypnosis? Powerful change! Hypnosis + Reiki sounds too good to be true, but it isn't. This magical healing combo allows the subconscious mind and the energetic body to be transformed in each session.
Hypno-Reiki, aka hypnoReiki, is catching fire and maybe you have heard the latest buzz. In this love letter I am going to tell you what Hypno-Reiki is, the benefits of it, what to expect from a session, and dive deep into the fascinating science that explains why this combination works so powerfully.
What Is HypnoReiki? Understanding The Powerful Combination
The practice of combining hypnosis with Reiki, aka hypno-Reiki, has been gaining popularity in the spiritual and wellness communities over recent years. The enchanting combination of deep relaxation and subconscious reprograming of hypnosis with the energy balancing techniques of Reiki creates a powerful healing experience that addresses both mind and body simultaneously.
Why This Combination Works
Think of hypnosis as the software update for your mind, while Reiki is an energy optimizer for your physical and energetic body. When they are used together, they create a synergistic effect that amplifies the benefits of both modalities. While you're in a hypnotic trance state, deeply relaxed and highly receptive, the Reiki energy flows more freely through your chakras (energy centers), removing blockages with less resistance from your conscious mind.
As a Reiki master-teacher, I incorporate Reiki into EVERYTHING. If you practice Reiki, I would highly recommend you allow it to flow in all moments of your life, not just when you have a client in front of you. If you do not practice Reiki, your intention to open your heart, when embodied, may be just as powerful.
This life-force energy used to come through during my massages and is now a part of my hypnosis practice. Hypnosis would be incomplete to me as a healer without the added bonus of addressing the energetic body. Reiki is not always spoken about during a hypnosis session, but its energy is deeply felt by clients.
Understanding Hypnosis: The Science Behind The Trance
What Is Hypnosis?
Hypnosis, aka hypnotherapy, is a therapeutic technique that induces a trance state to help you relax, focus your mind, and access your subconscious mind. This heightened state of awareness can help you uncover limiting beliefs, release negative emotions, and create positive changes in your life.
The Neuroscience of Hypnosis
For decades, skeptics dismissed hypnosis as mere suggestion or placebo. However, modern neuroscience has revealed that hypnosis creates measurable, distinct changes in brain activity:
Brain Wave Patterns: Research shows that during hypnosis, theta brainwave activity increases significantly. This is the same wavelength associated with deep relaxation, meditation, and profound states of consciousness. Theta waves (4-8 Hz) are the bridge between your conscious and subconscious mind, which is why hypnotic suggestions can bypass critical thinking and embed directly into your belief systems.
Brain Region Changes: Stanford University researchers discovered that hypnosis causes changes in brain activity consistent with decreased self-consciousness, increased control of internal sensations and emotions, and reduced worry. Specifically, studies show altered activity in:
The Default Mode Network (DMN): Responsible for self-referential thinking and mind-wandering. During hypnosis, this network quiets down, reducing the mental chatter that often blocks healing.
The Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC): Shows decreased activity during hypnosis, which correlates with reduced awareness of pain and emotional distress.
The Salience Network: Becomes more connected with regions controlling bodily functions, allowing hypnotic suggestions to influence physical responses like heart rate, stress hormones, and even immune function.
Neuroplasticity in Action: During hypnosis, neuropeptides and neurotransmitters help create new neural networks inside the brain, working together with lowered brain wave frequencies to free you from old habits and thought patterns. This is neuroplasticity-your brain's ability to rewire itself-happening in real-time.
Clinical Applications
Hypnosis has been scientifically validated for treating:
Chronic pain management
Anxiety and depression
PTSD and trauma
Insomnia and sleep disorders
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
Smoking cessation and addiction
Surgical preparation and recovery
Understanding Reiki: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Research
What Is Reiki?
Reiki is an ancient Japanese energy healing technique that involves the channeling of universal life force energy to promote physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. Practitioners may use gentle touch or for a distance session, a sacred symbol to send the energy further through space and time. Reiki can balance chakras (energy centers in the body) and remove energy blockages.
The Science Behind Reiki
While Reiki originated as a spiritual practice, researchers have been studying its effects through a scientific lens. Here's what the evidence shows:
Pain and Anxiety Reduction: Multiple studies have examined Reiki's effectiveness for pain and anxiety relief. Research published in peer-reviewed journals demonstrates that Reiki therapy can produce measurable reductions in both pain levels and anxiety symptoms in adults across various conditions.
Better Than Placebo: A comprehensive review of 13 suitable studies found that 8 demonstrated Reiki being more effective than placebo, with only one providing clear evidence of not providing benefit. This suggests that Reiki's effects extend beyond simple relaxation or placebo response.
Biofield Effects: Reiki practitioners work with what's called the "biofield"-the energy field that surrounds and interpenetrates the physical body. While this concept has been difficult to measure with conventional instruments, emerging research in biofield science is providing frameworks for understanding how intention and energy transfer may influence biological systems.
Safety Profile: Importantly, there have been no reported negative effects from Reiki in any research studies, which is understandable given that no substance is ingested or applied to the skin, and Reiki touch is non-manipulative.
Stress Response Modulation: Studies suggest Reiki may work by activating the parasympathetic nervous system-your body's "rest and digest" mode-which counteracts the stress response and allows natural healing processes to function optimally.
What Reiki May Help With
Research has explored Reiki for:
Reducing pre-surgical anxiety
Managing cancer-related symptoms
Improving quality of life in palliative care
Supporting recovery from surgery
Alleviating symptoms of depression
Promoting relaxation and stress relief
Enhancing overall sense of well-being
The Benefits Of Hypno-Reiki: A Holistic Healing Powerhouse
When combined, hypnosis and Reiki complement each other beautifully, enhancing your overall healing experience. HypnoReiki sessions can help you to reach a deeper state of relaxation, to let go of mental chatter, and connect more fully with your inner-being.
Synergistic Effects
1. Amplified Receptivity
The hypnotic state can help you become more receptive to the energy healing benefits of Reiki, amplifying its effects and accelerating the release of energy blockages. When your conscious mind is quiet, your body's innate wisdom can receive and integrate healing energy without interference.
2. Deeper Trance States
The gentle, soothing energy of Reiki can help deepen the hypnotic trance, making it easier to access profound states of consciousness where deep healing and transformation occur. Many clients report reaching theta or even delta brain wave states during hypno-Reiki sessions-levels typically only accessed during deep meditation or sleep.
3. Holistic Integration
Hypno-Reiki addresses multiple dimensions of your being simultaneously:
Mental/Psychological: Through subconscious reprogramming and release of limiting beliefs
Emotional: By processing and releasing stored emotions in the body
Physical: Through the relaxation response and energy flow optimization
Spiritual: By connecting you to universal life force energy and your higher self
Energetic: By clearing chakra blockages and balancing your biofield
What You Can Expect To Experience
This combined approach can promote profound healing on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels, leading to:
Increased feelings of peace, balance, and well-being
Release of chronic stress and tension held in the body
Clarity about life direction and purpose
Dissolution of limiting beliefs and negative thought patterns
Improved sleep quality and reduced anxiety
Enhanced mind-body connection and self-awareness
Accelerated healing from physical ailments or emotional trauma
Greater sense of wholeness and integration
Deeper spiritual connection and intuitive awareness
Distance Hypno-Reiki: Does It Work?
One of the highly accessible aspects of hypno-Reiki is that it is distance healing approved. It can be practiced effectively from anywhere in the world. Quantum physics is beginning to explain what energy healers have known for millennia, that energy and intention are not bound by physical proximity.
Distance Hypnosis: Can be facilitated via video call, phone, or even pre-recorded audio sessions.
Distance Reiki: Uses sacred symbols and intention to send healing energy across space and time.
Many practitioners (myself included) offer virtual hypnoReiki sessions with powerful results. The key is to honor the time as you would an in person session. This means block out your schedule, no interruptions. You should also make yourself comfortable and close the door of the room you are in so you may complete relax. Set the mood and silence devices.
Final Thoughts
This life changing combo of subconscious reprogramming and energy work offers a unique and effective way to restore balance and harmony to your life. As we move forward, the integration of ancient wisdom practices like Reiki with evidence based therapeutic modalities like hypnosis represent the future of holistic healthcare. Healthcare is changing and hypno-Reiki will be part of the future of integrative healing.
We're living in an exciting time where science is finally catching up to what spiritual practitioners have known for centuries, that we are more than just physical bodies. We are beings of energy, consciousness, and infinite potential. HypnoReiki honors all aspects of your being. The combination of measurable neuroscience (brain wave changes, neural network rewiring) with bio field energy healing creates a comprehensive approach that's both grounded in research and open to the mystery of consciousness and healing.
Have you tried hypno-Reiki yet? Let us know your thoughts down below. If this article resonated with you, consider exploring a hypnoReiki session for yourself. Your mind, body, and spirit will thank you.
Namasté,
Shona
P.S. If you want to try hypnosis, Reiki, or connect with your angels, past lives, spirit guides, in a healing session, I’d be honored to work with you 💕
