Everything Is Energy: The Foundation of Reiki Healing

In Reiki, we understand that everything is energy. Energy is frequency, vibration, movement — it’s never still. Our bodies, thoughts, emotions, and even our physical symptoms are all expressions of energy in different forms. When energy flows freely, we experience balance, vitality, and wellbeing. When it doesn’t, disharmony begins to form.

Emotions are a particularly potent form of energy. They are literally energy-in-motion. Every time you feel an emotion, it creates a pulse through your energy field and physical body. The stronger the emotion, the stronger the energetic pulse — and the greater the impact on your system if that energy isn’t allowed to move through and release.

When emotions get stuck, the body speaks

Our emotions are designed to flow through us, just like water in a river. When emotions are felt, expressed, processed, and released, energy continues to move naturally. But when emotions are suppressed, avoided, or held onto, that energy begins to stagnate — like a dam placed in a river. Feeling emotions is not the enemy – but holding onto them creates problems.

Stagnant water becomes unsafe to drink; it breeds bacteria and disease. The same is true in the body. Stagnant emotional energy can become dense, heavy, and eventually manifest as physical discomfort, pain, or illness. This is where Reiki healing often works in deeply subtle yet powerful ways — by restoring flow where energy has become stuck.

My throat bobble: a personal Reiki healing miracle

For as long as I can remember, I had a persistent “throat bobble” – a lump-like sensation in my throat that was uncomfortable and sometimes very painful. I saw countless GPs, had scans, tests, and investigations, yet nothing ever showed up. No diagnosis or explanation. And yet, it was always there.

When I experienced Reiki healing for the first time, something unexpected happened. During the session, I noticed the bobble shift. It didn’t disappear immediately, but something moved. After just five Reiki sessions, the throat bobble completely vanished. Just…gone! For years my throat had always been the first place to get sick and the last to recover. To have that long-standing symptom disappear felt nothing short of miraculous.

Reiki, the chakras & emotional storage

Now, after years of practicing Reiki and energy healing, I understand what was happening on a much deeper level. The throat chakra governs communication, self-expression, truth, and being heard. Unexpressed emotions, suppressed truth, and old experiences can easily become stored here (I know!)

Reiki doesn’t force healing. By removing blockages (aka stuck emotional energy), it gently allows energy to come back into harmony. Once the stored emotional energy in my throat was released, my physical body no longer needed to hold the symptom. This is something I’ve seen time and time again in myself and in my clients, where emotional and energetic release leads to physical healing. 

Kundalini awakening & the layers of healing

Over the past few years, my kundalini awakening has taken this understanding even deeper. Kundalini is an incredibly powerful life-force energy that moves through the chakras, beginning at the root and rising upward. As it moves, it doesn’t just release emotion — it unlocks the memory, trauma, and experience associated with when that emotion first became stored.

Healing is not linear. Our chakras are like onions, with layers and sheaths that are revealed over time. This is why physical symptoms can come and go, flare up, subside, and return again. Each layer is an invitation for deeper awareness, compassion, and release.

Sitting with the body: my meditative practice

Through meditation, self-Reiki, and psychic intuition, I’ve taught myself to sit with different parts of my body and listen. I close my eyes, ground my energy, and start at the crown chakra. Rather than doing Reiki, this practice involves simply witnessing what shows up through imagery and sensation.

In my mind’s eye, I often see a version of myself sitting on a bench at the beach, my happy place. Each chakra presents a different “Casey.” Sometimes she cries, sometimes she dances, sometimes she curls up into the foetal position! Sometimes she shrinks and becomes ‘little Casey’ — my inner child. These images reveal the emotions and where they started in that part of my body.

Witnessing without forcing healing

I start by just witnessing to see what happens. Then I sit beside her, giving her a cuddle, throwing rocks into the ocean, or holding her while she cries — whatever she needs. I meet her where she’s at, joining in with her so she’s not alone, then eventually soothing her. Once her energy settles, I move on to the next chakra or body part and repeat the process.

This practice has shown me again and again that long-standing physical pain is often connected to stored emotion, from current or younger parts of ourselves that are still holding something unresolved. When these parts feel seen, heard, and understood, energy begins to soften and move.

A powerful third eye release

During a particularly intense period of anxiety over the Christmas/New Year holidays, I could feel kundalini was pushing something to the surface. When I sat and witnessed my third eye energy, I saw ‘third eye Casey’ shrink into ‘little Casey’…but she had a massive dark presence on her back — like an enormous backpack. I instantly knew it wasn’t hers. It was generational.

As I cleared it, I experienced a profound psychic vision. I saw my body as a multidimensional astral map, and a pattern interwoven like a network, or roots beneath the earth. I pulled the entire pattern out, the bulb, roots and all. The knowing was instant: something that had been deeply ingrained had shifted.

When energy moves, the body responds

The week leading up to that release had been incredibly physically painful. I couldn’t get out of bed, my arms and legs felt like jelly, and I was utterly exhausted. But after that intense third eye experience, my symptoms slowly began to ease. Not just the current exhaustion, but long-standing physical issues that I’ve been dealing with for years since Kundalini first kicked off.

I have been trying everything to help with these physical issues over the years, but this energetic, generational and emotional release has honestly been incredible. And what made it even more amazing, is that I did it through visualisation, energy healing, and psychic intuitive guidance. It’s tangible proof yet again, that the work I do with myself, and my clients, works. It’s not just a woo-woo nice feeling, it literally heals on every single level – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.

Healing is not a one-and-done experience. But when stored emotional energy is released, the body often follows. Energy reorganises. Harmony begins to return, and we start to feel better.

Why Reiki works on every level

This is why in my Reiki & Energy Alchemy sessions, we work with the whole system — the body, mind, emotions, and energy. Nothing exists in isolation. Thoughts create emotion. Emotions are energy-in-motion. When energy becomes stuck, the body often manifests this physically.

The body wants to heal. Reiki simply creates the conditions for that healing to occur by restoring energetic flow, supporting emotional release and processing, and bringing the system back into balance.

Let energy flow again

When emotions are acknowledged and released, energy moves freely — and when energy flows, life flows. This is why in my sessions, I welcome all emotions. Tears, anger, frustration, hurt…it’s all ok. I’m here to hold space for it all.

I have zero doubt in the power of Reiki healing, nor in the intelligence of the body and the emotional wisdom it holds. If you’re experiencing recurring physical symptoms, persistent tension, or a sense that something is “stuck,” Reiki & Energy Alchemy sessions can offer incredible support.

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