10/28/2025
✨This is the first in a new series: Harmful Myths/Misconceptions About Reiki. Because the more we clarify, the more we heal. Because truth, not fear is what brings us back into flow.
There’s something I’ve seen again and again in the Reiki world that needs to be addressed: the belief that practitioners remove or take away your “negative energy.”
After years of practice and witnessing hundreds of healing sessions, I can tell you– this isn’t how Reiki works.
And this misconception has quietly caused harm.
When we frame healing as extraction, we create fear and dependency. We teach people that their energy is bad or off or worse, something that’s stuck or attached and out of their control. This usually follows with the prompting of a service that’s done by only someone with the “gift” to “clear” them.
That’s not healing, it’s a power imbalance dressed up as spirituality. It’s icky, harmful and unnecessary.
Reiki restores harmony, creating the safety and resonance your body needs to release what it’s ready to…and in its own time, in its own way. The practitioner doesn’t take away your pain. They simply hold the frequency of compassion that allows your energy to reorganize itself.
True Reiki honors your sovereignty.
It trusts your body’s wisdom.
And it never treats you as broken.