How Reiki Can Help You Recover From Heartbreak

One of Reiki’s hallmarks is its ability to clear out heavy energy, including the gut-wrenching sadness and grief that most people feel after a breakup. Reiki practitioners channel energy through our hands to clear out the places where sadness and grief are sitting in the body.

When we’re in any kind of relationship—with family, friends, or partners—our energies intertwine with theirs. I often explain the energetic body, or aura, as what we commonly think of as personal space. Whenever someone is inside our energy field or personal space, our energy intermingles with theirs. Over time, this exchange can create connections, sometimes called “cords” or “energetic ties,” between two people.

Imagine how much time we spend intertwined with a romantic partner. It stands to reason that one of the most painful parts of a breakup is severing that energetic bond. Those bonds that connect us to our partners across time and space take time to dissolve after a breakup.

At the same time that heaviness, sadness, and grief are cleared out of the energy body, lightness is infused. Because Reiki taps into life force energy, which is essentially unconditional love, clients experience lightness and a sense of calm during and after a session.

Additionally, because Reiki treatments promote physical relaxation, they can provide a much-needed respite from obsessive thoughts—this can mean anything from replaying the breakup to reliving the good times to beating themselves up over what went wrong or what they could have done differently.

Many clients have post-Reiki epiphanies, or moments of intense, healing clarity. Because Reiki moves energetic blockages from the body, it clears away burdensome emotions, helping us think more clearly and understand better what we were meant to learn from the relationship and breakup.

I’ve worked with so many clients through the course of a breakup who, months later, contact me to tell me about the new love in their life. Sometimes we work directly on attracting new partnership after they’ve healed the wounds of their breakup.

Yet more often, because they’ve cleared away the baggage and internalized their lessons, they naturally find themselves in a clearer emotional and energetic space to attract new and healthy love into their lives.