Access Bars or Reiki? Discover the differences and how they can support you
Asking if one is better than the other is like asking if cheesecake is better than ice cream. They are both amazing healing techniques that simply aim at different outcomes.
This blog aims to help you understand the main differences between Access Bars and Reiki, so when you book your session you can make an informed decision.
In this blog:
Does the practitioner uses their own energy during treatment?
How does a shamanic practitioner works with energy?
How to choose between Reiki or Access Bars?
To choose between Reiki and Access Bars, you must first ask yourself: Why am I seeking treatment?—It’s okay to not know the answer to that straight away and this is exactly the reason I created this blog post. I will try to make it as clear and straight forward as possible, read on.
What is Reiki
Reiki is an energy healing technique channeled by Mr Mikao Usui in Japan in the 1800s. As like many channelers, Mr Usui received the information (energy transmission) and developed the technique which he called Reiki.
Reiki restores balance by channeling universal energy into the body (‘Ki’ in Japanese, also called under different traditions ‘Chi, Prana, Xi or Sami’). It’s ideal for anyone seeking relaxation, stress relief, emotional healing, or energetic alignment. Reiki enhances vitality and supports your emotional and physical well-being, creating harmony in body, mind, and spirit.
Reiki main benefits
Promoting relaxation: Reiki is renowned for its ability to induce a state of deep relaxation and calm, helping to alleviate stress and tension.
Balancing the energy centers: By clearing blockages and aligning the body's energy centers, Reiki restores balance to the mind, body, and spirit. It also addresses emotional and spiritual aspects, fostering a sense of peace and well-being.
Supporting healing: Reiki can accelerate the body's natural healing processes, supporting recovery from illness, injury, or emotional trauma. People living with health conditions or terminal illnesses can receive Reiki alongside their regular treatment.
Enhancing overall well-being: Regular Reiki sessions can boost energy levels, improve sleep quality, and overall well-being.
Offer pain relief: Many individuals find relief from chronic pain and discomfort through regular Reiki sessions.
Managing stress: The gentle nature of Reiki therapy has a soothing effect on patients who are overwhelmed with invasive therapies, resulting in fear or stress.
There’s no such thing as someone using Reiki energy to send low vibes. It wouldn’t work, it wouldn’t flow because Reiki works with high vibrational energy: the energy of love, excitement, joy! So, no harm can be done with Reiki.
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What is Access Bars©
Access Bars is a gentle body process that involves touching 32 points on the head to release limiting beliefs, old patterns, and constant mind chatter from the energy field of your mind. It is the core tool under the umbrella of Access Consciousness©.
This process helps you let go of what no longer serves you from the point of view that all that crosses our mind are stories we tell ourselves so Access Bars helps you release that energy charge from your mind field, allowing you to reconnect with your inner radiance.
At its core, Access Bars is an invitation to explore a new way of thinking, being, and perceiving the world around you.
I believe it works for anyone looking to reduce mind-chatter, let go of limiting beliefs, increase awareness, and release old stories. It creates more space for ease and possibility in life, allowing for greater awareness, new possibilities, and a more expansive way of being.
It’s like hitting the reset button for your mind and energy field.
Access Bars© main benefits
Access Bars helps identify and release limiting beliefs, old programs running in your mind, conditioned patterns and thought processes and judgments that may be holding you back.
Increase your awareness. The sessions facilitate a heightened sense of awareness, empowering individuals to make conscious choices and live in the present moment.
Access Bars can help to release stored emotions and trauma, allowing individuals to navigate life's challenges with greater ease and resilience.
Greater joy and ease by letting go of resistance and embracing change, Access Consciousness cultivates a sense of joy, ease, and empowerment in everyday life.
Reduced stress and anxiety. Access Bars sessions are known for inducing a deep state of relaxation, helping to alleviate stress and anxiety.
Stimulates profound focus: Clients often report feeling clearer and more focused after an Access Bars session, as it helps to quiet the chatter of the mind.
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Comparing Access Bars and Reiki
Both Access Bars and Reiki are beautiful, gentle healing modalities that work with the body's energy field but they come from very different traditions and offer different experiences. Reiki is a Japanese practice that channels universal life force energy through light touch or no touch at all, working to restore balance across the whole body, mind, and spirit.
Access Bars is a newer modality that works with 32 specific points on the head, gently held to release the electromagnetic charge of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs that may be limiting you.
Both can leave you feeling deeply relaxed, lighter, and more at ease, they simply get there in different ways. I offer both, so if you're unsure which one is right for you, trust your gut or reach out and we can figure it out together.
Does the practitioner uses their own energy during treatment?
Short answer is no, we practitioners or facilitators do not use our own energy in the client. Also, your energy does not go into my energy field and get stuck there.
Energy workers like me, facilitators, and practitioners become a channel—a vessel for energy to flow through us as a conduit. With practice, our ability to channel energy increases so more energy can flow at a faster rate. Each practitioner and each client is different, and so each treatment will be different.
The practitioner essentially holds space for transformation to happen within the client. We are not going to ‘heal’ anyone. Our job is to create space, awareness, and consciousness in the client so they can change, transform, and ultimately heal from within. Basically become a walking high vibrational individual—that is my personal ultimately goal.
How does a shamanic practitioner works with energy?
Shamanism is one of humanity’s oldest spiritual languages, the oldest, most ancient form of energy facilitation and healing. It isn’t a religion, but rather a way of being in relationship with the Earth, with the spirits of nature, with ancestors of all backgrounds, and with the unseen realms that support life.
“The unseen realms that support life” = universal life force, as I explained previously—which is what Mr. Usui channeled all those centuries ago, and later on, the creators of Access Bars did the same in the 90s. “Same same, but different.”
Energy healing under the umbrella of shamanism is rooted in indigenous shamanic cosmology. It’s animistic: the understanding that everything is alive and conscious. That everything has its own energy field and life force energy, which is exactly what we use and learn to facilitate as modern energy facilitators.
There you go, this is how I bridge ancient practices from indigenous traditions with modern life. This is the core of my practice, my values, and my service to the collective.
