Communication after the treatment
Communication after the treatment
After a Reiki treatment, the wish often arises to speak about what was experienced. This is understandable. Some want to know what you perceived. Others want to tell you about their sensations. Exactly here an important part of treatment practice begins: communication afterward. Feedback is not merely a polite exchange. It also helps determine whether the session is integrated well or whether unnecessary confusion arises.
Good feedback is clear, restrained and respectful. It does not place itself above the other person's experience, but helps them place it better. Just as important is that you yourself learn to receive feedback - even when it does not match your own perception.
What you can say after a treatment
Most helpful are usually open, simple questions:
"How did you experience the treatment?" "Was there an area that was especially perceptible?" "How does your body feel now?"
Such questions leave the other person space. They do not already steer in a direction with a finished interpretation. Precisely that is valuable, because people experience Reiki very differently.
What you should rather avoid
It is tempting to explain a lot after a session. Yet sentences such as:
"There was clearly an old trauma there." "Your heart was totally blocked." "I felt exactly that you ..."
are problematic. They can overwhelm the other person or push them toward something that may not correspond to their own experience at all. Reiki makes perception finer, but it does not grant automatic authority to interpret.
A more mature approach would be:
"At the solar plexus my perception was especially strong. How was that for you?"
In this way, you share something without making it the truth about the other person.
Receiving feedback as practice
At least as important is how you take in the other person's response. Perhaps you had the feeling that a treatment was very calm, and the other person says they were inwardly restless the whole time. This is not a contradiction, but part of reality. Both perceptions can be true.
When you learn to hear responses openly, your treatment practice becomes more precise. If, on the other hand, you immediately defend yourself or want to know everything better, you remain trapped in your own idea.
An example from practice
You feel a lot of warmth at the heart space and expect that the other person must have noticed something clear there. After the session, however, they say that for them the feet were especially important. If you remain open, you learn something about their experience. If you only want to enforce your own perception, the conversation loses its quality.
The right amount
After a treatment, a long follow-up conversation is usually not needed. Often a few calm minutes are enough. Especially when the session was deep or emotional, too much speaking is more likely to disturb. Feedback should clarify the experience, not persuade.
It is also not your task to make every treatment big afterward. Sometimes it was simply calm, pleasant or unspectacular. That too is a good result.
Throat chakra and honest communication
This theme directly touches the throat chakra. Feedback needs truth, but also tact. It helps no one to gloss things over. But it helps just as little to express observations harshly or in an overloaded way. Honest, clear and simple language is the most mature form here.
If you work with symbols, Sei Heki can help in inner preparation when conversations after a treatment are emotionally charged. It often supports remaining calm and clear.
Practical examples
After a first treatment: ask a few open questions instead of immediately explaining a lot
When someone says little: respect that and do not push for big feedback
When your perception and the other person's differ: remain curious rather than correcting
When a conversation becomes very emotional: guide back to the body and the present experience
Giving and receiving feedback is part of mature Reiki practice. It shows whether you can not only treat, but also remain in relationship in a good way.
Your answer belongs in your personal Reiki journal. It grows with every day and stays with you alone.
Communication after the treatment
After a Reiki treatment, the wish often arises to speak about what was experienced. This is understandable. Some want to know what you perceived. Others want to tell you about their sensations. Exactly here an important part of treatment practice begins: communication afterward. Feedback is not merely a polite exchange. It also helps determine whether the session is integrated well or whether unnecessary confusion arises.
Good feedback is clear, restrained and respectful. It does not place itself above the other person's experience, but helps them place it better. Just as important is that you yourself learn to receive feedback - even when it does not match your own perception.
What you can say after a treatment
Most helpful are usually open, simple questions:
"How did you experience the treatment?" "Was there an area that was especially perceptible?" "How does your body feel now?"
Such questions leave the other person space. They do not already steer in a direction with a finished interpretation. Precisely that is valuable, because people experience Reiki very differently.
What you should rather avoid
It is tempting to explain a lot after a session. Yet sentences such as:
"There was clearly an old trauma there." "Your heart was totally blocked." "I felt exactly that you ..."
are problematic. They can overwhelm the other person or push them toward something that may not correspond to their own experience at all. Reiki makes perception finer, but it does not grant automatic authority to interpret.
A more mature approach would be:
"At the solar plexus my perception was especially strong. How was that for you?"
In this way, you share something without making it the truth about the other person.
Receiving feedback as practice
At least as important is how you take in the other person's response. Perhaps you had the feeling that a treatment was very calm, and the other person says they were inwardly restless the whole time. This is not a contradiction, but part of reality. Both perceptions can be true.
When you learn to hear responses openly, your treatment practice becomes more precise. If, on the other hand, you immediately defend yourself or want to know everything better, you remain trapped in your own idea.
An example from practice
You feel a lot of warmth at the heart space and expect that the other person must have noticed something clear there. After the session, however, they say that for them the feet were especially important. If you remain open, you learn something about their experience. If you only want to enforce your own perception, the conversation loses its quality.
The right amount
After a treatment, a long follow-up conversation is usually not needed. Often a few calm minutes are enough. Especially when the session was deep or emotional, too much speaking is more likely to disturb. Feedback should clarify the experience, not persuade.
It is also not your task to make every treatment big afterward. Sometimes it was simply calm, pleasant or unspectacular. That too is a good result.
Throat chakra and honest communication
This theme directly touches the throat chakra. Feedback needs truth, but also tact. It helps no one to gloss things over. But it helps just as little to express observations harshly or in an overloaded way. Honest, clear and simple language is the most mature form here.
If you work with symbols, Sei Heki can help in inner preparation when conversations after a treatment are emotionally charged. It often supports remaining calm and clear.
Practical examples
After a first treatment: ask a few open questions instead of immediately explaining a lot
When someone says little: respect that and do not push for big feedback
When your perception and the other person's differ: remain curious rather than correcting
When a conversation becomes very emotional: guide back to the body and the present experience
Giving and receiving feedback is part of mature Reiki practice. It shows whether you can not only treat, but also remain in relationship in a good way.
Your answer belongs in your personal Reiki journal. It grows with every day and stays with you alone.
Communication after the treatment
After a Reiki treatment, the wish often arises to speak about what was experienced. This is understandable. Some want to know what you perceived. Others want to tell you about their sensations. Exactly here an important part of treatment practice begins: communication afterward. Feedback is not merely a polite exchange. It also helps determine whether the session is integrated well or whether unnecessary confusion arises.
Good feedback is clear, restrained and respectful. It does not place itself above the other person's experience, but helps them place it better. Just as important is that you yourself learn to receive feedback - even when it does not match your own perception.
What you can say after a treatment
Most helpful are usually open, simple questions:
"How did you experience the treatment?" "Was there an area that was especially perceptible?" "How does your body feel now?"
Such questions leave the other person space. They do not already steer in a direction with a finished interpretation. Precisely that is valuable, because people experience Reiki very differently.
What you should rather avoid
It is tempting to explain a lot after a session. Yet sentences such as:
"There was clearly an old trauma there." "Your heart was totally blocked." "I felt exactly that you ..."
are problematic. They can overwhelm the other person or push them toward something that may not correspond to their own experience at all. Reiki makes perception finer, but it does not grant automatic authority to interpret.
A more mature approach would be:
"At the solar plexus my perception was especially strong. How was that for you?"
In this way, you share something without making it the truth about the other person.
Receiving feedback as practice
At least as important is how you take in the other person's response. Perhaps you had the feeling that a treatment was very calm, and the other person says they were inwardly restless the whole time. This is not a contradiction, but part of reality. Both perceptions can be true.
When you learn to hear responses openly, your treatment practice becomes more precise. If, on the other hand, you immediately defend yourself or want to know everything better, you remain trapped in your own idea.
An example from practice
You feel a lot of warmth at the heart space and expect that the other person must have noticed something clear there. After the session, however, they say that for them the feet were especially important. If you remain open, you learn something about their experience. If you only want to enforce your own perception, the conversation loses its quality.
The right amount
After a treatment, a long follow-up conversation is usually not needed. Often a few calm minutes are enough. Especially when the session was deep or emotional, too much speaking is more likely to disturb. Feedback should clarify the experience, not persuade.
It is also not your task to make every treatment big afterward. Sometimes it was simply calm, pleasant or unspectacular. That too is a good result.
Throat chakra and honest communication
This theme directly touches the throat chakra. Feedback needs truth, but also tact. It helps no one to gloss things over. But it helps just as little to express observations harshly or in an overloaded way. Honest, clear and simple language is the most mature form here.
If you work with symbols, Sei Heki can help in inner preparation when conversations after a treatment are emotionally charged. It often supports remaining calm and clear.
Practical examples
After a first treatment: ask a few open questions instead of immediately explaining a lot
When someone says little: respect that and do not push for big feedback
When your perception and the other person's differ: remain curious rather than correcting
When a conversation becomes very emotional: guide back to the body and the present experience
Giving and receiving feedback is part of mature Reiki practice. It shows whether you can not only treat, but also remain in relationship in a good way.
Your answer belongs in your personal Reiki journal. It grows with every day and stays with you alone.
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