How Does Virtual Reiki Work?

Let me start by saying that this is a totally valid question. Reiki seems like a situation where you’re holding your hands over, or even directly touching someone. How on earth does it work when you’re across the country or around the world? 

The cheeky answer is that it doesn’t “on earth.” The more serious answer is that Reiki is a powerful energy that isn’t bound by time or space. Just like prayer. My mom in Indiana can pray for me (and I know she does!) and the prayers get where they are meant to go (even all the way to me in Vienna, Austria). I am impacted in the ways I am meant to be impacted.

And note, this isn’t a new thing. It’s not like 2020 happened and the Reiki world was like “hmmm we should be virtual.” The whole practice of Reiki has been set up that way from the beginning.