top of page

How Does Energy Healing Work?

  • Mar 7, 2022
  • 3 min read

Written by: Kim Conway, Executive Contributor

Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise.

Have you ever wondered how we heal? What is happening when we begin to feel better and move away from the effects of life stressors, trauma, hurt, and pain?

There is a part within us where wellness resides, and we are completely balanced. This part is our foundation—our healthy selves, our spirits, our souls. Each life experience builds upon this part—whether it has been positive or negative. As we progress through life, our foundation can become buried by our experiences, and we forget that we are balanced and composed of strength and love. Each difficult human experience leads to behavior changes, emotions, stresses, anxiety, depression, and other struggles. This is our human cloak. It surrounds our foundation, our true selves. We begin to identify and define ourselves by our experiences and not our foundation. When we remove this human cloak, we reveal wellness and perfection.

During a Reiki session, drawing this foundation forward empowers the healing process. Because it is our true selves, filled with compassion, wisdom and love, it can heal us to the greatest capacity. This is powerful! Reiki is a spiritual practice; it puts us in touch with higher wisdom. Both clients and practitioners often have the same experiences during the session—seeing the same visions and receiving the same messages.


How is Reiki given?


It can be sent by distance or in person. Sessions begin with clients setting intentions for their healing. Clients do this in their minds or verbally. Without knowing the client’s intentions, intuitive Reiki practitioners can connect to higher wisdom and direct the Reiki energy to where they know the client needs healing!


What can Reiki help?


Reiki helps with modifying stress, anxiety, mood, energy, sleep, trauma, physical symptoms, and situations. It balances the body and chakras—the energy points in the body where energy moves in and out. They can become blocked with life experiences and physical ailments. At the beginning of the session, practitioners check these chakras intuitively by feeling the energy or with a pendulum. This is fun for clients, as they learn about their own chakra energy. Each chakra is connected to a physical and emotional part of us. This will make sense to clients because the imbalances will reflect their struggles.


During the session, clients rest peacefully and often fall asleep. Practitioners place their hands gently on or over them. For distance Reiki, the practitioner utilizes special techniques to send it. Reiki continues to heal for many days after the session has been completed! Clients notice a difference, not just immediately following the session but for days to come.


How does this healing energy do its magic?


Currently, we are unable to answer this question scientifically. Reiki energy connects to the universal life force, and engages our spirits and souls to heal us. As a Reiki practitioner, I do not call myself a healer, I am merely making the healing possible by giving Reiki to connect to the person’s soul to do the healing. There is however, exciting scientific evidence now showing the positive effects of Reiki. Science is proving what we Reiki practitioners already know; Reiki heals!

Listen to Kim’s inspired writing and talks on YouTube.


If you would like to try guided meditation, try my meditation album, Soul Journeys, on Spotify, iTunes and YouTubeMusic.


For more info, follow me on Facebook, Instagram and visit my website!


Kim Conway, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine

Kim Conway, LICSW, Coach, Medium, Reiki Master. Kim believes we all have the capacity to overcome our struggles and that our souls are the most powerful healers and our greatest guides. Her approach is spiritual, helping clients develop a relationship with their souls, which support us in every aspect of our lives and help us heal, evolve, and grow. She incorporates intuitive work, energy healing, and education in her soul coaching program to help you discover and know your soul for personal development, guidance, and healing.

Kim is a LICSW, developed spiritual medium, and Reiki Master Teacher who offers soul coaching, mediumship, intuitive and Oracle card readings, meditations, energy healing, and spiritual and intuitive development classes. You can listen to her Podcast, Soul Inspirations,

and meditation album: Soul Journeys, for inspiration and healing. Kim is the Entrepreneuress of Kim Conway, LLC.

 
 

This article is published in collaboration with Brainz Magazine’s network of global experts, carefully selected to share real, valuable insights.

Article Image

Why You Do Not Actually Want to Live Without Anxiety

You are making dinner when suddenly the smoke alarm starts blaring. There is no fire, just a little smoke from the pan. Annoying, yes. But would you really want to live without that alarm at all?

Article Image

Consumer Loans in the Euro Area Remain More Than Twice as Expensive as Mortgages — and the Baltics Stand Out

Fresh figures from the European Central Bank (ECB) underline a growing divide between everyday borrowing and housing finance across Europe. In December 2025, the interest rate on new consumer loans in the euro area averaged 7.15%, while mortgage borrowing costs—measured using a weighted “composite cost-of-borrowing indicator”—stood at 3.32%.

That’s a gap of 3.83 percentage points. Put differently, consumer credit is about 2.15 times more expensive than mortgages—roughly 115% higher in relative

Article Image

From Fear to Flow and the Mindset Shift That Unlocks Creative Problem-Solving

When fear is running the show, your mind becomes efficient, controlled, and strangely uncreative, even when you are brilliant. If that sentence landed, stay with it for a moment. Because what I see time...

Article Image

When a Career You Love Ends and What to Do Next?

Over the past few years, a quiet storm has been building across industries once considered ‘buzzing’, reliable careers. What began as temporary pandemic-era shifts has escalated into a substantial...

Article Image

How Delays in Access to Work Applications Impact Job Security and Business Finances

There is a huge backlog in the number of new or existing Access to Work applications being processed, which drastically affects the level of job security and employer finances. That’s according to...

Article Image

Following Trends vs. Following Your DNA – Which Approach Leads to Better Wellness?

What if the secret to your health has been hidden in your DNA all along? The silent code guiding your every move. How genetics may explain what lifestyle advice often cannot.

Why Sustainable Weight Loss Requires an Identity Shift, Not Just Calorie Control

4 Stress Management Tips to Improve Heart Health

Why High Performers Need to Learn Self-Regulation

How to Engage When Someone Openly Disagrees with You

How to Parent When Your Nervous System is Stuck in Survival Mode

But Won’t Couples Therapy Just Make Things Worse?

The Father Wound Success Women Don't Talk About

Why the Grand Awakening Is a Call to Conscious Leadership

Why Stress, Not You, Is Causing Your Sleep Problems

bottom of page