By Karen K. Harrison

The new year invites us to begin again with hope, curiosity, and a willingness to try something new. Reiki is a beautiful companion for this fresh start because it meets you exactly where you are and supports you in everything you do. This year, instead of striving or pushing, what if you simply experimented? What if each week you tried Reiki on one new thing and watched what unfolded? Keep reading for how to use Reiki. 

Reiki can support virtually every illness or injury, minor or major, and works in harmony with all other forms of care. It can ease stress, lift mood, calm anxiety, and gently shorten healing time. Reiki blends beautifully with psychotherapy, massage, medical care, exercise, meditation, and creative practices. It supports sleep, nourishes your energy field, strengthens spiritual connection, and helps empaths and sensitives feel protected and clear.

And Reiki isn’t limited to people. Plants often grow better with Reiki. Food can feel more nourishing. Animals, pets, farm animals, and even wildlife respond beautifully. You can send Reiki to past traumas, future events, loved ones, or world situations. You can use it at work to create harmony, to empower your goals, or to bring ideas to life with your creativity. Some people even notice improvements when offering Reiki to technology or everyday objects.

If you ever find yourself wondering, “Can I use Reiki for this?”—that question itself is intuition knocking on the door. The answer is simple: try it.

Once a week this year, pull out the list below and choose something new. No pressure. No perfection. Just curiosity, presence, and Reiki flowing where it’s needed most. Over time, these small experiments can lead to big shifts in health, peace, creativity, and connection.

Don’t worry.
Be Reiki. 💫

What Reiki Can Be Used For

by Karen Harrison, Licensed Reiki Master Teacher, www.karenharrison.net

• Support for virtually every illness – major or minor – multiple sclerosis, heart disease, cancer, skin problems, bruises, colds, flu, headaches
• Support for virtually every injury – major or minor – broken bones, cuts, burns.
• Works in harmony with all other kinds of treatment.
• Reduces negative side effects of surgery and chemotherapy.
• Shortens healing time.
• Improve mood and reduce anxiety
• Get quicker results by using it with psychotherapy
• Use with massage
• Use with medical professions – nursing, physical therapy, chiropractic, medical doctor, occupational therapy, and more
• Decrease stress and relax
• Plants grow better with Reiki
• Cars, camera batteries, computers
• Empower goals
• Increase your spiritual development, connect to an enlightened being
• Clear the room, release ghosts and entities
• Animals – pets, farm, and wild
• Improve the energy of the food you cook and eat
• Get to sleep or get back to sleep
• Meditate with Reiki
• Exercise with Reiki
• Enhance your creativity with art, writing, music, and dance
• Strengthen and protect energy field – especially helpful for empaths, sensitives
• Clear your energy field with Reiki
• Use at work to create better results and harmony with co-workers
• Send Reiki at a distance for – past traumas, future events
• Send Reiki at a distance for – family members, friends, world traumas
• ANYTHING and EVERYTHING
• If you wonder, can I use Reiki for …? That is your intuition giving you ideas of what to try.  Try it!
• Every week, pull out this sheet of paper and try Reiki on something new!

Don’t worry, be Reiki!