Symptoms that suggest Reiki would benefit you:

Physical Symptoms

• Your heart pounds or races

• Having clammy or sweaty hands

• Being jumpy

• Feeling restless in your body

• Feeling twitchy or shaky

• Feeling short of breath

• Feeling a fullness or tightness in your throat or chest

• Feeling dizzy or lightheaded

• Digestive issues

• Trouble falling asleep

• Trouble getting restful sleep

• Pain

Mental/Behavioral Symptoms

• Feeling restless in your mind

• Being on edge

• Being angry or irritable

• Feeling challenged by daily decisions

• Waiting for the worst to happen

• Being distracted easily

• Having trouble concentrating

• Your mind goes black

• Finding it hard to focus on work

• Finding it hard to focus on daily tasks

• Being stuck in a negative thought pattern

• Avoiding places or people or your family

• Using drugs, alchohol, food, or screens to numb feelings

• Any challenging feelings become rage

Many of the symptoms above came from this website, but we don't use that type of diagnosis in my office.

Articles and Research

• Reiki in the Military

• Reiki and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

• Reiki and Neurological Disorders

• Reiki and Concussion

• The Effect of Reiki on Pain: A Meta-Analysis

• Autonomic Nervous System Changes During Reiki Treatment: A Preliminary Study

• Personal Interaction with a Reiki Practitioner Decreases Noise-Induced Microvascular Damage in Animal Model

What this might actually be like for you:

• You get mad at your kids for being kids.

• You lose it and then realize your wife is terrified.

• You can't handle people having a good time and think you're bringing them down.

• Maybe you're functioning at work but your home-life is going down in flames.

• Maybe you're struggling at work and at home.

• Perhaps you're breaking promises to yourself and others.

• Maybe you're just stressed all the time.

• You feel abandoned or deceived by the system you would have given your life for.

• You feel lost without a real mission or purpose.

Bad-ass people with bad-ass jobs sometimes have a hard time leaving the work-stress at work. If your work-stress is affecting your family (or if you've forgotten what it feels like to be a bad-ass) it's time for you to do something different. Get Reiki.