Reiki is a technique of energy healing by laying on of hands.​The practitioner has become a "channel" through an initiation which allows him to transmit energy to the recipient. From the 2nd degree the practitioner uses the symbols to strengthen the energy.
Each of us has a healing potential within us that makes it capable of healing on our own.​ The therapist who uses Reiki creates, through the universal energy, the conditions which allow the patient to heal himself at all levels of illness or suffering.​Energy passes through the donor who transmits it to the recipient.​