It happens to everyone—the unexpected or the “worst possible” scenario. You don’t know how to work through it (though you think you should), and the approaches you’ve used in the past aren’t working this time. You just want to feel better.

Although your specific situation may be a little different, there’s a common quality to our struggle and longing. Reiki has helped people in all of these situations.

Your life seems to be more demanding than your ability to cope with it. Everyone needs something from you, and you think you will never catch up.

You have tried to take a deep breath and exercise, but it adds to your schedule. You are becoming increasingly irritable, you have poor sleep, and you may feel anxious or depressed.

You are in for a big treat right now. You are in good hands, but the side effects are troubling. Perhaps you are in pain and as good as your medical team is, they cannot cure the anxiety about what it can do for you in the long run. In addition, you worry that your anxiety is disrupting the healing process.

This relationship may have gone sour or someone important to you may have died. Either way, you feel alone. You have tried to help support groups or talk to friends, but they may not feel what a big empty hole feels like.

Through your choice or boss, the career is over. Or you may have lost your focus in life. Work used to be a place where you really felt in charge. You knew who you were and had a clear life purpose. But now, the industry has changed, or you have lost your job, or your youthful enthusiasm. No matter how many self-help articles you read, you are feeling more and more listless and useless.

Things are going okay, but you feel a nagging restlessness, a sense that there’s more to life than meets the eye. You know there’s a larger truth than the one we live day-to-day, but you don’t quite know where to look for it.

Reiki is a powerful and gentle healing technique. Reiki does not work on any one intelligence, so anyone can be done irrespective of their education, caste, religion, gender and age.