If you’re exploring past life regression, you may find yourself wondering something that doesn’t always get a clear answer. Does Reiki healing get into past life regression, or are these two practices completely separate? It’s a natural question, especially if you’re sensitive to energy or already familiar with spiritual healing work.
When you experience past life regression hypnosis, the goal isn’t to force memories or make anything happen. Instead, the process helps you relax deeply enough to access subconscious imagery, emotions, and insights that feel meaningful for you in the present moment. Well-known regression practitioners like Brian Weiss have often explained that these experiences tend to unfold naturally when your mind and body feel calm, safe, and receptive. That relaxed state matters more than technique.
Reiki healing works from a different angle, but there is some overlap. Reiki is generally understood as a gentle way of supporting balance and flow within your energy system. It isn’t designed to access past lives on its own, and it doesn’t direct what you experience. However, many energy healers and hypnotherapists have noticed that when your nervous system settles and your energy feels more balanced, it can become easier for you to move forward in an inner experience without feeling stuck.
In my work with past life regression sessions, I’ve noticed there are moments when you may feel energetically blocked or have difficulty accessing information. When that happens, I sometimes feel intuitively guided to send Reiki energy quietly from where I’m seated, without physical contact, and always with your comfort and safety as the priority. This isn’t done to influence what you experience, but to support energetic flow when it feels like something is holding you back.
In this article, you’ll explore how Reiki and past life regression relate to one another, what experienced practitioners say about combining energy work with hypnosis, and how Reiki may support the regression process without causing or directing it. The intention here is to give you a grounded, respectful perspective so you can decide what feels aligned for your own healing journey.
What Reiki Healing Is and What It Is Not
Reiki healing is often talked about in broad or mysterious ways, which can make it hard to understand what it actually does. At its core, Reiki is a gentle energy practice focused on supporting balance, relaxation, and flow within your energy system. It isn’t about directing thoughts, retrieving memories, or guiding experiences. Instead, it’s meant to help your system settle so your body and mind can do what they already know how to do.
Reiki originated with Mikao Usui, who described Reiki as a way of working with universal life force energy to support overall well-being. Modern Reiki practitioners generally approach it as a supportive practice rather than a treatment that produces specific outcomes. In other words, Reiki doesn’t try to make something happen. It creates space.
That distinction matters, especially when you’re talking about hypnosis or regression work. Reiki does not access memories, past lives, or subconscious material on its own. It doesn’t insert images, influence thoughts, or steer your experience in a particular direction. What it can do is help your nervous system relax and your energy feel less restricted, which may make it easier for you to stay present and open during inner work.
This is why Reiki is often discussed alongside practices like meditation, breathwork, or spiritual hypnosis. All of these approaches share a common goal of calming the mind and body so awareness can turn inward more easily. Reiki simply works through energetic support rather than guided imagery or verbal suggestion.
Is Reiki meant to access past lives?
No. Reiki is not designed to access past lives or retrieve memories. It doesn’t lead you anywhere or uncover specific information. Any insights that arise during or after Reiki tend to come from your own internal awareness rather than the Reiki itself.
Can Reiki influence what you experience during hypnosis?
Reiki is not intended to influence content or outcomes. When used ethically, it supports relaxation and energetic balance, allowing your experience to unfold naturally without direction or interference.
When Reiki is understood this way, it becomes much easier to see how it may support a hypnotic or regression experience without becoming the driving force behind it. It’s not the source of the experience. It’s part of the environment that can help you feel safe, settled, and open enough to explore whatever arises.
How Past Life Regression Works
When you experience past life regression, the process isn’t about putting you into a deep, unconscious state or taking control of your mind. Instead, you’re guided into a deeply relaxed, focused state where your attention naturally turns inward. You’re aware the entire time, able to speak, notice sensations, and describe what you’re experiencing as it unfolds.
This relaxed state is similar to the feeling you might have just before falling asleep or during a vivid daydream. Your conscious mind softens, and your subconscious becomes more accessible. That’s where imagery, emotions, impressions, or symbolic scenes can begin to surface. These experiences often feel meaningful, even if they don’t arrive as clear, movie-like memories.
Many regression practitioners emphasize that what matters most is not whether the experience is interpreted as literal memory, symbolism, or imagination, but how it impacts you emotionally and energetically. Hypnotherapist and regression researcher Michael Newton often spoke about regression as a state where people access information that feels internally consistent and emotionally resonant, regardless of how the conscious mind tries to label it.
During a past life regression session, your system responds best when it feels safe, calm, and unpressured. Trying to “make something happen” or expecting a specific outcome can actually make it harder for experiences to arise. That’s why preparation, pacing, and comfort are so important, and why approaches like past life regression hypnosis focus more on relaxation than effort.
Are you aware during a past life regression session?
Yes. You remain aware, present, and in control the entire time. You’re able to speak, reflect, and notice what’s happening internally without losing consciousness.
What if nothing comes up right away during the spiritual / past life regression hypnosis session?
That’s very common. Sometimes impressions arrive slowly, subtly, or in symbolic ways. A lack of immediate imagery doesn’t mean the session isn’t working. Often, insight builds gradually as your nervous system settles.
Because regression relies so heavily on relaxation and internal openness, anything that helps you feel calmer and less restricted can support the process. This is where people often begin to notice an overlap between regression work and supportive practices like meditation, breathwork, or spiritual hypnosis. None of these create the experience for you, but they can make it easier for your inner awareness to come forward without resistance.
Where Reiki and Past Life Regression Intersect
Once you understand how past life regression works, it becomes easier to see where Reiki may naturally fit in. Both practices rely on something very simple but powerful. Your ability to relax, soften, and turn your awareness inward.
Past life regression doesn’t work because someone tells you what to see. It works because your nervous system settles enough for your inner experience to unfold without pressure. Reiki approaches that same state from an energetic perspective. Instead of using words or imagery, Reiki focuses on supporting balance and flow so your system doesn’t feel restricted or overwhelmed.
Many energy practitioners describe Reiki as creating an environment rather than an outcome. It doesn’t push information forward or guide content. It helps your body and energy field feel supported, which can make it easier for you to stay present during inner work. Some holistic practitioners have noted that when Reiki is used alongside regression or hypnosis, clients may feel less mental strain and more emotional ease as the session progresses.
This idea aligns closely with how experienced hypnotherapists view the regression process. Practitioners like Brian Weiss have long emphasized that regression unfolds best when the client feels safe, calm, and unforced. Reiki doesn’t replace hypnosis, and it doesn’t direct the experience. It simply supports the conditions that allow your subconscious to respond more freely.
You can think of Reiki as background support rather than the main focus. Just like calming music, gentle breathing, or a reassuring presence, Reiki may help reduce internal resistance. When that resistance softens, it can become easier for you to move forward if you’ve been feeling stuck or blocked during a past life regression session.
It’s important to understand that not everyone experiences this overlap in the same way. Some people notice a clear shift in ease or emotional flow, while others may not feel any noticeable difference at all. Reiki doesn’t guarantee deeper imagery or stronger memories. What it offers is support, not control.
This is why Reiki is best viewed as complementary. It doesn’t “get you into” a past life, and it doesn’t create experiences for you. Instead, it may help you stay open, relaxed, and grounded while your own inner awareness does the work.
Energy Blocks and Difficulty Moving Forward in a Session
At some point during inner work, you may notice that things slow down. You might feel foggy, disconnected, or unable to access information that felt close just moments before. This doesn’t mean the session isn’t working. In fact, it’s a very common experience during past life regression hypnosis.
From an energetic perspective, these moments often show up when energy feels blocked or restricted. Many practitioners who work with both hypnosis and energy healing describe this as a natural pause rather than a problem. It’s your system signaling that something needs support before moving forward.
Energy blocks can show up in different ways, such as:
- A sudden quiet or blank feeling where imagery fades
- Emotional tightness or pressure in the body
- A sense of being “right there” but unable to go deeper
- Mental effort creeping in as you try to make something happen
When this happens, pushing harder rarely helps. In fact, effort can increase resistance. This is why approaches that focus on safety, comfort, and relaxation tend to be more effective than those that emphasize results.
In energy-based frameworks, these pauses are often associated with blocked or overwhelmed chakras. While chakras don’t need to be interpreted literally, they offer a useful way to describe where energy may be holding tension. For example:
- Blocks in the throat or heart area may relate to unexpressed emotion
- Tension around the solar plexus can reflect control or fear of “doing it wrong”
- Root-level tension may show up as difficulty feeling safe enough to continue
Hypnotherapists and regression practitioners have long noted that emotional or energetic resistance can interrupt flow during a session. As Brian Weiss has pointed out in his work, regression experiences tend to unfold most smoothly when the client feels safe and unpressured. When safety wavers, the experience often pauses until balance is restored.
This is where supportive practices can make a difference. Not by forcing progress, but by helping your system settle back into a state where inner awareness feels accessible again. For some people, that support comes through breathwork or grounding. For others, it may come through spiritual hypnosis techniques or gentle energetic support.
The key is recognizing that being “stuck” doesn’t mean something has gone wrong. More often, it’s an invitation to soften, recalibrate, and allow the experience to unfold in its own time.
Can blocked chakras interfere with a past life regression?
They can, in the sense that emotional or energetic tension may make it harder to relax fully. When energy feels restricted, your system may pause until it feels safe enough to continue.
What should you do if you feel stuck during a session?
The most helpful response is usually to ease off effort and return to relaxation. Supportive techniques can help restore flow without pushing the experience forward.
How I Use Reiki During Hypnosis Sessions
When you’re in a deeply relaxed hypnotic state, your system is especially sensitive to comfort, safety, and subtle shifts. Because of that, I’m very intentional about how Reiki is used, and when it’s used at all.
I don’t apply Reiki physically during hypnosis. Instead, when I feel intuitively guided to use it, I send Reiki quietly from where I’m seated. This allows your experience to remain uninterrupted while still offering energetic support when something feels blocked or stalled.
I’m usually guided to use Reiki during a session when I notice things like:
- You’re feeling energetically stuck or unable to move forward
- The flow of imagery or information slows suddenly
- A chakra area feels blocked or overwhelmed
- There’s a sense of effort creeping in instead of ease
In those moments, Reiki isn’t used to direct the experience or “open” anything forcefully. Its role is much gentler than that. The intention is simply to bring supportive energy so your system can relax back into its natural rhythm.
This approach aligns closely with how Reiki has traditionally been understood since the teachings of Mikao Usui, where the focus is on supporting balance rather than producing specific outcomes. In the context of past life regression hypnosis, that distinction is especially important.
Another key part of my approach is intuitive guidance. I don’t decide ahead of time that Reiki will be used. Instead, I pay attention to subtle cues during the session and trust that guidance to determine whether energetic support would be helpful. Sometimes Reiki is used briefly. Other times, it isn’t needed at all.
What matters most is that your experience remains your own. Reiki is never meant to influence what you see, feel, or remember. It’s simply there to support energetic flow when something feels restricted.
Is it safe to use Reiki while someone is hypnotized?
Yes, when it’s done ethically and without physical contact. Sending Reiki from a distance ensures your comfort and avoids disrupting the hypnotic state.
Can Reiki interfere with hypnosis or regression?
Reiki isn’t meant to interfere or guide content. When used appropriately, it supports relaxation rather than directing the experience.
Do you use Reiki in every past life regression session?
No. Reiki is not a standard part of every session. It’s used intuitively and only when it feels supportive for you in that moment.
Because Reiki is used this way, it remains a complementary tool rather than the focus of the session. The hypnosis and your subconscious awareness are always what guide the experience. Reiki simply supports the conditions that allow things to unfold more smoothly when needed.
When Reiki Seems to Help the Most
Reiki isn’t something I reach for automatically during a session. In fact, many past life regression hypnosis sessions unfold beautifully without it. When Reiki does seem helpful, it’s usually at very specific moments where your system appears to need a little extra support rather than more effort.
In my experience, Reiki tends to be most supportive when:
- You feel energetically “stuck” even though you’re relaxed
- The session pauses suddenly without a clear reason
- Emotional energy feels present but hard to move through
- A particular chakra area feels blocked or overwhelmed
- You start trying to make something happen instead of allowing it
These moments aren’t failures or signs that the regression isn’t working. They’re often signals that your system is protecting itself or asking for a gentler approach. Reiki, when used intuitively and respectfully, can help bring things back into balance so the session can continue without pressure.
What’s important to understand is that Reiki doesn’t push you forward. It doesn’t open doors or pull information through. Instead, it supports the conditions that allow your own awareness to move naturally once the sense of restriction eases.
This aligns with how many experienced regression practitioners describe the process. As Brian Weiss has often emphasized, meaningful experiences tend to arise when the client feels safe, supported, and unforced. Reiki fits into that philosophy as a form of support, not direction.
Can Reiki make a past life regression deeper?
Reiki doesn’t make a regression deeper in a technical sense. What it can do is help reduce energetic resistance. When resistance softens, some people naturally experience more ease, clarity, or emotional flow during the session.
Why does Reiki seem to help when nothing else is working?
When effort increases, inner access often decreases. Reiki works quietly in the background, helping your system settle without requiring you to do anything. That lack of effort is often what allows things to begin moving again.
What if Reiki doesn’t seem to do anything?
That’s completely okay. Reiki isn’t meant to produce a noticeable sensation or outcome every time. Sometimes its role is subtle, and sometimes it simply isn’t needed. Your experience is valid either way.
Reiki’s value in regression work isn’t about guarantees. It’s about responsiveness. When used thoughtfully, it becomes one more way to support your system rather than trying to override it.
What Other Practitioners and Experts Say
When Reiki and past life regression are discussed together, most experienced practitioners are careful to draw a clear boundary. Reiki is not described as a method for accessing past lives, but as a supportive practice that may help someone remain calm, open, and present during inner work.
Many hypnotherapists emphasize that the depth of a regression experience depends far more on relaxation and emotional safety than on any specific technique. Regression pioneer Brian Weiss has consistently explained that meaningful experiences tend to arise when the conscious mind steps out of the way and the client feels supported rather than pressured.
Similarly, practitioners who work with life-between-lives hypnosis, such as Michael Newton, have described regression states as deeply receptive rather than effort-driven. In that receptive state, anything that reduces stress or internal resistance can be helpful, even if it isn’t directly responsible for the content of the experience.
From the Reiki perspective, teachers following the lineage of Mikao Usui often describe Reiki as a practice that supports balance rather than outcomes. Reiki is not intended to guide visions, create memories, or direct awareness. Its role is to support the whole system so it can return to equilibrium.
Across both disciplines, there is a shared understanding that:
- Inner experiences unfold best when the nervous system is calm
- Forcing or “trying” often blocks access rather than improving it
- Supportive practices work by reducing resistance, not creating content
This overlap helps explain why some practitioners observe that Reiki can be useful during moments of energetic or emotional stuckness in a past life regression session, even though it isn’t responsible for what the client experiences.
Is there research showing Reiki leads to past life memories?
No. There is currently no scientific research showing that Reiki causes or retrieves past life memories. Most research on Reiki focuses on relaxation, stress reduction, and emotional well-being rather than memory or recall.
Why do some people report vivid imagery during Reiki sessions?
Some people naturally experience imagery, emotions, or symbolic impressions when deeply relaxed. This doesn’t mean Reiki is creating the imagery. It’s more likely that the relaxed state allows inner awareness to surface in a way that feels vivid or meaningful.
Does expert support mean these experiences are proven?
Not necessarily. Many practitioners speak from clinical or experiential observation rather than scientific proof. The value is often found in how the experience feels and what insight or healing it brings, not in whether it can be objectively verified.
By understanding how experts on both sides approach this topic, it becomes easier to hold a balanced view. Reiki doesn’t replace hypnosis, and hypnosis doesn’t require Reiki. When they’re combined thoughtfully, Reiki simply becomes one more way to support the conditions that allow your inner experience to unfold naturally.
When Reiki May Not Be Necessary
It’s important to say this clearly. Reiki is not required for a meaningful or successful past life regression hypnosis session. Many regressions unfold smoothly without any energetic support at all, and that’s often the case.
Some sessions flow easily because:
- You feel safe and relaxed from the start
- Imagery or emotional impressions arise naturally
- There’s no sense of resistance or internal pressure
- Your system feels comfortable moving at its own pace
In these situations, adding Reiki wouldn’t necessarily improve the experience. In fact, introducing anything unnecessary can sometimes shift focus away from what’s already working well. This is why Reiki is best viewed as a responsive tool, not a standard part of the process.
A session doesn’t need to be intense, vivid, or dramatic to be effective. Subtle insights, emotional shifts, or a quiet sense of knowing can be just as meaningful as clear imagery. The value of regression work lies in how it supports you, not in how much happens.
Does every past life regression session benefit from Reiki?
No. Reiki is not needed in every session. It’s most useful when energy feels blocked or when the session stalls, but many people move through regression work comfortably without it.
Is it better to plan Reiki into a session ahead of time?
Not usually. Planning ahead can create expectations. Allowing the session to unfold naturally makes it easier to respond to what you actually need in the moment.
Trusting the process means recognizing when less is more. Sometimes the most supportive thing is simply staying present and allowing your experience to unfold without intervention.
After the Session and Integration
Whether Reiki is used or not, integration is an important part of any past life regression session. Inner work doesn’t always end when the session does. Insights, emotions, or subtle shifts may continue to surface afterward as your system processes the experience.
You may notice things like:
- Emotional release later in the day
- New perspectives on relationships or patterns
- A sense of clarity or calm
- Thoughts or memories resurfacing unexpectedly
This doesn’t mean something is wrong. It’s often a sign that your subconscious is continuing to integrate what came up.
Helpful integration practices can include:
- Journaling about what you noticed or felt
- Giving yourself quiet time instead of rushing back into activity
- Drinking water and grounding physically
- Not overanalyzing the experience right away
Is it normal to feel emotional after a session?
Yes. Emotional responses can be part of processing and integration. They don’t always indicate unresolved issues. Often, they reflect release or insight settling in. Learn more by reading my article on Past Life Regression Side Effects.
What if I don’t understand what came up right away?
That’s very common. Meaning doesn’t always arrive immediately. Sometimes understanding develops gradually as you reflect or notice changes in how you feel over time.
Integration doesn’t require effort or interpretation. Allowing space for the experience to settle is often enough.
Does Reiki Healing Get Into Past Life Regression?
So, does Reiki healing get into past life regression? Not directly. Reiki doesn’t access past lives, retrieve memories, or guide what you experience. What it can do, when used intuitively and ethically, is support relaxation and energetic flow when something feels blocked.
In the context of past life regression hypnosis, Reiki works best as a quiet form of support rather than a driving force. The regression itself is guided by your subconscious awareness and your readiness to explore what arises. Reiki simply helps create an environment where that exploration may feel easier and more supported.
Whether Reiki is part of your session or not, what matters most is that you feel safe, respected, and free to move at your own pace. That’s where meaningful inner work happens.
