Many Reiki Masters and practitioners have greatly enjoyed the Pranic Healing classes and find them a useful complement to the work they do. They express that Pranic Healing “fills in the gaps” and makes the “why’s” of energetic medicine more explicit. Here are some of the major differences between the two modalities:

1. Pranic Healing is a no-touch system of healing. Reiki does employ some touch during a session.
2. Pranic Healing teaches students to “scan” the energetic field systematically to locate areas of congestion and depletion. Reiki usually doesn’t use an energetic assessment technique and relies more upon the intuition of the practitioner.
3. Pranic Healing employs a manual cleansing technique to remove blockages, stagnant and diseased energy from the chakras or organs of the body before energising. This helps to prevent a radical reaction when healing and enhances the body’s ability to absorb prana. Reiki practitioners find this technique very useful.
4. Pranic Healing uses a protocol based approach. This means that when someone comes in with a headache, for example, the approach is very different than if someone comes in with a chronic back pain. When you understand the energetic anatomy and functions of the chakras more specifically, then you understand how certain disease processes will affect the energetic field. Pranic Healing approaches healing with more specific protocols.
5. Pranic Healing includes a practice called “energetic hygiene” rarely found in other healing modalities. Energetic hygiene is a set of practices: breathing, dietary recommendations and other cleansing routines designed to keep your personal energy tank clean and full.

Reiki Masters attending Pranic Healing classes agree that energetic hygiene is one of the greatest benefits of the class, particularly the techniques to cleanse themselves of contaminating energy they pick up from clients and how to prevent subjects or negative people from draining their life force. This is particularly important not only for Reiki practitioners but also other healthcare providers because these people frequently experience pain or the ailment of their subjects and become drained and tired after healing someone.

6. Pranic Healing employs the use of colour energies that dramatically accelerate the body’s innate healing abilities. In fact, many Reiki Masters who have taken Pranic Healing often say that if they have a subject who wants immediate relief or rapid healing, they use Pranic Healing — particularly, the colour Prana techniques taught in the Advanced Pranic Healing Course.