It’s really hard to be productive when you wake up one day and feel like someone punched you in the face all night long. Especially when you can’t even enjoy the beautiful smell of a nice morning cup of coffee because your nose is blocked. 

Your day is just ruined from the start, and the fact that you have to focus your energy on just breathing to stay alive makes everything more frustrating. Not to mention the big tower of tissue paper you create trying to clear your nasal cavities.

We have all been there, some of us for weeks and others for just days, but we all understand how much sinusitis sucks. There are different alternative methods you can take to prevent sinusitis from ruining your productive day and make you feel a whole lot better.

Today you will learn how Reiki can help in your struggle with sinusitis!

What Is Sinusitis?

Sinusitis is an inflammation of the sinuses caused by a bacterial or viral infection. This inflammation can cause sinus pressure and pain in your face. As well as create congestion in your nasal cavities, produce cough, and cause fever.

There are two types of sinusitis, acute sinusitis which lasts for a couple of days to a few weeks, and chronic sinusitis which lasts for 12 or more weeks. 

What Is Reiki?

Reiki is an energy healing therapy developed in Japan that heals the mind, body, and spirit as a whole. This therapy is used to heal emotional trauma, reduce stress, and promote overall healing of the body. 

Reiki has been integrated into hospitals around the US as a therapy to assist recovering patients from chronic diseases or surgeries by improving their healing time, as Reiki speeds up your natural healing process.

It works by having a Reiki practitioner connect to the universal life force energy that surrounds all living beings in the universe and then transfer that positive energy into the patient with the intent of healing the patient-specific ailment. After the Reiki practitioner invokes the universal life force energy, he or she will transfer this energy through the laying of hands around the patient’s fully clothed body without actually touching the patient.

The positive energy will bring back balance into the patient’s body and promote healing.

How Can Reiki Help Sinusitis?

Reiki promotes healing by reducing stress and bringing balance to your body. A balanced body can function efficiently and its self-healing capabilities become heightened, making your recovery period more fulfilling. This is why Reiki can help sinusitis in 5 major ways:

1. It Can Increase Your Healing Speed

Whether you have acute sinusitis or chronic sinusitis, you already know that it takes a while for the meds to works and for you to feel better. 

Reiki stimulates your body’s ability to heal itself which normally occurs when your body enters maintenance mode while you sleep. This stimulation makes your body focus the increased energy you are getting from the transfer made by the Reiki practitioner into healing your sinusitis, making the healing process speed up and in turn reduce the healing time required.

Also by reducing stress you allow your body to self-heal without obstacles and prevent your sinusitis from getting worse due to the stress.

2. It Can Reduce Your Pain

The worst part of having sinusitis is the constant internal pain in your sinuses and the external pain on your face. Not to mention a sore throat that can develop during the worst cases. 

If you have received a Reiki session in the past, you know how relaxing it is and how relaxed all your body feels. By getting a Reiki session with the intention of healing your sinusitis, you will relax your face and reduce the pain. This relaxation will also induce rest, making your body enter maintenance mode without the need of going to sleep.

A big part of why Reiki is offered in hospitals for recovery patients from surgery or chemotherapy is the ability it has to reduce the patient’s pain and help these patients feel more comfortable.

3. It Can Unblock All Energy Pathways

The way Reiki brings balance into your body is by unblocking all energy pathways otherwise known as chakras and allow a smooth constant energy flow through your body. This constant energy flow also includes the easy circulation of all your bodily functions.

When you unblock your chakras, you increase the circulation through your body because our chakra system has been linked to our lymphatic system which is part of our circulatory system, allowing proper circulation of blood and oxygen around your body.

By unblocking your sinus chakra, commonly known as the third-eye chakra, you will release the blockage of your sinuses and nasal cavities. Releasing all the mucus and allowing you to finally breathe again.

4. It Can Relieve Headaches

Headaches are one of the most common symptoms of sinusitis and probably one of the most annoying symptoms as well. Combine them with the fact that it’s also hard to breathe, it becomes almost impossible for you not to stress out and when you stress out, the headaches become worse. It’s like a never-ending cycle of suffering.

Suffering you no longer have to endure, because as you already know, Reiki induces complete relaxation in your body and your mind at the same time. This not only reduces stress as explained before, but it can also directly relieve headaches.

In fact, Reiki sessions have been used with the sole purpose of relieving headaches due to their effectiveness to induce a deeply relaxed state. 

5. It Improves Your Sleep

One of the biggest problems with sinusitis that hardly anyone talks about is how it affects your sleep. When you have sinusitis you are not able to breathe properly during sleep, causing you to wake up during the night and interrupting your body’s maintenance mode process, making your healing very slow.

Reiki’s ability to induce complete relaxation has multiple benefits for your health as you have learned during this article. One of those benefits is the ability to improve REM sleep which is the time your body switches its energy from bodily functions to body maintenance, making your healing process faster. But it doesn’t just improve your REM sleep, it also helps you fall asleep faster because relaxation is the key to falling asleep. 

Some people even fall asleep during the Reiki session due to the high relaxed state you gain from the energy healing.

6. It Can Address & Heal The Spiritual Roots Of Sinus Problems

When you have chronic sinusitis that has been going on for more than 12 weeks, there is a big chance that it might be related to an emotional trauma such as the loss of a loved one, causing grief and sinus problems. 

A study published by the Division of Otorhinolaryngology in Croatia found that people with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop chronic sinusitis due to emotional trauma. A common PTSD that provoke chronic sinusitis is the loss of a loved one. But it can also be from any big emotional trauma you have suffered recently or in the past.

Reiki can release that emotional trauma that is provoking your chronic sinusitis and even prevent another emotional trauma from causing a sinusitis infection. These emotional traumas are the usual cause for a blocked chakra. By unblocking your Third-eye Chakra that affects your sinuses, you will be able to release the emotional trauma and start healing your body, mind, and spirit.

Comment below if you found this article helpful and let us know what other ways has Reiki helped you!

Disclaimer: The information on this website is intended for educational purposes only, and is not a substitute for advice or treatment from your physician or health-care provider. You should consult your licensed physician for any medical treatment before trying alternative medicine.