In-depth:

A brief comparison of two hands-on

healing modalities

Turbo-charging

Quantum Touch is frequently said to ‘turbo-charge’ and ‘empower’ Reiki, but while Quantum Touch certainly benefits Reiki, it by no means replaces it.

Stand-alone

Working extensively with Quantum Touch, sometimes using it as a tool to enhance Reiki, has taught me a lot about the special qualities of Reiki, both as method to be used along-side with and in combination with Quantum Touch and as an independent, stand-alone healing therapy.

Body-spirit

While Quantum Touch usually works better in alleviating acute and chronic physical complaints, Reiki generally brings the recipient much more directly into touch with his or her spiritual nature and spiritual forces.

Reiki is often preferred by people with a practiced and easy contact with spirit and people who are naturally highly sensitive to energy. On the other hand, extremely over-sensitive people may find Quantum Touch easier to digest as it is a very grounding energy.

Quantum Touch also works on the emotions and has a spiritual component, but while in my experience Reiki speaks directly to the spirit, Quantum Touch speaks first to the body, addressing spirit through the body, while with Reiki, the body is addressed through spirit.

Quantum Touch brings the body into realignment fast, often also realigning the emotions, rapidly removing blockages and showing the recipient the sunny side of life.

Reiki may also give instant relief, for example from a headache or insomnia, but frequently also offers a much more wide-ranging spiritual experience, providing pointers for further spiritual growth.
Each practitioner and each recipient of these or other healing modalities will have their own experience and their own interpretation of their experience.

Yin and Yang

There are also essential differences in the ways in which Reiki and Quantum Touch are generated and how they work.

The power to give Reiki is passed by the teacher to the student by means of an attunement, a brief ritual using symbols placed in the student’s aura, after which the student has access to the energy. A Reiki practitioner taps into life-force energy with an external source, divinely guided life-force energy.

The process requires an opening up and a passive, yin-like approach. The fact that attunements work contribute to giving Reiki a mystical allure only explicable in terms of spirit.

Quantum Touch requires no attunements but is generated by a combination of body-awareness, breathing techniques and visualization, an active, yang-like process. The combination raises the practitioner’s vibrational level in a way that the recipient can easily entrain to, meaning that the recipient’s body raises itself to the level of the practitioner. In entraining to high-vibrational energy, the recipient’s bodily intelligence directs its own healing process. There is a sense of healing coming from within, of having a very physical essence, and the feeling that it is the body’s spirituality or innate intelligence that is conducting the course of events.

Reiki on the other hand seems to originate externally and is spiritually guided by the nature of the energy itself, although the recipient must be willing to respond at a spiritual level for the healing to work.

Core transformation

An advanced form of Quantum Touch called Core Transformation utilizes a yin-like approach, emphasizing quietening down and opening up.

However, the process is still much more active than Reiki, as techniques must be mastered and utilized at the same time as opening up, whereas Reiki merely needs the practitioner to step back and allow the energy to flow of its own accord.