Great book for anyone intrigued by Reiki or for people who have tried it who would like to know more. This book is really well laid out and easy to follow due to its fabulous illustrations. Makes it easy to access the knowledge about Reiki and all its different components. Would be a lovely gift for someone interested in this field. Loved it.

Press Here! Reiki for Beginners Book and Card Deck is a superb guide to the practice of Reiki, or the Japanese word for Universal Life Energy. Energy flows through your body and when that energy is blocked, it causes illness. Press Here is literal: the book shows you, though illustrations and descriptions, exactly how to place your hands in energy work. 

Touch and meditation work together in all chapters of this well organized guide. Victor Archuleta shows how to do work on yourself alone or on others, progressing from your head to your feet. Chakras, meaning wheels in Sanskrit, are energy points. Blocked chakras can lead to problems in the areas in the body that correspond to specific chakras. An explanation of chakras is followed by  “hands on” work. A list of ailments referring to the pages that show how to relieve them concludes this outstanding self help book. 5 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley, Quarto Publishing Group and Victor Archuleta for this ARC.

A super mini guide to reiki. I found this immensely useful to help remember where hands should be placed plus remembering what should be said prior to any healing. I like the pictures but there seems to be a little formatting error in the text of a few if the cards. A brilliant guide to refer to.

This book takes an empathetic approach and gives bite size approaches and allows you to have kindness and patience with yourself when dealing with life. This is so necessary for everyone to read in life. Highly recommend. Especially loved the reflection to true life to humanize my feelings and relate. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Press Here! Reiki for Beginners Book and Card Deck presents the 30 traditional Reiki hand positions—12 for self-help (practising on yourself) and 12 for family-help (practising on others)—that provide calm, soothing comfort that may help to relieve pain, stress, and anxiety and offer reassurance and support for physical and mental disease.

This book is perfect for those who like me who like to learn new things and indulge in a bit of self-care. The book is full of colour, easy to use, easy instructions to follow and I would adore a physical copy.

Interesting and informative! This is a handy tool and breaks it down in simple, easy to understand steps. I’m not sure how easy it would be to do this to yourself without training. While this is a great guide and includes a lot of information, I didn’t find it useful. My thanks to the publisher for the advance reader in exchange for my honest review.

Press Here! Reiki for Beginners Book and Card Deck: Your Guide to Subtle Energy Therapy
Victor Archuleta
Reiki is a method for reducing stress, fosters relaxation and supports healing. Reiki is dispensed by “laying on hands” and is founded on the concept that an invisible “life force energy” flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. When our “lifeforce energy” is low, then we are prone to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy. 
This book has a description of the fundamental principles and advantages of Reiki. The book is arranged into three ailment sections which permit the reader to access it in three distinct ways: by location, body system, and chakra. 
Author Victor Archuleta describes how to do Reiki such as where and how to place your hands but does not explain the whys. I found the book interesting but I am certainly not ready to put it in practice.

Reiki is a form of holistic healing practice akin to acupressure, utilizing subtle, spiritual energies to enhance and guide the body’s natural healing abilities. To perform reiki, the practitioner (called the sender here) touches various places on the receiving party, and allows their own spiritual energy to flow into those places. This is a non-invasive method of healing that is not intended to replace, but enhance medicine. Reiki should never be used for broken bones or serious disease. See your doctor. However, anecdotal evidence has shown it to reduce chronic pain, fatigue, and other issues. Placebo effect, your mileage may vary, blah-blah-blah.

So, what does this book do? It provides positions to use for reiki both on yourself and others. It has sections on what positions to use and for what purposes (hint: touch where the problem is). It gets a bit on how to rebalance chakra points, which are like server centers for your body’s energy. To be honest, it isn’t bad as a reference guide until you have the information memorized and are ready to move on to more advanced techniques. It does not help you in truly understanding what you are doing, which I would expect is vital to setting your intention for a particular session. Individual pages seem scant on content, choosing instead to fill a page with flowery background art and diagrams that feel incredibly basic, not to mention copy-pasted over and over. Just getting started with reiki? Keep this book for reference in the moment while reading something more in-depth for understanding.