We all know the many wonderful benefits of Reiki: it helps us relax, relieves stress, provides an emotional release, boosts immunity and the body's natural self-healing mechanisms, balances and nourishes our energy field, and so on.

However, if you're dealing with major emotional or health issues, benefits of Reiki are only temporary at best.  Reiki doesn't really "fix" anything. Why?

A discussion of some of the methods we can use to protect our energy from being drained or affected by other folks.

One of the major reasons folks seek energy healing is fatigue, or feeling energetically drained.  Of course there are plenty of physical, psychological, and lifestyle reasons for that.  When none of these are at play and an otherwise healthy person still constantly feels like a deflated balloon, sometimes there's an energetic reason behind that.  Let's look at some of the causes of energy drain, some obvious, others surprising.