Reiki is a life energy, a healing power of love. It represents the ability to transmit energy through the hands and thus heal the physical, psychological and spiritual side of a person. It is usually done through physical touch, but it is also possible to act at an unlimited distance. The task of the person providing energy treatment is to help the person being treated to restore their own regeneration process and help bring their energy field into balance. The therapist is not a healer. The higher self of the person being treated - their soul - is the one who enables and allows the energy field to harmonize and the regeneration process to occur in the energy plane of the person being treated and in their physical body.