Written by Melissa Roloff, LMHC, LCPC
Some mornings you wake up and feel it before you even open your eyes.
That heaviness.
That quiet pressure in your chest.
That sense of being slightly outside of yourself, like your mind is trying to move but your body hasn’t caught up yet.
You stretch your neck.
Your jaw clicks a little.
Your breath stays shallow no matter how many times you try to deepen it.
Nothing is exactly wrong, but nothing feels quite right either.
This is the moment I see so often in the women who come into my office.
Not a crisis.
Not a meltdown.
Just a kind of stuckness.
A sense that something inside them hasn’t moved in a long time.
And this is usually when I reach for Reiki and the tuning forks.
The First Vibration
The first strike is always subtle.
A soft hum that fills the room before it reaches the body.
But the moment the vibration touches the skin, something happens.
The shoulders lower.
The breath remembers itself.
The mind gets quiet, even if only for a moment.
It’s as if the body hears the sound and thinks,
"Oh… I can release now.”
Sometimes I place the fork gently along the jawline,
that place where so many women carry unsaid things.
Sometimes along the chest,
where grief tends to hide.
Sometimes over the stomach,
where anxiety tightens everything without warning.
Wherever it goes, the vibration begins to loosen what has been bracing for too long.
When Energy Finally Starts to Move
There is usually a moment in a session when the energy begins to move, and it is never dramatic the way people imagine.
In real life, it looks like a soft yawn slipping out before someone can stop it, or a breath that suddenly drops deeper into the body. Sometimes it’s a quiet laugh that rises out of nowhere, or tears that gently surface without a story attached.
The shoulders lower.
The jaw softens.
The whole system loosens its grip.
These small, human shifts are the body’s way of saying,
“I’m releasing now.”
They’re signs that something inside is letting go, that the body is shifting from holding to surrendering, exactly the kind of movement sound and Reiki are meant to create.
Where Reiki Comes In
Once the sound has loosened the energy, Reiki works almost like a warm pair of hands gathering the pieces.
It steadies what the vibration stirred up.
It soothes the nervous system.
It helps the body understand the shift instead of snapping back into old patterns.
Reiki feels like someone smoothing down the edges of your spirit.
Sound opens.
Reiki integrates.
That’s why the two together feel almost alchemical.
What Women Tell Me Afterwards
They say things like:
“I feel lighter and I don’t know why.”
“My jaw doesn’t hurt for the first time in weeks.”
“It feels like my brain finally stopped spinning.”
“I didn’t realize how much I was holding.”
“I feel like myself again.”
What they’re describing is movement.
Flow.
The return of energy that had been stuck under layers of responsibility, stress, guilt, motherhood, expectation, survival mode.
This work is not about forcing anything.
It’s about helping the body remember how to breathe again.
If You’re Feeling Heavy or Stuck Lately
Your body is speaking.
And sound is one of the oldest languages we have to answer it.
I offer 50-minute tuning fork and Reiki sessions for $100, either in-office or in the comfort of your home.
If you’re feeling stagnant, overwhelmed, or disconnected from yourself, this may be exactly what your energy needs to begin moving again.
If you want to experience this for yourself, you can reach out anytime.
Your body knows the way back.
Sometimes it just needs a vibration to help it remember.
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