Occasionally when I have a Reiki student preparing for her training, she’ll ask “Should I stop eating any foods or drinking coffee before my Reiki class?” Coffee is usually the big question.
The answer is not black or white and really depends on who you ask. I have met people who practice Reiki who do not sense a difference of the Reiki flow whether they refrain from certain foods and coffee.
There are others who have to completely change their diets all together, not just when they are giving or teaching Reiki. When this group of people start working with energy such as a high vibrational frequency that is Reiki, they find their body becomes more sensitive to everything they encounter, especially what they eat and what surrounds them.
Please make note that this post is from my intuitive side and not intended to be considered scientific proof of diet and Reiki flow. I do enjoy connecting the dots for you though!
When you break down the idea of why sensitivity to food would occur once someone becomes an energy worker, consider how everything, and everyone, is energy. Everything vibrates even if it cannot be seen by the naked eye.
“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.”
- Albert Einstein
This includes the food we put in our bodies. And to break it down even further, some foods vibrate faster than others, full of life force energy, that will provide us with this living source of nutrition. There are foods that vibrate slowly and are work to digest. Foods that vibrate slowly may contain less life force energy to give us, resulting in more work than benefit.
Foods that contain active, vibrant life force energy include vegetables, fruit, seeds, and what would grow from the ground, fresh and still holding that energy from the earth that it absorbed as a plant.
Foods that are processed like sugar, not from the earth, filled with chemicals and other non-foods would be more work to digest and not provide the body with life force energy (if there was any in it, the body would be using it for digestion). I have heard, and personally experienced, that even protein and energetic residue from animal meat is difficult to digest once a person begins their path as an energy worker. The emotional energy of the animal is said to still remain and anything physical it may have encountered could easily be absorbed by the person now consciously working with energy. This can cause great discomfort during the digestion process and even cause illness and inflammation.
Now, what exactly does this have to do with the flow of Reiki energy? If your body is eating foods that are grown in soil and still carry life force energy, we would be feeding our bodies with nutrition and giving it fuel. The body would vibrate higher and be given what it requires to function optimally. The healthier the body, the more the flow of Reiki would channel through rather than stay to help the giver first.
If the body is given processed foods with chemicals and sugar, and non-food ingredients to keep it from spoiling, the body will work harder to digest this ‘fuel’ and not necessarily vibrate as healthfully or optimally. It would be spending energy rather than receiving it in this scenario. Working harder to digest and being equipped with less life force energy and nutrition from food, the body might perhaps be in a less optimal condition, slowing down the flow of Reiki being channeled.
Usui Sensei, the founder of Reiki, incorporated dietary cleansing, fasts, and meditation as part of his Reiki practice. The idea around this philosophy is that one’s intuition becomes stronger the healthier she eats and how often she meditates. So, if one is interested in truly following the Reiki path as Usui had intended, she would consider what she eats.
With all of that being said, and my explanation that this is not a scientifically proven article, once you start working with Reiki, you will become more in tune with your body and how it communicates with you. This is a great opportunity to establish this sacred connection with your own dietary needs and habits if you allow yourself to listen and follow its advice. Before and after each meal, you can take notice of how you feel, your energy level, your alertness, and your overall physical sensations. So, rather than me telling you what you should or shouldn’t eat, give this post some food for thought 
and start paying attention to your own intuition. Good luck and Reiki 0n!