Reiki is another energy healing system. Many people love it and some people (even here on this forum) use both SFQ and Reiki.
My personal feeling is the major difference between a system like Reiki and SFQ, is that there is more of an emphasis on personal practice in SFQ and other forms of Qigong. Reiki begins with more emphasis on healing others and becoming a "Reiki Master".
I am sure all energy healing systems are good... if one does them.
The real difference between any of these systems is you. Which one will you do? Which one speaks to you and seems either easier or at least easier to fit into your schedule and opens a door for you.
For me, once I open up to energy systems and healing, everyone and their sister begin to show me all these other, or better, or additional systems.
At 53 years old, I have been there, done that, saw the movie, rented the video, and wore the t-shirt. And there is no "bad" implied here. But for me, personally, it now all about focus. What is the best way to focus my time, resources and energy for the best results?
SFQ is fairly easy to learn and can be learned from the home study materials sold here. I am not sure if that is true with Reiki. I suspect that one needs to learn Reiki from a teacher.
If so, there is another difference.
Qigong usually begins with a few simple exercises and mediations. And you work mostly on healing yourself. Many forms of qigong only allow or teach a practitioner how to help heal others after years of practice and development. Sometimes even then, they say don't do it (I am certified as a teacher in form that did teach a similar technique that we learn and teach here, using "Swordfingers" and only after taking three levels of seminars and then being certified as a teacher and then my teacher admonished us never to use it except for emergencies!
She was respecting the teachers in that form and that is what they taught.
Master Lin still focuses in Level I on healing yourself, but already introduces the "Swordfingers" technique to help heal others right there in that beginner's course. Master Lin's meditations and intuition opened him up to the truth that as long as one allows the love, kindness and forgiveness of the UNiverse to energize and move through, there is no harm, no foul.
I am told there is a personal practice in Reiki, but I believe the emphasis is on healing others from the beginning.
Use your intuition, and feel what the difference is FOR YOU. That is all that matters. Pick a practice, invest in it and stick with it.
All the issues about major differences etc, are interesting, but the main thing is to pick one, and jump in.
There are YouTube videos that teach the first few SFQ exercises. Go there, try them out, see if you like the energy of the practice and the teacher.
Hope that helps.
