I didn’t really have anything wrong with me, but I had 2 brief sessions just to experience it. The first time, I didn’t really feel any different, but the second time was after I was very upset about something. That time it calmed me a great deal. Of course, I can’t say it was the reiki specifically. It could just have been because I was focusing elsewhere, breathing slowly and closing my eyes.
My mother, on the other hand saw tremendous results with a few sessions to help some bad back pain she was having. She was completely better and it hasn’t returned.
Something else you may be interested in is cranio-sacral therapy. It’s not truly an energy work, like reiki. It focuses on light pressure on certain pulse points and muscle floors. I have had a great experience with this. In massage school, I was having some back pain, myself after our clinic one night. Another woman in the class had been studying cranio-sacral and offered to work on me. I lied on the table and she placed one hand under my back and the edge of her other hand right above my pubic bone. She stayed there for awhile and when she felt a release in the muscle, she was finished. I felt like a million bucks! That was the only experience I’ve had, so I can’t swear by it, but it did work the once.