As you have just read, reiki is a useful treatment for helping to cope with emotion, particularly negative emotions, such as stress, anxiety and grief. The real pain you can feel in your heart following the loss of a loved one or while dealing with breakup or managing divorce is a physiological symptom of your emotional state. Given that practitioners will often flush out negative energies during a treatment, it is, therefore, possible for your emotional state to alter and help with stress management. By helping to relax you, the muscle tightening you might be feeling as a result of heartache will begin to dissipate, leading to a less emotive sense of self. What is going on might be considered more of a release than a healing process, but whichever way you choose to look at it, the practice can help in these sorts of situations.