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| Reiki
Reiki is a very gentle
technique, using placement of hands for 5 to 30 minutes on or above
each area in need. I have found it to be useful after any recent
physical or emotional trauma, surgery and for some chronic pain.
I have also found it to be very relaxing and soothing.
- The first time I heard about Reiki, was when a friend's
Asthma attack was shortened with it. The person would put her
hands over my friends lungs - usually on the back, and her asthma
attack would subside. That was all it took to get me interested.
- I have seen Reiki help relieve pain: One example was
with a young woman, who had been in a car accident. She had
been in the hospital for treatment for her injuries for a few
days and was now home with her mother. She had pain in her belly,
where her body had hit the steering wheel. Her mother had called
me over to give her a Reiki treatment. I gave her a full Reiki
treatment with lots of extra time on her belly. Afterwards,
she thanked me and said, it was the first time, that the pain
had subsided since the accident.
- Another example, a patient in a hospital had called me, to
have me come into the hospital and give him a massage. He mostly
wanted his shoulders massaged and also complained about pain
in his belly. I believe he had lung cancer. The doctors had
checked his belly, but could not find any problem with it and
hadn't been able to relieve his belly pain. I massaged his shoulders
and also gave him some Reiki for his belly. When I was
done, the pain in his belly was gone and didn't come back for
the rest of the day. I called him the next day, to see how he
was feeling. The pain had come back and he asked me to come
for a second visit. I did Reiki for his belly again. The pain
was gone again, by the time I left. This time the pain was still
gone a week later, when I called to check on him again.
- I use Reiki on myself almost every day: When I have
banged my head or other body parts, when I have cut my finger,
I just put my other hand over it. I cut my thumb pretty badly
once, and considered going to the emergency room to have it
sewn up. I put my other hand over it and soon the bleeding slowed
down and then stopped. Also, when I'm trying to sleep or just
be relaxed and my mind is going a mile a minute, I'll do Reiki
on the top of my head and often it'll calm down.
- I burned my left forearm with the iron once. It hurt, so of
course I did Reiki over it. I did not touch it, just
held my hand over the sore spot. When I do Reiki my hands often
get a little warm. This time, the spot got really hot. I continued
the Reiki until the heat had subsided. When I moved my hand
away, the burn looked like it had happened a few days ago. It
had already started to heal over.
Frankly, I think everyone should learn Reiki as a first aid
tool along with their First Aid and CPR classes. -The best way
to find a Reiki teacher is probably to get on the Internet and
search for one in your area. (First Aid and CPR classes are
often offered through the Red Cross.)
- Another example of pain relief from Reiki, was when
a friend of mine had to have abdominal surgery. She was a recovering
drug addict and did not want to be put on morphine after the
surgery. I gave her a massage before her surgery, to help her
relax. She did get the regular anesthesia for the surgery, but
no drugs afterwards. I was there waiting for her, when she came
out of recovery and immediately started a full Reiki treatment.
Of course she had some pain after this surgery, but she was
able to avoid taking any drugs. I gave her Reiki a couple more
times over the next week.
- One time I was able
to participate in an amazing story: It was a Friday evening,
when I checked my messages on my way out of town for the weekend.
A friend of mine had called and asked me to come to the hospital
right away, the doctor had said, his mother was dying. I knew
his mother also. She had had a bleeding on the left side of
her brain around noon that day. She was in intensive care. When
I got to the hospital, the bed was tilted so she was half-way
sitting up, her vital signs were very weak, but she was talking,
I don't remember if her words made any sense. I said to myself,
'I can't just stand here and watch her die, she looks too alive.'
So I asked if it was ok, if I gave her some Reiki. Her
son and the hospital personnel agreed. I gave her a full treatment
and lots of extra time on her brain. Altogether, I worked on
her for 3 hours. At some point during those 3 hours, her vital
signs came up and stabilized. They never went back down again
after that. When I first put my hands on the top of her head,
I had felt a strong pulsing on the left side of her head. After
I had worked on her for a while, the pulsing stopped. Since
I still had to leave town for the weekend, I called around and
found another Reiki practitioner, who was able to come and see
her the next 2 days. On Monday my friend and I decided, to have
someone do CranioSacral Therapy on her. My friend had also called
a woman, who works with angels of healing on helping the body
heal with energy essences, on Friday. ---- Monday was also the
first day, that her regular doctor saw her. They tried to spoon
feed her some liquid, but didn't get much down her. Since her
doctor knew, she didn't want to get a feeding tube, he decided
to transfer her to a nursing home in 2 days, Wednesday, and
leave her without food or liquid, so she would die within 5
days. My friend and I went to see her on Tuesday and gave her
some broth. On Wednesday, she was transferred to the nursing
home. Much to my surprise, it was a wonderful place, the staff
was great. My friend and I went and asked the nurses for some
broth and gave it to his mother. We couldn't stand the thought
of her dying of thirst. We asked the staff to continue feeding
her liquids and they did. On Friday, I got a phone call from
my friend: "Mother is back, she is awake and eating and speaking
again." She later told us, she had been dead for 7 days, but
then her and God decided, that she needed to live longer. Her
paralysis of her right side disappeared fairly soon, she was
left with a speech problem and some memory loss: Sometimes the
wrong words came out, then she would say: "That wasn't what
I wanted to say." Her brain was working, but it wasn't translating
accurately into speech. She went to speech classes for quite
a while. Her memory of anything that happened before the stroke
was completely gone at first, but it slowly came back with time.
Now, 2 1/2 years later, she can go for walks by herself, she
goes out and does things with her friends, but she needs to
live with someone to take care of her. In any case, she has
told me several times, that she is happy, she survived. Her
regular doctor, the one that had sent her to the nursing home
to die, told her, it was the first miracle he had experienced.
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