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healing of karmic illusions

I’ve visited Mexico City many times in my life and each time I would watch in wonder as people would process towards the Basilica de Guadalupe on their knees. At that time I did not understand why these people would suffer so much so that suffering would end, but ultimately their faith would help pave the way for change in their lives. They believed they would be helped if they paid a price. As I grow in the Reiki healing modality, I begin to understand that one’s frame of mind has everything to do with one’s ability to heal.

If we are so engrossed in our own discomforts and can not see past our infirmities, we struggle with moving beyond what is keeping us from health, but when we can see a clear path to health we often travel the path much faster and with little, if any complications.

What brought this up? I read an article today where someone was in the hospital and saw an event which concluded with negative results. The person witnessed someone else experiencing severe pain. A passing nurse offered Reiki to help ease the pain. The nurse claimed she was a Reiki master and so the person experiencing the pain agreed.  The “master” placed a hand above the person’s head and one behind her back while concentrating with her eyes closed. After a few moments she made motions like she was pulling something out of the person’s body and throwing it away. The nurse repeated the motion several times with her hands in different positions. The whole process took 5 to 6 minutes. The nurse stopped when she was paged to a patient’s room. The person receiving the treatment never noticed the nurse left because her pain was overwhelming. The person’s response was, “I just need my morphine.” The writer of the article then goes on to say they suspected the person was addicted to the morphine. The writer also stated that Reiki was “bullshit” because of that one experience.  If that was my only experience with Reiki, I might say the very same thing.

There are of course several things going on in this example, the first of which is that the alleged Reiki master should have known better than to offer Reiki to someone in acute distress. Reiki is NEVER a substitute for real medical emergency care and should only be offered when the person is not in critical need. Reiki is not a crutch, it is a tool to help a person grow towards health and wellness; not some quick fix. A real Reiki master would know that, especially given that the alleged master in this case was also a nurse.

You were my favorite drug

Second, the person experiencing the pain was under the influence of a highly addictive narcotic which just happens to also cloud the mind. If I see someone in excruciating pain, the first thing I’m going to ask is did they take something for the pain. We would have gotten to the fact this person was using harsh pain killers in which case the alleged master should have again recommended immediate emergency care and NOT Reiki.

All this brings us to the third thing: what was the person’s intention? If all they wanted was their morphine then the alleged master asserted their own dominance and control over the situation by not asking for the person’s intent. Reiki practitioners are not supposed to be ego driven miracle workers. We are supposed to be people who help others walk their own paths of health and wellness.

This brings us to the third thing: what was the person’s intention? If all they wanted was their morphine then the alleged master asserted their own dominance and control over the situation by not asking for the person’s intent. Reiki practitioners are not supposed to be ego driven miracle workers. We are supposed to be people who help others walk their own paths of health and wellness. The practitioner was passing by and inserted themselves in a situation that could have proven disastrous.

The person experiencing the pain may have been going through withdrawals from the narcotic, there is just no way of knowing, and an alleged master broke with ethical practice to help where they may not have been wanted, but more to the point, the person on the morphine may not have been in any frame of mind for healing. A drug addict only wants the next fix, not the solution. Because of the actions of one alleged master, one person has a negative opinion of this wonderful healing modality.

Healing must first begin with a person wanting to be healed. All the best medicine in the world will never be enough if a person does not actually want to be healed. There are people who thrive on illness because it provides them attention. They will never reach full health because their minds will continue creating one illness after another.  Care must be given to empower a person to want to heal, then and only then can true healing begin.

Healing must begin with the willingness to heal.  When a person wants to heal, they will find the right path and avenue to achieve that end result.

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Buddha's Hand

There has been some discussion lately on the use of hand positions during a Reiki treatments. Some claim that only the hand positions as taught by Mrs. Takata should be used during a treatment, while others are throwing the hand positions completely out the window. The arguments are actually more maddening than the subject, but more to the point, the question still isn’t answered.

All of us who have practiced Reiki for many years have come to a sort of understanding between ourselves and the Reiki energy. We know the energy instinctively goes to the area in need of healing, and does so without our prompting and without our insistence, but still we tarry on like good little practitioners doing what we’ve been taught with little or no questioning, and sometimes little or no understanding why it is we do what we do.

The truth is that while many practitioners choose to walk a path of healing and empowering others, a few remain who only go through the motions because it pays the bills. For them the honeymoon ended long ago and they have forgotten the real benefits Reiki can bring to personal healing. But there is a very small group of people who have remained because they have chosen to control and dominate the industry by continuing to feed into the propaganda initiated by Dr. Hayashi and Mrs. Takata.

The very real truth of this discussion is there are no real set hand positions for any treatment. The hand positions we teach today are illustrations or guides to help prepare a student enter their own Reiki practice. Any Reiki teacher worth their salt should tell their students that the energy is the guiding force, not our own egos. If the energy guides the hands to a position not in keeping with tradition, then so long as that hand position still respects the clients’ privacy, go for it! During one session my hands moved towards my client’s side. I could hear my client’s breathing become more and more relaxed the longer I kept my hands on their side. After the treatment my client asked how I knew they had broken their ribs. I didn’t, but the energy did.

We teachers usually claim the energy goes where needed, but then some of those same instructors will teach that the hand positions are sacrosanct.

The hand positions are little more than a tool for us to use as a guide during the sessions. Actually, the hand positions are a tool which the energy itself uses, not us. We must allow the energy to guide our hands. It is the client’s need(s) which guides us to help them heal as they need it, not as we wish it for them.

Does it truly matter whether we use the hand positions taught by Mrs. Takata, Dr. Hayashi, or Dr. Usui? No. What matters is the result: balance.

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