| I wouldn't say that I'm a Japanese Reiki Practitioner. I | | | | verify that it was the Reiki or my relaxing that made |
| do have Reiki I certification, having been attuned and | | | | her relax in there. My hands did get warm after a |
| learned the basic hand positions of Reiki, and having | | | | few minutes of doing the Reiki, but I wondered if |
| practiced doing Reiki on my teacher, my children, and | | | | the warmth was a result of my hands absorbing and |
| myself. Still, I went into my lessons with a healthy | | | | reflecting my body heat, or real Reiki healing energy. |
| dose of skepticism and a real desire to feel | | | | I do believe that my Reiki teacher really has the |
| something - anything - that would make me believe in | | | | ability of a true Japanese Reiki practitioner, and she |
| its truth. | | | | calls herself a Reiki Master. She is remarkable. I just |
| I'm the kind of person who is on a continual spiritual | | | | wondered if I could do Reiki and really have the Reiki |
| search, never having found something totally | | | | energy in me to do actual Japanese Reiki healing |
| believable in religion. I also have always been | | | | treatments. Or did I just have warm hands? |
| interested, though never believed, in the idea of | | | | The turning point for me, or at least a moment when |
| psychic energies and the like. So learning about | | | | I felt that it was most real, was when I was in labor. |
| Japanese Reiki healing was interesting to me, | | | | There I was in the hospital, nearly ready to push, |
| especially because my Reiki Master is the parent of | | | | when the pain was very intense. I had an epidural, |
| one of my daughter's friends. She offered to teach | | | | which was placed when I was at about 7 |
| me Reiki I, and I accepted. | | | | centimeters. Transition and the effects of the |
| I was pregnant at the time, and interested in | | | | epidural made me shake rather violently and |
| anything that would help me relax and deal with the | | | | uncontrollably. |
| stresses of pregnancy and the upcoming onset of | | | | I was trying to calm the shaking, because it was |
| labor. So, I went in with an open mind. She talked to | | | | bothering me. So I called the Reiki energy, and placed |
| me about the history of Japanese Reiki, and how she | | | | my one available hand (the other was hooked to an |
| became a Japanese Reiki practitioner. She is a very | | | | iv), on the center of my chest. Immediately, the |
| spiritual person, and absolutely believes in what she is | | | | shaking stopped. I breathed easier and more evenly. |
| doing and saying. I was fascinated. She did an | | | | It was very amazing to me, and a great relief. |
| attunement on me, and though I sat very still and | | | | My birth experience wasn't great; the baby got stuck |
| willed myself to feel something, I can't really say that | | | | during pushing, went into distress, and I ended up |
| I felt much, though her hands were very warm. | | | | with an emergency c-section. But, I used the Reiki to |
| I also felt a little silly trying it on her, though she said | | | | help me relax during and after the surgery, and when |
| that my hands felt very warm to her, which meant | | | | I was healing. Also, the Japanese Reiki healing may |
| that I had the Reiki energy in them. I really wanted it | | | | have had some effect on my beautiful daughter - |
| to be true. She showed me hand positions that were | | | | she is a remarkably calm and easygoing baby with a |
| good for the baby, and good for relaxing me. I tried | | | | very sweet disposition. |
| them, and promised to do Reiki on myself and my | | | | My labor and my daughter are the best arguments |
| belly every night before going to sleep. | | | | for believing in the validity of Japanese Reiki healing |
| I did practice, and relaxing and laying my hands on | | | | that I've ever experienced. And, though I don't |
| myself was soothing each night. The baby seemed | | | | consider myself a Japanese Reiki practitioner, I will be |
| to settle when I did the Reiki too, though I can't | | | | starting my Reiki II training in the coming weeks. |