| p>When I mention to people that I am a Reiki | | | | A typical session takes about an hour, though I have |
| practitioner, that I might be able to help ease their | | | | worked on people for ten minutes and seen dramatic |
| pain or suffering, I usually get a quizzical look, | | | | healings occur almost spontaneously. My hands seem |
| followed by "you're a WHAT?" | | | | to know their own correct path, a tremendous heat |
| Reiki, pronounced ray - key, is an old form of healing | | | | is generated and transfers to the patient. |
| that works with a person's own abilities to heal | | | | On one rare occasion, a friend had blackened her eye |
| themselves. As a practitioner of this art, I work in | | | | in a bad fall, her cheek was bruised and swollen. |
| accordance with the person's own willingness and | | | | When I placed my hands on her face, they turned |
| permission. In effect, they must allow, as well as | | | | cold on her skin. I was completely unaware of this, as |
| accept, these healing energies. | | | | they felt a normal temperature to me, but apparently |
| I have come to realize that a substantial part of my | | | | cold was the needed cure for her injury. |
| role is in educating people about what it is I do, about | | | | Often, a physical pain throbs quite strongly under my |
| their own part in their healing, and a great deal of | | | | touch, and as the energy works into it, the throbbing |
| patience to stand aside and let the work do its own | | | | slows and dissipates. It's as if a raging little gremlin |
| good in any given patient. | | | | trapped in the cells loses its hold and breaks down. |
| Each patient brings their own set of suffering, pain | | | | While more serious diseases of the body will take a |
| and issues to the table, and the Reiki energies work | | | | number of sessions to address, even one session will |
| on these issues in due time, according to the | | | | leave the patient with a feeling of lightness, a freeing |
| tolerance level and needs of the patient. Reiki works | | | | of the hold on the body. The energies continue to |
| on all levels of the human condition: physical, mental, | | | | work within the patient's body for several days after |
| emotional and spiritual. | | | | a healing, giving a needed respite to a body battling |
| As a practitioner, I start from the top of their head | | | | the dis-ease. |
| and work down, but I do not know where the | | | | Physical pain in a body is a direction to the person to |
| energy will have the most effect. I have placed my | | | | focus upon particular thought patterns that develop |
| hands on a woman's shoulders for several minutes | | | | within their minds, transferring into the body their |
| and afterward she told me that a many years long | | | | incorrect thinking. Reiki can redirect, realign and |
| standing pain in her knee suddenly disappeared. She | | | | reestablish and more healthy line of thought. |
| felt the energies moving through her body to that | | | | While I have seen some dramatic effects through |
| point in her leg. I did not know of that particular pain. | | | | the use of this kind of healing, I would always |
| I have worked on so many different people and with | | | | encourage a person to use this alongside of their |
| each person, a new transformation takes place. One | | | | standard medical approach. Reiki is the perfect |
| thing that every person shares is going into the | | | | accompaniment to all other forms of healing, and will |
| "spacey zone" as I like to refer to it; they are so | | | | in no way, interfere with any other practice. |
| relaxed as to either drift off to sleep or go into a | | | | If someone could lay their hands on you for an hour, |
| deep meditative state. Both are good places for a | | | | leaving you with a blissful, calm feeling and a little |
| patient as they can allow the energies to flow more | | | | freer of pain than before you entered, wouldn't you |
| readily into their bodies. | | | | want to give it a try? |