| It is estimated that 80 percent of adults will | | | | aura above the body. Reiki may feel hot or cold, like |
| experience back pain at some point in their lives. Your | | | | a vibration or electrical feeling, or like a wave or a |
| back holds you up, it supports your body, and it is so | | | | breeze. |
| easily compromised. One can bend the wrong way, | | | | The practitioner may or may not touch your back; |
| pick up something heavy incorrectly, or even store | | | | either is good. Reiki is a very gentle energy healing |
| negative emotions in the back. The back certainly has | | | | that goes to wherever it is most needed for the |
| a heavy load to carry. | | | | Highest Good. That means that you can rest assured |
| Reiki allows us to self-heal and take control of our | | | | that if it is safe for you to lose a pain with Reiki, you |
| health. I myself was attracted to Reiki due to an | | | | can. Also, do not expect Reiki to work like a pain |
| injury in my spine and shoulder. And the founder of | | | | relief pill. Reiki goes wherever it is most needed, so it |
| my Reiki system and a guru that I have had the | | | | may be helping some root causes or it may be |
| pleasure of meeting, Kathleen Milner, has herself been | | | | preventing further damage to your back. In other |
| attracted to Reiki due to chronic pain after a couple | | | | words, if you want the pain just to go away, you |
| of car crashes. Back pain can drive you to distraction. | | | | are not ready for Reiki. If you are happy to allow |
| It can also drive you to find a solution. | | | | changes to happen that will balance your energy so |
| When one first hurts their back, they visit the | | | | that the pain will go away when the time is right, |
| physiotherapist or other appropriate medical | | | | then Reiki is for you. Sometimes it takes a few |
| professional and make sure the problem gets fixed. | | | | sessions. This is because the Reiki is working on the |
| However, once weakened, the back may become an | | | | energy disruption. So you can now see why Reiki is |
| unwitting recipient of an energy imbalance in the | | | | becoming increasingly sought after for the release of |
| body. You see, an energy imbalance often finds the | | | | pain. It is very heartening that more and more people |
| weakest point in the body and kind of gets trapped | | | | are now seeking Reiki for pain relief. This is great |
| there. That is not a scientific but a metaphorical | | | | because the pain is bringing people to a healing place, |
| example, however I think it puts the point across | | | | and this is where Reiki can have far-reaching effects |
| very well. | | | | with other areas of life, way after the pain has gone. |
| In holistic health energy healing, pain, and especially | | | | To find a Reiki healer, the best way is by |
| chronic pain, is all about energy. Let me explain. Acute | | | | recommendation. Otherwise, call a few and see how |
| pain is pain that we need to do something about right | | | | you feel with them. Do not look only for a Reiki |
| now. Chronic pain is pain that has been there for 3 | | | | Master. Reiki Practitioners can be very happy to stop |
| months or more, and we have probably done | | | | their training at Reiki Second Degree and be very |
| everything about it that we can. And so it is no | | | | effective healers. Look for someone that you feel |
| longer needed. When the body's subtle energies are | | | | comfortable with when you talk to them. Ask them |
| mis-aligned or un-balanced, chronic pain can rear its | | | | for their qualifications and make sure you see their |
| head. But when we get our energy back into balance, | | | | certificates. Ask them who their Reiki Master was. |
| since this pain is not needed for our well-being, it can | | | | Every Reiki practitioner remembers their Reiki Master. |
| go away. | | | | And a good Reiki practitioner would recommend a |
| During a session, you remain fully clothed while the | | | | number of sessions and make no wild claims or sell |
| energy is channelled via the practitioner to wherever | | | | you any product but encourage your self-healing |
| it is most needed, usually through the practitioner's | | | | from within in a gentle and caring manner. |
| hands, which may be either on the body or in the | | | | |