Reiki: Usui and Tibetan Healing, and Therapy

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'in every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.' Albert Szent-Gyorgyi(1960)

Reiki is excellent to use in all health states. It is positive, safe, effective, and has no reported contra-indications. The process of 'giving' Reiki can vary from hands on work, hands off distant healing, room energising, and self healing. A Reiki treatment may take a few minutes or an hour.

Broadly speaking Reiki falls into the catagory of Energy Medicine. After going through a process called attunement a practitioner is able to channel energy freely available from the universe.

When I attune people to become a Reiki practitioner they spend many hours in a meditative state. They learn how to set intent, and use principles handed down for centuries.

Depending upon which belief structure the Reiki practitioner subscribes to, they may attribute their abilities to different spiritual or physics processes.

In his book Energy Medicine the Scientific Basis, James Oschman has written at length about various forms of energy therapy. Oschman describes research to demonstrate 'the similarity between the frequencies and intensities of low energy emissions from the hands of therapists and the signals from pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) devices used in clinical medicine.' He proposes that when a practitioner works with Reiki they may be affecting the same signal pathways as can be affected by electrotherapy.

Amongst the medical professions, more and more agree that weak environmental energies can have a powerful effect on living systems. The threshold for this biological stimulation is very low. Even 'whispers' of electromagnetic and chemical change have a deep effect. When the hands of someone attuned to Reiki, and sitting quietly with intent to heal, are placed on you, you will feel an energy change.

Reiki, Therapy, Attunement

There are different levels of Reiki Practitioner. After Reiki 1, which is a permenant attunement, the individual can work on themself, friends, family and animals. A Reiki practitioner is attached through symbols which enable them to work with Reiki energy for the rest of their life.

As a progression some folk go on to Reiki 2 level. After Reiki 2 training symbols are introduced that increase healing effectiveness, enable energy to be sent, work with emotion, and develop more intuitive work. There is one attunement process during the Reiki 2 course, and three complex symbols to learn.

My Personal Experience with Reiki

I have worked in the health field for more than 25 years. The story of my choice to train as a Chartered Physiotherapist is somewhat unconventional, it has at times felt as if the Health World found me, as opposed to a big self planned future. As a dyslexic, at a time when dyslexia was relatively unknown, my childhood was fraught with exam disasters. Torn between the creative arts, I made 'things' from fabric, paint, leather, string and wood. Alongside was an insatiable curiousity to read, learn, discover new things, be physically active, dance, ride horses, sing, and explore. I have always had high, happy, upbeat, energy levels.

At 17, after leaving school with a few A levels, I dropped into training at The Royal London Hospital, as a Physiotherapist. I perceived it to be an easy option, a practical hands on job. Exercise and movement based, and loads of parties. In my defence, as a student this was important to me!

It was a shock to my somewhat idiosyncratic self when I had to 'dress up' in a white coat, regulation shoes, and role play 'the therapist'. However, I found something that has hooked me into the work for the rest of my days. As a student I was interested in the esoteric and complementary side of health. Plus I love working with people.

I trained in Acupuncture & Auriculotherapy in the early 1980's, and have always taken account dietry links to health. I have studied Pilates, trained in Meditation, Feldenkrais, NLP, and have a Masters Degree in Health, I am interested in Buddhist thinking, and powerfully believe in self development. I've travelled a long way from classic Physiotherapy now.

For years my clients have told me 'your hands are so warm, or your hands get so hot' so in 2002 I trained in Reiki 1 and Reiki 2. In 2004 I completed my Reiki Master. Now I can attune you to this process, and introduce you to Reiki.

I use Reiki every day in my clinical practice and on myself. It is simply wonderful.

• Folk with acute pain following whiplash injury, or acute low back pain find the process relieving.
• It is an option for people with terminal cancer, where most therapy is excluded. Its great when there are no machines around, and you want to channel some energy.
• People with all manner of health difficulty report finding the process beneficial.
• In these days of evidence based medicine it is delightfully artfully vague, and safe.

Some may say there is little hard evidence to support the fact that Reiki 'works' and what it 'does'. However, perceptions are reality. The feedback I get from clients clearly demonstrates that they 'feel something'. They feel warmth, tingling, something 'happens' during a Reiki session. After Reiki they improve noticeably. Clients have reported their depresion lifting more swiftly, their neck pain resolving rapidly, this is all the evidence I need to practice.

Conditions and times when I would routinely use Reiki; Emotional Distress, Depression, Stress Related, post traumatic Stress Disorder following RTA, Cancer, primary and secondary, and during radiotherapy, Osteoporosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Post Fracture, Non United Fractures, Children during growth spurts, Acute Disc Prolapse, early post operative care, Intensive Care.

In fact many of the occasions when conventional treatment is excluded. Due to my medical training I always use care, and work within the confines of my knowledge, I am insured, and always work with my intuition.

Jill