Gentle Woman Reiki

Gentle Woman Reiki

Today’s post is a repost of a blog I wrote a couple of years ago. Today, I continue this practice and continue to give Reiki treatments to those who desire them and Reiki attunements to those who wish to add Reiki practice and healing to their lives.

An ongoing update of the blessings of Reiki in my own family life. Many, with medical comments of the belief that Reiki is, in part, and sometimes wholly attributed to the healings experienced. I always treat Tom and he has recovered remarkedly from back pain over the past two years. He had a spinal fusion surgery and a fast recovery as he rehabbed with no further problems and the ability to walk distances with no pain. The previous ten years had been agony.

His skin cancers, especially around his face and scalp, have continued to be challenging, but right along with frequent Reiki treatments, he found excellent care at University of Michigan Cancer Clinic. This past year, he’s had over a half-dozen MOHS surgical procedures and the main doctor on the case said to us, “You are a good healer, in fact, you are the best healer I’ve seen with the amount of recovery you had to do.”  He definitely acknowledged Tom’s role in choosing healthy recovery and encouraged us to  continue the “Raykee” or whatever it was he was doing!

Much of my own healing has come in opening ways of being a Higher Self in my life and one of loving service to my family and the world. It has led me to studies with exquisite masters of knowledge and continuing holistic health teachers; EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique Tapping, Roger Craig, and Nick & Jessica Ortner, The Institute of Heart Math and Heart Resonance; Ilchi Lee, Brain Education System Training; Spring Forest QiGong, Master Chunyi Lin. And the Crystal Wings Healing Arts of Barbara Evans.

Barbara Evans, Crystal Wings Healing Art

Endless Genesis, SoulCollage® by Susan Heffron Hajec

Barbara Marx Hubbard, Evolutionary/Spiritual Questor, and SoulCollage® Facilitator training; and SoulWriting with Janet Conner.  I believe the steady heart-beat of Reiki beats below many of these avenues and points me to the way I want to be in the world as Souljourner at-Large LLC and Prayer and Care Companion. I receive much satisfaction from my three year sustained writing of Napkinwriter. The satisfaction comes mostly from knowing and hearing how many readers enjoy it and the over 30,000 views    the blog has had.  In 2014, I will be compiling a selection of the posts to publish my first e-book on line.

Physical healings have manifested as well; I am in total great heart health, pronounced so this summer after a five year bout with stents and by-pass surgery. I have a fifty pound weight loss to my credit and maintenance of that loss for over a year; a healthy relationship with being real with food and not ever being on a diet again. I have gains I do not really even yet understand in the workings of Energies (loving energies) and the Oneness of God and Us….I just keep on opening to the mystery.

(Insert to Original Post) I just realized I left out a rather large healing in the mid-90s. The complete disappearance of a brain tumor on the pituitary gland  at the base of my brain — without surgery. Immediate diagnosis after an MRI was taken as a benchmark because my daughter-optometrist discovered at my annual eye exam that I’d had a stroke in my eye, causing legal blindness in that eye; surgery was indicated but could not be done because of the location of the damage. I was left to heal, with hopes of getting back to 20/40; I regained sight almost to 20/20 over a not-lengthy period of time.

Surgery was indicated immediately for the brain tumor. Again a set of circumstances led to a second opinion and a medication treatment, along with the Reiki and Reflexology I was doing; again healing and follow up MRIs showed the complete disappearance of the tumor within two years, no surgery and a very short period of meds.  The endocrinologist simply said to me, “You are not the same sick woman who sat before me a year ago, and I’ve done nothing to account for this. Tell me what you are doing!”

So I guess this is a blog all in itself, with my 2011 post to follow below.

June 12, 2011 by napkinwriter

“Her ways are ways of gentleness and all her paths are peace.”
Proverbs

As a Usui Reiki Master, I give and teach a natural healing method you can do for yourself anytime, anywhere. It comes from the Japanese spiritual and holistic healing tradition and has been practiced in Japan and the United States and around the world since the early 1900s.  The tradition, for a long time, was passed on to another verbally and Reiki practitioners receive “attunements” into Level I, II, or Reiki Master & Master Teacher from another Master who comes from the line of Mikeo Usui, the founder of the healing practice.

One can learn much today from books and the internet about Reiki, but the passing on of the Reiki Universal Life Force powers of healing comes from the hand of another Reiki Master.

Beside the universal desire for love, the two other things I’ve wanted in life were good health and personal, all-abiding peace within. In my search for these, I walked many paths, dipped into many wells of knowledge and wisdom and I’ve had a wide variety of experiences that brought either suffering or healing.

And I guess I would add balance to my life-long “wanted” list for happiness. This explains the draw of Reiki into my life. If Reiki is about one thing- it is most certainly about balancing the body/mind/spirit for the highest good. That includes balancing your physiology and this impacts how you experience your life positively.

When I give a Reiki treatment to a person (hands above or gently on a fully-clothed person), two experiences are common and shared by anyone I treat.  First, they experience an intense heat penetrating where ever my hands are placed above or on them; second, they go into a deep relaxation — deeper than shivasana, experienced at the end of a yoga session.

As a Reiki practitioner, I am doing nothing but acting as a vessel for the Universal Life Force to do its healing of the person on whatever level they need it; spiritual, emotional, physical. The person in deep relaxation is actually drawing the Reiki healing power into their being, I am not “sending” it.

When, as a Reiki Master, I give a Level I attunement, to another person, they now have the Reiki Power, to self-treat or treat others in their presence; Level II, is a higher attunement for Distance Healing and like “Prayer Sent” the energy of Reiki can be sent out over the world for the healing of persons or the planet. A person requesting Master Attunement experiences Reiki as a Calling, and wants to bring more Reiki into the world throught treatments and attuning new practitioners.

Like the popular phrase in the Star War Series, “The Force is with you,” you can be sure It truly is — Reiki just plugs it in and lights it up!

Reiki has gone to bat for me in the healing of emotional disturbance, soulful direction and on the physical plane where you can see it: heart surgery and not only the healing but the disappearance of a brain tumor without surgery and about 1/4 of the drugs they originally ordered.

Cats love Reiki! I’ve had them dash out from hiding and come lay under my Reiki table when I am giving another person a treatment. They stretch out long and expose their belly (the cats). If I put my Reiki hands on their furry belly, I’m afraid they are going to break their purring machine!

Reiki helps me stay rooted just in today. It reminds me by its principles to strive for and surrender to kindness and honesty, to let go of stress and worry, and to be mindful of my blessings.

When I am out of balance and not able to relax or respond to others in kindness, I suffer. I don’t like to suffer. When I include a self-treatment of Reiki for myself in my morning spiritual practice, my day goes better me and for others I come in contact with.

Reiki is one of the wondrous practices that came to me as one of the results of my search for good health, happiness and a support of my spirituality. Reiki is here to be shared.