SeventhSojourn wrote:I have had good results with reiki. I have levels 1 and 2, and I do not regret it at all. I have never had a bad experience with it. I guess I am lucky because with reiki I looked before I leapt (I don't always). The reiki I learned was so simple and pure, but I can't believe what I see on the internet -- all the variations, dragon stuff, sexual stuff, etc. All these people have to one-up others and make reiki an ego stroke for themselves..
I'm so glad that you've had good experiences with Reiki, SeventhSojourn. It proves that it's not necessarily a negative thing, either for the healer or the patient. I know that my own comments have probably seemed somewhat one-sided because they have expressed the "negative" side of Reiki so strongly. So thanks for providing a contrasting view, which was needed to bring balance.
SeventhSojourn wrote:I was in second degree reiki with a woman who could not understand the problems she was having with sending reiki to her daughter. Her daughter was rebellious, and this woman wanted to use distance reiki to bring her back into line! Of course, she saw herself as caring, not controlling, and she just did not get it. We tried our best to get through to her, and the instructor advised her to give it a rest, but it just goes to show how easy it is for reiki, or intent itself, to be misused.
You raise another excellent point - namely, that sometimes it is wrong to send healing to someone because it can be inappropriate for one reason or another.
I have witnessed healings in which people tried to perform "sneaky" healings on another person...using different systems, not just Reiki, and the energy rebounded on the healer in terrible ways.
One fellow attempted to heal the father of a friend of his via some "innocent" and well-intentioned remote healing. The father of the friend had been having a problem with vertigo in his ears. About 24 hours after the session, this healer had the energy rebound on him. HE came down with severe vertigo, dizziness, and overheating as the energy was rejected and returned to him. So I ended up healing the healer of the effects of the rebounded energy, having to undo all of the energy loops.
I also had two healers perform a "healing" on me without my permission - and I wouldn't have given permission to these two people if they had asked me. Within a few hours I ended up in the emergency room with severe stomach/intestinal pains. I was convinced I had a burst appendix, the pain was so severe. The doctors found nothing wrong. Only the next day, when I spoke to one of the healers in question on the phone, did he blithely inform me that he and a pal had casually "experimented" on me the prior day and done remote work on me. Which obviously didn't work! I had been unaware of their work and simply experienced it as severe physical pain.
So, maybe this anecdotal information (and I have tons more I just don't have the time today to share) can serve as a caution.....well-intentioned healers may wish to first discern a) is the person really willing and receptive to receive healing and b) is it truly appropriate for that healer to act as a conduit for the healing, bypassing karmic repercussions or negative energy rebound.
Because I have to say EVERY healer I know right now is VERY sick, mostly because of ignoring these issues in their own healing practices.
It comes down to asking the question....not CAN I heal someone...but SHOULD I heal someone. There's an important difference between the two.
It's very hard to refuse to work on someone when they come to you for healing. But often they're not ready, and it's actually inappropriate for you to take their pain or their illness away.
I've learned for instance that some people NEED their cancer or other serious illness because their Higher Selves have manifested the condition for a reason...often as a way for the person to "wake up" and start praying, connecting with Spirit, and investing in their health because these are things they would never have considered doing before they came down with the illness. So their illness becomes a catalyst for spiritual awakening that is very important and personal.
And if you take away their illness too quickly, they don't complete learning the lesson, and they slip back to where they were before in a spiritual sense.
This is hard stuff, because as a healer and empath you just want everybody to feel good and to be whole all the time. You feel their pain and want to put an end to it.
But the more I live and the more I learn, the more I am coming to the view that we are each responsible for our own journey towards wholeness. Healers, writers, teachers, etc. can act as catalysts, but they can't shoulder the burden of our own growth.
That's up to us.
LipstickMystic aka Jennifer
), but never fully dealt with her anger. Hence she go bye-bye. But, anyway.... I work at a health food and nutrition store, and the behavior and approach some of the people display is nothing short of someone going to Dr. AMA. So, he does have a point in that regard. But, so do you, Zarg. The soil in this country is nothing compared to what it used to be. In fact it sucks. So, on one level they are absolutely necessary to adequate health.
I love passionate people myself and think the New Age community can go way too far with its dispassionate, overly intellectual approach. Sometimes we can get too wrapped up in thinking, but feeling is where all the magic is.
