Has anybody experienced Reiki treatment? Does it really work to build up your energy, destress and relax?
I would love to read some experiences here if anybody tried Reiki already..
Thanks..
Hello all,
Don't know anything about it, but anything with the word energy in it sounds like a load of tosh to me!
If you believe in energy, drink red bull!
I'll keep this in mind, thanks..
A glass of wine works also but does Reiki work better?
Cognitive Behavior Therapy says it does, there is more and more research being published about the Body-Mind connection. Worth a try!
You'll have to see if it does the trick for you. It's definitely a neat little trick to have handy in moments of distress (or stress!)
Are you thinking of having a treatment or learning how to administer?
i can give you contact details of a reiki practitioner in zurich if you're interested.
I have had many sessions in the past and found it very relaxing and cleaning of the mind
Well, I would like to have a treatment and see how it works for me.. I wonder how much I will benefit from it..
This is exactly what I need..
Yes, would you please PM me?
Thanks..
I much prefer shiatsu - which is a form of gentle massage/stretching working on the same points and channels as acupuncture.
Energy is a part of us. It's our motor, our spark of life. Some people are more aware of their surroundings, pick up on vibes and sense other people. Others ignore the realities surrounding them because they can't place their own feelings and blame circumstance.
Although I haven't tried Reiki, one of my neighbors teaches and uses it however and I have a high opinion of her. If you can accept the concept of energy and understand that only you can embrace or ignore it's inherent qualities, then what have you got to lose? Just don't expect anyone else to ever think or take responsibility for your own life.
I think that the problem with Reiki is a naive belief that it can be taught as a method. The founder if Reiki was an enlightened Buddhist. I believe there are very few people who possess the necessary qualities, gifts and virtues for healing others through tapping into the universal energy.
To the OP: trust your own experience, try things out on your own. Good luck in finding the right practitioner for your individual needs. And beware of crooks.
Agreed. There's a lot of things that aren't easily explained, or are written off as anecdotal (which they are, and I confess that I'm quite in favor of double blind studies myself), but many do believe that they benefit, and that's all that really matters.
What troubles me is the industry that has evolved around training and marketing these therapies - an industry which far too often is willing to exchange large sums of cash for shallow "training" and meaningless credentials, and in turn sells itself to credulous, needy people as being a proven method to heal what ails them. This is doubly evil when the people being targeted are suffering from a major, (mostly, by conventional medicine) incurable ailment.
also sent by PM:
My next door neighbour teaches Reiki which put me off on the whole idea. It all depends on how much faith you have in your teacher and in the concept. Minds can indeed move mountains.
Hello , I am a Reiki Master, and I fully believe that Reiki does work in all kinds of different situations. If you would like any information, or have any questions, I would be happy to answer them in a private PM .
Namaste
Karl
I knew an 'alternative therapy' practitioner back in Montreal - she was 300 lbs, a smoker, and lived in her mother's basement. She spent thousands of dollars of her mother's money on courses from a 'school' that taught short, ridiculously simplified versions of traditional therapies. Her attitude, her school, and her classmates soured me toward the industry of alternative therapy.
On the other hand, also back in Montreal, my massotherapist - an old (semi) ex-hippy, fit, healthy, studied all sorts of esoteria - cured me of a persistent limp caused by my getting hit by a taxi. The doctors and physios got my walking again (and I am very grateful for that), but it was he who basically eliminated by limp. He used massage, mostly, with some talk of energy and alignment and I don't remember what - the details didn't matter, the results did. (He also recommended drinking one's own urine - preferably after eating peyote - but I never took that advice.)
Regardless of how he did it, now I just walk bearing about 2 degrees to the left of straight, which is just fine for me
Like Olygirl said, minds can move mountains - but too often the good is obscured by fraud, opportunism and plain cultural nihilism.
I have a very limited number of magic beans that I might be selling. Guaranteed to give you energy. Very mystical. PM if interested.
May the force be with you
Jekyll
Agree - so many crock therapies out there, with little imperical evidence to prove their effectiveness. Sadly, too many of these prey on cancer sufferers, who only realise too late they've chosen poorly by ignoring traditional medical programs which could have given them far better and provable odds of survival.
At the end of the day, there is no alternative therapy which matches the proven effectiveness of traditional medicine, surgery, examination techniques, physiotherapy and psychology.
The universal constant of all therapies is the mind. "I will succeed"'s will always do better than the "I'm a lost cause"'ers.