Reiki

Has anyone tried this out?

I'm really interested in experimenting with it to see if it can effect energy levels and concentration.

I imagine when they talk about channelling energy, they are talking about the same energy that accupunture and taichi work with.

I was thinking after reading some of bodyflow and through my own training that maybe what happens with accupunture and maybe reiki, is that it unblocks neural pathways connecting motor units and wakes them up along with the proprioceptors by regulating the electrical charge given to groups of units. Or aqctually what I think I mean is unblocks the pathways to these dormant units thus allowing them to be charged when the brain commands it.

Sorry, i'm confusing myself here, ahhgg short curcuit!

I'll get back to this when I can think straight, sorry.

[HereBeADragon]

Reiki is a wonderfull healing art. It is one of my goals to train in that practice. I have had it done to me in the past for injuries and it is a wonderful healing tool. Basicly Reiki speeds up the bodies natural healing process. I've heard of instences of small injuries disappearing in minutes after a treatment. Inflamation and pain disappear before the end of the session usually. There isnt an ailment or injury in existence that cannot benefit from Reiki. Just make sure you find someone who really knows what their doing lots of con men out there.

Sounds good, I think the person doing it is legit, she is aprt of a christian church so I doubt she's a conwomen.

You know the thing about zits, I actually found the same thing when I first started to practise bodyflow, amazing. It must have some kind of relation.

Cheers!

[HereBeADragon]

a good indication of a legit Reiki practitioner is that their hands get considerably warmer during the session. You should be able to feel this Reiki "energy" moving through you during the session. It may not be a consistent feeling but it should occure. Also on a small side bar, IMHO. Never decide someones character based on their religion. I've seen people get taken advantage of by people of all faiths. Best off luck with the Reiki :)

[JasonE]

good indication of a legit Reiki practitioner is that their hands get considerably warmer during the session. You should be able to feel this Reiki "energy" moving through you during the session. It may not be a consistent feeling but it should occur.

There was some discussion of this months ago. I've had this experience with two people that were very into the whole "energy" thing. One was self-taught and not too skilled.. more into the projection and gross manipulation thing than with any subtle use requiring actual skill. The other person was exceptionally sensitive and mostly self-taught though I gathered that she'd had some instruction. She was very into subtle uses, though she was not a "healer" per se. Both people were able to induce a powerful sensation of heat from their palms and stimulate a similar level of heat in my own.

The most interesting things about both individuals is that they were extremely confident in their abilities, but could be overwhelmed if I chose to visualize reversing their energy flow to return what they were putting out, or if I chose to visualize "smoothing" or even "plucking" their energy flows. I have very little formal training now and had none at the times I met these people. It was as if they were so self-convinced of the concepts they shared with me... that they could not envision resisting those methods when the tables were turned.

I have very mixed feelings about energy-manipulation therapies, as I have yet to meet a competent practitioner. Despite some others claiming formal training, the two noted above are the only ones I have met that could actually generate a sense of real energy sensitivity or manipulation. As said previously, there's a LOT of people that are cons or simply self-deluded. When I finally meet someone that is sensitive AND able to do things that I can not immediately duplicate or exceed, I may relinquish some of my doubt.

[sames]

Dunno about Reiki. My wife was telling me about accupuncture experiments on animals and pets. That would seem to remove any placebo affect (other than pet owners seeing an improvement because they want to). An aquantence a few years back claimed to be a Reiki master and put the whole concept in a rather poor light for me.

-Steve

[HereBeADragon]

heres one of my experiences that might be of interest. 3 years ago I worked at a science camp. It was the first night of the week and the staff put on a skit night. The ending skit involves us jumping around the stage, at this time I had only a minor injury to my left knee but it was one that could be dangerous for me because if it slipped I would be unable to walk on it for a week or so. Well jumping around was a stupid idea and it did pop out on me. Oh did it hurt and it swelled up almost double its size in only a few minutes. This was very bad as I could not do my job like this (we spend most of the week hiking). One of the other cabin leaders was a reiki practitioner, he also had an interesting chakra healing thing the invloved a digerie due(no idea how to spell that). We went back to my cabin and he started working on my knee. He only rubbed it lightly if touching it at all but I would feel the energy in his hands passing through my knee. His palms got very hot and before my eyes the swelling went down. By morning my knee was fine and I didnt miss a single hike all week. It is true that authentic reiki practitioners are hard to come by and training in reiki is not cheap (average basic training costs about $500.00) so people are naturally going to try finding cheaper training (I'm sure there are fraud reikis that do not realize they are). I think this is a valuable healing art and I plan to become a practitioner my advice to anyone wishing to learn or be healed is to pay attention to their palms. If they get hot than you've got good odds that they are legit. Also I think JasonE's little test was an interesting one. I am not sureprised that you could disrupt them like that though. This is a healing art meant to work with your body and mind if they are fighting against healing than your session would not work and if the reiki were to force the energy I believe this could be dangerous to either the reiki or the patient.

[JasonE]

Here's the prior thread I was thinking of earlier:

http://circularstrengthmag.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1441

[Glenn Sunshine]

FWIW, I am a trained level 2 Reiki practitioner. The term "master" in Reiki simply means someone who's had the training to know how to open the channels the the reiki energy flows through (generally, that would be about level 4). My own experience with it has been somewhat mixed. I have used it primarily on my children to relieve pain and minor injuries, but have not had any particularly dramatic results with it. More interestingly, I have used it to put them to sleep when they have had trouble dropping off. It worked literally within a minute the first time I did that, though it usually takes longer. It is very relaxing. It also complements other energy healing modalities such as qigong.

I don't make much use of reiki now, though on occassion I still practice it. Most of the time, the results needed to be taken on faith rather than being observable, and I began to have misgivings about some of the spiritual elements of the practice. I'd prefer not to discuss that in a public forum, however.

Yours,
Glenn