A self-healing story

Bruce was out surfing with a friend, when he cut himself badly on the back of his heel. He was bleeding very badly, but his friend was too far out for him to be able to attract his attention. Bruce had recently attended a Reiki I workshop, so he placed his hands on his heel, and the profuse bleeding immediately stopped. He was in shock and very cold, so he used Reiki to warm himself up. Reiki enabled him to stay calm and warm, and contain the bleeding, while he waited for his friend to come in, as he was too badly cut to be able to walk by himself.

Reiki continued to help Bruce heal after he had been attended to in A & E - the doctors who helped Bruce were amazed at how quickly Bruce’s very bad cut healed.

Reiki Calms - A Hyperactive Child

People often feel energised after a Reiki session, but when it’s calming that is required, Reiki is equally effective.

A group of Reiki practitioners were giving short treatments at a health expo, when a lady came up to them with her granddaughter Rebecca. She said that she didn’t think that the little girl would stay still for long enough because she was very hyperactive, but would they have a go at giving her a treatment anyway.

Rebecca first surprised everyone by choosing to lie on the massage table rather than sit in a chair, and then even more by promptly completely relaxing as soon as the treatment began. By the time the treatment was finished, she was so sleepy that they had trouble getting her off the table, and her amazed Gran jokingly asked if one of them could come and live with them and treat her granddaughter every day!

Breathing Well

Tom attended presentation that explained that deeper breathing is better for you, because it gets more oxygen into your lungs, and helps to better eliminate toxins. After the presentation, he spent a couple of months trying to learn to breathe better, but found that he just couldn’t breathe into the bottom of his lungs.

Tom came along for a Reiki treatment just to see what it was like, without considering that it might help him with his breathing. During the first treatment, he and the person treating him both noticed that he spontaneously started breathing very deeply into his lungs. At the end of the treatment he commented that he had felt a ‘tugging’ sensation in his lungs, like little blocks were clearing. Tom has continued to breathe much deeper into his lungs ever since that first Reiki treatment, and as a result feels a lot more energised.

Tom’s story shows how Reiki goes to wherever it is needed, without either the person receiving it or the person giving it needing to know what is required.

Reiki and Kidney Failure

Jillian’s kidneys had both failed a year before commencing Reiki treatments. Prior to the treatments her toxin levels in her blood had been steadily climbing, and the results of other tests were showing that the type of dialysis she was on wasn’t working very effectively. She was also very low in some minerals due to feeling too sick to eat a lot of the time, and suffering from regular anxiety attacks.

Over the next few months while receiving Reiki treatments, Jillian’s toxin levels began to steadily drop, and the results of the tests showing the adequacy of the dialysis began to improve. She is now no longer in need of a special diet to build her up, as she feels well enough to regularly eat good meals.

The number of anxiety attacks diminished significantly, and even though she still goes down, she feels that Reiki helps her to cope far better. She feels that the biggest benefit has been that the treatments have helped her to accept what is happening, which is very important for anyone on dialysis and facing a transplant sometime in the future.

Kate the Cat

Lyn didn’t realise when she attended a Reiki workshop that it was going to turn out to be so beneficial for her cat Kate. After the workshop however, she soon discovered that Kate loved the energy, as she would come up to Lyn and paw her, and snuggle in close, whenever Lyn was giving herself a treatment.

Over the next few weeks, Kate transformed from a slow moving 12 year old cat, to a playful, cheeky and more perky cat who acts about 3! As well as the increase in energy, a major benefit has been that Kate’s weepy eyes (very typical of her breed ‘Long Haired Colour Point’) have cleared right up and no longer need to be wiped down nearly every morning.

Kate is living proof that you don’t need to understand Reiki to benefit from it (or maybe she understands it better than we do)!