However, it doesn’t sound as if what you experienced was actually a Reiki treatment. Because there are no agreed-upon standards for Reiki treatment or training, sometimes people practice in ways that are much more interventionist than Reiki practice is meant to be. For example, the treatment itself doesn’t aggressively remove stress. Rather, it is balancing to the individual, which is often experienced as a comfortable release of stress. It has been my clinical experience that when there are stressors in the environment, as part of the balancing influence of Reiki practice, the person’s awareness increases organically, and he or she is able to identify problems and find solutions.

Regardless the explanation, if you are uncomfortable treating people with cancer, there is no reason why you have to do so. It’s okay to limit your practice to situations that are comfortable for you.

Again, I suggest going back to the original post. Reiki treatment is balancing to the system overall. When there is a new organ in the body, that becomes part of the overall system. So you could say that Reiki helps to harmonize the new element into the recipient’s system, as well as balance the side effects of the anti-rejection drugs. There is nothing involved in Reiki treatment that can interact with the drugs themselves (because there is no substance ingested) or that overrides the body’s wisdom.

Similarly, how would Reiki treatment affect the electrical signals in a pacemaker? Reiki treatment does not involve electricity. Rather, it helps to balance the human system into which the pacemaker has been inserted.

Diabetics who are insulin-dependent check their blood sugar levels regularly because many things affect the amount of sugar in their blood and it has to be kept within certain parameters. The balancing effects of Reiki treatment can definitely affect blood sugar levels, which are being constantly monitored anyway. In my professional practice, every person with diabetes I have treated or trained to practice has told me he/she needed less medication. For some, the change has been quite dramatic. But addressing this type of diabetes involves constant monitoring anyway, and needing less medication is seen as a good thing, not a danger.

It’s important to realize that Reiki treatment can affect blood sugar levels not because it in any way interacts with the medications, but because the system is experiencing a more balance state, which affects hormonal secretion and blood chemistry, moving them toward a health.

1. People who have had an organ transplant as Reiki can affect the anti-rejection drugs that they take.

2. People who have had a pacemaker fitted as Reiki can affect the electrical signals.

3. People who are insulin-dependent diabetics as Reiki can affect the blood-sugar levels.

Janice