Comments on: Choosing Your Reiki Words

By: Jennifer (MD)

Jennifer (MD) — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:53:22 +0000

Someone once wrote that, ‘if they have to use a special camera to see it, its bogus’. Imagine how Mme. Curie felt! We use special cameras for lots of stuff in medicine (think PET scanning, MRI, CT, EKG, ELISA) -all based on a number of different technologies. Recently I think I’ve been clearly sensing people’s aura flow (or clutter/ interference) and that is really a weird feeling for me. While we may not have the technology right now to amplify these signals, from what little I know abut picking up Kirilian energy, it takes a lot of voltage, but can be done.

(Oh goody, another energy hog to “see” these things instead of being in the experience.)

Meditation has been shown to have many proven benefits and still its considered “weird”. Who’s publishing these ideas anyway? the Koch brothers of Glaxo-Smith-Kline. Medicine (western, that is), might get you about a third of the way towards improving your health. AT BEST.

I am a board-certified allergist/ internist and now, beginning REIKI MASTER. Was a physics and sciences major in college.

By: Healer (not my real name :-)

Healer (not my real name :-) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:46:36 +0000

Most of the time when I am trying to introduce someone to Reiki I have to fight on one of two battles:

The science-oriented person who only accepts documented facts. Those are hard to convince if I use the word “alternative”. I never had success with those. I showed them some youtube videos about the aura photography and tried to start from there. Still nothing yet.

The religious who doesn’t accept the idea that any one or thing can be asked for anything except God. My approach that worked with them to accept the treatment is that the universal life energy is created by God like anything else, and it’s free and available for anyone to use it just like air, and I ask them to ask God instead of asking the universal life energy. My approach only works to get them to accept the treatment but it’s not strong enough to get them to come back.

By: Pamela Miles

Pamela Miles — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:34:08 +0000

Your strategy can be useful when the conversation gets to that level of interest, but it’s important, especially when speaking to scientists, to distinguish between electromagnetic fields, which science as documented, and the biofield, which is as yet undocumented by science.

It’s premature to say that science has proven the value of biofield therapies. Although there is quite a bit of science to support acupuncture for various ailments, the scientific investigation of most biofield therapies, especially Reiki practice, is really just beginning.

By: sharonbaker

sharonbaker — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:07:11 +0000

Here is a thought-I hope it will resonate and help with expalnation on some level. As a holistic RN I have been explaining energy concepts for 23 years now to general medicine or for the “patients” have never tried anything outside this box. It is not an easy task! I emphasize with the practitioners who must introduce Reiki -we are not raised with energy concepts. However, I talk about this-everyone who has had an EKG or EEG is familiar with the fact we have electrical patterns in our bodies-we can actually see the results. Laws of physics “wherever there is electricity there is a magnetic field.” So we are both electrical and magnetic. It is easier to expain our need for balance in this electrical system, just like we need balance is our blood circulation and other body organs. It is a concept the East has had for thousands of years and now science proves its effects.

By: Amber

Amber — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:14:58 +0000

I’ve been practicing Reiki on my man for two years and still haven’t told him. Will follow Mhairi’s advice.

By: Pamela Miles

Pamela Miles — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:48:16 +0000

Lou, have you read the post What Is Reiki? What to do? I think it will help you with this.

By: Lou

Lou — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:26:49 +0000

I do tell them that is helps them relax and stress relief. Then they ask how it works…that is what I have problems explaining to them so they will understand. Can anyone tell me how you would answer that question??

By: Pamela Miles

Pamela Miles — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:17:15 +0000

I can certainly relate to what you wrote, Lindy. We all feel more comfortable when we are aligned. Trying to manipulate someone, even for what we see as their own good, throws us out of alignment and we trip over our tongues. Thanks for stopping by!

By: Lindy

Lindy — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:08:20 +0000

I felt very comfortable with your statement that ‘you don’t see it as your job to open up people to Reiki’. Because, in all honesty, every time I try ‘to open up people’ that’s exactly why it backfires. I have learned over the years that Reiki is a free flowing energy and it’s there for the ones already open to it. I guess that intuitively I know when some one is open to Reiki, and then when I talk about Reiki, my own words flow more freely and naturally and the people respond accordingly.
Can anybody relate to that?

By: Pamela Miles

Pamela Miles — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:19:43 +0000

Thank you for sharing Rick’s sage advice, John. It make sense to learn a detail or two that helps us connect with the people we’re speaking to, whether it’s one person or a roomful, to bring the balancing benefits of Reiki treatment home to them in a very personal way.