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Hi Everyone,

I've posted this question on a few boards but I'd like to hear from as many as possible.

My husband has emphysema and a congenital heart defect. I had placed my hand on his chest in the heart area. I did not treat any other part of the body. I don't usually feel anything when Reiki is coming through. In about 10 minutes or so, my husband said that my hand had become so hot that he needed me to remove it, which I promptly did.

In the past when I was just learning Reiki, I practiced on my husband and put him to sleep on the floor. He was/is a bit skeptical about Reiki. I was a Level 1 practitioner then. Back then, I could feel Reiki in my hands and all over. Now, I've been at Level 3 for almost 5 years. I practice a few Qi Gong exercises now and then and I rarely feel anything. Yet, feedback tells me energy is a-passin thru.

Why would Reiki become so hot that the client can not take it? Is it like a timer? The part of the body gets too hot so it's time to stop or move to another part of the body? Why wouldn't I feel that so I could move my hand accordingly?

One way I was taught was to stay on the part of the body as long as one could feel the Reiki coming through. That does not work for me anymore since I do not feel Reiki coming through most of the time. I've also read that Reiki can bring on more pain (could be heat also) or some uncomfortable feeling for a short while but then the pain or uncomfortable feeling subsides, if not disappears, as if this is part of a bigger healing process. If this is true, I wonder if the client, in these cases, cuts off the bigger healing process.
Of course, that would be all up to them.

Also, if Reiki is uncomfortable in a short amount of time, did the energy help in healing at all? My husband still feels about the same. I don't think a 40 year old problem was healed in 10 minutes, nor would I expect it to be so generally.

I'd love to hear your experiences and/or comments on this?
Blini

blini,

Hi.

I am sorry I may not be much help here, Blini, but I have never really undertood why practitioners seem to get so 'neurotic' over recipients saying they've had enough Reiki for the time being (either in one place on the body or in a session as a whole)

Cheers,

RC

Otoharo!

Years ago, we had athing going between us, about whose hands got the hottest as if this was a sign of mine's better than yours, etc. We learned that only when the body is in resistance to the energy does it get hot. As soon as the person is not resisting any more, there is no longer the sensation of hot or cold. When your husband truly wants to heal, he can disregard whether it is hot or not and just let it run of its own occord. I am glad you have learned to hold a position while you feel something going on. Now that you do not feel it, you can clock it to run five minutes per position.

finality

Dear Blini,
Your experience of sensing less when you Reiki is similiar to my experience: the degree of sensations that were felt as a newbie to Reiki are not the norm now & I have been at level 3 for several years. In the beginning, those sensations made it easier to believe that the energy was flowing, that I could "do" Reiki. I wonder if this is just our Ego rising to the bait of Reiki while our Higher Self just sits quietly smiling, knowing that in the end the Ego will become less forcefull in our practice. Somewhere along the way the knowledge that the energy was always there settled in. There was a time during training when I could not feel much & what helped was this: A RM that was instrumental in the learning process had some sort of personal crisis & couldnt feel anything but boy were his hands hot when he Reikied us. He was one of the best, in the eyes of the recipients, as far as treating & relaxing even without his own awareness of the energy flow. He could not believe that at the time & in his eyes we saw his doubt & sensed his feelings of failure. That demonstrated that Reiki flows even when we do not sense it & a RM can lose touch with what he/she was taught & has lived. I went through a period when I could not sense anything ( between level 2 & 3) & found that relaxing into that & accepting it helped more than struggling with the fear of not being in touch with the energy or a sense of failure. Now I do not feel what I felt at level 1 & 2 but my intuition leads me more & I cant describe that very well except to say it evolved & as sensation decreased intuition seemed to increase. So I do not believe that your experence is unusual at all.
If you have ever felt pain intensify during a Reiki treatment it can be extremely uncomfortable & pain at the heart area must be rather frightening if you have heart disease. I do not know why pain intensifies so that it is unbearable, my guess is that there may be some resistance with dealing with the issue at the bottom of it all or it is long standing & not going to resolve easily & perhaps the peeling away of layers will be more likely to work. Could be a result of more energy than usual being released or a deep need being expressed for healing ( some say it is drawing more energy)? But maybe sometimes it means that enough is enough, please, go away. That conclusion comes from hands on experience as well as personal experience & I stress that because my experience & conclusion does not mean it is a fact or a truth.
Heat & cold are manifestations of energy but perceptions of temperature differ from person to person. So each team ( recipient & practitioner) may have different perceptions of energy flow. When you are treating family members it is sometimes more of a challenge to let the family member direct the healing.
Why? Why? Why? We all ask this, dont we? All anyone can give you is their thoughts & experiences & opinions. Listen to yours and let it take you where you need to go. Why are you asking if 10 minutes of Reiki helped at all? Focus a bit on that question.
Forgive my impertinence here, my "feeling" is that you are being asked to trust your husband to make decisions for himself no matter what you feel or do not feel. Your husband may be asking you to let him deal with it in his way & in his timeline.
Perhaps a skeptic husband who lets you Reiki him is a man who loves his wife very much and/or experiences more healing than he acknowledges? :)

peace & joy,
holobon

blini,

You mentioned that you just worked on his chest area, how about working the whole body next time? The other chakras and body parts are being affected by the illnesses of the chest and perhaps by working on the less affected parts will 'unclog' the energy in the chest? (Just a suggestion!) Also, don't forget to work on the back of the body as well!

Here's something you might want to try:
1) place your hand above the chakras with two or three fingers pointing down at the chakras;
2) imagine energy flowing through these fingers into the chakra;
3) now rotate the fingers clockwise like you are stirring

What you are trying to do will be getting the chakras' vortex to rotate in the right direction.

Sounds crazy? Well, a very good healer taught me this one. Does it work? One lady hiccupped when I started on her solar plex and said it tickled when I did it on the one below that (remind you... I was working just inches above her physical body). She seems to be very sensitive even inches away from her physical body. Anyway, on others, I have sensed when doing the clockwise stirring sharp fragments in the vortex; others would be very thick and sluggish; and I got sensitive enough to sense the vortexes leaning. I have had stuff come out of some of the vortexes like the stirring was sucking what shouldn't be there out of the body. Afterwards, I would then send fresh energy into those chakras.

Sincerely,
Zookie

Do you always "stir" in a clockwise direction? What if the chakra is spinning the other way? It may not make any difference - I'm just wondering. :) Often I will use a pendulum to figure out which way a chakra is going at any given time.

Otoharo!

reikicelt, why worry about the spin. Just be reiki with the chakra areas. They do their own thing anyway. Your thing is being reiki.

finality

Hi,

Do full body treatments holding each position 3 to 5 minutes. In the sensitive chest area, have your husband put his hands on his body and put your hands over top. Respect his wishes as to duration the position is held. Have a regular schedule for treatments, daily or at least 3 times a week. You will see progress.

With long term aliments, the healing process may be observed to unfold according to Hering's laws of cure:
From above downwards.
From within outwards.
From a more important organ to a less important one.
In the reverse order of their coming.

All the best,

Pam
Showmereiki.com

Hi,

Pardon my frankness, but it sounds to me as if people are meddling in things they do not understand; in ways they do not appreciate.

Cheers,

RC

Clockwise rotation moves energy into the recipient. Counterclockwise rotation moves energy out from the "recipient." (Direction depends on whether tonification or sedation is needed.)

Bruce

reikicelt said on

>Do you always "stir" in a clockwise direction? What if the chakra is spinning the other way? It may not make any difference - I'm just wondering. :) Often I will use a pendulum to figure out which way a chakra is going at any given time.

RC., I agree with that!

finality

Yes I agree too.
Reiki is not a chakra healing modality and people do appeat to make Reiki far to complicated by playing with things that they know little about.
The study of chakra healing to a point where you can safely manipulate them is a long process.
When giving Reiki, be Reiki and not a Chakra healer.

Namaste

Rob
Truth is not a property of language because language has not been able to express abstract ideas as efficiently as concrete items

Wise words, as usual. :)