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Hello all,

Can you please share your most amazing Reiki experience(s)?

I'll get the ball rolling with one that blew my mind. I was asked to give Reiki to a little boy who was in the children's hospital for an acute autoimmune disorder. I dutifully went and gave him a treatment (surreptitiously, because we weren't sure hospital staff would approve). His condition improved immediately, in that he began responding to medication (the medication had been ineffective for a week before that). But the amazing thing was this: Two days before I saw him, he had stuffed a tiny piece of a toy up his nose. No one could get this toy out,
not his mother, not the nurses, not even the doctors who put him under general anaesthetic to try to get the toy out. They were worried about inducing bleeding that they couldn't stop, so in the end they left the toy in. Then he received Reiki. I didn't know about the toy when I gave him Reiki; he didn't know that he was receiving Reiki. FIVE MINUTES AFTER I LEFT AFTER THE TREATMENT THE TOY CAME OUT BY ITSELF. (And when his aunt called me to tell me about the toy, all I could say was "what toy"?)

I've been often told by skeptics that Reiki works through suggestion and the placebo effect and sometimes, when I feel down, I even believe them. But after this experience I can only say that I am in awe of the wisdom of Reiki.

Please share your stories!

Judith

Judith,

Hi,

Doing hands-on Reiki for others is great stuff.

Yet, there are a multitude of explanations for that toy being rejected by the boy's body. To attribute wisdom to Reiki is not one I would vote for. But, perhaps that is just me.

As for hospital staff permission?? As long as you had parental permission and were not violating specific hosptial visitor policies, I wouldn't worry too much. I trust it was not anxiety about being known publically as a Reiki practitioner that motivated your "surreptitiousness"

Cheers,

RC

Hi RC,

I love to be publicly known as a Reiki practitioner! I just didn't want to be thrown out of the hospital :)

BTW you sound just like some of the skeptics I know :) Hence the name "Reikicurmudgeon"?

BTW I'd love to hear how your chose that name.

Cheers,
Judith

Judith,

Hi.

As one of the most experienced practitioners I know (more than 15 years) I would say most of the scepticisms I have are well founded.

:)

As for Reikicurmudgeon? If you know the (complete)definition of 'curmudgeon' then it all becomes pretty clear.

To quote Helen from another Reiki Site:

" What is a Curmudgeon anyway?

A curmudgeon's reputation for malevolence is undeserved. They're neither warped nor evil at heart. They don't hate mankind, just mankind's absurdities. They're just as sensitive and soft-hearted as the next guy, but they hide their vulnerability beneath a crust of misanthropy. They ease the pain by turning hurt into humor. . . . . . They attack maudlinism because it devalues genuine sentiment. . . . . . Nature, having failed to equip them with a servicable denial mechanism, has endowed them with astute perception and sly wit.
Curmudgeons are mockers and debunkers whose bitterness is a symptom rather than a disease. They can't compromise their standards and can't manage the suspension of disbelief necessary for feigned cheerfulness. Their awareness is a curse.
Perhaps curmudgeons have gotten a bad rap in the same way that the messenger is blamed for the message: They have the temerity to comment on the human condition without apology. They not only refuse to applaud mediocrity, they howl it down with morose glee. Their versions of the truth unsettle us, and we hold it against them, even though they soften it with humor.

Great reading, no???

lol

By the way, why were you afraid you might be thrown out of the hospital (if you are willing to share that?)

Cheers,

RC

RC,

Some of my best friends are curmudgeons :)

I was afraid I'd be thrown out of the hospital because a) it was the first time I was there, b) hospitals make me nervous, and c) the child was quite ill. I think it was a totally irrational fear.

I've been doing reiki for almost six years now. It has been very strong from the beginning -- so strong that at the beginning it scared me. It would literally wake me up at night because anywhere I had my hands on my body it would feel like fire. Now I am a reiki master and the flow is a lot smoother. BTW I've been accused of doing something other than reiki, because what I do looks a heck of a lot like pranic healing (). The difference is that while in pranic healing the movements are taught, the movements I experience are spontaneous. I've done martial arts and qi gong, so I may be "importing" stuff other than reiki.

Anyway, the long and the short of it is that I have no doubt in my mind that reiki is intelligent energy. The thing I wonder about is where does it come from?

A friend of mine is a Spanish professor married to a professor of Classics. He is incredibly sensitive to energy. I gave him a few sessions, and the next time his wife developed an ailment he told her to come and see me. Being a highly rational and skeptical person, she was incredulous. "You mean you believe that stuff works?" she asked. And his reply was: "I don't just believe that it works. I KNOW."

That's how I feel too.

But we are all entitled to our own conclusions, and I fully respect yours :) The world would be a far poorer place without skeptics and curmudgeons.

All best,
Judith

HI JUDITH, NO AMASING STORIES TO TELL YOU YET!! BUT I JUST LOVED YOUR STORY, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

LIGHT&JOY TO YOU
MOONDANCE

I have no trouble attributing the toy coming out to Reiki. After all, it relaxes (so tight tissues would relax), and reduces inflammation , so it very well could have set the stage for irritation around the toy to calm down and allow it to pass out of the body. The same thing happens with many other "stuck" things, be they energetic or more solid things like kidney stones. When I give a Reiki treatment people are always amazed at how clogged up sinuses drain (same thing often happens with massage of the back).
Go ahead, it's safe to belieeeeeeeeeeeeeeve! But not required! LOL
Feather

Judith,

Hi,

Ah, but for sceptics and curmudgeons the world would be more irrational than it already is.

:)

And, intelligent people (professors, or whomever) are no indication of an intelligent energy. If that were the case then one would definitely have to wonder if the energy is also blazingly stupid (what with all the idiots there seem to be running amuck in the world)

LOL

Cheers,

RC

feather,

Hi. There is nothing so blind as blind faith.

:)

I know someone surely said this before me but I do not know to whom to give kudos.

;)

As for the relaxing?? If the person does not use the energy to relax then the Reiki will not force it, so to speak. This remains the same issue, different attempt at an example. If Reiki were intelligent why does "IT" not know how to cure cancer or AIDS, or???? I mean I find it absurd when I hear someone say "Reiki failed" (or worse "my reiki"). This is really just neurotic projection and a lot of nonsense.

:)

No, no. The belief must be that we can make it work for ourselves (in that I believe) and that others must "make it work" for themselves (in that I hope). How do we make it work? To quote: "practice, practice, practice."

:)

Cheers,

RC

Hi Feather,

Exactly. Reiki makes things "flow". And while belief is not necessary, suspension of disbelief helps :)

Do you have any Reiki stories? Please? I am getting quite discouraged here :) Are people just being reticent?

cheers,
Judith

Namaste.
I have had several amazing experiences with reiki. The most recent one is this. I had bought a creeper from the nursery that had red flowers. I think the name is hypomia.Even after a few months of planting, I never got any flowers.The first and the last flower was the one that was in the plant when I bought it! The plant grew too much, spreading allover and it did not look nice. I wanted to cut if off but didnt have the heart to do it. So as an experiment I gave reiki to the plant for 5 days, everyday. Wow, at the end of that week, I saw buds all over , in fact, 4 to 5 buds for each leaf and the following week I got beautiful red flowers! After this, there has been regular blooming of flowers in this plant. Thanks to reiki.

wonderful story,
I believe Reiki has a 'higher intelligence' than us mere mortals will ever know....
why some people carry on with reiki when they doubt it is beyond me...I am a true believer or wouldn't use it so much..
it does not help all, some cancers & bad dis-ease's, but that's (IMHO) is because that, that is that persons 'path',(for reasons beyond 'our' knowledge) even if they do not wish it, it will be so....
I am so thrilled for you & the little boy, & yes I think reiki removed his blocked nose!!!that was 'not' helping him with that stuck up there, & help him in more ways than one, 'reiki' did....
I also believe we are 'chosen' to give Reiki to certain people...through the 'higher intelligence Reiki has of knowing' 'who' can help that person....a gift indeed & a wonderful 'honor' to be chosen..
makes you feel ummmm, GOOD INSIDE ...
luv wendy ann xxx

wamps said on

>I believe Reiki has a 'higher intelligence' than us mere mortals will ever know....
>why some people carry on with reiki when they doubt it is beyond me...I am a true believer or wouldn't use it so much..

I haven't seen many people on this board who doubt that reiki is effective. What some DO doubt is the assertion that reiki has a higher intelligence. Regardless of whether it has a higher intelligence, WHY NOT continue w/ reiki when it's effective? That shouldn't be so hard to understand.

Bruce

Hi, Judith,

Short-term experiences w/ reiki and other energy include working on a friend of my parents who had severe lower back pain for 6 months; her doctors told her she'd have to take ibuprofen for the rest of her life. My mother and I worked on her for about an hour, and she's been pain-free since.

The long-term experience w/ which I'm most familiar is treating my father when he had pancreatic cancer (adenocarcinoma in the head of his pancreas). He passed away 24 months after his diagnosis was confirmed. (Median survival is 5.6 months; 19 percent are alive after 12 months.) The energy treatments helped w/ alleviating side effects of chemotherapy (e.g., got rid of severe gas pains, and helped somewhat to lessen peripheral neuropathy), and he wasn't on painkillers until the last 3 days of his life on this earth so he was lucid almost until the very end. I was so glad that Dad didn't go through the sorts of horrors I'd seen discussed on a pancreatic cancer discussion board. And Dad was able to see his granddaughter (my niece) several times, although he'd at first thought he would be dead by the time she was born. Anyway. I'd previously publicly posted (hey, that's alliterative) more details on several boards but don't feel like doing so again right now, so e-mail if you'd like more info. on this.

Even something that seems small, such as pain relief without side effects, can make a big difference for the recipient.

Bruce
bctaiji@yahoo.com

Thank you for the story! This is the sort of thing I had in mind when I posted the first query.

The chief reason I say Reiki is intelligent energy is that it seems to know where to go, even when the giver doesn't know where to direct it. You could either say that it's intelligent energy, or you could say that the receiver has a body intelligence that tells it where to go. Or you could say it goes everywhere and fixes whatever needs to be fixed :)

Thanks again,

Judith

Hi Judith,

I had a medium friend whose young nephew had a very enlarged kidney, which his consultant was very concerned about and considering operating upon etc dependant on the results of diagnostic tests.

Well with the child's mother's permission, a few of us sent Reiki and also spiritual healing over a period of few weeks. The next time the child saw the doctor, he was amazed to find that upon ultrasound scan, the kidney had decreased in size significantly and was much closer to the size it should have been. Now I don't know what the final outcome was, as my friend moved to Spain and I lost touch with her, but I remember thinking at the time how incredible that Reiki and indeed spiritual healing could be. However it has also been my experience that Reiki doesn't always do what we expect it to do. I have found it best to let go of my expectations and attachments to results :)

Gentle Blessings
Helen

Thanks, Helen :) Yes, Reiki doesn't always do what we expect it to do -- which to me would weigh in favour of the "intelligent energy" argument. My favourite Reiki story is about the couple who gave Reiki to their neighbour, an elderly woman, to thank her for looking after their cat. The neighbour had a frozen shoulder, and no amount of Reiki seemed to improve it. However, after the treatment she regained her hearing in the ear which has been deaf since she was four years old!!!! :)

Cheers,
Judith

judith,

Hi,

You said, in part: "Yes, Reiki doesn't always do what we expect it to do -- which to me would weigh in favour of the "intelligent energy" argument".

Your logic escapes me.

Obviously the woman used the energy to improve her hearing which was, perhaps more vital to her (not you) than the shoulder limitations.

Remember, bottomline, it is Recipient's Mindfulness and Intention that is Key. Practitioner Intention must only be to get the energy to the Recipient (since the energy is not intelligent enough to get there on its own; without practitioner involvement)

:)

Cheers,

RC

My logic is that the energy goes places where no one expects it to go. The practitioner may intend it to go somewhere, the recipient may intend it to go somewhere, but it may go yet somewhere else. In this case the recipient never intended it to fix her ear, but her shoulder, and expressed disappointment that her shoulder was still in pain, and surprise that she regained her hearing.

I'm sure many reiki practitioners have had this kind of experience, where they and the recipient both intended something, and something different happened.

I can see why you would want to disallow the existence of an intelligent energy, because then the next question is: where does it come from? :) It kind of raises the issue of a deity or an intelligence in the universe that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. I just tend to accept it without worrying about it too much :)

Cheers,
Judith

Hi Judith

I have just got to join in on this subject,when an animal is close to death due to an adverse effect of anestethetic, and brought back to life through the effects of Reiki being administered, the reward that you receive inwardly is tremendous, I have had this on two seperate occasions once with a cat and once with an horse, yes two extremes 3 kilos to 600 kilos the effect was just the same, with the horse my wife assisted to give a Reiki massage, it took quite a long time to bring the animals baack to life,to quote the Vet he said we were at the end of the line.

Judith this is my amazing story I have many more

Angels are always with you

neil

Thank you, Neil. And of course with animals there is no question of a placebo effect :) It's just pure love :)

Cheers,
Judith

Hi Judith

Se Se mi amiga

Yes I live in Spain

Angels are always with you

neil

good one Judith!!..
what came first..the chicken or the egg??....never to be answered Q !! eh!
one could go round the twist about Reiki's intelligence thingy, but 'Humans will 'NEVER' solve that one either!!!???

luv to you, wendy ann xxx

hi there,
well, this one had the doctors in a 'spin'..... I have had two minor strokes due to 'plaque' in the garroted artery, ...the last time it was testing time, well they did the ultra sound (as per annual check)... the doctor came in, the chief doctor came in,& some others! to where I was, (on that awful skinny hard bed!!)...& said "what have you been doing different"?...I said, " just giving Reiki to those arteries"
with that they said "well keep doing it, as there is NOTHING THERE!".....WOW, JUST WOW, & THANKYOU...
luv Wendy Ann xxx

Hi, Judith,

I'm glad you recognize that some alternatives to the reiki-has-higher-intelligence hypothesis can account for the same results. Trying to determine which hypothesis is "true" is difficult, and IMHO really doesn't seem to have all that much to do w/ results.

Another story, though not reiki; I hope it's okay in this board. The mother of one of my qigong students had a mini-stroke that left her too weak to walk. That night and the next day my student worked on her mother in the hospital room; the day after that, her mother was walking around fine. My student periodically continued w/ treatments, and a month later neurological testing on her mother showed normal function.

Bruce