Reiki

[percival]

Yesterday, I went to see a potential Reiki teacher (sit_good_dog will be pleased with me). She is fantastic. Even though she's been teacing for only three years, her approach is caring and thorough. We talked for forty minutes to determine whether Reiki and me were a good fit. She was very open about her background (NLP, hypnotherapy, Reiki), her teachers, and her plans (going into more massage-type body work). This is somebody who can assist you with the personal development work that is said to be connected with the attunement to Reiki. She runs student clinics every fortnight. But what's best is that she will ONLY give you the Reiki I certificate after you've done four case studies (*moan*) and shown your commitment through a month of regular meditation and journalling.

Well, what IS Reiki, you may ask. Before I met people who'd become attuned, I thought "humbug". But now I see it as a way of focussing loving attention on the person you are treating. To help you with that, you imagine that you are channelling a force of love.

I must admit that I've been a lot less sceptical about energy work since I've seen that it works. Homoeopathy and Shiatsu combined have powerfully brought me in touch with the person I was before I started to suppress everything in the name of not being bullied and rejected. I thought that "old me" was an object to be hated. Now I can access those parts of the old me that were actually good (and there were many of those), and integrate them into my older, more compassionate self.

Very interesting.

Comments

[chrysantza.livejournal.com]

I am happy to hear about your healing! This is inspiring me to look into finding a good homeopath (if I can afford it). There seems to be a real difference between taking those homeopathic remedies one finds at the store and actually getting a homeopath to tailor a plan just for you. Reiki sounds like it would be something I might look into too (all depends, alas, on $). At any rate, there must be something I can do along those lines even if I can't afford the whole enchilada.

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[perceval.livejournal.com]

A good homoeopath will talk to you for at least an hour before prescribing any remedy. They match it very specifically to the current state of your mind and body. According to the homoeopath I've seen, off-the-shelf remedies are more or less useless.