What's the difference btw remote healing with Reiki and praying?

Originally posted by infobrazil
What's the difference btw remote healing with Reiki and praying?

I guess you could say it is more focused. Consider praying like a flashlight, and reiki like a laser beam. Through the attunements, reiki healers are able to channel greater amounts of energy and focus them. For example, after my reiki II attunement, the next healing I did, I could literally feel my hands instantly heat up upon contact with my patient. There was no denying it.

When it comes to distance, this energy we channel is not bound by space or time. It is universal, it is everywhere, it is all connected. Once I can feel the energy start flowing, i KNOW it is being sent out. And in knowing, its power is increased. The Intention Experiment by Lissette Larkins was what really made me go back to learn reiki after my healing experience. It proved to me on a scientific basis that this method of healing worked. It is in knowing and feeling where I think this stuff really works.

When I used to pray it was kind of like an empty hope, leaving it up to someone else. With reiki I can feel it working and know its happening. All it takes is for the receivers body to take this energy and use it which most of the time it does and miraculous healing occours.

Originally posted by bringthelight
If you or anyone you know has had an experience with Reiki I would love to hear it.

When my father was in the hospital dying my sister hired a reiki practitioner for help. Why not? Not much else was helping. What I saw was someone facing different directions and making bizarre hand gestures with the overall effect being nothing, but with a very real monetary cost. This was one of the pivotal moments in my life in which I began questioning "alternative medicine" and began to become skeptical of quite a number of things; ultimately shifting my paradigm away from belief in all mystical horsehockey. I guess I should thank the reiki practitioner.

Originally posted by traditionaldrummer

When my father was in the hospital dying my sister hired a reiki practitioner for help. Why not? Not much else was helping. What I saw was someone facing different directions and making bizarre hand gestures with the overall effect being nothing, but with a very real monetary cost. This was one of the pivotal moments in my life in which I began questioning "alternative medicine" and began to become skeptical of quite a number of things; ultimately shifting my paradigm away from belief in all mystical horsehockey. I guess I should thank the reiki practitioner.

There are good and bad doctors out there as well. Ive never heard of any bizarre hand gestures. I keep my plams out straight and just place them on different parts of the body.

As for terminally ill patients, reiki is used to ease suffering and make the transition easier on the patient and his family. I recently read a story of an AIDS patiend with a 107 fever having halluicination fits who was told he wouldent live through the night. Two experienced practitioners worked on him through the night and brought down his fever. He was able to regain consciousness and say his final farewells to his family.

Reiki can do some amazing things but if it is someones time, it is their time. I am sorry about your father and I wish you well.

Does anyone know if Reiki is always done with the coordinating crystals layed on the different chakras or do some practitioners do it without the crystals?

I am 2nd attuned (sp?) to Reiki. Right after my 2nd attunement I started to have severe migraines on a pretty regular basis. I had occassional headaches before but nothing like what I have been getting now. Have you heard of anything like that before? Is opening up your chakras, during your attunements, can cause migraines? Not sure if they are connected but it sure was strange that they started almost immediately afterward and still after 3 years.

A few things. As far as i know, none of the attuned reiki performers i know use crystals.

As to placebo effect.... while some people write placebo effect off, what it truly means is that there is an energetic principle to healing that western doctors dont understand, and so they disregard it as a healing practice. Consciousness IS an essential part of healing, as medicine is all a mind body practice, and all medicine is energetic medicine in some form.

This does not necessarily apply to trauma medicine, which western medicine, i will readily admit, is the most effective for generally. However, western medicine is one of the WORST for healthcare, maintenance, and prevention. Sadly, what is considered evidence based medicine today is largely dictated by the largest pocket book, as is evidenced by the fact that plenty "evidence based" treatments of today go on to prove dangerous and ineffective, such as viox, thalidomide, etc. Its important to remember that in our society the term "evidence based" means "we are evidently going to make alot of money off of this".

There are many incredible natural treatments used by the prestigious universities in oregon and arizona that teach naturopathy that will never be allowed nationally for two reasons. One, they are not patentable for billions of dollars, and two, no one will pay for the hundreds of millions worth of research to get the FDA to approve something which cannot be patented and which they already know works through hundreds of years of use. Thats not adding in the fact that it conflicts with profits from pharmacology, which puts all the weight of BIG Pharma and the AMA against it.

Finally, Reiki is another method of learning to channel chi, in fact "ki" in reiki is the japanese form of the word "chi". Both have been shown many thousands of times to be effective treatment, as chinese medicine is almost totally based upon the philosophy of chi, its what accupuncture is all about, and its been around for over 2000 years, far longer than any other medicine, and continues to cure many ailments and diseases on a regular basis that western medicine demands there are no cures for.

I love hearing all the stories! Reiki can heal not only physical wounds but emotional ones. I have had people start to cry because of the emotional release that comes from energy blockages being released. It continues to surprise me how amazing this technique really is.

Again if anyone feels like they need some reiki sent to them dont be afraid to ask!