Surgery and Reiki by Light
Published in the September 1999 issue of
"The Messenger"
What can Reiki do for surgical procedures? How can I
use Reiki to assist me in the healing process before and after
surgery? Does Reiki really heal? Is there a proven Reiki technique to
help me if I am to undergo surgery? These and similar questions have
been asked of us many times, and we will try to address them in this
article.
We both have come to see Reiki as much more than a "healing
technique". We feel that Reiki is a spiritual discipline that will
help an attuned practitioner to learn to access greater amounts of Chi
or Ki energy, and with continued practice, this energy will begin to
build within and around the practitioner, even to replace lost
original Chi/Ki. When a practitioner begins to feel his/her aura
expanding, and when others notice that the practitioner is having more
energetic influence on the world, then there is sufficient energy to
begin to work with other people. Until this point in one’s practice,
the Reiki practitioner should primarily work on their Self… doing a
minimum of one hour of self-treatment daily to all 12 of the standard
hand positions. This has the effect of purifying and detoxifying the
physical vehicle/body, and increasing the amount of Reiki energy that
can move through the practitioner’s meridians/pathways. When a
practitioner then lays-hands onto a recipient/client, more energy can
be transferred and greater changes will occur in that person. So, the
question "Does Reiki really heal?" would have to be answered by a "No"
. But it does have an accumulative effect in the person receiving it,
which can start a purification/detox in the body, which can then help
the immune system to become stronger, helping to rebalance organs and
systems that may have been in stress and/or pain.
With this
understanding, let us look at the effects that surgery has on a body,
and how Reiki can assist in the process of "re-balancing". When a
bodily organ or system is distressed, and if the immune system can not
muster enough energy to move it into another stage of healing, then
an organ can become infected, abscessed and may need to be removed
surgically. This usually requires quick, emergency action and the
immune system being low of energy, the body often has difficulty in
triggering the healing process. This is where Reiki comes to the
rescue. Performing Reiki treatments for 3 or 4 consecutive days helps
to store enough energy in the body’s endocrine glands/immune system to
begin the purification/rebalancing process, but it can also help the
immune system prepare for the hardship of surgery. The same 3 or 4 day
Reiki treatments immediately prior to surgery will store enough
energy into the body so the immune system can draw upon it to fight
infection and to start the process of healing. If at all possible, it
would be advantageous to the surgical patient to receive Reiki during
the actually surgical procedure….hands-on or distance treatments. It
is highly advantageous to perform Reiki on the patient immediately
after the surgery, while the patient is awakening from anesthesia in
the recovery room. If that is not possible, then Reiki should begin as
soon as the patient is returned to his/her hospital room following
recovery. Reiki treatments are most helpful if performed for the first
3 or 4 consecutive days following surgery. Usually a patient that is
healing well will go home in the second or third day after surgery.
Any additional treatments at the home of a recovering patient are
helpful, but the three days before and following surgery that are most
crucial to the healing process.
The treatments can indeed be
self-performed by a practitioner who is about to undergo surgery, but
it is nice to receive treatments from other practitioners, allowing
the mind to relax its focus on the up-coming surgical procedure.
Supplement self-treatments with treatments from others, and remember
to offer Reiki to others who are about to undergo surgery. And who
knows… maybe less surgical procedures will have to be performed in the
near future.
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