From Abracadabra to Zombies
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reiki
24 Dec 2003
In the 90's, I watched my choices for CEU's (Continuing Education Units) in
Nursing, slowly start to weigh heavy, into the Holistic, and esoteric
healing arts. A lot of RN's were (and are) into Reiki.
In '99, I was 29, and working in a private psych hospital. I was taking a break in the back room. I was suddenly jolted by the loud sound of shattering glass, and a messy series of thuds. I ran into the Nursing Station. The glass window to the patient corridor had been shattered, and my rapidly cycling, schizophrenic patient, was slowly trying to get up from the floor, and staring at the medication cart. I was alone in the station, I had to control my patient, for both our safety, and he was ignoring my commands. I had no choice but to try and bring him flat to the ground, and restrain him. I started shouting "Code Green!" (Which was the hospital, all staff code, for patient restraint.) I noticed that the other RN on duty was running toward the Nurses Station, so I assumed she would use the phone, and page the Code Green. I jumped on the patient. He was delusional, tough, and combative.
The RN arrived in the Nursing Station, witnessed the struggle I was loosing, and I think she panicked. Instead of procedure, she pointed at the patient and I, with her arm outstretched, she started to subvocalize, and draw things in the air. I told her to help me. She said was helping. She was calming the patient. It was Reiki! I was astonished.
I had seen homeopathic remedies in the break rooms. Also, Nurses performing Reiki on each others migraines, and sores, or after a hard day. But, Reiki never affected me until my life was in danger, and the CEU's of mysticism, came home to roost!
A Mental Health Worker came out of an elevator, and called the Code Green. Other staff arrived and helped me with restraint of the patient, as well as the Reiki Nurse, who I guess decided that her effort had worked in calming the patient enough for her to physically come to my aid. I wrote the RN and her "Fire Finger" up, and nothing came of it. The incident was the camels straw. 2 months later, I fled from 6 years of Nursing, and changed careers.
Your article on Reiki was kind of validating for me. Thanks.
James R Johnson
26 Jul 1999
I'm not sure what your information source is, but I wish to comment on part
of the entry for Reiki at your site.
Reiki healers differ from acupuncturists in that they do not try to unblock > a person's ki but to channel the ki of the universe so that the person heals.
Actually, by channeling the Reiki energy, a practitioner does unblock the chakras and natural flow of energy in the patient.
The reiki master claims to be able to draw upon the energy of the universe and actually increase his or her own energy while performing a healing.
NO! Reiki practitioners never claim to be channeling anything but Reiki. Personal energy is NEVER used. Anyone who claims to be using personal energy to heal is NOT using Reiki.
reply: I didn't mean to imply that the reiki healer uses personal energy to heal, but that the healer's energy increases during the healing....or so some healers say.
Reiki healers claim to channel reiki into "diseased" individuals for "rebalancing." If the healing fails it is because the patient is resisting the healing energy.
Reiki practitioners channel Reiki into anyone desiring it. Most importantly, any ethical practitioner will tell the client/patient that Reiki is NEVER a substitute for medical treatment, but only a way of assisting healing. Reiki DOES NOT guarantee a cure, and the ethical practitioner WILL NEVER tell the patient that they are to blame if they are not healed. They will, however, explain that Reiki energy always works toward what is the highest good for the patient. That is not always a cure... sometimes it is just an acceptance of dealing with an incurable disease.
reply: I'm glad to hear this, but some of your colleagues apparently do not agree with you.
I humbly suggest that you do a bit more research into Reiki and
update your misleading and erroneous entry.
Lisa Rodrigues Reiki Master/Teacher, Usui Shiki Ryoho
reply: Take a browse of some of the sites I link to on the reiki page. You may be surprised at what your colleagues are claiming.
reiki
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