Reiki is sure a 'complete' package

Salman said:

i speculate that some practices are no doubt apparently more 'intense' than reiki as far as feelings and sensations are concerned, but if we take the sum total of mind, body and spirit, reiki is sure a 'complete' package

If we present Reiki as a complete package,
will Reiki clients/participants expect
healing to happen first time around?

chi_solas wrote:

Salman said:

i speculate that some practices are no doubt apparently more 'intense' than reiki as far as feelings and sensations are concerned, but if we take the sum total of mind, body and spirit, reiki is sure a 'complete' package

If we present Reiki as a complete package,
will Reiki clients/participants expect
healing to happen first time around?

I think that many people expect healing (or more accurately, a "cure") to happen their first time around anyway! I am sure many Reiki practitioners have a person come for Reiki just to give it a "try" and if it does not cure them of all their ills in that one session then they move on to "try" something else.

However, that is wrong on so many levels!

Yes, healing will usually happen the first time around but healing is not the same as an instant cure. Healing is a dynamic process - a move towards balance of the mind, body and spirit. A cure is an endpoint - a complete removal of any and all symptoms of whatever has been diagnosed as being "wrong" with someone. Reiki stimulates the healing process (always, in my opinion) but it does not usually provide instant cures - or maybe in some cases will not cure a particular condition.

So, if Reiki does not cure something for someone does that mean Reiki is no good?

Well, again there is a misapprehension at work here! Reiki provides an environment/opportunity for healing to occur but it is usually the person receiving the Reiki that actually does the healing, by taking advantage of that opportunity and allowing their body, mind or spirit to heal itself.

If a person really wants to be healed or move towards a "cure" they will have to take part in the process themselves - it is not the resonsibility of the Reiki practitioner or even the Reiki itself! The recipient needs to take stock of their current situation: their lifestyle, their ways of thinking, their behaviour and their environment and try to discover where they need to make adjustments because it is most likely there that something is out of balance or not "in tune" with their life purpose. The easiest way to find out what that is is to ask yourself "Am I happy with this?" If a certain aspect of your life is out of balance them you will not feel happy or content about it, so you need to think about, talk about and act upon that aspect to change it so that you are happy about it.

The Gokai (Five Principles) of Reiki are meant to be thought about (meditated upon), recited (spoken) and acted upon (Just for today, I will not anger etc.). This illustrates why it is so important that the recipient takes part in the healing process to achieve improvement (or healing or indeed happiness) in the spirit/mind and body. If we do not employ the Gokai (or think about, speak or act on something that is causing us unhappiness) we will not achieve a true healing or lasting cure because unless we remove the cause there will always be an effect.

Great thoughts Colin

the expectation carried by new comers to reiki that it will fix all of their problems in a sudden, instant moment, is sometimes understandable... we are a computerized generation and things seem to happen in a 'click' of something... from ordering a pizza for home delivery to applying to the registrar for a marriage, we anticipate an instant response, and we are not wrong to expect since in many cases we sure do find an instant response

from the expresso coffee to the express train and tubes which carry us to our destination in a calculated moment, we are so used to calculated responses, and no wonders if we mirror this expectation in a reiki treatment too...

people who come to reiki for therapeutic solutions of their chronic problems are mostly the ones who have exhausted all the direct methods of healing like allopathic medicine, nuclear / chemo therapies, etc. and they are naturally expecting a quick fix to the problem which already has tested their patience since long... it is the role of the reiki practitioner to change this perception and, honestly speaking, educating a buddy who has so much been annoyed by his long illness, is not less an arduous task itself. the practitioner often find himself bit helpless in the situation since healing through reiki is a gradual process that operates on a broad level first that then turning to peculiarities of the instant problem.

perhaps, this is why it is often said that reiki is not for everyone to take benefit from


take care

salman