Does Reiki heal or cure? What's the difference?

chi_solas wrote:No problem salman as requested.

My Dr. said he could cure me but
I healed myself. What do Reiki
practitioners feel about being
cured vs healing?

Colin wrote:

Hi Bridget

I feel that healing is a dynamic process - a moving towards balance, or towards regaining of balance, whereas a cure is an endpoint where balance has been regained (or maybe just the symptoms have been removed).

Milarepa wrote:does Reiki heal or cure? both, .

Reiki, as in the experience, and the application of the principles, will heal current situations/ailments, and cure. Cure because Reiki is prevantive also.

Of course, there's more to Reiki than the above. Myself as an example. Reiki healed me of cocaine addiction, but it didn't cure me of drug use. Like i indicated, it hasn't been easy at times, and i have fell by the wayside, as my closest freinds here will know. This is cause of un-resolved issues within me, and it's directly related to Salmans fear topic.

another example is someone who might have healed lung cancer, but didn't stop smoking. and has now got cancer again. for sure, Reiki can heal anything current, and can even be preventative enough to cure, but lifestyle choices must be made, and for that, sometimes healing must go a very deep level. and for that to take place, we maybe gotta trust in Reiki completely. Not as easy to do as it is to type..

Making Miracles page 248........

People who have survived terminal illness and people who have survived lethal environments share some basic qualities. For example, the few people who lived through the horrors of the nazi concentration camps remained hopeful despite the hopelessness of the situation. In None of us Return, Charlotte Delbo offers a graphic depiction often the differences in attitudes between the narrator and another prisoner:
“there’s no hope for us.” And her hand makes a gesture and the gesture envokes rising smoke.
“We must fight with all our strength."
“Why?….Why fight since all of us have to…” The hand completes the gesture. Rising smoke.
"No. We must fight.”
“How can we hope to get out of here? How could anyone ever get out of here? It would be better to throw ourselves on the barbed wire right now.”
What is there to say to her? She is small, sickly. And I am unable to persuade myself. All arguments are senseless. I am at odds with my reason. One is at odds with all reason. Counter to rational logic, those who gave the most of themselves fared the best in the death camps. Giving to others actually aided survival. In the The Survivor, Terence Des Pres quotes a Treblinka survivor: “ in our group we shared everything; and the moment one of the group ate something without sharing it ,we knew it was the beginning of the end for him.” Those who continued to live consistently served others. According to Stephine Levine, they were the "doctors, the nuns, the priests, the rabbis, the mothering, and the fathering care-givers. They survived because they had a reason to live: love itself, healing itself.
They knew that love is the only gift worth living. That our care for others is our care for ourselves, a deep honoring of being we all share.” Love brought meaning to the concentration camp survivors and to all survivors of serious illness.