Welcome to Mystic Board, and thank you for your kind offer to share what you know about Reiki with us.
There is one thing I did want to ask you, though.
What is a freck?
As in
makes me feel like a freck
The only reference I can find to freck on the internet says that it is the shortened form of the word freckles.
There is quite a lot of controversy these days about energy healing in general, including whether in fact there is a direct transfer of energy from the healer to the patient.
While I have personally tried some energy healing techniques (especially Quantum Touch) both on others as well as on myself ,and have experienced what appears to be a flow of energy mainly down my spine and from my heart chakra down both arms to the palms of my hands, and can sense the other person's aura, I tend to believe that all healing is self healing. This includes the possibility that there is no actual transfer of energy between us and them.
We are channels for the healing energy, but not their channels.
Which basically means that the real healer is the person who needs the healing, and not the person who thinks that the energy is being transmitted to their patient through them.
The theory goes that our bodies contain an innate healing intelligence, which knows exactly what we need to heal and how to get it.
Our main function is therefore only to help or facilitate the person to be able to get more in touch with their own healing intelligence, and to get out of their own way in order to allow that intelligence to do whatever is needed to restore balance and harmony.
The life energy (prana, chi, ki etc) which is needed is all around us all of the time, but the healing intelligence can take in and channel the energy by itself to wherever in the physical body it is most needed, normally without any human intervention.
This process has happened naturally since humans first came on the scene. It is only when the flow of energy throughout the person's body is for some reason disturbed, disrupted or blocked, that disEASE develops.
This newer model of healing in no way conflicts with people's existing religious beliefs (the life energy can be thought of as a manifestation of the Divine), and completely changes the way in which we view what is most likely to be happening when a healing is underway.
It seriously challenges the older ideas about who is the healer, whether there is any energy being transferred, introduces the concept of a built in healing intelligence, and most importantly in my opinion removes the very human tendency to allow our egos to get in the way of what is above all an act of loving and caring for each other.
The humble and compassionate intention to heal or to reduce another person's suffering is always more important than the specific method which is being used in an effort to accomplish that healing.
Whether the healing technique or method being used at the time and in that particular situation happens to be Reiki, or whether instead it is one of the many other methods which fall under this category, the ego is not welcome and unless controlled it can all too easily get in the way of what healing was always meant to be about.
LOVE!
Regards,
Brian
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