A bit about self healing: reiki/pranic/spiritual/energy

Admittedly, most would think that reiki, spiritual or energy healing could only work dependent on belief.  Apparently, practitioners believe otherwise.  If healing energy is sent, it is received. Therefore if you believe you are sending this energy yourself, then it works.

Here’s the jest of it; someone (or yourself), draws from “somewhere” and delivers “energy” into your body, thereby healing you.  From personal experience, you don’t always feel anything and that’s when - for some like me, a person questions whether it works or not.

I believe... so let’s start off with the assumption that I expect a reaction.  I just am not certain that there are a multitude of true healing conduits out there.  Honestly, the industry of energy healing practitioners is full of those who think they are healing and also - there are those that pretend they are healing. Often there is money involved.  Need I say more.

The origins of reiki is as a Japanese tradition, made public in the 1920’s.  The linage of true masters is still going strong today.   Of course even in biblical times there was knowledge of “the laying of hands” so the idea of spiritual energy is evident in many cultures and has sifted down from generation to generation.  

I took my first “course” (that only lasted a weekend) from someone who borrowed characteristics from many sources of pranic/spiritual/energy/reiki healing.  Did I master it? NOPE.  Had anyone else in the class? Unlikely but we all got an introductory taste of what the power of belief and visualization could do.  

Years, years,  later I turned to the study of self healing to recover from a hard time in my own life.  With the help of online networking, I was able to find groups of more qualified energy workers, who gave me additional insights to ethereal healing.  

This is not to say that I have mastered the art, just that I believe it is possible.  There are subtle differences between the components of each belief system and none is absolute.  One or two healing sessions will not heal a person completely.  

Because I simply could not afford Master treatments,  I chose to go the route of learning self healing.   I chose  Reiki’s 5 precepts and methodology, sometimes I add in chakra work.  What I do notice, is that when I stop for any great length of time.... I start to feel unbalanced again.  

I also find healing in nature

To me, self healing is like prayer and mediation. It’s simple quiet time in total solitude and I seem to need it.  I have never been the kind of person that benefited from a strong support family, aside from a couple of great Gal Pals, I have lacked family empathy, so for someone like me, self healing has been my only option.

If you learn to integrate daily practice, (which even I have not been able to adapt) then you can identify when you are hyper aware of subtle changes and reactions.  You feel when your body needs more exercise, rest or requirements from a more specific diet.  You become very in tune with yourself, and that, is not a bad thing. 

Why some people meditate

stolen moment while on a family vacation

I meditate.  Early Hindu traditions, Veda, Taoist China, and both early Buddhism and early Judaism; had meditative practices that were recorded in antiquity.  During the Middle Ages Islamic mysticism & Hasidic Kabbalistic religions involved reflection and study.  And then along came Christianity with it’s homage to prayer.  

Meditation is simply to read, ponder, pray, contemplate and to be still within yourself.

But our minds wander, so to counteract this we repeat mantras or comments in an attempt to zone ourselves out - as in transcendental meditation. I personally have repeated (almost in desperation) heal me, nurture me, love me, soothe me... show me the way.  Meditating does not naturally come to us and we often try guided meditation by listening to a leader in a group setting, recording or memorized script.  Millions go on magical trips into dwellings, the seashore, or the heavens in search of guidance. I know I have. 

Some people meditate to experience the healing benefits; decreased blood pressure, lowered cholesterol, reduced production of stress hormones and more efficient oxygen use. Research shows it decreases anxiety, depression and insomnia, it improves the immune system.  All valid reasons.  It’s good for you. In fact,  don’t even have to do it in the lotus pose, I mostly lay down comfortably and close my eyes. 

You see our brains are mysterious things, with meditation neurotransmitters can release benefits  that no pharmaceutical drug can ever replicate.  It just takes time. Time alone. 

That’s the key to mediation.  Alone.  You rehash the wrongs you felt inflicted upon you, you question why someone cannot express reciprocal feelings, you doubt your choices, you dwell.  This isn’t what stops the mediation process but what makes you human. 

I have tried to receive spiritual messages, open and cleanse all my chakras, heal my ailments and apologize to myself.  The time I have allotted to myself in mediation is akin to solitary confinement.  I have wept.  I have known humility.  I take the time to question other’s sense of entitlement and I ask repeatedly, just to be loved.

I think some people meditate just for validation from themselves.  No spiritual essence of yourself will ever judge you and I believe, if you really want to get to know yourself - be alone.