Article by Deborah Lloyd, Reiki Grasp
Have you ever used the phrases “complementary” and “various” as methods to explain the therapeutic elements of Reiki? Whereas we might imagine the phrases have related meanings, they fluctuate in necessary methods. The implications for Reiki purchasers might be nice, if we wouldn’t have a transparent understanding of the best way to use these phrases when discussing Reiki results.
Complementary means, “finishing, or enhancing” one thing else; whereas various means “one among two selections.” Once we add both of those phrases to conventional Western drugs, or one other therapeutic methodology, the message is sort of totally different. A Reiki practitioner might inform an individual with most cancers that Reiki will complement chemotherapy, radiation, surgical procedure, or different remedies. This implies the medical remedy could also be simpler with the addition of Reiki energies.
If the Reiki practitioner makes use of the time period various, a shopper might imagine the practitioner is recommending to not use medical remedy and use Reiki solely. Many individuals dealing with severe illnesses are using non-government-approved medicines, juicing, yoga, meditation and different modalities. These modalities might both be complementary, or various, relying on the particular person’s alternative. Nonetheless, as non-medical practitioners, we have to be cautious to not suggest, or appear to suggest, any explicit path.
What we will say, to each particular person we meet, is Reiki all the time brings therapeutic energies into an individual’s being. This doesn’t imply Reiki all the time brings a bodily treatment, however Reiki can play a complementary position. It might allow somebody to take a decrease dose of a drugs and have the identical, or higher, impact. It might lower ache. It might carry sooner therapeutic to surgical incisions, or areas that acquired radiation.
Reiki can carry a lot therapeutic into the psychological/emotional and non secular elements of an individual. It might scale back anxiousness and stress, serving to the particular person to develop into extra relaxed, thus enhancing results of different remedies. It might assist in the decision-making course of of selecting one of the best remedy for that particular person. It might improve the non secular connectedness. As we aren’t divided into separate compartments of thoughts, physique and spirit, Reiki additionally enhances the complementariness of those elements of ourselves.
If Reiki decreases ache, thus lowering anxiousness, it brings extra therapeutic to us. If Reiki helps us to appreciate the non secular development doable whereas dwelling with a persistent illness, an individual can understand the esoteric worth of illness. The listing goes on.
Some of the necessary classes of being a Reiki practitioner, or working in any capability of serving to individuals, is that our phrases can have nice that means to a shopper, or Reiki scholar. I proceed to be amazed by what purchasers keep in mind from one thing I stated at a earlier session, or throughout a Reiki coaching. We should keep in mind to watch out with our alternative of phrases, and with the messages we give.
On the similar time, we even have to recollect individuals will “hear” by their very own perceptions…
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