Like many Reiki practitioners, potential clients often ask me if Reiki will cure a specific disease. Of course, I make no promises guaranteeing a cure but I give information about Reiki’s healing aspects, including physical, emotional and spiritual areas. Some people are disappointed and want to think more before scheduling an appointment. Others understand that Reiki, other alternative or complementary methods, and western medicine often does not provide a miracle cure. They also understand healing in the emotional and/or spiritual arenas may be the best opportunity to manifest a physical cure.
Almost everyone who receives a diagnosis of any type, or stage, of cancer experiences shock and fear. Frequently, people with cancer recall hearing those words – and not hearing another word the doctor said. Everyone knows someone – often a cherished family member or friend – who has died from cancer. An ominous feeling is attached to the word.
Most people with cancer will experience the five stages of grief, as described by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross in 1969. The stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Initially, these stages were written describing the emotions of people with a terminal illness. However, as healthcare and mental health professionals worked with these stages, it became apparent people dealing with various kinds of losses also live through these stages. Additionally, it was found people went back and forth between the stages – it was not a clear progression from one stage to the next, with no return to previous stages. Some people became “stuck” in a stage; this may be detrimental to the emotional being of a person.
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We Reiki practitioners can be supportive to people who have a cancer diagnosis. Some forms of cancer are treatable and survivable. In general, it is not where the cancer is located in the body, but rather it is the type of tumor and what stage the cancer had reached prior to the diagnosis. For example, many types of breast cancer can be eradicated, likely not to return, while other types are more threatening.
Generally, the most common experience of people with a diagnosis of cancer follows the five stages of grief. Even people with a strong, positive prognosis still feel a loss. It is the loss of good health; it is shocking; it is a scare they feel deeply. It can affect every aspect of their lives.
When we consider the five stages of grief, we see each one is based on emotional reactions. As we know, the Universal Life Force healing energies go to areas where healing is most needed. Likewise, we know it is difficult for physical problems to be healed when emotions are running high. Medications, chemotherapy and other treatments are more effective when the patient’s energies remain open and relaxed. Fearful energies provide a roadblock to effective treatments – the physical body becomes stressed and tightens up.
Some Reiki practitioners may have fears about giving Reiki to people with cancer, concerned the energies may help the cancer to grow. There is no evidence to support this fear. Rather, when the intention is to bring healing energies to the client for his/her highest good, the client will not be harmed. Reiki always heals.
The best way for Reiki practitioners to help the eradication of cancer is this: send it to all the causes of cancer in today’s world – from decreasing the use of tobacco products, to climate change, to high use of chemicals and fossil fuels, to yet-unidentified factors. Reiki is the best tool for manifesting this intention.
Article by Deborah Lloyd, Reiki Master
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Deborah Lloyd is a Usui and Karuna Reiki® Master and certified holistic therapy practitioner, providing Distant Reiki sessions and training in Asheville, NC. Deborah is the author of two books, 22 Messages from the Archangels; and, Believe and it is True: A Story of Healing and Life Lessons. She is also one of the co-authors of Reiki 101: 101 Answers for Your Reiki Questions. Reach Deborah at deb@deblloydhealing.com and on Facebook at Deb Lloyd Healing.
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