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Article from July Newsletter: Too tired to heal?
Your newsletter is a little late this month because I have been involved in helping to make a short film about Reiki for the Reiki Council, a group of Reiki organisations who have been meeting over the past 7 years to agree and promote good standards for practitioners who give Reiki treatments to the public. We were fortunate to have Dr Rosy Daniel do an interview for the film. She worked at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre, where an integrated approach to cancer care was promoted, so patients received Reiki, dietary advice and other complementary therapies alongside their conventional cancer care.
One of the things Rosy Daniel spoke of in her interview really resonated with me: she talked about how we all have different levels of energy. Babies are born with 100% (as any parent knows!), people near death have almost none. Most of us, she said, function at around 50% and people who are ill: 20 - 30%. What she then went on to say, which I found most interesting, is that when people's energy levels are low they do not have the energy to make changes in their life that would be beneficial to their health.
So when someone is advised on self care, Rosy Daniel said that in her experience it can often cause their energy levels to drop because people will criticise themselves for not being able to do what they know would be good for them. Sound familiar? It is therefore vital to help people improve their energy levels first and this is where Reiki can be so beneficial. Reiki offers a connection with an infinite source of energy that people can tap into, via their practitioner, to receive as much energy as they can handle at that time. She therefore recommends Reiki to all her cancer patients.
I have often noticed that after a few Reiki treatments people I treat are more able to make positive changes in their lives, but had not made the connection that having more energy makes this change possible. We all have things we know we should do something about, but in a busy, stressful life we often just don't have the energy. So we end up 'beating ourselves up' about not doing it and end up feeling worse.
I certainly know this has been true in my own life. I used to suffer from heavy and painful periods. I knew that being overweight contributed to this, but never seemed able to loose the weight. I definitely used to be self critical about this, thinking: "Why can't you just do this? It would make you feel better! What's stopping you taking control and eating less!" Well now I can see that the answer to this was: I just didn't have the energy! I was very tired from the pain and blood loss. I ate to try to keep my energy levels up, and because I didn't have the energy to be stricter about my diet. With the help of regular Reiki I managed to stop my weight increasing, but it was not until the symptoms were treated and I started to regain my strength that positive change became possible.
So thank you Dr Rosy Daniel for this really helpful insight into why we sometimes struggle to overcome our healing challenges and why Reiki is so beneficial.
Other Articles this year:
January 2010: Reflections and Anticipation - Reflecting on the year just past, looking forwards to the year that's just begun...
February 2010: An Act of Faith - Facing my fear to go and give Reiki to Phyllis.
March 2010: Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway - More about the challenge of driving in the USA.
April 2010: Planting Seeds - Reporting on the re-growth of The Reiki Association
May 2010: A Boat In A Storm: Daily Self Reiki Treatmtents - how they help with the ups and downs of life.
June 2010: Count Your Blessings - The extra advice Mrs Takata gave to her students.
You can read previous articles from 2007, 2008 and 2009
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