Witchy stuff or something else?
How it all began
In about 2002/2003, I started seeing a lady for massages as I was having back problems due to stress in my shoulders. Lets call her Debbie. Because her name is Debbie.
She was excellent at getting the knots out of my shoulders. Eventually I started having other treatments (facials, hot stone etc), during which time I would stare around her treatment room at all her various certificates and ask her all about them.
Anyway in 2004 I was diagnosed with breast cancer and started chemo in the June. Debbie offered to come and give me reiki. She also did my washing and ironed everything – awesome. I digress.
I had never heard of reiki let alone knew what it was. But I thought why not. I’ll try anything once: twice if I like it. So I accepted her kind offer.
Now my memory is slightly fuzzy. Possibly because of the trauma in my life, more likely because of vodka and gin. Wine wasn’t advised… But I had several sessions with her throughout my treatment. It was extremely relaxing, almost meditative, and I without a doubt felt less anxious. I felt heat and almost instinctively knew where her hands were even though she wasn’t touching me. All in all a win.
Helping me through chemo
Then came the whammy.
About half way through chemotherapy, and a few days after my session, Debbie came round to give me some reiki. On this session I lay on my front. Maybe I started on my back I can’t remember. All I can remember is feeling the heat as usual. But then it got really hot on my back in the middle, it felt like it was burning.
When I removed my top I had a circle of what could be described as a rash, or heat bumps. It was as if the reiki, channelled by Debbie, was drawing out the toxins I didn’t need, helping my body to expel them. I have no other way to explain it and it was completely unexpected. Having reiki made a huge difference to how I felt that cycle; the lessening symptoms, the feeling of wellbeing, and I have not looked back since.
I have had Reiki many times since, and went on to become a Reiki Master myself. Well I have to be Master of something.
The magic of energy healing
Keep an open mind
I don’t expect to convert any non believers. That’s not the point of this post really.
My objective is to share my thoughts and experience and how beneficial it has been for me. And to perhaps give others food for thought.
I know I’m already not the only one who has benefitted. Reiki was offered at the Day Hospice I attended and is suggested by Cancer Research UK as an alternative therapy.
Now it won’t cure cancer. Or any other illness or disease. If it did then I would be a very powerful woman and probably wouldn’t need to shop on eBay. But for me it helped alleviate the symptoms. The nausea, the fatigue, the anxiety. The constipation. It’s helped with headaches and sore throats.
But hasn’t yet stopped the Teenager stropping. It’s not a miracle but I’m working on it.
But it is a light in a dark journey. And we have to take the light when we find it, whatever it may be.
