When April began and was still so cold I doubted the
swallows would return at their usual time.
Would they really get here at the usual time when it was still so
cold? Well I saw several swallows on the
15th April: exactly the date I usually see the first one. They arrived on the dot, as soon as the
weather changed.
Walking in my garden and seeing the changes happening so
fast now that the sun has finally begun to warm the earth, I realised that when
the conditions are right, by which I mean in balance with nature, change
happens fast. I see that this is often
what happens with Reiki.
I remember treating one woman for whom Reiki didn’t seem to
be working. Week after week she came
back for treatment, but I felt very little in my hands, not much changed for
her other than a slight improvement of her sleep pattern.
However one day the treatment was totally different: I felt
heat and buzzing in my hands from the start and through-out the whole
treatment. She also felt the
difference. After that treatment I
didn’t see her for a while and when she did come for Reiki treatment again she
told me how her life had completely transformed: she’d moved house, got a new
job and learned Reiki herself.
My understanding is that Reiki had been working all along:
it had been so subtle that I had not been able to detect it. Conditions were being prepared so that, when
the time was right, the changes that were needed in her life happened fast and
easily. I have observed this in many people
I’ve treated since, with a range of problems.
One of the ways I think Reiki helps to make conditions right
for change and healing is by enabling us to relax and release stress. Stressful thoughts divert energy away from the
immune system, which requires energy to function properly. Reiki helps people to slow down stressful thoughts
and experience a more peaceful way of being.
I know that when I’m more relaxed it is easier to live in the moment; I
make better decisions and care for myself more easily. Patients in hospitals often have a quicker
recovery rate when they have Reiki (whether self administered of given by a
practitioner) and it’s known that patients who have a positive mental attitude
and are more relaxed generally recover quickly.
In the way that children and animals heal fast because they
are closer to their natural state, so Reiki brings us closer to a balanced
state, creating conditions that support healing taking place. As in Nature: when all is ready, change happens
fast!