Reiki's Role in Natural Healing

REIKI’s role in NATURAL HEALING

The philosophical roots of Natural Healing dates back to thousands of years. Drawing from the healing wisdom of many cultures including Indian (Ayurveda), Chinese (Traditional Chinese Medicine), Native American, and Greek (Hippocratic), natural medicine is a medical system based on six time-based principles:

a)    The Healing power of nature: The body has considerable power to heal itself, and the role of the healer is to facilitate this natural process with the aid of natural, nontoxic therapies.

b)    Treat the cause rather the effect: Natural healers and physicians seek the underlying cause of disease rather than simply suppressing the symptoms. They avoid the natural healing wisdom of the body, such as fever and inflammation. Symptoms are viewed as expressions of the body’s natural attempt to heal while the causes can spring from the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels.

c)    Cause no harm: By employing safe and effective natural therapies, natural healers are committed to the principle of causing no harm to the patient.

d)    Treat the whole person: The individual is viewed as a whole, composed of complex interaction of physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual, social, environmental and other factors. This approach results in a therapeutic approach in which no disease is automatically seen as incurable.

e)    The physician is the teacher: Natural and spiritual healers are first and foremost teachers who educate, empower and motivate the patient to assume more personal responsibility for his or her health by adopting a healthy attitude, lifestyle and diet.

f)    Prevention is the best cure: Natural healing physicians are preventive medicine specialists. Prevention of disease is accomplished through education and a lifestyle that supports health.

In the natural system of medicine, disease is seen as a manifestation of the natural causes by which the body heals itself. For example, fever and inflammation are viewed as the body’s way of dealing with an imbalance that is undermining the healthy functioning of the body. However, if the cause of the imbalance is not removed, the inflammatory responses will continue, either at a lower level of intensity or intermittently. This can be the origin of chronic disease. Healing a chronic disease required removal of the underlying cause. This usually culminates in a return of an acute episode, called healing crises or reaction, a keynote of natural medical theory. Following this the condition improves.

The natural healer/physician emphasizes therapeutic choice based on individual interest and experience and maintains a consistent philosophy. All have been trained in the basic tools of natural therapeutics, and most work with diet and nutrition while specializing in one or more other therapeutic methods.

Natural medicine can be applied in any health care situation, but its strongest area is in the treatment of chronic and degenerative disease. For severe, acute traumas such as serious automobile accident, emergencies in childbirth, or orthopedic problems requiring corrective surgery, this is not recommended, although it can contribute to such cases, especially in recovery process.

In other acute cases, such as ear infections and common illnesses with fever, these are assessed and the underlying causes such as diet, life stresses and occupational hazards are considered before prescribing a few means to deal with the problem.

On the other hand in chronic cases, the procedure is different. A thorough case history has to be taken an all the symptoms and complaints with his lifestyle is to be considered for final evaluation and if necessary laboratory tests may be done to determine the central problem. As an example, many symptoms can be tied to the effects of toxemia on the different systems of the body such as the immune system, nervous system or circulatory system. While others diseases or illnesses may be due to emotional factors, such as chronic urinary infection when there is history of sexual abuse.

What ever the diagnoses may be, it is handled in the most appropriate natural way with the aim of bringing relief and cure to the effected patient.

About Reiki - a brief introduction

REIKI HOLISTIC HEALING
Reiki (ray-key) is a Japanese word meaning Universal Life Force (Sarva-vyapi Prana Shakti) and a system of natural healing that channels Reiki through the hands. It is known by many other names also.
The traditional Asian medical paradigm views injury, dysfunction and disease as manifesting when subtle energies are weak, distorted or out-of-balance. Tai Chi, Acupuncture, Homeopathy, Hatha Yoga, Shiatsu, Polarity, Macrobiotics, Radionics, and herbal remedies are means of optimizing subtle auric and internal energies.
Reiki accesses the source of Life to heal the self and others on spiritual, mental, emotional and physical levels. Reiki allows the source of well being to enhance and balance natural life forces through non-intrusive therapeutic touch. It is applied for health maintenance, pain relief, and mental quietude and healing for physical and mental diseases.
Reiki augments and accelerates the inner healing process. It can be effective in cases that do not respond to other forms of treatment. It can be used in conjunction with any other therapeutic modality.
Creative energy is the essence of all healing. Dr. Albert Schweitzer said, "We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within."
Reiki an ancient Divine Light Healing system practiced since time immemorial worldwide by the priests in the temples of the ancient civilizations of Atlantis and Egypt, was rediscovered in the late 1800's a specific formula for accessing Universal Life Force was discovered in Buddhist Lotus Verses (sutras) found in a Kyoto Zendo by a scholar seeking knowledge of what the Buddha taught about healing. Mikao Usui was contemplating what he had learned when he received a transcendental initiation, the results of which were the abilities of healing by laying on of the hands and of sending healing over distance. Much later he realized that the experience of God is more essential to fulfillment of the purpose of life than the power of healing.
Reiki is an essence, which comes from the Source of Life itself. Since Reiki is multi-dimensional it can be a catalytic factor in personal evolution no matter what religious beliefs are held. The experience of Reiki is a vehicle to becoming conscious of your own being regardless of faith or concepts. The innate ability to channel healing energy through the hands is awakened through a series of direct transmission initiations, which attune and align energy centers in the body and hands. Reiki is not a system of religious beliefs. The world does not need another. Anyone can learn Reiki; it is very simple.
Reiki relieves stress and pain, relaxes muscle spasms, releases emotional blockages, and accelerates natural healing. It stimulates the immune system; and balance subtle body energies, is beyond belief and can be used in conjunction with any other therapeutic modality. It is effective on chronic and acute illness or injury and can be learned by anyone. It uses laying on of the hands. The healing can also be sent over any distance, is a means of sharing love, is completely safe and benign. It protects the practitioner and is The Universal Life Force Energy.
The only way to know it is to feel it. If you are interested in having a treatment, look for a local Reiki Practitioner or Master. If you are interested in becoming a Reiki Practitioner look for your local Reiki Master.