The other night I turned off the light and made my way towards my bedroom in pitch blackness. Not being a cat I have not yet perfected the technique of seeing in the dark. As a result I banged the toes of my left foot into a black vacuum cleaner that was in the hallway on the way to my room. A searing pain shot through my toes and up into my leg, the nerves screaming for attention...help me,they said! So what did I do... besides curse like a sailor? Did I get an ice pack, did I rub it vigorously with my hand, did I hop up and down on one foot??
No.
I did Reiki on it. I drew the symbols and ran energy into my throbbing toes. I places my hands on both sides of my foot. I allowed the Reiki to just flow, not directing it, not saying make the pain stop, not hoping for any result. I just ran the energy. With a clear and empty mind.
Within I would say about 2 to 3 minutes the throbbing stopped completely. The soreness remained for a bit but it was not nearly as sore as it was. The swelling was kept in check, yes there was still some swelling but not very much. Normally an ice pack would have been in order to numb the throbbing pain and reduce the swelling. Within 5 minutes I determined that ice would not be necessary.
The next day, the second to the last toe and the baby toe were somewhat bruised but the bruising was minimal. I kid you not when I say that my foot hit that vacuum full force, it was not a glancing blow. Those toes should have been purple. They were not. There was a hint of blue/green color on the toes but not that noticeable. If there was a fracture originally, it was gone as I could move the toes without pain, almost effortlessly. By the second day the toes were pretty much back to normal, the swelling was almost gone. By today there was only a little black and blue mark left on the second to last toe.
So what happened?
The body healed itself as it always does.In record time! The body already knows what to do. Sometimes the best thing we can do is get out of the body's way and let it do its thing. The problem is the entire healing process takes time. There is the initial acute reaction where blood rushed to the injured area, causing swelling and inflammation which is actually the proper way to allow the body to heal. Stopping the inflammatory process is actually counterproductive in the first 24 hours. That is the initial state of healing that the body takes. To suppress this inflammatory stage actually prolongs the healing process. But in the meantime there is pain and it is uncomfortable. So we pop a pain pill. The pain is there for a reason as well. The pain is there to signal to us that there is an acute injury, otherwise we would not even be aware of it. so pain is really our friend, trying to warn us that something is wrong. Hey pay attention buddy...I am hurt here!!! We need to pay attention.
The purpose of first aid is to give quick assistance to stop an injury from possibly becoming life threatening. Stopping bleeding is the first line of defensive in an injury. Obviously Reiki is not recommended if someone is bleeding heavily. Emergency action must be taken quickly. But barring that, Reiki can be very useful in assisting the body to take action to heal at a very accelerated rate.
If an injury would normally take about a week to heal, I find that Reiki seems to cut the healing time in half. I have cut myself (not badly but some bleeding) burned myself, paper cuts, scratches, scrapes, bruises etc. All minor injuries, no broken bones or serious bleeding (although once the bone is set properly or the bleeding has been stopped by stitches, the healing will speed up with Reiki). If a bone would normally take 6 weeks to heal, it might heal in 3. If a deep cut would scar over, the Reiki seem to heal the scar faster with no trace of scar tissue in its wake. I have had burns and cuts heal to the point where you could not even tell there had been an injury there. Of course I have not done scientific studies to prove that Reiki speeds up healing, I am just going by my personal observations. But to me seeing is believing and I have seen a lot of things heal in record time. On myself and others I have worked on.
I will share other stories of healing I have done over the past several years since I have become a Reiki Master in this blog. I will not use any names out of respect to the persons I have worked on. Some of the things are truly amazing to me. I hope you will keep an open mind and draw your own conclusions. I am not asking anyone to believe anything. I am simply asking that you allow your mind to remain open to the possibilities. What if it really DOES work, and we can ALL heal 50% faster? The implications are mind boggling.
to be continued
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