However, the ideal situation is when the person receiving the Reiki lies upon a table in a quiet and private space. This space can be at one of our venues, in your own home, in a hospital or hospice room, or a place set aside at a venue of your choice, e.g. at your work area.
Alternatively, if circumstances do not permit face to face with the person, an Absent Healing can be provided.
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This is a Reiki healing using a person's photograph when circumstances, such as distance or isolation, prevent a channel from placing hands on the person.
To empower the person's healing, their permission must be given prior to submission of a photograph. For those in need, you will need to send a photograph of the person requiring the healing. Contact Us for mailing details.
The photograph sent must show the eyes clearly, no sunglasses please. The name of the person in need of healing must be clearly printed on the reverse. If a group photo is sent, please identify the person (e.g. woman in red dress, second from left) again, printing their name on the reverse. Include a stamped, self-addressed envelope for the return of notes and photograph to the person for whom the healing was done.
If you are unable to travel and are in need of Reiki we can arrange channels to visit you at your home. You will need a quiet room with enough space to setup a portable table surrounded by several chairs. If you require this service please Contact Us.
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We have channels who provide a service for people in a hospital situation. These channels, upon the request of the person, make a visit to the hospital to provide Reiki for those in need.
Alternatively, if circumstances do not permit face to face with the person, we are able to provide an Absent Healing.
If you have any questions or to receive this service please Contact Us
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Reiki has been found to be very valuable when dealing with dying and death. It has been seen to empower the journey of not only the one dying but also those that are in support. Reiki creates the space to deal with all the emotions that arise at this time of life, especially grief. Reiki can help take the pain out of grief.
For more information we suggest you read the following article, a copy of a talk by Doctor Janne Randall to Bethlehem Hospital's Annual Conference, Melbourne.
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Janne Randall MB BS
In a time when healing techniques continue to define human behavior and experience thereby justifying a particular therapeutic response, it is refreshing to come across a modality that defines both human potential and our source of creativity as limitless. It is even more interesting to see how people are using this modality in ways that surpass our medical expectations. My teacher had a student born blind who began to see after 27 years during a Reiki class. I have met two gentlemen who previously had advanced AIDS, who not only became physically healthy but also had negative HIV results on repetitive testing. We have all heard of the existence of miracles throughout the ages but now we can personally explore an expanded world where the worlds of science and spirituality meet. Can we comfortably continue to compartmentalise our view of healing?
So, what is Reiki? It is an ancient form of hands-on healing. Hands-on healing has been documented throughout history in all religions and cultures. Reiki was re-discovered last century by a Japanese Christian minister and college principal, Dr Usui, who made it accessible in its own right.
The word Reiki describes an experience which is ever-expanding, of our humanness. It has been translated as "Universal Life Energy" or "Soul power": Its quality is unconditional love. The first Syllable REI refers to unseen, non-manifested energy as is used by Faith Healers. The second syllable KI refers to earth energy as experienced in the martial arts such as Karate and Tai Chi. Reiki is the synergistic combination of these two energies; an energy of wholeness.
It is activated by placing attuned hands on to anyone or anything living. Unlike other forms of orthodox or alternative therapies, Reiki is impossible to direct or manipulate. This is because the person receiving it draws the Reiki through their bodies, and uses it to empower their own self healing.
A dedicated teacher of Reiki (Denise Crundall) explains Reiki's mode of action this way: "Reiki bypasses the symptom, goes to the cause, fills the vibratory need, bringing the Being to wholeness." One thing I find impressive about Reiki is that it gives people free choice and that we, as care-providers, take on the role as true servers rather than directors of people's destinies.
The person providing the Reiki is called a Reiki Channel, in order to clarify that it is not our own energy or willpower that is being used. Certainly there is a sense of energy flowing through rather than out of the body. When I place my hands on myself or another, I can feel an activity in the hands - a tingling, a vibration, warmth or coolness - and when the body has taken what it wants, there is a feeling of the Reiki switching off. In other words the experience of activity in the hands ceases.
The giving of Reiki is not dependent on a particular mood or state of mind. It is not psychic healing and therefore is no danger to those sensitive to emotional energies. Therapists are not drained by giving Reiki. On the contrary, it revitalises them. The way I think of giving Reiki is that it feels as if I were an overflowing chalice.
The effect of Reiki on each person dying is different and serves their deepest needs on each occasion. When an ill person says "I want to be well", we naturally assume they mean a reversal of their physical symptoms, but it may or may not be the case.
On the one hand I witnessed a four year old who appeared to be in the final days of dying with a brain tumour. She made use of Reiki to heal her body and is now an asymptomatic, very confident eleven year old.
On the other hand a man in his thirties with a brain tumour, thought that "being well" meant being in heaven with his God. He used Reiki to glimpse "heaven on earth" before he died. The peace he emanated during his last few days was uplifting to all his friends and relatives who saw the change.
Reiki has been described by those who received it while in coma as "like being thrown a life-line". A young lady whose inspiring healing journey appeared on an SBS program earlier this year entitled "Alicia", was in a coma for three weeks following head-trauma. Afterwards she recalled receiving a twenty-minute Reiki and also knew where the hands had been placed. Interestingly she perceived the Reiki as having lasted for days. She visualised the Reiki appear as a blue life-line which she expected to save her. While it did not do this, it gave her something to hang on to while she worked through her next step.
One of my first experiences with Reiki in palliative care occurred with a lady dying rapidly from unknown causes. She had been unresponsive and comatose in an agitated state for over a week and a morphine infusion was only partially effective. I asked permission of the family to see if Reiki could help and we were all delighted to see her settle within a couple of minutes. Her husband however was not at peace, and during the Reiki he asked his wife silently "How are you?" To our amazement she sat upright in bed, opened her eyes, looked at her husband, beaming, and said "Heaven …Heaven!" She then fell backwards in her bed unconscious, and died peacefully a couple of days later.
On another occasion after a Reiki session, a dying patient, a devout Anglican, said to me that the Reiki had showed her where she was going and now she was fearless. The hope that her faith had given her had become a deeply confident knowing. When her family returned home with her, they noticed the change immediately. She brought peace and understanding to her family while discussing life and death in her last few days. Another patient in her fifties used the Reiki to rekindle a gift of religious visions which she used to see as a child when she was in places that were sacred to her in Greece. Her death process became a celebration. She would often cry throughout the Reiki sessions, overjoyed with an enormous appreciation of life.
We are all aware of the difficulties in managing the grief that affects everyone involved with the dying. Reiki has been particularly invaluable in transforming the pain of grief. A patient, a devout Catholic in her mid thirties, had attended our medical practice with her family for counselling. Several months later she rang for help. Her husband had died unexpectedly overnight. When I suggested that Reiki might help her she accepted the offer but was anxious that "healing therapies" made people too emotional and that she wouldn't be able to stop crying. I asked her to trust that the Reiki would take her beyond her emotional pain. During the Reiki her shock and distress did turn into tears but these soon stopped. She explained that beyond her expectations, she was literally hearing her husband speaking to her. At the end of their conversation she told us that he had given her a way to reconnect with him whenever she needed. A year later she is still grateful for the Reiki and inspires me when I hear of how she uses it to help herself and her children. The children's relationship with the father is still living and growing and they have experienced the power of loving-touch uplift them from their pain.
So how does Reiki work? You have probably gathered from my rather esoteric explanation that it is impossible to understand at present. I look forward to the day when science can offer an explanation, but until then we can continue to put it to the test, and describe our experiences with it on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels.
Reiki is simply the experience of unconditional love flowing through the hands and is importantly not restricted by a religious or philosophical structure. Therefore it does not threaten or challenge people's religious or cultural beliefs. The role of the Reiki Channel is to journey in silence while their client uses the energy in whatever way they choose. Although as a channel we often do get a sense of what they are doing with the Reiki, it is essentially none of our business unless the patient wants to share. It is surprisingly easy for the Reiki channel to sit with someone for an hour or so, just sensing and observing the flow of the energy.
Although referred to in many ancient cultures, Reiki received its name from its rediscoverer Dr Mikao Usui. He was working as principal of a college in Kyoto when one of his students asked him if he knew how Jesus healed. He was so challenged by this question that he resigned and went in search of answers. Years later he received an initiatory experience that not only gave him the understanding of healing and the capacity to empower self-healing in others, but was also able to pass this gift on to others. Now it is accessible to anyone with an interest in healing, for themselves or in service to others. Even children can learn, and thanks to Dr Usui's years of dedication, it only takes three days.
In order for this tool of empowerment not to be taken for granted, Dr Usui set down five precepts.
Just for today, do not worry, accept.
Just for today, do not anger, accept.
Count your blessings.
Do an honest day's work.
Be kind to all living things.
Finally, I am enormously grateful to Reiki because it constantly reminds me of the sacredness of life and the privilege of serving another human being. At the same time it provides me with a self-help tool. Importantly it is a tool that works and can be used on its own or in conjunction with any other physical, psychological or spiritual modality. Reiki creates an opportunity for people to transcend their fears. It promotes an atmosphere of respect and dignity that nourishes the patient and family. I have witnessed agony turn to ecstasy and despair into peace. I am sure that anyone that wishes to explore Reiki will find it life-changing.
Taken from a talk given by Doctor Janne Randall to Bethlehem Hospital’s Annual Conference in March 1996, Melbourne, Australia.
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