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LibraryLady

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It was bound to happen. As I was wandering around the first floor of my library (I roost on the third floor, generally), I was stopped by a patron I used to help in my former department who wanted to know what happened to my neck. These days I am wearing a cervical collar, which I usually refer to as my Elizabethan ruff. I told one of the funny stories I've made up because the truth is so boring.

After we laughed, he told me that he is a practitioner of reiki and if I would write my name down for him, he would sent the reiki to me remotely and it would help me to heal. I'm afraid I spent a few seconds gaping at him. Then I explained that the collar and physical therapy were working just fine, but thanks anyway.

I thought you had to be in the same room for reiki. It works from miles away?
 
LibraryLady said:
LOL:D
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Just for that, a serious answer:

In an article in the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing entitled "What are the distinctions between Reiki and Therapeutic Touch?", Pamela Potter states
Level II Reiki treatment incorporates the basic treatment and involves the use of symbols (e.g., power symbol and emotional healing) to facilitate the Reiki flow. Further, level II practitioners, drawing on the symbol for distance healing, may send Reiki nonlocally to recipients at distant locations.
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Oh, wait, my first response was serious. This one, published though it may be, is the joke.
 
I am constantly amazed at the woo claims.


I had a nurse tell me after my surgery that she wouls have "our Lord the carpenter" heal me through her prayer circle.

I responded by showing her the ct scan printout of my spine with all the titanium and bone graft rebuilding the 9th thoracic vertibrae.

I said "My carpenter has an MD from Harvard and a PhD. from MIT and did this. What's yours done lately?"

I didn't have that nurse again during my stay.

I've used that analogy several times since then.

I find that just saying physical therapy is working fine is usually enough to get them to stop throwing woo at you.
 
LibraryLady said:
I thought you had to be in the same room for reiki. It works from miles away?
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Maybe he's sending one of these.
For example, if you are having surgery next week, and want to receive Reiki during your procedure, we would send you a Pink Balloon filled with Reiki, to hover over you and provide you with an unlimited supply of Reiki to draw from during your treatment.
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Suggested uses from the website:
Illness
Hospital stay
Wedding
School exam
Court date
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"Court date"? For example, if you are being prosecuted next week, and want to receive Reiki after your conviction, we would send you a Pink Balloon filled with Reiki, to hover over you and provide you with an unlimited supply of Reiki to draw from during your sentencing.

Studies have shown that most judges are more apt to give lighter sentences to perps standing before them holding a pink ballon filled with reiki.
 
What Mercutio said...in the Level II Reiki training, the symbols and activations are supposed to allow Reiki to be sent remotely...just getting the Reiki I training will only activate the hands on Reiki...

And in Level III Reiki training...well, that will be $10,000 in advance please.
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This crap really pisses me off because while my mom was dying from MS, I had hired a woman to look after her while I couldn't.

As I found out, she was all into Reiki and healing touch and whatnot, and decided to try it on my mom. She'd tell me "she needs more vitamin A, B, C" what the hell ever while waving her skinny arms around my mother's body. Once I realized what was going on, I pretty much fired her and took over again.

My mom died in 2001. This bitch had the nerve to come to the funeral and advise me that I should seek out Sylvia Browne because "she can help you reconnect with your mom."

I didn't strike her, much as I wanted to. I just never spoke to her again.
 
Merc, you just made up the journal Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing and the article, didn't you? You just made it right up.

~~ Paul
 
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos said:
Merc, you just made up the journal Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing and the article, didn't you? You just made it right up.

~~ Paul
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You wish. If you google for it, you can find this article in pdf format.
 
Ceinwyn said:
I didn't strike her, much as I wanted to. I just never spoke to her again.
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Sorry to hear your story Ceinwyn.

I honestly and seriously don't know how you resisted hitting her.

I have no wish to encourage violence, but I am feeling angry just reading about that. I commend your self restraint.

Sorry again for your loss.
 
Ceinwyn said:
This crap really pisses me off because while my mom was dying from MS, I had hired a woman to look after her while I couldn't.

As I found out, she was all into Reiki and healing touch and whatnot, and decided to try it on my mom. She'd tell me "she needs more vitamin A, B, C" what the hell ever while waving her skinny arms around my mother's body. Once I realized what was going on, I pretty much fired her and took over again.

My mom died in 2001. This bitch had the nerve to come to the funeral and advise me that I should seek out Sylvia Browne because "she can help you reconnect with your mom."

I didn't strike her, much as I wanted to. I just never spoke to her again.
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I can just hear her telling the story. "And there I was, helping her with Reiki, and Ceinwyn stopped me. It was all his fault."

You just gotta wonder.

My condolences.
 
jimtron said:
Why would that require the subject's name?
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Well, strangely, he knows my name. I've been helping him for twenty plus years. He's addressed me by name. I think maybe the paper with my name must have "the power."
 
LibraryLady said:
Well, strangely, he knows my name. I've been helping him for twenty plus years. He's addressed me by name. I think maybe the paper with my name must have "the power."
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I have in my office a set of dowsing and radiesthesia pendulums (yes, it cost 400 bucks) (hell yes, it was a grant) which can be used for remote healing...but even with this highly scientific setup, you need a "witness" to aim it at--it could be a photograph, a strand of hair...I suppose that is what the piece of paper acts as.

Anyway, if anyone here wants me to heal them at a distance, just send me a $20 bill and a photograph...I promise to follow the instructions and everything...
 
Yes Reiki II was supposed to be at a distance. I am actually qualified for Reiki II as well but I would never charge anybody for it..

My personal take on Reiki? Its alot of hoodoo mixed with something that might work close up. I have always been able to heal myself faster than normal by putting my hands on a wound, but I've never believed you could heal at a distance.

I've have gone to Reiki circles to experience first hand what its like from other people and some people you can really feel the energy off of them and some nothing at all.

There is of course no scientific proof whatsoever but usually when I put my hands over someone I can sense "cold spots" which relate almost directly to something wrong with their body.

As for the story with your mom, you're not supposed to do Reiki on anyone without their permission. I'm sorry you feel that way about it but that lady was just sharing her belief. Real or not, it was just a belief.
 
MoonDragn said:
My personal take on Reiki? Its alot of hoodoo mixed with something that might work close up. I have always been able to heal myself faster than normal by putting my hands on a wound.
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Compared to what? How do you know you have accelerated the healing?

If you have nothing to compare it to then you are just guessing and almost certainly incorrectly.
If you have a way of showing that you have accelerated the healing then you can win a million dollars.

But for some reason you will decide that neither of these two options is applicable.

It really is slightly worying for several different reasons when people honestly believe they can heal just by waving their hands over someone.


BTW 'it was just a belief' is no defense for ignorant, rude, offensive or otherwise unpleasant behaviour. And sometimes it can be dowright dangerous.
I think we are all fully aware of what beliefs can lead to sometimes, whether the belief be of a fundamentalist relgious persuasion, or an alternative medical practice.
Or the human parasites that call themselves psychics and mediums and interfere with the grieving process.
 
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