Mad Science, Woo-Woo, or Alternative Healing? (1 of 2 parts)

For the past month or so, my focus on Reiki has been to release stagnant and negative energy from not only myself, but from other members of my page who wish to receive Reiki to help them release their own energy blocks as well. This is, after all, the first step in being able to receive abundance in many forms. There are other important steps that can be made alongside releasing old blocks that help to accelerate the cleansing process, one of which is changing personal attitude; but the biggest factor in pursuing and advocating for its use, for me, is for its healing properties of the physical body.

When I first discovered books describing healing work done by individuals by way of harnessing the energy that was available all around us, I really didn’t know what to expect. I read with curiosity and an open mind, but also with more than a little skepticism. However, it was the early 80s and a time of ushering in a new way of thinking that, actually, dates way back into ancient times…not Reiki, per say, but the use of energy and massage for treating people was already over 3000 years old.

In fact, our western medicine is born, originally, from these early teachings that traveled first all throughout the orient to parts of what we know as Russia, the Middle East and eventually to Europe before making its way to the Americas. Even Reiki is over 100 years old. Most Americans never learned of it because it became a closely guarded technique used by the Japanese military prior to the start of WW II. Other military personnel, along with two Reiki Masters, brought the knowledge of it with them from Japan were its use was known to only a small number of people along the West Coast.

Eventually word of the practice of Reiki spread by word of mouth and books that soon found their way into the hands of people interested in this New Age way of thinking…clean body, clean mind, and clean spirit; a spiritual revolution. This is about when I found my first source of ‘Energy Healing’. It was a book written by Dr. Brugh Joy entitled Joys Way.

I was already learning the art of meditation and had always been interested in things dealing with the paranormal (mainly because of my own experiences with it), so reading about energy work seemed to be a natural progression.

Shortly after reading JOY’S WAY, I had an opportunity to put its use into practice. It was the first time, aside from practicing the exercises provided in the book for energy work, that I would use it during what could have been, potentially, a medical crisis.

Continued tomorrow...

©S. L. Davis; Reiki Healings by Susan