Who here channels Reiki as a volunteer hospice care-giver?
I work in a hospice but not giving healing treatments. Do you Buck?
During my very first Reiki training in 1993, the RMT encouraged everyone to volunteer through hospice, emphasizing the importance of channeling Reiki to someone hands-on while they died.
A few of her class, myself included, went on to become hospice volunteers and we did have the experience she wanted us to have. The experience began changes in all of us in many ways. The first most obvious change was the way we perceived the "Reiki" energy and secondly the changes in our personalities.
I had to stop volunteering in 2004 when I entered college. I want to begin again but am back in college this time with an even heavier schedule (and am seeking a new degree in medical science).
The hospice volunteer work is on my mind due to a seemingly unrelated incident. I watched the DVD Qigong for Beginners by Francesco Garripoli.
I watched it the other year but only viewed the exercise program. What I did differently this time was watch the interview in the bonus features.
I felt the interview represented a tragedy currently occurring in the alternative health field (such as Qigong but other disciplines, too).
The tragedy that I see is that Francesco Garripoli walked away from a medical degree. He was on his way to becoming a physician and according to the interview, chose another path. During the interview he put down modern western medicine and thats where the tragedy is.
I see people abandoning western medicine and these people in my very strong opinion, are the ones who belong in it the most.
Francesco Garripoli has the charisma of a healer. He is sincere in his Qigong practice but the tragedy is that he is not practicing western medicine.
Why wouldnt any Westerner want to bring healing energy and attitude such as he possesses into that field? Its not uncommon in China. Academic Qigong developed as a result of integrating Qigong to a more scientific level of practice. It seems to me Westerners just get crazy and renounce the whole thing for some reason I dont understand.
I relate this to hospice because I see Reiki practitioners attempting to heal themselves and their students so able to receive, but when it comes to helping someone die with Reiki its a completely different story.
If and when I need to rely on western medicine, I would prefer a physician with the skills of Francesco Garripoli. If and when I am receiving hospice, I would prefer to be treated by a Reiki practitioner who has a strong sense of altruism.
I don't think we should be putting down modern western medicine but I do believe that it is fundamentally flawed. It is flawed because in its scientific pursuit it has an incomplete picture of who we are, what we are, and what we are composed of.
It treats the body, omitting the energy field and energy centres, it has little concept that we are spiritual beings having an earthly experience.
In time it will of course change as modern medicine begins to incorporate what healers and complementary practitioners have known for a very long time. The divide in medicine has meant that we know much less than we are capable of knowing. Their attitude of dismissing what they don't understand is doing us no favours.
Someone said to me the other day if I wished I had become a vet. I thought about it for a while and responded, "I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I were a vet".
We have to trust that the plan is divine and that we are where we are meant to be.
Medicine will be going through very exciting changes in the next 50 years or so; where the scientific and the spiritual will merge. Intuitives, dowsers and energy workers will take their place alongside medical professionals, each set of skills complementing the other. We will be respected for our gifts, instead of ridiculed. Science can be great but it also stands in the way of those that work intuitively. To give you an example, I work with flower and gem essences, I see them working every day. Science still dismisses this therapy, but that doesn't stop us. Whist they debate it and try to prove it, we get on and use it and see wonderful results every day. I would rather not be stuck in that mindset, it is rather paralyzing.