peaceful death reiki

personally, I think that sounds so beautiful. Tears filled my eyes as I read it. 🙂

Thank you.

Two things come to mind.

1. I wish I was independently wealthy so I could do it with out charge, but the reality is I would have to charge.
2. I would have to be extremely grounded and possitive in all other areas of my life.

It would certainly add a new dimension to my life experience.

Hi Stephanie.

I am deeply sorry to learn of your loss, and find great comfort that your daughter's transition was such a beautiful experience.

I learned Reiki during the time of the AIDS Crisis. In that time, many believed that simply being in the presence of someone diagnosed with AIDS may result in their own infection -- yet many Reiki practitioners here in the San Francisco Bay Area began to volunteer their services in the "AIDS Wards", designated areas within the hospital where such patients were placed during their final hours.

The instructor of my very first Level 1 and 2 class had two requirements for Reiki Master certification through her: one was the $10,000 fee set by Takata (as she was a Traditional Reiki Master), and the other was to provide Reiki through a hands-on treatment to someone while they died.

At that time in my life, $10k was an immense amount of money that may have taken a few years for me to accrue, but what seemed more impossible to accomplish than the fee was providing Reiki to someone while they died.

Perhaps more than it seeming to be impossible was a subtle sense of fear present within me at that time. At that time, no one in my immediate family had died, and I had never been in the presence of death other than passing by a dead animal on the road.

But as fate would have it, the time I learned Reiki in inspired me to volunteer through hospice. I began to not only be in the presence of AIDS patients, but when they allowed, touched them to help them receive and experience Reiki.

Within my first year of volunteer work, one patient made the transition to the other side while my hands were resting gently on the bedding covering their chest.

It was an immensely powerful, and immensely transformative, experience.

I now see and experience the world in a completely different way than I did those decades ago.

Authors Libby Barnett, Maggie Babb and Susan Davidson have a book titled Reiki Energy Medicine: Bringing Healing Touch into Home, Hospital, and Hospice. It's very good, and I recommend it to others interested in helping the dying heal into their new life.

I am not aware of any other Reiki authors writing about the dying process, but there are other authors who offer extremely valuable information about the process:

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross wrote On Death and Dying, and probably set the standard for all future books about the topic.

Stephen and Andrea Levine are authors of Who Dies: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying. I attended a weekend workshop of theirs sometime during the early 1990's, and it proved to be very transformative as well.

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche is also very good, for who understands death more than the Tibetans?

Not specifically Reiki, but Felicity Warner's "The Soul Midwives' Handbook" is very good.

Thank you so much for the book titles and author's. And especially posting your experience. Wow... what an experience!

I can't wait to get my hands on them.

I did alshymers and hospice sitting for a few years (pre reiki) and it was sometimes difficult but strangely enough, I was very good at it.

I kind of liked it. I felt like I brought a light to them. I know that sounds pompous but that's how I felt.

I give reiki in a hospice and one client I got quite close to said she hoped I would be able to carry on giving her reiki to the end. In the event she died at home. I got a text from her daughter - who was attuned to reiki 1. saying Mum is dying and I want to give her reiki - what should I do. I just said to let her spirit guide and intuition guide her. just open up with the intention that reiki was being sent for her Mums highest good and just let reiki do what is needed.

I know doing that really helped Jo (the daughter) - and I can imagine how what you did must have helped you.

I feel that giving reiki at such a time is something that could only be done by a practitioner who had the trust of the family as well as of the patient - and could only be done at the patients request. Having a stranger in the room at a time like that is very intrusive for some people..

But it is the sort of thing I would be prepared to do if asked. It is not a service I would ever advertise tho

It's not something that you would advertise for because:

It's offensive?
It's not something that you want to do often?
It's painful to you?
Or.....

OK, this is my fantasy:

Two family members talking...

"I can't stand this, I don't know what to do or how to act."

"I heard that there is someone that will come to your home or hospital room and help you through this.".

"I don't want to hear about god or religious stuff right now".

"It's Ok she is just for comfort and to help you have a peaceful death."

This is the need I hear.

It's not something that you would advertise for because:

It's offensive?
It's not something that you want to do often?
It's painful to you?
Or.....

I wouldn't advertise it because I don't think advertising would bring in any business - and some people may well find such a service offensive and may be put off coming to me for regular reiki. . If the person who is dying, and their family members are already aware of reiki and want it , I am sure they will be guided to a practitioner who can help them if they do not already know one.

If some one is not aware of reiki and has not had any experience of it, I doubt if they would consider using for the first time in this situation.- and the intrusion of a total stranger at such a time may well be unacceptable .

In the case I knew of, Jo later told me her Mum had wanted me there, but the other daughter (who did know me) had not wanted any non family around at such a personal and emotional time.

Well, I think it might be worthwhile to remember what happened to [url]Jack Kevorkian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] ... I can only imagine how much the media and Religous Right would love to label someone "Reiki Master of Death".

Oh my that's a thought.

Not specifically Reiki, but Felicity Warner's "The Soul Midwives' Handbook" is very good.

I am going to get this book (the souls midwives). And also reiki energy medicine, bringing ...to hospice...etc. ..wow long title. I keep thinking..."see the need-fill the need" is the way to support myself in my waning years. As to advertising; I will have it as an offering on list of options available.

I am 63 and won't be able to tattoo forever; my hands and wrists can't stand it. I have fibromyalgia and have been told it is not going away. I need it to be empathetic (I must have been very unkind in a previous life). So I am moving into kindness, healing and comfort (I am also studying life coaching) and out of the beauty business.

But I will be careful not to become "reiki master of death".:037:

This story is a little different. I have permission to tell it.

My adopted daughter's grandfather was dying, in hospice at home. She had been keeping him alive with her natural healing. When he went into crisis (and went to intensive care) she would stay with her hot hands on him. The hospital let her, because every time she left the room, the alarms would go off. She would just stay like that for a day or two, wasting away and turning gray.

I taught her to use the energy from the source instead of her life force. She was able to be stronger and healthier.

Well... things took a turn. Grandfather said she could not come over and she could not touch him. If she did; he would cut her out of his will. The hospice nurses supported him in his decision because they knew by now that she could keep him alive.

He said to her "You can alter the co ordinates of your karma but I will be damned if you are going to alter mine." This was very hard for her to hear. He had been telling her that he had done his job. He had just been waiting until he knew she would be alright. Now she had me; he could go. "This is not your decision, not your time. This is my time. I am already in a new life. Let me go."

He had been in and out of a semi comatose state for some time. She went to his house every day and read to him, supervised his nursing care and then took care of her children. All this while working and coming to my school once a week.

He told her that he was living in two places at once. His soul had already moved on to a new life. He had a love and he had asked her to marry him. He was waiting for her answer. He was done here and all that he had suffered and all the good things he had done (he was my daughers foster father but she called him grandfather) was coming back to him in tens.

Later in the day, Grandfather repented and told her he didn't want to leave her hurt and angry; so she could come, if she sat on her hands and did not touch him.

She went to him. They talked and he told her he would die in the morning and he wanted her to make his favorite breakfast and then he would leave. He gave her all the instructions she would need to take care of things. She slept beside his bed. In the morning she made him breakfast and he passed. Just like that. Peaceful...he just let go and passed.

A lot of healers appear to have difficulty learning this lesson and embracing the understanding that although we are capable of healing all of the time, healing is not always required or welcome, but we can still be there for people as human beings. 🙂