| Do Reiki Healers Channel "Reiki Guides"? | | | | A few years ago, I used to run ITEC qualifying |
| Reiki is an easy to learn method of healing. No special | | | | courses in Massage, Aromatherapy, Reflexology, |
| physical or intellectual abilities are required and anybody | | | | Indian Head Massage and other qualifying courses. |
| can learn the art of Reiki healing extremely quickly. | | | | One exam day around noon, I went upstairs to my |
| How Does Reiki work? | | | | office to get some papers and coming down I slipped |
| I was initiated to Reiki 1 in February 1993. To Reiki 2 a | | | | on a piles of papers I had left lying on a step. My right |
| few months later and as a Reiki Master in September | | | | hand ring finger caught the banister and I heard a snap.. |
| 2004. I started teaching towards the beginning of 1995. | | | | my fourth metacarpal (the bone just above the ring |
| When I studied Reiki 1, I asked my Master to explain | | | | finger) was not only broken but it had impacted on |
| where the energy was coming from. She told me that | | | | itself. |
| Reiki was "Universal Life energy". The energy that is | | | | My students had waited 6 months to take their exam |
| around us. This energy allows trees and plants to | | | | and I could hardly tell them the day was cancelled as I |
| grow and allows us to be alive. In those days, my left | | | | had broken my metacarpal and I had to go to hospital. |
| brain (the analytical one) was still dominant and I | | | | Nothing I could do but.. give myself Reiki. I did so |
| needed more explanation. So I asked this Master to | | | | between noon and 5.30pm when everybody was |
| show me this energy and she could not. It is in fact | | | | gone home and then drove myself to hospital. I had no |
| easy to show this energy. In my Reiki courses, I teach | | | | pain in my hand but it had swollen to a very impressive |
| students how to see the energy field that is around us. | | | | size. The queue at the hospital was long but on seeing |
| This is called the aura. Most students are able to see | | | | the swelling on my hand, the hospital receptionist called |
| the first layer of the aura (the etheric field) after only a | | | | a doctor immediately and then started my first |
| few seconds. | | | | experience of modern medicine since getting seriously |
| When I studied Reiki 2, I once again asked my Master | | | | ill in 1991. |
| where the energy was coming from and pretty much | | | | The doctor confirmed my fourth metacarpal was |
| got the same answer. I was baffled by the intelligence | | | | broken and asked me what pain killers I was taking.. |
| in Reiki. Lets work through an example to illustrate this | | | | Reiki, I answered.. I explained what Reiki is to him, |
| point. | | | | nearly got him on a course but not quite. The doctor |
| Say you are faced with a Client suffering from | | | | told me he would prescribe some strong pain killers for |
| headaches. Headaches have many causes. They can | | | | me but I turned his offer down as I had absolutely no |
| be due to poor eyesight, spinal problems, neck tension, | | | | pain. I was sent for X-rays and against my will my |
| constipation etc. Lets assume your Client suffers from | | | | hand and arm were plastered. The doctor said I could |
| constipation and that this is the cause of his | | | | have surgery, a plate and screws if I wanted to but I |
| headaches. You will treat him with Reiki on the head. | | | | refused. I was then sent home. |
| However, this may trigger a bowel movement. As | | | | Impossible to do anything so I kept Reiki-ing myself. |
| such, Reiki has addressed the root of the problem. | | | | The first night, I slept 10 hours which is unheard of for |
| The magic of Reiki however does not stop there. Reiki | | | | me. A couple of days after the accident, I felt a pain |
| will also try to give him the cause of his constipation. | | | | on the lateral part of my hand, on metacarpal 5, |
| The next day, he may go out and one of his friends | | | | underneath my little finger. I knew that this was not |
| explains to him that at last he is no longer constipated | | | | where the broken bone was but Reiki would not get |
| as he has changed his diet and is now eating more | | | | rid of that pain so.. I went back to visit my consultant.. |
| fibre and less animal food (over simplified for this | | | | "Of course you have a pain" he said, "you have |
| example). He has his answer. If he ignores it, he may | | | | broken a bone". I told him the pain did not come from |
| well find himself reading an article in a magazine with a | | | | my broken bone but from beneath my little finger. |
| similar explanation a few days later. Eventually, if he | | | | After arguing the merits of referred pains, he finally |
| keeps on ignoring the messages, they will stop. | | | | agreed to undo my plaster and a lovely bruise was |
| Reiki Guides | | | | revealed underneath my little finger where the plaster |
| This intelligence baffled me. Eventually, I did my Reiki | | | | had gone in a lump. |
| Masters with William Rand from the United States in | | | | Finally I was sent back for another plaster and this is |
| September 1994. William talked about Reiki guides in | | | | when I asked my Reiki guide for help. I got to the |
| his course and this got me interested. Could these | | | | plaster room and the nurse took my card and said: |
| guides be the intelligence behind Reiki? When I got | | | | "Hamouy is your name. Are you the famous lecturer |
| back home after the course, I decided to study Spirit | | | | from Gerrards Cross?". I had been called a few |
| Guides and bought a book simply called "Spirit Guides" | | | | names since birth but famous had never been one of |
| by Iris Belhayes. This lady channelled her spirit guide | | | | them! Anyhow, this nurse was interested in one of my |
| who wrote the book through her. A small but very | | | | courses and we started chit chatting. Eventually, we |
| challenging book. I learnt about the theory of "life after | | | | talked about my hand and she told me she would |
| death", the process of life in the Spirit world and | | | | make a new plaster. I said I was not keen on a plaster |
| reincarnation. Fascinating stuff it was for me at the | | | | as I was self employed and needed my hands |
| time. I began to believe that the Reiki intelligence was | | | | everyday to be able to teach massage, |
| because these Reiki Guides directed the energy in our | | | | Aromatherapy and Reflexology. She laughed but |
| body. | | | | agreed to make a cast (a lengthy process where a |
| Then, one day, I got confirmation. I was helping Marie, a | | | | type of brown piece of plastic is moulded to the shape |
| friend of mine who had a problem with one knee. | | | | of your arm and hand using a hair dryer!!! and acts as |
| Marie was born clairvoyant. During the treatment, she | | | | a support). I believe the reason they do not offer these |
| asked me how Reiki works and I told her about | | | | to everybody is because it takes too long to mould to |
| "Universal life energy" but also told her about my belief | | | | shape. Eventually I walked out of the hospital with my |
| about Reiki guides. | | | | new cast. |
| As she was a clairvoyant and could talk to the dead, I | | | | Getting me back to hospital because of a kink in the |
| asked her to get in a trance and try to "talk" to the | | | | plaster is proof of the wonderful intelligence behind |
| guide who was working on her knee. To my | | | | Reiki. A bruise that Reiki would not heal and a broken |
| amazement, Marie did, and the 40 most amazing | | | | bone that did not cause any pain! For what reason? I |
| minutes of my life started when I had a full | | | | believe that this was to get me back to hospital for the |
| conversation with my guide through her. | | | | cast so I could use my hand much quicker. I have |
| I asked many questions during this time. Who was my | | | | personally experienced this Reiki intelligence many |
| guide? Details of his previous life etc.. We also asked | | | | times and heard many stories from my students |
| what was wrong with my Marie's knee. He said that | | | | confirming it. After a week of Reiki, I took the cast off |
| the pain and the swelling were due to a bit of cartilage | | | | and started using my computer with some of my |
| that had come off the patella (kneecap) and was | | | | fingers. A couple of weeks after the accident, I started |
| digging into the tibia bone. The guide said that he would | | | | teaching massage again except for the hacking and |
| be able to get rid of the pain and the swelling but could | | | | cupping strokes. Within 3 weeks, I was teaching |
| not remove the bit of cartilage and that surgery would | | | | Reflexology again and after 4 weeks, my hand was |
| be necessary. This was true. The pain could be | | | | well enough for me to perform most tasks. |
| controlled but kept coming back. | | | | The consultant had asked me to come back after 6 |
| At one stage during the conversation, my friend said | | | | weeks for a check up and to take the plaster off. The |
| the guide was going to work on me. My descending | | | | problem was that I could not find my cast and after |
| colon was twisted and he was going to straighten it. | | | | extensive research, found it in my youngest son's |
| Just before she said this, I had felt a pain on the left | | | | bedroom as he was using it as a bridge for his cars. I |
| side of my colon. A short while later, a gurgling noise | | | | obediently put it back on (as my arm had been |
| came out of my intestines and the pain disappeared. | | | | supposed to be kept above my heart in a sling for the |
| My friend said the guide was finished with me and he | | | | past 6 weeks) and headed for the hospital. |
| was coming back to work on her. I was speechless! | | | | The consultant looked at my cast with suspicious eyes |
| Eventually, the prediction came true and my friend had | | | | but did not comment. He laid my hand on his desk and |
| to go to hospital to have the piece of cartilage | | | | lightly touching the broken bone said: "It's united well". |
| removed. The surgeon who talked to her after the | | | | "Yes" I replied. For a while he then looked at my |
| arthroscopy said: "You had a piece of cartilage that | | | | records and my hand obviously puzzled. He then said: |
| had come off your patella and was digging into your | | | | "The swelling is gone, that is good". "Yes" I replied. He |
| tibia bone.." My friend said :"I know...(but know explaining | | | | then said: "Tried to bend your hand like this" and he |
| how she knew)" These 40 minutes were amongst the | | | | proceeded to demonstrate what he wanted me to do. |
| most amazing in my life and they changed the way I | | | | This I did at great speed and his mouth collapsed and |
| teach Reiki. To me the intelligence in Reiki is due to | | | | he got more puzzled. He then asked me to make a |
| "Reiki guides". | | | | fist which I did and told me I would have to go for |
| A Reiki Meditation to meet your Guide | | | | re-education for several weeks... which I did not. |
| In all my Reiki courses, I offer a simple meditation for | | | | Another reason I have told you this story is that I |
| students to meet their Reiki guide. I am pleased to say | | | | believe that if you break a bone, one of the two things |
| that nowadays most do. Prior to the meditation, I take | | | | may happen. |
| the students through a relaxation. The meditation | | | | - 1- You are taken to hospital very quickly and the |
| journey takes them to a beautiful beach with golden | | | | bone will not get a chance to set itself, so all is well. |
| sand, a forest and a waterfall where their guide awaits | | | | - 2- For whatever reason, you will not be taken to |
| in he mist. A simple but very effective mediation. | | | | hospital for quite a while in which case given yourself |
| The emotions felt by students who meet their Guides | | | | Reiki may prevent you going into shock and will save |
| for the first time is extremely satisfying to witness. | | | | on a lot of pain. I also believe that as the guides are |
| This meditation is recorded and offered to students so | | | | intelligent, they will not allow the bone to reset in the |
| they can repeat the experience in the comfort of their | | | | wrong place (this is my personal opinion, decide for |
| own home. | | | | yourself). I also believe that the Reiki you give yourself |
| The Reiki Intelligence at work | | | | will prevent the destruction of many cells and that |
| This happened to me a few years ago and it | | | | subsequent recovery will be much quicker. Enjoy your |
| demonstrates the intelligence in Reiki: | | | | Reiki if you are a practitioner Patrick Hamouy. |