| Often what one teaches is what one needs to learn. | | | | foot Reiki treatments. From my extensive experience |
| This article clearly demonstrates the importance of | | | | of successfully channeling Reiki energy to cancer |
| trust. | | | | patients and other seriously ill recipients, I knew that a |
| A WEBSITE IS BORN | | | | little bone problem should be a piece of cake to heal. |
| When I first conceived the idea of offering distance | | | | My assumption was that I had another bone spur. I |
| healing via a website, I became very excited. I knew | | | | directed Reiki to this foot problem just about every |
| that by using the World Wide Web, I would be able to | | | | day. There was no change! How could this be? I have |
| facilitate the healing of many more individuals and | | | | witnessed Reiki perform much greater healings! What |
| situations than I could by local word-of-mouth. The path | | | | followed was a plunge into doubt. I doubted myself and |
| of creating the website was fraught with challenge. At | | | | gave little credence to the many healings I had |
| that time, no other site was offering this service. The | | | | facilitated. I felt like a Reiki failure. I made the decision to |
| general public was unaware that Reiki energy could be | | | | have the surgery during the summer. I was a teacher, |
| directed from a distance. One challenge was creating | | | | thus the summer decision for the surgery. I had far too |
| a proper title for the site. I realized that people would | | | | few sick days to spend on this foot. My retirement |
| need to "trust" that I would indeed follow through and | | | | medical benefits are tied to the number of remaining |
| actually send them the Reiki energy for the contracted | | | | sick days. It would have been unwise to have the |
| number of days, hence the name "Reiki With Trust." | | | | surgery performed during the school year. A second |
| LAYERS OF TRUST | | | | problem would have been transportation to my school. |
| During the year it took in the creation of the site, I | | | | Not one other teacher was conveniently located near |
| came to realize that the word "trust" had multiple | | | | my home. |
| layers of application to what I was trying to create. | | | | ANNA LISTENS |
| The recipient of the distance Reiki energy also had to | | | | Then, it happened. I just snapped one day and was |
| "trust" the Reiki energy. This means that the recipient | | | | absolutely driven to have the surgery the week prior |
| had to understand that the Reiki energy I channeled | | | | to my February vacation. I had less than two weeks |
| would be sent to the "highest and best". As much as | | | | to make a multitude of arrangements. I insisted on |
| my ego wanted to have the Reiki remove a client's | | | | reserving the surgery date prior to the actual |
| source of pain, I had to continuously remind myself that | | | | appointment with my foot doctor. I was happy to have |
| the recipient's soul was the healer, and neither I, nor the | | | | found a teacher substitute who had a degree in |
| client's conscious mind, would know what their "highest | | | | Biology. I began running off the reams of papers the |
| and best" would be. Without this intention for the | | | | substitute would need for the students' lessons. I found |
| "highest and best", lessons that needed to be learned | | | | two colleagues who would go greatly out of their way |
| in this lifetime might be avoided. By avoiding the | | | | to pick me up and drive me to school. I was learning |
| lessons of one's path, they are bound to return with a | | | | how to ask for help. As I found myself in this fury of |
| vengeance. | | | | activity, I kept asking myself "why?" It appeared that |
| SPIRIT KNOWS BEST | | | | my decision was terribly illogical. Yet, I just had to do it |
| To help me combat my ego need to want to specify | | | | NOW. |
| precisely what the Reiki was to do, I recall an article I | | | | REIKI'S WISDOM REVEALED |
| read a long time ago. It was about a Reiki Master | | | | After many phone calls, the day for the meeting with |
| whose friend was suffering from cancer. The friend | | | | the podiatrist arrived. I felt as if I was going to my |
| was about to receive chemotherapy and was very | | | | death. As I sat in the over-crowded and uncomfortably |
| concerned about the impending loss of hair. Her | | | | hot waiting room for over two hours, I kept wondering |
| request to the Reiki Master was to direct the energy | | | | "why am I doing this?" The meeting with the doctor |
| to preserving her hair. The Reiki Master knew the | | | | revealed all. His attention went immediately to a mole I |
| dangers of second guessing the intentions of spirit. She | | | | had under my foot. I have had it my entire life. He |
| sent the Reiki energy to the friend's "highest and best". | | | | insisted that it be removed as soon as possible. As it |
| After her friend had received the chemotherapy, she | | | | turns out, moles in areas that take punishment are |
| did lose her hair as expected. In her friend's quest to | | | | very prone to becoming a melanoma. due to it's |
| purchase a wig, it just so happened that the | | | | location I would have never noticed a change in its |
| salesperson at the wig store knew of natural cancer | | | | appearance. The actual bone pain was due to the loss |
| remedies. These remedies did lead to a healing. I | | | | of padding under a tiny bone, in addition to inflamed |
| cannot remember the details of the healing, but I did | | | | ligaments. An injection was all that was needed. I left |
| learn the lesson of the story. | | | | the office delightfully relieved. |
| FEET AND DOUBT | | | | THE LESSON |
| A few years ago I had a painful bone spur and serious | | | | I know that everything happens for a reason. I am glad |
| joint damage to my left foot. The surgery that | | | | I have learned to trust powerful drives to do some |
| followed not only removed the bone spur, but also | | | | normally illogical and seemingly stupid actions. I was |
| removed a section of my big toe bone. I had faithfully | | | | willing to take a huge risk. Now the lesson. If the Reiki |
| sent Reiki to the future events surrounding the surgery. | | | | had healed my foot pain, I would have had no need to |
| The surgery went well. I had minimal pain, and the | | | | see the doctor. I know, in the deepest recess of my |
| healing was atypically fast. After my post-op visit, the | | | | being, that my lifetime conversation piece, my mole, |
| surgeon admitted that I had the "most excruciatingly | | | | was about to turn into a life-altering nightmare. It is |
| painful" surgical procedure he performs. I was tickled to | | | | clear that I should have trusted the Reiki. Even when it |
| realize the power of Reiki worked for me as well. | | | | seemed that the Reiki energy was not working, it |
| Two years later, I started to have significant pain under | | | | certainly was, for the "highest and best". |
| the ball of my driving foot. I frequently gave my hurting | | | | |