Does Reiki have limitations?

I offer a free Reiki healing service for animals and today I sent out some healing to a horse with pain in her hindquarters. In the process of that treatment, I got some messages that the horse needed some physical assistance, and suggested that the horse’s person consider Bowen therapy. The horse’s person was grateful for the healing, but wanted to know why I would recommend Bowen therapy. Isn’t Reiki enough, she wondered. Does Reiki have limitations? I thought that was a fantastic question, so wanted to take some time to write about it.

Reiki always works for the highest good and that means that we can’t control the outcome. It’s the hardest thing, I think, when we’re learning to work with energy, to learn to “let go and let God”. In other words, we have to trust that the energy is going where it needs to go, which many find difficult because we are such an “outcomes” based society.

In the case of the horse with the pain in her hindquarters, the healing will be assisting her mental and emotional self to deal with the pain and restriction, and if there are emotional components to her injury the Reiki will help to clear these in order for physical healing to occur. One of the greatest things that I think Reiki does is pain relief, and so I’m sure that she will benefit from Reiki.

The reality is that all situations benefit from Reiki but we can’t ‘order’ the type of healing we need. So, yes, Reiki might be sufficient to heal the situation on its own. But if the situation required another form of treatment to get the fastest, easiest result, then Reiki might prompt us to do that, or create a situation in which we suddenly meet someone who can help us further. And yes, Reiki will enhance the overall effect of any other treatment that is occurring at the same time. For example, in the case of western medicines, that might mean helping the body to cope with side effects.

The beauty of Reiki is that there are absolutely NO limitations!!! There is not any situation, person or animal that wouldn’t benefit from Reiki–it’s just that we can’t always know beforehand what that benefit might be.

To give you an example of another kind, I have a number of physical challenges in this life, and this time last year, they had escalated to a point where I just felt that I had hit rock bottom. Through the Reiki, I received very strong messages to go to WA and swim with the dolphins for healing therapy. So off I went, expecting a miraculous event (“praise the lord, I can walk again” type of result). On the second day of swimming with the wild dolphins, I had an intense, magical connection with a dolphin and I knew I had received a ‘dolphin attunement’.

But when I returned home, all I could do was cry. I cried and cried and cried (releasing, intiated by the dolphins), and then I tore a ligament in my wrist. I went to see my (wonderful and very open) doctor about the wrist, and burst into tears. He suggested I tried a medication that was commonly prescribed for people with chronic pain. I was reluctant, of course (I always go for everything natural first) but I’ve also come to understand that there are no absolutes, that there are no ‘wrong’ medicines or ‘right’ medicines, but it’s up to us to find what is best for us at any given time.

So, I started the medication and went back to see him in a week’s time, during which he had come up with a plan for me to go and start a new form of therapy that worked on myofascial realignment in the body, retraining nerve pathways in order to relieve pain. Long story short, one year on I have improved 100%. For the first time in about five years, I feel like I can cope with daily life, my body is fairly stable, and I’m significantly pain reduced. The point is that I DID get my miracle, it just wasn’t the sort that I was expecting.

So, again, the Reiki always works, sometimes just by itself, and sometimes by prompting us to venture into the modality or to meet the person who can help us the most.

You might also like to read these posts on Reiki:

http://lucygabrielle.com/2009/11/23/which-level-of-reiki-gives-the-best-quality/

http://lucygabrielle.com/2009/10/27/which-reiki-is-right-for-you/