[MIA-RN1]

yes my animals are very sensitive! My old cat is nearly 16 and has been in kidney failure for almost 6 years; he has never once needed any fluids and only had tx once for a kidney infection from which he recovered completely two or three years ago. The vets kind of amazed because they predicted the need for fluids several years ago, right about the time I got my first attunement and started practicing on him lol. He gets reiki all the time and just loves it. My other cat and my dogs are not as receptive but when my lab gets ear infections she lets me reiki them.
I went into reiki because I 'knew' there was something out there I was supposed to be doing. When my husband got leukemia I really felt the push and got my first reiki attunement around that time. My attunements were like yours in that the visions and messages are beautiful. Not everyone gets these types of messages etc. I felt very blessed. During my second attunement my friend who was attuening me felt compelled to give me level three but held back. It was funny because I was thinking at the same time that he could take me to the third level and I was mentally kind of sending out that vibe. And when I did have the third attuenement, it was validated because the vision I saw of the lovely Kwan Yin coming out of a lotus flower was pretty much very similar to the visualization technique of the master attuning me. Of course I didn't know it at the time lol.
SOrry about digressing. Its fun to talk about Reiki.
It led me to nursing also, because I knew that I needed to get myself somewhere to use it.
You will be asked, if you haven't been already, if you are ready to walk the path of reiki lifelong. Its a total honor.
have a great day!

[nativehealer]

Even tho I am not a Reiki practitoner nor master, I use Spiritual healing when ever someone I know asks for my help.The Healing touch does work. I also use medobolic messages when it is needed to help.

NativeHealer

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[MissNickiRN]

Well I would like to put in my 2 cents. I am a Reiki2 practitioner as well as an ICU nurse. I have found in my practice that there have been times in which my Reiki will spontaneously activate when i touch a patient. I would feel my hands begin to warm up and the energy passing from me to the person. I find it to be such a blessing. My explaination for this is that the patient must need the healing that Reiki provides. I do not intend to violate anyones believes system and believe that my higher self as well as the higher self of individual have decided that this is for the highest good of those involved. Providing me with healing as well. I also noticed that in the year that I worked there were very few codes on my unit in which CPR had to be administered ( only 2). I was called the white cloud .

[MIA-RN1]

MissNickiRN, I completely understand what you are saying. There is no way we can limit the energy if it is coming of its own regard to begin with. I believe Reiki chooses us, and as such its our responsibility to allow it flow as it will.
Have you ever had a patient where it simply WONT flow, wont turn on? Thats happened to me before as well.

[nativehealer]

Originally Posted by Coopergrrl

MissNickiRN, I completely understand what you are saying. There is no way we can limit the energy if it is coming of its own regard to begin with. I believe Reiki chooses us, and as such its our responsibility to allow it flow as it will.
Have you ever had a patient where it simply WONT flow, wont turn on? Thats happened to me before as well.

Coopergrrl, you are correct. It isn't just Reiki, but all healing powers. The healing powers choose whom they wish use to heal. also its not just people that the energy will flow to. I have leaned up against a tree and had the energy flow and heat my hands. It also works with animals.

Nativehealer

[MIA-RN1]

Originally Posted by nativehealer

Coopergrrl, you are correct. It isn't just Reiki, but all healing powers. The healing powers choose whom they wish use to heal. also its not just people that the energy will flow to. I have leaned up against a tree and had the energy flow and heat my hands. It also works with animals.

Nativehealer

oh yes I was taught it works on 'any living thing'. People I know use Reiki on non-animate objects too--cars that won't start etc. And Reiki'ing food as well is supposed to be good and boosts the body's use of the nutrients etc.
I think I love when I wake up in the middle of the night and myhands and feet are cooking with it, and I put them on my husband and go back to sleep, knowing that we have that connection and flow of energy even as we are unaware.

[MissNickiRN]

there have been times in my house in which i have played in the energy of my plants in my living room, knowing that they are giving to me as i give to them. And it is nice to touch trees as well.

As with Reiki and it spontaneously turning on, I don't feel like i am violating anyones rights to a particular healing modality. I am sure there are nurses out there who mentally pray for their patients healing. I feel that we are not just physical, emotion or mental beings we are also spiritual beings as well and need healing on that level, that is what holistic nursing is ( caring for the whole person). I don't feel like we do that enough.

[ray2512]

Reiki is a religious practice, plane and simple. It should not be practiced on client without there permission. If you are a hospice nurse perhaps it should be administer through a hospice chaplain. Don't try to pon it off as anything but eastern religion.

[MIA-RN1]

Ray I respect your opinion, but my teaching has been different than what you state. Reiki is spiritual but not religious. There is no god/goddess to worship or pray to. There are no services to attend, there are no prayers said, no hymns sung, no scripture read. No candles lit, no salvation nor sin.
The energy radiates from the universal source of energy, wherever/whatever that may be. It is spiritual in the fact that to know and live Reiki is to see the world differently and to feel a different sense of being than before. Reiki taught me the connection in the world that has nothing to do with religion at all.
I respect your viewpoint but I respectfullly disagree.

[ray2512]

Nice try, Rei=in spiritual or esoteric context means the higher intelligence that guides the creation and function of the universe and is a source of guidance in our lives. Other less complicated meanings for Rei include God, Goddess, Universal Mind, Christ consciousness.

Level III or Master/Teacher Level: Spiritual purification may occur with this attunement, shaking up and challenging existing belief systems.

Reiki can be considered the "Wisdom of God".

Perform Gassho "give thanks and ask for the well being of the recipient, set your intentions. (thats praying!)

The above information is directly from the Reiki Level I training manual.

Are you trying to tell me this isn't eastern religion?