Reiki and healing touch for pain management

[tgsnipe]

Hi

I'm new to allnurses and would like to hear from anyone who has used reiki, healing touch or any other energetic modality to facilitate pain management. Especially in kids and in the hospice setting.

Thanks in advance

Eresa

[nativehealer]

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, RN]

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, RN]

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?

[MissNickiRN]

Thank You Coopergrrl, Well explained!

[MIA-RN1, RN]

Ray, I have no arguement with you.

I only know what I have learned and experienced. We are all entitled to different viewpoints and opinions and I respect the differences.

This thread was originally about Reiki and healing touch for pain management, and is not meant to be a discussion nor a debate about the religious validity of any type of healing modality. Religion is a hot topic and all I meant to do in my last post was explain Reiki as it has been explained to me. I won't respond to a challenge because its all good. We see the same thing in different ways and its always an opportunity for learning when people don't see eye to eye.

I agree to disagree. Namaste.

[zenman]

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

Reiki is just a vehicle in the journey to oneness. If you want it to be a religious path make it so. One could also do the same with baseball.

[MissNickiRN]

Coopergrrl, I appreciate and honor the way you handled that post. I was hoping that this would not turn into a debate about religion vs spirituality.

Thanks and Namaste

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

Reiki is a religious practice, plane and simple. It should not be practiced on client without there permission.

With all due respect, Reiki is not a religion, nor do people worship it as such. There is no organized chappel, temple, synegogue or Church of Reiki. It is merely working with energy. It is metaphysical; it is spiritual. Again, with all due respect, you are not using the word religion in it's correct context.

[Nurse Ratched, RN]

PLEASE everyone, avoid turning this into a debate over religion. As always, keeping comments respectful is appreciated.