Reiki for Life

To Whom It May Concern,

Reiki for Life

“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance”
-Plato (427?-347 BCE)

“(S)He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate;
(s)he who loves finds the gate open.”
- Sir Rabindranath Tagore Thakur poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941)

“A [wo]man is truly ethical only when [s]he obeys the compulsion to help all life which [s]he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.”
-Albert Schweitzer (The Philosophy of Civilization)

I am contacting you via this webpage, because I wish to teach the terminally ill and others with chronic and acute conditions to take part in their healing process by becoming their own Reiki practitioner. This is a life's work in progress and is my Ministry as a Reverend. I want to help more people get what they need, from the point of view of enlightened self-interest, automagically gettting what I need. Will you be my ally and assist me in this? If so please email me, clark@acceleration.net.

“When physicians face uncertain therapeutic choices with little basis for a preference, they rely on the safest treatments that offer the most control for the patient. The patient can monitor the frequency and potency of the intervention to maximize the treatment and avoid side effects. Reiki is a therapy which meets these criteria…”
"Reiki: A Starting Point for Integrative Medicine"
Schiller, Robert, M.D.
Alternative Therapies, March/April 2003, Vol. 9, No. 2, p.20-21.

“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Very often simply the idea that something positive is being done to alleviate a particular health issue can bring about significant resolution of illness and suffering. Pain is inevitable yet suffering is clearly optional. To empower a challenged person to take responsibility for their own health and work with their physician for good is a basic goal of Reiki training. If no other benefit were to arise, this alone could work wonders towards a positive outcome.

“Reiki is profound in the relief of stress and tension and the resulting dis-ease. The American Institute of Stress estimates that between 75% and 95% of ALL doctors' visits are the results of reaction to stress. It is known that continual negative stress prevents the body from fulfilling its natural function of repairing, regenerating and protecting itself.”
“Reiki: A Touch Of Wholeness” Golden Spirit International website accessed 12AUG2K4

“Stress and psychosomatic contributions to illness are given rather short attention in the traditional medical model. Many physicians don't want to admit that 85% or more of all illness is psychosomatic, as I was taught in medical school; they tend to consider such patients as crocks. In the last few years, however, psychoneuroimmunology is increasingly demonstrating, from a very scientific point of view, that mood is perhaps the most critical factor in maintaining the integrity of the body, especially of the immune system.”
“The Creation of Health: Merging Traditional Medicine with Intuitive Diagnosis”
Shealy, C. Norman M.D. Ph.D. and Myss, Caroline M. M.A.
Stillpoint Publishing, 1988, p. 49.

“Reiki work can be an extremely powerful form of healing when performed by a highly trained Reiki practitioner. It is said to rapidly relive aches and pains and to relieve many acute symptoms of illness. Reiki therapy can also recharge and rebalance the body's subtle energies while relieving the effects of stress. One study by Wendy Wetzel, published in the Journal of Holistic Nursing, found that Reiki was able to increase hemoglobin levels in patients in a manner similar to Therapeutic Touch. In addition, Reiki therapy is said to have a positive influence on spiritual growth of both healer and healee.”
“Vibrational Medicine for the 21st Century: The Complete Guide to Energy Healing and Spiritual Transformation”
Gerber, Richard, M.D.
HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2000, p. 390.

Reiki as a complementary discipline is I feel invaluable in assisting conventional and alternative medicines in helping folks achieve wellness. Studies indicate that it is possible to accomplish participant “blinding” through the use of trained actors. Consequently, there are several ongoing and pending research studies on Reiki in the works, which is encouraging as this is not something that can be patented. Every person has a native ability to do energy healing within him or her. However, like any innate skill this can be improved through training and practice.

“Practitioners of Reiki, an ancient Tibetan healing system, use light hand placements to channel healing energies to the recipient. Reiki is commonly used to treat emotional and mental distress as well as chronic and acute physical problems. It is also used to assist the recipient in achieving spiritual focus and clarity. Reiki practitioners may vary widely in the techniques they use. Therapeutic Touch or healing touch is practiced by registered nurses and others to accelerate wound healing, relieve pain, promote relaxation, prevent illness, and ease the dying process. The practitioner uses light touch or works with their hands near the client's body in an effort to restore balance to the client's energy system.”
“Energy Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Complementary Medicine, Integrative Medicine and Holistic Medicine Information”
Alternative Medicine Information website accessed 12-Aug-04

Reiki and energy healing by many other names is to be found in virtually every culture and most religions, pre-dating allopathic and eclectic medicine, indeed written history. This attests to its validity as a traditional healing modality having withstood the test of time.

“All truths are old,
and all that we have to do
is recognize and utter them anew.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)

In addition to my Reiki credentials, I supplement them with pre-medical courses at the college level, so I might be able to communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals. I am well versed in Biology, Anatomy and Physiology and medical terminology in addition to my Reiki training and a life long interest in healing modalities (e.g. Psychology and Nutrition both macro- and micro-). I am blessed with being more than capable to teach Reiki and am certified to do so. My initial introduction to Reiki was over fifteen years ago and my teaching certification I earned three years ago. Throughout these many years of practice I experienced constant confirmation that this totally safe methodology is a useful and potent adjunct to all healing practice. I routinely give treatments to my family, friends, and the community gratis without thought of compensation as what benefits others “auto-magically” benefits to myself and for society at large.

“It is in giving that we receive.”
- Saint Francis of Assisi

“If our habitual conditioning is to overcome our pain, we will have a tendency to feel overwhelmed when things don't go the way we wish. We may even feel a need to "beat" another's pain. We will find it difficult to connect with them just where they are. We won't be able to touch them with love because if we want anything from somebody, even for them to be out of pain, they will be an object in our mind rather than the subject of our heart. If we can open to our own pain and explore our resistances and long-held aversions, there arises the possibility of touching another's pain with compassion, of meeting another as we meet ourselves with a bit more clarity and tenderness. We see in such instances how the work we do on ourselves is clearly of benefit to all sentient beings. Each person who works to open his heart touches the heart of us all. When we are no longer recreating the problem, we reaffirm the solution. We discover from day to day how the healing we do for ourselves is a healing for us all.”
- Stephen Levine (Healing into Life and Death)

“Love requires no map or chart.
You only need an open heart.”
- ?

“When unfortunate things happen in our lives there are two possible results. One possibility is mental unrest, anxiety, fear, doubt, frustration and eventually depression, and in the worst case, even suicide. That's one way. The other possibility is that because of that tragic experience you become more realistic you become closer to reality. With the power of investigation, the tragic experience may make you stronger and increase your self-confidence and self-reliance. The unfortunate event can be a source of inner strength.”
(The Dalai Lama's Book of Wisdom, 1995)
-His Holiness, The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso (1935 - )

“Spiritual healing will provide the conscious framework for all the related physical, chemical, and behavioral approaches. Therapeutic Touch and other forms of laying on of hands will be as accepted as aspirin. More importantly, the staff and patients will be working on their individual and collective spiritual transformation, accepting wisely and responsibly their power to choose healthy attitudes, knowing that a perfect expression of love is the ultimate healer. Drugs and surgery will remain as adjuncts, to be used as giant band-aids in acute situations, to tide the patients over until they can develop the strength to enter consciously the path to their own spiritual transformation, to express fully the light of the Soul.”
“The Creation of Health: Merging Traditional Medicine with Intuitive Diagnosis”
Shealy, C. Norman M.D. Ph.D. and Myss, Caroline M. M.A.
Stillpoint Publishing, 1988, p. 59.

“It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat, which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another.”
- Hippocrates

My savings currently dip low due to ongoing monetary pressures related to the care of my elderly parents since the spring of 1998. Far from calamity, these pressures are in fact seen by me as encouragement to get on with shifting from Reiki as avocation to Reiki as vocation in ministering to others by teaching. Everyone is truly important to me for aren't All the "jigsaw puzzle pieces" needed to get the "big picture?"

“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time... But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
- Anonymous
This is where you come in. Is there a possibility of us working together? Can you refer people in need of Reiki training? Perhaps even you might care to learn this practice yourself to better serve your patients, clients, family, friends and yourself. The cost of instruction in this simple method is truly modest when compared to either the benefits, total lack of negative side effects, or the ever-increasing prices of pharmaceutical medications and other treatments.

“A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities has been to help us see our connection with all other human beings.”
- Michael Lerner (The Politics of Meaning)

“If the apparent physical structure of the body is but a holographic projection of consciousness, it becomes clear that each of us is much more responsible for our health than current medical wisdom allows. What we now view as miraculous remissions of disease may actually be due to changes in consciousness, which in turn effect changes in the hologram of the body. Similarly, controversial new healing techniques such as visualization may work so well because in the holographic domain of thought images are ultimately as real as "reality". In a holographic universe there are no limits to the extent to which we can alter the fabric of reality.”
Reality - the Holographic Universe: “The Universe as a Hologram Does Objective Reality Exist, Or Is the Universe a Phantasm?” 03/16/97. This file was posted as REALITY.ASC on the KeelyNet BBS on February 24, 1991. Accessed 13AUG2K4. and

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher

“Meaning can only be understood in relation to its environment. Therefore, the words only make full sense in context... There are no absolutes, there is no meaning without relationships, everything is not only interacting but interdependent. The Kahunas use this idea to help give a person a powerfully secure sense of significance, while at the same time teaching him that to heal himself is to heal the world, and to heal the world is to heal himself. This is not a loss of individuality, but an understanding that individuality itself is a relationship with the environment.”
- Serge King in "Kahuna Healing"

“A person who believes . . . that there is a whole of which one is part, and that in being a part, one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.” - Ursula K. LeGuin

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to pull back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no (wo)man dreamed could have come (her)his way.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Begin it now.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)

Sincerely,
Robert Neil Clark
<clark@acceleration.net>

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