I suppose it would not hurt ta say what happned to bring this to a head.
I was walking my dog tuesday morning and wound up in an ambulance and taken to the ER. I thought I was having a heart attack. After spending nine hours there they sent me home saying they thought it “just” a panic attack. I have been very much on edge since that and am having a hard time relaxing. This was caused by the last six years of constant stress, stress that I don’t really have any control over, and it does not look like it is going to end anytime soon.
Sorry you are having problems, JFLuvly. But just because you didn’t find a solution in a short emergency room visit doesn’t mean there isn’t one. Have you been to other doctors, perhaps one who is familiar with your personal medical history?
And it puzzles me why you are leaning towards worthless treatments. What attracts you to those instead of modern medical science? Medical science might have a solution, superstition has none.
Without going into too much detail hers what happened:
Six years ago I was electrocuted, 600 volt buss bar for three to five seconds. I have not been the same since and the doctors have no idea what it has done to me. They first treated as a brain injury but because I scored so high in the neuropsych tests twice they did not think that was the case. My argument was that since they had no baseline to compare to, the testing seemed inconclusive at best. Mri shows some t2 hyperintense foci in the frontal lobe but the neuro said everyone has those, even though most of my problems are frontal lobe related. this is just the tip of the iceberg and I could write pages about all the docs I have seen and most of them say they just don’t know for sure. Hell I don’t even know if it was the accident or the bullshit that followed that has caused my issues, but I can tell you that it is reaching a breaking point. The issue the other day scared the shit out of me and I don’t scare easily.
JFLuvly, I’m Level II Certified. I went through Level I because I had a sick pet and I thought it might help her. It did. Level II was for my own satisfaction. I have been holding off on Level III, mostly because I have no interest in teaching.
I know of a few doctors who have a Reiki practitioner in their office. Since I started, it’s become a lot more mainstream.
Find someone in your area and try a session. All you have to do is lay on a massage table. You don’t disrobe. There is touching involved, but it’s non-invasive.
You may also want to try a Reconnective Healing practitioner. It’s normally a bit more expensive than Reiki, but you may like that style better if you prefer not to be touched.
I have a friend (not close) who does Reiki. I don’t mind being touched or anything like that it’s just that he charges 40 - 50 bucks and I would rather not spend the money, but as I said I would do just about anything right now. I have been up and down over the last 6 years and this seems to be a new low.
FWIW, be aware that people going to the hospital thinking they are having a heart attack the first time (or the first several times) they have a panic attack is not at all unusual.
He shouldn’t be charging cash if you can’t afford it. An exchange is acceptable when someone is in financial straits. The whole idea of the exchange is that people value more what they don’t get for free. The item could be a piece of sea glass from the beach, a wildflower, cuttings from a plant or any number of things that cost nothing to obtain. Obviously no one can run a business on exchanges, but I was taught that it is expected that a certain percentage of business will be from people who have a true need and no means to pay, and that one was expected to make accomodations for these people.
I have had panic attacks in the past. Given what I know about them (there is a biological cause), Reiki can’t help because chemical cascade of the “flight-or-fight” reaction is not subjective (as pain is, for example) and would be therefore be immune to any placebo effect Reiki might otherwise provide.
If you are suffering from panic attacks or a panic disorder you should seek out professionals who use science and proven therapies to help you with your problem. I know how scary and frustrating this is and can be, but there is hope and a real solution.
There is a nursing diagnosis called “disturbed energy field” or something similar that we used to make fun of when I was in nursing school. One of our group presentations was on alternative therapies, one of which was Reiki. Even the presenters couldn’t endorse it with a straight face. It’s on the same level with homeopathy, IMHO.
So Reiki advocates, tell me more about this energy. Does it follow the inverse square law? If not, why? If it does, then how does distance healing work? Is it blocked by a Faraday cage? Is it directional; i.e., do you need to direct it towards the person you are trying to heal? How do you get so precise? A fraction of a degree of angle would be 10s of miles off target across country. What instruments can measure the energy?
I mean this is mind blowing stuff. It completely changes our view of physics and biology. You guys should be as famous as Newton or Einstein. Why are you setting up shop in strip malls and charging $40 a shot?
Don’t ask me, I consider it placebo. Hence I don’t charge anything. I personally prefer a nice session with medical marijuana for any sort of light pain control or light anxiety. Hell, a beer and a cigarette with a nice foot massage would work just as effectively IMHO.
Reiki advocates wouldn’t respond to this because reiki does not need to be defended. It’s simple, you have an open mind, and you are aware of the possibilities beyond the textbooks and theories that are a fraction of the age of energy, then you can see beyond your five senses. Ridiculous right? Just like blind people have learned how to see through echo location, or, scientists are coming out with natural supplements to retain age and health to degenerative organs and bones?
Not that those textbooks or theories aren’t incredibly amazing, giving us a foundation of life and understanding how and why we can sustain ourselves in this environment. We can only believe what we are taught. Most humans need to seek stability through common knowledge. But if you are flexible in expanding your understanding you can receive on a broader scale. Although unacceptable by the major populus, it is still a growing culture of believers that do seek the broader understanding.
Alright onto the questions - cause this seems fun.
Does it follow the inverse square law? No.
If not, why?
They say that reiki energy is at a extremely low frequence, and as you become attuned, which is what occurs doing those “classes”. You begin to accept those lower frequencies by enhancing your own frequency. If you are sending at a distance, people and teachers suggest many different ways of visualizing the sending of energy, but in reality your asking the energy to go to somebody to help them. And yes it is asking, not telling. Then it just happens, your sending energy to the person, because you are requesting the energy be sent, and the person is accepting the energy. For more information view below. If the answer seems evasive, it truly is because I have faith it will get their, rather than needing to know the minute details.
How does distance healing work?
Distance healing is about visualization and directing healing energy towards a person for their highest good. Here’s a link for more information - http://www.ofspirit.com/keithzang2.htm
Is it blocked by a Faraday cage?
Lol, no because it is not an electric field or electric energy, although it can have that effect on some recipients.
Is it directional; i.e., do you need to direct it towards the person you are trying to heal? For person on person healing, you perform positions to send energy through specific area’s of the body. For distance healing, it’s all about visualization. And to whoever said - “There is no touching involved” - Yeah, some reiki teachers say that, but for the most part it is promoted to make physical touch during a personal healing.
How do you get so precise? A fraction of a degree of angle would be 10s of miles off target across country.
There is no math to it, more of an acceptance that energy never dies, and we are always part of it, is it to hard to accept that we might have choice how it moves outside of our body, just as often as we do our daily activities inside of our body?
Unfortunately mutual respect for the pseudo-sciences is not a common attribute among our culture. What is common knowledge is considered structured and accepted, what is not common knowledge or does not fit into our idea of life as we know it suddenly seems like an opportunity of judgement and exclusive anomolies of idiocy.
Ironic as in the pure fact that the reiki belief is that it is tied to no religion, and has absolutely no negative effects. Placebo or otherwise, it’s pure directive is to help the recipient. To provide positive energy in a constant critical and rough world where negative energy is more prominent.
I respect physics, biology, and other sciences, and to be honest I was a skeptic going into my reiki classes. But it just works for some and doesn’t work for others. I hope sometime in the future it will be respected also, because it truly is one of the few aspects of life that can only make life better, even if someone doesn’t see the results.
Lol, I completely agree to most of that. Except “alternative medicine”. That statement applies to all forms of religion. So if it’s on an equal scale as the majority of this planets religious beliefs, wouldn’t seem as absurd as it has been portrayed to be.
Well your link to the SQUID article says that it measures magnetic fields, and the Reiki article confirms that: “Zimmerman discovered that a huge pulsating biomagnetic field emanated from the hands of a TT practitioner.” So why does it not follow the inverse square rule like other magnetic fields?
How can that field be strong enough to work at a distance and not so strong that it disrupts clocks and other mechanisms at close range?
And how can there not be “math in it” if you are describing energy? At the very least they must have used statistics to show how well Reiki worked vs the null hypothesis. I’m sure the people teaching the class must have that information because it would be silly to advocate a medical procedure that did not have some experimental basis.
I’m fascinated now and can hardly wait to see how Reiki will change our current models of Physics and Biology. We have a new kind of magnetic energy that apparently does not follow the inverse square law and can be directed at great distance with a level of precision that is beyond our current capabilities of our best weapons. Do you know what conferences those results will be presented at?
rich2600, we’ve heard it all before. Everything you posted is psychobabble and nonsense. “Frequencies”? “Quantum”? “Distance healing”? Those phrases are the hallmark of the ignorant and the scam artists, not repeatable science – the science that invented the airplane, the Internet and cured smallpox. You know – the science that brought us out of the superstitious Dark Ages.
Have you applied for the Million Dollar Prize yet? If even part of what you say is true, it’s a bundle of cash just waiting to be snatched for a few hours of work. Go for it. The Nobel Prize is right behind.
Until you win one of those, your claims are just wishful thinking.