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Post by stef on Aug 15, 2005 9:26:34 GMT
They're happy for me to heal them, they just don't want me to hurt them first ;D love stef
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Post by jlewin on Aug 15, 2005 19:25:46 GMT
are you a martial artist? or just a fan of delivering bruises?
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Post by anand on Aug 18, 2005 7:43:31 GMT
Hi everyone, the issue at stake here is freewill vs your intention for healing energy to flow. Let me ask, suppose I know someone who is ill and who is dear to me. Whether he permits or not, will I not Intend that he becomes well. I will INTEND that he becomes well and thats where the discussion stops. Energy will flow well if I am empowered, otherwise it will still flow may be at lower intensity. love anand
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Post by stef on Aug 18, 2005 10:32:26 GMT
Hi everyone, the issue at stake here is freewill vs your intention for healing energy to flow. Let me ask, suppose I know someone who is ill and who is dear to me. Whether he permits or not, will I not Intend that he becomes well. I will INTEND that he becomes well and thats where the discussion stops. Energy will flow well if I am empowered, otherwise it will still flow may be at lower intensity. love anand It is easy to say that if you were put in that situation you would still send Reiki. But when you are actually in that situation it is a different matter. I know someone who is very dear to me and is ill, and I believe that he would benefit from Reiki, we have talked a lot about Reiki, but he is not interested. He does not want to recieve Reiki. If I send him Reiki then I feel that it would be a violation of his free will. You can't force things on people if they don't want it, even if you know it will make them feel better. We are all entitled to our opinions, his opinion is that he doesn't want to recieve Reiki, I have to respect that. love stef
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Post by emmess on Aug 18, 2005 11:16:49 GMT
Healing energy can, and often is, blocked - You are correct Stef, we cannot create for another person - or 'force something on someone they don't want' - each of us does our own creating of our own existence. We can send healing energy or not - if we send and it is rejected by the intended recipient, it is not wasted - What goes out always comes back. This doesn't mean we can't send unless we get permission - and if a person cannot give permission (unconsciousness for instance) it doesn't mean reiki would not be accepted. But if a person actively does not give permission, the energy will simply be blocked - there is no 'invasion' even if you send anyway because you love this person. If a person stops breathing because he no longer wants to BE here, there is still air, and it goes where it's needed. YOU are creating for YOU - and reiki by nature is non-invasive It's simply a point of focus. And your point of focus becomes your reality. There's a good website about deliberate creating and allowing and attracting that which you want. www.abraham-hicks.comjust some thoughts I had ~
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Post by jlewin on Aug 20, 2005 15:45:12 GMT
Reiki principle says honor someones opinion not to recieve reiki, and common consensus says that energy will be blocked. I disagree on both points. Everything is one and they will recieve healing if they are meant to either from you or someone else. This can be looked upon on way too many different levels than I have time to discuss but if you have the ability and the desire go for it. If it is not meant to be....it won't be.
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Post by stef on Sept 10, 2005 11:16:02 GMT
There is one question of Reiki ethics that I am often asked to explain - "Why can't you send Reiki without someone's permission?" There's no simple answer to this, and not every Reiki practitioner believes that you have to have permission in order to send healing. However, with traditional forms of Reiki, it is definitely a requirement and the first thing you must do before giving Reiki to someone. Let's see if we can help answer this question, and if you have questions after reading the article, please post on the discussion boards! Regardless of what your spiritual or religious affiliation, I think that most of us believe that we are here with a purpose in our lives. We have goals of things that we want to learn, and some of those things require that we go through things in our lives, such as illness and disease, whether physical or mental/emotional, or even spiritual imbalance. Everything, after all, has a purpose.
Imagine that you have a loved one who is faced with cancer. It's a horrible thing, and you'd naturally want to help your loved one heal from the cancer. You've discussed Reiki with your loved one, but their spiritual beliefs are against it. It doesn't matter that you don't agree with their reasoning - they simply don't believe in it! You know in your very heart that Reiki would help this person, and it's breaking your heart to watch them suffer. Do you send Reiki anyway? Absolutely not!
Even something like cancer can have a purpose in your loved one's life! If you believe in reincarnation, you know that something like an illness or disease can help us learn valuable lessons that will help us evolve spiritually. We might also be balancing some type of karmic debt from a past life. If you don't believe in reincarnation, perhaps you still believe that God has a purpose for each and every one of us. Perhaps that person takes the fact that they have cancer and uses their life to help others heal or helps others cope by the example that they set. It may very well be their sole purpose for being on this earth! Would you want to interfere with that? Of course not!
If you have none of these spiritual concerns, then there's another very simple reason for not sending Reiki without a person's permission - respect. One of the Reiki principles is, "Respect all life." If you go against someone's wishes to send them Reiki, you certainly aren't showing them respect, plain and simple.
T Darlene Cheek
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