Divine Beauty Newcastle
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This is a topic that seems to just go round and round in circles, but thought I'd get some opinions on this.
Reiki - from a business point of view do you have a set of contraindications for Reiki?
Most Reiki Practitioners will say that there are NO contraindications to Reiki, as it has its own intelligence and can NOT cause any harm whatsoever. Thats all fine and dandy, but in reality does this not come across as being a bit of a biased opinion? I would love it to be the case and I'm confident in its abilities to help people in wonderful ways, I do not doubt its power in the slightest, however I wouldn't want to risk making claims that you can have reiki nomatter what - afterall I dont personally know this, I would just be blindly believing what other people are saying is true, and information about reiki had been shrouded in secrecy for so long that there are a few strong divides on several aspects of it.
If I'm having a general converstaion I do tend to say Reiki can only bring about positive change, But from a business point of view I just feel that claiming Reiki has absolutely NO contraindications (even though apparently there is no proof that it has any) is a little on the irresponsible side?
For my VTCT qualification my Reiki Master taught us that there are no contraindications. However, we had to include a list of contraindications for the treatment into our coursework in order to pass. She said that this was just to please the awarding body, and not really anything to do with Reiki. She admitted that she had never performed Reiki on a client with any of the listed contraindications, and that she would treat every person no matter what they had, then backtracked on a couple and had the attitude 'oh well, I suppose that could be a contraindication because of such and such.'
Anyway, some of the contraindications listed were:
Epilepsy
Pacemaker
Severe Mental Disorders
During a period of cancer treatments
Severe bleeding
Diabetes
Broken Bones
There were no explanations to why these would be contraindications, but I have read that insulin would need to be checked as Reiki can lower the amount you would need to take, that Reiki can heal a broken bone too quickly, before it had been properly set, therefore it would need to be broken again and set propely. Pacemakers working properly can be affected, but it didnt say why. And also that if say a finger was sliced off, not to do Reiki on it as the accellerated healing could make it difficult to reattatch the finger.
So in conclusion, is it not better to advise people with the above not to have Reiki, rather than telling them it can't cause any harm? (Oh but we were told to take off our watches while performing Reiki cos the energy could stop the watches working :s) Especially when it concerns a treatment which a lot of people dont understand and it would be easy to pin the least little thing on? Like a friend of mine having reiki for the first time and then a very random and not so nice experience happened and they said well it must be the reiki cos thats never happened before now.
I have contra indications on my reiki record cards but I know many dont, and dont bother with any sort of consultation or treatment plan. I would probably perform Reiki on myself nomatter what, but not on clients.
Ha, now I've got that out, what's everyone elses views, and what were you taught? I felt some of the teaching was extremely vague for people going into a legitimate business.
Reiki - from a business point of view do you have a set of contraindications for Reiki?
Most Reiki Practitioners will say that there are NO contraindications to Reiki, as it has its own intelligence and can NOT cause any harm whatsoever. Thats all fine and dandy, but in reality does this not come across as being a bit of a biased opinion? I would love it to be the case and I'm confident in its abilities to help people in wonderful ways, I do not doubt its power in the slightest, however I wouldn't want to risk making claims that you can have reiki nomatter what - afterall I dont personally know this, I would just be blindly believing what other people are saying is true, and information about reiki had been shrouded in secrecy for so long that there are a few strong divides on several aspects of it.
If I'm having a general converstaion I do tend to say Reiki can only bring about positive change, But from a business point of view I just feel that claiming Reiki has absolutely NO contraindications (even though apparently there is no proof that it has any) is a little on the irresponsible side?
For my VTCT qualification my Reiki Master taught us that there are no contraindications. However, we had to include a list of contraindications for the treatment into our coursework in order to pass. She said that this was just to please the awarding body, and not really anything to do with Reiki. She admitted that she had never performed Reiki on a client with any of the listed contraindications, and that she would treat every person no matter what they had, then backtracked on a couple and had the attitude 'oh well, I suppose that could be a contraindication because of such and such.'
Anyway, some of the contraindications listed were:
Epilepsy
Pacemaker
Severe Mental Disorders
During a period of cancer treatments
Severe bleeding
Diabetes
Broken Bones
There were no explanations to why these would be contraindications, but I have read that insulin would need to be checked as Reiki can lower the amount you would need to take, that Reiki can heal a broken bone too quickly, before it had been properly set, therefore it would need to be broken again and set propely. Pacemakers working properly can be affected, but it didnt say why. And also that if say a finger was sliced off, not to do Reiki on it as the accellerated healing could make it difficult to reattatch the finger.
So in conclusion, is it not better to advise people with the above not to have Reiki, rather than telling them it can't cause any harm? (Oh but we were told to take off our watches while performing Reiki cos the energy could stop the watches working :s) Especially when it concerns a treatment which a lot of people dont understand and it would be easy to pin the least little thing on? Like a friend of mine having reiki for the first time and then a very random and not so nice experience happened and they said well it must be the reiki cos thats never happened before now.
I have contra indications on my reiki record cards but I know many dont, and dont bother with any sort of consultation or treatment plan. I would probably perform Reiki on myself nomatter what, but not on clients.
Ha, now I've got that out, what's everyone elses views, and what were you taught? I felt some of the teaching was extremely vague for people going into a legitimate business.
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