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It's been an exciting and strange last couple of days/weeks. Things have been non-stop busy with family, work and weekend life for me. I've been having to breathe through feeling irritated all day long today because I barely have time to think. There really is too much going on. This business of "nothing is happening" is definitly not happening.
I have to spend a few minutes processing some things that have come up over the last 2-3 weeks in my personal life. For the past few months I've been training to do hands-on healing with a church, and we've come to a point where we're all having to do some soul-searching. Are we holding on to lies, tricks of Satan? We were instructed to renounce anything like reading tea leaves, etc. I feel like there are tools that can and have been used for good or with bad outcomes without proper training, the right attitude or motives, etc. You wouldn't want to pick up tools for welding without proper training. Same with the power Jesus had authority to use. Things like automatic writing can be used in Christian journaling. Another example is in my practice of Reiki years ago. It's really too bad that I've not had the opportunity to use it, but I haven't on any one else in several years. Occasionally I'll still use the method on myself. The leader and other members involved in this Healing Room ministry are pretty convinced that Reiki is not trustworthy, maybe even a kind of witchcraft, etc. From what I remember in the Reiki training I received, the original founding teacher went on a mission back in the 1800's, praying and reading the Bible to determine how Jesus did miraculous work. He, like so many of us (Dave Hayes, aka "Praying Medic") had laid hands on people, saying "Heal in the name of Jesus" or something like that, and the people getting prayed over may not heal at all. People usually don't start out healing others right away like Jesus could. Yet, with confidence (faith) and practice the process gets smoother and more amazing, according to people like Dave Hayes. It works best, I've found, with groups of people. I've actually seen it work quickly when several people are all praying in agreement. I heard about this ministry that was in development during Sunday service one day several months ago, and I have made time to find a way to be there for the training. Deep within me, I know this is something good, but like everything about this material world we're in, it gets complicated.
Returning to this issue of my beliefs regarding Reiki and the position of the leader of this Healing Room Ministry Training, while it's true that Mikao Usui was a Buddhist priest, he still meditated and prayed to the same God Christians pray to, according to what I was taught. Usui went on a retreat where he fasted, and he ended up having a vision where he saw and received universal life-giving energy. He was given some instruction during this period that could be used as a tool to help others direct the universal energy so that it can heal those in need in direct proximity or at a distance. I no longer have the books I had years ago that go into detail on this history. I tried to find confirmation on the internet, but the internet will not confirm nor refute my cherished memories to my satisfaction. I'd have to go looking for the reading materials and read them again, spending time I really don't have to confirm. Was it all a lie, like the Healing Room Ministry leader wants me to see? I'm not sure what's true anymore after listening to some historians like Mike King, but I have more confidence in Reiki than I do in what we learned in school about a lot of history. Something that should be more than a footnote in this history is the fact that Mikao Usui fasted. Fasting has a place in Christianity that isn't discussed much, but that is one for another post.
I never continued past the 2nd degree in Reiki, but in my practice, I practiced as I was taught, making the Japanese hand signs before I started, quietly saying the prayer, "All the energy in the universe, here!" Everything was in Japanese, of course. As I did this, I imagined, as was taught and could often actually feel God's energy or Holy Spirit wash over me and through me, flowing out of my hands and into the other person. God's energy would go where it needed to go and do what needed to happen. I didn't have to try to over-think things, but I would notice my hands getting warm at different times like more was going on in one area versus another. There were times when I felt bursts of cathartic emotion, or a memory flash-back, like an old wound was resolving. The person I was working on would often report similar things. In truth, it was a healing experience for both of us. The process of the method itself (if it was an in-person session) would start by laying hands on the head, working down, ending up at the feet, moving from one point to another when I felt the inclination. After a session I would always feel just as invigorated and refreshed as the one I was working on. I never really turned it into a business, but it was a very useful skill I had, and I would let people know. I thought it was helpful, but I never saw it do anything miraculous. I never really got to use it as often as I'd like to have in my nursing practice. I'm trying to keep an open mind, and have prayed about it over the years, but I have never once been told by Jesus or Holy Spirit that this practice is dangerous. I don't believe one really needs to say the prayers in Japanese, but I do it anyway. That part is just honor to the man who received the method. I really believe that this method, done as I was taught is a fairly benign thing. Can I lump it into the pile with Ouija Boards and seances? No, I cannot, and I think I need to talk about that at the next session or at least in private with the leader of this Healing Room group. I don't want to make a scene, but I do feel like I should say something.
I'm involved in this ministry because there needs to be resources for people who've gone as far as they can go with the allopathic model--the dysfunctional, dumpster fire that is modern Big Pharmacare. There will always be a place for emergency medicine, but given a choice, I choose natural vasodilators to lower my blood pressure. I choose meditation and prayer as a daily practice to even limit my need for these natural vasodilators. Jesus truly laid out the way. It really is so simple. Honestly, no Japanese needed. Maybe we're living in a time where Holy Spirit needs more time to work with most people due to the endocrine dysrupters, neurotoxins, carcinogens and new zombie forever chemicals we've been living with for the last few years or even decades.
While I’m certain that God can use anything for good, am I willing to give up Reiki or even BigPharmaCare if God asks me? Yes, I am. Also I am confident the monsters behind all the warfare on regular humanity will be dethroned eventually if they haven't been already. Below are some more thoughts on that.
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