Can Reiki be harmful?
This is a gray area for many. Some say that it is impossible for Reiki to harm, and there are others who say that it can be used to intentionally harm someone. I tend to believe that Reiki itself cannot cause harm, but the intention of the practitioner, or lack of due diligence, can lead to unintended consequences.
Diabetes
There are two types of diabetes; curiously called Type 1 and Type 2. Type 1 is the one to be very careful about, as it is in this case that the victim needs to inject insulin every day to compensate for the fact that their body simply does not do enough on its own same.
Now, at first glance, this may seem like an ideal opportunity for our newly developed Reiki healer to practice with his long-suffering family member; But what if the treatment really works? I mean “ANY” Reiki treatment. Even if you do not intend to treat diabetes itself, as the experience increases, any Reiki practitioner will tell you that sometimes a treatment will improve another condition that you were not aware of.
So our new therapist decides to treat his diabetic mother’s bunion. Forty minutes later, the bunion feels much less painful and appears less swollen. A very grateful mother goes to bed, unaware that her pancreas has also been affected and is now starting to produce some insulin. During the next day or so, natural insulin production grows slowly, and unfortunately, while coming home from a restaurant meal one night, you forget to check your blood sugar and, out of habit, inject yourself. she herself. Twenty-four hours later, he dies from an insulin overdose.
Now, Reiki did not cause the overdose, the mother, being human, did. You can never trust your patient, whoever they may be, to correctly and regularly check the status of their own illnesses. People have died from insulin overdoses after Reiki treatments. That is why most client registration forms have questions about certain conditions and the client is asked to sign it before initial therapy so that the doctor cannot be sued for negligence later on.
With type 1 diabetes, Reiki can and does help heal the problem, but it cannot guarantee that the patient will have their blood checked regularly and before each injection, no matter how much they protest. A death in your conscience will almost certainly undermine your faith in therapy and quite possibly ruin it.
Schizophrenia
With any mental illness, the patient should be instructed to consult their GP prior to initial treatment. This is primarily to make your GP to be aware that your patient might show a higher rate of recovery, leading to more regular monitoring of the dose level of whatever medications they are taking. However, if the client is schizophrenic, it is best to avoid any Reiki treatment. The energies imparted through Reiki can easily increase schizophrenic symptoms, even in the short term, and this can be very unpleasant for the sufferer. It is very likely that the increased hallucinations that occur during a Reiki session also cause intense distress, so purely for the good of the client, reject each and every Reiki treatment to anyone suffering from this condition .
Pacemaker
Avoid treating someone with a pacemaker. Reiki energies have a habit of speeding up or slowing down the pacemaker. It is not a very comfortable experience for the therapist or client, and having to take one of your patients to the ER with blue lights flashing is not a good advertisement for your practice.
Note that Reiki does not cause harm to the client here, but it has an undesirable effect on an unnatural implant in the human body. I suppose this could be attributed to semantics, but no physical, mental or spiritual harm is being done directly to the client.
The pregnancy
As long as the expectant mother has passed her first trimester, treating a pregnant woman should not have harmful effects. However, the baby should be carefully monitored and any signs of discomfort should bring the treatment session to an early end.
During the first trimester, the fetus is always at a higher risk of complications and the best policy is to avoid treatments such as Reiki during this time.
Earphones
Reiki can cause howling or feedback in hearing aids, and it does. It’s a bit like Jimi Hendrix in the 1960s. Great when you’re excited and at a live show, but when you’re trying to relax and ease your back pain it can be a bit of a shock. To avoid this, the client should be asked to remove any hearing aids prior to treatment, and if they have very limited hearing, some form of signal should be agreed upon before starting so that the client can be informed when the treatment is complete.
conclusion
Reiki will always have at least one of two effects:
- No initial effect discernible to the client (although beneficial, the effect may be on a spiritual or energetic level that takes time to manifest)
- A beneficial effect on the condition, be it the symptom treated or another (the universe does not always take the route that we hope or believe best).
The contraindications listed above are not examples of ‘Reiki doing harm’, but rather with sensible precautions. The schizophrenic example could be considered harmful, but the Reiki treatment, if continued, would end up being beneficial; it is only the nature of the condition that the client is already in a higher state of energetic turmoil, and the Reiki energies could exacerbate this in the initial stages. With clients’ mindsets already hectic, it is highly unlikely that they will be willing to go through with treatment anyway after symptoms are momentarily amplified, so it is best to avoid the problem and recommend a different form of therapy.
Can Reiki be used to intentionally harm someone? I doubt it (unless you know the person in your sights has one of the above conditions and is being forced by Reiki energy). I have not heard of any examples of this and would never try to figure it out for myself. Anyone who attempts to do so will only harm himself spiritually and Reiki initiations have a distinctive habit of slowly altering the mindset of practitioners; so hurting another person is not something they want to do.